Chapter Summaries

Traveling under the alias Li Feiyu, Zhang Qingyuan reached Qingzhou and sought information about the forbidden ruins tied to the Yin Yang Immortal Scripture. He pressed Zhou Shibin at the Myriad Seas Chamber of Commerce for help, while the chapter left the search unresolved.

• Zhang Qingyuan recalled how he, Old Ancestor Dan Yang, and Dao Venerable Xuan Su had reached Qingzhou after three dangerous years on the ancient interrealm road.
• The three parted ways: Old Ancestor Dan Yang and Dao Venerable Xuan Su traveled to visit reclusive cultivators, while Zhang Qingyuan sought the Yin Yang Twin Venerables’ former secret realm.
• Zhang Qingyuan learned that the Great Zhou Dynasty ruled Qingzhou and that the history and location he sought were forbidden topics under Imperial Court decree.
• Traveling as Li Feiyu, Zhang Qingyuan studied Qingzhou’s customs, military formations, Imperial Dynasty’s Destiny/Luck, and literary qi while helping people and exploring for resources.
• Zhang Qingyuan asked Zhou Shibin, president of the Dongshan City branch of the Myriad Seas Chamber of Commerce, for information, but Zhou warned that revealing the forbidden location could bring the Imperial Court’s wrath.

Zhang Qingyuan agreed to support President Zhou in a contest for the Dongshan City branch presidency in exchange for a Qingzhou map, though Zhou refused to discuss the forbidden place Zhang sought. Back at his manor, Zhang remembered how he had saved the youth now serving him by challenging him to survive until dawn.

• Zhang Qingyuan suggested the Flying Feather Sect could provide information, and President Zhou offered him a Qingzhou map if he attended the branch presidency contest to lend support.
• President Zhou warned Zhang Qingyuan not to involve himself in the forbidden matter and explained that he had invited a Dragon Phoenix Ranking expert to fight in the contest.
• Zhang Qingyuan returned to his manor, where the youth and his younger sister greeted him.
• Zhang Qingyuan recalled finding the youth near death after he had been beaten at a Martial Arts Hall while trying to earn money for his sick sister.
• Zhang Qingyuan promised to save the youth if he survived until dawn, and the youth endured the night; Zhang Qingyuan then kept his promise.

Zhang Qingyuan saved Lin Hao and agreed to help him find a way to save Lin Yuchu in exchange for Lin Hao cooperating with his research. After studying the power of destiny, Zhang Qingyuan developed the Heaven-Seizing Destiny Technique and planned to test it on Lin Hao.

• Zhang Qingyuan saved Lin Hao, who agreed to cooperate with his research in return for help saving Lin Yuchu.
• Lin Hao and Lin Yuchu moved into Zhang Qingyuan's residence, where Lin Hao diligently worked, trained, and repaid the neighbors who had helped his family.
• Zhang Qingyuan observed Lin Hao's destiny changing from gray and shrouded in deathly aura to pure white after he was saved.
• Zhang Qingyuan recalled his investigations into the Great Zhou Dynasty's Destiny/Luck and reflected on why destiny vanished when he tried to observe it directly.
• Zhang Qingyuan created the Heaven-Seizing Destiny Technique and planned to give it to Lin Hao to observe its effects.
• As Zhang Qingyuan contemplated the technique, his comprehension of the Five Elements Immortal Scripture improved slightly.

Zhang Qingyuan joined President Zhou and Tyrant Blade Xiang Wei at the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, where they waited for another helper. When Azure Sun Sword Wu Fan arrived, Xiang Wei challenged him and was decisively defeated, while Zhang Qingyuan watched calmly.

• Zhang Qingyuan arrived at the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce and met President Zhou and the arrogant Tyrant Blade Xiang Wei.
• Xiang Wei mocked President Zhou's missing guest and Zhang Qingyuan, prompting President Zhou to offer him triple payment for his help.
• Wu Fan arrived and identified himself as twenty-ninth on the Great Zhou Dynasty's Dragon Phoenix Ranking, then challenged Xiang Wei's boasts.
• Xiang Wei attacked Wu Fan with a powerful blade strike, but Wu Fan caught the blade light between two fingers and shattered it.
• Wu Fan's counterattack wounded Xiang Wei, and President Zhou praised Wu Fan's talent as Zhang Qingyuan watched without reacting.

