Chapter Summaries

As the second day of the Nine Heavens Azure Cloud List began, Yun Qing recovered on the First-Stage Platform while battles raged across the higher tiers. Yun Lieyang died on the fourth stage after offering his fortune to Yun Qing, leaving Yun Qing shaken by the loss of the clansman who had once admired him.

• On the Third-Tier Platform, Yun Pengxing and the Yun Clan members prepared for the prodigies' increasingly violent clashes as the final three days approached.
• Xuanchan recited the Rebirth in the Pure Land Mantra for fallen disciples, while the Immortal List prodigies kept their factions protected and avoided costly battles.
• On the second day, Yun Qing continued recovering from his injuries inside a cocoon of fortune on the First-Stage Platform.
• Yun Lieyang sent his fortune and merit to Yun Qing before dying on the fourth-stage platform with two blades through his dantian and chest.
• Yun Qing remembered how Yun Lieyang had once challenged him, asked him to sign his cultivation notes, and vowed to use him as a lifelong benchmark.

Yun Qing watched helplessly as Yun Clan disciples died on the lower levels of the Nine Heavens Azure Cloud List, their last streams of fortune rising to him. As their souls departed, Xuanchan guided them toward peace, and Yun Qing promised to repay him.

• Yun Qing struck the barrier separating the levels but could not descend to help the dying Yun Clan disciples.
• A young Yun Clan disciple died on the fifth level, and his signed fan fell into the Sea of Clouds as his sister Piao Piao sensed his death.
• More Yun Clan Prodigies died across the lower levels, sending their fortune to Yun Qing and calling out to him in their final moments.
• Xuanchan chanted the Rebirth Mantra and Pure Land Mantra, gathering the departed souls into golden lotuses.
• Yun Qing thanked Xuanchan and promised that he owed him a favor.

Yun Qing mourned the Yun Clan youths who died on the Azure Cloud Road and vowed to protect his clan as fortune from fallen cultivators flowed to their chosen successors. Wang Hu rose from the Heaven List to the Immortal List, but his sudden prominence drew greedy and murderous attention.

• Xuanchan told Yun Qing that the dead were gone and the living had to carry on, and Yun Qing vowed to preserve the Yun Clan for eternity.
• As the Nine Heavens Azure Cloud List neared its close, dying disciples from many factions sent their remaining fortune to their most promising survivors, including Li Qingming and the Yun Clan members on the upper tiers.
• Rogue cultivators passed their fortune to Wang Hu in gratitude for his past help and protection.
• Wang Hu's Heaven List Mark transformed into purple-gold, and a pillar of light carried him onto the Immortal List.
• The other cultivators noticed Wang Hu's rise and turned greedy, scrutinizing, and murderous gazes toward him.

Yun Qing completed his transformation into a god and became the foremost name on the Divine List, stunning the Heavenly Origin Continent. His public acknowledgment of Wang Hu stopped cultivators from attacking him, while the contest for the Nine Heavens Azure Cloud List remained unresolved.

• Yun Qing completed his transformation from immortal to god, and his name was engraved at the top of the Nine Heavens Azure Cloud List.
• The Divine List unfurled across the heavens, revealing a vision of a newborn world and Yun Qing's name beneath the character for Divine.
• The prodigies and powerful elders across Heavenly Origin reacted in shock, recognizing the Yun Clan's rising fortune.
• Yun Qing surveyed the lower stages, saw Wang Hu surrounded by potential attackers, and nodded to acknowledge him.
• Wang Hu bowed to Yun Qing, and Yun Jinglei loudly confirmed their connection, causing the would-be attackers to hesitate.

Wang Hu reached the Second-Tier Platform with the Skeleton Emperor’s help and survived the final hours as Yun Qing stood alone above the other prodigies. When the Heavenly Dao closed the rankings, the Yellow and Mystic Lists appeared, revealing Li Ergou at rank 11,101 on the Mystic List.

