Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun revealed that he had refined the Sect Master's Seals of all eight great sects, but Mi Hua challenged him to explain how he could possess so many talents. Tantai Lingyue defended him by claiming he had a True Spirit Bloodline and was Destined by Heaven, leaving Mi Hua to mock her explanation.

• Nie Yun displayed all eight Sect Master's Seals, and the crowd took this as a sign that Heaven intended the eight great sects to unite.
• Mi Hua questioned how Nie Yun could possess so many talents and demanded that he share any ability that could change talents.
• Nie Yun struggled to answer, knowing that revealing the Nameless Art would endanger him while silence could further destabilize the sects.
• Tantai Lingyue explained that bloodlines had five known levels and claimed Nie Yun's True Spirit Bloodline accounted for his many talents.
• Tantai Lingyue said Nie Yun was Destined by Heaven and had been granted power to guide the people, but Mi Hua ridiculed the claim.

After Mi Hua challenged Nie Yun to prove he was Destined by Heaven, Tantai Lingyue persuaded him to pray for a sign, and Heaven answered with a violent upheaval over Outer Heaven. In the Formation Hall, Old Drunkard recognized the gathering force as Heaven’s will and was shaken by its sudden appearance.

• Mu Qing mocked Mi Hua over his repeated defeats and the women who had left him for Nie Yun, and Mi Hua demanded that Heaven show a sign if Nie Yun was truly Destined by Heaven.
• Mi Hua accused Nie Yun of using a demonic secret method to refine the eight Sect Master's Seals, stirring doubts among the newly subdued sects.
• Tantai Lingyue urged Nie Yun to pray to Heaven, and he reluctantly called on Heaven to prove his mandate rather than immediately slaughter the Mishin Sect.
• Heaven answered Nie Yun's prayer as spiritual energy surged, dark clouds gathered, lightning filled the sky, and everyone at Lingxiao Peak felt an overwhelming heavenly presence.
• In the Formation Hall, Old Drunkard reassured the four elders that the energy surge was under control, then sensed Heaven's will and trembled.

After heaven and earth manifested a lightning character meaning “King” in response to Nie Yun’s words, the assembled sects accepted him as heaven’s chosen leader. Nie Yun nearly killed Mi Hua but spared him at Mi Jing’s pleading; Mi Hua then revealed a terrifying aura and vowed to kill Nie Yun.

• Thousand Illusions explained that the will of heaven and earth appeared after Nie Yun called on it to manifest.
• Lightning formed the character “King” across the sky, and the gathered sects knelt and submitted to Nie Yun.
• Nie Yun attacked Mi Hua, froze him with the Huayun Sect’s formation, and split his body with the Mad Dragon Azure Halberd.
• Mi Jing begged Nie Yun to spare her brother, and Nie Yun agreed to let Mi Hua live this time.
• Mi Jing tried to take Mi Hua away, but he remained behind, released an eerie aura, and vowed to kill Nie Yun.

Mi Hua invoked a forbidden soul sacrifice to kill Nie Yun, but Mi Jing shielded him from the attack and died from its lingering power. Nie Yun mourned her and promised her he would spare her brother.

• Mi Hua offered his soul to a mysterious altar, summoning Yan Zhi and a colossal face that attacked Nie Yun with soul-destroying light.
• Mi Jing rushed in front of Nie Yun, while a powerful intent drove Yan Zhi’s face away and interrupted the sacrifice.
• The weakened beam struck Mi Jing, and Nie Yun’s Wood Life Qi could not stop it from eroding her soul.
• Mi Jing asked Nie Yun to spare Mi Hua, and he promised before she died in his arms.
• Nie Yun remembered Mi Jing’s playful, innocent nature and how she had saved him twice, then grieved over her death.

After Mi Jing died, Nie Yun spared Mi Hua when he learned that Mi Hua's soul had fused symbiotically with Yi Qing's mother, Ming Lanxin. Yi Qing revealed her mother's Netherworld Clan origins, and Nie Yun left to seek answers from Xia Xing while hoping to find a way to revive the dead.

