Arc 18Chapters 426–450

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Ch. 426The Animated Comic Launch: "Oh No, I've Become the Heavenly Origin Heavenly Dao"

Yun Qing escaped the cages with Niu Niu and endured years of travel through the corrupted Wasteland Continent, protecting her as he fought the kanming heavenly burial’s erosion. He left Niu Niu in the Ye Residence with her reunited brother Xiao An, unaware that she had entered the household of Young Master Tianchen and that something uncanny surrounded her.

  • Yun Qing broke out of his cage during a rainy shift change, killed the guards, and freed Niu Niu.
  • Yun Qing removed the divine iron embedded in his back and Niu Niu’s, then traveled with her across the corrupted Wasteland Continent for years.
  • Yun Qing opened his double pupils to destroy a living statue, intensifying the corruption spreading through his body.
  • Niu Niu reunited with her younger brother Xiao An in a border town, and he offered her shelter at the Ye Residence.
  • Yun Qing gave Niu Niu supplies and a knife before leaving, while Xiao An revealed that she would serve Young Master Tianchen at the Ye Residence.

Ch. 427Thanks to Gu Princess for the Grand Gift of Dao Enlightenment

Yun Qing traveled through the Blood Haze Wasteland, witnessing its horrors and realizing that the continent’s corruption had made escape no true salvation. In New Domain City, he reunited with Niu Niu, now called Red Ji and one of Ye Tianchen’s Beloved Confidantes, as the sects gathered to plan their escape.

  • Yun Qing spared the villagers in a monstrous village and buried a temporary Purification Formation beneath their bridge to protect a child.
  • Yun Qing entered True Person Hua’s Daoist Hall and killed her, freeing the city’s cultivators from their nightmare but leaving them to face their ruined lives.
  • Yun Qing reflected on the shattered laws of the wasteland and, in his eighth year there, stopped sealing his five senses apart from his Double Pupils.
  • Yun Qing arrived in New Domain City and recognized Niu Niu, who now went by Red Ji, at a Cultivators’ Alliance Assembly.
  • Yun Qing realized the sects’ plan to escape through the World Barrier could spread the corruption, while Red Ji stood beside Ye Tianchen as one of his Beloved Confidantes.

Ch. 428Yun Qing, Are You Out of Your Mind? You're Saving Me?

Yun Qing interrupted Ye Tianchen’s ascension ceremony to save Red Ji from being sacrificed by the formation. As Ye Tianchen’s ascension faltered, Yun Qing positioned himself between Red Ji and the altar’s core.

  • Yun Qing learned that Red Ji’s father, the Profound Serenity Sect leader, had come to aid Ye Tianchen’s ascension.
  • Ye Tianchen drained the Sunken Continent’s remaining Fortune while the sects and their people hailed him as their hope.
  • Red Ji’s father bound her to the Ascension Formation with a Blood Kin Life Conduit so she would bear its corrosion for Ye Tianchen.
  • Ye Tianchen chose to rely on Red Ji’s father and told Red Ji he would remember her sacrifice as the formation activated.
  • Yun Qing appeared beside Red Ji, shattered the blood-red chain with Blood Refinement, and sheltered her behind him.
  • Yun Qing drew his spear toward the formation’s core as Red Ji realized he had found it.

Ch. 429Proving the Dao above the Heavens, Opening an Era of Chaos! (The First Glimpse of a Patriarch of All Worlds)

Yun Qing killed Ye Tianchen, causing the Wasteland Continent to collapse, and uncovered Gu Princess’s connection to Red Ji, Niu Niu, and the other figures from his past. As the world reached its end, Yun Qing attained Emperor Lingxiao Dao by vowing to protect all worlds from heavenly calamity and corruption, beginning the Chaos Dao Era.

