Recaps

After the Azure Lotus Sword Sect recovered, Luo Qinglian remained chained in Heaven Beyond Heaven until Yun Huang released him exactly three days later. Luo Qinglian regained his senses and acknowledged the Yun Clan’s help, but as he began to speak to Yun Huang, a hidden blood-red line lit up inside his sword.

• The Azure Lotus Sword Sect disciples woke from the illusions, and Lu Qingxiao told Li Qingming and Liu Qingwu that their Sword Master had gone to cut down Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang.
• Yun Qing realized the promised three days had passed and rushed back to Heaven Beyond Heaven, with Lu Qingxiao following him.
• Yun Huang withdrew the chains as soon as Yun Qing and Lu Qingxiao arrived, and Luo Qinglian immediately attacked Yun Huang.
• Lu Qingxiao grabbed Luo Qinglian’s leg and urged him to regain his senses, but Luo Qinglian revealed he was already clear-minded and had attacked out of anger.
• Luo Qinglian thanked Yun Qing for the Yun Clan’s help, then began addressing Yun Huang as a blood-red line inside the Azure Lotus Sword suddenly lit up.

Yun Qing reunited with Little Radiant Chick and Qing Kitty after the bird swallowed Blood Nie’s hidden Burial Breath, then learned that Luo Qinglian had agreed to return to the Thirty-Three Heavens. Luo Qinglian’s return was left set for today after Yun Huang offered to choose the day for him.

• Blood Nie’s concealed Burial Breath shot toward Yun Qing, but Little Radiant Chick appeared and swallowed it before it could reach his eyes.
• Yun Qing panicked over Little Radiant Chick eating the vile breath, then calmed down when Yun Huang explained that its Radiant Sun Divine Flame had already burned it away.
• Yun Qing found Qing Kitty nestled in Little Radiant Chick’s feathers and was astonished that the kitten was still at the Qi Refining stage.
• Yun Qing welcomed both companions, fed them Vermilion Fruits, and embraced them after Little Radiant Chick shrank back into a palm-sized fluffball.
• Luo Qinglian reminded Yun Qing that he had come to persuade him to return to the Thirty-Three Heavens, then agreed to resume his place there.
• Yun Huang suggested that Luo Qinglian return that very day, despite Luo Qinglian’s claim that he had planned to choose an auspicious day over the next several million years.

Luo Qinglian agreed to return his true form to its place while keeping his avatar in the Azure Lotus Sword Sect. As the Azure Lotus Sword awakened, Sword Heaven rose from the void and began returning to its place among the Thirty-Three Heavens.

• Luo Qinglian agreed to return his true form after Yun Huang promised to receive the missing heaven, while Lu Qingxiao worried that his master might provoke the Immortal Emperor.
• Yun Qing promised that Luo Qinglian could return freely to the Azure Lotus Sword Sect, then accidentally patted Yun Huang's head while soothing Little Radiant Chick and Qing Kitty.
• Lu Qingxiao covered Luo Qinglian's mouth to stop him from mocking Yun Qing and Yun Huang, then urged him to begin moving his origin.
• Luo Qinglian stirred the Azure Lotus Sword, causing swords throughout the Azure Lotus Sword Sect to ring and Sword Dao origins to surge skyward.
• An immense azure lotus formed in Myriad Lotus Heaven as Sword Heaven returned to its place and the final gap in the Thirty-Three Heavens began to close.

After returning to his rightful place, Luo Qinglian remembered that he had once admired Yuan Huang’s Dao Sword, while Yun Huang amused Yun Qing by revealing the embarrassing secret. Luo Qinglian left to confront the Heavenly Demon, and Yun Qing remained concerned that Qing Kitty was stuck at Qi Refining.

• Luo Qinglian recalled that, before becoming a person, Sword Origin Heaven had eagerly gathered around Yuan Huang and admired his supreme Dao Sword.
• Yun Huang told Yun Qing that Luo Qinglian had been unusually well-behaved around him in the past.
• Luo Qinglian vowed revenge on the Heavenly Demon and left with Lu Qingxiao.
• Yun Qing questioned Qing Kitty and Little Huang about their cultivation, but Yun Huang said there was no known precedent for overcoming Qing Kitty’s bottleneck.

