Chapter Summaries

Lin Qingyun explored terrifying scenes hidden in the mist, then emerged from seven years of cultivation to find Evergreen Gate thriving in the Evergreen Realm. After Side Quest Two was completed, he received the Sect Foundation and Destiny Treasure rewards.

• Lin Qingyun saw a mysterious battlefield, a cemetery of immense coffins, strange visions, and a gigantic skeleton kneeling before the heavens in the mist, then decided not to visit that place yet.
• His incarnation returned Wu Hao and Nangong the Madman to Evergreen Gate before disappearing.
• Lin Qingyun emerged from the Space-Time Cultivation Pavilion after spending seven years there and reaching the Extreme Realm of Dou Saint while restraining his breakthroughs with twelve seals.
• He wandered through the flourishing Evergreen Realm, where the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan, the Snake-People Race, and other factions had settled, and saw Evergreen Gate's disciples grow into powerful experts.
• The system confirmed that Evergreen Gate had fulfilled Side Quest Two and awarded Lin Qingyun the Sect Foundation and Destiny Treasure.

Lin Qingyun entered the Land of Guixu through the system and seized a Divine Mountain and nine bronze cauldrons before being pulled back. Great Void Young Master sensed his entry and wondered what treasures his extraordinary destiny would yield.

• The system brought Lin Qingyun into the Land of Guixu to choose a Destiny Treasure, and Great Void Young Master sensed his presence there.
• Lin Qingyun surveyed the hazy realm and chose a Divine Mountain whose radiance showed yin and yang circulating.
• Lin Qingyun used his will to pull the Divine Mountain from the ground despite its immense weight.
• Lin Qingyun spotted nine ancient bronze cauldrons and lifted them with the last of his remaining power.
• The system drew Lin Qingyun out of the Land of Guixu, and the Divine Mountain and nine cauldrons fell into his world.

Lin Qingyun refused to trade the Yin Yang Two Realms Mountain and Nine Cauldrons after learning their origins from the Old Man of the Heavenly Pavilion. He planned to merge the mountain into the Evergreen Realm and enlist the Pavilion’s help, while the cauldrons’ restoration remained uncertain.

• The Old Man of the Heavenly Pavilion revealed nine supreme Destiny Treasures to persuade Lin Qingyun to exchange the mountain and cauldrons, but Lin Qingyun refused.
• The Old Man of the Heavenly Pavilion explained that the Yin Yang Two Realms Mountain contained a safe bridge between the Yin and Yang Realms, but Lin Qingyun rejected handing it over because opening the bridge could bring disaster before the Evergreen Gate was ready.
• Lin Qingyun decided to merge the mountain into the Evergreen Realm and asked the Old Man of the Heavenly Pavilion to help raise the world’s level using the Small Worlds above it; the Pavilion reluctantly agreed.
• The Old Man of the Heavenly Pavilion said the Nine Cauldrons were artifacts from the last era, forged by an eternal existence, but he could not repair their faint divine imprints.
• Lin Qingyun suggested placing the Nine Cauldrons on the mountain’s nine peaks, and the Old Man of the Heavenly Pavilion agreed to try, despite grumbling about Lin Qingyun’s requests.

Lin Qingyun erased the remaining Blood Fiend Energy and Righteous Qi from Great Void Young Master, restoring him to full strength. Great Void Young Master offered to share what he knew, and Lin Qingyun asked how the realms of Transforming the Heavens and Earth were divided.

• Lin Qingyun reflected on his growing closeness with Xi Yue and worried about his father's demands that he marry Xi Yue, Ya Fei, Xiao Yi Xian, and Miss Yun.
• Lin Qingyun visited Great Void Young Master, teased him and You about his recovery, and offered to remove the remaining powers troubling him.
• Lin Qingyun used the chaotic Great Seal to burn away the remnants of Blood Fiend Energy and Righteous Qi over three days, while You suppressed their surging power.
• Great Void Young Master recovered, thanked Lin Qingyun, and offered to explain what he knew about the realms.
• Lin Qingyun asked how the realms of Transforming the Heavens and Earth were divided, and Great Void Young Master began with the Dou Di realm.

