Recaps

Yun Qing effortlessly defeated a series of clan disciples who challenged him, only to discover they were devoted admirers seeking autographs and keepsakes. As more challengers gathered, he invited them all to fight him at once.

• Yun Lieyang attacked Yun Qing with his Crimson Sun Battle Body, but Yun Qing stopped his peak True Immortal strike with one finger and defeated him.
• Yun Lieyang revealed his admiration for Yun Qing, asked for an autograph in his cultivation notebook, and received praise and a signed inscription.
• Yun Jiang challenged Yun Qing, whose finger tap destroyed his Darkgold Heavy Shield; Yun Jiang then asked for a piece of Yun Qing's robe for his next shield.
• Yun Qing defeated several more challengers, who sought souvenirs, until Yun Huahua asked him to sign his bare back as a family totem and Yun Qing refused.
• Yun Qing stopped returning to his seat and invited all the eager challengers into the arena together.

Yun Qing defeated six challengers while Yun Ge, Yun Pengxing, and Yun Hua combined music, dance, and painting into a performance that thrilled the crowd. After Yun Li challenged Yun Qingqu and revealed a terrifying surge of power, the chapter ended with the arena shocked by his rise to the peak of the King Sealing realm.

• Yun Ge, Yun Pengxing, and Yun Hua united their music, dance, and painting to support the six fighters attacking Yun Qing.
• Yun Qing used Myriad Transformations Return to the Void to devour the attacks and drain the challengers’ spiritual energy, then blasted all six away without injuring them.
• Yun Qing noticed Yun Huang quietly appreciating the Three Masteries performance, while the defeated challengers thanked him for the match.
• Yun Li stepped into the arena and challenged Yun Qingqu, then unleashed his Taowu power and rose to the peak of the King Sealing realm.

Yun Li challenged Yun Qingqu and attacked him with a borrowed, unstable power, driven by visions of Yun Yao’s death and Yun Qingqu’s role in it. Yun Qingqu’s defenses began to fail, but he cried that he conceded and deliberately turned toward Yun Li’s strike to frame him for harming a clansman.

• Yun Li challenged Yun Qingqu to fight, and Yun Qingqu accepted while hiding his confidence that Yun Li’s power would falter.
• Yun Li recalled a vision in which Yun Yao died after obtaining a healing pill for him, and Yun Qingqu returned her bloodied bracelet and later taunted him about her death.
• Yun Li launched a Heaven-Rending Claw strike, and Yun Qingqu protected himself with Azure Wood Mystic Armor: Ten Thousand Vines Bodyguard.
• Yun Li tore through Yun Qingqu’s vine defenses and attacked his heart with a full-power strike.
• Yun Qingqu shouted that he conceded but deliberately moved into the attack, intending to make Yun Li appear guilty of injuring a clansman.

Yun Qing stopped Yun Li from killing Yun Qingqu, defended Yun Li before the judges, and secured his victory and title as the Yun Clan's Tenth Young Master. Yun Li regained control of himself and accepted Yun Qing as his Eldest Brother, while Yun Huang watched with interest.

• Yun Qing blocked Yun Li's claws with Bear All Things and stopped the fight before Yun Qingqu was killed.
• Yun Qing explained Yun Li's loss of control and persuaded the Ceremony Elders to accept Yun Qingqu's defeat under the clan rules.
• The presiding Ceremony Elder declared Yun Li the winner and named him the Yun Clan's Tenth Young Master.
• Yun Li thanked Yun Qing, called him Eldest Brother, and walked to the vacant tenth seat after regaining his composure.
• Yun Yao watched Yun Li recover, while Yun Huang privately criticized Yun Qingqu and considered Yun Li worth raising.

After the first round left only twenty-three challengers, Yun Huang replaced the usual tournament format with single-combat matches followed by an unrestricted final free-for-all. The contestants drew lots, Yun Ruyi received a bye, and the matchups were revealed as tension rose.

• The Ceremony Elder asked the elders how to proceed after the first round left only twenty-three challengers.
• Yun Huang ordered the remaining challengers and the Twelve Young Masters to draw lots for single-combat matches, with the victors entering an unrestricted free-for-all to choose the new Twelve Young Masters.
• The elders and Yun Clan disciples accepted Yun Huang's decree, while the challengers grew anxious about facing the Young Masters.
• Yun Qing drew lot number two as the contestants began selecting their lots.
• Yun Ruyi drew a bye and delightedly returned to her grandfather, Fifth Elder Yun Jun.
• The remaining contestants drew their lots, revealing the matchups as tension filled the arena.

