Chapter Summaries

Qin Huaian endured the first eight stages of his immortal ascension tribulation with his Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body, growing stronger with each strike. During the final stage, Tang Zhiyuan arrived to avenge his son and merged his tribulation clouds with Qin Huaian’s, causing them to transform into clouds of Purple Sky Divine Lightning.

• Qin Huaian’s defensive array shattered in the first stage, so he faced the later stages with his physical body and grew stronger under the lightning.
• Qin Huaian endured eight stages of tribulation lightning and prepared to withstand the final nine bolts.
• Tang Zhiyuan flew toward Qin Huaian with his own tribulation cloud and declared that he had come to avenge his son.
• Tang Zhiyuan’s tribulation clouds merged with Qin Huaian’s, intensifying the heavenly pressure and turning the clouds purple-black.
• Qin Huaian recognized the clouds as a sign of Purple Sky Divine Lightning, while a head emerged from a massive turtle shell deep beneath the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele.

Qin Huaian endured the Purple Sky Divine Lightning tribulation while travelers heading east witnessed its terrifying power from afar. After recovering from the eighth bolt with Nirvana Spirit Liquid, he faced the ninth.

• Tang Zhiyuan welcomed the lightning that killed him, and the first bolt erased his body and soul.
• Qin Huaian blocked the first bolt with his Taiji Yin-Yang Fish and endured the weakened strike without injury.
• Qin Huaian used the same defense against the second bolt, then withstood its remaining power with his Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body.
• Several Tribulation Transcendence cultivators flying east recognized Qin Huaian's tribulation as the legendary Purple Sky Divine Lightning and hurried away.
• Qin Huaian survived the eighth bolt, healed his torn flesh with Nirvana Spirit Liquid, and faced the ninth bolt.

Qin Huaian survived the Purple Sky Divine Lightning tribulation and began transforming into a Mystic Bone Golden Body, but his Qi Refining cultivation did not complete its breakthrough. As the tribulation clouds cleared, a shattered-looking sky released a spreading gray haze, suggesting another trial was beginning.

• Qin Huaian used layered shields, teleportation, and his Taiji Yin-Yang Fish to weaken the ninth lightning bolt before enduring it with his body.
• Qin Huaian's pseudo-Mysterious Yellow Qi and earth vein power repaired his body as the lightning forged his bones toward a Mystic Bone Golden Body.
• Qin Huaian survived the Purple Sky Divine Lightning, and the old turtle recognized that his body-refinement talent and Spatial Law comprehension had drawn the tribulation.
• Qin Huaian recovered after the clouds dispersed but realized his Qi Refining cultivation had not fully entered the True Immortal Realm.
• Qin Huaian saw the sky fracture like a mirror as gray currents poured through the cracks and spread above him.

Qin Huaian faced a mysterious lightning tribulation that the old turtle identified as the legendary Chaos Lightning Tribulation. As bolts annihilated the land around him and a storm engulfed thousands of li, cultivators far away avoided the area while Duan Yingying and Zhang Huilan continued toward the passage out of Kun Yuan World.

• The old turtle recognized the gray mist as chaos qi and concluded that Qin Huaian had drawn the Chaos Lightning Tribulation, then retreated into his shell.
• Qin Huaian dodged a lightning bolt that shattered his shield and erased more than ten zhang of earth, and he briefly believed he could survive the remaining strikes.
• Countless lightning bolts poured down across thousands of li, engulfing Qin Huaian in a domain of destruction.
• Duan Yingying asked Zhang Huilan about the distant destructive aura, and Zhang Huilan warned her to stay away and focus on leaving the world.
• Duan Yingying wondered whether Qin Huaian had escaped, and Zhang Huilan said he had likely left Kun Yuan World as soon as it was unsealed.
• Cultivators avoided the storm while Qin Huaian endured agony within the endless lightning.

Qin Huaian endured the tribulation lightning as the World Tree’s energy protected him, allowing him to suddenly comprehend the third move of the Grand Void Dual Polarity Sword Canon and advance his understanding of yin-yang laws. Suspecting that the World Tree was absorbing the gray mist in the clouds, he flew toward the tribulation clouds to test his theory.

• The World Tree’s energy countered the destructive force of the tribulation lightning and helped Qin Huaian grasp the principles of Grand Void Birth and Extinction.
• Qin Huaian comprehended the third move of the Grand Void Dual Polarity Sword Canon and advanced his yin-yang law comprehension to the second realm.
• Qin Huaian used Grand Void Birth and Extinction to dissolve a bolt of lightning, but the move consumed seventy percent of his spiritual power.
• Qin Huaian noticed that gray mist vanished when it touched him and suspected the World Tree was absorbing it to produce energy.
• Qin Huaian rose into the air and flew toward the tribulation clouds to investigate the gray mist.

