Recaps

Luo Yunji secured Bibo Pool and gave Azure Cloud Sect a revised cultivation method before leaving the mountain with Tian Buyi and Su Ru to search for Spirit Mountain and investigate the Huqi Mountains. Amid the devastated lands, he sent many Soul Spirits to the Underworld, while the remaining spirits pledged to follow him.

• Luo Yunji set a formation at Bibo Pool, asked Xiao Yicai to guard it, and gave him the latest Taiji Mystic Purity Dao.
• Luo Yunji asked Xiao Yicai to look after Big Bamboo Peak, then left Azure Cloud Mountain with Tian Buyi and Su Ru to search for Spirit Mountain and investigate the Huqi Mountains.
• The three saw the corpse-strewn devastation below the mountains, and Luo Yunji summoned Soul Spirits with his Ghost Umbrella.
• Luo Yunji opened a passage to the Underworld and helped the Soul Spirits who had once aided him enter the Yellow Springs and reincarnate.
• The remaining spirits, including Two Mountains soldiers and Sanfu Town cultivators, knelt before Luo Yunji and swore to follow the Imperial Preceptor unto death.

Luo Yunji found Spirit Mountain hovering above the Azure Cloud Mountain Range and learned that a black-clad Deity had kept its people captive. He confronted the Deity over claiming the mountain and, realizing the Deity’s new body was human, threatened to beat Him up and punched Him.

• Luo Yunji sent the Soul Spirits back into the Ghost Umbrella, told Tian Buyi and Su Ru he would search for Spirit Mountain, and left while they headed to Mount Huqi.
• Luo Yunji searched for two months and found Spirit Mountain hovering above the Azure Cloud Mountain Range, where the black-clad Deity had refused to let Cangsong, Wan Jianyi, Li Qinghe, and the others leave.
• The people on Spirit Mountain welcomed Luo Yunji, and he learned that the Deity had been trying to claim the mountain.
• The black-clad youth revealed that the Beast God was dead and that He had taken over the body, while Luo Yunji argued that it had been refined into a human body.
• Luo Yunji threatened to beat up the Deity and rushed forward to punch Him in the eye.

Luo Yunji confronted the black-clad Deity about the blood barrier and the world-destroying Great Calamity, then took his companions back to Azure Cloud Sect when the Deity could not answer. After Luo Yunji approved housing for refugees below Big Bamboo Peak, Sanfu Town residents began building a city there, surprising Xiao Yicai.

• Luo Yunji demanded answers from the black-clad Deity about the blood barrier and the world-destroying Great Calamity, but accepted that the Deity could not reveal Heavenly Mystery.
• Luo Yunji arranged to return Spirit Mountain to the sky above Big Bamboo Peak and found that nearly everyone there wanted to stay.
• Luo Yunji returned to Big Bamboo Peak with Li Qinghe and the other women, while Wan Jianyi and Daoist Cangsong stayed on Spirit Mountain.
• Luo Yunji allowed the people of Sanfu Town to build houses below Big Bamboo Peak for refugees, warning them not to disturb his shifu and Shiniang's former residence.
• A month later, Xiao Yicai visited Big Bamboo Peak after hearing that a city was taking shape, and learned that building it had not been Luo Yunji's idea.

Luo Yunji expanded Sanfu Town’s refugee city and helped move troublesome refugees away from Small Bamboo Peak, while Shuiyue insisted he attend a meeting of the righteous sects. The meeting descended into endless arguments, and Luo Yunji remained trapped in his seat as he tried to leave.

• Luo Yunji told Sanfu Town’s residents to enlarge their city, then asked Xiao Yicai to house future refugees at Big Bamboo Peak and give them work.
• Shuiyue brought the Sanfu Town residents to Small Bamboo Peak to retrieve refugees who had caused trouble there, and she was surprised by the city under construction at Big Bamboo Peak.
• Shuiyue ordered Luo Yunji to attend the next Jade Purity Hall meeting as Big Bamboo Peak’s head, despite his efforts to avoid it.
• Shuiyue dragged Luo Yunji to a meeting where the sect leaders discussed disputes among refugee sects and first-rate sects.
• Luo Yunji grew irritated as the leaders argued, but Shuiyue pressed him back into his seat and had Lu Xueqi keep watch so he could not leave.

