Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun questioned Hou Kong about the Sacred Mountain and learned that a mysterious White-bearded Elder could answer questions about the Boundless Abyss. Hou Kong carried Nie Yun toward the elder, leaving Nie Yun hoping he could also learn where Fairy Biluo had gone.

• Nie Yun asked whether the Sacred Mountain could detect mixed bloodlines, and Hou Kong said it was a physical mountain that had slain God Realm infiltrators.
• Hou Kong told Nie Yun that the White-bearded Elder knew about bloodlines and might understand the Sacred Mountain, so Nie Yun asked Hou Kong to take him there.
• Hou Kong flew through the Boundless Abyss with Nie Yun and explained that its invisible vortices could send travelers to dangerous places or teleport them elsewhere.
• Nie Yun worried that Fairy Biluo might have fallen into a vortex, and Hou Kong suggested asking the White-bearded Elder about her whereabouts.
• Hou Kong told Nie Yun that the White-bearded Elder charged a drop of extraordinary blood for each question.

Nie Yun and Hou Kong reached White-bearded Elder’s desert planet, where Nie Yun learned that the Ice Emperor had been a glacier that cultivated into a living being. After hearing that Hou Kong’s friend was an Ice Emperor descendant, Nie Yun resolved to meet him after visiting White-bearded Elder.

• Nie Yun and Hou Kong arrived at White-bearded Elder’s barren planet after traveling through the Boundless Abyss.
• Hou Kong explained that White-bearded Elder had mixed desert and mountain bloodlines, and that the ancient Ice Emperor had cultivated from a glacier.
• Hou Kong revealed that his friend possessed the Ice Emperor’s bloodline, and Nie Yun asked to meet the descendant after their visit.
• Nie Yun and Hou Kong approached a sand dune where many strange divine beasts had gathered to seek an audience with White-bearded Elder.
• Hou Kong introduced Nie Yun to Qiuyuan, and a divine beast announced that everyone could come forward together to ask their questions.

Nie Yun used talent energy to raise Hou Kong’s blood to Grade Five, earning the White-bearded Elder’s attention. The Elder took the blood and led Nie Yun deeper into the hall.

• The divine beasts presented blood at the stone platform to qualify for answers from the White-bearded Elder.
• Hou Kong explained that blood grades reflected the number of bloodlines and that Grade Five blood was exceptionally rare.
• When his turn came, Nie Yun added two strands of talent energy to a drop of Hou Kong’s previously submitted blood.
• The stone platform judged the altered blood to be Grade Five, shocking the gathered divine beasts and drawing the Elder’s attention.
• The White-bearded Elder took the blood and beckoned Nie Yun to follow him deeper into the hall.

Nie Yun asked the white-bearded elder about Fairy Biluo and the Sacred Mountain, learning that she was alive but her location was unknown and that even Emperor Realm experts could die there. As Nie Yun and Hou Kong headed for the Sacred Mountain, he speculated that the elder was an ancient Artifact Spirit with the bloodlines of two Great Emperors.

• Nie Yun gave the white-bearded elder the Weaver Girl Shuttle so he could search for Fairy Biluo, and the elder said she was alive but he could not determine her location.
• Nie Yun asked about the Sacred Mountain and learned that it could kill Heavenly Dao Realm experts and threaten even ordinary Emperor Realm experts.
• The white-bearded elder warned Nie Yun not to enter the Boundless Abyss, and Nie Yun thanked him before leaving with Hou Kong.
• Nie Yun ordered Hou Kong to fly toward the Sacred Mountain and wondered whether the Boundless Abyss was an enormous weapon and the elder its Artifact Spirit.
• Nie Yun concluded that the elder carried first-generation Desert and Mountain Peak bloodlines from Great Emperors, but chose not to ask about his ancient origins because discussing sealed history could bring punishment.

Nie Yun and Hou Kong searched for Fairy Biluo and learned that she had been seen on Youhuang Star. Tracking Qi led Nie Yun to a spot where she had vanished, and he suspected a hidden underground Formation had taken her away.