Qin Huaian absorbed the tribulation clouds, which expanded his Seed Space and strengthened his cultivation, then survived the lightning tribulation and became a late-stage True Immortal. Suppressed to Tribulation Transcendence Realm strength in the Kun Yuan World, he prepared to fly east and leave, while his Seed Space began a three-year upgrade.

• Qin Huaian absorbed the gray tribulation clouds, expanding the Seed Space, growing the World Tree, and increasing his spiritual energy more than threefold.
• Qin Huaian destroyed the remaining clouds, received heaven and earth's seven-colored reward, and refined his spiritual energy into Immortal Essence Power.
• Qin Huaian reached the late stage of the True Immortal Realm and raised his body-refining cultivation to the fourth level of the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body.
• Qin Huaian sensed that the Kun Yuan World suppressed his strength to the peak of the great completion of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm and decided to fly east.
• Qin Huaian saw that the lightning tribulation had left a vast pit where mountains, plants, and animals had been, then received notice that the Seed Space would upgrade in three years.

Qin Huaian met the mysterious old man at the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele, where he learned that his tribulation had been the rare Chaos Divine Lightning Tribulation. The old man recounted the two extraordinary beings who had died facing it, leaving Qin Huaian to wonder why he had survived and what the old man meant by his final remark.

• The old man summoned Qin Huaian to the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele, and Qin Huaian entered the grand hall to meet him.
• The old man told Qin Huaian that he was the third person he had seen draw down the Chaos Divine Lightning Tribulation and the only one to survive it.
• The old man described a qilin-like creature that devoured the first nine layers of its ascension tribulation but died to the Chaos Divine Lightning Tribulation.
• The old man recounted how Mang created his own cultivation technique, became powerful enough to challenge ordinary True Immortals, and died beneath the same tribulation.
• Qin Huaian wondered whether the Seed Space or World Tree had caused his tribulation, and the old man hinted that Qin Huaian fell short of the first two in some respect.

Qin Huaian asked the old turtle about the Chaos Divine Lightning Tribulation, Chaos Qi, and the limits on cultivation in the Kun Yuan World. He learned that immortal-level cultivators could not progress there, and that the Kun Yuan Stones he had left could not be taken out; he then asked whether the Earth Vein Power was weak throughout the Luo River World.

• Qin Huaian told the old man that his Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body had helped him survive the Chaos Divine Lightning Tribulation, and the old man invited him to ask questions before leaving.
• Qin Huaian asked about the tribulation clouds and where to obtain Chaos Qi; the old man explained that the clouds were made of Chaos Qi and that even Daluo Golden Immortals could not acquire it themselves.
• Qin Huaian asked about the Earth Emperor's strength and learned that the old man's master could kill Daluo Golden Immortals with one hand.
• Qin Huaian gave his name and learned that the old man was a giant turtle called Old Turtle.
• Qin Huaian asked why he could no longer cultivate with Kun Yuan Stones and learned that immortal-level cultivators could not progress in the Kun Yuan World and that the stones could not be taken outside it.
• Qin Huaian asked whether the Earth Vein Power was weak throughout the Luo River World.

After learning about major and minor worlds from the old turtle, Qin Huaian left the Kun Yuan World and crossed into the Boundless Sea. He found a Void Passage ahead, where a group backed by two True Immortals demanded an enormous toll from anyone who wanted to pass.

• The old man explained that major worlds contained countless minor worlds and that their cultivation limits varied, while Qin Huaian suspected his former Cultivation World had been a minor world.
• Qin Huaian left the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele and traveled east by teleportation arrays and flight until he reached the edge of the Kun Yuan World.
• Qin Huaian flew into the Boundless Sea, where his cultivation restriction disappeared and the Kun Yuan Stones in his Storage Ring vanished, though those in his Seed Space remained.
• Qin Huaian found a Void Passage surrounded by cultivators and saw no familiar faces, including Gu Ran.
• A late-stage Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivator demanded five hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones from each traveler, backed by several dozen cultivators and two early-stage True Immortal Realm immortals.

Qin Huaian watched cultivators extort spirit stones from travelers seeking to use the void passage and decided he might need to intervene for the Purple Sky Sacred Land cultivators. When the Thousand-Eyed Dragon Leech appeared and attacked the toll collectors, Qin Huaian recognized the beast and launched a sword strike at it.

