Chapter Summaries

Ji Shuyue pleaded for Yun Huang to reclaim Great Zhou, thwarting the gathered factions’ hopes of dividing the dynasty’s holdings. Yun Huang ordered a purge of the Heavenly Demon’s surviving accomplices and left Ji Shuyue in charge of finding them.

• Ji Shuyue knelt before Yun Huang and asked him to take back Great Zhou and restore the Immortal Court.
• The assembled factions realized that if Yun Huang accepted, Great Zhou’s territory would be under his protection, and they feared claiming any of it.
• Yun Huang ordered Yun Yuan and the Cloud Valor Guards to secure the Ancestral Vein, seal the Origin Pool, and purge the remaining Blood Calamity.
• Yun Huang ordered Ji Shuyue to seal the Divine Capital for three days and bring every court or Ji Clan member tainted by or allied with the Heavenly Demon before the Ancestral Temple.
• Ji Shuyue accepted Yun Huang’s decree and rose after promising to cleanse Great Zhou of the remaining accomplices.

Yun Huang secured control of Great Zhou, while Ji Shuyue passed Yun Lan a secret list of targets for a coming purge. Later, Yun Huang teased Yun Qing about his dangerous experience merging with the world and asked him to hand over the cat.

• Yun Huang dismissed the assembled factions and left the Sacrificial Altar with Yun Qing, establishing Great Zhou's new order.
• Ji Shuyue congratulated Yun Lan, credited his clan's aid, and gave him Jade Slips listing hidden threats in Great Zhou and the Ji Clan.
• The chapter recalled how Yun Qing, Yun Lan, Ji Shuyue, and Ji Lingri had quietly undermined Great Zhou and the Heavenly Demons' plot.
• Yun Huang asked Yun Qing about becoming one with the world, and Yun Qing explained that Yun Huang had protected his consciousness from being overwhelmed.
• Yun Huang held out his hand for the cat, and Yun Qing stopped pretending not to understand and agreed to give it to him.

Yun Qing and Yun Huang playfully competed over their pets before Yun Qing asked whether Yun Huang truly intended to reestablish the Immortal Court. Yun Huang revealed that Yun Qing, not he, would run it.

• Yun Qing handed Qing Kitty to Yun Huang, and the kitten happily nuzzled and purred in his arms.
• Jealous of their bond, Yun Qing stroked Little Radiant Chick the wrong way until the chick pecked him and eventually gave up.
• Yun Qing apologized to Little Radiant Chick with a Vermilion Fruit, which the chick shared with Qing Kitty.
• Yun Qing asked Yun Huang whether he planned to reestablish the Immortal Court, worrying that Yun Huang might rule recklessly.
• Yun Huang told Yun Qing that Yun Qing would be the one running the Immortal Court.

Yun Huang told Yun Qing that he expected him to eventually oversee the world and take the seat of Immortal Emperor, while Yun Qing struggled to accept the prospect. After Yun Qing left the hall, Yun Huang examined Ji Shuyue’s Rescue Jade Slip, whose final lines had truly caught his attention.

• Yun Huang revealed that Yun Qing would eventually manage the world and sit as Immortal Emperor, leaving Yun Qing stunned.
• Yun Huang explained that overseeing the world would help Yun Qing build a foundation, though he did not have to take the seat immediately.
• Yun Qing left to help the Yun Clan coordinate the cleanup of Great Zhou, while Yun Huang watched him go.
• Yun Huang took out Ji Shuyue’s Rescue Jade Slip and reflected that his agreement to help Great Zhou had not been driven by its treasures, Immortal Court fragments, or family ties.

Yun Huang read Ji Shuyue’s plea to protect Lingri and was stirred by memories of an old acquaintance. Meanwhile, Ji Shuyue and the Yun Clan carried out a sweeping purge of Heavenly Demon corruption across Great Zhou, leaving the clan elders’ dissatisfaction unresolved.

