Chapter Summaries

After reaching the Heavenly Human Realm and completing the Chaos Great Dao, Zhang Qingyuan left Qingzhou and returned to Yuzhou to visit the places and people from his past. He found that most of his old acquaintances had died, and gave Daoist Ming Xin guidance and a cultivation method before leaving him to face Death Seclusion.

• Zhang Qingyuan sensed that his destiny had grown more profound, possibly because he had created and passed down a cultivation method beyond the Cave True Realm.
• After his lecture strengthened the Flying Immortal Alliance, Zhang Qingyuan bade farewell to the Carefree Old Daoist and departed Qingzhou with Old Ancestor Dan Yang.
• Zhang Qingyuan returned to Yuzhou, visited the Seventeenth Branch, and mourned that Zhao Yuanyang, Shen Hongzhou, and nearly all his old companions had died.
• Zhang Qingyuan visited Daoist Ming Xin in his Secret Chamber for Death Seclusion, and they reminisced about old acquaintances and the changes of their era.
• Before leaving, Zhang Qingyuan gave Daoist Ming Xin a Jade Slip containing a path beyond the Cave True Realm and guidance for reaching the Myriad Transformations Realm.

Zhang Qingyuan visited Master Lu and his granddaughter Lu Yunxi before preparing to leave, confronting the loneliness of outliving the people who had once accompanied him. Old Ancestor Dan Yang reminded him that Cloud Water Sect remained his home, and Zhang Qingyuan affirmed that he would always regard it as such.

• After visiting Daoist Ming Xin, Zhang Qingyuan decided to see Master Lu, who had once protected and helped him.
• Zhang Qingyuan and Master Lu reminisced about Daoist Ming Shui and their shared past, while Lu Yunxi appeared and spoke with Zhang Qingyuan.
• Zhang Qingyuan gave Master Lu a Jade Slip, said farewell, and then stopped when Lu Yunxi chased after him and confessed that she liked him.
• Zhang Qingyuan visited Old Ancestor Dan Yang, who urged him to preserve his humanity and remember that Cloud Water Sect was his home.
• Zhang Qingyuan agreed that Cloud Water Sect remained his homeland despite the deaths of many people he had known.

Before leaving the Cloud Water Sect, Zhang Qingyuan visited the Heavenly Godly Wood, which was astonished that he had already reached the Heavenly Human Realm. The Heavenly Godly Wood tested his strength with the Erlwood Divine Thunder, and Zhang Qingyuan answered with his Chaos Great Dao, leaving both of them shaken by the exchange.

• Zhang Qingyuan visited the Heavenly Godly Wood in the Divine Wood Peak Secret Realm before leaving the Cloud Water Sect.
• The Heavenly Godly Wood sensed Zhang Qingyuan’s Heavenly Human Realm cultivation and questioned whether he had formed his Great Dao hastily.
• The Heavenly Godly Wood attacked Zhang Qingyuan with the Erlwood Divine Thunder to test his methods.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the Chaos Great Dao to annihilate the divine thunder and withstand its attack.
• The Heavenly Godly Wood secretly reeled from Zhang Qingyuan’s power as he wondered whether its strength was at or beyond escape one.

Zhang Qingyuan revealed that his fused Yin Yang and Five Elements had formed the Chaos Great Dao, giving him power far beyond an ordinary Dao Integration Heavenly Being. The Heavenly Godly Wood then explained that the Immortal Ascension Path Zhang Qingyuan understood was only a shortcut, leaving him shocked and questioning the orthodox path to cultivation.

• Zhang Qingyuan confirmed that he had fused Yin Yang and the Five Elements to form the Chaos Great Dao.
• The Heavenly Godly Wood praised Zhang Qingyuan’s path as one with boundless potential that had begun to transcend the world.
• Zhang Qingyuan asked what it meant to transcend the world, and the Heavenly Godly Wood asked him to explain how one became an immortal.
• Zhang Qingyuan described the Immortal Ascension Path as defeating rivals, establishing an unrivaled Dao, and gaining heaven and earth’s acknowledgment.
• The Heavenly Godly Wood said that this widely accepted method was only a shortcut, not the true orthodox path of cultivation, and Zhang Qingyuan was stunned.

