Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun woke after the Space-Time Tide carried him into the Huayun Sect’s Stele Forest, where he explored the ancestors’ graves and discovered that the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion was linked to the sect. The cave mansion led him to a figure in a clearing, whose appearance left him stunned.

• Mi Hua agreed to let the Sword God Sect join the other seven great sects, and their alliance marched toward the Huayun Sect to demand the Big Dipper Star Lord’s treasure.
• Nie Yun woke in a stable space after the Space-Time Tide passed, checked on Little Dragon and the seven unconscious Void Breaking Realm experts, and realized he was inside the Stele Forest.
• Nie Yun read the gravestones and recalled the deeds of the Huayun Sect ancestors buried there as he made his way toward the forest’s center.
• Nie Yun recognized that many of the Stele Forest’s formations matched those in the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion, and the cave mansion reacted excitedly when he brought it out.
• The Purple Splendor Cave Mansion flew toward a clearing about a hundred kilometers away, where Nie Yun saw a figure and cried out in shock at its appearance.

Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue uncovered a hidden hall in the Huayun Sect’s Stele Forest using the Heart of the Cave Mansion. Outside the hall, Nie Yun recognized the three-eyed statue as Purple Splendor Daoist Xia Yang and realized that flood dragon Xia Quan was the opponent depicted in Xia Yang’s mural.

• Nie Yun met Tantai Lingyue in the Stele Forest, where she explained that Elder Dong had sent her to seek an inheritance that might save the Huayun Sect.
• Tantai Lingyue pointed out a hidden formation in the plaza, and Nie Yun used the Heart of the Cave Mansion to reveal a towering hall.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue approached the hall and found a stone statue radiating a powerful Martial Dao will.
• Nie Yun recognized the statue’s three-eyed face as matching the figure of Purple Splendor Daoist Xia Yang in the cave mansion’s mural.
• Nie Yun realized that flood dragon Xia Quan was the dragon depicted fighting Xia Yang and suspected that Xia Quan had become Xia Yang’s Demon Pet after losing that battle.

Nie Yun discovered that the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion belonged to Xia Yang, the Martial Dao Master Patriarch, and joined it to the sealed main hall to enter. Inside, he found a massive ore that stirred the Nameless Art and might let him open many new dantians.

• Nie Yun recognized Purple Splendor Daoist as Xia Yang, the Martial Dao Master Patriarch, and found only an unyielding will inside his statue.
• Tantai Lingyue stopped Nie Yun before they crossed a deadly barrier and showed him a stele demanding mastery of the Martial Dao Void Breaking Fist before entering the hall.
• Nie Yun sensed that the Nameless Art's trigger lay inside the hall, while the required fist art seemed impossible to master without first obtaining that trigger.
• Tantai Lingyue noticed the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion could connect to the main hall, and Nie Yun joined the structures, restoring the cave mansion's formations and opening its final two doors.
• Nie Yun brought Tantai Lingyue into the ninth hall, where he found hundreds of Peerless Spirit Weapons and a huge black ore that made the Nameless Art stir.

Nie Yun absorbed the aura from a massive ore and derived eleven new dantians, which opened in their third form and gave him three powerful talents. Tantai Lingyue then returned with news that the Huayun Sect Master's corpse was in another great hall.

• Tantai Lingyue noticed Nie Yun's hesitation, went ahead alone, and gave him privacy to use the ore.
• Nie Yun used the Nameless Art to derive eleven bloodline factors and open eleven new dantians.
• Nie Yun discovered that his new dantians were already in their third form and gained the Heavenly Hand Master, Sky Walker Master, and Charm Master talents.
• Nie Yun realized his Main Dantian's advancement might be linked to the rapid growth of his other dantians, and counted thirty-one dantians in total.
• Tantai Lingyue returned and told Nie Yun that the Huayun Sect Master's corpse was in another great hall.