• Wang Hu begged the Skeleton Emperor for help, and the Emperor’s Netherworld energy hurled him onto the Second-Tier Platform beside the Yun Clan prodigies.
• The Skeleton Emperor concealed his presence, while Wang Hu resolved to honor Yun Qing for protecting him and the Rogue Cultivator Alliance.
• As the final half-day passed, slaughter continued on the lower tiers while the second and third tiers stayed silent and Yun Qing stood alone on the first tier.
• At dawn, the Heavenly Dao closed the Nine Heavens Azure Cloud rankings and began revealing the lists and distributing fortune.
• A melon vendor in the Southern Jambu Continent spotted Li Ergou at rank 11,101 on the Mystic List and advertised his melons as lucky to attract customers.

The Earth and Heaven Lists opened, revealing many Yun Clan members among the top prodigies and bringing both celebration and grief to the clan. As the elders watched, the Immortal List began to emerge, leaving the clan waiting to see its names.

• Yun Shuo searched the Earth List for familiar names, then celebrated when he learned Sister Yao and Brother Li had made the Heaven List.
• The Heaven List opened and revealed numerous high-ranking Yun Clan members, prompting cheers and a surge of fortune for the clan.
• Yun Shuo and Piao Piao grieved when they could not find their loved ones on the list, while Yun Xiao celebrated his son Yun Poxiao’s Heaven List ranking.
• The twelve elders gathered in the Ancestral Shrine, where Yun Shi rejoiced at Yun Yao and Yun Li’s rankings and Yun Jun provoked the Sixth Elder over their grandchildren.
• The Immortal List began to emerge in violet-gold light as the elders turned their attention to the next ranking.

The Immortal List began revealing its fifteen names, bringing Wang Hu, Xia Wujie, Yun Baojian, Feng Ling'er, and Yun Tianluo to prominence. The chapter ended with Yun Tianluo ranked eleventh, while the remaining names had yet to appear.

• The Immortal List named Wang Hu of the Rogue Cultivator Alliance in fifteenth place, astonishing the continent and drawing the other listed prodigies' attention.
• The list ranked Xia Wujie of the Great Xia Ancient Dynasty fourteenth, and the emperor elevated him to Stabilizing Prince.
• Yun Baojian of the Yun Clan took thirteenth place, prompting his family to celebrate together at Ten Thousand Treasures Mountain.
• Feng Ling'er of the Feng Clan ranked twelfth, while Feng Ci dismissed Feng Hu's demand to investigate the deaths of Tian Mu and Tian Ming and ended Ling'er's proposed marriage to Tian Mu.
• The Immortal List placed Yun Tianluo of the Yun Clan eleventh, displaying a phantom Go board alongside an axe-wielding figure.

The Immortal List revealed the rankings from tenth to fourth, bringing celebrations and envy across the various clans and sects. The chapter ended with the Great Zhou court relieved by Ji Lingri’s fourth-place ranking while Ji Chen privately lamented that Crown Prince Yue had left no place for anyone else.

• Yun Yuan mocked Yun Che as a vision of his grandson laughing and swinging an axe appeared, while Yun Che repeatedly opened and shut his eyes.
• Liu Qingwu and Li Qingming appeared on the Immortal List in tenth and ninth place, bringing honor to the Azure Lotus Sword Sect.
• Jiang Shinian claimed eighth place for the Jiang Clan and Supreme Dao Sect, prompting True Person Xuanwei and Jiang Shouzhuo to reflect on the sect’s fortunes.
• Feng Jiuxiao and Ao Zhan took seventh and sixth place for the Southern Wasteland Demon Court, and their rankings stirred talk of the Demon Race’s resurgence.
• Yun Ruyi ranked fifth, and the Heavenly Dao surrounded her name with an extravagant display that delighted the Yun Clan’s Fifth Elder.
• Ji Lingri claimed fourth place for the Ji Clan and Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty, and Ji Chen led the officials in congratulating the Zhou Emperor while privately blaming Crown Prince Yue for leaving no place for the others.