Yun Tianluo initially fought Yun Tao with graceful techniques that effortlessly redirected his heavy-sword attacks, but Yun Tao’s challenge unleashed Tianluo’s savage side and revealed his enormous Eight Trigrams Crescent-Blade Axe. The chapter ended with Tianluo swinging the axe at Yun Tao while the elders and spectators reacted in shock.

• Yun Tianluo used refined movements and the Flowing Cloud Sleeve to divert Yun Tao’s powerful heavy-sword strikes without drawing a weapon.
• Yun Yuan teased Yun Che about Tianluo’s restraint, while Yun Shi praised Tianluo’s natural cultivation.
• Yun Tao demanded that Yun Tianluo take one of his strikes, causing Tianluo’s composed demeanor to collapse into wild laughter.
• Yun Tianluo summoned an enormous Eight Trigrams Crescent-Blade Axe, shocking Yun Tao, Yun Qing, and the spectators.
• Yun Tianluo swung the axe at Yun Tao with a mountain-splitting attack as Yun Che kept his eyes shut.

Yun Tianluo defeated Yun Tao with a devastating axe strike, revealing the fierce strength beneath his refined manner, while Yun Qing and Yun Huang discussed how he had transformed his cultivation. After Yun Ling forfeited against Yun Qing, Yun Qing secretly left his seat and joined Yun Huang on the high platform to watch the remaining matches.

• Yun Tianluo smashed Yun Tao into a crater with one axe strike, ruined his heavy sword, and won the match when Yun Tao conceded.
• Yun Huang explained to Yun Qing that Yun Tianluo had stopped suppressing his true nature and rebuilt his cultivation into a stronger path.
• Yun Tianluo returned to the Twelve Young Masters' seats, where Yun Zui praised him, Yun Baojian moved away, and Yun Shuanghua hid behind Yun Qing.
• Yun Ling forfeited his match against Yun Qing, allowing Yun Qing to advance without fighting.
• Yun Qing used his concealment art to slip away from his seat and join Yun Huang beside the honored throne on the high platform.

Yun Qing and Yun Huang watched the martial exhibition as the young masters displayed their skills, including Yun Shuanghua’s victory and Yun Jinglei’s perceptual concealment. The preliminary matches ended with the finalists set for a free-for-all, while Yun Qing tried to avoid the furious Second Elder before he could demand an explanation for Yun Qing’s three-month absence.

• Yun Shuanghua used his Immortal Vine and Dragonblood Thornbush to bind Yun Yan and win their match.
• Yun Qing and Yun Huang watched Yun Zui, Yun Ge, and Yun Hua defeat their opponents with distinctive techniques.
• Yun Jinglei emerged from his perception-blurring concealment, defeated Yun Sha, and drew Yun Qing’s comments about the Seamless Secret Art.
• The preliminary matches ended with the eleven young masters, Yun Ruyi, and five challengers advancing to the free-for-all after a one-incense-stick rest was announced.
• Yun Qing spotted the furious Second Elder and hid behind Yun Huang’s throne as the elder complained that Yun Qing had enjoyed himself and made a breakthrough during his absence.

The final round of the Twelve Young Masters tournament began on the Martial Tournament Disc, with eighteen fighters entering the chaotic arena. As the contestants attacked, hid, and fortified their positions, Yun Qing calmly stood at the center, unshaken.

• The Ceremony Elder activated the Martial Tournament Disc, explained the elimination rules, and called the eighteen finalists into the arena.
• Yun Qing entered last, surveyed the arena, and took up position near its edge with the Bear All Things Spear.
• Yun Poxiao shouted to his father about their promised genealogy entry, and his father loudly promised to put it on his own head if Yun Poxiao won.
• The Ceremony Elder rang the bell to start the final battle, and the contestants immediately began attacking, hiding, or defending positions.
• The Yun Clan's Three Masteries—Yun Hua, Yun Ge, and Yun Pengxing—joined forces to secure the southeastern corner.
• Yun Qing planted his spear at the arena's center and calmly watched the battles without moving.

The Twelve Young Masters and six challengers began their chaotic free-for-all, while Yun Poxiao assessed which opponents he could safely confront. Yun Qing finally turned his attention to the hidden Yun Jinglei, whose concealment was no match for the Double Pupils.