Nie Yun discovered Huayun Sect's dead Sect Master in Purple Splendor Cave Mansion's eighth hall and seized the Martial Dao Qi sealed nearby, forming the Martial Dao Master Talent. He obtained Huayun Sect's Sect Master's Seal, but another unfamiliar black Sect Master's Seal appeared as he prepared to store the seals.

• Tantai Lingyue led Nie Yun to a corpse beside Huayun Sect's Sect Master's Seal, and Nie Yun concluded that the Sect Master had died after his body's power erupted from within.
• Nie Yun tried to refine the Sect Master's Seal but found it still had an owner, then spotted Martial Dao Qi trapped in a seven-colored seal behind the corpse.
• Nie Yun captured the Martial Dao Qi and formed the Martial Dao Master Talent, realizing that the Martial Dao Master ancestor was dead.
• Huayun Sect's Sect Master's Seal acknowledged Nie Yun as its owner, and he revealed that he had also refined Sword God Sect's Sect Master's Seal.
• As Nie Yun prepared to store both seals, another unfamiliar black Sect Master's Seal appeared in his palm.

Nie Yun refined Mishin Sect's Sect Master's Seal after erasing Mi Hua's will, then began studying the Martial Dao Void Breaking Fist. Meanwhile, four powerful Huayun Sect elders arrived at Outer Heaven and agreed to negotiate rather than risk a conflict with the demonfolk.

• Nie Yun recognized Mi Hua's will in the seal, erased it, and used his Heavenly Hand Master Talent to refine Mishin Sect's Sect Master's Seal.
• Tantai Lingyue marveled that Nie Yun had refined the seals of three great sects and said she wanted him to grow stronger and stay safe.
• Nie Yun realized Thousand Illusions had stolen the seal from Mi Hua and secretly placed it in his dantian, fulfilling a promise between brothers.
• After Tantai Lingyue went to search for strength-improving items, Nie Yun returned to the stone monument and began cultivating the Martial Dao Void Breaking Fist.
• Four Huayun Sect elders arrived outside Outer Heaven and agreed to speak with their opponents before considering further action.

The Eight Great Sects Alliance attacked the Huayun Sect in Outer Heaven, and Mi Hua shattered the disciples’ seal before the Sect Master’s Seal was mysteriously refined and wounded him. As the leaders were summoned to Lingxiao Peak for talks, Mi Jing confronted Huo Ying and mentioned her past dual cultivation with someone.

• The Eight Great Sects Alliance launched a bloody assault on the Huayun Sect, while Elder Yuan Xin and the Linglong Immortal Sect and Sword God Sect elders objected to Mi Hua’s reckless plan.
• Mi Hua broke the seal before Lingxiao Peak with his Heavenly Hand Master talent, but the sudden erasure of his Soul Imprint in the Sect Master’s Seal made him vomit blood.
• Mi Hua ordered the alliance forces to press forward, but a voice summoned the Huayun Sect disciples to Lingxiao Peak and invited the sect leaders and Supreme Elders to negotiate.
• Huo Ying and Yi Qing appeared behind the Linglong Immortal Sect’s pale Sect Master, both having reached the peak of the Void Absorption Realm.
• Mi Jing arrived before Huo Ying and remarked on her bearing, saying someone had been willing to cultivate dual cultivation with her.

Mi Jing’s claims about her time with Nie Yun sparked a jealous confrontation with Huo Ying and Yi Qing, until Mu Qing, Mu Xia, Bai Huaxiu, and Luo Qingcheng arrived and revealed their own close ties to him. The women were left arguing over Nie Yun while the watching disciples gaped at the gathering of beauties.