Luo Yunji lost patience with the arguing sect leaders in Jade Purity Hall and forcefully reminded them that they were guests seeking Azure Cloud Sect’s protection. He left the defiant leaders facing his threat and ordered them out of the hall or to seek shelter elsewhere.

• Luo Yunji hurled a tea table into the arguing crowd, then knocked down a sect leader who challenged his authority.
• Luo Yunji rebuked the sect leaders for making trouble while relying on Azure Cloud Sect for protection, and he publicly scolded Yun Yilan for staying silent.
• Luo Yunji invited an admiring Heaven-Reaching Peak disciple to train with him at Big Bamboo Peak, then demanded that the guests pay for their stay and protection.
• Some sect leaders agreed to return to prepare money and gifts, while others challenged Luo Yunji and accused Azure Cloud Sect of bullying them.
• Luo Yunji threatened to kill anyone who showed hostility and ordered the remaining sect leaders out of Jade Purity Hall, telling them to seek protection from Yun Yilan or Puhong if they refused.

Luo Yunji forced Azure Cloud’s allied sects to help build a refuge city and asserted Two Mountains’ power, while the Strange Objects spread beyond the mountains. Two years later, the Azure Cloud Mountain Range remained a crowded sanctuary, and Tian Buyi, Su Ru, and Daoxuan returned injured with news from outside.

• Luo Yunji struck Yun Yilan down, warned Divine Monk Puhong and the sect leaders, and ordered their disciples and followers to report to Big Bamboo Peak or help build the city.
• Sanfu Town’s cultivators kept the sect members in line as they worked on the refuge city, while Madam Sanmiao and Yuyangzi discussed the Holy Sect’s survival and their ties to Two Mountains.
• After seeing the blood barrier fail to contain the Strange Objects, Tian Buyi, Su Ru, and Daoxuan fled and decided to check on the Imperial City.
• Over the next two years, Azure Cloud Sect’s disciples watched the city near Big Bamboo Peak take shape as the surrounding world became overrun by Strange Objects.
• Tian Buyi, Su Ru, and Daoxuan returned injured to Big Bamboo Peak with news from outside, but Luo Yunji remained focused on protecting those within the mountains.

Luo Yunji learned that refugees and Strange Objects threatened the Imperial City, then found Liao Xing risking his life to help displaced people. He arranged to bring the villagers to the cities at Azure Cloud Mountain and reunited with his parents, but left the Prince's Mansion to continue helping refugees.

• Daoxuan and Su Ru told Luo Yunji that Strange Objects were approaching the Imperial City and that Liao Xing had left the Forbidden Spirit Land to aid refugees.
• Luo Yunji found Liao Xing in a village, ordered him back, and promised to protect the people there after clearing nearby Strange Objects.
• Luo Yunji gave food to Liao Xing and the villagers, then offered to take them to the cities he had built at Azure Cloud Mountain.
• Luo Yunji brought Liao Xing to the Imperial City, where the brothers reunited with their parents at the Prince's Mansion.
• Luo Yunji warned the Princess Consort about the Strange Objects and left to help shelter the displaced people.

Luo Yunji reassured Yan Hui that Zhang Xiaofan was alive and brought refugees to Azure Cloud Mountain, where they were settled. He then prepared to travel to the Mystic Realm for resources and a way to protect humanity from the Strange Objects.

