Chapter Summaries

Ye Tianming persuaded Xue Shaohua and Li Chilian that the Heaven-Slaying Alliance had to oppose Azure Heaven and rescue Yu Sande. The Silver Fish Immortal Ship reached the Azure Cloud Sect headquarters, where it crashed into the Mountain Gate's grand formation.

• Xue Shaohua accused Ye Tianming of exploiting Yu Sande's discovery to draw the Mystic Sun Sect into conflict with the Azure Cloud Sect, while Li Chilian questioned his role in the affair.
• Ye Tianming defended his record of helping cultivators and argued that the two elders had put themselves in danger by coming to meet him.
• Ye Tianming explained that the Heaven-Slaying Alliance sought freedom from the Heavenly Daos and that he would rescue Yu Sande and teach the Azure Cloud Sect a lesson.
• Ye Tianming said the attack would also test whether Azure Heaven had fallen into slumber while separating a Heavenly Emperor manifestation from itself.
• The Silver Fish Immortal Ship arrived above the Azure Cloud Sect headquarters in the Southern Wilds and slammed into its Mountain Gate's grand formation.

The Silver Fish Immortal Ship attacked the Azure Cloud Sect Headquarters after the sect captured Yu Sande, and Ye Tianming’s time-dao power slowed the surrounding world. Wang Ran and Ding Yuanlong recognized his presence and flew to confront the enormous hand invading the formation.

• Sun Zhuo and Lei Weng recognized the Silver Fish Immortal Ship and realized that the Heaven-Slaying Alliance had come to rescue Yu Sande.
• Azure Cloud Sect warriors and the mountain-guarding formation attacked the ship, but a gigantic hand diverted their energy assault and struck the Headquarters.
• Ye Tianming’s time-dao power spread across the Headquarters, slowing space-time and trapping ordinary people in stillness.
• Wang Ran and Ding Yuanlong recognized the time-dao aura from their past with Ye Tianming and suspected he was the hidden Ye Zun.
• Wang Ran and Ding Yuanlong used their azure heaven dao markers to break free of the stillness and flew to confront the hand.

Ye Tianming attacked the Azure Cloud Sect headquarters, overwhelming its guardians with his Torch Dragon power and Time Dao technique. Sun Zhuo confronted him as the sect’s experts broke the attack and the frozen flow of time, while the mountain gate’s Heavenly Dao power began to empower Sun Zhuo.

• Ye Tianming used the Silver Fish Immortal Ship to hold the Azure Cloud Sect’s mountain-guarding formation in check and attacked its headquarters with Constant Time Transformation.
• Wang Ran and Ding Yuanlong joined forces to block Ye Tianming’s palm strike, but it sent them flying and broke through the formation’s barrier.
• Dozens of Azure Cloud Sect experts, including at least three Heaven-Tier powerhouses, halted Ye Tianming’s giant palm and began breaking his constant-time domain.
• Sun Zhuo landed inside the headquarters, recognized Ye Tianming, and challenged him as Ye Tianming revealed his Torch Dragon form.
• Ye Tianming’s past pursuit of origins and cultivation of the Torch Dragon sacred body had made him a peak expert approaching the Heavenly Dao level.
• The mountain gate’s Heavenly Dao power poured into Sun Zhuo and raised his aura as he faced Ye Tianming.

Sun Zhuo invoked the Azure Cloud Sect’s mountain gate grand formation and ordered Ye Tianming to retreat, while the Heavenly Dao’s power watched Ye Tianming from the sky. Ye Tianming escaped aboard the Silver Fish Immortal Ship, but the forced retreat left him furious.

• Ye Tianming realized Sun Zhuo’s presence drew on the Azure Cloud Sect’s history, members, and collective will rather than his personal strength.
• Sun Zhuo commanded, “evil demons, retreat,” and the awakened mountain gate grand formation isolated Ye Tianming and attacked him with the sect’s gathered power.
• Ye Tianming recognized Sun Zhuo’s words as Words Become Law and fled beyond the formation’s reach.
• The Heavenly Dao’s taiyang power continued to watch Ye Tianming, forcing him to retreat to the Silver Fish Immortal Ship.
• The ship’s protection hid Ye Tianming from the Heavenly Dao’s gaze, but he remained humiliated and furious at having obeyed Sun Zhuo’s command.

