Chapter Summaries

Luo Yunji recovered from his soul separation and went with the Black Water Mystic Snake to the Thunder Marsh Sea to complete their transformations. After Luo Yunji found and took a Red Talisman, he drew the thunder’s attention while Dahei began tempering his body.

• Long Zi saw Luo Yunji’s soul and physical body reach equilibrium, then told him to go to the Thunder Marsh Sea for their final fusion.
• Luo Yunji took the Black Water Mystic Snake upward, and they found a realm of blue lightning with a Red Talisman floating within it.
• Luo Yunji recognized the Red Talisman as similar to the Black Talisman he carried and the Gold Talisman on Lu Daxin’s hand, then took it.
• The thunder intensified, blasting scales from the Black Water Mystic Snake as he explained that he needed the power to shed his skin and break through his physical bottleneck.
• The Black Water Mystic Snake exposed Luo Yunji to the lightning, which pursued him as he dodged, while Dahei stayed behind to temper his body.

Luo Yunji endured the Thunder Marsh Sea until a nine-petaled lotus sheltered him and carried him away. He woke in a peaceful, floating realm among clouds and began exploring it.

• Luo Yunji tried to fly upward through the lightning but was blasted back into the Thunder Marsh Sea.
• Luo Yunji found a rootless white lotus that was free of lightning and ate its petals before falling asleep inside it.
• The lotus closed around Luo Yunji, transformed into a streak of light, and flew upward through a rosy, cloud-filled world.
• Luo Yunji woke on grass in a tranquil realm floating among the clouds and began looking around.
• Luo Yunji explored unfamiliar plants and trees in the strange heavenly place.

Luo Yunji explored a strange meadow on Cloud Island and met a middle-aged man who revealed he was Zhou Yixian’s son. The man explained that Luo Yunji was connected to the Great Calamity and led him across the clouds, warning him to stay close.

• Luo Yunji tried to eat a bun-shaped plant, but its bitter juice sprayed into his mouth.
• A middle-aged man offered Luo Yunji food and led him through the meadow, where Luo Yunji asked about its unusual plants.
• The man explained that the plants could only grow there and that Luo Yunji could not visit whenever he wanted.
• Luo Yunji learned the man was Zhou Yixian’s son and heard that he was an important factor in the Great Calamity.
• The man took Luo Yunji across walkable clouds and warned him not to stray from the path.

Luo Yunji followed Zhou Xingyun to a village high above the Thunder Marsh Sea, where he ate local food and learned that the villagers followed unusual rules. Zhou Xingyun told him he would need to speak with his grandmaster and the others if he wanted to return, and Luo Yunji became distracted by the village’s cultivation manuals.

• Zhou Xingyun brought Luo Yunji to the sky village, where the villagers recognized him as “Hope” and discussed whether to seek out Yi Xian.
• Zhou Xingyun took Luo Yunji to his courtyard, gave him clean clothes, and served him the village’s specialty and sap from the Feather Scale Tree.
• Luo Yunji agreed to meet Zhou Xingyun’s grandmaster and martial uncles after learning they might help him return.
• Luo Yunji discovered Taiji Mystic Purity Dao and other sects’ manuals in Zhou Xingyun’s room, while Zhou Xingyun prepared a bed for him.

Zhou Xingyun’s elders discussed the coming world-ending calamity and their hope that Luo Yunji could help avert it. When Zhou brought Luo to meet them, Dabai appeared, and the founding master recognized him as his long-lost senior brother—now a Yin Spirit.

• Zhou Xingyun coaxed Luo Yunji to sleep, then listened as the elders explained the calamity, his father’s plans, and the talismans’ possible role in overcoming it.
• The White-Clad Figure sensed someone’s aura in Luo Yunji’s Sea of Consciousness and threw Luo out when he tried to eat the lotus in the pool.
• Zhou Xingyun brought Luo Yunji, who was clutching a jar of Feather Scale Tree sap, to meet the elders beneath the village’s great tree.
• The elders sensed the aura of the Underworld and vengeful souls on Luo Yunji and questioned whether he could be their prophesied hope.
• Dabai appeared beside Luo Yunji, and the founding master excitedly recognized him as his senior brother before realizing Dabai was a Yin Spirit.