• Luo Yunji warned Yan Hui not to revive the Ghost King Sect, then gave him an item and placed his people under the Two Mountains while promising to return for them.
• Luo Yunji led Liao Xing and a growing group of refugees toward Azure Cloud Mountain, recruiting Azure Cloud Sect disciples and agreeing that Zeng Shushu could build a town beneath Wind Return Peak.
• After three months of travel and attacks by Strange Objects, Luo Yunji handed the refugees to the people of Sanfu Town, who arranged their lodging and planted new fields.
• Luo Yunji asked Xiaohuan to locate the Mystic Realm, then told Tian Buyi to use the Water-Avoiding Pearl to clear the Dragon Lair in the Imperial City's Water Marsh for refugees.
• Liao Xing joined Luo Yunji on his journey, and Luo Yunji explained that Azure Cloud Mountain needed an array to shield people from the Strange Objects before telling Liao Xing to go home and care for the child once it was over.

Luo Yunji brought six Floating Mountains to the Imperial City to shelter its people, then helped secure Azure Cloud Sect before leaving alone to face the ruined world. He ended the chapter hungry and undecided about whether to turn back for food when noise erupted outside his tent.

• Luo Yunji moved six Floating Mountains above the Forbidden Spirit Land and arranged for the Imperial City’s citizens to settle on them.
• Luo Yunji promised one Floating Mountain to the people of Sanfu Town, urged them to help others, and told them about the city built at the foot of Big Bamboo Peak.
• Luo Yunji found Tian Buyi at the Water Marsh and later helped complete a protective formation around Azure Cloud Sect after three years of work.
• Bi Yao angrily asked to accompany Luo Yunji, but he called her dead weight; after they tussled, she cried in his arms.
• Luo Yunji left Azure Cloud Mountain alone and crossed the devastated land, where he ran out of food before a burst of noise outside his tent interrupted him.

Luo Yunji rescued a group of children, then spent two years traveling and guarding the outskirts of the Forbidden Spirit Land from Strange Objects. He returned to Big Bamboo Peak and reunited with Wen Min, Tian Buyi, and Su Ru before asking Tian Buyi to accompany him to confirm something with the black-clad Deity.

• Luo Yunji shared his remaining food with the starving children, sheltered them overnight, and took them to the city below Big Bamboo Peak.
• Luo Yunji stocked up on food and left Azure Cloud Mountain to travel; for two years, he guarded the outskirts of the Forbidden Spirit Land against Strange Objects.
• Luo Yunji returned to Big Bamboo Peak, where Wen Min and the other women welcomed him back.
• Luo Yunji visited Tian Buyi and Su Ru on Spirit Mountain, and Su Ru embraced him after seeing how exhausted he was.
• Luo Yunji told Tian Buyi he needed to confirm something with the black-clad Deity, and Tian Buyi offered to go with him.

Luo Yunji learned that ordinary cultivators had almost no way to fight the Underworld’s Strange Objects, so he prepared to leave again and train Bi Yao and Liao Xing. He took them toward the Imperial City, where his return brought joy to his family and the people who had been protected by his efforts.

• Luo Yunji asked the Black-Clad Figure how ordinary cultivators could fight Strange Objects, and learned that the needed Yang Essence treasures were nearly impossible to obtain.
• Luo Yunji reunited with Bi Yao and agreed to take her and Liao Xing when he left again in a few days.
• Luo Yunji explained that only people who cultivated all five volumes of the Heavenly Book could pass through the blood barrier, and set out to train Bi Yao and Liao Xing.
• Luo Yunji taught Bi Yao and Liao Xing how to face Strange Objects and helped them grasp Great Brahma Prajna as they traveled toward the Imperial City.
• Luo Yunji and Liao Xing returned to the Prince’s Mansion, where their family welcomed them, while officials praised Luo Yunji for protecting the people from monsters.

Luo Yunji returned to the Prince's Mansion with Bi Yao and reunited with his parents, bringing the family great joy. After he left at dawn to patrol the Forbidden Spirit Land, the Princess Consort and Liao Xing realized he might be preparing to face the monsters again.