Great Void Young Master explained the heavens’ cultivation realms and warned Lin Qingyun that they were far more dangerous than Dou Qi Continent. After Great Void Young Master and You prepared to leave, Lin Qingyun learned his next destination from the system and accepted an invitation to the Ancient Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony.

• Great Void Young Master described the realms beyond Dou Di, from True Immortal to Dao Venerate, and said he was currently a True Immortal.
• Great Void Young Master praised Lin Qingyun’s talent and strength, then said he planned to travel around Dou Qi Continent with You before leaving for the heavens.
• Lin Qingyun asked the system where he would go next, and it answered that his next stop would be a world among Transforming the Heavens and Earth.
• Xi Yue gave Lin Qingyun a Purple-Gold Jade Invitation from the Ancient Clan, and Ya Fei said the clan leader wanted him to attend their coming-of-age ceremony.
• Lin Qingyun opened the invitation, found a token for locating and entering the Ancient Realm, and agreed to attend in person.

Lin Qingyun arrived in the Ancient Realm with Wu Hao, Murong Yanlan, and Zi Yan, where Gu Yuan welcomed them as honored guests. After settling them in the Ancient Clan’s reception area, Lin Qingyun invited Zi Yan to explore the clan’s domain with him.

• Lin Qingyun and his companions flew over Ancient Sacred City, suppressing the locals’ attempts to stop them as they headed into the Ancient Realm.
• Four Ancient Clan elders attacked the group, but Gu Yuan arrived and explained that Lin Qingyun was his invited guest.
• Gu Yuan welcomed Wu Hao and Murong Yanlan, then recognized Zi Yan as the Dragon Emperor of the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Gu Yuan asked Gu Yi to arrange accommodations for the visitors and invited them to rest in the Ancient Clan’s reception area.
• Lin Qingyun told his companions they could explore the mountains or spar with the Ancient Clan’s younger generation, then took Zi Yan’s hand and set out to look around.

Lin Qingyun and Zi Yan toured the Ancient Realm, watched Wu Hao and Murong Yanlan dominate the martial arts arena, and encountered Gu Yang near the Ancestral Hall. After Gu Yuan invited them to a banquet, Zi Yan and Lin Qingyun sensed that Gu Yang’s body and soul did not fit together, and Gu Yuan admitted that Gu Yang was unusual.

• Lin Qingyun and Zi Yan explored the Ancient Realm and watched Wu Hao win a hundred arena matches and Murong Yanlan win more than eighty.
• Several white-robed elders stopped Lin Qingyun and Zi Yan for entering a forbidden area near the Ancestral Hall, but Gu Yang recognized Lin Qingyun as the Sect Master of Evergreen Gate.
• Lin Qingyun praised Gu Yang’s service to the Ancient Clan, while Gu Yang and the other elders acted modestly about his merits.
• Gu Yuan arrived and invited the elders, Lin Qingyun, and Zi Yan to a banquet, but Gu Yang and the other elders declined to leave their posts.
• Zi Yan and Lin Qingyun told Gu Yuan that Gu Yang seemed as if his body and soul did not fit together, and Gu Yuan agreed that Gu Yang was unusual.

Lin Qingyun met Xiao Xuan in the Heavenly Tomb and told him how the Xiao Family had declined. He offered Xiao Xuan a chance to live again in exchange for joining Evergreen Gate, and Xiao Xuan considered the choice with renewed hope.

• Xiao Xuan recognized Lin Qingyun's strength, introduced himself, and invited Lin Qingyun and Zi Yan into the stone tablet's hidden space.
• Lin Qingyun told Xiao Xuan that the Xiao Clan no longer existed and explained the Xiao Family's decline; Xiao Xuan accepted that his choices had contributed to it.
• Lin Qingyun praised Xiao Xuan's descendant, and Xiao Xuan said the young man reminded him of himself.
• Lin Qingyun offered to revive Xiao Xuan by using the mysteries of an Emperor Realm Soul, and Xiao Xuan asked whether he could trust him.
• Lin Qingyun asked Xiao Xuan to join Evergreen Gate in exchange for living again, and Xiao Xuan asked whether he would still be himself before weighing the offer.