Zhang Qingyuan learned from the Heavenly Godly Wood that the orthodox path to immortality required surviving the Chaos Divine Thunder, and he left the Divine Wood Secret Realm with a new immortal art. Before setting out for Central Continent, he visited Yunzhou and the Xuan Shui Sect, then departed across the Boundary Sea, perhaps not to return until he became immortal.

• The Heavenly Godly Wood explained that the orthodox Immortal Ascension Path required surviving the Chaos Thunder Tribulation, far more difficult than the shortcut used by the Upper Realm's immortal sects.
• Zhang Qingyuan left the Divine Wood Secret Realm with a Jade Slip containing an art for wielding Erlwood Divine Thunder and reflected that his Chaos Great Dao had preserved his choice of paths.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to visit Yunzhou before traveling to Central Continent and stopped at the Xuan Shui Sect, where he met Yang Wanying and left behind inheritances.
• Zhang Qingyuan reached the edge of the Boundary Sea, looked back toward the lands he was leaving, and plunged into the chaotic sea, thinking he might return after achieving immortality.

Zhang Qingyuan crossed the chaotic Boundary Sea while studying Erlwood Divine Thunder and discovered that the sea was a scar that had split the Azure Realm and weakened its Heavenly Dao. He feared the immortal power behind the calamity but resolved to focus on the challenges ahead, arriving at the border of Yunzhou and heading toward Qianyun Mountain.

• Zhang Qingyuan used the Great Evolution Technique to study Erlwood Divine Thunder as he traveled through the Boundary Sea, raising his comprehension to 6/10.
• Zhang Qingyuan realized the Boundary Sea was a vast scar that had torn apart the Azure Realm and left its Heavenly Dao weak in the region.
• Zhang Qingyuan connected the devastation to the legends of Nine Absolute Immortal Venerable and worried that an immortal-level enemy might await him.
• Zhang Qingyuan recalled the Heavenly Godly Wood's words about transcending the Heavenly Dao and suppressed his fears to deal with the present.
• After half a month, Zhang Qingyuan crossed the Boundary Sea, reached Yunzhou, and headed for Qianyun Mountain.

Zhang Qingyuan returned to Yunzhou and reunited with Little Fire, whose strength and Qianyun Mountain’s influence had grown during his absence. Little Fire gave him three Immortal Stones from a Yunzhou ruin, leaving Zhang Qingyuan eager to learn where they came from.

• Zhang Qingyuan returned to Qianyun Mountain, whose reputation had soared after word spread that he had reached the Heavenly Human Realm and slain Qingzhou’s ruler.
• The cultivators of Yunzhou learned that three Myriad Transformations Realm puppets and Little Fire had defeated an invading Outer Continent cultivator at Qianyun Mountain.
• Zhang Qingyuan discovered that Little Fire had advanced to the Myriad Transformations Realm and agreed to take it with him to Central Continent.
• Little Fire presented Zhang Qingyuan with a jade box containing three Immortal Stones, and he demanded to know where it had found them.

Zhang Qingyuan learned how Yue Wenhe found three Immortal Stones and how Little Fire and Qianyun Mountain’s Puppets defeated the Outer Continent cultivator who came to seize them. After leaving Little Fire behind, Zhang Qingyuan focused on the stones as a possible way to advance his Erlwood Divine Thunder.

• Little Fire told Zhang Qingyuan that Yue Wenhe had found three Immortal Stones in an ancient ruin and brought them back to Qianyun Mountain.
• Little Fire recognized the stones’ value, exchanged them for Yue Wenhe’s Contribution Points, and kept them as a gift for Zhang Qingyuan.
• An Outer Continent Myriad Transformations Realm cultivator came to Qianyun Mountain seeking the stones, but Little Fire and the Sect’s Puppets killed him.
• Little Fire claimed it had fought heroically to protect the stones, and Zhang Qingyuan praised it before leaving.
• Zhang Qingyuan considered the three Immortal Stones while his Erlwood Divine Thunder remained at 9/10.

Zhang Qingyuan spent years trying to master the Erlwood Divine Thunder and concluded that he needed an otherworldly catalyst to overcome its final bottleneck. Using an Immortal Stone in seclusion, he completed the technique.