• Luo Yunji and Bi Yao kowtowed to Liao Zhihe and the Princess Consort, moving them to tears as they welcomed Luo Yunji back into the family.
• The family and household celebrated together, while the Princess Consort kept Bi Yao close and the Emperor postponed his visit to give them time together.
• Liao Yunji told Liao Zhihe he had stayed away because he feared he would not be able to leave, and said he had to protect the people he cared about from the monsters.
• After Liao Zhihe fell asleep, Luo Yunji settled him in and kept watch beneath the night sky; at dawn, he and Bi Yao left to patrol the outskirts of the Forbidden Spirit Land.
• The Princess Consort learned Luo Yunji had departed without eating and grew uneasy about his return, so Liao Xing told her that Luo Yunji had been badly injured after the Beast Demon calamity and might be going to fight the monsters again.

Luo Yunji rescued Wuluo, Big Yellow, Little Gray, and Taotie inside Mount Huqi’s blood barrier, then investigated the Ghost King’s study and discovered a hidden cavern beneath it. As he descended toward a strange pillar, unseen eyes and anguished faces appeared behind him.

• Liao Xing and Bi Yao joined Luo Yunji in traveling to Mount Huqi, and he rushed into the blood barrier after sensing familiar auras.
• Luo Yunji, Liao Xing, and Bi Yao used Buddha’s light to save Wuluo, Big Yellow, Little Gray, and Taotie from the Strange Objects.
• The group reached the Two Mountains, where Luo Yunji reunited with the Beast God, Linglong, Empress Witch, and the residents of Sanfu Town.
• Luo Yunji secretly entered the Ghost King’s study and discovered a hidden door leading into a dark cavern.
• Luo Yunji descended toward a dark-brown pillar as an unseen eye and anguished human faces appeared whenever he looked away.

Luo Yunji escaped the Strange Objects beneath Ghost King Sect Headquarters and returned to Two Mountains, where Dabai revealed himself as the mastermind who had imprisoned the Yin Spirits. When Luo Yunji demanded a reason, Dabai declared that he wanted to destroy the world, then accused Luo Yunji of being too sheltered to understand suffering.

• Luo Yunji discovered a web of Strange Objects in the secret chamber, escaped their pursuit, and returned to Two Mountains as the Huqi Mountains erupted into chaos.
• Liao Xing and Bi Yao questioned Luo Yunji about Ghost King, but he could only shake his head; then Dabai's Black Silk attacked them and revealed itself.
• Dabai appeared with Blackheart Elder and three other Yin Spirits imprisoned in his Black Silk, while Daoyan warned Luo Yunji that Dabai had planned everything and used Ghost King's Four Spirits Blood Array.
• Luo Yunji repeatedly demanded a reason for Dabai's betrayal, and Dabai dismissed him before Luo Yunji blocked his flight and froze the tips of his attacking Black Silk.
• Dabai declared that he wanted to destroy the world and claimed Luo Yunji had been protected and spoiled too much to understand suffering.

Luo Yunji learned that Dabai had once been human and a disciple of the Azure Cloud Sect, but the Heavenly Book recorded no trace of him, leading Luo Yunji to identify him as another Son of God. As Mount Huqi began to shake, Dabai descended into the sea of blood and stepped onto the black cocoon being nourished by the Dragon-Subduing Tripod.

• Dabai escaped Luo Yunji’s attack and returned to the Ghost King Sect Headquarters while Luo Yunji captured the four Yin Spirits in the Ghost Umbrella.
• Luo Yunji and his companions waited for the four spirits to recover, then explained that the Heavenly Book recorded everyone except Dabai and the Beast God.
• Luo Yunji concluded that Dabai was a Son of God, and Liao Xing and Bi Yao comforted him before the three went to cook.
• Mount Huqi shook violently beneath the blood-colored barrier as bloody rain fell, and Luo Yunji suspected Dabai might be responsible.
• Dabai descended through the White Web to the sea of blood, where the Dragon-Subduing Tripod fed Underworld power into a huge black cocoon, and he stepped onto it.

