Chapter Summaries

Yun Qing and Yun Huang fought to a draw after unleashing their domains and ultimate techniques, razing the mountain peak. Lin Buqun then arrived and accused Yun Qing of bullying Yun Huang, while Yun Huang looked disgusted by being called his beloved son.

• Yun Qing and Yun Huang exchanged blows as their battle shattered all nine protective formations around the dueling platform.
• Yun Qing summoned his Chaos Domain and condensed its forces into a Dao Seal, earning Yun Huang’s genuine praise.
• Yun Qing and Yun Huang unleashed their ultimate techniques, and their clash destroyed the mountain peak before ending in a draw.
• Lin Buqun entered the arena and rebuked Yun Qing for supposedly bullying his beloved son.
• Yun Qing silently looked toward Yun Huang, who appeared sickened by Lin Buqun’s words.

After Lin Buqun declared Yun Huang the winner and chief disciple, Yun Huang rejected his ruling and challenged Yun Qing to continue their fight. The sect master stopped them by arranging a rematch in the secret realm opening in three days, and Yun Qing left the battle exhilarated by their new bond as equals.

• Lin Buqun declared Yun Huang the winner, stripped Yun Qing of his senior inner disciple position, and named Yun Huang chief disciple.
• Yun Huang rejected Lin Buqun's ruling and challenged Yun Qing to fight again, and Yun Qing gladly accepted.
• The elders urged Lin Buqun to stop the duel because their first battle had devastated the sect's main peak.
• Lin Buqun halted the rematch and told Yun Qing and Yun Huang they could settle the contest in the secret realm opening in three days.
• Yun Huang departed after arranging to meet Yun Qing in the secret realm, while Yun Qing savored their hard-fought equality and looked forward to their next battle.

Yun Qing and Yun Huang battled through the Heavenly Pivot Sect's Ancient Secret Realm until Yun Huang summoned the Nine-Weapon Emperor Formation, leaving Yun Qing cursing at the overwhelming display. Meanwhile, Gu Princess manipulated the blood-red fate thread to trigger Ye Hui's destined defeat, as Ye Hui watched the scene unfold.

• Yun Qing and Yun Huang raced into the secret realm's depths and fought across its core, destroying illusion beasts and activating an ancient Sword Qi formation.
• Yun Huang summoned the Nine-Weapon Emperor Formation, and Yun Qing recognized it as the legendary force that would later establish Yun Huang's supremacy.
• Gu Princess recalled how the Emperor Weapons had slain members of the Twelve Capital Gods and toyed with the glowing blood-red fate thread before the crystal sphere.
• Ye Hui watched from beyond the realm barrier as the broken cliff appeared, the place where his original fate had him crippled and cast down by Ye Tianchen.
• Gu Princess declared Ye Hui's destined defeat had arrived, and blood-red hues spread across the crystal image as she announced the first act was ending.

Yun Qing abandoned his attempt to negotiate and survived Yun Huang’s nine-arrow assault with Bear All Things and the Heavenly Origin Cauldron, but Yun Huang’s tenth arrow struck him and sent him over Fate Cliff. Outside the secret realm, the Gu Princess confirmed that the fate bloodline had been activated.

• Yun Qing waved a white flag and asked Yun Huang to put away the Nine-Weapon Emperor Formation, but Yun Huang drew the Heavenly Bow and aimed at him.
• Yun Qing summoned Bear All Things and the Heavenly Origin Cauldron, then deflected Yun Huang’s first arrow and charged into the following barrage.
• Yun Qing fought through the next eight arrows, suffering burns and injuries, and withstood all nine before confronting Yun Huang at close range.
• Yun Huang fired a tenth arrow that pierced Yun Qing’s left shoulder and bound him with a blood-colored fate thread.
• Yun Qing was driven onto the still-standing Fate Cliff and fell over its edge, while the Gu Princess watched the Crystal Ball and confirmed that the fate bloodline had lit up.