• On his way back to Yunzhou, Zhang Qingyuan advanced his comprehension of the Erlwood Divine Thunder to 9/10 but could not progress further.
• Zhang Qingyuan suspected that, like Immortal Qi, the Erlwood Divine Thunder required a force from the Upper Realm as a catalyst.
• After three years of fruitless cultivation in the Cave Heaven Secret Realm, Zhang Qingyuan decided to use an Immortal Stone.
• Zhang Qingyuan refined the Immortal Essence from the stone while drawing thunder into a vast Sea of Thunder.
• Zhang Qingyuan opened his eyes as the thunder fell silent, having completed the Erlwood Divine Thunder.

Zhang Qingyuan practiced the newly condensed Erlwood Divine Thunder and then summoned Yue Wenhe to assess and guide his cultivation. He rewarded Yue Wenhe with an incomplete cultivation method and entrusted him with responsibility for the other disciples.

• Zhang Qingyuan unleashed the Erlwood Divine Thunder in the Chaotic Nothingness beyond the Nine Heavens, discovering its immense destructive power and heavy Magic Power cost.
• After repeated practice, Zhang Qingyuan raised his mastery of the Erlwood Divine Thunder to 2/100 and returned to Yunzhou.
• Zhang Qingyuan summoned Yue Wenhe, tested his cultivation for three days, and offered guidance on his water-element laws.
• Zhang Qingyuan gave Yue Wenhe an incomplete cultivation method for cultivation beyond the Cave True Realm as a reward for providing three Immortal Stones.
• Zhang Qingyuan made Yue Wenhe the de facto Senior Disciple Brother and left him responsible for assessing and teaching the junior disciples.

Zhang Qingyuan visited old acquaintances, learned about Central Continent, and arranged to travel there through the Nine Continents Chamber of Commerce. He agreed to wait half a month for a supply convoy and learned that restrictions at the Heavenly Pass prevented Yi An Dao Venerable from taking him there directly.

• Zhang Qingyuan visited Old Ancestor Murong and then met Dao Venerable Kong Sheng at Qingtian Sect, where he learned about Central Continent and heard of the rising prodigy Emperor Yan Lin Yan.
• Zhang Qingyuan declined Dao Venerable Kong Sheng's offer to contact his friend in person, urging him to enter seclusion after noticing his cultivation was about to break through.
• Zhang Qingyuan resolved to leave Yunzhou for Central Continent, since his cultivation had nearly stopped advancing in the Outer Continents.
• Zhang Qingyuan met Yi An Dao Venerable at the Yunzhou branch of the Nine Continents Chamber of Commerce and arranged to travel with a supply convoy departing in half a month.
• Yi An Dao Venerable explained that restrictions at the Heavenly Pass prevented him from taking Zhang Qingyuan directly to Central Continent, and Zhang Qingyuan asked what the Heavenly Pass was.

Zhang Qingyuan traveled with the Nine Continents Chamber of Commerce’s heavily laden airship fleet toward the Heavenly Pass, the gateway into Central Continent. When they arrived, Yi An Dao Venerable sensed that something was wrong with the tense gatekeepers.

• Yi An Dao Venerable assured Zhang Qingyuan that the Heavenly Pass gatekeepers would allow him into Central Continent because of his cultivation and achievements.
• The Nine Continents Chamber of Commerce loaded its goods onto ten enormous airships, and Zhang Qingyuan was surprised by the caravan’s immense cargo and small guard force.
• Yi An Dao Venerable explained that the Chamber’s reputation and the airships’ power made the caravan difficult to rob.
• Zhang Qingyuan and Yi An Dao Venerable traveled aboard the lead airship as the fleet crossed the void toward the Heavenly Pass.
• At the Heavenly Pass, Yi An Dao Venerable noticed the stern gatekeepers and realized the atmosphere was unusually tense.

After being held at the Heavenly Gate for a month, Zhang Qingyuan and the Nine Continents Chamber of Commerce were summoned before two Heavenly Human Dao Ancestors and subjected to a hostile search. The chapter ends as an officer questions Zhang Qingyuan’s clearance documents and Yi An Dao Venerable tries to keep him calm.