Dabai revealed that he was using the God Descent Ritual to summon evil demons, and Luo Yunji and his allies raced to stop him. They found the Forbidden Spirit Land devastated and confronted Dabai as Strange Objects attacked its survivors.

• Beneath the Ghost King Sect, Dabai confronted Wan Renwang and warned him to complete his plans or be erased from the Nine Realms.
• After awakening, Daoyan told Luo Yunji that Dabai was using the blood essence of the living to summon evil demons through the God Descent Ritual.
• Luo Yunji sent Bi Yao to warn Spirit Mountain, then took Liao Xing toward the Imperial City as they learned Dabai had slaughtered much of the Forbidden Spirit Land.
• Luo Yunji and Liao Xing fought Strange Objects surrounding civilians, while Dabai watched them from a distance.
• Daoyan and the other Yin Spirits joined Luo Yunji, and Daoyan’s Buddhist light halted the Strange Objects emerging from the dead.

Dabai slaughtered his way across the Central Plains while Luo Yunji pursued him, and he revealed that he wanted humanity destroyed beyond reincarnation because of his hatred of human cruelty. After months of pursuit, Dabai confronted Luo Yunji and condemned the sheltered life that kept him from seeing humanity’s evils.

• Dabai vanished toward the Azure Cloud Mountain Range after killing everyone on the land, and Luo Yunji pursued him with Liao Xing and the Four Spirits.
• Daoyan explained that Dabai had absorbed the Netherworld power and spread an Evil Force that would kill living creatures throughout the Forbidden Spirit Land unless Dabai was destroyed.
• Luo Yunji visited Dabai’s junior brother in the Mystic Realm, but the old man could not explain Dabai’s change or believe that he had committed such evil.
• Luo Yunji chased Dabai across the Central Plains for several months as Dabai continued killing, then confronted him near the Azure Cloud Mountain Range.
• Dabai revealed that he hated humanity and intended to prevent its victims from reincarnating, then told Luo Yunji that his sheltered upbringing had blinded him to human cruelty.

Dabai drove Luo Yunji away from him, then revealed that he had deliberately used the Yin Spirits’ obsessions and the Death Spirit Abyss to conceal secrets tied to the Underworld and the Deities. He left Luo Yunji and the four Spirits stunned, accusing them all of being pieces on the Deities’ board.

• Luo Yunji chased Dabai and attacked him with sword arts, but Dabai effortlessly countered him and repeatedly overwhelmed him.
• Dabai sent smoke toward a city, and Luo Yunji warned its people to activate their protective formation as the smoke killed people in the surrounding villages.
• Dabai rejected the name Luo Yunji had given him, and Zheng Qi confronted him before Blackheart Elder asked why he and Lady Jinling had been chosen.
• Dabai explained that Blackheart Elder, Lady Jinling, Daoyan, and Zheng Qi had recovered their memories as Yin Spirits through intense self-directed resentment.
• Dabai revealed that the Death Spirit Abyss and the Five Seas had not formed naturally, and that the Abyss’s Yin Spirits had concealed the passage to the Underworld in Mount Huqi.
• Dabai declared that the Yin Spirits’ suffering and sacrifices had all served the Deities’ plans, leaving Luo Yunji and the four Spirits shocked.

Dabai completed the blood gathering for the God Descent Ritual, then invaded Azure Cloud Sect and unleashed the Strange Objects across its Seven Peaks. As Tian Buyi and others fought to protect people, the sect descended into chaos and its refugees were killed and transformed.

• Tian Buyi used the Fire Gathering Basin to destroy Strange Objects in a village while Wan Jianyi rescued civilians, and Daoyan used his Sariras to repel Gray Smoke and protect them.
• Dabai’s Strange Objects slaughtered everyone in the city beneath Wind Return Peak, and Luo Yunji realized the blood needed for the ritual had been gathered.
• Blood flowed into the Ghost King Sect’s secret chamber as a shadow beneath the sea of blood repeatedly struck at its barrier.
• Dabai told Luo Yunji he would destroy a certain place himself, then entered Azure Cloud Sect and released a tide of Strange Objects across the Seven Peaks.
• Tian Buyi and Bi Yao cleared Big Bamboo Peak, while Azure Cloud Sect disciples organized a retreat and panicked refugees were killed and turned into Strange Objects.

