Chapter Summaries

After three thousand years, Changqing Heaven emerged across the starry universe, and Avatar Lin Qingyun declared war on the surrounding forces. His army attacked the Sacred Stone Clan, prompting Lin Qingyun to intercept a powerful Stone Spirit who sought revenge.

• Avatar Lin Qingyun sensed that the Great Dao was wary of him, withdrew into the star world, and concealed the Evergreen Realm.
• Three thousand years later, a mist-shrouded Star Sea revealed Changqing Heaven, where Heavenly Venerable proclaimed his name and summoned its armies.
• Heavenly Venerable ordered his forces to wage war across the Starry Universe, and a million-strong army led by a sword-wielding youth attacked the Sacred Stone Clan.
• The youth killed a Sacred Stone Clan Immortal with one sword strike and led his army toward the clan's ancient star.
• A five-colored Stone Spirit attacked the army in revenge, and Avatar Lin Qingyun intercepted him, confident that the half-step taboo was no match for him.

Lin Qingyun's avatar crushed the strongest Sacred Stone Clan member and helped Changqing Heaven rise to prominence, while his true body condensed the Three Thousand Great Daos and fell into another world. He awakened on Tiangang Continent, where a system assigned him the mission of defeating the protagonist, Tang Feng.

• Lin Qingyun's avatar defeated and sealed the strongest Sacred Stone Clan member, intending to use him to forge an Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Changqing Heaven conquered more than ten Star Seas, earned a reputation as an eternal orthodoxy, and entered a period of growing power under the name Ghost Mask Heavenly Venerable.
• Lin Qingyun's true body gathered the imprints of three thousand extreme Daos and transformed into a particle that drifted through an unknown place.
• The particle fell onto an ancient star and absorbed Spiritual Qi until it formed a giant egg, from which Lin Qingyun emerged.
• The Myriad Worlds Check-in System identified his new world as Tiangang Continent and assigned him the mission of defeating Tang Feng for a chance to comprehend the Three Thousand Great Daos.

Lin Qingyun explored the Tiangang Continent, sensed the mysterious Void Heaven Palace, and arrived at Heavenly Show Sect as he searched for Tang Feng. After causing a heaven-wide surge of Spiritual Qi, he encountered Tang Feng and was struck by his beauty.

• Lin Qingyun recovered his memories, watched three women leave Qu Ting Mountain, and sensed the Tiangang Continent and its mysterious Void Heaven Palace.
• Lin Qingyun visited Jing An City, heard rumors about Tang Feng and recent troubles, then went unseen to Heavenly Show Sect.
• Lin Qingyun meditated on a mountain near Heavenly Show Sect, releasing purple Qi and sweet rain that startled powerful cultivators and helped some break through.
• Lin Qingyun sensed someone approaching and met Tang Feng, mistaking him at first for a beautiful young married woman.

Tang Feng met the immensely powerful Lin Qingyun, who used ten-thousand-year Spirit Tea to strengthen his body before disappearing. Tang Feng returned to his mission, uncertain why Lin Qingyun had warned that they might become enemies.

• Lin Qingyun appeared before Tang Feng, effortlessly subdued him, and revealed that he knew Tang Feng had transmigrated.
• Lin Qingyun made Tang Feng drink ten-thousand-year Spirit Tea, which caused him to collapse as its power surged through his body.
• While Tang Feng was unconscious, Lin Qingyun sensed his true body and reflected that the Grand Beginning Golden Chapter was finally barely complete.
• Tang Feng woke with greatly enhanced physical strength, thanked Lin Qingyun, and heard him say they might be enemies when they met again.
• Lin Qingyun vanished, and Tang Feng returned to his mission by approaching someone as a beautiful young woman.

Lin Qingyun's clone fought through the final monsters on Gray Earth and confronted a nearly emperor-level king of the Gray Filth. The king attacked with a severed hand that shattered rules and opened a break in time and space.

• Lin Qingyun's clone defeated a towering Gray Filth monster by erasing it and its regenerating gray blood with a powerful strike.
• Lin Qingyun's clone continued along Burial Bone Road, passed ancient graves and the corpse still pierced by a sword, and reached Gray Earth.
• Lin Qingyun's clone recognized the last enemy as a king among the Gray Filth, whose power rivaled a forbidden mighty one.
• Lin Qingyun's clone entered the gray haze and battled a severed hand summoned by the faceless gray shadow.
• The severed hand pierced time and space with five gray beams, collapsing rules and creating a break in time and space.

