Chapter Summaries

Yun Muzhou celebrated Heavenly Cloud True Lord’s plan to seize control of the Heavenly Cloud World, while Heavenly Cloud True Lord continued forcibly refining its World Spirit. Qin Hao arrived in the realm with Pang Qingyun and Yun Feng, sensed Heavenly Cloud True Lord’s attention, and was greeted by Yun Muzhou and a large Yun Family party.

• Yun Muzhou praised Heavenly Cloud True Lord’s alliance with the Outer Realm Demon Spirits and the power he expected to gain by refining the Heavenly Cloud World.
• Heavenly Cloud True Lord restrained the Heavenly Cloud World Spirit and continued refining it after it refused to give him its Spirit Crystal.
• Heavenly Cloud True Lord sensed Qin Hao, Pang Qingyun, and Yun Feng arrive, but dismissed Qin Hao as no threat and withdrew his Divine Sense.
• Qin Hao sensed Heavenly Cloud True Lord’s seven-star Divine Sense and recognized him as the Yun Family’s greatest danger.
• Yun Muzhou led more than forty Ancestral Gods from Heavenly Cloud City to welcome Qin Hao and praised his past victories.

Qin Hao visited the Yun Family on behalf of the Heavenly Palace and resisted the combined pressure of Yun Muzhou and more than forty Ancestral Gods. Yun Muzhou invited him to the family estate, but Qin Hao’s question about Heavenly Cloud True Lord left him wary when Yun Muzhou claimed the Ancestor was in secluded cultivation.

• Yun Muzhou and more than forty Yun Family Ancestral Gods exerted pressure on Qin Hao to intimidate him.
• Qin Hao stopped Pang Qingyun from intervening and withstood the pressure with his sword qi and self-Void World.
• Yun Muzhou praised Qin Hao’s strength and rapid breakthrough, and Qin Hao called it a fortunate breakthrough.
• Yun Muzhou invited Qin Hao to the Yun Family estate for rest and a welcoming banquet.
• Qin Hao asked to meet Heavenly Cloud True Lord, and Yun Muzhou said the Ancestor was in secluded cultivation.

Qin Hao arrived at the Yun Family’s Heavenly Cloud World and suspected that the family was hiding something, while several hostile forces learned of his location and moved to intercept him. The chapter left Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun preparing for a potentially dangerous banquet.

• Yun Muzhou told Qin Hao that Heavenly Cloud True Lord was in Secluded Cultivation, and Qin Hao noticed the explanation conflicted with the True Lord probing them with his divine sense.
• Great Commander Hai Dong learned that Qin Hao was in Heavenly Cloud World, understood Yun Xiao wanted him to kill Qin Hao after he left Cloud Lake Star Region, and set out for the region.
• Stone Venerable learned Qin Hao’s location and led True Person Wu Zhu, Flame Dragon Demon Venerable, and Phantom Baleful Poisoness toward Heavenly Cloud World to seize Qin Hao’s treasures before Hai Dong attacked.
• Qin Hao reached the Yun Family mansion with Pang Qingyun, set up his Void World as a warning barrier, and questioned the Yun Family’s suspicious behavior and planned banquet.

Qin Hao suspected the Yun Family was hiding its dealings with the outer realm demon spirits and tried to find the Heavenly Cloud World Spirit, but his search failed. The Yun Family planned to drive him out before Great Commander Hai Dong arrived to kill him, settling on having one of their geniuses defeat him in public.

• Qin Hao entered the Heavenly Cloud World with Pang Qingyun, sensed the Yun Family's hostility, and failed to locate the World Spirit or effectively control the world's rules.
• Qin Hao set aside his investigation and cultivated while Pang Qingyun stood guard.
• Yun Lie urged Yun Muzhou and Yun Xiao to kill Qin Hao, but Yun Xiao explained that Heavenly Cloud True Lord was refining the World Spirit and Great Commander Hai Dong would handle the killing elsewhere.
• Yun Muzhou and Yun Xiao realized they needed to make Qin Hao leave so he could not discover the Yun Family's secrets.
• Yun Xiao proposed that a Yun Family genius defeat Qin Hao in a public sparring match, expecting his pride to drive him away.

