Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun and Nie Tong confronted Holy Sage Youlian, seeking information about the Asura King, and learned that he might be a King-Sealing Expert of Chaos. They left with Holy Sage Youlian guiding them toward the Nine Heavens World.

• Nie Yun knocked Ji Xiang and the blue-robed attendant unconscious after they tried to stop him from meeting Holy Sage Youlian.
• Holy Sage Youlian appeared and became enraged when Nie Yun asked whether he knew of the Asura King.
• Nie Tong slapped Holy Sage Youlian away when he attacked, then demanded an answer about the Asura King.
• Holy Sage Youlian said he knew little about King-Sealing Experts but suggested asking in the Nine Heavens World, where Ashoka King was one.
• Nie Yun ordered Holy Sage Youlian to take them to the Nine Heavens World, and the three departed.

Nie Yun learned about the Nine Heavens World and traveled with Nie Tong and Holy Sage Youlian to the Nine Heavens Platform. He reached it in less than ten days and seized the enormous platform in his hand.

• Holy Sage Youlian told Nie Yun that the Nine Heavens World was a vast world with nine peak Sky-Repelling Mirror Realm sect patriarchs, and that entrants had to pass the Nine Heavens Platform’s trial.
• Holy Sage Youlian explained that the Nine Heavens Platform lay more than a million Silver Moon Worlds away and had taken him over eighty years to reach on his return journey.
• Nie Yun sent Nie Tong and Holy Sage Youlian into the cabin, then used his Heaven-Slaying Realm power and fifth-form Origin Energy Dantian to drive the Dragon Boat Ancient Ship through Chaos at tremendous speed.
• Nie Yun learned that the Nine Heavens World’s Three Thousand Great Daos resembled his Three Thousand Talents and realized that over a hundred of his dantians had reached their fifth form.
• Within ten days, Nie Yun arrived at the Nine Heavens Platform, and Holy Sage Youlian confirmed it was the platform he had described.
• Holy Sage Youlian began explaining the platform’s eighteen stages, but Nie Yun seized the gigantic Nine Heavens Platform and shrank it into his palm.

Nie Yun and Nie Tong entered the Nine Heavens World after Nie Yun removed the Nine Heavens Platform and broke through the world’s protective membrane. Holy Sage Youlian chose to become their attendant, and the trio entered a city where a Chen Family young lady was holding an embroidered-ball matchmaking event.

• Holy Sage Youlian trembled as Nie Yun removed the Nine Heavens Platform with a glance and revealed the Nine Heavens World.
• Nie Yun opened a rift in the world’s membrane, and he, Nie Tong, and Holy Sage Youlian entered the world aboard the Dragon Boat Ancient Ship.
• Nie Yun offered Holy Sage Youlian the choice to leave and gave him currents to help him comprehend Great Daos.
• Holy Sage Youlian knelt, swore to serve Nie Yun and Nie Tong as their attendant, and Nie Yun agreed to let him stay.
• The three entered a city and heard that the Chen Family’s young lady was choosing a son-in-law by throwing an embroidered ball.

Nie Yun, Nie Tong, and You Lian watched the Chen Family begin an embroidered-ball marriage selection for Chen Luorong, whose father hoped the Heavenly Dao would choose her husband. As the sacrifice summoned a fearsome aura, a group of figures arrived and ordered the ceremony to stop.

• Nie Yun and his companions followed the crowds to the Chen Family after learning the clan was holding an embroidered-ball toss to find a son-in-law.
• Nie Tong explained that the ball’s supposed fate-driven landing was likely arranged, while You Lian feared that defying the Heavenly Dao would bring disaster.
• Chen Aoxuan introduced his daughter, Chen Luorong, and announced that the person chosen by the Heavenly Dao would become the Chen Family’s son-in-law.
• Chen Aoxuan began the heavenly sacrifice with numerous treasures, and Nie Yun prepared to study the Nine Heavens World’s Heavenly Dao.
• Several dozen figures flew in amid thunder and dark clouds, and one of them shouted for the ceremony to stop.

