Chapter Summaries

Ye Hui inherited the Human World's Heavenly Mandate and Fortune, delaying his departure with Yun Qing until he fulfilled his destiny. Yun Qing accepted the separation for now, sealed A Little Shop, and later visited Liu Niang and Pei Junyao as they prepared for new appointments.

• As Yun Qing prepared to leave A Little Shop, Fortune from the Human World flooded into Ye Hui and the Heavenly Mandate settled upon him.
• Yun Qing calmed Ye Hui and explained that he would need to remain in the Human World to repair the severed Immortal Ascension Path before ascending to the Immortal World.
• Yun Qing sealed A Little Shop and protected Blackwater Town's West Street, promising the Heavenly Dao that he would eventually take Ye Hui away.
• Yun Qing stayed in the Human World longer and visited Liu Niang and Pei Junyao, who had been selected for official appointments by Great Xia.
• Yun Qing found Liu Niang packing while Su Wanwan clung to her, and Pei Junyao sorted Jade Slips nearby.

Yun Qing visited Pei Junyao and Liu Niang before they departed for distant official postings and offered to help treat Liu Niang’s primordial maiden bone. He wrote to Crown Prince Xia Wushang, asking Pei Junyao to deliver the letter so Liu Niang could obtain a Nether-Continuing Pill from Great Xia’s treasury.

• Liu Niang told Yun Qing that she and Pei Junyao had been appointed to posts in the Western and Eastern Territories, while Su Wanwan had been ordered back to the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect.
• Pei Junyao told Yun Qing that Great Xia’s treasury held an ingredient for a Nether-Continuing Pill that might repair Liu Niang’s fate wheel, and that they planned to earn merit to petition for it.
• Yun Qing offered to examine Liu Niang and said he would help secure treatment for her condition.
• Yun Qing wrote a letter bearing the Yun Clan Seal Pattern and gave it to Pei Junyao to deliver to Crown Prince Xia Wushang.
• Pei Junyao and Liu Niang bowed in gratitude, and Yun Qing asked them to treat him to wontons when he returned to the Human World.

Yun Qing prepared Ye Hui to remain in the Human World while he and Yun Tianluo returned to Heavenly Origin, giving his disciple gifts, cultivation resources, and protections. After Yun Tianluo arrived, Yun Qing tried to summon the return passage, but the sky did not respond.

• Yun Qing read Yun Tianluo's boastful letter and Xia Wushang's warning about the keepsakes Yun Tianluo had taken, then learned Yun Ruyi would stay in the Human World to pursue her Dao Path.
• Yun Qing gave Ye Hui the Clear-Sound Fortune Bell from his martial aunt and promised to take him to meet his many siblings and Brother Huang after his ascension.
• While waiting for Yun Tianluo, Yun Qing taught Ye Hui the Eight-Nine Profound Art and prepared him with a Storage Ring, a communication seal, and a one-use talisman.
• Yun Qing comforted Ye Hui and promised to welcome him at Heavenly Origin's Heavenly Gate when he ascended; Ye Hui knelt and bowed before his master.
• Yun Tianluo arrived, and Yun Qing activated the Heavenly Origin Cauldron to summon their return, but the sky gave no response.

Yun Qing decided to take his companions to Great Xia after no one came to bring them back, while the Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk fled the chaos and resolved to abandon the Heavenly Dao's missions. She stumbled into a gathering of the Twelve Dutian Demons, who identified her as potential material for their vacant seat.

• Yun Qing told Ye Hui to accompany him to Great Xia and asked Yun Tianluo to lead the way, but Yun Tianluo admitted he was unfamiliar with it.
• The Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk escaped the chaos with Elder Mu's pendant after Ye Tianchen died and decided to find a small world where they could cultivate anew.
• The Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk encountered a ruined temple in the void, where the Twelve Dutian Demons argued over the Gu Princess's death and the vacant seat.
• The Twelve Dutian Demons noticed the Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk and moved to seize her as new material, while she tried to escape by burning her lifespan.

The Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk was seized by the Ruins Shadows and chosen to replace the dead Gu Princess. At Great Xia’s Eastern Palace, Yun Qing met Xia Wushang, who recognized his gains from the Human World, while Yun Qing discovered the Crown Prince had reached the half-step Immortal Lord realm.