Dabai reunited with his junior brother, the Patriarch, and recounted how the stone sword he brought back led to the Azure Clouds’ cultivation method. He revealed that Luo Yunji was the Son of God and that he had deliberately left behind the two stone tablets Luo Yunji found, while the Patriarch said he had kept Dabai’s five Heavenly Books.

• Dabai met the Patriarch and learned that the other disciples from their generation had died.
• Dabai and the Patriarch discussed the stone sword, Qingyunzi’s rejection of its cultivation method, and how the Azure Clouds later adopted that technique.
• Dabai asked about the Patriarch’s lineage and learned that Zhou Yixian was its thirteenth-generation successor and Zhou Xingyun his son.
• Dabai called Luo Yunji his ward and revealed that Luo Yunji was the Son of God, prompting the physiognomy lineage to recognize his significance.
• The Patriarch revealed he had kept Dabai’s five Heavenly Books, and Dabai told Luo Yunji that he had deliberately left the two stone tablets for him.

Luo Yunji learned that the Heavenly Book versions in the Azure Cloud Sect’s study were copies of two volumes once lost from the Demon Sect, while Dabai discussed the past with Grandmaster. The chapter ended with Grandmaster asking whether Dabai had been behind a technique at Tianyin Temple, and Dabai denying it.

• Luo Yunji confronted Dabai for hiding his knowledge of the Dragon Slayer Art and Yuqing Sword Art, and Dabai promised to let him read the complete Heavenly Book.
• Dabai explained that he had created the two techniques to complement the Azure Cloud Sect’s methods, and Luo Yunji went to read the Heavenly Book in Grandmaster’s study.
• Zhou Xingyun told Luo Yunji that the Demon Sect’s Heavenly Book had once comprised five volumes, and that original versions of two volumes had ended up at Blooddrop Cave and Tianyin Temple.
• Luo Yunji finished reading the booklets, memorized their contents, and joked about altering the Heavenly Book before Zhou Xingyun hurried to take it from him.
• Grandmaster asked Dabai whether he had created the technique at Tianyin Temple, and Dabai denied it, easing Grandmaster’s concern.

Dabai learned that his past choices had fractured his sect and that a Great Calamity threatened the world, with Luo Yunji seen as its only hope. While Luo Yunji reluctantly studied and endured lightning training, he discovered lightning-filled tree stumps in the valley.

• The old man told Dabai how Qingyunzi had expelled him over the Demon Sect technique and how their brothers suffered after the stone sword corrupted them.
• The old man warned Luo Yunji that he was the world's only hope against the approaching Great Calamity, but Luo Yunji did not accept the role.
• Zhou Xingyun took Luo Yunji to study the Mystic Realm's secrets and cultivation arts, then trained him in a lightning-struck valley.
• Zhou Xingyun explained that failed peach-tree tribulations had formed the Thunder Marsh Sea and the Sea of Heavenly Mystery.
• Luo Yunji adapted to the lightning, explored the valley, and touched a strange stump filled with lightning.

Luo Yunji dug up ancient lightning-struck peachwood roots from Peach Valley and brought them back to the village, where Zhou Xingyun's master's ancestor identified their power. Later, Luo Yunji saw a floating mountain sinking and decided he wanted to take it back to grow Feather Scale Trees.

• Luo Yunji found that the peachwood stumps in the valley resisted his strength and teeth, and decided to bring them back as treasures.
• Su Ru worried that Luo Yunji had been missing for more than a month, while Tian Linger insisted he had probably gotten lost.
• Luo Yunji used a water barrier to withstand the valley's lightning and dug up several interconnected peachwood roots.
• Zhou Xingyun's master's ancestor identified the roots as ancient lightning-struck wood that could draw heavenly lightning and strengthen lightning arts.
• Luo Yunji watched a floating mountain sink and told Dabai he wanted to take it back to plant Feather Scale Trees.

