Chapter Summaries

Zhang Qingyuan arrived at the Flying Immortal Alliance headquarters, where Vice Alliance Leader Carefree Old Daoist tested him and then welcomed him after recognizing his strength. As Carefree Old Daoist showed him the alliance’s defenses, Zhang Qingyuan was astonished by Qingzhou’s powerful cultivators and gained insight from its grand formation.

• Carefree Old Daoist tested Zhang Qingyuan’s strength with a probing voice, and Zhang Qingyuan effortlessly dispelled its pressure.
• Carefree Old Daoist apologized for testing Zhang Qingyuan to ensure he was not a spy for the Great Zhou Dynasty, and Zhang accepted the explanation.
• Zhang Qingyuan learned that Qingzhou had numerous Heavenly Tier Myriad Transformations cultivators and was far stronger than Yunzhou, Yuzhou, and Haizhou.
• Carefree Old Daoist guided Zhang Qingyuan into the Flying Immortal Alliance headquarters at the Vast Sea Cliffs and explained its defenses against the Great Zhou Dynasty.
• Zhang Qingyuan examined the headquarters’ grand formation, which integrated Heaven and Earth Momentum, and gained new insights.

Zhang Qingyuan traveled to the Flying Immortal Alliance and gained new insights into the Five Elements Immortal Scripture through its vast records and a Dao exchange with Myriad Transformations Realm cultivators. The year-long gathering ended with everyone eager to return to seclusion and absorb what they had learned.

• Zhang Qingyuan reflected on how travel and firsthand experience had helped advance his Five Elements Immortal Scripture after decades of stalled cultivation.
• The Carefree Old Daoist opened the Flying Immortal Alliance's records and hosted a Dao exchange attended by more than ten Myriad Transformations Realm cultivators.
• Zhang Qingyuan absorbed the cultivators' wisdom, and the Five Elements Immortal Scripture began progressing again.
• Zhang Qingyuan answered difficult cultivation questions and helped several cultivators break through long-standing barriers, astonishing the Carefree Old Daoist.
• The exchange meeting continued for a year before the Carefree Old Daoist ended it so the participants could return to seclusion and digest their gains.

During three years in the Flying Immortal Alliance, Zhang Qingyuan advanced his understanding of the Five Elements Immortal Scripture and learned about the Great Zhou Dynasty’s origins and the limits on its Divine Emperor’s power. He remained curious about the mysterious strength the Emperor wielded in Shenjing, but the Carefree Old Daoist’s invitation interrupted his cultivation.

• Zhang Qingyuan spent three years studying the Flying Immortal Alliance’s records and exchanging insights, raising his understanding of the Five Elements Immortal Scripture to sixty percent.
• The Carefree Old Daoist told Zhang Qingyuan that the Great Zhou Dynasty’s founder came from Central Continent and had brought its imperial institutions and military formations to Qingzhou.
• Zhang Qingyuan learned that the Flying Immortal Alliance survived because it had allies in Central Continent and the Divine Emperor weakened when he left Great Zhou territory.
• The Carefree Old Daoist warned Zhang Qingyuan that the Divine Emperor’s power reached a terrifying peak in Shenjing and urged him never to approach it.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to keep learning about Central Continent while staying in the Flying Immortal Alliance, until the Carefree Old Daoist invited him to something.

Carefree Old Daoist recruited Zhang Qingyuan to guard a Flying Immortal Alliance expedition to a relic Cave Heaven where the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty's envoys had hidden. Zhang Qingyuan agreed in exchange for the truth about the Land of Divine Ruins upheaval, and the group reached a vast desert sea.