• The Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk tried to flee through the Void Rift, but the Ruins Shadows caught her and drained her cultivation.
• The Ruins Shadows told the Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk that she would replace the dead Gu Princess.
• Xia Wujie proposed charging Upper Realm disciples fees to train and comprehend the Dao in the Human World, and Xia Wushang told him to put away his regulations.
• Yun Tianluo teased Xia Wujie about unpaid salary, but Xia Wujie pretended to launch an investigation into the Ministry of Personnel.
• Yun Qing and Xia Wushang exchanged greetings and discussed Yun Qing’s gains from his journey through the Human World.
• Yun Qing sensed that Xia Wushang had reached the half-step Immortal Lord realm, with only the final step remaining before the Human Emperor Way fully took shape.

Yun Qing met with Xia Wushang to arrange care for Ye Hui, secure pills for Liu Fuqu and Pei Junyao, and request Great Xia’s cross-world transport formation. As preparations for the formation continued, Xia Wujie raised the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect and began reporting on the order to purge the Human World’s Immortal Sects.

• Yun Qing and Xia Wushang discussed their progress in their respective ways, while Xia Wujie jokingly proposed that the Yun Clan sponsor Great Xia’s enlightenment trial.
• Yun Qing introduced Ye Hui, courtesy name Zhao Xuan, and asked Xia Wushang to look after him; Xia Wushang gave Ye Hui a Great Xia command token.
• Xia Wushang confirmed that Great Xia had gathered the ingredients for Liu Fuqu’s pills and expected them to be ready in about half a month.
• Yun Qing showed Xia Wushang the Immortal Court Seal and asked to borrow Great Xia’s cross-world transport method; Xia Wushang said they could attempt to open a narrow gap, but Yun Qing left responsibility for rebuilding the passage to Ye Hui.
• Xia Wujie said Great Xia needed about half a month to prepare the formation and asked whether Yun Qing and Yun Tianluo knew of the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect.
• Xia Wujie began reporting to Xia Wushang about the order to purge the Human World’s Immortal Sects.

Xia Wujie told Xia Wushang that the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect resisted Great Xia’s decree but might descend from the Yun Clan. Yun Qing and Yun Tianluo agreed to investigate the sect, while Great Xia prepared the Cross-Realm Formation.

• Xia Wujie reported that most Human World sects had submitted to Great Xia, while the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect and three others still resisted.
• Xia Wujie pointed out that the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect’s formation and greetings resembled ancient Yun Clan traditions, prompting Yun Qing and Yun Tianluo to recognize his deliberate hint.
• Xia Wushang questioned why Xia Wujie had not reported the suspected Yun Clan connection sooner, and Xia Wujie asked the Yun brothers to decide what should be done.
• Yun Tianluo suggested the sect’s founders might have been Yun Clan members stranded in the Human World after the passage was severed.
• Yun Qing agreed to visit the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect with Yun Tianluo and bring any surviving Yun Clan descendants back to Heavenly Origin.
• Xia Wujie offered to lead them, but Yun Tianluo declined his suspicious assistance, and Xia Wushang said the Cross-Realm Formation should be ready when they returned.

Yun Qing, Yun Tianluo, and Ye Hui visited the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect and found signs of the Yun Clan’s ancient formation inheritance. After Su Wanwan recognized Yun Qing and vouched for his power, he probed the sect and revealed his Yun Clan Command Token, leaving the elders stunned.

• Yun Qing and Yun Tianluo identified Yun Clan formation patterns throughout the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect, while Ye Hui quietly ate a Vermilion Fruit.
• Yun Qing, Yun Tianluo, and Ye Hui appeared above the sect, alarming its disciples and summoning the seven elders.
• The elders mistook the visitors for possible agents of Great Xia and declared that the sect would not submit to a mortal dynasty.
• Su Wanwan recognized Yun Qing as the person who had helped cure Liu Fuqu and warned her master, Su Mingya, not to provoke him.
• Su Mingya invited the visitors inside, but Yun Qing swept his spiritual sense through the sect and produced the Command Token of the Yun Clan’s foremost Young Master.