The Chen Family’s Heavenly Dao husband selection was interrupted by Lu Jiuchian and the Luo Xuan Sect, who demanded Chen Luorong marry Young Sect Master Lu Gongxian. Lu Gongxian agreed to let the selection proceed, but planned to kill whoever was chosen before the wedding.

• Lu Jiuchian blocked the Heavenly Dao’s pressure and confronted Chen Aoxuan, claiming the Chen Family was breaking its agreement with the Luo Xuan Sect.
• You Lian asked about the Luo Xuan Sect, and a bystander explained that the declining Chen Family had sought the sect’s help but faced pressure to give Chen Luorong in marriage.
• Lu Gongxian arrived on a seven-colored stag, greeted Chen Luorong, and dismissed her insistence that she would choose a husband through the Heavenly Dao.
• Lu Gongxian agreed to the selection while privately implying the chosen husband would not live until the wedding night, and Lu Jiuchian removed the object blocking the Heavenly Dao.
• Chen Luorong overheard their plan and accused Lu Gongxian and Lu Jiuchian of being despicable, asking whether they feared the Heavenly Dao’s punishment.

Nie Yun watched the Chen Family’s ceremony collapse after the Liu Family announced that the Heavenly Dao had stripped the Chens of their status among the Four Great Families. As Chen Luorong and Chen Aoxuan prepared to fight to the death, the embroidered ball landed in Nie Yun’s hand.

• Chen Aoxuan offered sacrifices to the Heavenly Dao and sent the embroidered ball into the crowd, where people fought to catch it.
• The Liu Family announced that the Heavenly Dao had replaced the Chen Family among the Four Great Families, leaving the Chens without their protection.
• The crowd fled from the embroidered ball, unwilling to become connected to the now-imperiled Chen Family.
• Chen Luorong declared that she would not choose a husband and would fight alongside her family, and Chen Aoxuan prepared to make the Liu Family pay.
• The embroidered ball stopped spinning, struck Nie Yun on the shoulder, and bounced into his palm.

Nie Yun accepted the embroidered ball after hearing the Nine Heavens World’s Heavenly Dao plead for help, and he confronted Lu Gongxian at the Chen Family’s wedding platform. When Lu Gongxian attacked Chen Luorong, You Lian intervened and sent him crashing to the ground with one slap.

• Nie Yun heard the Heavenly Dao ask for help through the embroidered ball and decided to investigate.
• Lu Gongxian threatened Nie Yun, but Nie Yun flew to the platform with Nie Tong and You Lian.
• Chen Aoxuan tried to call off the marriage to protect the visitors, while Lu Gongxian demanded that Nie Yun stay.
• You Lian insulted Lu Gongxian, prompting him to attack as Chen Luorong stepped in to fight him.
• As Chen Luorong began to struggle, Nie Yun ordered You Lian to act, and she slapped Lu Gongxian so hard that he crashed to the ground with half his face gone.

Nie Yun's attendant You Lian defeated Lu Gongxian and killed Lu Wanchou, revealing that she was a Heaven-Repelling Realm expert. When Luo Xuan Sect Grand Elder Lu Zhou intervened by voice transmission, Nie Tong killed Lu Gongxian before he could finish calling for help.

• You Lian knocked Lu Gongxian unconscious at Nie Yun's order, then Lu Gongxian recovered and summoned Lu Wanchou.
• Lu Wanchou arrived and threatened to slaughter the Chen Family, but You Lian killed him in one move.
• Liu Hongyan asked Nie Yun to identify himself, and You Lian slapped him away.
• Lu Zhou sent a warning through the void, prompting Lu Gongxian to call for revenge.
• Nie Tong struck Lu Gongxian and blew his head apart.

Nie Tong seized Lu Zhou after Lu Gongxian provoked him, and Nie Yun spared the Luo Xuan Sect group after they surrendered their treasures. The Chen Family welcomed Nie Yun and his companions at their estate, where Chen Luorong mistakenly assumed he intended to marry her and was told she had misunderstood.