Bi Yao used the Heavenly Book to protect the survivors on Heaven-Reaching Peak, where Dabai revealed that he had returned to collect an ancient debt from the Azure Cloud Sect. After exposing the murderous force beneath the peak, Dabai attacked the righteous cultivators and demonstrated the true power of the Dragon Slayer Art to Luo Yunji.

• Bi Yao drove back the Strange Objects with the Seven Buddhas Universal Precept Verse and shielded the survivors on Heaven-Reaching Peak.
• Dabai confronted the righteous cultivators, declared that he had returned to collect the debt owed by Qingyunzi, and revealed that they had destroyed the Heavenly Mystery Lock.
• A malevolent force erupted from Heaven-Reaching Peak, and Dabai denounced the Three Heads of the Righteous Path for concealing its evil source.
• Dabai summoned twelve black Spirit Dragons and overwhelmed the cultivators who tried to resist him.
• Luo Yunji arrived and summoned his own Spirit Dragons, but Dabai explained how the art drew on the world's power and swiftly destroyed Luo's dragons.
• Dabai transformed his Spirit Dragons with sword energy, leaving the gathered cultivators awed by his power.

Luo Yunji faced Dabai in a desperate battle as Dabai revealed his overwhelming power and the truth behind his sword arts. After Heaven-Reaching Peak was restored, Dabai disclosed that his true identity was Li Jingzhi, a wronged former disciple of Qingyunzi whose return had set old calamities in motion.

• Luo Yunji challenged Dabai to prove he could master the two sword arts, but Dabai’s Spirit Dragons and Moonlight Ray badly wounded him and destroyed half of Heaven-Reaching Peak.
• Luo Yunji ordered the righteous cultivators to flee, while Tian Linger, Lin Jingyu, and Bi Yao watched the devastation from a distance.
• Puhong told Pukong, Pude, and Yun Yilan that Li Jingzhi had been hunted after Qingyunzi expelled him, and that villagers had drowned him, his wife, and their newborn son in a cesspit.
• Dabai used Dragon Slayer—No Regrets, but the Four Spirits Array, Taiji Liangyi Array, and Bibo Pool’s Small World restored Heaven-Reaching Peak.
• Dabai revealed that his real name was Li Jingzhi, startling Luo Yunji, Blackheart Elder, Lady Jinling, Daoyan, and Wuluo.
• Wuluo admitted that he had ignored Li Jingzhi’s warning and performed the God Descent Ritual, while Li Jingzhi rebuked Wuluo and Daoyan for causing greater suffering through their stubborn choices.

Li Jingzhi began the God Descent Ritual at Mount Huqi, opening a Boundary Rift as the world-ending calamity drew near. While Luo Yunji recovered and searched for a way to grow stronger, the chapter ended with him confronting the Mystic Realm’s old man about Dabai using the true Heavenly Book.

• Li Jingzhi unleashed his twelve Spirit Dragons against Luo Yunji, then left when black smoke rose from Mount Huqi and the God Descent Ritual began.
• A Sacrificial Tower burst from Mount Huqi, and Li Jingzhi watched a Boundary Rift open as Dabai addressed the figure beyond it.
• The White-Clothed Deity met the Black-Clad Deity on Spirit Mountain, and they discussed their youngest brother and the calamity facing them all.
• Luo Yunji recovered at the Black Bamboo Building, visited his sleeping senior brothers at Bibo Pool, and resolved to become stronger before the Demon God descended.
• Luo Yunji studied the Crystal Booklet, recognized it as the true Heavenly Book, and went to the Mystic Realm to demand that the old man tell him about Dabai.