Yun Qing and Yun Tianluo reunited with Yun Guihe, a long-exiled Yun Clan Immortal Lord who had founded the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect while waiting to return home. As Yun Guihe asked about the clansman Yun Hong who had saved him, Yun Tianluo revealed that Yun Hong was the Second Elder’s younger brother and Shuanghua’s…

• Yun Qing and Yun Tianluo identified themselves as the Yun Clan’s First and Second Young Masters, and the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect’s formation opened for them.
• Yun Guihe emerged from seclusion, recognized their clan tokens, and welcomed them as kin.
• Yun Guihe reunited with Yun Qing and wept as he recounted his long exile and the collapse of the passage between the human and immortal worlds.
• Yun Qing told Yun Guihe that he had been raised by Yun Yuan, prompting Yun Guihe to ask about Yun Hong, who had held off the demon soldiers to help him escape.
• Yun Tianluo explained that Yun Hong was the Second Elder’s younger brother and began revealing his connection to Shuanghua.

Yun Qing revealed that Yun Shuanghua was the orphaned son of Yun Hong and Minghui, whose deaths at the Northern Border had haunted Yun Guihe for ten thousand years. He invited Yun Guihe to return to the Yun Clan and fight in the coming war, then oversaw his departure from the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect; the chapter ended with Yun Qing questioning its elders about their support for Ye Tianchen.

• Yun Tianluo explained that Yun Hong and Minghui died defending the Northern Border after sealing away their unborn son, who was later found and raised by Yun Yuan as Yun Shuanghua.
• Yun Qing comforted Yun Guihe, telling him not to blame himself for the couple’s deaths and asking whether he would fight for the Yun Clan again.
• Yun Guihe pledged to serve the Yun Clan and agreed to return to Heavenly Origin after settling the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect’s affairs.
• Yun Guihe entrusted the sect’s leadership to his first disciple, Yun Huaizhou, as the elders mourned his departure.
• Yun Qing asked the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect elders whether they had truly staked their strength on Ye Tianchen, the Human World’s Child of Heaven’s Mandate.

Yun Qing revealed that Ye Hui had killed Ye Tianchen and that Ye Hui, now Zhao Xuan, held the Human World's heavenly mandate. Yun Guihe and the elders made Zhao Xuan the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect's sect master, leaving him with the sect's seal and the responsibility of helping rebuild the passage between the Human and Immortal Worlds.

• Su Mingya confirmed that the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect had hoped Ye Tianchen would reopen the passage to the Immortal World, and Yun Qing disclosed that Ye Hui had killed him.
• Yun Qing introduced Ye Hui as his personal disciple, Zhao Xuan, and said Zhao Xuan now held the Human World's heavenly mandate.
• Yun Guihe offered Zhao Xuan leadership of the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect, and Yun Qing agreed.
• Su Mingya and the elders accepted Zhao Xuan as sect master and showered him with gifts, records, and sect resources.
• Yun Guihe handed Zhao Xuan the sect's Golden Seal and restriction tokens, and the mountain's cloud energy and guarding formation joined with Zhao Xuan's aura.
• Yun Qing told Zhao Xuan to accept the responsibility, saying that the capable should shoulder more work.

Yun Qing bid farewell to Ye Hui and returned toward Heavenly Origin with Yun Tianluo and Yun Guihe, only to find an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon army occupying the void between the worlds. They secretly passed the demonic tide and were scooped safely through Heavenly Origin’s barrier by its Heavenly Dao.

• Yun Qing left Ye Hui in charge of the Perched Cloud Immortal Sect and urged him to seek help rather than face problems alone.
• Xia Wushang prepared Great Xia’s ancient formation, and Yun Qing used the Immortal Court Seal to open a passage to Heavenly Origin.
• Ye Hui kowtowed as Yun Qing, Yun Tianluo, and Yun Guihe departed, then resolved to complete his Dao path and reunite with his master.
• Inside the void passage, Yun Qing discovered an army of Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons and saw the Eldest Princess of Purple Dusk and the soul attached to Ye Tianchen trapped in blood cocoons.
• Yun Qing concealed the group and led them around the demonic tide, recording the cocoons’ location rather than risking an attack.
• As the three reached Heavenly Origin’s barrier, its Heavenly Dao eagerly pulled them and the Immortal Court Seal into the world.

