Arc 18Chapters 426–450
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.