Gu Princess abandoned her failed scheme in the Heavenly Origin World and sent Yun Qing into a wasteland from a Heavenly Demon’s memories, where Kanming Heavenly Burial contaminated him. Trapped among children being used to purify corrupted divine iron, Yun Qing recognized Niu Niu and prepared to escape with her.

• Yun Qing landed on his backside from a one-meter drop, frustrating Gu Princess when the fate line still counted it as falling off a cliff.
• Gu Princess transported Yun Qing away from the Heavenly Origin World to test whether her schemes failed because of the location or because of him.
• Yun Qing found himself weak and imprisoned in a cage beneath a blood-red sun that he recognized as Kanming Heavenly Burial.
• Yun Qing saw Niu Niu in a neighboring cage and learned from the guards that children were being used as furnaces to purify contaminated divine iron.
• Kanming Heavenly Burial began contaminating Yun Qing, so he sealed his senses and planned an escape before the growth on his back worsened.
• Yun Qing waited for a shift change, then tapped Niu Niu’s cage and told her to look at him.

Yun Qing escaped the cages with Niu Niu and endured years of travel through the corrupted Wasteland Continent, protecting her as he fought the kanming heavenly burial’s erosion. He left Niu Niu in the Ye Residence with her reunited brother Xiao An, unaware that she had entered the household of Young Master Tianchen and that something uncanny surrounded her.

• Yun Qing broke out of his cage during a rainy shift change, killed the guards, and freed Niu Niu.
• Yun Qing removed the divine iron embedded in his back and Niu Niu’s, then traveled with her across the corrupted Wasteland Continent for years.
• Yun Qing opened his double pupils to destroy a living statue, intensifying the corruption spreading through his body.
• Niu Niu reunited with her younger brother Xiao An in a border town, and he offered her shelter at the Ye Residence.
• Yun Qing gave Niu Niu supplies and a knife before leaving, while Xiao An revealed that she would serve Young Master Tianchen at the Ye Residence.

Yun Qing traveled through the Blood Haze Wasteland, witnessing its horrors and realizing that the continent’s corruption had made escape no true salvation. In New Domain City, he reunited with Niu Niu, now called Red Ji and one of Ye Tianchen’s Beloved Confidantes, as the sects gathered to plan their escape.

• Yun Qing spared the villagers in a monstrous village and buried a temporary Purification Formation beneath their bridge to protect a child.
• Yun Qing entered True Person Hua’s Daoist Hall and killed her, freeing the city’s cultivators from their nightmare but leaving them to face their ruined lives.
• Yun Qing reflected on the shattered laws of the wasteland and, in his eighth year there, stopped sealing his five senses apart from his Double Pupils.
• Yun Qing arrived in New Domain City and recognized Niu Niu, who now went by Red Ji, at a Cultivators’ Alliance Assembly.
• Yun Qing realized the sects’ plan to escape through the World Barrier could spread the corruption, while Red Ji stood beside Ye Tianchen as one of his Beloved Confidantes.

Yun Qing interrupted Ye Tianchen’s ascension ceremony to save Red Ji from being sacrificed by the formation. As Ye Tianchen’s ascension faltered, Yun Qing positioned himself between Red Ji and the altar’s core.

• Yun Qing learned that Red Ji’s father, the Profound Serenity Sect leader, had come to aid Ye Tianchen’s ascension.
• Ye Tianchen drained the Sunken Continent’s remaining Fortune while the sects and their people hailed him as their hope.
• Red Ji’s father bound her to the Ascension Formation with a Blood Kin Life Conduit so she would bear its corrosion for Ye Tianchen.
• Ye Tianchen chose to rely on Red Ji’s father and told Red Ji he would remember her sacrifice as the formation activated.
• Yun Qing appeared beside Red Ji, shattered the blood-red chain with Blood Refinement, and sheltered her behind him.
• Yun Qing drew his spear toward the formation’s core as Red Ji realized he had found it.

