Chapter Summaries

Disguised as Niu Yun and Tian Yue, Zhou Muyun and Miao Yue'er reached Heavenly Evolution City and traveled to the Heavenly Evolution Upper Sect to reunite with the Heavy Earth Gate. The chapter ended with Elder Yang Guo recognizing Zhou Muyun after he revealed his identity.

• Zhou Muyun and Miao Yue'er arrived at Heavenly Evolution City with Zheng Dahe's caravan and marveled at its immense scale.
• Zheng Dahe offered to guide them to the Heavenly Evolution Upper Sect, grateful that Zhou Muyun had saved the caravan from bandits.
• Zhou Muyun and Miao Yue'er rode a Zheng Lineage carriage to the sect's mountain gate and presented Zhou Muyun's Heavy Earth Gate identity token.
• A gate disciple fetched Elder Yang Guo, who did not recognize the disguised pair until Zhou Muyun spoke in his original voice.
• Yang Guo recognized Zhou Muyun and reacted with excitement.

Zhou Muyun and Miao Yue'er reached the Heavenly Evolution Upper Sect, where Yang Guo explained the sect’s layout and reassured them that the danger in Skycloud Prefecture had passed. Yang Guo revealed he had become Courtyard Master of Bedrock Court and delivered jade bottles from the Sect Master, leaving their contents unknown.

• Zhou Muyun and Miao Yue'er entered the Heavenly Evolution Upper Sect with Yang Guo, who described its seventy-two peaks and the guest quarters on Friendship Peak.
• Yang Guo told Zhou Muyun and Miao Yue'er that Steward Bai Lin had apologized after Pei Yuan, a True Essence Realm expert, negotiated with the Sect Master and searched the sect.
• Yang Guo said the Princess's Residence had left Skycloud Prefecture without finding Miao Yue'er, and no arrest notices had been issued for her or Master Yue.
• Zhou Muyun thanked Yang Guo and learned that Yang Guo had become Courtyard Master of Bedrock Court after Zhou recommended him.
• Yang Guo gave Zhou Muyun and Miao Yue'er a bundle of jade bottles sent by the Sect Master.

Zhou Muyun arrived in Heavenly Evolution City for the selection, received cultivation resources from Ouyang Changhe, and attended a banquet hosted by the Heavenly River Sword Manor. He learned the selection might take place on the Celestial Pivot Jade Terrace and admit only one hundred people.

• Yang Guo gave Zhou Muyun jade marrow and Astral Essence Pills from Ouyang Changhe, then provided Miao Yue'er with pills for her cultivation.
• Zhou Muyun met Heavy Earth Gate disciples Jiang Hunyuan, Xue Qi, and Li Fengyuan, then continued practicing the Vast Sea Origin-Return Formula with ten days remaining before the selection.
• Yang Guo brought Zhou Muyun to the Heavenly River Sword Manor's banquet at Prosperity Restaurant, where they met Qin He and her disciples Han Shuang and Qiu Lu.
• Qin He said the Goldthread Houses might observe the selection or recruit talent.
• Qin He revealed that the selection might involve the Celestial Pivot Jade Terrace and accept only one hundred people.

Zhou Muyun attended a banquet for the Celestial Pivot Jade Terrace selection, where he encountered several highly ranked prodigies and joined a trading fair to find a water-attribute treasure. He offered Lan Cai nearly three hundred thousand taels for her coral blue crystal, but another man interrupted with a competing offer.

• Qin He pointed out Zhang Fengyun, Yuchi Shan, and Ying Lianxin as powerful participants gathered at the banquet.
• Zhang Jie of Heavenly River Sword Manor welcomed the guests and opened a trade fair, warning them against forcibly seizing goods.
• Zhou Muyun searched the banquet for water-attribute treasures and found Lan Cai's coral blue crystal.
• Lan Cai said she wanted a superior water-attribute sword technique, and Zhou Muyun offered to buy the crystal with nearly three hundred thousand taels.
• A cold-voiced man interrupted and offered Lan Cai a superior water-attribute sword technique plus two hundred thousand taels for the crystal.

Zhou Muyun lost the coral blue crystal to Zhang Fengyun after Lan Cai yielded to her brother’s pressure, but he bought another water-aspect treasure and used it to advance his cultivation. He completed the Vast Sea Origin-Return Formula’s fifth layer and planned to convert his remaining true qi before attempting to fuse three types of astral qi.

• Zhang Fengyun tried to take the coral blue crystal, and Zhou Muyun challenged him to let Lan Cai choose who would receive it.
• Lan Cang pressured Lan Cai to give the crystal to Zhang Fengyun, who traded for it and promised to ask He Yiheng to look after Lan Cang.
• Zhang Fengyun gave the coral blue crystal to Zhang Jie for Zhang Qingwan, while Zhou Muyun left and later bought a Water-Cooled Jade for two hundred and fifty thousand taels.
• Zhou Muyun returned to his lodgings, consumed the jade marrow, and focused on cultivating with the Water-Cooled Jade.
• Zhou Muyun advanced the Vast Sea Origin-Return Formula to its fifth layer, formed vast sea astral qi, and resolved to convert his remaining true qi before trying to fuse three types of astral qi.

Zhou Muyun fused his three streams of astral qi and reconsidered how much of his strength to reveal at the Heavenly Evolution Upper Sect selection. As the selection’s political stakes came into focus, a powerful true essence realm elder entered the gathering of sect representatives.

• Zhou Muyun fused his Heavy Earth, jadecloud, and vast sea astral qi into a dark-green wisp and gained confidence in challenging late true astral realm opponents.
• Zhou Muyun learned about the Heavenly Evolution Upper Sect’s four lineages, six Goldthread Houses, and the factional struggles surrounding the selection.
• Zhou Muyun decided to secure a place while concealing his abilities, though he remained willing to confront Zhang Fengyun if the chance arose.
• Yang Guo and representatives from more than a hundred sects and rogue cultivators gathered in Friendship Peak’s central hall on the eve of the selection.
• A silver-haired elder wearing robes marked with Alioth entered, and Yang Guo recognized the aura of a true essence realm expert.