• Yi An Dao Venerable tried to learn why the Heavenly Gate was sealed, but a guard stopped the cultivator he questioned from speaking.
• Zhang Qingyuan and Yi An Dao Venerable waited for a month before a checkpoint cultivator ordered the Nine Continents Chamber of Commerce to bring its ships to pay respects to the Old Ancestor.
• Yi An Dao Venerable cautioned Zhang Qingyuan against provoking the powerful gatekeepers, and Zhang Qingyuan said he would not start trouble.
• Yi An Dao Venerable introduced himself to the two Heavenly Human Dao Ancestors, but the white-haired old man rebuked him and ordered a routine search of the ships.
• The checkpoint cultivators searched the ships, while the eagle-eyed middle-aged man questioned whether Zhang Qingyuan had clearance to pass through the Heavenly Gate.
• Yi An Dao Venerable grabbed Zhang Qingyuan and urged him to remain calm as Zhang Qingyuan stepped forward.

Zhang Qingyuan and Yi An Dao Venerable were denied passage through the Heavenly Gate, and Yi An was imprisoned after the gatekeepers dismissed Zhang’s reputation as a lie. Zhang struck the white-haired Heavenly Being who had insulted him, leaving the old man humiliated and furious.

• Yi An Dao Venerable praised Zhang Qingyuan’s strength and urged the Heavenly Gate gatekeepers to let him pass without a permit.
• The cold-faced middle-aged cultivator attacked Yi An Dao Venerable and sealed his Magic Power, imprisoning him for attempting to pass without a permit.
• The white-haired Heavenly Being mocked Zhang’s reported victory over a Heavenly Being and revealed his grudge over a junior killed at Qianyun Mountain.
• Zhang Qingyuan slapped the white-haired old man off his stone platform and sent him rolling down the mountainside.
• Zhang Qingyuan mocked the old man for refusing a toast and drinking a forfeit as the humiliated Heavenly Being climbed back up.

Zhang Qingyuan overwhelmed the enraged white-haired Heavenly Being with a single palm, revealing the terrifying power of his Chaos Great Dao. The defeated man remained buried beneath the earth, while another Heavenly Being feared the clash could become the fuse for Ten Thousand Thunder Mountain’s destruction.

• The white-haired Heavenly Being attacked Zhang Qingyuan in fury, unleashing thunderous power that shook the surrounding mountains and terrified the onlookers.
• Zhang Qingyuan mocked the old man and pressed down with one palm, manifesting the Chaos Great Dao and extinguishing the attack.
• Zhang Qingyuan’s palm crushed the white-haired Heavenly Being into a vast hollow in the earth, leaving the crowd shocked by his strength.
• The Chaos Great Dao shook nearby cultivators’ Dao powers, injuring some and nearly disrupting Yi An Dao Venerable’s cultivation.
• The other Heavenly Being recognized Zhang Qingyuan’s vast potential and privately worried that the defeated man might provoke Ten Thousand Thunder Mountain’s destruction.

Zhang Qingyuan passed through the Heavenly Gate toward Central Continent, where he survived a Chaos creature’s attack in the passage and arrived amid a vast heavenly phenomenon. His arrival left him absorbing Central Continent’s spiritual energy while onlookers speculated that a new peerless genius had entered the cultivation world.

• Zhang Qingyuan impressed the Heavenly Gate’s brocade-clad guard with his strength, learned that Lei Yingzi’s grievance traced back to a junior killed at Qianyun Mountain, and was allowed through the gate.
• Zhang Qingyuan’s fleet entered the passage, where a giant tentacle tore through the barrier and a Chaos storm threatened to engulf the ships.
• Zhang Qingyuan severed the tentacle with his golden sword and protected the fleet as it sped away from the breach.
• After three days, Zhang Qingyuan and the fleet emerged into Central Continent, where the abundant spiritual energy transformed his cultivation and prompted him to meditate in the air.
• An old man and other onlookers marveled at the three-thousand-li purple aura surrounding Zhang Qingyuan, while Yi An Dao Venerable envied his apparent potential.

After his cultivation improved greatly from entering Central Continent, Zhang Qingyuan considered how to obtain more World Origin Power and decided to seek out his old friend Xiao Jingyun at Three Saints Gate. He followed Yi An Dao Venerable’s fleet to Rao'an City, where Nine Continents Chamber of Commerce president Shen Zheng welcomed him.