• Yun Huang chided Yun Qing for standing idle, and Yun Qing said he wanted to give the others a chance to show their abilities.
• Two challengers attacked the Three Masteries trio, while Yun Baojian swiftly eliminated Yun Sandao with a precise strike.
• Yun Poxiao ruled out the most dangerous opponents and chose to target the seemingly vulnerable Yun Kuan.
• Yun Zui advanced amid the fighting, Yun Shuanghua enclosed himself in a thorny vine sphere, and Yun Ruyi remained untouched as attacks diverted around her.
• Yun Qing spotted the concealed Yun Jinglei, who sensed that a powerful predator had found him.

Yun Qing called out Thunderclap while Yun Poxiao eliminated Yun Kuan, but Yun Li then rescued Yun Poxiao from an ambush and kicked him out of the Martial Tournament Disc. The chapter left Yun Poxiao eliminated despite his victory, shouting at Yun Li as he fell.

• Yun Qing pointed out Thunderclap's hiding place and challenged him to come out.
• Yun Baojian's sword strike disrupted the Three Masteries' formation and exposed Yun Kuan to attack.
• Yun Poxiao wounded Yun Kuan in a fierce exchange, then knocked him beyond the disc and eliminated him.
• A hidden challenger attacked the badly wounded Yun Poxiao, but Yun Li intervened and defeated the ambusher.
• Yun Li kicked Yun Poxiao out of the disc, leaving him to shout in confusion about his Genealogy and father.

Yun Qing quickly defeated Yun Jinglei in the final ranking battle, while Yun Shuanghua decided his safest route to advancement was to roll his vine ball out of the arena. The chapter left Yun Shuanghua rolling toward the boundary and bumping into Yun Zui.

• Yun Poxiao was named the new Twelfth Young Master after Yun Kuan was eliminated, then the final ranking battle began.
• Yun Li broke through the Three Masteries' defense and eliminated Yun Ge, but Yun Hua and Yun Pengxing counterattacked and eliminated Yun Li.
• Yun Qing saw through Yun Jinglei's concealment, stopped his attack with a subtle spear movement, and sent him out of the arena.
• Yun Jinglei thanked Yun Qing for the guidance, and the referee announced his elimination in ninth place.
• Yun Shuanghua emerged from his vine ball to speak with Yun Ruyi, then hid inside and rolled the ball toward the arena boundary.
• Yun Shuanghua's rolling vine ball bumped into Yun Zui's calf.

The Dragonblood Thornbush dragged Yun Shuanghua and Yun Zui out of the arena, eliminating them in eighth and seventh place. Yun Hua and Yun Pengxing then withdrew, leaving Yun Qing, Yun Tianluo, Yun Ruyi, and Yun Baojian to compete for first place.

• The Dragonblood Thornbush attacked Yun Zui and dragged her along as it rolled toward the arena boundary.
• Yun Zui broke free, but the runaway vine ball crashed into her and sent both her and Yun Shuanghua outside the boundary.
• The referee announced Yun Shuanghua in eighth place and Yun Zui in seventh, while Yun Qing laughed and secretly put away a recording stone.
• Yun Hua and Yun Pengxing withdrew from the tournament, citing their exhaustion and concern for Yun Ge.
• Yun Baojian surveyed the remaining competitors and fixed his attention on Yun Qing.

Yun Qing defeated Yun Baojian with the Bear All Things Spear, leaving three contestants in the tournament. After recalling Yun Ruyi’s sacrifice in a vision, he challenged Yun Tianluo to a one-on-one spar.

• Yun Baojian unleashed his pure Sword Dao strike, but Yun Qing absorbed and returned its force with the Bear All Things Spear.
• Yun Baojian staggered back, conceded defeat, and was announced as fourth place and eliminated.
• Yun Qing, Yun Tianluo, and Yun Ruyi remained on the Martial Tournament Disc as the final three.
• Yun Qing saw a vision of Yun Ruyi charging into a world-destroying calamity to save others.
• Yun Qing pointed his spear at Yun Tianluo and challenged him to spar one on one.

Yun Tianluo got Yun Ruyi to leave the tournament stage by giving her a hairpin and appealing to her reluctance to fight, then faced Yun Qing for their duel. Yun Qing called him despicable.

• Yun Tianluo gave Yun Ruyi a Heartlink Jade Flower Hairpin and persuaded her to leave the stage and join her grandfather, Yun Jun.
• Yun Jun raged at Yun Tianluo and threw a Cloud-Pattern Immortal Shoe at Yun Che, who hid behind Yun Huang's throne.
• Yun Tianluo waited for Yun Ruyi to reach Yun Jun, then turned back to challenge Yun Qing.
• Yun Qing met Yun Tianluo's courteous challenge with a single word: "Despicable."