• Nie Tong struck Lu Gongxian and then reached across space to capture Lu Zhou, leaving both men shocked by his strength.
• Lu Zhou and Lu Gongxian apologized, and Nie Yun ordered them to leave; Holy Sage Youlian made them hand over valuable treasures before they departed.
• Chen Aoxuan thanked Nie Yun, Nie Tong, and You Lian for saving the Chen Family and led them to the family estate.
• Chen Luorong followed the group to the discussion hall, assumed Nie Yun planned to propose marriage, and told him she could not leave the Chen Family.
• Nie Yun smiled and told Chen Luorong that she was thinking too much.

Nie Yun discovered that the Chen Family patriarch had been poisoned and turned to stone after a meeting with the nine major sects, then cured him with his Extreme Poison Talent. The patriarch awoke, and Nie Yun asked whether the nine major sects were hunting the Heavenly Dao.

• Nie Yun rejected Chen Luorong’s marriage advances, and Chen Aoxuan explained that the Chen Family patriarch had turned to stone after returning injured from a meeting of the nine major sects.
• Chen Luorong begged Nie Yun to save her grandfather and offered to become his concubine or servant.
• Chen Aoxuan led Nie Yun and the others to the patriarch’s sealed chamber, where Nie Yun broke the seals and identified the petrification as poison.
• Nie Yun cured the patriarch with a touch, and the old man awoke as Chen Aoxuan and Chen Luorong rushed to him.
• Nie Yun asked the newly awakened patriarch whether the nine major sects were hunting the Heavenly Dao.

Nie Yun learned that Xu Zhe and the Nine Heavens sects planned to refine the Heavenly Dao using the Four Directions Cauldrons, and that the Chen Family ancestor had been poisoned for opposing them. After agreeing to rescue the Heavenly Dao at the Nine Heavens Sect, Nie Yun discovered that Xu Zhe’s attendant had been guiding his decisions.

• Nie Yun guessed that the Chen Family ancestor had been persecuted for refusing to join the hunt for the Heavenly Dao.
• The Chen Family ancestor revealed that Xu Zhe wanted the Four Directions Cauldron to help refine the Heavenly Dao, and explained why he had opposed the plan.
• Nie Yun concluded that the Four Directions Cauldron had likely been found and that Xu Zhe was probably refining the Heavenly Dao at the Nine Heavens Sect.
• The Chen Family ancestor described Xu Zhe and the other sects’ strength, then recalled that Xu Zhe’s attendant had seemed to direct his decisions.
• Nie Yun agreed to go to the Nine Heavens Sect and rescue the Heavenly Dao, while warning that the attendant made the situation more complicated.

Nie Yun led his companions toward the Nine Heavens Sect to investigate the attempt to refine the Heavenly Dao, while studying the Nine Heavens World’s laws along the way. After announcing their arrival at the sect’s grand formation, he was invited inside.

• Nie Yun refused Chen Luorong’s request to join them and took Nie Tong, You Lian, and the Chen Family's ancestor away aboard the Dragon Boat Ancient Ship.
• Chen Aoxuan told Chen Luorong that Nie Yun lived on a different level from her, and she wondered what woman could earn his love.
• Nie Yun traveled slowly toward the Nine Heavens Sect, explaining that the Heavenly Dao remained safe for now and that observing the world would aid their cultivation.
• Nie Yun used his Heavenly Dao Master Talent to understand the Nine Heavens World’s Heavenly Dao and realized he could replace it if he wished.
• At the Nine Heavens Sect, Nie Yun sent a golden Paper Slip announcing his group’s visit to Lord Xu Zhe, and the sect opened a rainbow bridge to welcome them.

Nie Yun entered the Nine Heavens Sect, killed the men who had poisoned the Chen Family Patriarch, and overwhelmed Xu Zhe. Xu Zhe revealed that he had imprisoned the Heavenly Dao for a powerful expert, and Nie Yun tore open the world barrier to reach it.

