Chapter Summaries

Zhang Qingyuan studied the decade-old Sky-Piercing Blade Scar in Yujing, withstanding its residual Escape One will and gaining insight into Erlwood Divine Thunder and the path to Escape One. As he considered seeking an inheritance, he sensed a battle nearby involving a familiar power and went to investigate.

• Zhang Qingyuan gazed at the Sky-Piercing Blade Scar and resisted the lingering will of the Escape One attack with his Aura of Luck.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the scar's residual will to deepen his understanding of Erlwood Divine Thunder and gain insight into Escape One existences.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided he needed an Escape One inheritance and considered searching ancient ruins or asking friendly sacred lands for guidance.
• Zhang Qingyuan sensed a void sky-level battle ten thousand li away and changed course to investigate the familiar power involved.

Murong Yue was cornered and severely wounded by two Void Sky-level men in black until Zhang Qingyuan intervened and drove them back. She recognized him as an old acquaintance and was astonished to discover that he had reached the Void Sky realm.

• Two men in black overwhelmed Murong Yue, who used an Immortal Talisman of Substitution to escape their killing blow.
• The attackers manifested their Void Realm Cave Heavens and prepared to kill Murong Yue as she lay unable to move.
• Zhang Qingyuan appeared, shattered the enemies' combined attack with one sword strike, and shielded Murong Yue with his Cave Heaven power.
• Murong Yue recognized Zhang Qingyuan from their meeting decades earlier and was shocked that he had advanced to the Void Sky realm.

Zhang Qingyuan reunited with Murong Yue and swiftly defeated two black-clad Void Sky cultivators who had nearly killed her. After the battle, he found a familiar token among their possessions and asked Murong Yue who they were and why they had attacked her.

• Murong Yue was stunned to learn Zhang Qingyuan had advanced from Dao Integration to the mid-stage Void Sky realm in just one hundred years.
• Zhang Qingyuan attacked the two black-clad men, whose combined Cave Heavens could not withstand his sword strike.
• The black-clad men escaped the first attack at great cost, but Murong Yue seized her chance and severed both their heads.
• Zhang Qingyuan took the men's Storage Spaces and noticed a familiar token before asking Murong Yue about their identities and motives.

Murong Yue told Zhang Qingyuan that a hidden force was hunting outstanding young cultivators, and he suspected it was the Netherworld organization. She invited him to join her in exploring the ruins of the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty, one of the Ten Ancient Sacred Lands.

• Murong Yue explained that an unknown force had hunted her and other prodigies, forcing her to flee after Immortal Sound Valley was damaged.
• Zhang Qingyuan recognized Netherworld organization Tokens among the black-clad attackers’ belongings and worried about Shen Zheng and the turmoil across Central Continent.
• Zhang Qingyuan considered hiding away to cultivate but decided to travel and seek opportunities and cultivation insights instead.
• Murong Yue invited Zhang Qingyuan to explore a ruin identified by her Treasure Map as a remnant of the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty.
• Murong Yue explained that the Ten Ancient Sacred Lands had ties to the Upper Realm and that the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty had fallen five thousand years earlier.

Zhang Qingyuan learned about the Central Continent’s ancient holy lands and agreed to explore the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty’s legacy with Murong Yue. Meanwhile, the Netherworld’s leaders recognized Zhang as a growing threat, and one of them set out to kill him.

• Murong Yue explained that only four of the Ten Ancient Holy Lands remained, including Great Sumeru Mountain, Zhang Qingyuan’s powerful enemy.
• Zhang Qingyuan agreed to explore the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty’s legacy with Murong Yue, hoping to gain strength and uncover secrets connected to the Void Heaven Mirror.
• Days later, two men investigated the battlefield where Zhang Qingyuan had fought and used a black mirror to view what had happened.
• A Netherworld leader learned that Zhang Qingyuan had killed Number Five and Number Nine and discussed the danger he posed as his heavenly fortune grew.
• The Netherworld leader decided to personally kill Zhang Qingyuan and left another figure to guard against attacks from the old immortals.

Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue reached the ruins of the Great Desolate Realm to seek the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty’s legacy, but an attacker struck as Murong Yue prepared to open the hidden small world. The chapter ended with the pair escaping the ambush just in time.