• Nie Yun nearly killed Mi Hua after Mi Jing died, but Yi Qing stopped him and asked him to release her mother, Ming Lanxin.
• Tantai Lingyue explained that Mi Hua and Ming Lanxin shared a soul core, so killing Mi Hua would kill Ming Lanxin as well; weakening Mi Hua's soul might let Ming Lanxin control their body.
• Nie Yun healed and imprisoned Mi Hua in the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion at Yi Qing's request.
• Yi Qing told Nie Yun that Ming Lanxin was a soul cultivator from the Netherworld Clan who worshipped Soul Summoners.
• Nie Yun considered whether Ming Lanxin could summon the Soul Master again to help revive Nie Tong, then went with Tantai Lingyue to find Senior Xia Xing.

Old Drunkard explained that the Floating Sky Continent’s name reflected its position above the heavens and its proximity to the Spirit Realm, then revealed why the Big Dipper Star Mansion and Qi Sea Continent mattered. He left Nie Yun with the possibility that the Heaven-Ascending Ladder to the Spirit Realm was hidden on the Qi Sea Continent.

• Nie Yun questioned Old Drunkard about his apparent survival, the corpse in the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion, and the fate of Huayun Sect’s elders, so Old Drunkard sealed the Formation Hall before answering.
• Old Drunkard explained that the Spirit Realm contained Immortal Qi, which the Floating Sky Continent lacked, and that the Heaven-Ascending Ladder in the Space-Time Turbulence was the only route between them.
• Old Drunkard said the Floating Sky Continent was named for floating above the heavens and being closest to the Spirit Realm, making it a prize in the continuing wars with the demonfolk.
• Nie Yun identified the Big Dipper Star Mansion as the place believed to contain Immortal Qi, and Old Drunkard explained that opening it required seven swords and would draw powerful forces from across the world.
• Old Drunkard revealed that Luoqu had been Jingtian Sect’s sect master and had taken the Tianji Sword to the Qi Sea Continent, explaining Luo Qingcheng’s inheritance and the events surrounding the Luoqu Tomb.
• Old Drunkard declared that the Qi Sea Continent was the Floating Sky Continent’s most important gateway and that the Heaven-Ascending Ladder was likely hidden there.

Old Drunkard revealed that the Qi Sea Continent was extraordinary and explained how he had attempted the ninth Secret Realm level, the God Shattering Realm. He left Nie Yun troubled by the discovery that Old Drunkard’s breakthrough was flawed because it could not make the flesh sacred.

• Old Drunkard told Nie Yun that the Qi Sea Continent contained unusually many Special Talents and powerful materials, and that Martial Dao Master Ancestor had placed the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion’s halls there to suppress chaotic aura.
• Old Drunkard admitted that he had taken treasures from several halls of the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion.
• Old Drunkard named the unknown ninth Secret Realm level the God Shattering Realm and explained that it required shattering the body and soul before rebirth.
• Old Drunkard revealed that he had gathered his shattered soul with the Soul Capturing Cage, merged with another body, and that Nie Yun had reunited the cage’s components.
• Old Drunkard explained that his breakthrough was flawed because it could not make the flesh sacred, leaving Nie Yun alarmed.

Nie Yun learned that Old Drunkard planned to enter the Big Dipper Star Mansion’s inner hall to find the true way to break through the ninth level of the Secret Realm. Old Drunkard revealed that he had engineered the Eight Great Sects’ siege of Lingxiao Peak to lure eighteen Demon Emperors, and he dismissed the deaths caused by his plan as unimportant.