• Nie Yun reached the Sacred Mountain with Hou Kong and sent him to ask the gathered divine beasts about Fairy Biluo.
• Hou Kong returned with Chuanxu, who said he had seen Fairy Biluo on Youhuang Star about fifty days earlier.
• Nie Yun and Hou Kong traveled to Youhuang Star, where Nie Yun searched the planet but found no trace of Fairy Biluo.
• Nie Yun used Tracking Qi, which led him to a bare patch of ground where Fairy Biluo had appeared within the past three days and then disappeared.
• Nie Yun ruled out Teleportation and a Void Transfer Talisman, suspected a Formation underground, and focused his search beneath the ground.

Nie Yun discovered a hidden inheritance site left by Venerable Xuan Tian and began its trial while searching for Fairy Biluo. He mastered the first move of the Xuan Tian Palm and moved closer to obtaining the inheritance.

• Nie Yun used spatial power to find a concealed rock underground, which pulled him into Venerable Xuan Tian’s inheritance site.
• Nie Yun learned that Venerable Xuan Tian had left behind the Xuan Tian Dao and realized Fairy Biluo had likely entered the inheritance site before him.
• Nie Yun worried that the Xuan Tian Dao might conflict with Fairy Biluo’s Fire God Great Dao and hurried onward to find her.
• A stone tablet ordered Nie Yun to master three moves of the Xuan Tian Palm within three days or be annihilated.
• Nie Yun used his Heavenly Hand Master Talent to learn the palm technique and executed its first move, which he judged stronger than the Great Evolution Tianji Sword.

Nie Yun found Fairy Biluo unconscious after she received Venerable Xuan Tian's Inheritance, and discovered that her Fire Toxin had fused with it. His attempt to suppress the conflicting powers made her condition worse, leaving him without a way to save her in the Boundless Abyss.

• Nie Yun passed the trial and found Fairy Biluo unconscious at the center of an altar, apparently after receiving Venerable Xuan Tian's Inheritance.
• Nie Yun examined Fairy Biluo and realized her Fire Toxin had fused with the inheritance, making the two powers impossible to separate safely.
• Nie Yun sent power into Fairy Biluo to suppress the conflict, but the three forces clashed and worsened her injuries.
• Nie Yun concluded that only an Emperor Realm expert stronger than Venerable Xuan Tian could temporarily suppress the powers, but he could not contact Emperor Yuan Yang from the Boundless Abyss.
• Nie Yun realized Fairy Biluo might not survive a day, while Emperor Yuan Yang would need at least a month to reach her, and he was left without a solution.

Nie Yun sought a way to save Fairy Biluo, whose Fire Toxin and Xuan Tian Dao inheritance were colliding, and hoped the Sacred Mountain’s holy light could resolve the conflict. When Hou Kong’s Ice Emperor-bloodline friend refused to reveal how he had stabilized his own power, Nie Yun blocked his departure and prepared to act.

• Nie Yun considered swallowing the Heart of the Divine Realm to gain enough strength to save Fairy Biluo, but realized it was too dangerous and too slow.
• Nie Yun stored Fairy Biluo in the Storage World and rushed to the Sacred Mountain, hoping its holy light could reconcile the conflicting Great Daos.
• Hou Kong told Nie Yun that the holy light might not arrive for a month and that he knew of no other remedy, then remembered a friend who had stabilized a bloodline conflict without it.
• Hou Kong summoned his friend, an enormous divine beast with the Ice Emperor’s bloodline, but the beast refused to reveal its method and tried to leave.
• Nie Yun stopped the divine beast, apologized for going against the Ice Emperor’s kindness, and grabbed at it.

Nie Yun fought the Ice Emperor’s descendant to learn how to resolve Fairy Biluo’s bloodline conflict. He learned that challenging the Sacred Mountain could grant a chance to bathe in sacred light, and set his sights on attempting it.