The Immortal List’s top three were revealed as Xuanchan, Ji Shuyue, and Xia Wushang, with Xia Wushang taking first place and earning Great Xia’s celebration. As attention shifted to the Divine List, the Ice Lotus and Fate Formation Disc collapsed, leaving only the blazing sun above the nine heavens.

• Xuanchan of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land was revealed in third place, prompting True Person Xuanwei to complain while Jiang Shouzhuo predicted the top two would be crown princes.
• Ji Shuyue of the Ji Clan and Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty was revealed in second place, and the Zhou Emperor gave a restrained response to the court’s congratulations.
• Xia Wushang of the Great Xia Ancient Dynasty was revealed in first place, and the Great Xia Emperor and his officials celebrated his victory.
• The fifteen Immortal List rankings settled into place, and people across the Heavenly Origin Continent reacted to the results.
• The Divine List’s World-Cleansing Ice Lotus withered and its Zhou Tian Star-Dipper Fate Formation Disc disintegrated, leaving the blazing sun as the sole vision above the nine heavens.

Yun Qing took his place beneath the radiant sun as the sole name on the Divine List, and he rejected the emerging Rogue Cultivator Alliance entry because he believed his path belonged to the Yun Clan. His achievement sparked celebrations across the Yun Clan, while its elders remembered the sacrifices that had led to this moment.

• Yun Qing's phantom appeared beneath the radiant sun as the ice lotus withered and the Formation Disc shattered, leaving him and the sun supreme upon the Divine List.
• The Divine List inscribed Yun Qing's name alongside the Yun Clan of the Eastern Region, and powerful figures across Heavenly Origin reacted with awe, envy, and fear.
• As a point of light began to form for the Rogue Cultivator Alliance, Yun Qing gently dismissed it, deciding that the alliance belonged to Wang Hu, Zhao Polu, Li Ergou, and the other rogue cultivators.
• Yun Qing affirmed that his Dao and responsibilities were bound to the Yun Clan of the Eastern Region, while the clan's disciples celebrated his achievement.
• The Yun Clan's twelve elders watched Yun Qing on a Water Mirror, and First Elder recalled the clan's thirty thousand years of planning and the sacrifice of sixty-three immortal venerables.

After the Azure Cloud contest ended, Yun Qing waited for the Heavenly Dao to bestow a treasure, but none of the streaks of light chose him. The Heavenly Origin Cauldron finally reacted to him, leaving Yun Qing to suspect that the ancient treasure was his reward.

• Yun Qing looked forward to returning to the Yun Clan after the contest rankings were settled.
• The Heavenly Dao bestowed treasures on the ranked prodigies, including an Azure Lotus Sword Seed for Li Qingming and a nine-dragon jade seal for Xia Wushang.
• Yun Qing waited as the treasures found their owners, but every streak of light passed him by.
• The Heavenly Origin Cauldron struck Yun Qing in the back and then trembled before him.
• Yun Qing realized the Heavenly Origin Cauldron might be the treasure bestowed upon him and promised to praise the Heavenly Dao to Brother Huang.

Yun Qing claimed the Creation Heavenly Origin Cauldron as a primordial supreme treasure, and the Heavenly Dao announced that the ranked contestants would inherit the fortune of heaven and earth. Back in the Yun Clan Territory, Yun Yuan prepared to sacrifice himself to protect Yun Qing, leaving the elders to complete the formation and await the prodigies' return.

• Yun Qing touched the Heavenly Origin Cauldron, which shrank, acknowledged him as its master, and became a brand in his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Dao Resonance announced Yun Qing's first place on the Divine List and identified the Creation Heavenly Origin Cauldron as a primordial supreme treasure bestowed by the Heavenly Dao.
• Yun Qing stored the cauldron beside the sleeping Little Golden Crow and heard the Heavenly Dao declare that the ranked contestants would inherit the fortune of heaven and earth.
• Yun Yuan told Yun Che and the other elders that his Sumeru Puppet Transformation was already on Yun Qing and that he would take the coming blow for him.
• Yun Yuan closed his eyes and asked the elders to form the array, while Yun Che prepared to welcome Yun Qing and the other prodigies home.