• Carefree Old Daoist told Zhang Qingyuan that the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty's envoys had vanished five thousand years ago, after a secret meeting with the Great Zhou Divine Emperor ended in a falling-out.
• Zhang Qingyuan agreed to protect the Flying Immortal Alliance's expedition if Carefree Old Daoist revealed the secrets of the Land of Divine Ruins after the mission.
• Carefree Old Daoist agreed, provided no more than half of the accompanying cultivators were lost.
• Zhang Qingyuan set out with Solitary Pine and twelve Cave True Realm cultivators to explore the relic Cave Heaven, which barred Myriad Transformations Realm cultivators.
• Solitary Pine explained that Zhang Qingyuan only needed to protect the group outside the relic and guard against the imperial court, while their fate inside would be left to Heaven's will.
• The expedition's flying boat arrived above an endless desert sea.

Zhang Qingyuan arrived with the Flying Immortal Alliance at the spatial rift hiding the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty’s secret realm, where the court and other factions were locked in a tense standoff. The Prince of West Peace attacked their flying boat with his God-Slaying Spear, but Zhang Qingyuan casually sent it spinning back.

• The Flying Immortal Alliance’s flying boat reached the colossal spatial rift in the West Sand Vast Sea, where the court, sects, and rogue cultivators had gathered.
• The Prince of West Peace learned that Li Feiyu was aboard the boat and ordered an attack to avenge Li Zhengbang.
• The Prince of West Peace launched his God-Slaying Spear at the flying boat, shocking the gathered cultivators with its power.
• Zhang Qingyuan swept out one hand and knocked the spear back toward the divine carriage.

The Flying Immortal Alliance’s Heavenly Grade Myriad Transformations expert repelled the God-Slaying Spear into Prince Pacifying the West’s army, devastating its formation and forcing the prince to stand down. The Alliance’s flying vessel descended amid the onlookers’ astonishment, while Prince Pacifying the West quietly vowed revenge.

• The God-Slaying Spear flew back toward Prince Pacifying the West’s army, and his soldiers formed the Thousandfold Immovable Mountain Formation to stop it.
• The spear broke through the formation, killed more than half of the hundred thousand troops, pierced the prince’s divine-metal carriage, and injured the imperial court’s Myriad Transformations experts.
• The Dao Master of Xuanqing Dao identified the attacker’s power as Heavenly Grade Myriad Transformations, and the assembled sect leaders and cultivators realized the Flying Immortal Alliance had such an expert with it.
• The Flying Immortal Alliance’s flying vessel descended as onlookers whispered about Prince Pacifying the West’s defeat, and the prince suppressed his anger and vowed revenge.

Zhang Qingyuan arrived at the unstable Secret Realm and established that only young Cave True Realm cultivators should compete for it. Ten days later, the entrance opened, and as cultivators rushed inside, Zhang Qingyuan saw a mirror linked to the Cave Heaven World that resonated with his Sword Pellet.

• Zhang Qingyuan landed among the gathered forces, and Prince Pacifying the West swallowed his anger rather than challenge a Heavenly Grade Myriad Transformations Dao Venerable.
• Zhang Qingyuan proposed leaving the Secret Realm battle to young Cave True Realm cultivators, and the gathered powers agreed to avoid destroying the unstable space.
• Dao Venerable Solitary Pine handled greetings while the Dragon Soaring Army regrouped and newcomers discussed Zhang Qingyuan’s strength and identity.
• Ten days later, Zhang Qingyuan sensed the Space Channel opening as the shattered mirror-space collapsed into a dark vortex.
• Cave True Realm cultivators from the various powers, including the Flying Immortal Alliance, entered the Secret Realm while Zhang Qingyuan saw a mirror and felt his Sword Pellet resonate with it.

Zhang Qingyuan sent an avatar into the Spatial Secret Realm to find the jade mirror brought by the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty, while his main body watched events outside. When imperial court forces besieged the Flying Immortal Alliance’s cultivators inside, Zhang Qingyuan intervened and broke their formation.

• Zhang Qingyuan recalled that the jade mirror reflected the Spatial Secret Realm and decided he had to obtain it, while considering its possible connection to the Great Zhou Dynasty.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones Technique to send an avatar into the realm and synchronously observe it from outside.
• The imperial court’s experts surrounded the Flying Immortal Alliance’s Cave True Realm cultivators, and Li Wei led their retreat against the One-Character Long Snake Formation.
• Zhang Qingyuan spotted a weakness in the formation and pierced one of its cultivators with a beam of law-light, causing the entire formation to collapse.