Lin Qingyun's avatar fought off increasingly powerful manifestations of Filth, though one wounded his true body through the Great Dao's Seal and Suppress. After expelling He Xian'er from his tutelage, Lin Qingyun watched her leave; years later, as the Demon Tide threatened Thousand Cranes City, He Xian'er arrived with a White Crane delegation.

• Lin Qingyun's avatar destroyed two severed hands and a gray-blood monster, but the last left a three-fingered claw wound on his true body through the Great Dao's Seal and Suppress.
• Lin Qingyun vowed to return the claw wound in full and left as the stars recovered.
• Lin Qingyun expelled He Xian'er from his tutelage after forty years, and she tearfully bowed before leaving with Daoist Tianhe.
• Daoist Tianhe convened the human forces and announced that the Demon Tide was coming, with Thousand Cranes City serving as a vital pass.
• He Xian'er arrived at Thousand Cranes City on a White Crane with dozens of martial artists as the city prepared for war.

He Xian'er announced a hunting mission to disrupt the first wave of the Demon Tide gathering around Thousand Cranes City. She offered Contribution Points and access to the Thousand Cranes Tribe's treasures and Ancestor Stele, and Sword Master Han Guang asked how the rewards would be calculated.

• He Xian'er warned the assembled warriors that a million demons and fiends were preparing to attack and asked them to hunt the six known Lord Tier leaders.
• He Xian'er revealed that warriors could earn rewards by killing demons and fiends, even if they could not defeat the Lord Tier leaders.
• He Xian'er displayed the Thousand Cranes Tribe's treasures through the Sky Gazing Mirror, stirring the martial artists' interest.
• Sword Master Han Guang asked how Contribution Points were calculated, and He Xian'er explained the Hunting Card's rewards for each demon and fiend rank.
• He Xian'er announced that anyone who killed a Lord Tier demon or fiend could gain one moment of enlightenment before the Thousand Cranes Tribe's Ancestor Stele.

He Xian'er introduced a hunting mission and gave martial artists Hunting Cards to fight the demons threatening humanity. As hunters set out and Thousand Cranes City watched their battles, the Human Emperor continued fighting the Demon Race Great Emperor in the starry sky.

• He Xian'er revealed the Contribution Point rewards and explained that martial artists could accept the hunting mission by claiming a Hunting Card from the Copper Pillar.
• Martial artists stepped forward to join, and the burly man and others claimed cards that merged into their bodies and could not be stolen.
• Hunters formed groups or set out alone, while Sword Master Han Guang immediately charged into the wilderness.
• The Human Emperor and the Demon Race Great Emperor clashed in the starry sky, and Daoist Tianhe resolved to reach the Star Monarch realm quickly.
• A light screen showed human fighters battling demons as people in Thousand Cranes City watched and followed the favored children of heaven.

Wu Mu entered an ancient-era Fantasy Secret Realm, saw emperors battling in the starry sky, and explored Thousand Cranes City for treasures. When he approached a gambling stone workshop, Little Fatty warned him away, but a distortion transported him into a courtyard before Lin Qingyun, who extracted the Bronze Lamp and Little Fatty from him.

• Wu Mu arrived in the ancient era and witnessed a battle between emperor-level figures in the starry sky.
• Wu Mu entered Thousand Cranes City, learned about Hunting Cards and Contribution Points, and received a Hunting Card.
• Wu Mu explored the city for treasures with Little Fatty and headed toward a gambling stone workshop.
• Little Fatty sensed danger at the courtyard entrance and urged Wu Mu to leave, but Wu Mu was pulled inside by a spatial distortion.
• Lin Qingyun identified Wu Mu, drew the Bronze Lamp from him, and released Little Fatty, who realized what had happened and cursed Wu Mu.

Wu Mu met Lin Qingyun, received a stone containing an Eternal Lotus Seed, and learned that he and Little Fatty might have been pulled into the ancient era rather than a Fantasy Secret Realm. The chapter ended with Wu Mu back at the starting point, unsure how to return.

• Wu Mu resisted the urge to fight Lin Qingyun, and Lin Qingyun released Little Fatty and the Bronze Lamp.
• Lin Qingyun explained the Bronze Lamp's ancient origins and gave Wu Mu a heavy stone before bidding him farewell for a hundred thousand years.
• Little Fatty identified the stone as an Eternal Lotus Seed and warned Wu Mu that they might no longer be in the Fantasy Secret Realm.
• Wu Mu realized that the Thousand Cranes Tribe's history contradicted what he had witnessed and considered that they had been transported to the ancient era.
• Little Fatty suggested Wu Mu ask Lin Qingyun to send them back, and Wu Mu found himself back at the starting point.