After taking first place on the Divine List, Yun Qing received a vast sea of fortune that Yun Huang absorbed to help restore his Immortal Emperor Ontological Rank. The fortune bound Yun Qing to the Heavenly Origin Continent, letting him see the Blood Haze beyond its dome just as it noticed him and began corrupting his body, senses, and reality.

• Yun Qing struggled to absorb the overwhelming fortune pouring down from the Divine List and realized it was meant for Yun Huang.
• Yun Huang claimed the fortune flowing through Yun Qing, while Yun Qing welcomed the chance to help restore his Immortal Emperor Ontological Rank.
• Yun Qing's full reception of the Divine List's fortune connected his fate to the Heavenly Origin Continent and expanded his perception across it.
• Yun Qing saw Yun Huang's Dao Principles and discovered an immense expanse of Blood Haze beyond the Heavenly Origin Continent's dome.
• The Blood Haze locked onto Yun Qing and began corrupting him as his awareness, cultivation, the laws of heaven and earth, and time fell into chaos.

Yun Qing realized Bing Xixi had taken the Blood Haze’s corruption upon herself and shattered to protect him. On the Heavenly Origin Platform, he checked that Yun Yuan’s Sumeru Puppet Transformation remained safe, while Yun Huang revealed he had chosen Bing Xixi instead to bear the danger.

• Bing Xixi’s madness intensified until she twisted off her own head and exploded into shards, severing the Blood Haze’s advance toward Yun Qing.
• Yun Qing recalled Yun Yuan stopping him before his departure and insisting he carry the Sumeru Puppet Transformation, which Yun Qing tucked into his robes.
• Yun Qing escaped Yun Yuan’s questions about his past with His Majesty by claiming that His Majesty had summoned him to prepare for the Nine Heavens Azure Cloud List.
• On the Heavenly Origin Platform, Yun Qing checked his storage space and confirmed that the Sumeru Puppet Transformation was free of Blood Haze.
• Yun Huang had returned the puppet to Yun Qing’s storage and chosen Bing Xixi to bear the Blood Haze, sparing Yun Yuan from the danger.

Yun Qing investigated the scarlet corruption spreading through the Immortal List’s prodigies and saw how their fortunes and protective measures resisted it. As he concluded that the top-ranked figures were being targeted according to their ties to the Heavenly Origin Continent, a second faint scarlet thread silently followed a karmic path behind him.

• Yun Qing thanked Yun Huang for replacing the Sumeru Puppet Transformation with the Ice Doll and wondered whether the scarlet was connected to Yun Huang’s reincarnation.
• Yun Qing examined the Yun Clan members on the Second Tier and saw no sign of corruption around Yun Baojian, Yun Tianluo, or Yun Ruyi.
• Yun Qing saw that Xuanchan’s alms bowl was invaded by scarlet, but his Śarīra Prayer Beads drove it back.
• Xia Wushang’s national Fortune diluted the scarlet attacking his dragon soul, while Ji Shuyue appeared unaffected and invited Yun Qing to the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty.
• Yun Qing deduced that the corruption targeted those deeply bound to the Heavenly Origin Continent and suspected the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had vanished to avoid it.
• An additional faint scarlet thread traced an unexpected karmic path behind Yun Qing.

Yun Yuan and the Yun Clan elders prepared for blood-red contamination to reach him, but it mysteriously receded. In a higher dimension, Yun Huang nearly unleashed his world-destroying power before Yun Qing’s thanks and fondling of his Little Radiant Chick incarnation ruined his mood, leaving the contamination erased and the destruction postponed.