Wu Fan defeated Xiang Wei and belittled Zhang Qingyuan before accompanying Zhou Zhengbin to a Four Seas Chamber of Commerce contest. At Tianzhu Mountain, Zhou Zhengbin discovered that imperial court officials, including the Dongshan Region Inspector and Pacification Commissioner, had arrived, and suspected they meant trouble.

• Wu Fan caught Xiang Wei's blade force between two fingers, mocked him and Zhang Qingyuan, and demanded Xiang Wei's reward for himself.
• Xiang Wei left after vowing to return, and Zhou Zhengbin offered Wu Fan the remuneration prepared for him.
• Zhou Zhengbin promised Zhang Qingyuan a map of Qingzhou and Four Seas Chamber of Commerce membership, and Zhang Qingyuan calmly accepted.
• Zhou Zhengbin took Wu Fan and Zhang Qingyuan by Magic Boat to Tianzhu Mountain for the contest.
• Wang Bao mocked Zhou Zhengbin's connections, and Zhou Zhengbin answered by boasting that Wu Fan ranked twenty-ninth on the Dragon Phoenix Ranking.
• Zhou Zhengbin saw the Dongshan Region Inspector and Pacification Commissioner among the attendees and realized imperial court officials had come with ill intent.

At the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce’s leadership contest, Wu Fan defeated Wang Bao’s champion, but Wang Bao accused Zhou Zhengbin of colluding with the Demonic Sect and bribed Li Zhengbang to turn the assembly against him. Li Zhengbang then used imperial power to suppress Wu Fan and ordered the others seized, leaving Zhang Qingyuan sighing as the soldiers closed in.

• Li Zhengbang attended the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce’s contest while Wang Bao sought his support in replacing Zhou Zhengbin as branch president.
• Wu Fan and Shi Yifan fought a destructive duel, and Wu Fan defeated Shi Yifan with a powerful sword strike.
• Wang Bao accused Zhou Zhengbin of colluding with the Demonic Sect and presented Xiang Wei as a witness.
• Zhou Zhengbin realized Wang Bao had bribed Li Zhengbang, accepted his arrest, and gave Wu Fan and Zhang Qingyuan their agreed payment.
• Li Zhengbang ordered Wu Fan and Zhang Qingyuan arrested as accomplices, then used imperial fortune to defeat Wu Fan when he resisted.
• Zhang Qingyuan sighed as Li Zhengbang’s men closed in to seize him.

Zhang Qingyuan revealed his Myriad Transformations Dao Venerable power and crushed Inspector and Pacification Commissioner Li Zhengbang after Li Zhengbang threatened him for speaking against the official’s injustice. After leaving Li Zhengbang to President Zhou, Zhang Qingyuan examined the Qingzhou map he had obtained and was surprised by its marked location.

• Zhang Qingyuan challenged Li Zhengbang’s claim that his word alone defined justice, despite President Zhou’s attempt to protect him.
• Li Zhengbang used the Imperial Dynasty’s Destiny/Luck to force the crowd to kneel, but Zhang Qingyuan remained standing and declared that Li Zhengbang should kneel instead.
• Zhang Qingyuan manifested the Yin Yang Great Dao, destroyed Li Zhengbang’s official aura, crippled him, and forced him to kneel before the crowd.
• President Zhou recognized Zhang Qingyuan as a Myriad Transformations Dao Venerable and thanked him for saving his life; Zhang Qingyuan left Li Zhengbang in Zhou’s hands and departed.
• Zhang Qingyuan retrieved a Jade Slip map of Qingzhou from his Storage Ring, noticed a marked location, and frowned in surprise.

Zhang Qingyuan examined President Zhou’s map and concluded that the Land of Divine Ruins lay in a mysterious blank region of Qingzhou, but chose to focus first on mastering the Five Elements Immortal Scripture. After Li Zhengbang’s death triggered turmoil in the Great Zhou Dynasty, Li Feiyu became famous across Dongshan Region and faced an expected imperial manhunt.