  • Yun Qing pierced Ye Tianchen’s chest with the power of Kanming Heavenly Burial, killing him and triggering the Wasteland Continent’s collapse.
  • Yun Qing stopped Red Ji from stabbing him and revealed that she was an incarnation of Gu Princess’s memories; he also suppressed her attempt to self-detonate.
  • Yun Qing reflected on the calamity caused by Kanming Heavenly Burial and vowed to protect all worlds from corruption, manipulated fate, and ruin.
  • Yun Qing attained Emperor Lingxiao Dao, halting the collapsing heavens as the Wasteland’s destruction marked the end of the old era and the beginning of the Chaos Dao Era.

Ch. 430Yun Huang Completely Loses His Composure: The Dao You Attained Is Mine (Double-length chapter)

Yun Qing attained the Emperor Lingxiao Dao, shattered Gu Princess’s Wasteland illusion, and awakened in the void after breaking her curse. As Yun Huang learned that Yun Qing had taken the Dao he once attained, he began looking forward to their coming confrontation.

  • Yun Qing broke through to the Immortal Lord Dao Realm as the Wasteland Continent shattered and Red Ji vanished.
  • Gu Princess’s bone-and-crystal divination ball exploded, and she reacted with excited interest as Yun Qing awakened beside Ye Hui.
  • Yun Huang watched the three Dao scrolls burn and recognized that Yun Qing had attained the Emperor Lingxiao Dao, which Yun Huang himself had once mastered as Ji Huang.
  • Yun Qing woke in the void, destroyed the curse seal in his chest, and recalled being trapped in repeated trials while the Heavenly Demons hunted him.
  • Yun Qing comforted the badly wounded Ye Hui, fed him a Nine-Turn Supreme Clarity Mystic Origin Pill, and told him to leave the rest to Shopkeeper Yun.

Ch. 431"Charge! Kill Yun Huang and Take His Place!" Thus Spoke the Heavenly Dao (Two Chapters in One)

Yun Qing fought Gu Princess after she attacked him, countering her fate arts with his newly established soaring firmament Dao. Gu Princess summoned a young Yun Huang to face him, while the Heavenly Origin Heavenly Dao poured its fortune into Yun Qing and urged him to kill Yun Huang and take his place.

  • Yun Qing shielded Ye Hui and challenged Gu Princess, then attacked her with the Bear All Things Spear.
  • Gu Princess used fate threads and bone bells to conjure false memories of Blackwater Town, but Yun Qing saw through them and destroyed her illusions.
  • Gu Princess created blood puppets from Yun Qing's past selves, and Yun Qing defeated them before striking her down with Soaring Firmament.
  • Gu Princess summoned a phantom of young Yun Huang from a crystal ball and set him against Yun Qing alongside herself.
  • The Heavenly Origin Cauldron channeled the Heavenly Origin World's fortune into Yun Qing, and the Heavenly Dao urged him to kill Yun Huang and take his place.

Ch. 432Achievement: Beat Yun Huang Senseless, unlocked √

Yun Qing defeated the young Yun Huang’s Nine-Weapon Emperor Formation and destroyed the life core sustaining his image, while Gu Princess’s fate-thread attacks failed to penetrate Yun Qing’s chaos domain. After the young Yun Huang vanished, Gu Princess unleashed a rain of blood toward Yun Qing’s embryonic world, and he raised the Heavenly Origin Cauldron to protect Ye Hui.

  • The Heavenly Dao poured fortune into Yun Qing as he faced the young Yun Huang and Gu Princess on the Divine Platform.
  • Yun Qing used his embryonic chaos world to block Gu Princess’s fate threads and counter the nine weapons, pressing the young Yun Huang back with his spear.
  • After more than a hundred exchanges, Yun Qing found a gap in the emperor formation and shattered the life core in the young Yun Huang’s chest.
  • The young Yun Huang told Yun Qing to meet him at the end of the Dao path, then vanished; Yun Qing asked the Heavenly Origin Cauldron to record the fight so he could show Brother Huang.
  • Gu Princess unleashed the Heavenly Bloodfall of Filth and Sin, and Yun Qing summoned the Heavenly Origin Cauldron to suppress the attack and shield Ye Hui.