• Huo Ying and Yi Qing questioned Mi Jing about her connection to Nie Yun, and Mi Jing declared that they had spent over two months together after he stripped off her clothes.
• Mi Hua overheard Mi Jing’s claims and nearly collapsed from anger and embarrassment.
• Yi Qing doubted Mi Jing’s story, but Mi Jing flaunted her figure and insisted that Nie Yun had kept her without clothes for two months.
• Mu Qing and Mu Xia arrived and mocked Mi Jing, pointing out that Nie Yun had likely been cultivating and had not visited her.
• Mu Qing introduced herself, Mu Xia, Bai Huaxiu, and Luo Qingcheng as women with unusual relationships with Nie Yun, provoking Huo Ying, Yi Qing, and Mi Jing to call them shameless.
• The gathered disciples watched the women compete in jealous rivalry over Nie Yun and were left stunned.

Seven women argued over their feelings for Nie Yun while trying to learn where he was, and the rivalry grew when Luo Qingcheng was described as his childhood sweetheart. After the women parted, Yi Qing and Luo Qingcheng reflected on how difficult it would be to keep up with Nie Yun, leaving their relationships with him uncertain.

• The watching disciples learned that the women were arguing over Nie Yun and praised his romantic fortune.
• Mi Jing and Yi Qing mocked Mu Qing's group, prompting Mu Qing to claim Luo Qingcheng and Nie Yun were childhood sweethearts.
• The women grew jealous of Luo Qingcheng, then stopped arguing when Bai Huaxiu suggested asking Nie Yun directly whom he liked.
• The women learned Nie Yun had gone after Yun Xuan, then realized he meant to kill her rather than pursue her romantically.
• Mi Jing left after her brother angrily called for her, and the other women returned to their groups.
• Yi Qing resolved to rescue her mother from Mi Hua, while Bai Huaxiu comforted Luo Qingcheng, who feared she and Nie Yun were fated to meet but not be together.

Yun Xuan survived the Space-Time Tide and found a Confucian scholar’s corpse in a Spatial Cage Zone. She restored her strength by eating the scholar’s excrement and flesh, then prepared to replace her bones so she could regain the power to kill Nie Yun.

• Yun Xuan awoke badly injured in a Spatial Cage Zone beside the corpse of a great Confucian scholar and vowed to kill Nie Yun.
• Yun Xuan realized she needed spiritual energy to recover and found a bucket of the scholar’s excrement.
• Yun Xuan swallowed the excrement, regained much of her strength, and then ate the scholar’s corpse for its spiritual energy.
• Yun Xuan recovered from her injuries and decided to replace her skeleton with the scholar’s bones to regain enough power to pursue revenge.

Yun Xuan replaced her skeleton and broke through to the peak of the early Dantian Acupoint Realm, then headed for the Floating Sky Continent to take revenge on Nie Yun. At Huayun Sect, Mi Hua demanded three concessions from the sect, but his claim that Nie Yun was Elder Nan’s disciple was denied by the elders.

• Yun Xuan replaced her bones with those of a corpse, recovered, and broke through the Lightning Soldier Tribulation to reach the peak of the early Dantian Acupoint Realm.
• Yun Xuan tore open the Spatial Cage Zone and flew toward the Floating Sky Continent, intent on making Nie Yun pay for humiliating her.
• Mi Hua demanded that Huayun Sect hand over three swords, share Outer Heaven, and open Huayun Palace to disciples from all nine major sects.
• Elder Dong and the Huayun Sect disciples rejected the demands, while Elder Dong challenged Mi Hua’s claim that Huayun Sect could provide all three swords.
• Mi Hua accused Elder Nan of being Nie Yun’s master, but Elder Nan denied knowing Nie Yun and Elder Dong said he had never left Huayun Sect for Qianye City.

Mi Hua challenged the Huayun Sect to fight for Nie Yun, the two swords, and his three demands, then overwhelmed Jing Hong in their duel. As Elder Dong prepared to intervene, Yun Xuan returned through a rift and challenged the four Supreme Elders to fight her together.