Sword Master Han Guang slaughtered a vast Adamantine Blood Fiend Wolf pack and killed its wolf king with invisible sword energy. Elsewhere, He Xian'er confronted the Death God Mantis in the Demon Tide’s heartland, and their battle began.

• Sword Master Han Guang calmly advanced through hundreds of thousands of Adamantine Blood Fiend Wolves as they attacked him and fell to his sword energy.
• Sword Master Han Guang killed the wolf king without leaving visible wounds, and two passing martial artists recognized his work.
• He Xian'er arrived on a White Crane near the Death God Mantis, one of the Demon Tide’s leaders.
• The Death God Mantis struck at He Xian'er with its black scythes, but she shattered the void and forced the blades back.
• The Death God Mantis challenged He Xian'er for entering its heartland, and she answered that it was courting death too.

Sword Master Han Guang challenged the Three-Headed Flood Dragon at its Cold Pond and fought it with his sword. After Han Guang severed its claws and killed one of its heads, a distant explosion revealed that the Death God Mantis had died.

• Sword Master Han Guang entered the valley and provoked the Three-Headed Flood Dragon as it emerged from the Cold Pond.
• The Three-Headed Flood Dragon unleashed its Summon Wind and Rain ability, but Han Guang cleaved through the demonic wind and rain with one sword.
• The Three-Headed Flood Dragon attacked with its immense physical strength, and Han Guang cut off both its claws before it regrew them.
• Han Guang evaded the Flood Dragon's attacks and cut off one of its three heads, forcing it to retreat.
• As Han Guang prepared to finish the fight, an explosion tore open the distant void, and he realized the Death God Mantis had died.

Sword Master Han Guang killed the Three-Headed Flood Dragon and departed, while a demon Grotto-heaven Great Power launched a mountain seal toward human territory. As the demon powers reacted to the threat, a colossal finger emerged from the void before the true dragon could act.

• Sword Master Han Guang killed the Three-Headed Flood Dragon with a sword strike that severed its past and future, then captured its escaping soul with a token.
• Sword Master Han Guang left, and a golden-eyed demon Grotto-heaven Great Power launched a mountain seal toward human territory.
• The golden-eyed demon said a human had killed its descendant, and the King of Sacred Bulls recognized Sword Master Han Guang as the human who had slaughtered Sacred Bull Mountain.
• The King of Sacred Bulls fled when he saw Sword Master Han Guang, while a true dragon revealed itself from the void.
• A gigantic finger emerged from the void and blotted out the sky as the true dragon looked on.

After Lin Qingyun killed Saint Dragon King, Sword Master Han Guang escaped and the demon-human war became imminent. The Demon Tide reached Thousand Cranes City at dawn, and its defenders rushed to the walls.

• The Minotaur survived the destruction of his grotto-heaven, realized Old Mudfish had been killed by a Human Race Great Power, and fled rather than join the coming war.
• Sword Master Han Guang saw the Saint Dragon King's mountain attack lose its force and crash down before it reached him, then continued toward White Crane City.
• Lin Qingyun sensed the events in the wilderness and left the hall; a report soon confirmed Saint Dragon King's death and warned that the Demon Tide and powerful demons were approaching.
• Thousand Cranes Daoist ordered Thousand Cranes City to prepare for battle, knowing the city could not count on aid from the NanHuo Clan and the other great tribes.
• At dawn, the Demon Tide arrived, and the city's alarm bells and war drums sent its martial artists rushing to the walls.

Thousand Cranes City and eight other cities prepared to face an all-out Demon Tide as the human race committed most of its strength to one battle. With the horde arriving, the defenders raised their morale and readied themselves for the assault.

• Martial artists from across the region gathered at Thousand Cranes City as the human race assembled its forces in nine locations.
• The water mirror revealed a vast Demon Tide led by a hundred thousand War Ironclad Beasts, followed by countless demons and flying monsters.
• A middle-aged man in white-feather battle armor reassured the defenders and declared that Thousand Cranes City had prepared powerful restrictions and elemental cannons.
• He Xian'er arrived on an immortal crane and rallied the martial artists, who raised their voices and drank before battle.
• The Demon Tide reached the city walls, the middle-aged man ordered the defenders to meet the enemy, and Crane Immortal called for the formation to be raised.