Ye Tianming used the Silver Fish Immortal Ship as a diversion while an infiltrator rescued Yu Sande from the Azure Cloud Sect. The ship escaped with the rescued prisoner, leaving Sun Zhuo to investigate the sect’s security failure.

• Ye Tianming told Li Chilian and Xue Shaohua that an operative had infiltrated the Azure Cloud Sect and was rescuing Yu Sande while the ship drew attention.
• Sun Zhuo ordered the sect’s experts to attack the Silver Fish Immortal Ship, but its defensive barrier repelled their assaults.
• Lei Weng warned Sun Zhuo that the ship could attack or retreat freely, and Sun Zhuo refused to risk deploying more forces.
• An infiltrator emerged from the mountain gate with Yu Sande as Azure Cloud Sect experts pursued them.
• Ye Tianming fought off the pursuers, brought the infiltrator and Yu Sande aboard, and ordered the ship to escape.
• Sun Zhuo ordered the Prison Warden stripped of his post and imprisoned, then commanded the defenders to tighten security.

After Ye Tianming’s attack on the Azure Cloud Sect spread throughout the cultivation world, Sun Zhuo contained the sect’s internal purge and turned his attention toward the Mystic Sun Sect. At a Heavenly Realms Alliance assembly, the Mystic Sun Sect disowned Yu Sande, and the alliance agreed to hunt him down.

• Rumors of Ye Tianming’s raid and the sleeper agent’s role spread widely, damaging the Azure Cloud Sect’s prestige and frustrating Sun Zhuo.
• The Azure Cloud Sect traced the traitor to Wu Lianyi’s Lineage, then launched a sweeping investigation that weakened morale and combat readiness.
• Sun Zhuo halted the internal crackdown and decided to target the Mystic Sun Sect, which he suspected of connections to the Heaven-Slaying Alliance.
• At the Heavenly Realms Alliance assembly, the Azure Cloud Sect demanded that the Mystic Sun Sect surrender Yu Sande and answer for collusion.
• The Mystic Sun Sect blamed Yu Sande alone and agreed to expel him, while the alliance issued a Capture-and-Kill Writ against him.

The Azure Cloud Sect and other factions waited cautiously as the conflict between the Heavenly Court and Ye Tianming’s Heaven-Slaying Alliance intensified. At an Elders' Council meeting, Sun Zhuo and the Grand Elders identified Ye Tianming’s Silver Fish Immortal Ship as the key to defeating him, but acknowledged that its origins and concealment made it difficult to locate or destroy.

• Bei Yetang advised an elder on Cloud Summit Peak that the sect should wait and see while the Azure Cloud Sect considered its response.
• Factions across the righteous and demonic paths watched the growing conflict, while Ye Tianming’s rise and the origins of the Heaven-Slaying Alliance came under scrutiny.
• Sun Zhuo and the Azure Cloud Sect’s Grand Elders concluded that the Silver Fish Immortal Ship was Ye Tianming’s most important asset and discussed destroying it.
• Elders explained that the Silver Fish Immortal Ship was a supreme-grade Immortal Treasure that could cross the Myriad Realms, evade cause and effect, and conceal itself, making it hard to track.

Sun Zhuo told the Elders' Council that Azure Cloud Sect agents had infiltrated the Silver Fish Immortal Ship and could sabotage its central control to reveal its location. He kept secret that another important operative was already aboard, brought there by Ye Tianming himself.

• Sun Zhuo listened as the Grand Elders discussed targeting Ye Tianming and the Silver Fish Immortal Ship.
• Sun Zhuo revealed that his people had infiltrated the ship, startling the Elders.
• Sun Zhuo explained how the Heavenly Dao Alliance had planted agents among Ye Tianming's followers and gradually earned the trust of a few aboard the ship.
• Sun Zhuo said the agents would sabotage the ship's central control and transmit its location when necessary.
• Sun Zhuo concealed that another operative was already aboard because Ye Tianming had brought that person there himself.