Lin Qingyun took Zi Yan from the Ancient Realm to Jia Nan Academy’s magma depths, where he revealed that her father was the guardian of the Grave of the Gods. They entered the hidden space created by Tou She Ancient God, and Zi Yan sensed her father’s presence there.

• Lin Qingyun left Xiao Xuan’s tomb with Zi Yan and departed the Ancient Realm after speaking with Gu Yuan.
• Lin Qingyun told Zi Yan he had found her father and brought her to Jia Nan Academy’s Black Tower.
• Lin Qingyun and Zi Yan descended into the magma, passing the lizardmen who guarded the Grave of the Gods.
• Lin Qingyun explained that the guardian was likely Zi Yan’s father, the Dragon Emperor of the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Lin Qingyun and Zi Yan found the hidden space at the bottom of the magma and entered the cave dwelling of Tou She Ancient God.
• Zi Yan sensed her father’s aura and told Lin Qingyun he was there.

Lin Qingyun reached the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode with Zi Yan, reunited her with her father, and completed his ninth check-in. He received Primordial Creation Qi and a new sect mission, then clashed with Zi Yan’s father, Zhu Kun, over what to call him.

• Lin Qingyun followed Zi Yan to the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode, where she worried that its colossal purple-gold creature might no longer remember her.
• The creature awoke, recognized Zi Yan as its child, and gently lifted her toward him; Lin Qingyun pushed open the stone gate and completed his ninth check-in.
• Lin Qingyun received Primordial Creation Qi and a sect mission requiring ten people to enter Below Grotto-heaven within ten years and conquer the galaxy.
• Zi Yan reunited with her father, Zhu Kun, who thanked Lin Qingyun for caring for her and tried to suggest he become Dragon Emperor.
• Zi Yan revealed that the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan had already joined Lin Qingyun’s forces, and Zhu Kun asked Lin Qingyun to call him uncle, prompting Lin Qingyun to knock him into another crater.

Lin Qingyun opened the stone door to the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode and led Zi Yan and Zhu Kun through its lava barrier. They reached a mist-covered floating land and found an ancient stone hall at the end of the plain.

• Zhu Kun warned Lin Qingyun and Zi Yan that the stone door could not be opened without Ancient Jade, and that he had been trapped there for years.
• Lin Qingyun opened the stone door with his hands, astonishing Zhu Kun, and invited Zi Yan inside.
• Lin Qingyun formed a passage through the lava waterfall and led Zi Yan and Zhu Kun into the space beyond.
• Zhu Kun discovered that the mist suppressed his Soul Power and strength, then asked Lin Qingyun how he had overcome the cave’s barriers.
• Lin Qingyun gave a cryptic reply before he and Zi Yan disappeared, and the three later reached an Ancient Stone Hall across the vast plain.

Lin Qingyun, Zi Yan, and Zhu Kun explored Tou She Ancient God's cave dwelling and discovered that the legendary Ancient God had once been the Emperor Flame. They met the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, which refused to surrender, and Zhu Kun began fighting it.

• Lin Qingyun and the others crossed a plaza lined with drained Heavenly Flames, and Zhu Kun explained that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and Nihility Devouring Flame had escaped.
• Lin Qingyun revealed that Tou She Ancient God's essence had been a Heavenly Flame that consumed the others and became the Emperor Flame.
• The group entered the mist and saw Tou She Ancient God's enormous stone statue, surrounded by cultivation methods, Fighting Skills, and treasures.
• An old man appeared beside the statue, and Lin Qingyun identified him as the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill rather than Tou She Ancient God.
• Zhu Kun attacked the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, which shattered his first strike and clashed with him so fiercely that the surrounding space began to break apart.