Yun Qing and Yun Tianluo began their final contest for first place, with Yun Qing effortlessly neutralizing Yun Tianluo’s opening attacks. Yun Tianluo escalated by summoning the Azure Cloud Hundred Tribulations Sword Formation, which locked onto Yun Qing as the fight continued.

• Yun Tianluo defended his cautious strategy as Yun Qing prepared to fight him for first place.
• Yun Qing unleashed his aura and challenged Yun Tianluo, while Yun Huang urged him not to hold back.
• Yun Tianluo attacked with the Flowing Cloud Illusory Body Sword, but Yun Qing saw through the phantoms and blocked the real strike.
• Yun Tianluo used Thunder Draw, but Yun Qing’s Chaos Dao Embryo swallowed and dispersed the lightning.
• Yun Tianluo summoned the Azure Cloud Hundred Tribulations Sword Formation, filling much of the Martial Tournament Disc with sword phantoms and targeting Yun Qing.

Yun Qing defended against Yun Tianluo’s sword formation until Yun Tianluo completed the War Soul stage of the Qianyuan Exquisite Heart and attacked with his lightning-wreathed axe. Yun Qing met the blow with Bear All Things, and their clash ended with both still standing as Yun Tianluo prepared another attack.

• Yun Qing used Bear All Things to withstand the sword formation’s Sword Qi while discerning its core.
• Yun Che explained to Yun Huang that Yun Tianluo was using the formation to temper his War Soul heart.
• Yun Tianluo shattered the formation’s sword, absorbed its gathered power, and manifested the Eight Trigrams Crescent-Blade Axe.
• Yun Tianluo unleashed a powerful axe strike, and Yun Qing met it head-on with Bear All Things, suppressing and dispersing the lightning.
• Yun Qing remained unharmed while Yun Tianluo felt his force rebound and wiped blood from his mouth.
• Yun Tianluo laughed and prepared to use Qianyuan Eight Extremes, Separation Fire Burns Heaven.

Yun Qing defeated Yun Tianluo in the final battle of the Cloud Summit Tournament and secured the Yun Clan chief position. The clansmen celebrated his victory as the beginning of his era.

• Yun Tianluo unleashed his Eight Trigrams Annihilation strike, and Yun Qing countered with Chaos, Return to Ruins.
• The two attacks collided and created a vast chaos turbulence that swallowed the fighters.
• When the turbulence subsided, Yun Tianluo was badly injured while Yun Qing remained standing.
• Yun Tianluo conceded, and Yun Qing caught him with a stream of chaos before an elder carried him away for treatment.
• The Ceremony Elder declared Yun Qing the final victor, and the Yun Clan clansmen cheered for their new chief.

The Yun Clan’s Cloud Summit Tournament concluded as the Twelve Young Masters received their rankings and fortune-bound Command Tokens. Yun Huang charged them with representing the clan at the Azure Cloud List, where their next trials awaited.

• Yun Qing watched the newly chosen Twelve Young Masters reunite with their kin and companions after the tournament.
• The Ceremony Elder announced the rankings, naming Yun Qing first and Yun Poxiao twelfth, as each young master received a Command Token.
• Yun Poxiao kissed his token and celebrated that his place in the genealogy was secure, while Yun Li silently wished for Yun Yao’s safety.
• Yun Huang declared the tournament concluded and entrusted the Twelve Young Masters with the clan’s authority and the task of contending for the Azure Cloud List.
• The Twelve Young Masters vowed not to fail Yun Huang’s trust or their clansmen’s hopes as the Azure Cloud storm approached.

After Yun Qing returned victorious, Second Elder Yun Yuan demanded an explanation for what had happened in the Immortal-Sealing Tower. Yun Qing redirected him toward the Twelfth Elder, publicly accused him of ambushing Yun Qing and coveting his dao embryo, and left Yun Yuan ordering the guards to seize him.

• Second Elder Yun Yuan grabbed Yun Qing and pressed him to explain his disappearance and sudden rise in strength.
• Yun Qing spotted the Twelfth Elder trying to leave and steered Yun Yuan toward settling the old blood debt instead.
• Yun Qing publicly accused the Twelfth Elder of ambushing him in the Myriad Beasts Ancient Domain and plotting to seize his dao embryo.
• The Twelfth Elder turned pale as the clan's elders and gathered spectators scrutinized him, and he began to consider fleeing.
• Yun Yuan declared the evidence conclusive and ordered the Cloud Valor Guards to seize the Twelfth Elder, threatening to kill him if he resisted.