Zhang Qingyuan secretly helped Li Wei and the Flying Immortal Alliance break through the court’s encirclement, then left them to escape on their own. He reached the center of the Cave Heaven World, found the remains of the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty’s delegation, and continued searching for the mirror.

• Li Wei seized the opening created by the broken formation and led the Flying Immortal Alliance through the court’s encirclement.
• Zhang Qingyuan watched the two sides disappear, withdrew from the area, and continued alone toward his destination.
• Zhang Qingyuan crossed the death-filled region without hindrance and entered the Divine Mountain at the center of the Cave Heaven World.
• Zhang Qingyuan found a palace altar surrounded by remains and recognized them as the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty’s delegation.
• Zhang Qingyuan set aside his questions about the delegation’s deaths and focused on finding the mirror and its master’s remains.

Zhang Qingyuan reached the central altar and discovered a blood-soaked giant weapon whose fiendish aura had corrupted the surrounding region. He found the space vortex leading to the mirror that projected the Cave Heaven World, but the mystery of the weapon and the deaths at the altar remained unresolved.

• Zhang Qingyuan searched the plaza and found more than a thousand skeletons, which he estimated had lain there for four or five thousand years.
• Zhang Qingyuan examined a colossal blood-stained pillar and realized it was a weapon whose accumulated blood and fiendish aura had transformed the surrounding land into a domain field.
• Zhang Qingyuan found that black blood had corrupted the altar’s engraved formations, which might once have suppressed the weapon, but he uncovered no explanation for what had happened.
• Zhang Qingyuan entered a passage behind the weapon and discovered a brocade-robed corpse kneeling with a sword through its chest beside the message, “Your Majesty, this subject did his utmost!”
• Zhang Qingyuan passed through a space vortex and saw a mirror floating in chaos, reflecting and projecting the Cave Heaven World.

Zhang Qingyuan claimed a mysterious white jade mirror that resonated with his Sword Pellet and appeared to reveal the entire Spatial Secret Realm. As the realm shook and its inhabitants panicked, the Great Zhou Divine Emperor confronted Zhang Qingyuan and demanded that he surrender the mirror.

• Zhang Qingyuan saw that the white jade mirror reflected every person and place in the Spatial Secret Realm, and his Sword Pellet responded to it.
• He reached through the mirror’s spatial domains and took it, causing the entire Cave Heaven Secret Realm to shake.
• Cultivators inside the realm reacted to the upheaval by fleeing, hesitating, or pressing farther in.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to refine the mirror outside the realm before closing the Spatial Secret Realm and began preparing to do so.
• The Great Zhou Divine Emperor appeared behind Zhang Qingyuan and ordered him to put down the mirror.

A terrifying battle shattered the Cave Heaven World and sent its inhabitants fleeing. After the Xuanqing Dao Lord rescued Duanmu Yun and his fellow disciples, they watched a vast region collapse into darkness as he identified the conflict as an unprecedented Heavenly Being war.

• A devastating blast and apocalyptic storms tore apart the Cave Heaven World, forcing cultivators from every faction to flee through the exit.
• The Xuanqing Dao Lord seized Duanmu Yun and several Xuanqing Dao disciples with a giant hand of spiritual light and transported them away from the collapsing realm.
• The Xuanqing Dao Lord moved his disciples another three thousand Li from the danger and told them to watch the horizon in silence.
• A thousand-Li stretch of the world collapsed into darkness, swallowing the light and everything within it.
• The Xuanqing Dao Lord declared that the one in Shenjing had acted and that an unprecedented Heavenly Being war was underway.

Zhang Qingyuan confronted the Great Zhou Divine Emperor after crossing into the Chaos Void to claim the Profound Heaven Mirror. When Zhang Qingyuan refused to surrender it, the Divine Emperor unleashed his power and the surrounding cultivators fled the collapsing battlefield.