• A sinister man investigated Yanxing Gate’s ruins, found no trace of the person he sought, and left to report to his superiors after remembering the fugitive’s Aura.
• Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue crossed the barren Great Desolate Realm while discussing the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty’s destruction and the rumors surrounding it.
• Murong Yue explained that the dynasty’s legacy lay in a small world that periodically approached the Azure Realm, and that its Token could draw the world close enough to enter.
• Murong Yue took out the Token at the mapped location, but Zhang Qingyuan sensed an approaching attacker and pulled her several thousand zhang away.
• A devastating attack shattered the space where Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue had stood, narrowly sparing them.

Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue encountered the powerful figures who had gathered at the Great Wilderness Ruins, including the Sword Son of the Nine Continents, who had tested them with a sudden sword strike. Murong Yue urged Zhang Qingyuan to avoid a fight with the veteran prodigies, whose presence suggested the Great Desolate Realm held a major secret.

• Zhang Qingyuan called out the hidden figures around him, and they revealed themselves from every direction.
• A seductive woman teased Zhang Qingyuan and tried to influence Murong Yue, but Zhang Qingyuan shielded Murong Yue from her aura.
• Zhang Qingyuan recognized the black-clothed sword bearer as the person who had attacked them and challenged his conduct as a swordsman.
• The Sword Son of the Nine Continents said his strike had tested whether Zhang Qingyuan was qualified to enter and invited him to fight.
• Murong Yue identified the gathered figures, including One Page Scholar, Chi Yan, Si Zhangji, and the Vajra Buddha Son, and advised Zhang Qingyuan not to provoke them.

Zhang Qingyuan challenged the Sword Son to prove he could stand among the older generation gathered for the spoils. Their sword clash ended with the Sword Son wounded and acknowledging Zhang Qingyuan’s strength, and Zhang Qingyuan took his place among them while keeping his full power concealed.

• Murong Yue worried that Zhang Qingyuan lacked the accumulated strength of the older generation, but Zhang Qingyuan said he had to demonstrate his strength to earn a share of the spoils.
• Zhang Qingyuan challenged the Sword Son and unleashed a sword strike that met the Sword Son’s devastating slash across the void.
• The clash shattered the surrounding void and forced the onlookers to retreat, while a small wound appeared on the Sword Son’s cheek.
• The Sword Son praised Zhang Qingyuan’s sword but regretted that he was not a swordsman, then withdrew without continuing the fight.
• The others tacitly accepted Zhang Qingyuan as qualified to share the spoils, and he led Murong Yue aside while concealing the full extent of his strength.

Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue entered the Ancient Arid Realm after its arrival caused a realm-wide earthquake and drew many powerful cultivators into the newly opened passages. They found a world drained of life and Dao energy, while the Void Heaven Mirror began trembling urgently inside Zhang Qingyuan’s dantian.

• Zhang Qingyuan judged himself among the strongest gathered cultivators but worried that a group assault could overwhelm him.
• The approaching Ancient Arid Realm caused a massive earthquake, and the cultivators agreed not to attack one another inside it.
• The cultivators used their Tokens to open passages into the Ancient Arid Realm, and Zhang Qingyuan entered with Murong Yue.
• Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue found a dead world filled with withered trees and enormous bones, with little Spiritual energy or Great Dao remaining.
• Murong Yue said she knew no route to the inheritance site, and Zhang Qingyuan noticed the Void Heaven Mirror trembling urgently in his dantian.

Zhang Qingyuan discovered that the Void Heaven Mirror could transport him and Murong Yue to locations across the Ancient Arid Realm, and they reached the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty’s Scripture Pavilion of Records to collect its Jade Slips. One Page Scholar and Chi Yan also headed for the Scripture Hall, unaware that Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue had already arrived.

• Chi Yan pressured One Page Scholar to guide him through the Ancient Arid Realm, and One Page Scholar agreed to take him to the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty’s book repository.
• Zhang Qingyuan showed Murong Yue the map revealed by the Void Heaven Mirror and suspected it could control the Ancient Arid Realm.
• Murong Yue asked Zhang Qingyuan to call her Yue'er, and she agreed to call him Qingyuan.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the Void Heaven Mirror to transport himself and Murong Yue to the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty’s Scripture Pavilion of Records.
• Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue began collecting the repository’s countless Jade Slips with their Spiritual Sense.
• One Page Scholar assured Chi Yan that they would claim the Scripture Hall and other opportunities, believing their rivals could not find it without a map.

One Page Scholar took Chi Yan to the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty’s Scripture Repository Complex, expecting its records to help Chi Yan advance, but found it empty. He then promised to take Chi Yan to the Imperial Tomb, while Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue faced a powerful golden phantom inside it.