Ch. 433I Look Quite Lovely When I Cry. Want to See?

Yun Qing used his Sky-Piercing Great Vows to withstand Gu Princess's karmic blood rain while Fu Sanyuan severed her connection to the Human World's heavenly fate. With Gu Princess trapped and enraged, Yun Qing prepared to finish the fight as she warned that the Sacred Ruins would eventually corrupt all worlds.

  • Yun Qing let Gu Princess's blood rain enter his Chaos World, where his great vows became laws and formed a Sky-Piercing Chain that bound the sources of her blood threads.
  • Gu Princess tried to draw on the Human World's heavenly fate, but Fu Sanyuan severed her connection to it.
  • Fu Sanyuan revealed that he and Yun Qing had made a secret pact: Yun Qing would bait Gu Princess into a direct confrontation while Fu Sanyuan waited to sever heavenly fate.
  • Yun Qing gripped Bear All Things and stepped toward Gu Princess, declaring that it was time to end the fight.
  • Gu Princess cursed Yun Qing and warned that the Sacred Ruins would descend and assimilate all worlds into the Holy Race; Yun Qing faced her calmly.

Ch. 434Niu Niu, sleep

Yun Qing defeated Gu Princess by striking the Niu Niu hidden within her, and Niu Niu briefly regained clarity before vanishing. Her final warning revealed that Kanming Heavenly Burial had left hidden corruption in Yun Qing, as Fu Sanyuan and Yun Tianluo arrived in the void.

  • Yun Qing found Niu Niu inside Gu Princess and pierced Gu Princess's defenses with Bear All Things.
  • Gu Princess cursed Yun Qing and Ji Huang before Yun Qing closed her eyes and offered a blessing.
  • Niu Niu regained clarity, warned Yun Qing of dormant Kanming Heavenly Burial corruption in his heart meridians, and vanished.
  • A pure Heavenly Demon Blood Crystal formed from Gu Princess's remains.
  • Fu Sanyuan broke through the void with Blood Haze Copper Coins, and Yun Tianluo followed and checked that Yun Qing was unharmed.

Ch. 435Praise Yun Huang, That Lunatic

Yun Qing kept the Heavenly Demon Heart Crystal, which eased the contamination in his chest, and split it in half just as Fu Sanyuan prepared to fight for it. Bing Xixi and an army of Ice Dolls appeared to seize one half, leaving Yun Qing watching the confrontation with Bear All Things ready in his hand.

  • Fu Sanyuan rushed toward Yun Qing to collect the Heavenly Demon Heart Crystal, but Yun Qing withdrew it and questioned what he had promised.
  • Yun Qing discovered that the crystal had eased the lingering contamination in his chest, while Fu Sanyuan explained why the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion needed it for Star Seer.
  • Yun Qing split the crystal in two, kept one half, and tossed the other toward Fu Sanyuan.
  • Bing Xixi opened a rift and led a horde of Ice Dolls through it to snatch the flying half of the crystal.
  • Bing Xixi mocked Fu Sanyuan, and Yun Qing watched the two groups with Bear All Things ready in his hand.

Ch. 436Baldy Fu, Bing Xixi, and Crybabies

Fu Sanyuan and Bing Xixi fought over a Heart Crystal while Yun Qing kept his half and explained that the crystal could only partly suppress Kanming Heavenly Burial. He left the two rivals to discover its limits and seek a way to fight the Heavenly Demons.

  • Bing Xixi sent her Ice Doll army against Fu Sanyuan, and they traded attacks and insults as they fought for the Heart Crystal.
  • Yun Qing stroked the recovering Ye Hui, fed him Osmanthus Cake, and refused Yun Tianluo’s suggestion that they seize the other half of the crystal.
  • Yun Qing explained that the Heart Crystal could suppress Kanming Heavenly Burial but caused inner-demon-like side effects and could not cleanse contamination at the mighty cultivators’ level.
  • Yun Qing and Yun Tianluo remarked that Fu Sanyuan and Bing Xixi would need to kill Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons and seek a way to break Kanming Heavenly Burial.
  • Fu Sanyuan and Bing Xixi each gripped one end of the Heart Crystal in a stalemate, then called for their elders to help.