The Yun Family planned to use its evening banquet to keep Qin Hao in the Heavenly Cloud World and provoke Yun Ye into challenging him. Qin Hao sensed his heart will had reached a bottleneck and went to the banquet with Pang Qingyun despite their suspicions.

• Yun Xiao, Yun Muzhou, and Yun Lie discussed using Yun Ye, a gifted Five-Star Ancestral God, to deal with Qin Hao without telling him the plan.
• Yun Xiao proposed publicly gifting Qin Hao a Reincarnation Soul Fruit to satisfy the Heavenly Palace and provoke the Yun Family’s younger generation, especially Yun Ye.
• Qin Hao cultivated and sensed that breaking through his heart-will bottleneck might let him master the Heavenly Derivation Book’s Second Layer, Two-Yi.
• A Yun Family Servant invited Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun to the banquet, and Pang Qingyun warned Qin Hao that the invitation seemed suspicious.
• Qin Hao decided to attend, and Pang Qingyun agreed to go with him, prepared to fight if necessary.

Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun attended a lavish banquet at the Yun Family’s City Lord's Manor, where Qin Hao sensed hostility among the family’s powerful Ancestral Gods. The banquet ended on a startling note when Yun Xiao offered Qin Hao a Reincarnation Soul Fruit.

• Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun followed a Yun Family guide to the City Lord's Manor, where Yun Muzhou and the family’s Ancestral Gods received them.
• Qin Hao sensed hostility from the Yun Family’s Four-Star and Five-Star Ancestral Gods, which increased after Yun Muzhou publicly urged them to pay their respects.
• Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun joined Yun Muzhou, Yun Xiao, and other Yun Family members for a feast at the manor.
• Yun Xiao spoke of the Yun Family’s past Daoist Seed, Yun Hua, and then presented Qin Hao with a Reincarnation Soul Fruit, shocking everyone in the hall.

At a Yun Family banquet, Yun Xiao presented Qin Hao with a Reincarnation Soul Fruit, hoping to stir the family’s disciples into attacking him. Qin Hao recognized the scheme, accepted the fruit, and began refining it in front of everyone, leaving Yun Muzhou visibly angered.

• The Yun Family’s Ancestral Gods and disciples stared in shock at the Reincarnation Soul Fruit Yun Xiao offered Qin Hao.
• Pang Qingyun urged Qin Hao to accept the fruit, while Qin Hao suspected Yun Xiao wanted the Yun Family to turn against him.
• Qin Hao accepted the Reincarnation Soul Fruit and thanked Yun Muzhou and Yun Xiao.
• Qin Hao immediately began refining the fruit, drawing its soul power into his body as Yun Muzhou’s expression froze.

Qin Hao refined the Yun Family’s Reincarnation Soul Fruit while its young geniuses grew furious, and Yun Cheng challenged him to a duel over the gift. Qin Hao rejected the challenge, saying Yun Cheng was not qualified to fight him.

• Qin Hao absorbed the Reincarnation Soul Fruit’s soul power and focused on refining it.
• Yun Ye and the other young Yun Family geniuses grew angry that an outsider had received the fruit.
• Yun Cheng confronted Qin Hao, but Yun Xiao defended the gift as a token of friendship with the Heavenly Palace.
• Yun Cheng challenged Qin Hao to fight, demanding he expel the fruit’s remaining soul power and leave if he lost.
• Qin Hao calmly told Yun Cheng that he was not qualified to fight him.

Qin Hao accepted Yun Cheng’s challenge after realizing the Yun Family was using the banquet to force him out of the Heavenly Cloud World. As they went outside to fight, Yun Yang predicted Yun Cheng would lose within ten moves, while Yun Xiao expected Yun Ye to defeat Qin Hao afterward.