• Zhang Qingyuan studied the map showing a vast blank in northern Qingzhou and connected it to the Land of Divine Ruins and the Yin Yang Immortal Scripture.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to postpone pursuing the Yin Yang Immortal Scripture while he perfected his Five Elements Great Dao and investigated how to counter the Great Zhou Dynasty’s Destiny/Luck.
• Zhang Qingyuan sensed the Great Zhou Dynasty’s official Destiny/Luck erupt after Li Zhengbang was killed, and suspected the Inspector and Pacification Commissioner had died completely.
• President Zhou killed Li Zhengbang, while attention turned to Li Feiyu as the killing spread across Dongshan Region and the Great Zhou Dynasty.
• People across Dongshan Region celebrated Li Zhengbang’s death, while others secretly worshipped Li Feiyu and feared the imperial court would hunt him.

After leaving the Dongshan Region, Zhang Qingyuan learned from Zhou Zhengbin about the Land of Divine Ruins and followed him to a Demonic Path rebel stronghold to investigate further. He trained Lin Hao there while preparing to meet the organization’s higher-ups, who might know the ruins’ history.

• Zhou Zhengbin thanked Zhang Qingyuan for helping him and revealed that the Land of Divine Ruins had once been at the center of a cataclysm that tore hundreds of millions of li from northern Qingzhou.
• Zhou Zhengbin offered to introduce Zhang Qingyuan to the Demonic Path rebels, whose leaders might know what happened at the ruins, and Zhang Qingyuan accepted.
• Zhang Qingyuan left the Dongshan Region with Lin Hao and his sibling before the court’s Six Fan Gates constables arrived.
• Zhang Qingyuan settled at the Dongshan Region branch’s secret stronghold and advised Lin Hao to train in the nearby mountains.
• Zhang Qingyuan considered how joining the Demonic Path rebels could help him learn the truth about the Land of Divine Ruins.

Zhou Zhengbin failed to persuade the Dongshan Association to connect him with the Flying Immortal Alliance’s higher-ups, leaving him unsure how to explain the setback to Zhang Qingyuan. After he left, Xue Zhenyun and the others mocked his claims about Zhang Qingyuan and dismissed his strength.

• Zhou Zhengbin asked the Dongshan Association for help contacting the Flying Immortal Alliance’s higher-ups, but its members said they had received no response.
• Zhou Zhengbin realized the association no longer valued him and left, worrying about what to tell Zhang Qingyuan.
• Xue Zhenyun and the Dongshan Association members laughed at Zhou Zhengbin after he had gone.
• Deng Long dismissed Zhou Zhengbin’s account of Zhang Qingyuan and said he wanted to test the young man’s strength.
• The association members believed Wu Fan’s account of Li Zhengbang’s death and vowed to expose Zhang Qingyuan as a fraud.

After training in the mountains, Lin Hao used the Heaven Seizing Fate Reversing Art to find treasures and advanced to the Spirit Essence Realm Sixth Level. He escaped an ambush by Deng Younian and his followers, but worried their feud might bring trouble.

• Lin Hao discovered that the Heaven Seizing Fate Reversing Art brought brief good fortune followed by dangerous bad luck, and he adjusted his training to account for its backlash.
• Lin Hao found and picked a thousand-year Vermillion Fruit, then was confronted by Deng Younian and two followers who claimed it belonged to them.
• Lin Hao recognized Deng Younian's intent to kill him and attacked first with his Ferocious Tiger Fist, shattering Deng Younian's shield and injuring him.
• Deng Younian and his followers fled, while Lin Hao, exhausted by his attack, left the area and worried about possible repercussions.

Deng Younian planned to use his clan’s ancestor to take revenge on Lin Hao and curry favor with the Deng Clan. Meanwhile, Zhang Qingyuan observed Lin Hao’s experiences and deduced hidden workings of destiny and karma, leaving with a deeper understanding and increased strength.

• Deng Younian told his two companions that his clan’s ancestor, Deng Long, opposed the newly arrived Cave True Realm cultivators and could be persuaded to intervene against Lin Hao.
• Deng Younian instructed the two cultivators to falsely claim that Lin Hao had stolen the Vermillion Fruit and attacked him, hoping the report would earn the ancestor’s favor.
• Zhang Qingyuan watched scenes of Lin Hao’s adventures and his conflict with Deng Younian through his observations.
• Zhang Qingyuan deduced that Lin Hao’s fortune and subsequent dangers reflected a deeper force involving destiny, karma, and the Great Zhou Dynasty’s imperial law-net.
• Zhang Qingyuan completed his deductions, gained some strength, and contemplated a towering figure in Shenjing.