Ch. 437Yun Huang: Refusing to Aid the Enemy

Fu Sanyuan and Bing Xixi summoned their masters’ powers to fight over the heart crystal, splitting it before each was whisked away with a piece. Yun Qing stayed behind with the remaining fragment, unaware that Yun Huang had stopped coming to his aid because they had become rivals.

  • Fu Sanyuan summoned Star Seer, while Bing Xixi called on the sleeping Ice Lord to join their contest over the heart crystal.
  • Fu Sanyuan and Bing Xixi pulled the crystal apart, each taking half as Star Seer and the Ice Lord’s power carried them away.
  • Bing Xixi fled into the ice coffin after catching Yun Qing’s gaze, and the void fell quiet.
  • Yun Qing waited for Yun Huang to take him home, but no sign of Yun Huang or his power appeared.
  • Yun Qing put off returning and thanked Ye Hui for guarding his path, calling himself indebted to him.

Ch. 438Three Bows to Thank His Master! (Two Chapters in One)

Yun Qing took Ye Hui as his first disciple, completed the ceremony, renamed him Zhao Xuan, and gave him a cultivation scripture. In the Southern Continent, Yun Ruyi continued teaching Lin Muyao to repair spiritual veins and learned that Yun Qing had attained the Soaring Firmament Dao and taken a disciple.

  • Yun Qing asked Ye Hui to become his disciple, and Ye Hui accepted before Yun Tianluo presided over their ceremony.
  • Ye Hui completed three bows and nine kowtows, and Yun Qing named him Zhao Xuan and gave him the Eight-Nine Profound Art.
  • Yun Tianluo sent Yun Ruyi news of Yun Qing's attainment and new disciple, and Yun Ruyi decided to prepare a welcoming gift.
  • Yun Ruyi taught Lin Muyao to mend the Southern Continent's spiritual veins, and Lin Muyao managed to stabilize a small section.
  • Lin Muyao could no longer remember the Gu Princess or her traces, while Yun Ruyi wondered about the Emperor Lingxiao Dao and Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang.

Ch. 439Great Xia's Good Official, Back on Duty

Yun Ruyi continued teaching Lin Muyao and invited her to travel farther south after they repaired the spiritual vein. Back at the Heavenly Pivot Sect, Yun Qing warned Xia Wujie about an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon, Ye Hui killed Lin Buqun, and Xia Wujie ordered the sect executed before Yun Qing asked Yun Tianluo whether his official duties remained.

  • Yun Ruyi taught Lin Muyao to divide her wood spiritual power and invited her to explore farther south once they finished repairing the spiritual vein.
  • Yun Qing and his companions returned to the frozen moment after the battle at the Heavenly Pivot Sect, where Xia Wujie noticed Yun Qing's changed aura.
  • Yun Qing privately told Xia Wujie that an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon had appeared, and Xia Wujie agreed to inform Crown Prince Xia Wushang.
  • Ye Hui asked Yun Qing's permission to leave, killed Lin Buqun, and returned to stand beside his master.
  • Xia Wujie ordered Great Xia's troops to execute the Heavenly Pivot Sect, and Yun Qing prepared to leave with his companions.
  • Yun Qing asked Yun Tianluo whether he still had official duties as an appointed official of Great Xia.

Ch. 440You like charlatans? You have strange tastes

Yun Qing, Yun Tianluo, and Ye Hui left the Heavenly Pivot Sect, while Xia Wujie considered ways to profit from Upper Realm visitors and regretted missing a chance to recruit Fu Sanyuan. Yun Qing returned to Blackwater Town and entered A Little Shop, reflecting on the vanished people and memories of the street.

