Chapter Summaries

Yun Qing and the assembled prodigies began the Heavenly Origin Contest for the Cauldron, pouring their merit and fortune into the Heavenly Origin Cauldron to reveal ten tiers and rank their names. The contest opened with Yun Li, Yun Yao, and Yun Poxiao still missing, while Yun Qing and Yun Tianluo grew suspicious of the unknown Demon Domain Token Lord Jiuyuan Sou.

• Yun Qing watched the arriving factions and still found no sign of Yun Li, Yun Yao, or Yun Poxiao.
• The nine bells sounded, and the Heavenly Origin Cauldron emerged as the contest began.
• Yun Qing and the other prodigies poured their merit and fortune into the cauldron, which formed ten ascending tiers and displayed their names.
• Yun Qing and Yun Tianluo noticed that Jiuyuan Sou, the Western Region Token Lord, was unknown to them despite outranking renowned prodigies.

Yun Qing and the Yun Clan charged onto the Ten-Level Heaven Tier to absorb the Heavenly Origin Cauldron’s Sweet Dew, while Yun Qing recognized that Fu Sanyuan and Ice Lord were among the hidden ancient powers. He stopped on the Third-Tier Platform, where the leading factions were waiting rather than risk ascending first.

• Yun Jinglei said that only beings of an extraordinary level could erase themselves from every prodigy’s memory, and Yun Qing identified Fu Sanyuan and Ice Lord as the two missing names.
• Yun Qing teased the ancient power in his arms, Yun Huang, then promised to win first place and bring him back first.
• The Heavenly Origin Cauldron released Sweet Dew, and cultivators raced toward the tiers their merit allowed them to reach.
• Yun Qing and more than two thousand Yun Clan elites ascended, using their own techniques to absorb the falling Sweet Dew as the tier rules stopped many disciples on the fourth through sixth tiers.
• Yun Qing led Yun Tianluo and the other top Yun Clan figures to the Third-Tier Platform, while the first and second tiers remained empty because the leading prodigies did not want to become the first targets.

Yun Qing absorbed Sweet Dew on the Third-Tier Platform while battles for fortune erupted across the lower tiers. As the Yun Clan’s young masters protected their fellow disciples, other great powers sent their own forces down to secure their positions.

• Yun Qing absorbed Sweet Dew with the Chaos Primordial Source Scripture, while Yun Huang secretly siphoned off a strand of purple-gold fortune.
• Cultivators on the bottom three steps began killing one another to seize merit and climb higher, and Zhao Polu saved an ambushed rogue cultivator before inviting him to join his group.
• Fights broke out across the middle three tiers as rival factions contested territory and fortune.
• Yun Qing sent Yun Zui and Yun Shuanghua to assist surrounded Yun Clan disciples; they drove off demonic cultivators and stopped sneak attacks.
• Ji Shuyue, Xia Wushang, and Buddha’s Son Xuanchan each sent followers down to support their factions, with Xuanchan’s monks pushing opponents off the steps under the guise of mediation.

Yun Huang explained that the factions’ orders to spare other prodigies were meant to restrain their disciples, who obeyed in public but found excuses to kill in private. Yun Qing then joined forces with Li Qingming and Jiang Shinian to launch a surprise attack on Ji Shuyue’s Ji Clan contingent, leaving Ji Shuyue stunned by the Supreme Dao Sect’s involvement.

• Yun Qing asked Yun Huang why he had ordered the cultivators not to deliberately kill List-Named Contenders, and Yun Huang explained that stern instructions were needed to keep their disciples from gradually abandoning restraint.
• Yun Qing surveyed the Yun Clan, Ji Shuyue’s group, and the North Pole Ice God Palace as they gathered sweet dew, while he worried about the Ice Lord’s absence and watched for Fu Sanyuan.
• Yun Qing, Li Qingming, and Jiang Shinian exchanged knowing looks and agreed to target the Ji Clan.
• Yun Qing tore open the Ji Clan’s defensive formation, Li Qingming attacked with Dustless, and Jiang Shinian pinned Ji Clan elites with the Phantom of the Shennong Cauldron.
• The three Immortal List prodigies threw the Ji Clan contingent into chaos, and Ji Shuyue wondered how Yun Qing had persuaded the Supreme Dao Sect to join the attack.