Zhang Qingyuan and Zhou Zhengbin discussed Zhou’s failed efforts to contact the Flying Immortal Alliance, but Deng Long suddenly arrived at the manor with several Dongshan Association cultivators. Deng Long’s arrogance and mistaken assumptions about Zhang’s strength set up a confrontation.

• Zhou Zhengbin apologized to Zhang Qingyuan for failing to arrange contact with the Flying Immortal Alliance and vowed to keep trying.
• Zhang Qingyuan reassured Zhou Zhengbin that he was in no hurry to obtain the Yin Yang Immortal Scripture.
• Deng Long and several Dongshan Association cultivators broke through the manor’s Protective Light Curtain and entered without permission.
• Zhou Zhengbin tried to address Deng Long, but Deng Long ignored him and searched the manor with his Spiritual Sense for Lin Hao.
• Zhang Qingyuan severed Deng Long’s Spiritual Sense and challenged his conduct as an uninvited guest.
• Deng Long wrongly concluded that Zhang Qingyuan was a weak divine cultivator and dismissed him as a fraud.

Deng Long confronted Zhou Zhengbin and Lin Hao over Deng Younian’s accusation that Lin Hao had stolen a Vermillion Fruit and attacked them. While Deng Long suppressed Lin Hao, Zhang Qingyuan noticed the defensive formation had been left undefended and realized an attack on Shangshan was being prepared.

• Deng Younian told the gathered cultivators that Lin Hao had taken their thousand-year Vermillion Fruit and ambushed him and his companions.
• Lin Hao called Deng Younian a liar, but Deng Long pinned him to the ground with his aura and dismissed Zhou Zhengbin’s attempt to intervene.
• Zhou Zhengbin offered a ten-thousand-year Vermillion Fruit as compensation, but Lin Hao insisted that the dispute had nothing to do with Zhou Zhengbin or Mr. Li and offered his own life instead.
• Zhang Qingyuan observed that Lin Hao’s fortune had strengthened under the pressure and gained a new insight into the power of fortune.
• Zhang Qingyuan sensed that the attention on the confrontation had left the defensive formation unattended and realized an attack was underway.
• A black-robed envoy learned that Commander Deng had drawn the rebels away and secured control of the Mountain Protecting Formation, then prepared to breach Shangshan.

Deng Long pretended to accept Xue Zhenyun’s mediation before stabbing him and revealing he served the Black Ice Platform. The imperial court’s army then surrounded Shangshan and launched a surprise attack, plunging the Dongshan Association into chaos.

• Xue Zhenyun offered Deng Long a ten-thousand-year Vermillion Fruit to end the dispute, and Deng Long agreed to stop fighting.
• As Xue Zhenyun prepared to decide whether to shelter Zhou Zhengbin and Zhang Qingyuan, Deng Long attacked him from behind and severely wounded him.
• Deng Long declared that he had always served the Black Ice Platform as the imperial court’s army shattered Shangshan’s protective formation and encircled the region.
• A Dongshan Association Titan tried to flee while Xue Zhenyun and his followers attacked Deng Long, who fought back and called the Association rebels.
• Fighting spread across Shangshan as cultivators fought the imperial forces or fled amid the army’s advancing encirclement.

The imperial court shattered the Dongshan Association and captured its leaders, while Ying Changkong and Deng Long cornered Zhou Zhengbin and Zhang Qingyuan. Zhang Qingyuan revealed overwhelming speed and strength by killing Deng Long, leaving the imperial court forces stunned.

• The imperial court breached the Dongshan Association’s Mountain Protecting Formation and overwhelmed its scattered cultivators as Ying Changkong injured the association’s leaders.
• Zhou Zhengbin tried to flee with Lin Hao and Zhang Qingyuan, but Ying Changkong blocked them and identified them as Li Zhengbang’s killers.
• Ying Changkong ordered Deng Long to cripple Zhou Zhengbin and Zhang Qingyuan, while the imperial court captured Xue Zhenyun and the other wounded leaders.
• Deng Long celebrated the association’s destruction and blamed Zhou Zhengbin and Zhang Qingyuan as the other captives cursed them.
• Zhang Qingyuan seized Deng Long from across the distance and broke his neck, shocking everyone present.