Yun Qing returned to the Yun Clan with Yun Guihe and Yun Tianluo, and the clan welcomed the long-lost Yun Guihe home after ten thousand years in the Human World. Yun Guihe was sent to recover while Yun Che celebrated Yun Tianluo’s perfected Dao Realm, unaware that Yun Tianluo wanted to avoid the consequences for his branch’s lost claim to the position of Yun Clan Eldest Young Master.

• Yun Qing, Yun Guihe, and Yun Tianluo arrived at the Yun Clan Ancestral Grounds after returning from the Human World.
• Yun Yuan recognized Yun Guihe, and Yun Guihe tearfully saluted the clan and declared that he had finally come home.
• Yun Che and Yun Yuan arranged treatment for Yun Guihe’s damaged Dao Foundation and sent him away to recuperate with his relatives.
• Yun Che praised Yun Tianluo for perfecting his Seven-Aperture Exquisite Dao Realm, and Yun Tianluo respectfully thanked his grandfather.
• Yun Tianluo privately hoped to slip away before Yun Che discovered that his branch had lost its chance to claim the Yun Clan Eldest Young Master position.

Yun Qing returned to the Yun Clan with his Dao Resonance fully formed, impressing the elders, who urged him to visit Yun Huang, who had been sulking in Heaven Beyond Heaven. Yun Qing agreed to go, though he admitted he did not know how to get there.

• Yun Tianluo drew the elders’ attention to Yun Qing, whose profound Dao Resonance delighted Yun Che and Yun Yuan.
• The elders connected Yun Huang’s recent bad temper and absence from the ancestral grounds to Yun Qing’s return.
• Yun Yuan and Yun Che persuaded Yun Qing to visit Yun Huang, and Yun Qing agreed, intending to report urgent matters and deliver a gift.
• Yun Qing suspected Yun Huang was throwing a tantrum, and Yun Yuan whispered that he was sulking in Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• Yun Qing warned Yun Tianluo to wait for his return, then asked the elders how to reach Heaven Beyond Heaven.

Yun Yuan brought Yun Qing to the Immortal Court, which Yun Huang was rebuilding, then abandoned him at the Sky-Command Gate. Yun Qing reached Yun Huang and cheerfully greeted him, but Yun Huang confronted him with anger over his return.

• Yun Yuan rushed Yun Qing to Heaven Beyond Heaven and showed him the Immortal Court being restored by countless puppets.
• Yun Yuan left Yun Qing at the Sky-Command Gate, claiming Yun Huang was in the Inner Palace and that the brothers should talk.
• Yun Qing used the Immortal Court Seal to get a golden-armored puppet to guide him through the silent, intimidating palace.
• Yun Qing found Yun Huang sulking on the Cloud Platform beside a scattered Go board and repeatedly called to him until he opened his eyes.
• Yun Huang accused Yun Qing of daring to return and threatened to scatter him to the winds, freezing Yun Qing's smile.

Yun Qing realized that he and Yun Huang had attained the same Great Dao, whose summit could hold only one Dao Venerable, but he responded to Yun Huang’s brooding warning by offering him a rabbit-shaped rice cake. Yun Qing insisted he would not abandon his Dao, leaving Yun Huang furious and at a loss.

• Yun Qing found Yun Huang surrounded by scattered Go stones, gathered them up, and invited him to play while offering him a gift.
• Yun Huang asked Yun Qing what Dao he had attained and what Dao Yun Huang himself had attained.
• Yun Qing realized that the brothers had attained the same Great Dao and remembered Yun Huang once offering to kill anyone who reached Yun Qing’s summit first.
• Yun Qing offered Yun Huang a rabbit-shaped rice cake instead of answering his unspoken dilemma, provoking Yun Huang to shout at him and scatter the Go stones again.
• Yun Huang asked whether Yun Qing intended to abandon his Dao, and Yun Qing firmly said he did not.

Yun Qing and Yun Huang settled their conflict over the Great Dao by recognizing each other as rivals and sharing wine and rice cakes. Yun Huang then agreed to help Yun Qing cleanse his mixed Dao auras after Yun Qing gave him a Heavenly Demon Heart Crystal.