Luo Yunji studied the Mystic Realm’s vast collection of texts and offered his techniques for improvement, hoping to earn a movable Floating Mountain. He also learned more about the Black Talismans and continued reading books that were preserved in the Sea of Consciousness.

• Luo Yunji asked Zhou Xingyun how to move a Floating Mountain, and Zhou Xingyun promised to help arrange one if Luo Yunji finished his assigned studies.
• Luo Yunji memorized the Mystic Realm’s texts and gave his techniques for Sanfu Town’s residents and the Two Mountains’ soldiers to his Grandmasters for improvement.
• Zhou Xingyun explained that the Mystic Realm’s collection included rare cultivation techniques, which Luo Yunji had been trying to break, including the Taiji Mystic Purity Dao.
• Luo Yunji showed Zhou Xingyun the Black Talisman, and Zhou Xingyun warned that the talismans could destroy rules, including his eternal life.
• Luo Yunji continued memorizing books he could not take out of the Mystic Realm, while the Deity in white observed that books he read completely were being restored in the Sea of Consciousness.

Luo Yunji learned how to create a floating mountain and cut one apart to make a smaller one, but his experiment sent the mountain spinning with him and Zhou Xingyun inside. As danger spread through the Sea of Heavenly Mystery, an enormous meteorite appeared overhead, and Daoxuan recognized it as a source of Nine Heavens Divine Weapons.

• Luo Yunji studied ancient scripts and Daoist arts while preparing gifts and knowledge for his senior brothers.
• Zhou Xingyun told Luo Yunji that the Mystic Realm had found a way to move a mountain, and Luo Yunji eagerly set out to make a floating mountain covered in Feather Scale Trees.
• Luo Yunji used the Dragon Slayer Art to slice through a mountain and, following an elder's instructions, moved its mineral core into the severed portion.
• The mountain lurched and spun, throwing Luo Yunji and Zhou Xingyun against its inner walls as they struggled to stay upright.
• Du Bishu alerted Tian Buyi and the others to a growing sense of danger, and the people in the Sea of Heavenly Mystery saw a huge meteorite approaching.
• Daoxuan identified the meteorite as a source of Nine Heavens Divine Weapons while Wan Jianyi questioned his priorities.

Luo Yunji emerged from the fallen Flying Peak as Tian Buyi and the others tried to rescue Song Daren, who had been buried beneath it. Song Daren lifted the whole mountain and escaped, while the peak then floated away under an unknown force and Luo Yunji rushed after it.

• Song Daren raised an earthen platform to help the soldiers and disciples escape the falling meteorite, but the platform collapsed and the meteorite became a mountain that buried him.
• Tian Buyi and the others hurried to Flying Peak and attacked it, trying to dig Song Daren out, while Luo Yunji stumbled out of the mountain and called for them to stop.
• Luo Yunji told them the mountain was his and suggested Song Daren could tunnel out because he had an earth attribute.
• Song Daren lifted Flying Peak above his head and escaped from beneath it, unharmed.
• Flying Peak floated upward on its own, and Luo Yunji ran toward it as the others followed.

Luo Yunji and Zhou Xingyun activated a formation inside Flying Peak, sending Tian Buyi and the Big Bamboo Peak disciples back to the Mystic Realm. After Tian Buyi scolded Luo Yunji, the disciples visited the village, where Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan began exploring unfamiliar ingredients in the kitchen.

• Daoxuan and Wan Jianyi watched as Tian Buyi and Su Ru followed the Big Bamboo Peak disciples into Flying Peak to pursue Luo Yunji.
• Zhou Xingyun arranged ore to form a mountain-control formation, and Flying Peak rose into the sky with everyone inside before returning to the Mystic Realm.
• Tian Buyi spanked and scolded Luo Yunji for putting everyone in danger, while Su Ru and the other disciples protected him.
• Song Daren and the other disciples accompanied Luo Yunji and Zhou Xingyun to the village, where they greeted the twelve elders.
• Luo Yunji brought Zhang Xiaofan to his home and showed him ingredients, including Tree Sap from the Feather Scale Tree, while Zhang Xiaofan examined how to prepare them.
• Song Daren and the others found Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan safe in the kitchen, and Du Bishu expressed relief.