Lin Qingyun stopped Emperor Grade Nascent Pill from fighting back and explained that refining it would not grant Dou Di power without the lives of countless people. He left the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode with Zi Yan and Zhu Kun, promising Zhu Kun that Evergreen Gate’s Spiritual Qi cultivation could lead to the Grotto-heaven Realm without the Origin of the Emperor.

• Emperor Grade Nascent Pill unleashed Emperor Pill Palm, but Lin Qingyun dispersed the flames and restrained him.
• Lin Qingyun sealed a memory inside Emperor Grade Nascent Pill and left after warning that he would be refined.
• Lin Qingyun told Zhu Kun that refining the Emperor Pill would require the lives of Central Plains inhabitants and still would not make them Dou Di.
• Lin Qingyun explained that his power came from Spiritual Qi and that Evergreen Gate offered a cultivation path beyond Dou Qi.
• Zhu Kun agreed to trust Lin Qingyun and wait two or three years to see the result.

Lin Qingyun brought Zhu Kun into the Evergreen Realm, where Zhu Kun marveled at its power and began converting his Dou Qi into Spiritual Energy. After trading treasures with the Old Man of the Heavenly Pavilion for a Resurrection Crystal Coffin and a Myriad Mother Embryo, Lin Qingyun used the embryo to begin Xiao Xuan’s rebirth.

• Zhu Kun entered the Evergreen Realm with Zi Yan and was overwhelmed by its vastness, Spiritual Qi, and miraculous structures.
• Lin Qingyun warned Zhu Kun that absorbing Spiritual Qi before converting his Dou Qi could cause dangerous intoxication.
• Lin Qingyun bargained with the Old Man of the Heavenly Pavilion, exchanging treasures from the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode for a Resurrection Crystal Coffin and a Myriad Mother Embryo.
• Lin Qingyun placed Xiao Xuan’s life imprint into the Myriad Mother Embryo, starting the process of his rebirth.

Lin Qingyun received Immortal Yin Yang Mountain from Old Man of the Heavenly Pavilion and placed it in the Evergreen Realm, where its transformation brought a surge of Dao insight and Spiritual Qi. The chapter ended with Zhu Kun breaking through and a familiar figure on a distant island sensing the world’s evolution.

• Old Man of the Heavenly Pavilion revealed that Yin Yang Two Realms Mountain had been refined into Immortal Yin Yang Mountain, with the Nine Cauldrons granting immortality through luck and entrusted wills.
• Old Man of the Heavenly Pavilion explained that the embryonic Yin Yang Bridge could connect the Yang Realm and Yin Realm and turn Yin Realm beings into controlled Yin Spirits.
• Lin Qingyun placed Immortal Yin Yang Mountain on Sky Island, where it expanded to ten thousand zhang and sent Dao-filled rosy light across the Evergreen Realm.
• Lin Qingyun told the disciples and elders to guard their minds and comprehend the rosy light as it transformed the realm, greatly increasing its Spiritual Qi and awakening plants, rocks, and mountains.
• Zhu Kun completed his conversion of Dou Qi into Spiritual Qi and broke through into a new realm.
• A familiar figure on an island in the far eastern Dou Qi Continent sensed the world evolving and wondered what Lin Qingyun had done.

As violet qi transformed the Evergreen Realm, Nangong the Madman seized the moment to break through to the Grotto-heaven Realm by smashing open the filth-blocked aperture within his body. He formed a divine body and began splitting its chaotic space into heaven and earth, but the crucial process was still underway.

• Violet qi descended across the Evergreen Realm, prompting young prodigies and older powerhouses to break through.
• Lin Qingyun recognized Nangong the Madman as he began his long-suppressed breakthrough to the Grotto-heaven Realm.
• Nangong the Madman sent his blood qi, Innate Gods, cultivation techniques, and hammer strikes against the Ancient Gate, shattering it and purifying its filth into Innate Violet Qi.
• Nangong the Madman gathered the Innate Violet Qi into a divine body, then drew in his blood river and Vast Sea to form a Blood Sword.
• Nangong the Madman began cleaving through the aperture's chaos to create heaven and earth, consuming his blood qi and spiritual energy as the breakthrough reached its critical moment.