Yun Qing helped bring the Twelfth Elder and his branch to justice, then escaped the Second Elder’s scrutiny by joining Yun Huang and Yun Che on their way to Perching Phoenix Hall. He arrived safely and hoped to cultivate in Langhuan Clear Void while the Second Elder handled the investigation.

• Yun Qing accused the Twelfth Elder of ambushing clansmen and plotting to seize a Dao embryo, and the Second Elder ordered him and his branch investigated and punished.
• Yun Qing claimed he had gained insight and needed to discuss the Nine Heavens Azure Cloud List with Yun Huang, then hurried to join him and Yun Che.
• Yun Huang took Yun Qing and Yun Che away toward Perching Phoenix Hall while Yun Jun departed with Yun Ruyi and the Twelve Young Masters dispersed.
• Yun Yuan realized Yun Qing had used excuses to evade him and vowed to confront him after dealing with the Twelfth Elder’s branch.
• Yun Qing reached Perching Phoenix Hall and considered using his confinement to cultivate in Langhuan Clear Void.

Yun Che briefed Yun Huang on preparations for the Nine Heavens Azure Cloud List and asked him to protect the Yun Clan’s prodigies. Yun Qing slipped into Langhuan Clear Void at Yun Huang’s invitation, where he planned to recover and cultivate.

• Yun Che told Yun Huang that the Azure Cloud Road trials would begin in about six months and outlined the Yun Clan’s preparations and need for protection.
• Yun Qing worried about dangers to the clan’s young prodigies but focused on the ripe fruits and spiritual spring in Langhuan Clear Void.
• Yun Qing tugged Yun Huang’s sleeve and privately asked to enter Langhuan Clear Void to consolidate his insights.
• Yun Huang swept his sleeve and sent Yun Qing into Langhuan Clear Void while Yun Che finished his report.
• Yun Huang approved the preparations, and Yun Qing happily surveyed the pocket realm after landing on its entrance platform.

Yun Qing consolidated his cultivation in Langhuan Clear Void after reflecting on the Cloud Summit Tournament, but Yun Huang abruptly pulled him out and assigned him a mountain of clan affairs. Yun Huang then entered seclusion, leaving Yun Qing to handle the work and respond to a teasing voice transmission from his younger brother.

• Yun Qing absorbed insights from his Cloud Summit Tournament battles and further consolidated his mid-stage Immortal King cultivation.
• Yun Huang reached into Langhuan Clear Void, grabbed Yun Qing by the collar, and brought him back to Perching Phoenix Hall.
• Yun Huang told Yun Qing to handle clan affairs as the Yun Clan Eldest Young Master and assigned him a mountain of dossiers and jade slips to review that day.
• Yun Huang announced that he was entering secluded meditation and told Yun Qing not to disturb him unless the clan's fate or survival was at stake.
• Yun Qing stood stunned before the workload as a voice transmission teased him for having overly lively inner thoughts.

Yun Qing handled clan affairs in Perching Phoenix Hall while Yun Huang secluded himself, until Second Elder Yun Yuan discovered him and dragged him away by the ear. Yun Huang emerged from his chamber to find the hall in chaos, with Yun Qing still in Yun Yuan's grip.

• Yun Qing resigned himself to processing the clan's scrolls and jade slips on Yun Huang's orders.
• Yun Qing reviewed the draft for the Profound Ascension Ceremony, which would select new branches and cultivators to fill the Twelfth Elder's vacancy.
• Second Elder Yun Yuan entered the hall and found Yun Qing working at a desk beside the Young Lord's seat.
• Yun Yuan seized Yun Qing by the ear, and Yun Qing tried to distract him by pointing to the ceremony draft they had submitted.
• Yun Huang emerged from seclusion and surveyed Yun Yuan holding Yun Qing amid scattered documents and a red-stained scroll.

Yun Huang ended the Second Elder and Yun Qing’s argument over the Profound Ascension Ceremony and gave them directions for revising its plans. After the Second Elder left, Yun Huang soothed Yun Qing’s reddened ear, then teased him by ordering him to finish the remaining dossiers before going home.

• Yun Huang arrived at Perching Phoenix Hall, and the Second Elder and Yun Qing abruptly stopped arguing and greeted him.
• The Second Elder explained that he had come to report on Yun Xiao’s branch and discuss the Profound Ascension Ceremony with Yun Qing.
• Yun Huang directed them to emphasize combat, character, and potential in assessments and to distribute resources by branch strength and contributions.
• The Second Elder left, leaving Yun Qing alone with Yun Huang in the hall.
• Yun Huang cooled Yun Qing’s reddened ear with Immortal Power, then told him to finish the remaining dossiers or stay at work instead of going home.