• Nie Yun flew into the Nine Heavens Sect as the sect rang its Welcome Bell, and You Lian told the Chen Family Patriarch that Nie Yun far surpassed Xu Zhe.
• The Chen Family Patriarch identified Qing Xiao, Xu Zi, and Wu Yang as the men who had poisoned him, and Nie Yun killed them with a thought.
• Xu Zhe confronted Nie Yun, but Nie Yun struck him with his gaze and forced him to his knees with a flick of his finger.
• Xu Zhe revealed that he had captured the Heavenly Dao as a sacrifice for a powerful expert who planned to descend and help him break through.
• Nie Yun tore open the barrier above the Nine Heavens World and reached into the Chaos Ocean, where he found the Heavenly Dao trapped in a Formation.

Nie Yun confronted Ashoka King’s forces as they refined the Nine Heavens World’s Heavenly Dao, learning that a Chaos Spirit Gathering Pearl had given it consciousness and that Ashoka King planned to harvest it. After discovering the Heavenly Dao might offer a way to restore Tantai Lingyue, Nie Yun challenged Ashoka King’s Golden Armored General despite the threat of the Chaos Kings.

• Nie Yun learned that Xu Zhe had been sent to stall him while Ashoka King’s formation continued refining the Heavenly Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao revealed that Ashoka King had used a Chaos Spirit Gathering Pearl to give it consciousness so it could be harvested more effectively.
• Nie Yun stepped in to stop the formation, and Ashoka King’s possessed attendant warned him that interfering meant death.
• The attendant explained that Chaos Kings were peak Heaven-Slaying Realm experts who had perfected all Three Thousand Great Daos, and said the Asura King had been beaten down in realm by the other three kings.
• The attendant identified himself as one of Ashoka King’s four Golden Armored Generals and claimed his descending consciousness held only one hundred-thousandth of his true body’s strength.
• Nie Yun refused to leave and prepared to fight the Golden Armored General.

Nie Yun defeated and killed Ashoka King's Golden Armored General, rescued the Nine Heavens Heavenly Dao, and learned how Ashoka King cultivated Heavenly Daos. He left uncertain whether strengthening the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth could restore Tantai Lingyue's consciousness or replace it with someone else.

• Nie Yun broke the Formation and defeated the Chen Family ancestor with his swordsmanship.
• The middle-aged man tried to sacrifice the Heavenly Dao for power, but Nie Yun destroyed the Formation, blocked the golden light, and rescued the Nine Heavens Heavenly Dao.
• Nie Yun gave the middle-aged man ten breaths to act, then killed his avatar and burned away its fleeing soul.
• The Nine Heavens Heavenly Dao told Nie Yun that Ashoka King used Chaos Spirit Gathering Pearls to cultivate and harvest conscious Heavenly Daos.
• The Nine Heavens Heavenly Dao explained that a sufficiently large world could awaken its Heavenly Dao naturally, leaving Nie Yun worried that Tantai Lingyue might not return.

Nie Yun learned about the Chaos Divine Weapon grades and the distant Great Xuan Chaos Realm, where he hoped to find a way to revive Tantai Lingyue. He departed with Nie Tong and You Lian aboard an upgraded Dragon Boat Ancient Ship, while the Nine Heavens Heavenly Dao predicted he would make waves in the Slanting Moon Supreme Domain.

• Nie Yun collected and refined the Four Directions Cauldrons, then learned from the Nine Heavens Heavenly Dao about Chaos Divine Weapons and the Great Xuan Chaos Realm.
• Nie Yun obtained the Great Xuan Chaos Realm's location and told Nie Tong and You Lian to leave with him, while he entrusted Xu Zhe and the others to the Nine Heavens Heavenly Dao.
• The Nine Heavens Heavenly Dao gave Nie Yun the Nine Heavens Sect's treasures, and Nie Yun refined them into the Dragon Boat Ancient Ship, greatly increasing its speed.
• Nie Yun departed into Chaos with Nie Tong and You Lian, leaving the Chen Family ancestor behind.
• The Nine Heavens Heavenly Dao told the Chen Family ancestor that Nie Yun's resolve and comprehension of the Three Thousand Great Daos would let him stir the Slanting Moon Supreme Domain.