The Silver Fish Immortal Ship reached a desolate starfield beyond the Spirit-Taming World’s reach, where Ye Tianming ordered the crew to stop and rest. Yu Sande met Xie You, thanked him and Ye Tianming for his rescue, and learned that the strange forces left in his body would gradually weaken as he recovered.

• Ye Tianming stopped the Silver Fish Immortal Ship in a remote starfield and ordered the Warriors to rest.
• Yu Sande woke, learned they had reached a safer place, and asked to see Ye Tianming.
• Yu Sande recognized Xie You as the man who had rescued him from the Warrior Administration’s prison, and Xie You explained he had acted on Ye Tianming’s orders.
• Yu Sande described the harmful forces the Warrior Administration had left in his body, and Ye Tianming examined his condition.
• Ye Tianming told Yu Sande the foreign forces could be worn away over time and urged him to recuperate aboard the ship.

Ye Tianming suspected that enemies were targeting the Immortal Ship and quietly investigated for spies among its followers and crew. As suspects were arrested, Yu Sande's foreign powers mutated, clouding his mind and driving him out of his private chamber.

• Ye Tianming told Elder Fu that he sensed danger to the Immortal Ship, and they considered whether spies had infiltrated it.
• Ye Tianming secretly questioned people aboard the ship over the next month while it regained mobility.
• After receiving the investigation's findings, Ye Tianming ordered the suspected infiltrators taken into custody.
• Yu Sande saw the arrests, returned to his private estate, and entered his secret chamber to suppress the foreign powers within him.
• The foreign powers merged into a surge that overwhelmed Yu Sande's seal, spread through his body, and muddled his mind.
• Yu Sande faintly saw himself rise and walk outside with an expressionless face.

Yu Sande, apparently controlled by an unknown force, slaughtered guards and attacked the Silver Fish Immortal Ship’s formation array hub, transforming part of the ship into a Flesh-and-Blood Tai Sui. Ye Tianming discovered that the creature had spread spores into the dead and wounded, while its blood mist began devouring spirit essence.

• Yu Sande killed the guards in his path as he fought his way toward the Immortal Ship’s formation array hub.
• Ye Tianming learned that Yu Sande was attacking the hub and hurried to stop him, but was told Grand Commander Lei and Grand Commander Feng had already moved to intercept him.
• Ye Tianming found the lower levels transformed into fleshy, blood-filled corridors and realized Yu Sande’s power no longer belonged to the Mengfang Bird’s system.
• Xie You identified the creature as a Flesh-and-Blood Tai Sui and warned that it could proliferate, parasitize living beings, and transform nonliving matter.
• Ye Tianming examined a fallen Warrior and found Flesh-and-Blood Tai Sui growing inside the corpse as blood mist spread and consumed nearby spirit essence.

Grand Commander Lei and Grand Commander Feng searched the transformed Silver Fish Immortal Ship for Yu Sande while the Flesh-and-Blood Tai Sui infected and devoured their men. Ye Tianming arrived in time to save Lei, using time manipulation to strike Yu Sande and smash his body through several corridors.

• Grand Commanders Lei and Feng discovered that the Flesh-and-Blood Tai Sui had infected their troops and retreated toward the ship's core while searching for Yu Sande.
• The Tai Sui's spores killed more than ten soldiers, and the Grand Commanders realized that dying would only feed the creature.
• A massive tentacle attacked Grand Commander Lei near the core, and its blood-red fluid infected him and spread more spores across the ship.
• Yu Sande ambushed Lei from behind, tore out his heart, and vanished with it.
• Ye Tianming appeared with Grand Commander Feng and used Constant Time Transformation and Time-Breath Stealth to strike Yu Sande first through reversed cause and effect.
• Ye Tianming's attack crushed Yu Sande and sent his ruined body smashing through several corridors into the ship's world barrier.

Ye Tianming contained the spore infection aboard the Silver Fish Immortal Ship, but the Azure Cloud Sect used Cicada Ninety-Nine to track the ship. Sun Zhuo sought help from the Heavenly Court and Sky-Patrolling Guards as the Heaven-Observing Treasure Mirror revealed the ship’s location.