• Yun Huang read Shuyue’s request that he protect Lingri and reflected on a long-lost pair of siblings from his past.
• Yun Huang gently flicked Qing Kitty’s forehead after the cat tried to comfort him.
• Ji Shuyue and the Yun Clan Elders led a bloody purge of Heavenly Demon agents throughout Great Zhou, using the Imperial Guards to hunt the corrupted.
• Yun Qing learned that many hidden agents had been found and ordered the Cloud Valor Guards to coordinate further screening and detention with Yun Yuan and Ji Shuyue.
• Yun Qing burned the corpses and demonic corruption with the Radiant Sun Divine Flame while Ji Shuyue received a report that the clan purge was nearly complete.
• A golden-armored general warned Ji Shuyue that several clan elders were dissatisfied with the purge.

Ji Shuyue explained why he intended to dismantle Great Zhou’s imperial authority, while Yun Qing warned him about the dangers of concentrated power. As Yun Huang hunted Heavenly Demon-tainted elders across the Divine Capital, Yun Qing hurried back toward the Divine Palace, anticipating the emperor’s growing impatience.

• Ji Shuyue ordered the Imperial Guards to arrest doubtful clan elders and said he welcomed resistance that would let him purge them with the Yun Clan’s help.
• Yun Qing confronted Ji Shuyue, who argued that Great Zhou’s imperial authority had become rotten and should be abandoned, leaving only the Ji Clan.
• Yun Qing warned that the Yun Clan might suffer the same decline if it established the Immortal Court, and promised he would clean house if that day came.
• Yun Huang’s divine sense killed Ji Clan elders trying to escape the Divine Capital, including a half-step immortal venerable and a black-robed elder.
• Sensing Yun Huang’s irritation, Yun Qing hurried toward the Divine Palace while Yun Huang continued sweeping the city for Heavenly Demon-tainted beings.

Yun Qing soothed Yun Huang after the Immortal Emperor exterminated demonic corruption across the Divine Capital. Yun Huang revealed that he intended to restore the Thirty-Three Heavens, the former seat of the Immortal Court.

• Yun Huang used his divine sense to destroy Corpse Puppets and their formations beneath the imperial gardens, leaving a vast crater.
• Yun Qing brought Yun Huang spirit tea and placed the Little Radiant Chick on his hand.
• Yun Qing calmed the Little Radiant Chick, then massaged Yun Huang's temples with the soothing qi of his Chaos Dao Embryo.
• Yun Qing asked Yun Huang about his plans after the cleanup, while worrying that he might be assigned forced labor.
• Yun Huang left the question of who would become Immortal Emperor unanswered and declared that he would piece the Thirty-Three Heavens back together.

Yun Huang revealed that the shattered Thirty-Three Heavens had to be restored to repair Heavenly Origin's incomplete laws and protect the continent from the coming Heavenly Demon calamity. He hinted that Yun Qing could assume heaven's mandate to help, then continued purging demonic remnants in the Divine Capital while Little Radiant Chick returned to Yun Qing.

• Yun Huang explained that the Immortal Court's Thirty-Three Heavens had shattered, leaving Heavenly Origin's laws incomplete and the continent vulnerable to the Heavenly Demon calamity.
• Yun Qing realized Yun Huang had taken over Great Zhou as part of his restoration plan, but Yun Huang dismissed the dynasty as no more than a broken roof-tile corner.
• Yun Huang suggested that Yun Qing, who could assume the mandate of heaven in another's stead, should do more than collect fragments.
• Yun Huang continued crushing hidden demonic remnants throughout the Divine Capital while Yun Qing waited beside him.
• Little Radiant Chick tried to escape Yun Huang, who flicked him back to Yun Qing; Yun Qing soothed the chick while Yun Huang watched with disdain.

Yun Qing returned Yun Huang’s subsidiary radiant sun flame and told him that Ji Shuyue had heard Ji Clan elders complain about Yun Huang’s harsh treatment of their clan. Yun Huang dismissed their claims of kinship and explained why the Ji Clan had accepted his rule, leaving the pair to continue their teasing conversation.