  • Yun Qing sent Yun Tianluo to finish his Great Xia administrative duties, and Xia Wujie considered charging Upper Realm visitors a fee to comprehend the Dao in the Human World.
  • Xia Wujie lamented that Fu Sanyuan had left before he could recruit him to teach stargazing and fate appraisal at the Sacred Dynasty Academy.
  • Yun Qing called Ye Hui by the name Zhao Xuan and said they would return to Blackwater Town.
  • Yun Qing found West Street bustling with different people and remembered that its former neighbors had come from the Wasteland Continent and were part of Niu Niu's memories.
  • Yun Qing left Blackwater Town's protective grand array in place and opened the door of A Little Shop.

Ch. 441Heavenly Dao: I'm a Fence-Sitter and Proud of It

Ye Hui inherited the Human World's Heavenly Mandate and Fortune, delaying his departure with Yun Qing until he fulfilled his destiny. Yun Qing accepted the separation for now, sealed A Little Shop, and later visited Liu Niang and Pei Junyao as they prepared for new appointments.

  • As Yun Qing prepared to leave A Little Shop, Fortune from the Human World flooded into Ye Hui and the Heavenly Mandate settled upon him.
  • Yun Qing calmed Ye Hui and explained that he would need to remain in the Human World to repair the severed Immortal Ascension Path before ascending to the Immortal World.
  • Yun Qing sealed A Little Shop and protected Blackwater Town's West Street, promising the Heavenly Dao that he would eventually take Ye Hui away.
  • Yun Qing stayed in the Human World longer and visited Liu Niang and Pei Junyao, who had been selected for official appointments by Great Xia.
  • Yun Qing found Liu Niang packing while Su Wanwan clung to her, and Pei Junyao sorted Jade Slips nearby.

Ch. 442My little brother is a good official of Great Xia-what's wrong with fleecing Great Xia a little?

Yun Qing visited Pei Junyao and Liu Niang before they departed for distant official postings and offered to help treat Liu Niang’s primordial maiden bone. He wrote to Crown Prince Xia Wushang, asking Pei Junyao to deliver the letter so Liu Niang could obtain a Nether-Continuing Pill from Great Xia’s treasury.

  • Liu Niang told Yun Qing that she and Pei Junyao had been appointed to posts in the Western and Eastern Territories, while Su Wanwan had been ordered back to the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect.
  • Pei Junyao told Yun Qing that Great Xia’s treasury held an ingredient for a Nether-Continuing Pill that might repair Liu Niang’s fate wheel, and that they planned to earn merit to petition for it.
  • Yun Qing offered to examine Liu Niang and said he would help secure treatment for her condition.
  • Yun Qing wrote a letter bearing the Yun Clan Seal Pattern and gave it to Pei Junyao to deliver to Crown Prince Xia Wushang.
  • Pei Junyao and Liu Niang bowed in gratitude, and Yun Qing asked them to treat him to wontons when he returned to the Human World.

Ch. 443The Eldest Young Master Yun, Unilaterally "Abandoned"

Yun Qing prepared Ye Hui to remain in the Human World while he and Yun Tianluo returned to Heavenly Origin, giving his disciple gifts, cultivation resources, and protections. After Yun Tianluo arrived, Yun Qing tried to summon the return passage, but the sky did not respond.

  • Yun Qing read Yun Tianluo's boastful letter and Xia Wushang's warning about the keepsakes Yun Tianluo had taken, then learned Yun Ruyi would stay in the Human World to pursue her Dao Path.
  • Yun Qing gave Ye Hui the Clear-Sound Fortune Bell from his martial aunt and promised to take him to meet his many siblings and Brother Huang after his ascension.
  • While waiting for Yun Tianluo, Yun Qing taught Ye Hui the Eight-Nine Profound Art and prepared him with a Storage Ring, a communication seal, and a one-use talisman.
  • Yun Qing comforted Ye Hui and promised to welcome him at Heavenly Origin's Heavenly Gate when he ascended; Ye Hui knelt and bowed before his master.
  • Yun Tianluo arrived, and Yun Qing activated the Heavenly Origin Cauldron to summon their return, but the sky gave no response.