• Mi Hua demanded that the Huayun Sect meet his three conditions and challenged its fighters, wagering that his eight sects would leave if he lost.
• Jing Hong accepted the challenge and attacked Mi Hua with the Six Arts Divine Fist, but Mi Hua shattered the attack with his Heavenly Hand Master talent.
• Elder Wu Xun told the four Supreme Elders that Yun Feng had defeated Jing Hong and possessed a Special Talent ranked in the Top Ten, but had left the sect seven days earlier.
• Mi Hua gravely injured Jing Hong, prompting Elder Dong to rise and face him.
• Yun Xuan emerged from a rift above Lingxiao Peak, revealed herself as a peak early Dantian Acupoint Realm expert, and challenged the four Supreme Elders to fight her together.

After mastering the Martial Dao Void Breaking Fist, Nie Yun subdued two enemies and revealed that demonfolk had manipulated the other sects into attacking the Huayun Sect. Learning the attack was likely already underway, he set out with Tantai Lingyue to return and gave her the Netherworld Sword.

• Nie Yun mastered the Martial Dao Void Breaking Fist and gained the strength to fight an early-stage Dantian Acupoint Realm expert, though he avoided breaking through.
• Nie Yun woke the seven unconscious elders, subdued the two peak Void Breaking Realm experts from Chaotic Sky Traces, and played a jade token revealing the demonfolk conspiracy.
• The five remaining elders realized they had been manipulated and said their sects had agreed to besiege the Huayun Sect within seven days, making the attack likely imminent.
• Nie Yun stored the elders in the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion and told Tantai Lingyue he had to return to the Huayun Sect.
• Tantai Lingyue insisted on accompanying Nie Yun, and he accepted and gave her the Netherworld Sword for protection.

Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue escaped the Stele Forest and returned to Huayun Sect, finding it devastated by the eight major sects’ invasion. Disguised as Yun Feng, Nie Yun entered Lingxiao Peak and discovered Yun Xuan fighting the four elders, while his parents were nowhere in sight.

• Nie Yun gave Tantai Lingyue the Netherworld Sword, absorbed the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion, and punched open a rift out of the Stele Forest.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue reached Outer Heaven and found Huayun Sect’s territory full of corpses and ruined buildings.
• Nie Yun killed the attackers who confronted them, then disguised himself as Yun Feng before heading into Lingxiao Peak.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue entered the hall unseen and found Yun Xuan battling the four elders, including Zhuge Qingyun.
• Nie Yun spotted Luo Qingcheng, Bai Huaxiu, Mu Qing, Mu Xia, Huo Ying, and Yi Qing, but could not find his parents.

Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue entered Lingxiao Peak’s hall in secret, where he found Mi Jing alive and learned that the Sword God Sect and Fengyun Alliance were waiting for him to return. He reached the Huayun Sect crowd as Yun Xuan battled its four great elders, and watched her escape their coordinated attack with the Confucian technique Draw Land for a Thousand Miles.

• Nie Yun spotted Mi Jing alive but noticed that her body and soul seemed changed, while she failed to detect him through his Concealment Master Talent.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue passed the Sword God Sect and Fengyun Alliance, whose members trusted that Nie Yun would return and resolve the crisis.
• Nie Yun joined the Huayun Sect crowd and saw Yun Xuan fight the four great elders, recognizing that she had fused with a great Confucian scholar’s skeleton.
• The four great elders unleashed coordinated techniques against Yun Xuan, who used Draw Land for a Thousand Miles to escape their encirclement unharmed.
• Nie Yun wondered why the four elders had not attacked during the brief flaw in Yun Xuan’s technique.

Nie Yun watched Yun Xuan defeat the Huayun Sect’s four Grand Elders and realized his Martial Dao Master Talent had greatly sharpened his ability to spot flaws. When the other sects demanded the Huayun Sect surrender its swords and territory, Nie Yun returned and confronted their three jeering representatives.

• Nie Yun studied the battle and recognized how his improved combat vision let him identify flaws in the Grand Elders’ attacks.
• Elder Dong stopped the fight, and the four Grand Elders admitted defeat after Yun Xuan overwhelmed them.
• Representatives of the eight great sects demanded the three swords and control of Outer Heaven, while the Huayun Sect disciples despaired.
• Nie Yun arrived, learned from Zhu Yin about the demands, and rejected them as ruthless.
• A green-robed man mocked the Huayun Sect, and Nie Yun stepped forward to answer the three representatives.