• Old Drunkard explained that changing bodies could grant people without Special Talents a new ability and might allow souls to reach the Spirit Realm through Space-Time Turbulence.
• Tantai Lingyue said an ancient book identified the third-ranked Special Talent as the Heavenly Dao Master and explained that only worshippers or a Heavenly Dao Master could send thoughts across the barrier between worlds.
• Old Drunkard said his method required the Seven Swords, every Sect Master’s Seal, and forty-nine peak Dantian Acupoint Realm experts to bypass the Big Dipper Star Mansion’s outer hall.
• Nie Yun realized that the eighteen Demon Emperors Old Drunkard had taken were meant to complete the required group of forty-nine.
• Old Drunkard admitted that he had orchestrated the Eight Great Sects’ siege of Lingxiao Peak to draw the Demon Emperors to the Floating Sky Continent.
• Nie Yun protested that many people would die, but Old Drunkard said those deaths did not matter if the plan opened the Big Dipper Star Mansion and revealed the path to the Spirit Realm.

Old Drunkard revealed that the eight Sect Master's Seals could unite to let Nie Yun control Floating Sky Continent, and that a ninth seal held by the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor was needed to become its true master. Nie Yun resolved to face the Void Breaking Tribulation, but recovering the final seal remained a formidable challenge.

• Nie Yun questioned why all Eighteen Demon Emperors had attacked, and Old Drunkard explained that they feared the Sect Master's Seals.
• Old Drunkard revealed that the seals were forged from the Heart of Floating Sky and that a ninth seal had been lost to the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor.
• Old Drunkard joined Nie Yun's eight seals, letting Nie Yun sense that he could control Floating Sky Continent and wield overwhelming power there.
• Old Drunkard explained that uniting all nine seals would make Nie Yun the Lord of Floating Sky, but the final seal was guarded by the ancient, powerful Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor.
• Nie Yun asked whether the final seal was required to open Big Dipper Star Mansion, and Old Drunkard confirmed it was and warned that retrieving it would be difficult.

Nie Yun learned that Spirit Level Great Perfection souls were classified by how far they could extend into the Space-Time Turbulence, then began testing his own reach. His soul passed ten Floating Sky Continents with little resistance and kept extending, leaving his tier unknown.

• Old Drunkard explained that the eight Sect Master's Seals could activate the Floating Sky Continent's power against demons and described how he had lured and captured the Eighteen Demon Emperors.
• Elder Bei said saint-grade pills were needed to save Xia Quan, Xu Yun, and the other injured ancestors, but the required ancient herbs were scarce and dangerous to find.
• Old Drunkard explained the Human, Earth, and Heaven levels of Great Perfection and the soul-distance test in the Space-Time Turbulence.
• The four Supreme Elders tested their souls and reached between half and one Floating Sky Continent's distance, while Old Drunkard said he could reach seventeen.
• Nie Yun extended his soul beyond ten Floating Sky Continents and continued onward as the others waited to learn how far he could go.

Nie Yun learned a Martial Dao soul technique from Old Drunkard and used it to greatly strengthen his attacks. The two fought for hours in Space-Time Turbulence and ended in a draw, shocking the Four Great Elders because Nie Yun was only at the Void Absorption Realm.

• Nie Yun told Elder Dong and Old Drunkard that his soul had reached twenty-one gradients, surpassing Old Drunkard's.
• Old Drunkard gave Nie Yun a jade tablet containing the Martial Dao Masters' method for using Soul Force in battle.
• Nie Yun quickly mastered the technique and extended his Martial Dao Void Breaking Fist more than six hundred thousand kilometers through Space-Time Turbulence.
• Old Drunkard challenged Nie Yun, and they fought in Space-Time Turbulence while the Four Great Elders and hidden cultivators watched.
• After several hours, Nie Yun and Old Drunkard ended their battle in a draw, and the Four Great Elders were stunned that Nie Yun was only at the Void Absorption Realm.

Nie Yun used his Wood Life Master Talent to heal Xia Quan and awaken the eight sect ancestors, then prepared to undergo the Void Breaking Tribulation. Old Drunkard Xia Xing instead led Nie Yun, Tantai Lingyue, and the others through the Space-Time Turbulence to meet Nie Yun’s parents and the missing Huayun Sect experts.