• The Great Zhou Divine Emperor sensed Zhang Qingyuan’s perfected Water Element Great Dao and recognized that his earlier opponent had been a clone made with One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones.
• Zhang Qingyuan revealed that he had perfected the Water Element Great Dao and had used only its power to withstand the Divine Emperor’s attack.
• The Divine Emperor claimed the Profound Heaven Mirror as his own and demanded that Zhang Qingyuan return it.
• Zhang Qingyuan rejected the claim and challenged the Divine Emperor to fight for the mirror.
• The Divine Emperor released his full aura, collapsing the surrounding space and forcing the nearby Myriad Transformations cultivators to flee.
• The cultivators recognized the enormous figure rising within the darkness as the Great Zhou Divine Emperor.

The Great Zhou Divine Emperor fought Zhang Qingyuan, whose perfected Water Element Great Dao shocked the spectators watching from afar. As the Divine Emperor recognized Zhang Qingyuan’s power, he resolved to kill him and stepped forward to meet his world-shaking punch.

• The Great Zhou Divine Emperor’s appearance and battle stunned cultivators across Qingzhou, who recognized his phantom immediately.
• Xuanqing Dao Lord and the White Cloud Temple Master watched from three thousand li away and discussed the Heavenly Human’s terrifying power and the Flying Immortal Alliance’s survival.
• The spectators identified the Divine Emperor’s opponent as Dao Venerable Qing Xuan of the Flying Immortal Alliance and expected him to die.
• Zhang Qingyuan struck the Divine Emperor with a punch infused with his perfected Water Element Great Dao, shaking the Chaos Void.
• The Divine Emperor sensed Zhang Qingyuan’s achievement, felt killing intent surge, and stepped forward to collide with the attack.

Zhang Qingyuan and the Great Zhou Divine Emperor fought across the West Sand Vast Sea, unleashing power that shattered the world and terrified Qingzhou’s cultivators. Their battle ended temporarily when Zhang Qingyuan realized the Divine Emperor was a clone created by One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones.

• The Great Zhou Divine Emperor unleashed his Imperial Dynasty’s Destiny/Luck, and Zhang Qingyuan met his attacks with the perfected Water Element Great Dao.
• Their clash shattered space and drove nearby cultivators, including the Xuanqing Dao master, to flee in terror.
• The fight ranged across a hundred thousand li, leaving vast fissures and destruction that stopped Qingzhou’s Myriad Transformations experts from pursuing them.
• Several hundred thousand li into the West Sand Vast Sea, Zhang Qingyuan and the Divine Emperor stopped fighting and faced each other across Chaotic Nothingness.
• Zhang Qingyuan recognized that the Great Zhou Divine Emperor was a clone made through One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones.

Zhang Qingyuan learned that the Great Zhou Divine Emperor’s avatar had also mastered One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones, then watched it withdraw after failing to defeat him. Zhang Qingyuan left to study the Profound Heaven Mirror, while the battle’s end heralded greater upheaval across Qingzhou.

• Zhang Qingyuan recognized the Great Zhou Divine Emperor’s One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones technique and wondered how he had obtained it.
• The Great Zhou Divine Emperor acknowledged Zhang Qingyuan as one of the chosen and warned that they would meet again soon.
• The Great Zhou Divine Emperor withdrew because he could not defeat Zhang Qingyuan and did not want to jeopardize his larger plan.
• Zhang Qingyuan let the avatar go, intending to learn more about the Divine Emperor and study the Profound Heaven Mirror.
• Zhang Qingyuan reflected on the insights he had gained from the battle and left to meet Carefree Old Daoist.
• The battle in the Western Sands of the Vast Sea ended, and the gathered cultivators sensed that greater turmoil was beginning across Qingzhou.