• A mid-stage Tribulation Transcendence cultivator paid five hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones to enter the void passage, while a True Immortal let a gloomy-faced old man pass without paying.
• The two True Immortals crushed the crowd’s attempt to charge through and silence the toll collectors’ opponents.
• The Thousand-Eyed Dragon Leech arrived in human form and swallowed the fleshy-faced toll collector after he attacked it.
• The Thousand-Eyed Dragon Leech revealed its true form, bewitched the two True Immortals with its eyes, and devoured one of them despite the other’s attempt to intervene.
• Qin Huaian recognized the Thousand-Eyed Dragon Leech and sent a powerful black-and-white sword gleam toward it.

Qin Huaian drove off the Thousand-Eyed Dragon Leech, killed the cultivator who had been demanding tolls, and cleared the way for people to enter the Void Passage. After hiding nearby, he recognized Gu Ran, the Heaven-Swallowing Python, arriving in the form of a young boy.

• The Thousand-Eyed Dragon Leech severed and detonated part of its tail to block Qin Huaian, then escaped through the Void Passage.
• Qin Huaian killed the remaining True Immortal who had blocked the road and allowed the waiting cultivators to pass.
• Qin Huaian burned more than a dozen fleeing toll collectors, while the crowd killed the rest.
• Qin Huaian refused a group’s offer to follow him, and they entered the Void Passage.
• Qin Huaian concealed his aura nearby and recognized Gu Ran arriving in the form of a young boy.

Qin Huaian and Gu Ran entered an unfamiliar void passage, whose vast, isolated corridor seemed to lead toward a distant continent. On Spirit Rock Island, a patrol discovered that a new void passage had appeared and hurried to report it to the elders.

• Qin Huaian met Gu Ran, encouraged him to keep his human form, and entered the void passage with him.
• Qin Huaian and Gu Ran found that the passage was far broader inside than it appeared and that each traveler followed a separate path unless their spiritual power was bound together.
• After flying for two days, Qin Huaian estimated they might reach the distant continent in a little over a month, while Gu Ran noted that the passage had too little spiritual energy for cultivation.
• Junior Brother Zhang complained about his patrol, and Senior Brother Wu explained why the elders kept watch over remote territory.
• The patrol spotted a newly appeared void passage on Spirit Rock Island, and Senior Brother Wu ordered Junior Brother Zhang to notify the elders.

South Cloud Valley learned that a void passage had been discovered and moved to secure it. After nine days of travel, Qin Huaian and Gu Ran spotted what appeared to be the passage's exit.

• A cultivator reported the void passage to Elder Lü, who ordered him to keep others away and keep the discovery secret.
• Elder Lü and Wang discussed the passage's value and decided to claim it while the Valley Master remained focused on breaking through.
• Guan Qingqing left to inform the Valley Master despite Elder Lü warning her not to disturb him.
• Elder Lü prepared to travel to the passage with a group from South Cloud Valley.
• Qin Huaian told Gu Ran to stay cautious and follow his signals when they reached the other side.
• After nine days of flying, Gu Ran spotted what seemed to be the void passage's exit.

A cold-faced young cultivator emerged from the void passageway and learned that he had arrived in the Chaotic Sea Region, where the locals questioned travelers instead of collecting tolls. Qin Huaian and Gu Ran followed him out, and Qin Huaian told Guan Qingqing they had come from Kun Yuan World.

• The first cultivator to emerge from the passageway asked why the locals were blocking him, and Guan Qingqing and a burly man explained that the passageway was in the Chaotic Sea Region.
• After learning where he was, the cold-faced young man asked how many spirit stones he owed, but Guan Qingqing said they only wanted to know where he came from.
• Qin Huaian and Gu Ran emerged from the passageway after crossing it in just over nine days.
• Gu Ran rejoiced at the dense spiritual energy, while Qin Huaian sensed that the scene felt tense.
• Qin Huaian told Guan Qingqing that they had come from Kun Yuan World, and she reacted thoughtfully.

Qin Huaian described the Kun Yuan World and the void passage to Guan Qingqing, who doubted the passage’s value but refused to let the newcomers leave until it was investigated. As more cultivators arrived, Qin Huaian worried his unusual cultivation progress would draw attention and looked for a chance to escape.

• Guan Qingqing pressured Qin Huaian and the others while demanding to know about the Kun Yuan World and how they found the passage.
• Qin Huaian explained that the Kun Yuan World lay within the Boundless Sea, opened as a secret realm once every thousand years, and helped cultivators below the Tribulation Transcendence Realm comprehend earth-element laws.
• Guan Qingqing dismissed the Kun Yuan World as unimportant and threatened the group if they had lied, while the stern young man hurriedly confirmed Qin Huaian’s account and asked to leave.
• Guan Qingqing said the group could leave only after her people investigated the passage, and Qin Huaian concealed the Kun Yuan World’s past sealing and his rapid rise to the late True Immortal Realm.
• A middle-aged cultivator arrived, suggested sending someone to verify the passage, and invited Qin Huaian and the others to rest at the encampment.