Nie Yun confronted the Immortal Martial Sect’s leaders after they pressured Huayun Sect, then exposed a flaw in He Dao’s Sky Striking Seven Tribulation Finger. He revealed that he had mastered all nine tribulations and struck He Dao with the completed technique.

• Nie Yun insulted the Immortal Martial Three Heroes and told the invading sects to leave Lingxiao Peak.
• Elder Dong rebuked Nie Yun’s rashness, while Elder Xi praised his refusal to yield.
• He Dao brought out the Sect Master’s Seal and attacked Nie Yun with the Sky Striking Seven Tribulation Finger.
• Nie Yun blocked He Dao’s attacks and explained that the technique could not fully merge with the body’s power, making it unusable by Dantian Acupoint Realm experts.
• Nie Yun said he had mastered all nine tribulations and struck He Dao with the nine-layer finger force, leaving him deathly pale.

Nie Yun challenged the Immortal Martial Three Heroes, copied their sect’s techniques, and took control of the Immortal Martial Sect’s Sect Master's Seal. He left He Dao wounded and stunned after refining the seal in an instant.

• Nie Yun revealed that he had learned and advanced the Immortal Martial Sect’s Sky Striking Seven Tribulation Finger, then challenged the three elders to attack him together.
• He Dao and the other two elders attacked Nie Yun, but he evaded them with Draw Land for a Thousand Miles and countered with a powerful punch.
• He Dao used the Immortal Martial Sect’s Sect Master's Seal to block Nie Yun’s attack while the elders prepared the Three Yuan Vajra Wave.
• Nie Yun studied the seal’s defensive inscriptions and used Defense Qi to wrest it from He Dao’s control.
• Nie Yun combined the power of three other Sect Master's Seals to refine the Immortal Martial Sect’s seal, erasing He Dao’s Soul Imprint and making him spit blood.

Nie Yun defeated He Dao and the Immortal Martial Three Heroes, claimed the Immortal Martial Sect’s leadership, and declared an alliance with Huayun Sect and withdrawal from the Eight Great Sects Alliance. The other sects fell silent until Mi Hua stepped forward, but Qian Xing intervened to challenge Nie Yun first.

• He Dao attacked Nie Yun with a massive Three Yuan Vajra Wave, but Nie Yun countered with an even larger one and knocked him down.
• Nie Yun used the Immortal Martial Sect’s Sect Master’s Seal to subdue the two remaining Supreme Elders, then killed all three members of the Immortal Martial Three Heroes.
• Nie Yun declared that the Immortal Martial Sect would ally with Huayun Sect and leave the Eight Great Sects Alliance, while its elders and disciples neither objected nor openly approved.
• Nie Yun challenged the remaining seven sects, and none of their representatives dared to answer at first.
• Mi Hua stepped forward to confront Nie Yun, but Qian Xing stopped him and leaped into the hall to test Nie Yun himself.

Nie Yun accepted Qian Xing’s challenge to race through the Spring Return Swallow Soar Diagram, wagering the Sect Master's Seal against the Immortal Martial Sect's Sect Master's Seal. Qian Xing set up the formation and entered first, leaving the contest underway.

• Qian Xing proposed a movement-technique contest through the Spring Return Swallow Soar Diagram, with the loser withdrawing from Lingxiao Peak.
• Nie Yun agreed and raised the stakes, offering the Immortal Martial Sect's Sect Master's Seal for Qian Xing's Sect Master's Seal.
• Qingyun Sect’s elders and disciples urged Qian Xing to accept, and he agreed as the gathered sect masters and elders pledged to witness the contest.
• Qian Xing placed the Formation Flags to create the diagram and entered it using the Three Thousand Qingyun Dao.