Ch. 444The Legendary E-Rank Luck

Yun Qing decided to take his companions to Great Xia after no one came to bring them back, while the Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk fled the chaos and resolved to abandon the Heavenly Dao's missions. She stumbled into a gathering of the Twelve Dutian Demons, who identified her as potential material for their vacant seat.

  • Yun Qing told Ye Hui to accompany him to Great Xia and asked Yun Tianluo to lead the way, but Yun Tianluo admitted he was unfamiliar with it.
  • The Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk escaped the chaos with Elder Mu's pendant after Ye Tianchen died and decided to find a small world where they could cultivate anew.
  • The Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk encountered a ruined temple in the void, where the Twelve Dutian Demons argued over the Gu Princess's death and the vacant seat.
  • The Twelve Dutian Demons noticed the Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk and moved to seize her as new material, while she tried to escape by burning her lifespan.

Ch. 445Despicable Xia Wujie

The Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk was seized by the Ruins Shadows and chosen to replace the dead Gu Princess. At Great Xia’s Eastern Palace, Yun Qing met Xia Wushang, who recognized his gains from the Human World, while Yun Qing discovered the Crown Prince had reached the half-step Immortal Lord realm.

  • The Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk tried to flee through the Void Rift, but the Ruins Shadows caught her and drained her cultivation.
  • The Ruins Shadows told the Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk that she would replace the dead Gu Princess.
  • Xia Wujie proposed charging Upper Realm disciples fees to train and comprehend the Dao in the Human World, and Xia Wushang told him to put away his regulations.
  • Yun Tianluo teased Xia Wujie about unpaid salary, but Xia Wujie pretended to launch an investigation into the Ministry of Personnel.
  • Yun Qing and Xia Wushang exchanged greetings and discussed Yun Qing’s gains from his journey through the Human World.
  • Yun Qing sensed that Xia Wushang had reached the half-step Immortal Lord realm, with only the final step remaining before the Human Emperor Way fully took shape.

Ch. 446Did you and that person from the Yun Clan... have a fight?

Yun Qing met with Xia Wushang to arrange care for Ye Hui, secure pills for Liu Fuqu and Pei Junyao, and request Great Xia’s cross-world transport formation. As preparations for the formation continued, Xia Wujie raised the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect and began reporting on the order to purge the Human World’s Immortal Sects.

  • Yun Qing and Xia Wushang discussed their progress in their respective ways, while Xia Wujie jokingly proposed that the Yun Clan sponsor Great Xia’s enlightenment trial.
  • Yun Qing introduced Ye Hui, courtesy name Zhao Xuan, and asked Xia Wushang to look after him; Xia Wushang gave Ye Hui a Great Xia command token.
  • Xia Wushang confirmed that Great Xia had gathered the ingredients for Liu Fuqu’s pills and expected them to be ready in about half a month.
  • Yun Qing showed Xia Wushang the Immortal Court Seal and asked to borrow Great Xia’s cross-world transport method; Xia Wushang said they could attempt to open a narrow gap, but Yun Qing left responsibility for rebuilding the passage to Ye Hui.
  • Xia Wujie said Great Xia needed about half a month to prepare the formation and asked whether Yun Qing and Yun Tianluo knew of the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect.
  • Xia Wujie began reporting to Xia Wushang about the order to purge the Human World’s Immortal Sects.

Ch. 447All Four Eyes Heard You-Xia Wujie, Stop Acting!

Xia Wujie told Xia Wushang that the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect resisted Great Xia’s decree but might descend from the Yun Clan. Yun Qing and Yun Tianluo agreed to investigate the sect, while Great Xia prepared the Cross-Realm Formation.