• Nie Yun attacked the divine beast, overpowering it with his control of the Heavenly Dao and demanding to know how it resolved the conflict within its body.
• The divine beast explained that it had challenged the Sacred Mountain, passed three trials, and received a chance to bathe in sacred light, though it could not remember what happened inside.
• Nie Yun learned that challengers could summon the Sacred Mountain by standing before it and calling out that they wanted to challenge it.
• Nie Yun apologized by giving the divine beast his communication jade talisman and an Emperor Realm secret manual left by the Ice Emperor.

Nie Yun challenged Sacred Mountain to obtain the holy light and save the unconscious Fairy Biluo, despite the danger. Inside the mountain, he began its first trial by fusing two drops of Emperor Realm blood and was overwhelmed by pain.

• Nie Yun gave the Ice Emperor bloodline divine beast a secret manual and ten thousand Top-grade Divine Stones, then left Hou Kong with it and headed to Sacred Mountain.
• Nie Yun announced his challenge, and Hou Kong told the divine beast that Nie Yun was risking his life to save his unconscious friend.
• Sacred Mountain transported Nie Yun into a vast hall where the Shen Nong Hundred Herbs Scripture and Yan Huang Hall stirred as if drawn toward something within it.
• Nie Yun approached the altar and learned that the first trial required him to fuse two drops of blood without using his power.
• Nie Yun fused the golden drops into his body, and their immense power filled him with agonizing pain.

Nie Yun endured the two drops of blood left by Great Emperors who had created their own Great Daos, imitated their powers, and absorbed them to strengthen himself. After passing the first stage, he disguised two drops of his own blood and was transported to a new hall, where he eagerly awaited the next trial.

• Nie Yun realized the two drops of blood contained Great Daos outside the Three Thousand Great Daos and inferred that their owners had created new paths.
• Nie Yun imitated the two Great Daos through his Main Dantian, adapted to the blood’s power, and absorbed it to expand his Storage World and increase his strength.
• Nie Yun learned that he had passed the first stage by enduring the blood for thirty breaths and considered how his Main Dantian and Perfect Domain had let him survive.
• Nie Yun disguised two drops of his own blood when a light tried to retrieve the original blood, then let the trial transfer him to another hall.
• Nie Yun saw the altar in the new hall and anticipated that the next stage might offer another chance to absorb powerful blood.

Nie Yun passed the Sacred Mountain’s blood trials and used its holy light to heal Fairy Biluo, discovering that the light was diluted Main Dantian Qi. Fairy Biluo awoke but mistook Nie Yun for an illusion, and the chapter ended as he sensed something was wrong when she attacked him.

• Nie Yun endured the altar’s trials by refining the drops of Emperor Realm blood and passed the third trial.
• After receiving the holy light, Nie Yun brought Fairy Biluo out of the Storage World, and her injuries and the clash between her Great Daos began to ease.
• Nie Yun analyzed the holy light and realized it was an extremely diluted form of Main Dantian Qi, leading him to suspect the Sacred Mountain was connected to him and Great Emperor Shennong.
• Fairy Biluo awoke, saw Nie Yun, and repeatedly closed her eyes because she believed he was an illusion.
• Fairy Biluo struck at Nie Yun, and he suddenly sensed that something was wrong.

Nie Yun reunited with Fairy Biluo in the Boundless Abyss and discovered that Xuan Tian Dao’s inheritance had greatly increased her strength. Following Yan Huang Hall’s guidance to the place that had drawn it, he found Great Emperor Shennong’s Shennong Ding and summoned Gui Ling, leaving the reason for Shennong’s presence there a mystery.