• Zhang Qingyuan emerged from secluded meditation, having increased his Magic Power and advanced his Dao Integration cultivation through Central Continent’s cleansing and three thousand Li of purple qi.
• Zhang Qingyuan reflected that World Origin Power could rapidly strengthen him but was difficult to obtain, and he recalled that top-tier sects might know its source.
• Zhang Qingyuan considered visiting Xiao Jingyun at Three Saints Gate, where he had been invited three hundred years earlier.
• Zhang Qingyuan followed Yi An Dao Venerable’s fleet to Rao'an City to learn more about Central Continent and the route to Three Saints Gate.
• Shen Zheng, the Nine Continents Chamber of Commerce branch president and a Void Sky-level cultivator, welcomed Zhang Qingyuan, who politely returned his greeting.

Zhang Qingyuan asked Shen Zheng for cultivation guidance, and his profound questions changed Shen Zheng’s view of him from a promising junior to a potential peer. Shen Zheng invited him into a spiritual Secret Realm to discuss the Dao, while revealing that the Heavenly Gate obstruction was tied to the Chamber of Commerce’s conflict with Ten Thousand Thunder Mountain.

• Zhang Qingyuan accepted Shen Zheng’s goodwill and asked him about problems he had encountered in cultivation.
• Shen Zheng recognized the depth of Zhang Qingyuan’s questions and admitted that his understanding of the Dao surpassed that of ordinary Dao Integration Heavenly Beings.
• Shen Zheng invited Zhang Qingyuan to the Secret Realm to discuss cultivation over Dao tea, and Zhang Qingyuan agreed.
• Shen Zheng said the Chamber of Commerce’s dispute with Ten Thousand Thunder Mountain over a Spirit Stone Vein was connected to Zhang Qingyuan’s trouble at the Heavenly Gate.
• Shen Zheng led Zhang Qingyuan through a spatial gate into a Secret Realm rich in Spiritual energy.

After half a month exchanging cultivation insights with Shen Zheng, Zhang Qingyuan gained a clearer path toward the Void Sky realm and agreed to help the Nine Continents Chamber of Commerce fight Ten Thousand Thunder Mountain. He stayed in the Chamber of Commerce’s Cave Heaven Secret Realm to digest his gains while Shen Zheng sought allies for the battle in three years.

• Zhang Qingyuan completed his half-month exchange with Shen Zheng and thanked him for clarifying the path from Dao Integration Heavenly Being to Void Sky.
• Shen Zheng realized Zhang Qingyuan’s Great Dao comprehension and Immortal Scripture inheritance exceeded his expectations.
• Shen Zheng asked Zhang Qingyuan to help the Nine Continents Chamber of Commerce settle its dispute with Ten Thousand Thunder Mountain in a battle planned for three years later.
• Zhang Qingyuan declined payment at first, but accepted one hundred Top-grade Spirit Stones as a deposit after Shen Zheng insisted.
• Zhang Qingyuan stayed in the Chamber of Commerce’s Cave Heaven Secret Realm to cultivate, while Shen Zheng left to seek assistance.

After three years of seclusion, Zhang Qingyuan emerged with greatly increased strength and joined Shen Zheng, Yan Beigui, and Murong Yue for a conflict between Central Continent powers. The four arrived together at a vast mountain range, where Zhang Qingyuan’s ability to keep pace impressed his companions.

• Zhang Qingyuan completed three years of cultivation, reaching the peak of the early Dao Integration Heavenly Being stage in cultivation.
• Zhang Qingyuan left his Cave Heaven Secret Realm to meet Shen Zheng, motivated by their agreement and the remaining two hundred Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Shen Zheng introduced Zhang Qingyuan to Yan Beigui and Murong Yue, and the three welcomed him as an equal.
• Zhang Qingyuan learned about Yan Beigui’s background and Murong Yue’s reputation as a powerful genius from Immortal Sound Valley.
• Shen Zheng led Zhang Qingyuan, Yan Beigui, and Murong Yue toward their appointed conflict, and they crossed a million li in less than half a day.
• The four emerged from a spatial rift above a mountain range, where Yan Beigui and Murong Yue noticed that Zhang Qingyuan had kept pace with them.