Zhang Qingyuan crushed Deng Long with ease, then faced Ying Changkong and the Dongshan Region army as they rallied against him. After they attacked, Zhang Qingyuan flicked a devastating black line through Ying Changkong and the military formation, destroying the heavens and earth for ten thousand li.

• Zhang Qingyuan seized Deng Long from afar and crushed him to death, terrifying the cultivators and soldiers gathered nearby.
• Zhang Qingyuan ordered the troops to withdraw, but Ying Changkong urged them not to fear one man and invoked the Great Zhou Dynasty’s Destiny/Luck.
• Ying Changkong’s power rose to the level of a Myriad Transformations Dao Venerable, and the army’s morale surged as its military formation bore down on Zhang Qingyuan and Zhou Zhengbin.
• Zhang Qingyuan formed a point of blackness between his fingers and flicked it through Ying Changkong and the military formation.
• The black line swept across the sky vault, and the heavens and earth for ten thousand li were destroyed.

Zhang Qingyuan unleashed a devastating strike that annihilated Ying Changkong and the front ranks of the imperial army, leaving a vast abyss where the battlefield had been. The surviving forces fled, while powerful figures across Qingzhou sensed the unfamiliar Myriad Transformations Dao Venerable and began to take notice.

• Zhang Qingyuan's strike tore through the land and sent a catastrophic shockwave across the Dongshan Region.
• The master of the Yin Yang Division sensed an unfamiliar, powerful Myriad Transformations Dao Venerable and resolved to investigate.
• An old Daoist welcomed the arrival of another ally against Emperor Zhou and departed.
• The survivors at Shangshan realized Zhang Qingyuan was a powerful Myriad Transformations Dao Venerable after Ying Changkong and three hundred thousand soldiers were annihilated.
• Zhang Qingyuan asked whether the remaining imperial troops still wished to fight, and the soldiers and government cultivators fled in panic.

Zhang Qingyuan studied the Dongshan Association’s records and uncovered clues linking the Great Zhou Dynasty to the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty of Central Continent. He suspected that answers about Qingzhou’s upheaval five thousand years ago lay in the Great Zhou imperial palace, as heavenly intent stirred across the land.

• The Dongshan Association’s leaders delivered their collected books and records to Zhang Qingyuan, then returned to their dwellings in fear of his power.
• Zhang Qingyuan studied the cultivation records and added their techniques and ideas to his knowledge.
• Zhang Qingyuan found ancient accounts of a grand Great Zhou banquet held to welcome an envoy from the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty of Central Continent.
• Zhang Qingyuan connected the dynasty to Ning Bufu’s memories and pondered its possible ties to the Land of Divine Ruins upheaval five thousand years ago.
• Zhang Qingyuan concluded that the Great Zhou imperial palace might hold answers, and heavenly intent stirred as Qingzhou’s aura fell into chaos.

Zhang Qingyuan accepted an apology from the Flying Immortal Alliance and chose to leave Dongshan Region with its emissary, traveling under the Daoist title Qing Xuan. After Zhang departed, Lin Hao declined to follow him and instead planned to grow stronger on his own, while Zhou Zhengbin offered to take him and his sister to a safe place.

• A young woman from the Flying Immortal Alliance apologized to Zhang Qingyuan and said she had crippled and imprisoned the officials who had insulted him.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to leave Dongshan Region with the Alliance emissary and told her to spread the name Dao Venerable Qing Xuan.
• Several days later, Zhou Zhengbin asked Lin Hao why he had not followed Zhang Qingyuan, since staying with a Myriad Transformations Realm Dao Venerable could help him advance.
• Lin Hao said he did not want to hold Zhang Qingyuan back and resolved to cultivate on his own until he could reach the legendary realm and stand before him as a disciple.
• Zhou Zhengbin offered to take Lin Hao and his sister to another organization within the Flying Immortal Alliance, and Lin Hao accepted.