• One Page Scholar brought Chi Yan to the Scripture Repository Complex and urged him to study its inherited records to aid his cultivation.
• Chi Yan found the towers empty, and One Page Scholar realized the Great Desolate Sacred Dynasty had likely removed its records before its destruction.
• One Page Scholar promised Chi Yan that the Imperial Tomb held opportunities and inheritances, and Chi Yan agreed to trust him once more.
• One Page Scholar summoned a sheet of paper and carried Chi Yan through the void toward the Imperial Tomb.
• Inside the Imperial Tomb, Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue confronted a golden phantom radiating Imperial Dragon Qi and overwhelming power.

Zhang Qingyuan accepted the Desolate Clan ancestral spirit’s trial and clashed with its remnant’s Great Dao, gaining insight that strengthened his Chaos Great Dao. He declined to enter the Imperial Tomb’s inheritance and instead moved the entire tomb into the Void Heaven Mirror.

• Zhang Qingyuan accepted the golden phantom’s trial to enter the Desolate Clan Ancestral Land, while Murong Yue watched.
• The golden phantom unleashed a devastating finger attack, and Zhang Qingyuan countered it with his Chaos: Origin punch.
• Zhang Qingyuan thanked the phantom for its guidance after the clash, and the phantom dispersed.
• Murong Yue declined the inheritance trial, and Zhang Qingyuan said they should go elsewhere.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the Void Heaven Mirror to move the entire Imperial Tomb and the earth beneath it inside.

Chi Yan and One Page Scholar discovered that the Imperial Tomb had vanished, so One Page Scholar promised to lead him to another opportunity, the Gathering Heaven Pool. Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue found the pool, where a vast reserve of World Origin Power remained sealed.

• One Page Scholar told Chi Yan that the Imperial Tomb held sixty-seven trials and inheritances, but they found only a vast abyss where it had stood.
• Chi Yan threatened One Page Scholar for leading him to another empty destination, and One Page Scholar swore he would take him to the Gathering Heaven Pool.
• One Page Scholar named the Gathering Heaven Pool as their next target and insisted that nothing would go wrong this time.
• Murong Yue and Zhang Qingyuan arrived at the Gathering Heaven Pool and found more than half of its World Origin Power preserved by a sealing formation.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to use the World Origin Power to advance after his earlier clash had tempered his Dao.

Zhang Qingyuan absorbed most of the Gathering Heaven Pool’s World Origin Power and advanced to the late stage of Void Sky. Sensing that the Ancient Arid Realm’s unexplained calm concealed danger, he and Murong Yue left, while One Page Scholar arrived too late and faced Chi Yan’s anger.

• Zhang Qingyuan exhausted the Gathering Heaven Pool’s World Origin Power and broke through to the late stage of Void Sky.
• Murong Yue congratulated Zhang Qingyuan and acknowledged the gains she had made on their journey.
• Zhang Qingyuan noticed that no powerful outsiders had appeared in the Ancient Arid Realm and urged Murong Yue to leave.
• Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue departed from the Gathering Heaven Pool.
• One Page Scholar arrived to find the pool drained, and Chi Yan accused him of deceiving him.
• One Page Scholar claimed the Ancient Arid Realm might never have contained many resources.

One Page Scholar convinced Chi Yan that the Ancient Arid Realm had been stripped of its treasures, until Si Zhangji revealed his rich haul and Chi Yan erupted in anger. Three days later, Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue waited in hiding near the entrance as cultivators began flooding into the realm, wary of drawing the attention of powerful observers.

• One Page Scholar persuaded Chi Yan that the Ancient Arid Realm had few opportunities left because its treasures might have been removed long ago.
• Si Zhangji passed overhead carrying a damaged immortal whisk and several Spatial Storage Equipment, and said that others had claimed the greatest rewards in the imperial palace.
• After Si Zhangji flew away, One Page Scholar and Chi Yan realized how much he had gained, and Chi Yan unleashed a furious attack.
• Three days later, cultivators poured through the entrance into the Ancient Arid Realm while Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue watched from concealment.
• Zhang Qingyuan told Murong Yue to wait longer so they would not be the first to leave and attract the attention of any Escape One Titans watching outside.

Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue met the battered One Page Scholar near the Ancient Arid Realm’s exit and heard how his search for treasures had gone disastrously. After they concealed their own gains, One Page Scholar invited them to Haoran Academy, and they followed him out.