News of the battle in the West Sand Vast Sea shook Qingzhou, as Zhang Qingyuan’s clash with the Great Zhou Divine Emperor revealed that a Myriad Transformations Realm cultivator could contend with a Heavenly Being. The discovery that Zhang Qingyuan had risen from an ordinary lineage in only a few centuries left Qingzhou stunned, and the reports began spreading across the Nine Provinces.

• News spread that the Great Zhou Divine Emperor had fought in the West Sand Vast Sea and Zhang Qingyuan had retreated unharmed.
• Cultivators across Qingzhou questioned how Zhang Qingyuan could challenge a Heavenly Human Dao Ancestor at the Myriad Transformations Realm.
• A speaker revealed Zhang Qingyuan’s name and recounted his rise from Yunzhou, where he had defeated the Five Elements Holy Sect.
• Qingzhou learned that Zhang Qingyuan’s master was only a Cave True Law Domain Realm cultivator and that he had reached his current strength in three or four hundred years.
• Zhang Qingyuan became the focus of discussion throughout Qingzhou, as news of him spread toward the other provinces.

Zhang Qingyuan returned to the Flying Immortal Alliance after defeating the Great Zhou Divine Emperor’s incarnation, reflecting on how the battle had expanded his understanding of Heavenly Human power. The Carefree Old Daoist welcomed him and introduced him to Wu Fei, whose aggressive challenge was quickly stopped.

• Zhang Qingyuan led the group back to the Flying Immortal Alliance’s base while considering what he had learned from his battle with the Great Zhou Divine Emperor.
• The Carefree Old Daoist welcomed Zhang Qingyuan, praised his strength, and agreed to continue addressing him as a Daoist Friend.
• Zhang Qingyuan noticed the black-robed Wu Fei watching him with battle intent but initially ignored him.
• Wu Fei unleashed a blade-like wave of battle intent, and the Carefree Old Daoist ordered him to retreat.
• The Carefree Old Daoist explained that Wu Fei was the Alliance Leader’s Core Disciple and the Dragon Phoenix Ranking’s top figure, then apologized to Zhang Qingyuan, who brushed the incident aside.

Zhang Qingyuan learned from the Flying Immortal Alliance that the Land of Divine Ruins concealed the Heaven-Sacrificing Platform, which could contact the Upper Realm. The revelation left him pondering the Upper Realm’s influence and the danger it posed to Qingzhou and the wider cultivation world.

• The Carefree Old Daoist gave Zhang Qingyuan an ancient Jade Slip containing the Flying Immortal Alliance’s secret records about the Land of Divine Ruins.
• Zhang Qingyuan read that the Heaven-Sacrificing Platform had triggered the battle five thousand years ago and could connect to the Upper Realm.
• The Carefree Old Daoist confirmed the records were genuine and explained that only the Flying Immortal Alliance and the Great Zhou Imperial Court knew the full secret.
• Zhang Qingyuan thanked the Carefree Old Daoist and promised to remember the favor.
• Back in his quarters, Zhang Qingyuan considered whether other places in the cultivation world held objects capable of contacting the Upper Realm.

Zhang Qingyuan learned that the Land of Divine Ruins Forbidden Area was connected to the severing of the Azure Realm from the Upper Realm and the world’s decline. Unable to tell whether the Yin Yang Immortal Scripture remained in the Forbidden Area, he considered seeking it through the Great Zhou Imperial Court; two years later, his reputation had spread across Qingzhou.

• Zhang Qingyuan reflected on how the Nine Absolute Immortal Venerable’s ascension severed the Azure Realm’s ties to the Upper Realm and cut off the road to immortality.
• Zhang Qingyuan realized that the Land of Divine Ruins Forbidden Area had been devastated by an Upper Realm Great Power, making it uncertain whether he could enter and obtain the Yin Yang Immortal Scripture.
• Zhang Qingyuan considered whether the Great Zhou Imperial Court might possess the Yin Yang Immortal Scripture and murmured the Great Zhou Divine Emperor’s name as a plan took shape.
• Two years passed, and cultivators across Qingzhou increasingly discussed Zhang Qingyuan and uncovered accounts of his rise and deeds in Yunzhou.