Yun Qing killed Ye Tianchen, causing the Wasteland Continent to collapse, and uncovered Gu Princess’s connection to Red Ji, Niu Niu, and the other figures from his past. As the world reached its end, Yun Qing attained Emperor Lingxiao Dao by vowing to protect all worlds from heavenly calamity and corruption, beginning the Chaos Dao Era.

• Yun Qing pierced Ye Tianchen’s chest with the power of Kanming Heavenly Burial, killing him and triggering the Wasteland Continent’s collapse.
• Yun Qing stopped Red Ji from stabbing him and revealed that she was an incarnation of Gu Princess’s memories; he also suppressed her attempt to self-detonate.
• Yun Qing reflected on the calamity caused by Kanming Heavenly Burial and vowed to protect all worlds from corruption, manipulated fate, and ruin.
• Yun Qing attained Emperor Lingxiao Dao, halting the collapsing heavens as the Wasteland’s destruction marked the end of the old era and the beginning of the Chaos Dao Era.

Yun Qing attained the Emperor Lingxiao Dao, shattered Gu Princess’s Wasteland illusion, and awakened in the void after breaking her curse. As Yun Huang learned that Yun Qing had taken the Dao he once attained, he began looking forward to their coming confrontation.

• Yun Qing broke through to the Immortal Lord Dao Realm as the Wasteland Continent shattered and Red Ji vanished.
• Gu Princess’s bone-and-crystal divination ball exploded, and she reacted with excited interest as Yun Qing awakened beside Ye Hui.
• Yun Huang watched the three Dao scrolls burn and recognized that Yun Qing had attained the Emperor Lingxiao Dao, which Yun Huang himself had once mastered as Ji Huang.
• Yun Qing woke in the void, destroyed the curse seal in his chest, and recalled being trapped in repeated trials while the Heavenly Demons hunted him.
• Yun Qing comforted the badly wounded Ye Hui, fed him a Nine-Turn Supreme Clarity Mystic Origin Pill, and told him to leave the rest to Shopkeeper Yun.

Yun Qing fought Gu Princess after she attacked him, countering her fate arts with his newly established soaring firmament Dao. Gu Princess summoned a young Yun Huang to face him, while the Heavenly Origin Heavenly Dao poured its fortune into Yun Qing and urged him to kill Yun Huang and take his place.

• Yun Qing shielded Ye Hui and challenged Gu Princess, then attacked her with the Bear All Things Spear.
• Gu Princess used fate threads and bone bells to conjure false memories of Blackwater Town, but Yun Qing saw through them and destroyed her illusions.
• Gu Princess created blood puppets from Yun Qing's past selves, and Yun Qing defeated them before striking her down with Soaring Firmament.
• Gu Princess summoned a phantom of young Yun Huang from a crystal ball and set him against Yun Qing alongside herself.
• The Heavenly Origin Cauldron channeled the Heavenly Origin World's fortune into Yun Qing, and the Heavenly Dao urged him to kill Yun Huang and take his place.

Yun Qing defeated the young Yun Huang’s Nine-Weapon Emperor Formation and destroyed the life core sustaining his image, while Gu Princess’s fate-thread attacks failed to penetrate Yun Qing’s chaos domain. After the young Yun Huang vanished, Gu Princess unleashed a rain of blood toward Yun Qing’s embryonic world, and he raised the Heavenly Origin Cauldron to protect Ye Hui.

• The Heavenly Dao poured fortune into Yun Qing as he faced the young Yun Huang and Gu Princess on the Divine Platform.
• Yun Qing used his embryonic chaos world to block Gu Princess’s fate threads and counter the nine weapons, pressing the young Yun Huang back with his spear.
• After more than a hundred exchanges, Yun Qing found a gap in the emperor formation and shattered the life core in the young Yun Huang’s chest.
• The young Yun Huang told Yun Qing to meet him at the end of the Dao path, then vanished; Yun Qing asked the Heavenly Origin Cauldron to record the fight so he could show Brother Huang.
• Gu Princess unleashed the Heavenly Bloodfall of Filth and Sin, and Yun Qing summoned the Heavenly Origin Cauldron to suppress the attack and shield Ye Hui.