• Yun Qing offered Yun Huang the subsidiary radiant sun flame, and Yun Huang drew it back into Yun Qing’s Dao Seal.
• Yun Qing told Yun Huang that Ji Clan elders had privately accused him of disregarding blood ties and kinship.
• Yun Huang declared that his immortal body and true spirit left him with little meaningful connection to the Ji Clan.
• Yun Qing pointed out that Yun Huang had no blood ties to the Yun Clan either, and Yun Huang insisted he could choose whatever surname he pleased.
• Yun Qing observed that the Ji Clan elders had behaved fairly well, and Yun Huang credited Ji Shuyue’s judgment and the futility of resisting him.

After Yun Huang and Yun Qing finished discussing the Divine Capital’s purge, Yun Qing asked whether the detained ceremony guests could leave. While the guests waited under house arrest, Jiang Shouzhuo entertained several powerful cultivators with a tile game, which ended when True Person Xuanwei exposed Jiang’s cheating.

• Yun Huang annihilated the last hidden Heavenly Demon and cleared the Divine Capital of demonic remnants and traitors.
• Yun Qing asked Yun Huang whether the guests held under house arrest should be allowed to leave.
• Jiang Shouzhuo played tiles and drank with Xia Zhan and other old cultivators while they waited in the guest villas.
• Sword Venerable Azure Sky joined Jiang Shouzhuo’s game after questioning his relaxed attitude toward the Immortal Emperor.
• True Person Xuanwei caught Jiang Shouzhuo cheating by shaking two stolen tiles from his sleeve.

The Divine Capital’s blockade lifted after the Immortal Emperor declared the city purged and ordered the guests to leave. As cultivators rushed for the gates, people attempting to escape were suddenly blasted into blood mist, leaving everyone stranded inside once more.

• Jiang Shouzhuo admitted he had been stealing tiles from True Person Xuanwei, while Xia Zhan and the others watched their argument.
• The Divine Capital’s imperial blockade vanished, and the Immortal Emperor announced that the city was unsealed and ordered everyone to return home.
• The cultivators bowed toward the Divine Palace and rushed to leave, while Great Zhou’s covert agents tried to blend into the fleeing crowds.
• A Great Zhou-aligned sect leader exploded into blood mist as he crossed the Vermilion Bird Gate, and similar deaths struck cultivators escaping through the other gates.
• The remaining cultivators halted in panic, with some colliding and tumbling into the moat.

After the outsiders fled the Divine Capital, Yun Huang uncovered and lifted an enormous jade fragment of the Immortal Court from beneath Great Zhou, revealing that it had sustained the dynasty for ten thousand years. The witnesses recognized it as part of the Thirty-Three Heavens, while Sword Venerable Azure Sky and Xia Zhan hurried home with thoughts of Immortal Court fragments hidden in their own domains.

• Yun Huang ordered the frightened cultivators to leave, and the gathered powers departed the Divine Capital as news of his return spread.
• Yun Huang and Yun Qing went to the ruined Ancestral Temple to investigate the remains of Great Zhou's Ancestral Vein Origin Pool.
• Yun Huang used his divine power to strip away the earth and ruins, exposing a vast jade continent buried beneath the Divine Capital.
• Yun Huang raised the Immortal Court fragment into the sky, astonishing the cultivators who had not yet traveled far.
• True Person Xuanwei identified the fragment as part of the Thirty-Three Heavens, while Sword Venerable Azure Sky and Xia Zhan hurried back to their sects and dynasties.

Yun Qing and Yun Huang discovered the Immortal Court’s Ancestral Rite Celestial Court fragment and prepared to cleanse it of demonic corruption. As the Azure Jade resonated with the ancient heaven, Yun Qing joined Yun Huang in striking at the filth.