• Zhang Qingyuan recognized the ragged One Page Scholar approaching and asked what had happened to him and Chi Yan.
• One Page Scholar recounted finding nothing at the Scripture Hall, Imperial Tomb, or Gathering Heaven Pool, then being chased and beaten by Chi Yan after Si Zhangji stabbed himself.
• Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue hid their successes by claiming they had found almost nothing in the Ancient Arid Realm.
• One Page Scholar felt relieved that he was not the only unlucky one and invited Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue to visit Haoran Academy.
• One Page Scholar led the way toward the exit, and Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue followed.

One Page Scholar explained Haoran Academy’s influence and shared cultivation knowledge to Zhang Qingyuan, who decided to visit it for help with his breakthrough. Before they could go, a mysterious attacker unleashed devastating power, and Zhang Qingyuan escaped with One Page Scholar and Murong Yue as the surrounding region was annihilated.

• One Page Scholar introduced Haoran Academy’s founding ideals and its tradition of exchanging insights among cultivators.
• Murong Yue explained that Haoran Academy had revealed the benefits of cultivating Essence, Qi, and Spirit together, helping many cultivators overcome bottlenecks.
• Zhang Qingyuan realized Haoran Academy had shaped cultivation across the Nine Continents and decided to visit it for guidance with his breakthrough.
• A terrifying attack struck, and Zhang Qingyuan used One Sword: Spring and Autumn Reincarnation and the Yin Yang Immortal Scripture to flee with Murong Yue and One Page Scholar.
• The attacker’s power destroyed the surrounding land across ten thousand miles, killing countless approaching cultivators and hurling survivors away.

Zhang Qingyuan and his companions were attacked by Nine Nether, an Escape One powerhouse, and the Dean of Haoran Academy intervened to protect them. When Nine Nether demanded that Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue be left behind, One Page Scholar refused to abandon his friends and stood in front of Zhang Qingyuan.

• Nine Nether attacked Zhang Qingyuan, Murong Yue, and One Page Scholar from the depths of space, but Zhang Qingyuan blocked the strike with Erlwood Divine Thunder.
• Zhang Qingyuan launched a counterattack, and Nine Nether overwhelmed him with the force of the falling river of stars.
• One Page Scholar called for the Dean of Haoran Academy, who appeared and confronted Nine Nether.
• Nine Nether agreed to let the Dean's disciple leave but demanded that Zhang Qingyuan and Murong Yue remain.
• One Page Scholar stood in front of Zhang Qingyuan and declared that he would not abandon his friends.

After the Escape One Supremes departed to battle in the Outer Heavens, Zhang Qingyuan and One Page Scholar were surrounded by the Great Luo Venerable Cult. Zhang Qingyuan stepped forward to protect One Page Scholar and Murong Yue as Pei Tongtian attacked him.

• Nine Nether Supreme and the aged voice agreed to fight, and their auras rose beyond the chaotic Gale Force layer into the Outer Heavens.
• One Page Scholar suffered internal injuries from the clash but praised Zhang Qingyuan for withstanding Nine Nether Supreme's attack and thanked him for his help.
• Pei Tongtian, eight Void Sky Elders, and more than a hundred Great Luo Venerable Cult members surrounded Zhang Qingyuan, One Page Scholar, and Murong Yue.
• Zhang Qingyuan told One Page Scholar and Murong Yue to protect themselves, then stepped forward to face the encirclement.
• Pei Tongtian unleashed black flames and charged at Zhang Qingyuan, who remained calm and threw a punch.

Zhang Qingyuan fought his way through the Great Luo Venerable Cult’s encirclement after killing Pei Tongtian with one punch. As he continued toward escape with One Page Scholar and Murong Yue, he repelled a coordinated assault and seized two powerful artifacts.

• Zhang Qingyuan punched Pei Tongtian apart, killing the former Holy Son in a single clash.
• A Great Luo Venerable Cult Elder attacked with a divine spear, but Zhang Qingyuan turned it back and killed him with it.
• Zhang Qingyuan continued through the void with One Page Scholar and Murong Yue as the surrounding cultivators hesitated to attack.
• The Great Luo Venerable Cult cultivators agreed to attack Zhang Qingyuan together and unleashed several powerful techniques.
• Zhang Qingyuan used Five-Colored Divine Light to disarm the Demon Mountain Seal and Blood God Whip, defeat three late void sky cultivators, and claim both artifacts.