• Nie Yun revealed his Wood Life Master Talent and healed Xia Quan, whose injuries and soul recovered completely.
• Nie Yun revived Ancestor Xu Yun and the other six ancestors, who learned of Nie Yun’s strength and his role as chief headmaster of the united eight great sects.
• Nie Yun asked Xia Xing to handle the sect unification while he sought a place to undergo his tribulation, but Xia Xing proposed taking him to see his family first.
• Nie Yun invited Tantai Lingyue to meet his parents as his future daughter-in-law, and she shyly agreed.
• Xia Xing led Nie Yun, Tantai Lingyue, Xia Quan, Xu Yun, and the others through the Space-Time Turbulence, where they reached an enormous Spatial Cage Zone.

Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue entered Old Drunkard’s vast Spatial Cage Zone, where time flowed a hundred times faster, and Nie Yun’s parents and friends had grown powerful through decades of cultivation. Nie Yun arrived to reunite with them just as they guessed how strong he had become.

• Old Drunkard explained that the Huayun Sect had developed the enormous Spatial Cage Zone, and Nie Yun recognized its hundredfold accelerated time and proposed using it to train the sect’s disciples.
• Nie Yun sensed his parents’ location and flew with Tantai Lingyue to find them.
• Nie Xiaotian celebrated reaching the peak of the Void Breaking Realm, while Nie Ling, Luo Zhanhao, Yang Yan, Feng Xiao, and Tie Lan discussed their own cultivation and their plans to go out with Nie Yun.
• Nie Yun’s friends speculated that he had reached the Primordial Saint Realm or the Immortal Realm after only a few months outside.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue emerged from the shattered void, and Nie Yun asked whether that was all the confidence they had in him.

Nie Yun reunited with his family and stunned them with his overwhelming strength before introducing Tantai Lingyue as the woman he loved. The chapter ended with his family learning that he had become the Huayun Sect Master and the most powerful person on the Floating Sky Continent.

• Nie Yun reunited with his family, and Yang Yan and Feng Xiao tested his strength, only to be blown away by a single breath.
• Nie Yun knelt before Nie Xiaotian and Nie Ling to apologize for worrying them.
• Nie Yun introduced Tantai Lingyue as the woman he truly loved, leaving Tie Lan heartbroken.
• Nie Xiaotian asked whether Nie Yun could take them with him when he left, and Old Drunkard arrived.
• Old Drunkard revealed that Nie Yun was the Huayun Sect Master, held the eight Sect Master's Seals, had merged the great sects, and was the top person on the Floating Sky Continent.

Nie Yun returned to Floating Sky Continent with Tantai Lingyue and his family, then overcame a powerful tribulation to break through to the peak of the Void Breaking Realm. As he and Tantai Lingyue prepared to enter a dangerous place, Nie Yun resolved to protect her from the fate she suffered in his previous life.

• Nie Yun spent more than three months guiding his family and friends while his own cultivation grew increasingly solid.
• Tantai Lingyue insisted on entering a dangerous place sooner than planned, and Nie Yun agreed to go with her after his breakthrough.
• Nie Yun brought his family and friends back to Huayun Sect, where the eight great sects and Linglong Immortal Sect had merged into the new Huayun Sect.
• Nie Yun secretly left Outer Heaven with Tantai Lingyue and passed a God Shattering Tribulation to reach the peak of the Void Breaking Realm.
• Nie Yun discovered that his mana, physical strength, and soul had greatly improved, and vowed to protect Tantai Lingyue.

Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue entered a perilous region of the Space-Time Turbulence to seek Daoist Diesheng’s Daoist Scripture. Tantai Lingyue revealed that she sought the Dao Race’s supreme cultivation art, Carefree Wandering, while Nie Yun resolved to protect her.

• Tantai Lingyue located the drifting Spatial Cage Zone, and Nie Yun followed her into it after accepting her protective jade pendant.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue entered a vast, dangerous land filled with powerful demon beasts, Netherworld Chillwind, and deadly insects.
• Nie Yun asked what treasure Tantai Lingyue sought, and she told him it was Daoist Diesheng’s Daoist Scripture.
• Tantai Lingyue explained that the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth were the Spirit, Demon, Buddha, Confucian, Devil, and Dao Races, and that the Dao Race had gone extinct hundreds of millions of years earlier.
• Tantai Lingyue said Daoist Diesheng was an incarnation of Zhuang Zhou and that she hoped his scripture contained the Dao Race’s supreme art, Carefree Wandering.
• When Nie Yun asked how she knew about the Dao Race, Tantai Lingyue said she had found the information in a hidden treasury.

Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue entered the Myriad Tide Thunder Sea in search of Daoist Diesheng's treasure, avoiding its dangers as they followed a golden passageway. After Nie Yun stopped Tantai Lingyue from rushing into a deadly attack, he began to question how she had died so quickly in his previous life.

• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue rested at the edge of the Myriad Tide Thunder Sea, and Nie Yun used Wood Life Qi to restore them.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue entered the thunder sea, protected themselves from its lightning, and avoided the Thunder Tide Golden Bugs as they fled in huge numbers.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue cautiously continued after the golden bugs vanished, then found a golden passageway leading to Daoist Diesheng's Daoist Scripture.
• Nie Yun stopped Tantai Lingyue before golden rays tore through the water in front of them.
• Nie Yun recalled Tantai Lingyue's death in his previous life and questioned how the attack could have killed her so quickly.

Nie Yun realized that Tantai Lingyue might have staged her death in his previous life to sever their bond, and he suspected she was now trying to die in the same way. He protected her from the golden lights and confronted her about who she really was.

• Tantai Lingyue revealed that her Innate Spirit Shield could withstand the golden lights and flew toward the passage with Nie Yun.
• Nie Yun reasoned that events unrelated to his rebirth had remained unchanged and concluded that Tantai Lingyue had possessed the shield in his previous life but had not used it before her apparent death.
• At the black membrane, Nie Yun stopped Tantai Lingyue from striking it and broke through with the Mad Dragon Azure Halberd, triggering a barrage of golden lights.
• Nie Yun blocked the golden lights with the Sect Master's Seals after they shattered his Martial Dao Void Breaking Fist and defensive turtle shell.
• Nie Yun concluded that Tantai Lingyue might be seeking an apparent death to make him forget her, then asked her who she was.

Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue confessed their feelings and agreed that he would accompany her until she left after they found Daoist Diesheng’s treasure. Inside the treasure passage, they reached a cottage, where poisonous gas nearly shattered Nie Yun’s body before Tantai Lingyue shielded him.

• Nie Yun rejected Tantai Lingyue’s belief in fate and promised to grow strong enough to face her family and protect her.
• Tantai Lingyue admitted that her mission and future left no place for Nie Yun, but broke down when he embraced her and vowed to bear her burdens.
• Tantai Lingyue said she would leave after they found Daoist Diesheng’s treasure, and Nie Yun asked to accompany her on the journey.
• Tantai Lingyue and Nie Yun entered a golden passage filled with chaotic space and time, then followed her careful footwork toward a thatched cottage.
• Nie Yun entered the cottage and was nearly torn apart by invisible poisonous gas, but Tantai Lingyue’s Innate Spirit Shield protected her and she formed a barrier to save him.

Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue collected the deadly poison in the thatched hut and uncovered a Daoist rune that revealed the ancient text of Carefree Wandering. Though neither could read the characters, Nie Yun suddenly recited the entire technique, leaving Tantai Lingyue stunned.

• Nie Yun failed to grasp the poisonous gas, so Tantai Lingyue gathered it into an air sac and Nie Yun stored it in the fifth hall of his Purple Splendor Cave Mansion.
• Nie Yun and Tantai Lingyue searched the hut and found Daoist Diesheng's corpse, then discovered a Great Dao rune on its neck.
• Tantai Lingyue activated the rune, causing ancient Dao Race writing to appear across the hut's roof.
• Tantai Lingyue said she could not decipher the writing and planned to memorize it for help from her clan.
• Nie Yun recited the full Carefree Wandering aloud, and Tantai Lingyue realized he was the source of the voice.