Chapter Summaries

With the Nine Heavens Gathering approaching, Yun Baojian took charge of patrolling Cloud Dream Marsh while major powers arrived at Cloud-Embracing Summit. The Shennong Jiang Clan and the Supreme Dao Sect reached the gathering, where Jiang Shouzhuo and True Person Xuanwei argued over their entourages.

• Yun Baojian told Yun Lan he had to lead the enforcement squads, then ordered them to patrol the nine cities and subdue anyone who started a fight.
• The Yun Clan raised nine layers of restrictive formations over Cloud-Embracing Summit to protect the city from the gathered experts.
• Jiang Shouzhuo arrived in an ornate wine carriage with the Shennong Jiang Clan's attendants and ceremonial offerings.
• True Person Xuanwei approached aboard a magical boat, and Jiang Shouzhuo teased him about arriving early.
• True Person Xuanwei accused Jiang Shouzhuo of hypocrisy for bringing an elaborate entourage after urging others to travel simply, while Jiang Shouzhuo defended his modest carriage and entourage.

Jiang Shouzhuo and True Person Xuanwei exchanged old stories above Cloud Dream Marsh until Feng Hu arrived and revived a scandal from his past. Feng Hu’s renewed insults toward women drew the hostility of the Azure Lotus Sword Sect and the North Pole Ice God Palace, whose cultivators began forming the Netherfrost Sky-Sealing Domain.

• Jiang Shouzhuo and True Person Xuanwei traded barbs as they traveled above the Sea of Clouds.
• Feng Hu arrived and mocked Jiang Shouzhuo, prompting True Person Xuanwei to recall how three Azure Lotus Sword Sect Sword Venerables had hunted Feng Hu for eighty thousand li.
• Lu Qingxiao arrived and gripped his sword after hearing about Feng Hu’s past insults toward the Azure Lotus Sword Sect’s female cultivators.
• Feng Hu repeated his contempt for female cultivators and claimed that men had always stood at the pinnacle of the Great Dao.
• Frost Fairy and the North Pole Ice God Palace cultivators reacted with hostility, and the Netherfrost Sky-Sealing Domain began freezing Cloud Dream Marsh.

At the Nine Heavens Gathering’s opening, Feng Hu provoked the Azure Lotus Sword Sect and the North Pole Ice God Palace, but Feng Ci and Yun Qing stopped the confrontation. The senior powers headed toward Cloud-Embracing Summit while their young members were invited to explore Cloud Dream Marsh.

• Feng Hu’s remarks brought the Azure Lotus Sword Sect and the North Pole Ice God Palace to the brink of fighting, prompting Yun Baojian to order the City-Guarding Grand Formation activated.
• Feng Ci emerged from the Feng Clan Wind Wheel, apologized for Feng Hu, and eased tensions with the assembled powers.
• Frost Fairy prepared to clash with Feng Hu until Yun Qing invited the North Pole Ice God Palace to stay as guests, and she withdrew her intent to fight.
• Yun Qing and Yun Yuan welcomed the visiting Immortal Venerables and invited their young disciples to explore Cloud Dream Marsh while the seniors attended the meeting.
• Jiang Shouzhuo told the Jiang Clan youths to enjoy the scenery and not cause trouble—or, if they did, not get caught, leaving Feng Hu caught between Feng Ci above and Feng Ling’er below.

Yun Qing noticed Feng Hu’s brief hostility during the elders’ visit to Cloud-Embracing Summit, while Yun Lan teased Yun Baojian for comparing himself with Yun Qing. The chapter ended with Yun Baojian reacting in shock when his father revealed he had broken through to the Immortal Venerable Realm.

• Feng Ci told the Feng Clan members to follow the rules, and the visiting elders and younger cultivators proceeded to Cloud-Embracing Summit.
• Jiang Shouzhuo, True Person Xuanwei, and Feng Ci praised Yun Qing, while Yun Qing sensed Feng Hu’s hostility and concealed his suspicions.
• Yun Baojian watched the younger cultivators arrive on Cloud Street as his father, Yun Lan, embraced him and compared him unfavorably with Yun Qing.
• Yun Baojian insisted that he would become formidable and would no longer fall for Yun Lan’s attempts to goad him.
• Yun Lan told Yun Baojian that he had already broken through the Immortal Venerable Realm, and Yun Baojian reacted in shock.

Yun Baojian learned that Yun Lan had quietly become an immortal venerable and reconciled with his father after expressing his frustration and concern. As the Nine Heavens Gathering began and a major conflict loomed, Yun Baojian returned to patrol Cloud Dream Marsh while Yun Lan left to gather resources for his seclusion.