• Qin Hao challenged the Yun Family’s Ancestral Gods to attack him together, angering the guests and prompting Yun Cheng to step forward with his saber.
• Qin Hao realized the Yun Family intended to provoke him into a fight and drive him from the Heavenly Cloud World, but he suspected they were hiding something.
• Yun Muzhou cautioned Qin Hao against fighting, then approved a sparring match and asked both sides to show mercy.
• Yun Cheng led Qin Hao outside, and the Yun Family’s geniuses followed, expecting Yun Cheng to win.
• Yun Yang warned Yun Muzhou, Yun Xiao, and Yun Lie that Yun Cheng would lose within ten moves, but Yun Xiao believed Yun Ye would defeat Qin Hao afterward.

Qin Hao defeated Yun Cheng with a single sword attack during their sparring match, shocking the Yun Family onlookers. After Yun Cheng was carried away, Yun Muzhou sent Yun Ye to test Qin Hao, and Yun Ye prepared to step forward.

• Yun Muzhou declared that Qin Hao and Yun Cheng’s battle was a sparring match and raised a formation around the plaza.
• Yun Cheng attacked Qin Hao with the Peak Rank peak secret art Fierce Tyrant Saber, but Qin Hao countered with a sword attack formed by his fingers.
• Qin Hao’s sword force overwhelmed Yun Cheng’s saber force and blasted him into the formation, defeating him with one move.
• Yun Cheng fell unconscious after Qin Hao asked whether anyone else wanted to challenge him, while the Yun Family onlookers reacted with shock and fear.
• Yun Muzhou sent Yun Ye to test Qin Hao, and two Eternal True Gods carried Yun Cheng away.

Qin Hao faced Yun Ye, the Yun Family's greatest genius, in a duel over the Reincarnation Soul Fruit. Yun Ye unleashed the first strike of his Low-Rank Perfect Secret Art, the Ninefold Heavy Saber, as the fighters' attacks clashed.

• Yun Ye challenged Qin Hao and demanded that, if he lost, Qin Hao force the Reincarnation Soul Fruit's soul power from his body and leave the Heavenly Cloud World.
• Qin Hao accepted Yun Ye's terms and attacked first with the Top-Tier Peak Secret Art Heavensea Ruins Diagram.
• Qin Hao's sword strike shocked the spectators with its power, while Yun Muzhou worried that Yun Ye might lose.
• Yun Ye countered with the triple-layer strike of his Low-Rank Perfect Secret Art, Ninefold Heavy Saber, and its saber force cracked the formation.

Qin Hao and Yun Ye clashed in the formation, and Yun Ye’s low-rank perfect secret art drove Qin Hao back without injuring him. As Qin Hao prepared to counterattack, he discovered that the battle had rapidly refined much of the Reincarnation Soul Fruit’s soul power within him, greatly strengthening his divine soul and heart will.

• Yun Ye struck Qin Hao with a low-rank perfect secret art, sending him flying while Qin Hao’s defensive secret arts shielded him from injury.
• Yun Ye realized Qin Hao’s Peak Rank Peak secret art and sword were far stronger than he had expected, while Qin Hao quickly steadied himself.
• The Yun Family celebrated Yun Ye’s apparent advantage, and Yun Muzhou hoped he would one day become a Divine Lord.
• Pang Qingyun checked Qin Hao and confirmed that his life divine power had not changed and he was unharmed.
• Qin Hao sensed that the battle had refined three-tenths of the Reincarnation Soul Fruit’s soul power, bringing the total he had refined to four-tenths and strengthening his divine soul and heart will.

Qin Hao realized Yun Ye’s saber strikes were refining the Reincarnation Soul Fruit’s soul power, so he deliberately let the attacks drive him back instead of using his strongest defenses. After two clashes, nearly ninety percent of the soul power had been refined, and Qin Hao believed he could cultivate the Second Layer of the Heavenly Derivation Book.