Luo Yunji reunited with the Big Bamboo Peak disciples in the Mystic Realm and told them about its books and his talismans. When He Dazhi learned that readers of the realm’s books could not leave, Luo Yunji revealed that Dabai was the junior brother of the realm’s ancestral master and had once been expelled for practicing Demon Sect techniques.

• Zhang Xiaofan prepared a feast, and the disciples hurried to welcome Tian Buyi and Su Ru when they realized they had not waited for them.
• Luo Yunji told his senior brothers about his experiences and the many rare books in the Mystic Realm, but kept his talismans hidden.
• Zhou Xingyun refused He Dazhi’s request to borrow books, explaining that written works could not leave the Mystic Realm and that readers had to stay there.
• Luo Yunji offered to recite the books he had memorized, but He Dazhi worried that reading them might prevent him from leaving.
• Luo Yunji said the villagers would not dare bully him because Dabai was the junior brother of their oldest ancestral master, then recalled Dabai’s expulsion and connection to their cultivation techniques.

Luo Yunji revealed the Mystic Realm’s connection to Azure Cloud Sect and shared what he had learned there, including the five volumes of the Heavenly Book. The group discovered lightning-struck wood hidden in the courtyard’s firewood pile, and the chapter ended with Luo Yunji pulling out a second piece.

• Luo Yunji shocked Tian Buyi and the others by revealing that Dabai knew all five volumes of the Heavenly Book and that he had read the complete set in the Mystic Realm.
• Luo Yunji explained the Mystic Realm’s rules and his connection to Zhou Yixian, then recited passages from its stored books in a confusing mixture that troubled He Dazhi.
• Tian Buyi suggested Luo Yunji write the passages down after they returned, while Tian Linger argued with Luo Yunji over the books he had memorized for her.
• Du Bishu sensed something unusual in the firewood pile and uncovered a piece of lightning-struck wood that revealed a sword-like shape.
• Luo Yunji found a second piece of lightning-struck wood, and Du Bishu exposed its blade-like shape as the group gathered around.

Luo Yunji uncovered eight pieces of lightning-struck peachwood, but Tian Buyi and Su Ru struggled to refine them. Meanwhile, Song Daren asked Wu Dayi and He Dazhi to help him use the Sea of Heavenly Mystery to break through, and Wu Dayi prepared to place him in an illusion.

• Luo Yunji found eight pieces of lightning-struck peachwood in the firewood pile, and Tian Buyi decided to refine them into weapons for Big Bamboo Peak.
• Tian Buyi and Su Ru tried to refine the wood, but it barely changed.
• Song Daren told Wu Dayi he wanted to break through in the Sea of Heavenly Mystery, and Wu Dayi reassured him that his place as Eldest Senior Brother did not depend on his cultivation.
• Song Daren, Wu Dayi, and He Dazhi visited a mountain made of white Mineral Ore and discussed Luo Yunji's Floating Mountain and where to put it.
• Wu Dayi explained that he would use an illusion to help Song Daren experience life and seek enlightenment, then warned him that the illusion would not have an obvious way to wake up.

Song Daren entered Wu Dayi’s illusion and unexpectedly broke through, gaining a new Heavenly Heart ability that made the Floating Mountain’s surroundings repeatedly rise and fall. The chapter left Wu Dayi and He Dazhi badly battered as Tian Buyi arrived to inspect them.