• Yun Baojian discovered that Yun Lan had become an immortal venerable and confronted him for keeping the breakthrough secret.
• Yun Lan reassured Yun Baojian that his tribulation had been safely prepared for, and Yun Baojian congratulated him on advancing his Dao.
• Yun Baojian asked to enter the Azure Lotus Sword Sect's Myriad Lotus Heaven after his guard duty, and Yun Lan promised to secure his admission and provide resources.
• Yun Lan warned that a world-shaking battle was approaching and urged Yun Baojian to prepare for the conflicts facing their generation.
• Yun Lan departed to earn resources, while Yun Baojian ordered the Law Enforcement Team to continue patrolling Cloud Dream Marsh and prevent unrest during the Nine Heavens Gathering.

The Yun Clan hosted the Nine Heavens Gathering as factions from across Heavenly Origin arrived to discuss the coming troubles. Yun Li and Yun Yao resolved to train harder, while Yun Shuo briefly revealed a thoughtful side before returning to his cheerful self; the chapter ended with the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land arriving and True Person Xuanwei refusing to look at them.

• Yun Qing and Second Elder Yun Yuan greeted representatives from sacred lands, immortal cities, and other factions gathering at Cloud-Embracing Summit.
• Yun Li told Yun Yao he planned to seek out Twelfth Elder Yun Lie, and Yun Yao decided to seek out the Third Elder to hone her arts.
• Yun Shuo promised to cultivate more and make Second Elder less angry as the three returned toward the Yun Clan Territory.
• Yun Shuo paused to look back at Cloud-Embracing Summit with a solemn, meaningful gaze before Yun Yao led him onward.
• The Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land arrived amid Buddhist chanting, and True Person Xuanwei turned away in irritation as Jiang Shouzhuo questioned him.

At the Yun Clan’s Nine Heavens Gathering, old tensions between the Supreme Dao Sect and the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land surfaced as the major factions assembled. The Ji Clan sent Ji Shuyue as its young leader, and the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion finally arrived with Xing Yuanzi alone, leaving Yun Qing wondering what had happened to Fu Sanyuan.

• True Person Xuanwei traded barbed remarks with Zen Master Mingjing, hinting that Mingjing had forcibly converted a disciple of the Supreme Dao Sect.
• Yun Qing observed the gathered factions and reflected on the tangled histories among Heavenly Origin’s powerful sects.
• Ji Shuyue arrived with Grand Supreme Elders Ji Yan and Ji Miao, and Yun Yuan exchanged sharp remarks with the two elders before Ji Shuyue redirected the conversation.
• The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion arrived after the other factions, but Xing Yuanzi came alone and appeared disheveled.
• Yun Qing wondered whether Fu Sanyuan’s absence was connected to the important divination he had performed at the Heavenly Origin World Barrier.

Yun Yuan gathered Heavenly Origin's major immortal, demonic, demon, and human powers to discuss restoring the Nine Heavens Divine Palaces, revealing that the Immortal Court would soon reorganize the Thirty-Three Heavens. The factions began bargaining over the vacant seats, while Yun Qing noticed Sword Venerable Azure Sky react to the announcement and watched the North Pole Ice God Palace's Frost Fairy.

• Xing Yuanzi exchanged a cryptic greeting with Yun Qing before Yun Yuan waited for three more delegations to arrive.
• The Ten Directions Demon Court, Wuwang Devil Palace, and Great Xia Ancient Dynasty arrived, completing the gathering of Heavenly Origin's major powers.
• Yun Yuan opened the Nine Heavens Gathering by explaining that the Great Xia and Great Zhou dynasties had left vacancies in the Nine Heavens Divine Palaces.
• Luo Tianhe questioned whether restoring the vacant seats would redistribute territory, and Xia Zhan bristled at the factions discussing Great Xia's inheritance.
• Yun Yuan revealed that His Majesty planned to rebuild the Immortal Court and reorganize the Thirty-Three Heavens, and Yun Qing noticed Sword Venerable Azure Sky react.
• The factions argued over who deserved a seat in the Nine Heavens, while Yun Qing turned his attention to the Frost Fairy of the North Pole Ice God Palace.

The North Pole Ice God Palace secured a seat in the Nine Heavens Divine Palaces as guardian of Northern Polar Mystic Heaven, forcing the other factions to compete for the remaining seat. Xia Zhan called out the factions that had taken Great Xia's abandoned holdings, and the meeting erupted into a fierce contest.