Yun Qing used his Sky-Piercing Great Vows to withstand Gu Princess's karmic blood rain while Fu Sanyuan severed her connection to the Human World's heavenly fate. With Gu Princess trapped and enraged, Yun Qing prepared to finish the fight as she warned that the Sacred Ruins would eventually corrupt all worlds.

• Yun Qing let Gu Princess's blood rain enter his Chaos World, where his great vows became laws and formed a Sky-Piercing Chain that bound the sources of her blood threads.
• Gu Princess tried to draw on the Human World's heavenly fate, but Fu Sanyuan severed her connection to it.
• Fu Sanyuan revealed that he and Yun Qing had made a secret pact: Yun Qing would bait Gu Princess into a direct confrontation while Fu Sanyuan waited to sever heavenly fate.
• Yun Qing gripped Bear All Things and stepped toward Gu Princess, declaring that it was time to end the fight.
• Gu Princess cursed Yun Qing and warned that the Sacred Ruins would descend and assimilate all worlds into the Holy Race; Yun Qing faced her calmly.

Yun Qing defeated Gu Princess by striking the Niu Niu hidden within her, and Niu Niu briefly regained clarity before vanishing. Her final warning revealed that Kanming Heavenly Burial had left hidden corruption in Yun Qing, as Fu Sanyuan and Yun Tianluo arrived in the void.

• Yun Qing found Niu Niu inside Gu Princess and pierced Gu Princess's defenses with Bear All Things.
• Gu Princess cursed Yun Qing and Ji Huang before Yun Qing closed her eyes and offered a blessing.
• Niu Niu regained clarity, warned Yun Qing of dormant Kanming Heavenly Burial corruption in his heart meridians, and vanished.
• A pure Heavenly Demon Blood Crystal formed from Gu Princess's remains.
• Fu Sanyuan broke through the void with Blood Haze Copper Coins, and Yun Tianluo followed and checked that Yun Qing was unharmed.

Yun Qing kept the Heavenly Demon Heart Crystal, which eased the contamination in his chest, and split it in half just as Fu Sanyuan prepared to fight for it. Bing Xixi and an army of Ice Dolls appeared to seize one half, leaving Yun Qing watching the confrontation with Bear All Things ready in his hand.

• Fu Sanyuan rushed toward Yun Qing to collect the Heavenly Demon Heart Crystal, but Yun Qing withdrew it and questioned what he had promised.
• Yun Qing discovered that the crystal had eased the lingering contamination in his chest, while Fu Sanyuan explained why the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion needed it for Star Seer.
• Yun Qing split the crystal in two, kept one half, and tossed the other toward Fu Sanyuan.
• Bing Xixi opened a rift and led a horde of Ice Dolls through it to snatch the flying half of the crystal.
• Bing Xixi mocked Fu Sanyuan, and Yun Qing watched the two groups with Bear All Things ready in his hand.

Fu Sanyuan and Bing Xixi fought over a Heart Crystal while Yun Qing kept his half and explained that the crystal could only partly suppress Kanming Heavenly Burial. He left the two rivals to discover its limits and seek a way to fight the Heavenly Demons.

• Bing Xixi sent her Ice Doll army against Fu Sanyuan, and they traded attacks and insults as they fought for the Heart Crystal.
• Yun Qing stroked the recovering Ye Hui, fed him Osmanthus Cake, and refused Yun Tianluo’s suggestion that they seize the other half of the crystal.
• Yun Qing explained that the Heart Crystal could suppress Kanming Heavenly Burial but caused inner-demon-like side effects and could not cleanse contamination at the mighty cultivators’ level.
• Yun Qing and Yun Tianluo remarked that Fu Sanyuan and Bing Xixi would need to kill Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons and seek a way to break Kanming Heavenly Burial.
• Fu Sanyuan and Bing Xixi each gripped one end of the Heart Crystal in a stalemate, then called for their elders to help.