• Yun Qing marveled at the Immortal Court fragment and realized Yun Huang had once shattered the Thirty-Three Heavens into pieces.
• Yun Huang criticized the Ji Clan for building on the fragment and corrupting it with the Heavenly Demon’s qi.
• The Ancestral Rite Celestial Court emerged, and Yun Qing recognized it as the source of the Ji Clan’s ritual authority.
• Yun Huang told Yun Qing to draw the Azure Jade, and the sword’s awakening caused the fragment to resonate with its ancient power.
• Yun Huang summoned the righteous law of heaven and earth while Yun Qing infused the Azure Jade with chaos qi and unleashed the Slash the Filth strike.

Yun Qing cleansed the Great Emperor Ancestral Rite Celestial Court, and Yun Huang sent it back to its place in the Thirty-Three Heavens, restoring stability to Heavenly Origin. Across the continent, powerful beings sensed the change, while Xia Wujie hurried to tell the Xia Emperor and Crown Prince Xia Wushang that something had changed in the southern skies.

• Yun Qing used the Azure Jade Ancient Sword to purge the Great Emperor Ancestral Rite Celestial Court of its accumulated grime and demonic filth.
• Yun Qing worried that the Celestial Court's shadow would deprive the land below of sunlight, and Yun Huang sent it back beyond the Nine Heavens.
• The Celestial Court's return rang a bell through every cultivator's sea of consciousness and altered the spiritual currents and laws across Heavenly Origin.
• The World-Cleansing Ice Lotus, Star Seer, an ancient dragon, and the leading figures of major powers sensed the change and reacted to the Celestial Court's return.
• Xia Wujie rushed into the Great Xia hall and told the Xia Emperor and Crown Prince Xia Wushang that something had changed in the southern skies.

After the Great Emperor Ancestral Rite Celestial Court returned to its place beyond the heavens, daylight and the Great Dao’s laws were restored across Heavenly Origin. Yun Qing returned to the Divine Palace and found Yun Yuan still searching for Ji Wen, whose whereabouts remained unknown.

• Xia Wujie reported that urgent messages had arrived from all sixteen southern provinces during the darkness, but daylight had already returned.
• The Xia Emperor explained that the Celestial Court’s return replenished Heavenly Origin’s source and told Xia Wujie and Xia Wushang to prepare to act.
• Xia Wushang scattered his unfinished Go game as he rose, drawing an inward complaint from the Xia Emperor.
• Yun Huang and Yun Qing returned to the Divine Palace after confirming the Celestial Court had settled into its former position.
• Yun Yuan complained that his searches of the palace treasury and aristocratic vaults had uncovered no trace of Ji Wen, while Yun Zhenye and Yun Jun remained with him in the heated chamber.
• Yun Qing entered the heated chamber and greeted Yun Yuan, Yun Zhenye, and Yun Jun.

The Yun Clan elders reported purging Heavenly Demon remnants in Great Zhou, but they could not find Ji Wen or trace his origins. Yun Huang searched the Heavenly Origin Continent and concluded Ji Wen had left this world, possibly with the Heavenly Demons, while hinting that the Heavenly Dao had also played a role in the Profound Ascension Ceremony’s upheaval.

• Yun Yuan told Yun Qing that the Yun Clan’s search of Great Zhou and the Ji Clan’s secret holdings had turned up no trace of Ji Wen.
• Yun Zhenye and Yun Jun reported that their tracking, karmic searches, and cross-world sensing arts had found no trace, though Yun Zhenye believed Ji Wen was alive.
• Yun Huang entered the warm chamber, and Yun Qing asked him where Ji Wen had gone.
• The elders reported hundreds of Heavenly Demon sites and contamination nodes purged in Great Zhou, while Yun Huang eliminated fleeing Immortal Venerables.
• Yun Huang swept his divine sense across the Heavenly Origin Continent and declared that Ji Wen was not in this world.
• Yun Zhenye and Yun Jun suspected Ji Wen had joined the Heavenly Demons, while Yun Huang reflected that the Heavenly Dao had also meddled in the Profound Ascension Ceremony.

Yun Huang ordered the elders to continue handling Great Zhou’s affairs and postponed pursuing Ji Wen, while Ji Wen appeared in the Land of No Light among the surviving Twelve Dutian Demons. Ji Wen explained why Heavenly Origin’s Heavenly Dao had turned against the demons and joined them in declaring their intent to bring the Kanming Heavenly Burial to Heavenly Origin.