Nangong the Madman opened a Grotto-heaven world nearly two thousand li in radius by using his Limitless Dao Forging Visualization Diagram to absorb and shape its Origin Power. As the Heavenly Tribulation formed, a golden eye appeared above the Evergreen Realm, and Lin Qingyun recognized it as the Heavenly Dao.

• Nangong the Madman visualized a volcano that absorbed the Grotto-heaven's attributeless Origin Power and transformed it into Gold and Fire Origin Power.
• The volcano took root, shaping the Grotto-heaven into a world of metals and fire, stabilizing its barrier and bringing it close to the limit of a Small World.
• Nangong the Madman realized that opening the Grotto-heaven had connected it to his flesh, blood, and Dantian, and anticipated the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Great Void Young Master observed Nangong the Madman's unusually vast Grotto-heaven and feared the tribulation might destroy him.
• Tribulation Clouds covered the Evergreen Realm as a golden eye opened in the void, and Lin Qingyun sensed the realm slipping from his control and identified the eye as the Heavenly Dao.

Nangong the Madman underwent a devastating Heavenly Tribulation after breaking through to the Grotto-heaven Realm, drawing lightning that threatened the Evergreen Realm and targeted his Grotto-heaven world. He survived the opening assault, but the tribulation continued as Lin Qingyun watched and judged that protecting the Grotto-heaven was crucial.

• Nangong the Madman's breakthrough triggered Tribulation Clouds across the Evergreen Realm, while the Eight Directions Heavenly Pavilion shielded Evergreen Gate with an ancient formation.
• Terrifying lightning struck Nangong the Madman and other cultivators attempting breakthroughs, killing many and injuring others.
• Humanoid Lightning figures emerged from the clouds, and Lin Qingyun explained that they were powerful imprints of ancient experts.
• Nangong the Madman shattered the Humanoid Lightning with his hammer, but their fragments entered his Grotto-heaven world and unleashed destructive thunder inside it.
• Nangong the Madman upheld his Grotto-heaven world as Thunder Liquid repaired and strengthened it, while Lin Qingyun watched the ongoing tribulation.

Nangong the Madman fought through a devastating Grotto-heaven Heavenly Tribulation while his grotto-heaven world fused with his body. After surviving and gaining heaven and earth’s recognition, he was guided to the Land of Guixu to seek a Grotto-heaven Divine Object.

• Nangong the Madman fought off waves of Humanoid Lightning as observers feared he would not survive the unusually fierce tribulation.
• A gigantic golden Humanoid Lightning attacked with the Spear of Heavenly Punishment, but Nangong the Madman weakened it with Magnetic Yuan Gravity and Sumeru Space.
• Nangong the Madman summoned the projection of Divine Volcano Mountain, shattered the golden Humanoid Lightning, and completed the fusion of his grotto-heaven world with his body.
• The tribulation ended, and Nangong the Madman’s body rapidly recovered as the Humanoid Lightning and Tribulation Clouds disappeared.
• A sheet of Auspicious Cloud enveloped Nangong the Madman and carried him to the Land of Guixu, where he sought a Grotto-heaven Divine Object.

Lu Mu and the others arrived at the shattered space containing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and found a gathering of powerful factions waiting outside its scorching heat. The Hall of Souls arrived with a powerful hidden expert, while Lu Mu spotted Xiao Yan among the leaders at the front.

• Lu Mu shielded Song Lao and the others from the flame’s heat as they surveyed the cracked space and white desert around it.
• Lu Mu agreed to wait for others to test the dangerous space before entering.
• The Hall of Souls emerged from a black fog, and Song Lao warned that a powerful Seven-Star Fighting Saint stood behind its Vice Hall Master.
• Lu Mu learned that Xiao Yan had arrived and went to the front of the crowd to meet him.
• Lu Mu saw the Hall Master of Souls standing among the foremost factions, whose presence made even Fighting Saints wary.