• Qin Hao understood that Yun Ye’s first saber strike had rapidly refined part of the Reincarnation Soul Fruit’s soul power.
• Yun Ye unleashed the sixfold Ninefold Heavy Saber, and Qin Hao met it with the Heavensea Ruins Diagram while allowing himself to be blasted backward.
• Yun Muzhou reinforced the formation as the shockwave threatened to destroy it, while Yun Lie and the crowd celebrated Yun Ye’s apparent advantage.
• Yun Xiao noticed that Qin Hao’s aura had barely weakened, and Pang Qingyun realized Qin Hao was withholding his stronger techniques.
• Qin Hao sensed that nearly ninety percent of the Reincarnation Soul Fruit’s soul power had been refined and believed he could cultivate the Second Layer of the Heavenly Derivation Book.

Qin Hao strengthened his heart will and began unleashing the Heavenly Derivation Book’s second layer, Two-Yi, gaining extraordinary control over the Heavenly Cloud World’s rules. As he sensed the Heavenly Cloud True Lord in seclusion, a moving diamond-shaped spirit crystal far underground caught his attention.

• Qin Hao used his improved heart will to unleash Two-Yi rudimentarily and silently mobilize the Heavenly Cloud World’s rule power.
• Qin Hao found that shaping the rule power into a Yin-Yang wheel was still beyond him, but he resolved to keep cultivating Two-Yi.
• Qin Hao sensed the Heavenly Cloud True Lord inside a sealed cave abode beneath Heavenly Cloud Mountain and determined that he was in seclusion.
• A diamond-shaped spirit crystal deep below Heavenly Cloud City began trembling, then moved toward the surface.
• Qin Hao noticed the glowing spirit crystal roughly a million miles beneath him and wondered what it was.

Qin Hao used Yun Ye’s three saber strikes to refine all the Reincarnation Soul Fruit’s soul power and revealed control over the Heavenly Cloud World’s rule power. The chapter ended with Yun Ye furious and the onlookers stunned by Qin Hao’s unexpected strength.

• Qin Hao sensed an unusual, seemingly sentient Spirit Crystal deep underground, then prepared to meet Yun Ye’s third strike.
• Yun Ye unleashed the ninth fold of the Ninefold Heavy Saber, but Qin Hao’s heaven and earth rule power stopped most of the attack and left him unmoved.
• Qin Hao let the remaining force hit him, refining the last of the Reincarnation Soul Fruit’s soul power and strengthening his divine soul and heart will.
• Yun Ye realized Qin Hao had used his saber technique to refine the fruit’s soul power and spat blood from rage.
• The onlookers fell silent, Yun Muzhou raged over the lost soul power and Yun Ye’s humiliation, and Pang Qingyun celebrated Qin Hao’s success.

Qin Hao used Yun Ye’s Ninefold Heavy Saber to refine the Reincarnation Soul Fruit’s soul power, then defeated him with a single Heaven-Burning Sword strike empowered by heaven and earth rule power. Yun Ye lay defeated as the formation shattered, while Yun Muzhou and Yun Xiao reacted to the devastating strike.

• Pang Qingyun realized Qin Hao had let Yun Ye’s three saber strikes refine the Reincarnation Soul Fruit’s soul power and celebrated Yun Muzhou and the others’ anger.
• Qin Hao declared that he would return Yun Ye’s three saber strikes with one sword strike and unleashed Heaven-Burning Sword infused with heaven and earth rule power.
• Yun Ye countered with the ninth layer of Ninefold Heavy Saber, but Qin Hao’s strike overwhelmed him and hurled him into a wall.
• Yun Xiao tried to reinforce the formation against the spreading shockwave, but Qin Hao swept his sword and made the shockwave vanish as the formation shattered.
• Yun Ye lay defeated before Qin Hao, unable to speak as he realized he had lost completely.