Luo Yunji learned that the old man’s betrayal of Dabai had been part of a plan to counter the destructive consequences of the God Descent Rituals and preserve the world. At Spirit Mountain, the White-Clothed Deity revealed that Luo Yunji’s resurrection and life had also been arranged, leaving him questioning the Heavenly Book and the deities’ hidden role.

• Luo Yunji confronted the old man, who admitted that jealousy had led him to ruin Dabai’s reputation and that Dabai’s death had been part of the plan to summon the Demon God.
• The old man explained that divine power from the three God Descent Rituals threatened to destroy the world, and that Dabai had willingly sacrificed himself to offset it.
• The old man revealed that the Five Seas, the Liao Clan, the Four Talismans, and the Heaven-Reaching Tower had all been arranged to bring about the Demon God’s summoning, while Luo Yunji was a uniquely necessary chess piece.
• The White-Clothed Deity urged Luo Yunji to return to Spirit Mountain, where it and two other deities awaited him.
• The White-Clothed Deity told Luo Yunji that another version of him would have been born if he had not been saved, and that Zhou Yixian had arranged for his corpse to drift in the river until the deity found him.
• Luo Yunji asked why the Heavenly Book recorded nothing about the three deities.

Luo Yunji learned that the path to immortality had been severed as the calamity erupted from Mount Huqi and the human world fell under the Underworld’s corruption. The deities merged the Human Scroll into a crystal booklet for him, then showed him Li Jingzhi’s past, ending with Li Jingzhi defending his forbidden cultivation to an elder of the newly founded Azure Cloud Sect.

• The Black-Clad Figure told Luo Yunji that the deities were not recorded in the Human Scroll, confirmed he had absorbed Heaven-Reaching Peak’s baleful aura, and said Luo Yunji’s senior brothers would soon awaken.
• At Mount Huqi, Li Jingzhi confronted a gigantic Demon God through the heavenly gates, and Strange Objects poured through the barrier as the Great Calamity began consuming the human world.
• The deities stirred the pool and books in Luo Yunji’s Sea of Consciousness until they merged into a crystal lotus, whose petal became a Crystal Booklet that the White-Clothed Deity identified as the Human Scroll.
• The White-Clothed Heavenly Dao showed Luo Yunji the deities’ past and Li Jingzhi’s efforts to protect the Human Realm, then brought him to the newly established Azure Cloud Sect a thousand years earlier.
• An elder angrily accused Li Jingzhi of secretly studying and practicing Demon Sect techniques, and Li Jingzhi argued that the sect needed a supreme cultivation technique to survive the war.

Luo Yunji witnessed how Li Jingzhi was expelled from Azure Cloud Sect, betrayed and hunted until the deaths of his wife and newborn son drove him to despair. The three Deities explained that they had allowed Li Jingzhi’s suffering because only his hatred and talent could summon the Demon God, while the Heavenly Dao revealed that it had guided him for centuries before the Great Dao’s flaw left it unable to intervene.

• Qingyunzi expelled Li Jingzhi from Azure Cloud Sect after Li Jingzhi defended the Heavenly Book’s cultivation methods, and a junior disciple persuaded Qingyunzi to order his death.
• Li Jingzhi’s former fellow disciples and cultivators from both righteous and demonic factions betrayed and hunted him, while his cultivation was mysteriously suppressed.
• After Li Jingzhi shared the Heavenly Book’s methods, the resulting scramble reshaped the cultivation world, and a later ambush left him gravely wounded.
• Li Jingzhi married a kind woman and settled in a village, but Qingyunzi found him; hunters and villagers killed his wife and newborn son, breaking the last of his goodness.
• Luo Yunji confronted the three Deities, who said Li Jingzhi’s hatred was necessary to summon the Demon God, and the Heavenly Dao explained that it had merged with a damaged Great Dao and once guided Li Jingzhi through a strand of consciousness.
• The Heavenly Dao began explaining that it had watched Li Jingzhi strive for centuries, but the chapter ended as Luo Yunji challenged the claim that the Heavenly Dao and Great Dao were emotionless and impartial.