Yun Qing comforted Qing Kitty after Yun Huang said he might never advance beyond Qi Refining, then sent Vermilion Fruits to Ye Hui through the Heavenly Origin Cauldron. In the Human World, Ye Hui explored his Chaos Heaven-Devouring Python abilities, while Yun Ruyi comforted Lin Muyao and persuaded her to help restore the land; Yun Ruyi then said she would briefly leave.

• Yun Qing reassured Qing Kitty that he could grow into a majestic Cat Ancestor, and shared Vermilion Fruits with Qing Kitty and Little Radiant Chick.
• A Vermilion Fruit dropped onto Ye Hui, who transformed into a little black snake, happily ate it, and then tested his ability to consume nine-heavens Geng metal and travel through the void.
• The Great Xia Ancient Dynasty investigated possible Heavenly Demon agents as Ye Hui cultivated and worked to rebuild the passage between the Human and Immortal Worlds.
• Lin Muyao learned that the Heavenly Pivot Sect's sect master and Ye Tianchen had died, and Yun Ruyi comforted her and told her about her birth parents.
• Yun Ruyi asked Lin Muyao to help restore spiritual veins in the Human World, and Lin Muyao agreed and resumed her work.
• Yun Ruyi told Lin Muyao she would leave for a short time in a few days but would return within a day.

Yun Ruyi invited Lin Muyao to travel with her toward the Netherworld Domain, while Yun Qing took a rare day off in Heaven Beyond Heaven and fell asleep. His rest led him into an unusual dream of a gray-white river filled with indistinct figures.

• Yun Ruyi offered Lin Muyao a brocade pouch for protection and invited her to come along, and Lin Muyao eagerly agreed.
• Yun Ruyi looked toward the Netherworld Domain and hoped their journey would avoid the worst possible outcome.
• With the Nine Heavens Restoration complete, Yun Qing left the remaining investigations to the elders and settled down beside a spiritual lake in Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• The Little Radiant Chick and Qing Kitty joined Yun Qing atop a cloud of spiritual mist, and he amused himself with poetry before falling asleep.
• Yun Qing dreamed of a boundless nether gloom and a gray-white river carrying countless indistinct figures.

Yun Qing dreamed that Yun Chi’s soul was swallowed before reincarnation, then learned from Yun Huang that reincarnation had shattered when the three realms were separated. Their conversation was interrupted by a massive demon tide attacking Heavenly Origin’s western world barrier.

• Yun Qing dreamed of Yun Chi being swallowed by a ghostly maw and suspected the Ghost Ruins were disrupting reincarnation.
• Yun Qing went to ask Yun Huang about the dream, and Yun Huang said the Ghost Realm situation had reached the point where they had to act.
• Yun Huang revealed that reincarnation had shattered when the immortal, human, and ghost realms were separated.
• An urgent message warned Yun Qing that a demon tide was invading, and he and Yun Huang saw heavenly demons gnawing at Heavenly Origin’s western world barrier.

Yun Qing returned to the Yun Clan Ancestral Grounds as a massive demon tide gathered beyond the world barrier, and he organized the Twelve Young Masters to join the battle. The clan prepared to depart once Yun Zui returned from the Phoenix Clan, while Yun Tianluo asked what they would do about Yun Ruyi.

• Yun Qing left Yun Huang to watch Little Radiant Chick and Qing Kitty and hurried back to the Yun Clan Ancestral Grounds.
• Yun Che and Yun Yuan briefed Yun Qing on a demon tide of at least a hundred thousand Heavenly Demons gathering at the western frontier.
• Yun Qing received word that Yun Zui and Feng Jiuxiao had emerged together from the Phoenix Ancestral Homeland.
• Yun Qing proposed taking the younger generation to fight and temper themselves, and Yun Yuan and Yun Che agreed to accompany them.
• The Twelve Young Masters gathered at the Ancestral Grounds, and Yun Qing said they would set out after Yun Zui returned.
• Yun Tianluo asked Yun Qing what they would do about Yun Ruyi.