• Ye Tianming ordered Yu Sande confined, sealed off the contaminated area, and arranged for exposed personnel and infected zones to be treated.
• Ye Tianming learned that a parasitic technique had infected Yu Sande and ordered his forces to withdraw from the dangerous area.
• At the Azure Cloud Sect’s headquarters, Sun Zhuo and Wang Zhu used Cicada Ninety-Nine to view the Silver Fish Immortal Ship through the spores and learned the connection could help track it for a limited time.
• Sun Zhuo decided to enlist the Heavenly Court and Sky-Patrolling Guards to pursue Ye Tianming’s ship.
• The Heaven-Observing Treasure Mirror revealed the Silver Fish Immortal Ship racing through the void, and a Golden-Armored Divine General reacted to its appearance.

Ye Tianming used the Immortal Ship to scatter misleading tracking markers and evade the Azure Cloud Sect pursuers. As their repeated teleports failed, the Heaven-Patrolling Divine General followed the true trail and appeared ahead of the ship.

• Ye Tianming realized his unease came from the Tai Sui spores left aboard the Immortal Ship through Yu Sande.
• Ye Tianming had his Warriors leave coffins containing mangled corpses on a Desolate Star, where a vast fungal forest soon grew.
• Ye Tianming repeated the maneuver at other locations, creating more false tracking markers.
• Sun Zhuo ordered the Azure Cloud Sect pursuers to teleport to the markers, but their attempts repeatedly led them to the wrong places.
• The Heaven-Patrolling Divine General followed the true trail through the void and appeared ahead of the Immortal Ship.

Ye Tianming and the Silver Fish Immortal Ship were trapped inside a projection of the Immortal Realm created by Fang Qianyuan as the Golden-Armored Divine General attacked. Ye Tianming summoned the Great Sage Torch Dragon to absorb and destroy the General’s strike, but the General remained before them.

• Ye Tianming recognized the Golden-Armored Divine General’s approach as a projection of the Immortal Realm appeared around the Silver Fish Immortal Ship.
• The Warrior experts discovered they were trapped in the projection, while Ye Tianming realized they might escape by defeating the General.
• The Golden-Armored Divine General attacked the Silver Fish Immortal Ship with a radiant halberd strike, and Ye Tianming used Time-Breath Stealth to evade it.
• Ye Tianming summoned the Great Sage Torch Dragon, who used When It Sleeps, Darkness Falls and Sun and Moon Boundlessness to form a black hole that swallowed and ground away the attack.

Ye Tianming used his Great Vow Art to wound the Golden-Armored Divine General and loosen the Immortal Realm projection, allowing the Silver Fish Immortal Ship to flee. As the ship escaped, a vast will descended, and Ye Tianming recognized it as Fang Qianyuan’s, wondering whether he had awakened.

• The Golden-Armored Divine General returned unharmed after Ye Tianming’s attacks, leaving the Heaven-Slaying Alliance aboard the Silver Fish Immortal Ship in despair.
• Ye Tianming realized the General was a projection sustained by Fang Qianyuan’s will and the Spirit-Taming World’s laws, making him nearly impossible to kill.
• Ye Tianming reaffirmed his vows to defy heaven and free all living beings from the Heavenly Dao.
• Ye Tianming invoked the Great Vow Art and sent a spear of light into the General, cracking his armor and shaking the Immortal Realm projection.
• The Silver Fish Immortal Ship seized the opening and fled as the General stopped trembling and watched it go.
• A vast will descended, and Ye Tianming recognized it as Fang Qianyuan’s and wondered whether he had awakened.

Ye Tianming recognized that Fang Qianyuan’s descending will was a rigid projection of law rather than his true body, but the Immortal Ship’s formation failed as the surrounding essence changed. Ye Tianming and Great Sage Torch Dragon sealed the Golden-Armored Divine General inside Torch Dragon’s eye, just as Sun Zhuo and the others arrived.