• Nie Yun blocked Fairy Biluo’s powerful palm and revealed that he had come to the Boundless Abyss to rescue her.
• Nie Yun realized the holy light had helped Fairy Biluo absorb part of Xuan Tian Dao’s inheritance, greatly increasing her strength and giving her the potential to become a Great Emperor.
• Fairy Biluo told Nie Yun that an unseen pull had led her through a hole in the Boundless Abyss to the Sacred Mountain, where she easily passed the trial’s three palm techniques.
• Nie Yun placed Fairy Biluo in his Storage World and followed Yan Huang Hall’s guidance to a hall containing the Shennong Ding.
• Nie Yun summoned Gui Ling, who recognized the Shennong Ding.

Nie Yun found the Shennong Ding inside the Sacred Mountain and followed its mysterious pull to a sphere of diluted Main Dantian energy. He began enduring the pressure required to refine the Sacred Mountain, while half a year passed and Divine Maiden Peak prepared to choose a son-in-law.

• Gui Ling recognized the Shennong Ding and said Great Emperor Shennong had left Yan Huang Hall with it, though he did not know where his old master had gone.
• Nie Yun sensed a connection to the Sacred Mountain and flew onward until he found a glowing sphere containing droplets that released diluted Main Dantian energy.
• When Nie Yun touched the sphere, a consciousness told him to bear the pressure and refine the Sacred Mountain, and he endured its force until he lost consciousness.
• The White-bearded Elder appeared behind Nie Yun and urged him to hold on, saying that three hundred billion years and three thousand epochs of waiting depended on him.
• Nie Yun remained unconscious and endured the agony for six months as Divine Maiden Peak announced that Di Xuan was choosing a husband for her direct disciple, drawing candidates from the eight major powers and independent cultivators.

Tantai Lingyue refused a succession of powerful suitors, but Great Emperor Di Xuan urged her to meet Xuan Chen and forget the man she had been with before. Tantai Lingyue challenged her master’s objection by pointing out that Nie Yun had become emperor of the Pu Tian Dynasty.

• Rumors spread through Divine Maiden City that the seven top-ranked God Realm prodigies had come to compete for Tantai Lingyue’s hand.
• Tantai Lingyue refused to receive Mo Xiang of Qiankun Pavilion, despite her maidservants warning that rejecting him could offend the powerful faction.
• Di Xuan visited Tantai Lingyue and praised her rapid cultivation, then arranged for her to meet Xuan Chen, the top-ranked prodigy.
• Tantai Lingyue refused to meet Xuan Chen, and Di Xuan warned her not to pursue the young man who had been with her before.
• Tantai Lingyue asked why she could not be with him, noting that Nie Yun had become emperor of the Pu Tian Dynasty.

Tantai Lingyue reaffirmed her resolve to stand by Nie Yun despite Di Xuan’s objections, while suitors gathered outside Cuihua Peak to seek her hand. The Pu Tian Dynasty’s absence was attributed to Nie Yun’s mysterious illness and coma, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Di Xuan warned Tantai Lingyue that Nie Yun’s strength could not protect the Pu Tian Dynasty if the God Realm fell into chaos, but she remained determined to support him.
• Tantai Lingyue worried that Nie Yun had not come to see her and hoped he would stay away from the powerful suitors to avoid humiliation.
• Mo Xiang waited outside Cuihua Peak after Tantai Lingyue refused to receive him.
• Gai Yun offered Tantai Lingyue a Heavenly Dao divine weapon, but the maids refused it because she had ordered them to accept no gifts.
• Seven young men from the great powers gathered outside Divine Maiden Peak, while the maids learned that the Pu Tian Dynasty had not sent anyone because Nie Yun had fallen into a coma after becoming emperor.

Puntian Great Emperor and Emperor Yuan Yang worried over the comatose Nie Yun, whose avatar’s condition suggested his true body was in grave danger. After surviving half a year under the Sacred Mountain’s pressure, Nie Yun awakened, gained complete control of the mountain, and was greeted by the White-bearded Elder as his master.