Yun Qing and the allied clans ambushed the Ji Clan on the Azure Cloud Road, forcing Ji Shuyue to order a retreat. Yun Qing spotted Fu Sanyuan hiding among the fleeing Ji Clan and ordered the Twelve Young Masters of the Yun Clan to surround him.

• Yun Qing bypassed Ji Lingri, who was intercepted by Jiang Shinian, while Li Qingming attacked the Ji Clan ranks.
• Yun Qing battled Ji Shuyue and said that reading the jade slip would not stop him from beating him up.
• Ji Shuyue ordered the Ji Clan disciples to retreat, but Yun Jinglei attacked them as they fled.
• Yun Qing recognized Fu Sanyuan disguised as a Ji Clan disciple and forced him to reveal himself with a spear attack.
• Yun Qing ordered the Twelve Young Masters of the Yun Clan to surround Fu Sanyuan.

Yun Qing and the Yun Clan surrounded Fu Sanyuan on the Third-Tier Platform, forcing him to reveal his Star Seer techniques and escape to the Second Tier. Yun Qing pursued him while Yun Tianluo kept the rest of the clan in position to guard against the Ice God Palace and the Demon Domain.

• Yun Qing recognized Fu Sanyuan among the Ji Clan’s ranks and led the Yun Clan prodigies in surrounding him on the Third-Tier Platform.
• Yun Jinglei, Yun Baojian, Yun Tianluo, Yun Ruyi, and the Three Masteries attacked Fu Sanyuan from all sides, while his tortoise shell and a stroke of bad fortune failed to protect him.
• Fu Sanyuan used “Stars shift, the Dipper turns!” and “Chaotic Star Step” to evade the attacks and break through the encirclement onto the Second Tier.
• Yun Qing immediately pursued Fu Sanyuan, while Yun Tianluo stopped the others from leaving the Third-Tier Platform.
• Yun Qing told the Yun Clan to hold their position and watch the Ice God Palace and the Demon Domain, and Yun Tianluo agreed.

Yun Qing confronted Fu Sanyuan on the second tier, where both were close to completing their transformations into divinity. Yun Qing overcame Fu Sanyuan’s fate-based techniques and ended the clash with his spear poised inches from Fu Sanyuan’s brow.

• Yun Qing entered the second tier and absorbed its denser sweet dew as his Immortal Seal rapidly turned reddish gold.
• Fu Sanyuan tried to negotiate and offered clues about Yun Qing’s missing clan members, but Yun Qing continued attacking.
• Fu Sanyuan used Blood Coins Buy a Life after Yun Qing appeared to hesitate, but Yun Qing knocked the coins aside and revealed his hesitation had been deliberate.
• Yun Qing struck with Chaos, Split the Heavens, shattering Fu Sanyuan’s Heavenly Enclosure Stellar Orbits and collapsing his star-chart formation.
• After the clash shook the platform, Yun Qing stood with the Bear All Things Spear’s tip three inches from Fu Sanyuan’s brow.

Yun Qing battled Fu Sanyuan on the Second-Tier Platform as Fu Sanyuan used the Heavenly Mandate Net to bind Yun Qing’s fate. Yun Qing drew in the sweet dew and invoked Return to Origin, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Yun Qing attacked Fu Sanyuan, who used Calamity Fortune, turn to redirect the spear strike and escape.
• Yun Qing and Fu Sanyuan fought across the Second-Tier Platform, wounding one another as their List Marks absorbed sweet dew.
• Fu Sanyuan gathered the sweet dew into a Heavenly Mandate Net and used Destined Number to impose Yun Qing’s death as his fate.
• Yun Qing broke through Fu Sanyuan’s blockade, absorbed the sweet dew, and formed a seal with one hand of life and one of death.
• Yun Qing invoked Return to Origin as the laws of the world trembled.