Nie Yun spent the voyage cultivating by unlocking his dantians’ fifth forms, greatly strengthening himself before the ship reached the Great Xuan Chaos Realm. He arrived at the enormous realm with Nie Tong and You Lian.

• Nie Tong told You Lian that Nie Yun was tempering his state of mind, while she continued advancing with the treasures from the Nine Heavens World.
• Nie Yun cultivated in his sea of qi and raised the number of dantians in their fifth form to 240, comprehending as many Great Daos.
• Nie Yun reflected that his thirty thousand years of rest had stabilized his mind and that his strength had more than doubled.
• Nie Yun spotted an immense world domain and identified it as the Great Xuan Chaos Realm.
• Nie Tong and You Lian joined Nie Yun as their ship reached its destination after roughly two years of flight.

After learning that a merchant caravan trading with the Slanting Moon Supreme Domain would attend Princess Maya’s birthday banquet, Nie Yun sought a way to obtain the noble status required for entry. At the Ninth Rank Hall, he learned that a second-rank title could be earned by curing the Prime Minister’s gravely ill birth mother, though the attendant warned him against the dangerous mission.

• Nie Yun, Nie Tong, and You Lian discussed the Great Xuan Chaos Realm’s immense gravity and learned that Princess Maya’s birthday banquet would welcome a merchant caravan that traded with the Slanting Moon Supreme Domain.
• Nie Yun decided to attend the banquet and ordered You Lian to find a way to obtain the second-rank noble status required for entry by the following day.
• You Lian told Nie Yun about the Ninth Rank Hall, where mission-completing cultivators could earn noble status, and the three went there.
• An attendant explained that the only mission offering second-rank noble status was to cure the Prime Minister’s birth mother, whose illness had baffled the empire’s experts.
• When Nie Yun asked why he should avoid the mission, the attendant warned that the Prime Minister’s residence ate people.

Nie Yun learned that treating the Prime Minister’s birth mother was a deadly mission, but he still sought to accept it. After discovering he needed at least a fifth-rank physician badge, he went to take an examination and claimed his complete Healing Great Dao qualified him to attempt the Ninth-Rank test.

• An attendant explained that the Prime Minister executed anyone who misdiagnosed his birth mother, and Nie Yun decided to take the mission anyway.
• Nie Yun reached the mission counter, where the girl refused to register him because he lacked a physician rank badge.
• The attendant directed Nie Yun to the nearby physician examination room, and Nie Yun left Nie Tong and You Lian to wait.
• The old examiner dismissed Nie Yun for seeking the Ninth-Rank Physician examination without prior credentials.
• Nie Yun asked whether comprehending a complete Healing Great Dao qualified him to take the Ninth-Rank examination.

Nie Yun proved that he had completely comprehended the Healing Great Dao and received a Ninth-Rank Physician badge, then accepted a task to treat the Chancellor's old madam. He entered the Chancellor's Residence with Nie Tong and You Lian, where the steward warned them to stay quiet while they waited for another physician to arrive.

• Nie Yun revealed his flawless Healing Great Dao, convincing the old physician to give him a Ninth-Rank Physician badge.
• Nie Yun showed the badge to the dismissive girl at the counter, accepted the Chancellor's task, and warned her against looking down on people.
• Nie Yun rewarded the young attendant with a Great Dao prototype and had him lead the group to the Chancellor's Residence.
• A steward brought Nie Yun, Nie Tong, and You Lian into the residence and warned them that trouble could cost them their lives.
• As the group waited in a courtyard, the steward announced that the Southern Heaven Medical Saint had arrived.