Thousand Cranes City’s traps killed millions of demons, but the Demon Tide pressed on toward the city. Fairy Thousand Cranes ordered the archers to fire as the city’s defenses began their battle.

• A vast poisonous swamp opened beneath the charging demons, swallowing War Ironclad Beasts and killing hundreds of thousands of other demons.
• Thousand Cranes City’s traps unleashed flames, ice, spikes, magma, and storms, killing millions of demons as the surviving horde surged forward.
• Fairy Thousand Cranes ordered the archers to the Arrow Towers and the Spirit Energy Cannon operators to their weapons.
• The demons reached the city gates, and a dense swarm darkened the sky above Thousand Cranes City.
• Fairy Thousand Cranes ordered the archers to fire, and volleys of radiant arrows filled the sky.

Fairy Thousand Cranes and the One-Armed Blade King revealed their Grotto-heaven strength as the demons’ King Tier forces attacked. The chapter ended with the One-Armed Blade King confronting the Vajra Ape.

• Eight powerful King Tier demons appeared over the battlefield, overwhelming the human warriors with their pressure.
• A giant palm descended, but Fairy Thousand Cranes shattered it and killed the attacking White Wolf with one finger.
• Fairy Thousand Cranes’s intervention renewed the humans’ morale, and Heavenly Prodigies cut down demons across the battlefield.
• The demon dragon declared war, and the Vajra Ape advanced with its Stone Staff, crushing the ground beneath its immense presence.
• The One-Armed Blade King emerged from a water mirror and challenged the Vajra Ape, which raised its staff to meet him.

Eight Grotto-heaven Great Powers and Fairy Thousand Cranes joined the defense of Thousand Cranes City, turning the battle against the demons into a fierce clash between powerful warriors. As hidden demon kings and emperors gathered to attack, Thousand Cranes Daoist arrived to protect He Xian'er and challenged them to reveal themselves.

• Master Purple Cloud and Master White Cloud rode their cauldrons out to fight the Abyssal Demon Dragon and the Three-Legged Golden Toad, while other Grotto-heaven Great Powers engaged the remaining demon leaders.
• Fairy Thousand Cranes played the Spring Tune, weakening and lulling many demons to sleep so the human martial artists could kill them more easily.
• The Ghost Face Bat King and the minotaur roused the demons, but a white-robed battle general crushed the bat's blood moon and fought it in the sky.
• The King of Sacred Bulls charged He Tianlong after he challenged it, while a Human-faced Scorpion King tried to assassinate He Xian'er and escaped when Thousand Cranes Daoist stopped its strike.
• Thousand Cranes Daoist arrived and confronted more than ten demon kings and three emperors hidden near Thousand Cranes City, demanding that they come out.

As Thousand Cranes City’s defenses faltered, Thousand Cranes Daoist faced Xue Lu while the Thousand Cranes Tribe unleashed its Blood Guard Battle Formations to turn the battlefield around. Just as the humans began to gain the upper hand, powerful new Honor of Kings auras erupted from beneath the ground.

• Xue Lu appeared with an emperor’s aura, and Thousand Cranes Daoist challenged him before the two fought beyond the ninth heaven.
• Several demon Honors of Kings advanced on Thousand Cranes City, prompting thirty thousand Returning Ancestor martial artists to form ten blood crane Battle Formations.
• The blood cranes attacked the Blood-patterned Dragon Python and the demon forces, while He Xian’er struck down Lord Tier demons and helped reverse the battle.
• As the humans celebrated their advantage, roars came from underground and several powerful Honor of Kings auras surged into the sky.

Thousand Cranes Daoist faced the blood dragon as the demon and devil forces brought forth the Heavenly Ant Emperor, the Rhino Emperor, and a Mysterious Tortoise carrying the Emperor Fall Immortal Tablet. He Xian'er rushed toward the city after recognizing the restored emperor's weapon, whose power threatened the Thousand Cranes Tribe.

• The blood dragon condemned Thousand Cranes Daoist for attacking weaker opponents, and he replied that the weak were prey to the strong.
• The Heavenly Ant Emperor arrived, prompting Thousand Cranes Daoist to insist the demons and devils had already lost.
• The Rhino Emperor appeared alongside the Heavenly Ant Emperor.
• A Mysterious Tortoise arrived carrying the Emperor Fall Immortal Tablet, a restored emperor's weapon missing for a thousand years.
• He Xian'er recognized the Immortal Tablet and rushed toward the city, fearing its power could overwhelm the Thousand Cranes Tribe's honored ancestors.