Yun Qing perfected his Dao Domain, which erased the Fate Web’s hold on him and revealed that Fu Sanyuan’s foretold death at the hands of Return to Origin was unfolding. Fu Sanyuan recalled how his innate divination talent had led him to Star Seer, then resolved to defy his master’s prediction and act against Yun Qing.

• Yun Qing formed a Dao Domain from his Chaos Dao Embryo, Double Pupils, merit, and vitality, enveloping the world.
• The Fate Web’s karmic threads snapped inside Yun Qing’s domain, and Fu Sanyuan recognized the moment as the fulfillment of Star Seer’s prophecy.
• Fu Sanyuan remembered his innate ability to read fate, his unlikely journey to the Heavenly Secrets Primordial Divination Pavilion, and Star Seer taking him as a disciple.
• Fu Sanyuan recalled how he had dismissed Star Seer’s prediction that he would die on this journey and how his interference with Li Ergou’s fate had recoiled upon him.
• Fu Sanyuan rejected fate and began forming seals, spending his origin essence to challenge Star Seer’s prediction and confront Yun Qing.

Yun Qing erased Fu Sanyuan with Return to Origin, taking his merit and fortune and advancing his List Mark. As Yun Qing relaxed with Little Radiant Chick, Ice Lord and Jiuyuan Sou launched simultaneous surprise attacks.

• Fu Sanyuan tried to change his fate, but Yun Qing used Return to Origin to erase him and his star disc.
• Fu Sanyuan’s List Mark shattered, and his merit and fortune flowed into Yun Qing, bringing him closer to Immortal Ascension and Divine Apotheosis.
• Little Radiant Chick praised Yun Qing, then pecked him for calling him a beloved pet, while Yun Huang watched from afar.
• Ice Lord attacked Yun Qing from the left with an Ice Thorn as Jiuyuan Sou struck from the right with a demonic claw.

Yun Qing used Little Radiant Chick to shield him from sneak attacks by the Ice Doll and Jiuyuan Sou, but Yun Huang’s True Spirit power destroyed both assaults. The attackers emerged on the Second-Tier Platform, and Jiuyuan Sou threatened Yun Qing as he prepared to capture the Chaos Dao Embryo.

• The Ice Doll’s ice spike and Jiuyuan Sou’s demonic claw attacked Yun Qing from opposite directions, and Yun Qing thrust Little Radiant Chick in front of himself.
• Yun Huang’s True Spirit apparition appeared from Little Radiant Chick and erased both attacks with a glance, injuring the attackers through backlash.
• Yun Qing praised Yun Huang and tucked Little Radiant Chick back into his arms, while Yun Huang silently tolerated his brother’s shameless use of him.
• The Ice Doll emerged from the void and mocked Yun Qing, and Yun Huang explained that she was an independent Ice Doll incarnation while the real Ice Lord slept beneath the North Pole.
• Jiuyuan Sou emerged from the demonic mist, dismissed Yun Huang’s power as temporary, and threatened to capture the Chaos Dao Embryo and take his origin and fortune.

Yun Qing discovered that the Ice Doll and Jiuyuan Sou had captured Yun Li, Yun Yao, and Yun Poxiao, then hid his concern by claiming he did not care about his clansmen. The chapter ended with the captors watching to see whether his indifference was genuine.

• The Ice Doll revealed Yun Li and Yun Yao imprisoned inside an ice sphere, while Jiuyuan Sou revealed Yun Poxiao trapped in a Black Jade Skull.
• The Ice Doll and Jiuyuan Sou argued over who had captured more valuable hostages as Yun Qing suppressed his fury.
• Yun Qing saw Yun Yao weakened by the cold and Yun Li preparing to burn the Taowu Savage Soul's origin in a desperate attempt to escape.
• The Ice Doll intensified the frost around Yun Li and Yun Yao, prompting Yun Qing to ask what she and Jiuyuan Sou wanted.
• Yun Qing claimed he would not sacrifice the Yun Clan's fortune and merit for distant relatives, while Huang urged him internally to kill the captors.