• Wu Dayi used Shadow Moon to cast an illusion for Song Daren while He Dazhi stayed nearby.
• Song Daren’s earth-attribute spiritual power changed through white and silver to black as he began gaining Heavenly Heart.
• Song Daren’s breakthrough made him float, and Wu Dayi and He Dazhi were repeatedly lifted and slammed into the ground.
• Song Daren woke from the illusion, found his two junior brothers injured, and sent for Tian Buyi or Seventh Junior Brother.
• Tian Buyi arrived, saw Wu Dayi and He Dazhi lying on the ground, and teased them about having fought each other.

After Song Daren’s cultivation breakthrough changed his Heavenly Heart, Wu Dayi and He Dazhi were injured while being restrained by its effects. Zhang Xiaofan cared for them while Luo Yunji bullied them, and Tian Buyi learned that Song Daren’s Heavenly Heart had changed for reasons no one understood.

• Tian Buyi found Wu Dayi and He Dazhi bruised and swollen, but they refused to explain what had happened.
• Tian Buyi sent Zhang Xiaofan to tend to the two disciples, and Luo Yunji joined him and repeatedly poked them until they agreed to play Eighteen Touches for him and praise him.
• Tian Buyi and Song Daren returned and noticed nearby objects floating and falling, leading Tian Buyi to realize Song Daren had reached Heavenly Heart.
• Zhang Xiaofan brought Bamboo Bag’s medicinal powders to heal Wu Dayi and He Dazhi, then Tian Buyi summoned the disciples to explain their injuries.
• Wu Dayi said Song Daren’s changed Heavenly Heart had restrained him and He Dazhi, and Luo Yunji admitted he did not know why it had changed.

Luo Yunji discovered that Song Daren’s newly changed Heavenly Heart gave him control over gravity and immediately began pushing him to cultivate so he could move Flying Peak. Tian Buyi failed to meet the Mystic Realm ancestor and heard Dabai criticize Qingyunzi, while Luo Yunji stopped the senior brothers from testing Wu Dayi’s illusions on Zhang Xiaofan because of the danger from his Strange Weapon.

• Tian Buyi asked Luo Yunji to investigate Song Daren’s changed Heavenly Heart, and Luo Yunji suspected it had mutated.
• Luo Yunji identified Song Daren’s ability as gravity after watching him float a pebble and make He Dazhi rise into the air.
• Luo Yunji began supervising Song Daren’s cultivation, hoping to use his gravity ability to move Flying Peak horizontally.
• Tian Buyi failed to meet the Mystic Realm ancestor, and Dabai told him that not everyone favored the Azure Cloud Sect and criticized Qingyunzi for breaking his word.
• Luo Yunji stopped the senior brothers from testing Wu Dayi’s illusions on Zhang Xiaofan, warning them that Zhang Xiaofan’s Strange Weapon could get loose.
• After Song Daren complained that Luo Yunji would not let him rest, Luo Yunji returned and ordered him to cultivate again.

Dabai explained that the Dragon Slayer Art and Yuqing Sword Art were Heavenly Book techniques, prompting Big Bamboo Peak’s disciples to consider using the Dragon Slayer Art to break through. Meanwhile, Luo Yunji and He Dazhi completed a formation on Flying Peak and filled it with plants from the Mystic Realm, though many needed special conditions to survive.

• Dabai told Song Daren and the others that the Dragon Slayer Art and Yuqing Sword Art were moves from the Heavenly Book, and suggested they use the Dragon Slayer Art to break through.
• He Dazhi reasoned that the Taiji Mystic Purity Dao could become the Heavenly Book’s cultivation-method portion, while the Dragon Slayer Art and Yuqing Sword Art supplied its moves.
• Duan Ming asked Wu Dayi about the discussion, and Wu Dayi advised him to focus on mastering the Taiji Mystic Purity Dao.
• Zhou Xingyun gave Luo Yunji an improved formation, and Luo Yunji and He Dazhi finished setting it up inside Flying Peak a few days later.
• Luo Yunji gathered plants in the Mystic Realm, and Zhou Xingyun selected the ones that could be transplanted while explaining their environmental needs.
• Luo Yunji transplanted Feather Scale Trees across the mountain, and Zhou Xingyun told He Dazhi to move them above the clouds periodically.