• Venerable Emperor Wu told Puntian Great Emperor and Emperor Yuan Yang that Nie Yun’s Divine Soul and body were near collapse, with no treatment available beyond waiting for him to endure.
• Puntian Great Emperor discussed sending someone to Divine Maiden Peak to pursue an alliance before Venerable Emperor Wu urgently reported that Nie Yun’s aura had recovered.
• Puntian Great Emperor and Emperor Yuan Yang returned and watched Nie Yun’s aura rapidly strengthen beyond its former peak.
• After half a year beneath the Sacred Mountain’s pressure, Nie Yun awakened and realized he had completely refined it.
• Nie Yun shrank the Sacred Mountain and drew it into his glabella, learning that it surpassed Emperor-grade Divine Weapons.
• The White-bearded Elder appeared before Nie Yun, knelt, and addressed him as Master.

After refining the Sacred Mountain, Nie Yun learned from its Artifact Spirit about its ancient origins, the God Realm’s recurring destruction, and the Emperor Fall Cataclysm. He left the conversation with his strength at the Five States Realm Peak, one step from the Six States Realm.

• Nie Yun learned that the Sacred Mountain’s White-bearded Elder was its Artifact Spirit and that the mountain had been forged and reinforced by tens of thousands of Great Emperors across three thousand Chaos Eras.
• The White-bearded Elder explained that the Sacred Mountain had survived repeated destructions of the God Realm and had once been called a Heaven Slaying Divine Weapon.
• The White-bearded Elder told Nie Yun that the God Realm’s Heart of the Divine Realm declined over time, and the Emperor Fall Cataclysm was a battle in which the God Realm devoured its living beings to prolong its existence.
• The White-bearded Elder guessed that Nie Yun had refined the Sacred Mountain because he was proficient in many Great Daos, while Nie Yun suspected its holy light was connected to the power of his Main Dantian.
• Nie Yun realized that refining the Sacred Mountain had expanded his Storage World and raised his strength to the Five States Realm Peak.

After refining Sacred Mountain, Nie Yun returned from the Boundless Abyss to the Pu Tian Imperial Palace, where the Great Emperors welcomed him and Great Emperor Canglu begged him to save Xiankong Demon God. Nie Yun examined the dying Xiankong Demon God and left Great Emperor Canglu facing an uncertain, difficult cure.

• The White-bearded Elder warned Nie Yun not to reveal that he had refined Sacred Mountain before reaching the Emperor Realm and asked him to return every hundred years to purify the divine beasts.
• Nie Yun left the Boundless Abyss, returned to the Pu Tian Imperial Palace, and reunited with Puntian Great Emperor, Emperor Yuan Yang, and Venerable Emperor Wu.
• Emperor Yuan Yang told Nie Yun that Great Emperor Canglu had been searching for him, and Nie Yun agreed to meet him.
• Great Emperor Canglu arrived with Xiankong Demon God and begged Nie Yun to save his son.
• Nie Yun examined Xiankong Demon God, found him severely damaged, and said the treatment would be difficult.

Nie Yun explained that saving Xiankong Demon God required absorbing the dangerous power inside him, and insisted on risking himself rather than sacrificing another person. He revealed that an Emperor-grade Divine Weapon could spare him, but before Great Emperor Canglu could decide whether to pay that price, red clouds announced that someone had advanced to Great Emperor.

• Great Emperor Canglu asked Nie Yun to save Xiankong Demon God, and Nie Yun rejected using another person's body as bait because every life deserved respect.
• Nie Yun said he could absorb the strange power himself using the Shen Nong Hundred Herbs Scripture, despite Puntian Great Emperor, Emperor Yuan Yang, and Great Emperor Canglu urging him not to risk his life.
• Nie Yun revealed that an Emperor-grade Divine Weapon could serve in his place, though it would be destroyed by the method.
• Great Emperor Canglu hesitated at the cost of losing one of the Boundless Sea's seven Emperor-grade Divine Weapons, while Emperor Yuan Yang recognized Nie Yun was trying to fleece him.
• Red clouds filled the sky and a powerful force surged toward the Cloud Firmament, prompting Puntian Great Emperor and the others to rush outside as someone advanced to Great Emperor.