Yun Zui reunited with the Yun Clan after refining the Phoenix Clan's nirvana flames into her fire Dao, and she traded jokes with Yun Jinglei before Yun Qing called everyone to discuss reinforcing the Western Territory. The clan prepared to join the fight against the demonic tide, with the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land leading the response.

• Yun Qing said Yun Ruyi would not join the gathering because she still had to follow her own path.
• Yun Zui and the Seventh Elder arrived at the Ancestral Homeland, and Yun Qing recognized the strength of Yun Zui's renewed fire Dao.
• Yun Jinglei asked Yun Zui about her cultivation, and she teased that she could beat eight of them before challenging him to a match.
• Yun Qing stopped the joking and told the clan to leave extra Heavenly Demons for Yun Jinglei on the battlefield.
• The First Elder explained that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land would lead the Western Territory response while other powers sent elite reinforcements.

The Yun Clan organized a Western Territory expedition, including thirty-six young members whose relatives had fallen in battle, and Yun Qing led the force through teleportation formations. They reached the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land, where the Heavenly Demon’s swarm was attacking the world barrier.

• Yun Che assigned Yun Yuan to lead thirty thousand Cloud Valor Guards and elders to reinforce the Western Territory while contingents were stationed across the Nine Heavens.
• Yun Qing learned that thirty-six young clan members had volunteered, including many who had lost relatives on the Nine Heavens Azure Cloud List.
• Yun Qing led the young members and Cloud Valor Guards through the Cross-Regional Teleportation Formations toward the Western Territory.
• Yun Jinglei and Yun Tianluo arrived in the Western Territory and saw demonic creatures gnawing at the world barrier near the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land.
• The Yun Clan announced its arrival as the Heavenly Demon’s forces pressed against the barrier.

Yun Qing and the gathered forces of the Western Territory joined together to defend the World Barrier from the Heavenly Demons. After the battle began, Yun Qing led eleven young masters into the demonic tide, where they fought in coordinated formation and cleared a path.

• Yun Qing recognized familiar young cultivators and forces arriving to reinforce the Western Territory, and exchanged greetings with Jiang Shinian, Liu Qingwu, Li Qingming, and Feng Ling'er.
• Feng Ling'er told Yun Qing she was all right after he asked about the trouble in her clan, then challenged him to see who would slay more demonic fiends.
• An Immortal Venerable attacked the demonic tide, prompting Zen Master Mingjing and the leaders of the gathered forces to divide the Western Territory's defensive line.
• Yun Qing led the Yun Clan's Cloud Valor Guards and eleven young masters into battle against the Heavenly Demons.
• Yun Qing's group fought in coordinated roles and carved a clear path through the demonic mist while Yun Qing warned them not to underestimate the enemy.

The Yun Clan's eleven young masters fought through the demonic tide until Yun Poxiao was targeted by a coordinated suicide attack. Yun Qing saved him inside the Primordial Soaring Firmament World, where Yun Poxiao's nascent Dao merged with Yun Qing's and unleashed a powerful strike.

• The Yun Clan's young masters combined their abilities to slaughter Demonic Beasts while joking with one another as they advanced in formation.
• The demonic tide concentrated suicidal attacks on Yun Poxiao, and Yun Qing drew him into the Primordial Soaring Firmament World to protect him.
• Yun Qing moved his domain like a vast formation to intercept the demonic tide while Yun Poxiao watched from within.
• Yun Poxiao entered a tranquil state as he observed Yun Qing's domain and unconsciously followed his Eldest Brother's attack with a punch.
• Yun Poxiao's nascent Dao emerged in the domain and merged with Yun Qing's Great Dao, producing a strike of tremendous power.

Yun Qing and Yun Poxiao combined their power through the Primordial Soaring Firmament World to crush a Demon General and drive him into retreat, while Yun Qing secretly marked him with a Chaos Dao Rune. After the battle, Yun Qing’s siblings realized they might each be able to combine their Daos with his domain, and he promised to try it with them once they returned to the Yun Clan.