Fu Sanyuan and Bing Xixi summoned their masters’ powers to fight over the heart crystal, splitting it before each was whisked away with a piece. Yun Qing stayed behind with the remaining fragment, unaware that Yun Huang had stopped coming to his aid because they had become rivals.

• Fu Sanyuan summoned Star Seer, while Bing Xixi called on the sleeping Ice Lord to join their contest over the heart crystal.
• Fu Sanyuan and Bing Xixi pulled the crystal apart, each taking half as Star Seer and the Ice Lord’s power carried them away.
• Bing Xixi fled into the ice coffin after catching Yun Qing’s gaze, and the void fell quiet.
• Yun Qing waited for Yun Huang to take him home, but no sign of Yun Huang or his power appeared.
• Yun Qing put off returning and thanked Ye Hui for guarding his path, calling himself indebted to him.

Yun Qing took Ye Hui as his first disciple, completed the ceremony, renamed him Zhao Xuan, and gave him a cultivation scripture. In the Southern Continent, Yun Ruyi continued teaching Lin Muyao to repair spiritual veins and learned that Yun Qing had attained the Soaring Firmament Dao and taken a disciple.

• Yun Qing asked Ye Hui to become his disciple, and Ye Hui accepted before Yun Tianluo presided over their ceremony.
• Ye Hui completed three bows and nine kowtows, and Yun Qing named him Zhao Xuan and gave him the Eight-Nine Profound Art.
• Yun Tianluo sent Yun Ruyi news of Yun Qing's attainment and new disciple, and Yun Ruyi decided to prepare a welcoming gift.
• Yun Ruyi taught Lin Muyao to mend the Southern Continent's spiritual veins, and Lin Muyao managed to stabilize a small section.
• Lin Muyao could no longer remember the Gu Princess or her traces, while Yun Ruyi wondered about the Emperor Lingxiao Dao and Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang.

Yun Ruyi continued teaching Lin Muyao and invited her to travel farther south after they repaired the spiritual vein. Back at the Heavenly Pivot Sect, Yun Qing warned Xia Wujie about an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon, Ye Hui killed Lin Buqun, and Xia Wujie ordered the sect executed before Yun Qing asked Yun Tianluo whether his official duties remained.

• Yun Ruyi taught Lin Muyao to divide her wood spiritual power and invited her to explore farther south once they finished repairing the spiritual vein.
• Yun Qing and his companions returned to the frozen moment after the battle at the Heavenly Pivot Sect, where Xia Wujie noticed Yun Qing's changed aura.
• Yun Qing privately told Xia Wujie that an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon had appeared, and Xia Wujie agreed to inform Crown Prince Xia Wushang.
• Ye Hui asked Yun Qing's permission to leave, killed Lin Buqun, and returned to stand beside his master.
• Xia Wujie ordered Great Xia's troops to execute the Heavenly Pivot Sect, and Yun Qing prepared to leave with his companions.
• Yun Qing asked Yun Tianluo whether he still had official duties as an appointed official of Great Xia.

Yun Qing, Yun Tianluo, and Ye Hui left the Heavenly Pivot Sect, while Xia Wujie considered ways to profit from Upper Realm visitors and regretted missing a chance to recruit Fu Sanyuan. Yun Qing returned to Blackwater Town and entered A Little Shop, reflecting on the vanished people and memories of the street.

• Yun Qing sent Yun Tianluo to finish his Great Xia administrative duties, and Xia Wujie considered charging Upper Realm visitors a fee to comprehend the Dao in the Human World.
• Xia Wujie lamented that Fu Sanyuan had left before he could recruit him to teach stargazing and fate appraisal at the Sacred Dynasty Academy.
• Yun Qing called Ye Hui by the name Zhao Xuan and said they would return to Blackwater Town.
• Yun Qing found West Street bustling with different people and remembered that its former neighbors had come from the Wasteland Continent and were part of Niu Niu's memories.
• Yun Qing left Blackwater Town's protective grand array in place and opened the door of A Little Shop.