Qin Huaian and his companions were detained by South Cloud Valley cultivators who had discovered the Void Passage and wanted to keep its existence secret. Trapped in the camp, Qin Huaian began studying the formation while looking for a way to escape.

• Guan Qingqing sent Chen Yang and several cultivators through the Void Passage aboard the Cloud-Piercing Boat to investigate what lay beyond it.
• Guan Qingqing and Lu Yang ordered their people to guard the passage and prevent anyone from leaving.
• An Earth Immortal cultivator led Qin Huaian and his companions to crude rooms in the camp and sealed them inside a trapping formation.
• Qin Huaian realized South Cloud Valley might kill them if the investigation revealed the passage led to the desolate Boundless Sea.
• Qin Huaian began sensing the formation, confident he could break it but uncertain how to escape the camp.

Qin Huaian escaped the faction’s temporary encampment with Gu Ran after reaching the late True Immortal Realm, and secretly helped a cold young man break out as well. A day later, another cultivator emerged from the void passage and reported to Martial Uncle Guan.

• Qin Huaian found a flaw in the trapping formation and used it to probe the encampment, then began breaking the identical formation holding Gu Ran.
• Qin Huaian told Gu Ran they had to leave before the faction connected his recent lightning tribulation to his sudden cultivation advance.
• Qin Huaian teleported into Gu Ran’s room, put him into a separate space, and escaped the encampment without damaging its formation.
• Qin Huaian gave the cold young man instructions for breaking his formation, then fled underground using earth escape.
• Half a day after Qin Huaian left, the cold young man escaped the encampment and fled as a streak of blood-red light.
• A day after Qin Huaian’s escape, a cultivator reported to Martial Uncle Guan that someone else had emerged from the void passage.

Guan Qingqing questioned Ren Kai and his Dao companion after they emerged from the void passageway, learning that Kun Yuan World could not support cultivation beyond immortality. Ren Kai’s account made Guan Qingqing and Lu Yang suspect the passageway connected to another inhabited region, while Qin Huaian had already fled far away and reached a cultivator city.

• Guan Qingqing confronted Ren Kai and his Dao companion, and Ren Kai identified himself as the grandson of Fire Cloud Sect’s Immortal Venerable Ren Hetong.
• Ren Kai explained that the passageway led to the Boundless Sea and that Kun Yuan World could not support advancement after immortality, but Guan Qingqing revealed that a late True Immortal had emerged from it.
• Guan Qingqing discovered that the three cultivators detained the previous day had escaped, and Lu Yang admitted an immortal array master had broken their temporary array.
• Guan Qingqing and Lu Yang concluded that the late True Immortal might have come from another inhabited region and ordered more cultivators to search for the fugitives.
• Qin Huaian traveled tens of millions of li from the passageway and arrived disguised outside a city of cultivators.

Qin Huaian entered Red Cloud City in disguise and bought a map to learn about the region. After discovering that both the city and the spatial passage were within South Cloud Valley’s territory on Spirit Rock Island, he decided to leave the island as soon as possible.

• Qin Huaian entered Red Cloud City while concealing his appearance, aura, and cultivation.
• Qin Huaian bought the shop’s highest-grade map for one hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones.
• Qin Huaian learned that Red Cloud City and the spatial passage were within South Cloud Valley’s sphere of influence on Spirit Rock Island.
• Qin Huaian discovered that teleportation arrays to nearby islands required the great powers’ consent, while Flying Boats offered another route.
• Qin Huaian decided to leave Red Cloud City and Spirit Rock Island as soon as possible.

Qin Huaian prepared a network of concealment array disks across Red Cloud City before discovering that South Cloud Valley had issued a territory-wide wanted order for him, Gu Ran, and the cold-faced young man. As Qin Huaian prepared to teleport to Spirit Rhino City, the young man fled into a void rift while being pursued.

• Qin Huaian rented a guest room, refined nearly a hundred small concealment array disks, and inscribed a hundred jade slips.
• Qin Huaian secretly placed the disks throughout Red Cloud City before reaching the Teleportation Plaza.
• Qin Huaian saw that South Cloud Valley had accused him, Gu Ran, and the cold-faced young man of robbing its resources and offered rewards for their capture or for verified clues.
• The cold-faced young man, pursued across the sea by South Cloud Valley cultivators, entered a void rift to escape them.
• Qin Huaian told the formation attendant that he wanted to teleport to Spirit Rhino City.