• Yun Poxiao resonated with Yun Qing’s domain and helped him unleash a punch that devastated the demonic tide and severely wounded the Demon General.
• The Demon General threatened the Yun Clan, ordered the demonic tide to attack, and fled when Yun Qing and Yun Poxiao struck at him again.
• Yun Qing revealed that he had planted a Chaos Dao Rune on the Demon General so he could track him back to the force behind the invasion.
• The Twelve Young Masters questioned Yun Poxiao about how he had combined his power with Yun Qing’s domain, but could not follow his intuitive explanation.
• Yun Qing’s siblings imagined how their own Daos might combine with his domain, and he promised to test their compatibility after the battle.
• Yun Jinglei, Yun Baojian, and Yun Zui argued over who would try first, while Yun Shuanghua quietly volunteered as well.

Yun Qing and the Twelve Young Masters of the Yun Clan joked about who would get his favor while fighting the demon tide in the Western Territory. As the elders protected and trained the younger disciples, the battlefield began to stabilize, but the cause of the demonic invasion remained unknown.

• Yun Li won Yun Qing's approval, prompting the other young masters to argue over who would get to try next.
• Yun Qing pointed his spear at the approaching demon tide, and Yun Jinglei proposed that whoever killed the most demons would go first.
• Yun Yuan and another Yun Clan Elder watched over the young disciples, letting them fight while intervening to save them from mortal danger.
• Yun Yuan said the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land and other sects had found no clues about the suspicious invasion, and he vowed to fight until the demons revealed their purpose.
• Yun Yuan and the other elder destroyed nearby demonic beasts as the armies of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land, the Azure Lotus Sword Sect, and other factions pushed the battlefield toward stability.

While Yun Qing fought the Demon Tide in the Western Territory, Qing Kitty and Little Radiant Chick ran wild in Heaven Beyond Heaven, harassing the immortal carp as Yun Huang relaxed and ignored them. Yun Huang eventually watched Yun Qing and Yun Poxiao combine their Daos in battle, taking interest in their technique.

• Qing Kitty chased Little Radiant Chick through Yun Huang's flower garden, trampling the heavenly star epiphyllums before Yun Huang briefly petted the cat and sent it back to play.
• Qing Kitty and Little Radiant Chick repeatedly harassed the immortal carp in the Spirit Pool until the fish hid at the bottom.
• Yun Huang formed a Water Mirror to check on Yun Qing's battle in the Western Territory.
• Yun Huang watched Yun Qing and Yun Poxiao jointly strike a Demon General with an attack combining their Daos within the Chaos Domain, and praised the method.
• Qing Kitty and Little Radiant Chick crowded around the Water Mirror when they saw Yun Qing.

Yun Huang realized Yun Qing’s chaos domain could help him comprehend other Dao Principles and decided to make Yun Qing practice with him when he returned. Meanwhile, an injured Heavenly Demon reached Dutian Lord and provoked his anger by claiming the Yun Clan had insulted him.

• Yun Huang decided to drag Yun Qing into practice after he returned, while Yun Qing sensed an ominous feeling on the Western Territory battlefield.
• Yun Qing kicked Yun Jinglei into the demon tide after his brother joked that Yun Qing was lashing out from embarrassment.
• The wounded high-ranking Heavenly Demon escaped the battlefield and entered a black Devil Palace to report to Dutian Lord.
• The Heavenly Demon told Dutian Lord that Yun Qing and the other Yun Clan youths had mocked the Twelve Dutian Demons and insulted Dutian Lord.
• Dutian Lord erupted in fury, shaking the Devil Palace and startling the kneeling Heavenly Demon.

You Tui killed a defeated Heavenly Demon and vowed to conquer Heavenly Origin, devour its Nine Heavens, and overthrow Pi Hai’s control. As he ordered the entire Western Territory front to advance, Yun Qing and Yun Yuan sensed trouble and received orders to regroup the Twelve Young Masters at the elders’ formation.