• Yun Qing declared he would continue pursuing the Soaring Firmament Dao and contend with Yun Huang, who realized his elder brother would not yield.
• Yun Qing offered Yun Huang rabbit-shaped rice cakes, and the brothers laughed, shared food and wine, and accepted each other as equal rivals.
• Yun Huang told Yun Qing to catch up with him on the Dao, and Yun Qing promised he would.
• Yun Che and Yun Yuan listened from beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens and concluded that the brothers were getting along; Yun Yuan also told Yun Che that the Fifth Elder was grieving Ruyi's absence.
• Yun Qing gave Yun Huang half a Heavenly Demon Heart Crystal and explained he had once planned to bring Ye Tianchen back as food, but Niu Niu had destroyed him.
• Yun Huang returned the Heart Crystal and told Yun Qing to follow him so he could straighten out Yun Qing's mixed Dao auras.

Yun Huang used Nine Luminaries Heavenly Marrow and the Heavenly Demon Heart Crystal to cleanse the worst of Yun Qing’s demonic contamination, then assigned him to deal with an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon army sealing the rift between the Human World and the Immortal World. After accepting the task in exchange for Vermilion Fruit, Yun Qing began hinting that he wanted Yun Huang’s Nine-Weapon Emperor Formation.

• Yun Huang teased Yun Qing for freeloading, then began cleansing his demonic contamination beside the immortal pool in Azure Radiance Longevity Heaven.
• Yun Huang drew a blood thread from Yun Qing and destroyed it, but Yun Qing discovered that Yun Huang had absorbed the remaining contamination himself.
• Yun Huang threw Yun Qing into the pool, returned the quiet Heavenly Demon Heart Crystal to him, and told him to refine it gradually.
• Yun Qing told Yun Huang that an army of Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons had sealed the rift between the Human World and the Immortal World, with two blood-colored cocoons apparently gestating new demon leaders.
• Yun Huang assigned the threat to Yun Qing, who accepted after Yun Huang gave him a pouch of Vermilion Fruit.
• Yun Qing hinted that he wanted to borrow the Nine-Weapon Emperor Formation from Yun Huang.

After Yun Huang beat Yun Qing and forced him to handle Immortal Court and Yun Clan paperwork, Yun Qing sent gifts and heartfelt guidance to his family. He ended by reflecting on the bonds he had gained, and Yun Huang answered his praise by showering him with vermilion fruit.

• Yun Huang activated the Nine-Weapon Emperor Formation, beat Yun Qing, and made him approve the Immortal Court and Yun Clan's accumulated affairs.
• Yun Qing avoided the paperwork for a while by preparing gifts and messages for the Yun Clan's young masters and elders.
• Yun Qing asked the Heavenly Dao to deliver Yun Ruyi's gift, and it eagerly agreed.
• Yun Qing sent Yun Shuo a puppy plush, cultivation supplies, protective treasures, and a letter promising to teach him swordsmanship when he returned.
• Yun Qing sent the gift-laden paper cranes toward the Yun Clan Ancestral Grounds and reflected on the family bonds he had gained.
• Yun Qing praised Yun Huang, who responded by making vermilion fruit rain down in the hall.

Yun Qing finished reviewing the Immortal Court’s accumulated affairs, then joined Yun Huang in discussing how Heavenly Origin could prepare for Kanming Heavenly Burial and an invasion by Heavenly Demons. The chapter ended with Yun Qing realizing that Yun Huang had shattered the Nine Heavens and that Heavenly Origin’s vacant divine-palace seats would be filled by new powers.

• Yun Qing reviewed and judged the Immortal Court’s dossiers while considering the danger posed by Yun Huang’s contamination and Kanming Heavenly Burial.
• Yun Qing’s gifts reached the Yun Clan, delighting Yun Shuo, Yun Yao, and Yun Li, while Yun Jinglei chased Yun Tianluo toward a secret realm; afterward, a faint blood-red glint appeared in Yun Shuo’s eyes as he murmured Yun Qing’s name.
• Yun Qing found Yun Huang soaking in a hot spring and discussed restoring the Thirty-Three Heavens and protecting Heavenly Origin’s worlds from outside threats.
• Yun Qing proposed that the Four Ancients and Three Sects unite against the coming invasion, and Yun Huang explained that new powers would fill the vacant positions among the Nine Heavens Divine Palaces.
• Yun Qing realized that Yun Huang had shattered the Nine Heavens, leaving their restoration and vacant guardian seats as unresolved problems.