  • Xia Wujie reported that most Human World sects had submitted to Great Xia, while the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect and three others still resisted.
  • Xia Wujie pointed out that the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect’s formation and greetings resembled ancient Yun Clan traditions, prompting Yun Qing and Yun Tianluo to recognize his deliberate hint.
  • Xia Wushang questioned why Xia Wujie had not reported the suspected Yun Clan connection sooner, and Xia Wujie asked the Yun brothers to decide what should be done.
  • Yun Tianluo suggested the sect’s founders might have been Yun Clan members stranded in the Human World after the passage was severed.
  • Yun Qing agreed to visit the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect with Yun Tianluo and bring any surviving Yun Clan descendants back to Heavenly Origin.
  • Xia Wujie offered to lead them, but Yun Tianluo declined his suspicious assistance, and Xia Wushang said the Cross-Realm Formation should be ready when they returned.

Ch. 448Sorry, Master, I Want to Eat QAQ

Yun Qing, Yun Tianluo, and Ye Hui visited the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect and found signs of the Yun Clan’s ancient formation inheritance. After Su Wanwan recognized Yun Qing and vouched for his power, he probed the sect and revealed his Yun Clan Command Token, leaving the elders stunned.

  • Yun Qing and Yun Tianluo identified Yun Clan formation patterns throughout the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect, while Ye Hui quietly ate a Vermilion Fruit.
  • Yun Qing, Yun Tianluo, and Ye Hui appeared above the sect, alarming its disciples and summoning the seven elders.
  • The elders mistook the visitors for possible agents of Great Xia and declared that the sect would not submit to a mortal dynasty.
  • Su Wanwan recognized Yun Qing as the person who had helped cure Liu Fuqu and warned her master, Su Mingya, not to provoke him.
  • Su Mingya invited the visitors inside, but Yun Qing swept his spiritual sense through the sect and produced the Command Token of the Yun Clan’s foremost Young Master.

Ch. 449The Old Man Bawling in Yun Qing's Arms (Double-length chapter)

Yun Qing and Yun Tianluo reunited with Yun Guihe, a long-exiled Yun Clan Immortal Lord who had founded the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect while waiting to return home. As Yun Guihe asked about the clansman Yun Hong who had saved him, Yun Tianluo revealed that Yun Hong was the Second Elder’s younger brother and Shuanghua’s…

  • Yun Qing and Yun Tianluo identified themselves as the Yun Clan’s First and Second Young Masters, and the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect’s formation opened for them.
  • Yun Guihe emerged from seclusion, recognized their clan tokens, and welcomed them as kin.
  • Yun Guihe reunited with Yun Qing and wept as he recounted his long exile and the collapse of the passage between the human and immortal worlds.
  • Yun Qing told Yun Guihe that he had been raised by Yun Yuan, prompting Yun Guihe to ask about Yun Hong, who had held off the demon soldiers to help him escape.
  • Yun Tianluo explained that Yun Hong was the Second Elder’s younger brother and began revealing his connection to Shuanghua.

Ch. 450Clueless little snake, learn some tact from your master (double-length chapter)

Yun Qing revealed that Yun Shuanghua was the orphaned son of Yun Hong and Minghui, whose deaths at the Northern Border had haunted Yun Guihe for ten thousand years. He invited Yun Guihe to return to the Yun Clan and fight in the coming war, then oversaw his departure from the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect; the chapter ended with Yun Qing questioning its elders about their support for Ye Tianchen.

  • Yun Tianluo explained that Yun Hong and Minghui died defending the Northern Border after sealing away their unborn son, who was later found and raised by Yun Yuan as Yun Shuanghua.
  • Yun Qing comforted Yun Guihe, telling him not to blame himself for the couple’s deaths and asking whether he would fight for the Yun Clan again.
  • Yun Guihe pledged to serve the Yun Clan and agreed to return to Heavenly Origin after settling the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect’s affairs.
  • Yun Guihe entrusted the sect’s leadership to his first disciple, Yun Huaizhou, as the elders mourned his departure.
  • Yun Qing asked the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect elders whether they had truly staked their strength on Ye Tianchen, the Human World’s Child of Heaven’s Mandate.
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