• Yun Huang told the elders to proceed with their remaining Great Zhou duties and agreed that Ji Wen could be pursued later.
• Yun Yuan asked Yun Qing to help review the Ji Clan accounts, then fled after Yun Huang’s cold gaze made him reconsider.
• Ji Wen revealed himself in the Land of No Light beside the wounded Twelve Dutian Demons.
• Ji Wen explained that Heavenly Origin’s Heavenly Dao had allowed the demons to oppose Ji Huang when he seemed expendable, but now sought to protect him because the Celestial Court had returned and Heavenly Origin’s foundations were restored.
• Ji Wen and the demons praised the Kanming Heavenly Burial and vowed to bring it down upon Heavenly Origin, though Ji Wen warned that Heavenly Origin was no ordinary world.

Ji Wen and the Holy Lord plotted to disrupt Ji Huang’s efforts to reclaim the heavenly fragments and ordered Gu Princess to watch Yun Qing. In the Divine Palace, Yun Qing learned that Yun Huang had sent Qing Kitty to cultivate because it shed, then blamed the cat’s laziness on Yun Qing.

• Ji Wen told the Holy Lord that Ji Huang would have to reclaim scattered fragments of the Thirty-Three Heavens, giving the demons a chance to sow discord among Heavenly Origin’s factions.
• Ji Wen revealed Yun Qing’s ability to assume another’s place to bear heaven, and the Holy Lord ordered Gu Princess to watch him.
• Yun Qing noticed that Qing Kitty was missing and learned from Yun Huang that his avatar had gone off to cultivate.
• Yun Huang said Qing Kitty’s shedding was abnormal despite its lavish care and concluded that the cat had inherited Yun Qing’s lack of diligence.

Yun Huang convinced Yun Qing that their spirit cat needed more rigorous cultivation, then described a rare opportunity in the Myriad Spirits Divine Realm. Yun Qing eagerly decided to send Little Radiant Chick there too, despite the chick's horrified protests.

• Yun Huang blamed the spirit cat's shedding on poor cultivation and revealed that it had only reached Qi Refinement First Layer after he infused it with power.
• Yun Qing accepted Yun Huang's argument that the cat deserved better training and asked where Yun Huang had sent it to cultivate.
• Yun Huang explained that the Myriad Spirits Divine Realm favored beasts and that its once-in-ten-thousand-years Moon Spirit Tide was about to begin.
• Yun Qing asked Yun Huang to send Little Radiant Chick to the Myriad Spirits Divine Realm as well, and Yun Huang agreed while secretly welcoming the chance to send it away.
• Yun Qing tried to coax Little Radiant Chick by promising it could return as a respected Chicken Ancestor, leaving the chick appalled.

Yun Huang sent Little Radiant Chick to the Myriad Spirits Divine Realm, and Yun Qing realized his brother had maneuvered him into sending away both pets for their cultivation. They discussed the scattered fragments of the Thirty-Three Heavens, leaving Yun Qing to discover that powerful clans—including the Yun Clan—had secretly kept fragments for themselves.

• Yun Huang opened a portal to the Myriad Spirits Divine Realm and flicked the reluctant Little Radiant Chick through it, then reassured Yun Qing that it could return after cultivating.
• Yun Qing suspected Yun Huang had deliberately arranged for Qing Kitty and Little Radiant Chick to be sent away, but accepted that the opportunity could benefit them.
• Yun Qing asked about the remaining fragments of the Thirty-Three Heavens, and Yun Huang explained that some lay in perilous realms while others were hidden in the sacred grounds of Heavenly Origin's great clans and sects.
• Yun Qing realized the Yun Clan possessed a fragment too, which had created the Origin Spirit Pool in the Primordial Chaos Ancient Cave.
• Yun Huang said the clans that had left the Divine Capital fastest each possessed a fragment, prompting Yun Qing to call him an old fox.