Yun Qing accepted Yun Huang’s offer to lend him power once during the Azure Cloud List, then drew on it as Jiuyuan Sou and Ice Doll threatened his siblings. Transformed by the Immortal Emperor’s power, he faced his enemies and declared that it was his turn.

• Yun Qing thanked Yun Huang for his care and agreed to use the power Yun Huang could lend him only once during the Azure Cloud List.
• Jiuyuan Sou threatened to drain Yun Poxiao while Ice Doll threatened to freeze Yun Yao and Yun Li unless Yun Qing surrendered Fortune and Merit or withdrew from the contest.
• Yun Huang lent Yun Qing his power through Little Radiant Chick, and divine light swept away the demonic qi and chill on the second tier.
• Yun Qing’s hair turned silver-white and his left eye turned gold as he took on the overwhelming aura of an Immortal Emperor.
• Ice Doll and Jiuyuan Sou recoiled in alarm, while Yun Qing felt the power obey his will and said it was his turn.

Yun Qing defeated Ice Doll and rescued Yun Li and Yun Yao from the shattered ice sphere. After reuniting the young couple, he turned his attention to Jiuyuan Sou and struck at him with a massive Divine Power palm.

• Yun Qing broke Ice Doll’s thick Ice-Blue Lotus Shield with Bear All Things, blasted her across the platform, and forced her to detonate the ice sphere holding Yun Yao and Yun Li.
• Yun Yao unleashed the Mysterious Womb Book of Preserving Truth, shielding herself while its light pushed Yun Li outside the barrier.
• As Frost Aura overtook Yun Li, Yun Qing arrived, shattered the ice sphere, and caught his frozen younger brother.
• Yun Qing drew Yun Yao behind him, then set her beside Yun Li so the two could reunite and embrace.
• Yun Qing turned toward Jiuyuan Sou and formed an enormous Divine Power palm to attack him.

Yun Qing rescued Yun Poxiao from Jiuyuan Sou and shared his fortune with Yun Li, Yun Yao, and Yun Poxiao so they could leave the Second-Tier Platform safely. After sending them to Yun Tianluo and the others, he faced Ice Doll and Jiuyuan Sou again.

• Yun Qing struck Jiuyuan Sou, seized the Black Jade Skeleton, and burned away its demonic restrictions to free Yun Poxiao.
• Yun Qing healed Yun Poxiao, then placed him beside Yun Li and Yun Yao as the three Yun Clan Prodigies reunited.
• When the Second-Tier Platform began rejecting the injured siblings for insufficient fortune, Yun Qing transferred portions of his own fortune to them.
• Yun Qing sent the three siblings down to Yun Tianluo, who gathered the Yun Clan members to protect and treat them.
• Ice Doll taunted Yun Qing for giving away his fortune, while Jiuyuan Sou prepared to attack or retreat; Yun Qing smiled as he looked down at Little Huang.

Yun Qing defeated Ice Doll and Jiuyuan Sou after revealing overwhelming divine power, while Jiuyuan Sou escaped by surrendering his fortune and using a blood demon technique. Yun Qing prepared to deal with Ice Doll, but Yun Huang urged him to keep her because she could help with what was coming.

• Yun Qing melted Ice Doll's defenses and caused Jiuyuan Sou's demonic shadows to collapse as Jiuyuan Sou fled toward the space beyond the ten Heaven Tiers.
• Yun Qing trapped Jiuyuan Sou with golden chains of law, and Jiuyuan Sou offered up his fortune before escaping in scattered wisps of demonic smoke.
• Yun Qing annihilated most of Jiuyuan Sou's escape and learned from Little Radiant Chick that the old devil had long relied on fleeing, threats, and surrendering wealth to survive.
• Ice Doll offered Yun Qing the Ice Lord's fortune and a secret about her slumber, while Yun Huang told him to keep her because she would soon be useful.
• Yun Huang considered how the remaining Yun Yuan and Ice Doll could help Yun Qing shoulder what was coming.