Qin Hao defeated Yun Ye with a single sword strike, leaving Yun Ye badly injured and devastated until Yun Muzhou helped him regain his resolve. As a diamond-shaped Spirit Crystal emerged before Qin Hao, he sensed that he held the Heavenly Cloud World in his hands, while Yun Muzhou recognized it as the World Spirit's Spirit Crystal.

• Qin Hao defeated Yun Ye with a sword strike, and Yun Ye fell into despair over his loss.
• Yun Muzhou slapped Yun Ye and urged him to recover his fighting spirit, then gave him Healing Pills for his injuries.
• The Yun Family members watched Qin Hao with awe, while Yun Muzhou reconsidered how to drive him out of the Heavenly Cloud World.
• Qin Hao sensed the Spirit Crystal speeding toward him from underground and suspected it was connected to the Heavenly Cloud World's World Spirit.
• The diamond-shaped Spirit Crystal burst from the ground and floated before Qin Hao, who sensed he held the entire world in his hands.
• Yun Muzhou, Yun Xiao, and Yun Lie recognized the crystal as the Heavenly Cloud World Spirit's Spirit Crystal.

The World Spirit escaped Heavenly Cloud True Lord’s cave after sensing its Spirit Crystal, which appeared before Qin Hao in Heavenly Cloud City. Heavenly Cloud True Lord realized Qin Hao had taken the crystal and flew into a rage.

• Pang Qingyun recognized the Spirit Crystal and told Qin Hao it could help him take control of the Heavenly Cloud World.
• Heavenly Cloud True Lord continued refining the World Spirit and expected to finish within three days, after which he planned to kill Qin Hao.
• The World Spirit broke free from Heavenly Cloud True Lord’s grasp and vanished through the cave’s protective formations.
• Heavenly Cloud True Lord tracked the World Spirit to the City Lord’s Manor plaza and saw the Spirit Crystal before Qin Hao.
• Qin Hao seized the Spirit Crystal as the World Spirit raced toward it.

Qin Hao seized the Spirit Crystal and learned that the Heavenly Cloud World Spirit was inside it, fleeing Heavenly Cloud True Lord’s attempt to refine her. With Heavenly Cloud True Lord and the Yun Family pursuing him, Qin Hao escaped into his self-void world, but Yun Ye followed him inside.

• Qin Hao took the Spirit Crystal, and a streak of white light entered it as the Heavenly Cloud World Spirit escaped into her dwelling place.
• The World Spirit told Qin Hao that Heavenly Cloud True Lord had tried to refine her and urged him to leave before her exhausted spiritual power faded.
• Heavenly Cloud True Lord demanded the Spirit Crystal and flew out of Heavenly Cloud Mountain, so Qin Hao brought Pang Qingyun into his self-void world.
• At Heavenly Cloud City, Yun Muzhou and other Yun Family members realized Qin Hao was escaping with the Spirit Crystal and attacked him.
• Yun Ye charged into the entrance to Qin Hao’s self-void world, and Yun Muzhou, Yun Xiao, and the others sent their attacks in after him.

Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun entered the Self-Void World to escape the Yun Family, but Yun Muzhou and three other Six-Star Ancestral Gods tore through its defenses with their attacks. Qin Hao killed Yun Ye and fled with Pang Qingyun as the Heavenly Cloud True Lord arrived, leaving Yun Muzhou grieving over Yun Ye’s death.

• Yun Ye followed Qin Hao and Pang Qingyun into the Self-Void World just before the passage snapped shut.
• Yun Muzhou, Yun Xiao, Yun Lie, and Yun Yang breached the Self-Void World with their attacks, forcing Qin Hao to use his Primordial Feathered Wings to save Pang Qingyun and evade the strike.
• Yun Ye attacked Qin Hao, but Qin Hao disarmed him and killed him with a single sword strike.
• Qin Hao saw the Heavenly Cloud True Lord arrive at Heavenly Cloud City, then carried Pang Qingyun toward the entrance to Heavenly Cloud World.
• Yun Muzhou reached Yun Ye’s corpse and grieved over the death of the Yun Family’s foremost genius.