• Yun Yuan sensed the contamination approaching through the Sumeru Puppet Transformation, but it abruptly retreated before reaching him.
• Yun Che ordered the elders to go to the Nine Heavens Azure Cloud List and find Yun Qing to learn what had stopped the threat.
• Yun Huang grew weary of the world and began gathering power to destroy the Heavenly Origin Continent.
• Yun Huang heard Yun Qing thank his brother and saw him kneading the Little Radiant Chick incarnation, which broke his destructive mood.
• Yun Huang let the blood-red contamination melt away and decided to postpone destroying the world.

Star Seer succumbed to a blood-red madness, loudly divining disasters across the heavens before seizing his terrified disciple to reshape his Dao Body. The chapter ended by turning to the even livelier events surrounding the Ice Lord, ranked third on the Divine List.

• Star Seer told his disciple that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had withdrawn from the Nine Heavens Azure Cloud List and that Yun Qing had claimed the Divine List position.
• A blood-red force overcame Star Seer, and he proclaimed disasters awaiting the Western Region, Great Zhou, the Mu Clan, and the prodigies on the Nine Heavens Azure Cloud List.
• Star Seer caught his disciple silently criticizing him and dragged the struggling ball deeper into the Star Hall to fashion him a Dao Body.
• The narration shifted to the Ice Lord, ranked third on the Divine List.

The scarlet corruption reached the Ice Lord’s forbidden ground and caused her Ice Dolls to erupt into a chaotic racket, briefly rousing her before an array sealed her back in the ice. Meanwhile, the Nine Heavens Azure Cloud List concluded its contest and began returning the surviving prodigies across the Heavenly Origin Continent.

• Scarlet corruption spread through the Ice Dolls, turning their sacred music into a noisy performance that woke the Ice Lord.
• The Ice Lord attacked the Ice Dolls, but her spiritual array dragged her back into the profound ice and she froze the fleeing dolls into silence.
• The Ice Lord sensed that Radiant Sun still held the advantage in the world’s fortune and returned to stillness.
• Yun Qing watched the Azure Cloud List draw to a close and told the Little Radiant Chick that the contest was over.
• The heavenly steps shone and transported the remaining prodigies away, as Ji Lingri, Xuanchan, Xia Wushang, and Ji Shuyue exchanged their final farewells with Yun Qing.
• The Azure Cloud List fell silent, and figures across the Heavenly Origin Continent began returning from the Azure Cloud Road.

Yun Qing and the other Azure Cloud List prodigies returned to the Eastern Region, where Yun Clan elders and families welcomed them home. After an affectionate reunion, Yun Yuan sent Yun Qing to meet the waiting Immortal Emperor aboard the flagship.

• Yun Qing and the other prodigies arrived at the Ninth Reception Platform, where six Yun Clan elders had come to greet them.
• Yun Baojian reunited with Yun Lan, his mother, and his siblings, while the other elders welcomed their own Yun Clan disciples.
• Yun Qing gave Yun Yuan a resentful stare, and Yun Yuan rapped him on the forehead before leading everyone back to the clan fleet.
• Yun Qing noticed the twelve Void-Breaking Cloudships had returned and guessed that the Immortal Emperor had brought them out.
• When Yun Qing began asking Yun Yuan about the Sumeru Puppet Transformation, Yun Yuan changed the subject and sent him flying toward the Star-Watching Terrace to meet His Majesty.

Yun Qing returned to Yun Huang with Little Radiant Chick’s corpse and begged him to revive it. Yun Huang resisted, but Yun Qing resorted to emotional blackmail, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Yun Qing met Yun Huang aboard the Purple-Gold Flagship and celebrated winning first place on the Divine List for the Yun Clan.
• Yun Qing brought out the Ten-Thousand-Year Heart-Soul Jade Box and urged Yun Huang to revive Little Radiant Chick.
• Yun Huang tried to refuse, but Yun Qing threatened to reveal a recording of Yun Huang’s grief at his funeral.
• Yun Huang countered with a recording of Yun Qing crying and clinging to him in the Immortal-Sealing Tower.
• Yun Qing pretended that Yun Huang had abandoned Little Radiant Chick, then lifted the corpse from the box and pressed his face against its fluff.