Yun Qing took Bing Xixi’s fortune, sealed her after learning her name, and carried her as a bound doll on his spear. He surveyed the battered factions on the Third-Tier Platform and asked whether the fighting had been lively enough.

• Yun Qing accepted Bing Xixi’s fortune and demanded the Ice Lord’s secret, but slapped her when her nervous giggle sounded like mockery.
• Bing Xixi explained that her name was Bing Xixi and that giggling was her catchphrase, while Yun Huang urged Yun Qing to take her without delay.
• Yun Qing sealed Bing Xixi’s powers, shrank and tied her with the Immortal-Binding Rope, and hung her from the Bear All Things Spear.
• Yun Qing saw that the Yun Clan, Azure Lotus Sword Sect, and Supreme Dao Sect had driven most of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land monks from the Third-Tier Platform.
• Yun Qing found Yun Li recovering with Yun Yao, while Yun Poxiao eagerly planned to fight more monks and return fortune to his eldest brother.
• Yun Qing stepped forward and asked the gathered cultivators whether the fighting had been lively enough.

Yun Qing merged the Ice Lord’s fortune into his own, drawing close to the Divine List as the Primordial Bell announced that the Tenth Tier was fixed and all List Mark bearers had to take their places. After the Yun Clan’s newly promoted Immortal List members moved up, Yun Qing stepped onto the First-Stage Platform and lurched violently.

• Yun Qing used his borrowed divine might to intimidate the gathered cultivators and keep them from targeting the Yun Clan.
• Yun Qing merged the Ice Lord’s Fortune Orb into his fortune, bringing him within a final step of the Divine List.
• The Primordial Bell announced the Divine List’s appearance and ordered List Mark bearers to take their assigned tiers within one incense stick’s time.
• Yun Tianluo, Yun Baojian, and Yun Ruyi joined the Immortal List and moved to the Second-Tier Platform while the other factions repositioned.
• Yun Qing climbed to the First-Stage Platform, where his body lurched violently as soon as he stepped onto it.

Wang Hu climbed to the Third-Tier Platform with the rogue cultivators he had led through the Azure Cloud List, while the Skeleton Emperor continued to follow and argue with him. There, Wang Hu recognized Yun Qing’s clansmen but kept his distance, as the Yun Clan wondered how their eldest brother was faring on the highest tier.

• Wang Hu reached the Third-Tier Platform after telling Polu and the rogue cultivators to hold their position and prioritize survival.
• The Skeleton Emperor appeared beside Wang Hu, and they bickered about the innate azure nether iron and Wang Hu’s past misfortune.
• Wang Hu stepped onto the crowded Third-Tier Platform and recognized Yun Qing among the nearby Yun Clan contingent.
• Yun Jinglei warned Wang Hu with a hostile look, so Wang Hu moved to a distant corner to avoid provoking the Yun Clan.
• Yun Zui and Yun Poxiao wondered about Yun Qing, and the Yun Clan members looked toward the first tier where he stood.

Yun Qing reached the First-Stage Platform alone, then struggled to recover from the backlash of using an Immortal Emperor’s power while absorbing its fortune. After the Heavenly Dao announced that the Azure Cloud Ranking Ceremony would close in three days, cultivators across the lower tiers erupted into a deadly fight for merit and rank.

• Yun Qing’s Radiant Sun Divine Power faded, and he steadied himself as the backlash left him severely weakened.
• Yun Huang told Yun Qing he could no longer appear, then departed from the Little Radiant Chick’s body.
• Yun Qing placed Little Radiant Chick in the heart-soul jade box and began recovering by absorbing fortune and merit.
• The Heavenly Dao announced that the Azure Cloud Ranking Ceremony would close in three days and that rankings would then become permanent.
• Jiang Zhiyuan’s junior sect brother was killed on the fourth tier, prompting Jiang Zhiyuan to attack with lethal force.
• Zhao Polu’s group fought to survive on the fifth tier, while Li Ergou used divination to evade an attack on the sixth as violence spread across the tiers.