• You Tui killed the wounded Heavenly Demon who had returned from fighting the Twelve Young Masters, then consumed his Demon Soul and Demonic Qi.
• You Tui mocked the previous generation’s fear of Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang and vowed to turn Heavenly Origin into a Demon Nest.
• You Tui recalled how Pi Hai had forced him to carry a mysterious living bundle to Heavenly Origin, fueling his resentment toward Pi Hai.
• You Tui ordered every Heavenly Demon on the Western Territory front to advance.
• Yun Qing sensed the chaos mark, and Yun Yuan noticed something amiss across the Demon Tide battle line.
• Yun Qing’s group was ordered to gather at the elders’ formation, while the guardians were told to watch over the children.

Yun Qing and the Heavenly Origin World's defenders repelled waves of Heavenly Demons detonating themselves against the world barrier, but the blasts tore open space and exposed a vast ruined world. The chapter ends as the elders identify it as the Netherworld Ghost Realm.

• Yun Qing returned with the Twelve Young Masters to the defensive line, where Yun Yuan and the elders joined forces with other factions to withstand the first demon-core explosions.
• Yun Qing sensed through his tracking Dao rune that the Heavenly Demons' self-detonations served a deeper purpose.
• Yun Qing saw high-rank Heavenly Demons detonate and noticed that their blasts had made the void thin enough to reveal a shadow beneath it.
• Yun Qing realized that the ruined continent emerging through the rift was only a small part of a much larger hidden territory.
• The Heavenly Demons intensified their explosions, widening the rift as ghostly qi poured out, and a Jiang Clan ancestor identified the revealed world as the Netherworld Ghost Realm.

Yun Yuan explained that the Heavenly Demons had exposed the drifting Ghost Realm and triggered a collapse between it and Heavenly Origin. As the resulting spatial whirlpool dragged people into the Ghost Realm, Yun Qing linked the Twelve Young Masters through their formation, but all eleven siblings and Yun Qing were swept away together.

• Yun Yuan explained that the Ghost Realm drifted outside conventional space and that the Heavenly Demons had disrupted the realms to reveal it.
• A hidden Heavenly Demon kept sending beasts to explode themselves, forcing the Ghost Realm to overlap with the void beyond the Western Territory.
• A Formation Master warned Yun Qing that the overlapping realms would create a whirlpool and drag everything nearby into the Ghost Realm.
• The spatial collapse swallowed Heavenly Demons and Immortal Venerables, then opened a rift beneath the Twelve Young Masters.
• Yun Qing used the Yun Clan token and the Twelve Cloud Towers formation to link the eleven siblings together before the suction swept them all away.

A collapse between the two realms swept Yun Qing, the other young prodigies, and dozens of Immortal Venerables into the Netherworld Ghost Realm. Back in Heaven Beyond Heaven, Little Radiant Chick desperately urged Yun Huang to save Yun Qing, then pecked at his hair when he did not respond.

• Yun Qing linked his younger siblings together with the Twelve Cloud Towers Unity Formation, but Yun Yuan was left behind as they were sucked into the Ghost Realm Rift.
• Yun Yuan plunged through the rift after Yun Qing, and the other Yun Clan elders and Cloud Valor Guards followed.
• The rifts swept young prodigies from across the battlefield into the Ghost Realm, prompting elders from nearly every faction to chase after them.
• A Floating Immortal Abode prodigy was pulled in while the old Formation Master warned others not to enter, so the Formation Master went in too.
• Little Radiant Chick saw Yun Qing disappear from the Water Mirror and begged Yun Huang to save him.
• When Yun Huang calmly kept drinking tea, Little Radiant Chick pecked at his hair.

Yun Huang watched Yun Qing and his siblings get swept into the Ghost Realm, then explained that he intended to let Yun Qing handle trouble there. Yun Qing woke in the Hundred Ghosts Wasteland with all eleven younger siblings accounted for, but without the Second Elder, and found himself surrounded by an immense field of bones.