• Ye Tianming sensed that Fang Qianyuan’s will lacked the emotions and personal impulses of a living being and was moving toward supreme detachment.
• The Immortal Ship’s central formation array malfunctioned after the heaven and earth essence changed, leaving the ship unable to move.
• The Golden-Armored Divine General caught up and spread the Immortal Realm’s projection across the surrounding space.
• Ye Tianming and Great Sage Torch Dragon used Light Dao and Torch Dragon’s eye to drag the Divine General into the Black Abyss and seal him away, leaving Ye Tianming gravely injured.
• Sun Zhuo and the others arrived through a golden gate and found that Ye Tianming had already dealt with the Heaven-Patrolling Divine General.

Sun Zhuo ordered the Azure Cloud Sect forces to attack Ye Tianming’s trapped Immortal Ship before the Immortal Realm projection collapsed. Ye Tianming’s Warriors fought back, but the sect’s linked military formation kept rebuilding itself as the battle continued.

• Sun Zhuo realized Ye Tianming had killed the Golden-Armored Divine General and that the Immortal Realm projection was crumbling, then ordered his forces to board or destroy the Immortal Ship.
• Ye Tianming commanded his Warriors to hold off Sun Zhuo’s forces until the ship could move again.
• Nearly one thousand Human Rank Formation Soldiers combined their power into a massive Gang-Splitting Slash that fractured the Immortal Ship’s Origin Energy barrier.
• More than a dozen General-Rank Warriors attacked the formation, and its soldiers summoned Spirit Creatures to fight them; two Spirit Creatures and three Warriors fell.
• Ye Tianming’s other subordinates joined the battle, while Sun Zhuo’s Earth Rank Spirit Tamers entered the fray and the Azure Cloud Sect formation repeatedly closed its gaps.

Ye Tianming’s forces were close to collapse as Azure Cloud Sect fighters broke through the Silver Fish Immortal Ship’s defenses, forcing him to use Great Sage Torch Dragon’s time-stopping ability. He moved to strike the Rhinoceros Ox’s commander, but a time-dao Emperor-Rank Warrior appeared behind him.

• Three Earth Rank General-Rank Warriors from the Heaven-Slaying Alliance were surrounded and killed, leaving breaches in the Immortal Ship’s defenses.
• Two Emperor-Rank Warriors from the Warrior Administration entered the largest breaches with a Qilin Elephant and a Rhinoceros Ox, and the Rhinoceros Ox smashed onto the deck.
• The Rhinoceros Ox’s blood-and-essence armor withstood the defenders’ attacks as Azure Cloud Sect experts and Warrior Administration forces poured aboard.
• Two Emperor-Rank Warriors wounded the Rhinoceros Ox, but their attacks barely harmed the enormous beast, and the Heaven-Slaying Alliance’s forces began to falter.
• Ye Tianming activated Great Sage Torch Dragon’s divine ability, freezing time, and rushed to attack the Emperor-Rank Warrior commanding the Rhinoceros Ox.
• A Cicada Division Emperor-Rank Warrior with translucent wings appeared behind Ye Tianming, having mastered the time dao.

Ye Tianming fought Cicada Seventy-Six and a growing force of Azure Cloud Sect warriors while trying to avoid another injury. After the Spirit-Taming True Immortals and Cicada Division reinforcements overwhelmed Torch Dragon and wounded Ye Tianming, the two True Immortals appeared beside him and cut off his head.

• Ye Tianming dodged Cicada Seventy-Six's Spell-Breaking Blade and exchanged attacks with him using time-stopping Divine Abilities, leaving Cicada Seventy-Six badly injured.
• Ye Tianming's Torch Dragon shadow crushed the warrior commanding the Rhinoceros Ox, and Sun Zhuo ordered more fighters to attack.
• Two Cicada Division Warriors and two Spirit-Taming True Immortals joined the battle, and the True Immortals sent the Cicada Warriors into Torch Dragon's shadow to wound him from within.
• Ye Tianming used several Divine Abilities to attack the surrounding enemies, but Cicada Seventy-Six pierced him with the Spell-Breaking Blade.
• The two Spirit-Taming True Immortals appeared beside Ye Tianming and used Gang Edge to sever his head.