• Qing Kitty panicked when Yun Qing vanished into the Water Mirror, while Yun Huang calmed him and said Yun Qing had landed where he needed to be.
• Yun Huang declared that Yun Qing’s elder brother should help him shoulder the trouble waiting in the Ghost Realm.
• Yun Qing woke in the Hundred Ghosts Wasteland and used the Radiant Sun Divine Flame to drive back the ghostly mist.
• Yun Qing confirmed that Yun Tianluo, Yun Baojian, Yun Zui, and all the others had survived through the Twelve Cloud Towers Unity Formation.
• Yun Qing searched for the Second Elder but could not find him, then surveyed the bone-covered wasteland and snapped a bone underfoot.

You Tui led a vast Heavenly Demon army into the Ghost Realm, awakening its seven Great Lords. In the White Bone Royal Court, the Skeleton Emperor’s true body stirred as the demons entered his domain.

• You Tui ordered the Heavenly Demons through the Void Rift, intending to devour the Ghost Realm and overpower Heavenly Origin.
• The first wave of demons entered the Ghost Realm, awakening the Ghost Ruins.
• A masked ghost on an opera stage noticed the intruders as eerie signs of awakening spread across all seven forbidden lands.
• The Skeleton Emperor’s true body sat on his throne in the White Bone Royal Court as the demon tide entered his territory.
• Ghostfire ignited throughout the royal court, and its bones clattered as the Skeleton Emperor faced the invasion.

The Yun Clan siblings landed in the Ghost Realm, where Yun Qing repaired a demon beast skeleton he had accidentally broken. After confirming everyone was safe, he called out his siblings for pretending to be unconscious, while the Skeleton Emperor prepared to confront invading Heavenly Demons elsewhere in the realm.

• The Skeleton Emperor condemned the Heavenly Demons for invading his Ghost Ruins and summoned ancient skeletal beings and seven terrifying auras.
• Yun Qing repaired the demon beast bone he had broken and admired the restored skeleton.
• Yun Tianluo awoke, confirmed his siblings were safe, and learned that they had landed in the Ghost Realm without the Second Elder.
• Yun Qing called on his supposedly unconscious siblings to stop pretending, and Yun Jinglei and Yun Zui were the first to respond.
• The other Yun Clan siblings got up, embarrassed by their chaotic tumble through the collapsing space.

After the Yun siblings blamed one another for tumbling into the Ghost Ruins, Yun Qing recognized the Heavenly Demons’ threat and sent his younger siblings to scout while he stayed behind. He reflected that delegating work was enjoyable, though his nature would never let him truly slack off.

• Yun Poxiao pointed out that Yun Qing’s formation had pulled all the siblings into the Ghost Ruins, and the others laughed while blaming their eldest brother.
• Yun Zui regretted that Ruyi was not there, and Yun Qing said they would reunite with her after returning.
• Yun Qing warned that the Heavenly Demons were plotting something by forcing open a connection to the Ghost Realm, and the Twelve Young Masters agreed to stop them.
• Yun Qing ordered his younger siblings to scout in different directions while he remained seated in the wasteland.
• Yun Qing enjoyed being in charge and compared his situation to Yun Huang’s comfortable habit of delegating work.

Yun Qing watched over the Yun Clan siblings as they searched the White Bone Wasteland and sensed that the Ghost Realm’s mysteries were connected. Yun Ruyi arrived at the Netherworld’s heartland with tiny Lin Muyao hidden in her Fortune Pouch, and they discovered an Immortal Court Garden amid the sinister landscape.

• Yun Qing kept his divine sense trained on his siblings while reflecting on the links between the Heavenly Demon, the Ghost Realm, reincarnation, and Yun Chi.
• The Twelve Young Masters of the Yun Clan searched across the White Bone Wasteland.
• Yun Ruyi descended into the Ghost Realm’s innermost heartland, protected from its yin energy by her fortune light.
• Lin Muyao peeked from Yun Ruyi’s Fortune Pouch and marveled at the Nether River, Other Shore Flowers, ghostfire, and inverted Hanging Ghost Mountains.
• Yun Ruyi warned Lin Muyao to stay inside the pouch and shielded her with golden fortune light.
• Lin Muyao spotted an Immortal Court Garden in the Ghost Realm and asked Yun Ruyi what it was.