• Frost Fairy declared that the North Pole Ice God Palace would take a seat, and Yun Yuan endorsed it as guardian of Northern Polar Mystic Heaven.
• Zen Master Mingjing questioned whether granting the seat would open the Nine Heavens to other old powers, but the factions accepted the North Pole Ice God Palace's claim.
• The Nine Heavens Palace Projection marked the Thirty-Six-Petaled World-Cleansing Ice Lotus as guardian of Northern Polar Mystic Heaven.
• War King Xia Zhan said Great Xia yielded the remaining seat, then pointedly asked the factions to return Great Xia's spiritual veins and secret realms.
• The factions ignored Xia Zhan's demand, and the Immortal City lords abandoned their claims that a Nine Heavens seat was merely an empty title as they prepared to compete for it.

The Nine Heavens council descended into arguments as factions competed for influence in the restructured Divine Palaces, while the Demon and Devil paths tried to join the debate. The chapter ended with True Person Xuanwei angrily accusing Zen Master Mingjing of having stolen his personal disciple.

• Luo Tianhe, the lord of the Floating Immortal Abode, and the old woman from Southern Abyss Divine Island each argued that their factions deserved a role in the Nine Heavens.
• The Demon Race's great lord and the Wuwang Devil Palace master demanded seats, but the Immortal Dao factions dismissed their claims.
• Jiang Shouzhuo and Yun Yuan watched the arguing, while Yun Yuan explained to Yun Qing that the powerful factions avoided real conflict and preferred a war of words.
• The white-robed lady of Soaring Sacred Land suggested that her faction might participate, while Zen Master Mingjing claimed the Nine Heavens seat had a karmic affinity with Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land.
• True Person Xuanwei mocked Mingjing's claims and declared that he resented him for taking his personal disciple.

True Person Xuanwei recalled how Qingheng, his beloved disciple, had been revealed as the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land’s reincarnated Buddha’s Son and had left the Supreme Dao Sect after destroying its secrets within himself. When Zen Master Mingjing’s remark about affinity rekindled Xuanwei’s old grievance, the two began fighting above Cloud-Embracing Summit.

• True Person Xuanwei remembered raising Qingheng, who was revealed at the Lotus Flower Platform as the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land’s Buddha’s Son in his eighth reincarnation.
• Qingheng destroyed the Supreme Dao Sect’s secret techniques and knowledge in his body and begged True Person Xuanwei to search his soul, while Xuanwei ultimately spared him and accepted compensation from the Buddhist sect.
• Qingheng later corresponded with True Person Xuanwei, but after another thousand years the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land announced that he had completed his eighth life and entered his ninth reincarnation.
• True Person Xuanwei let slip the old secret while speaking with Yun Qing and the gathered elders, then challenged Zen Master Mingjing over the meaning of affinity.
• True Person Xuanwei and Zen Master Mingjing fought above Cloud-Embracing Summit as Yun Qing’s Ninefold Forbidden Array contained the battle’s force.
• True Person Xuanwei struck Zen Master Mingjing across the face when Mingjing began to speak about Qingheng.

At the Nine Heavens Gathering, True Person Xuanwei and Zen Master Mingjing fought over the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land’s bid for Great Xia’s vacant heavenly seat. Mingjing privately revealed that Qingheng’s ninth-life cultivation was nearing completion, stirring Xuanwei’s deep regret as the chapter ended with Mingjing continuing his appeal.

• True Person Xuanwei attacked Zen Master Mingjing over the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land’s conversion of his disciple, while the gathered cultivators resumed debating the vacant seat.
• Zen Master Mingjing returned to the gathering and argued that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land was best suited to defend Heavenly Origin and suppress demons, but True Person Xuanwei refused to support it.
• Yun Yuan stopped the prolonged fight, and the gathering remained deadlocked as the factions weighed the candidates and the feud between Xuanwei and Mingjing.
• Zen Master Mingjing privately reminded True Person Xuanwei of Qingheng and revealed that the Buddha’s Son had returned from his ninth life and was close to recovering the memories of his previous lives.
• Mingjing recounted how Qingheng had stayed in his eighth life for a thousand years, longing to see Xuanwei but remaining secluded because of the rift between Buddhism and Daoism.
• True Person Xuanwei recalled raising Qingheng and regretted how harshly he had treated his first disciple as Mingjing continued speaking privately.

The Nine Heavens Divine Palaces admitted the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land after Zen Master Mingjing secured enough support and True Person Xuanwei stopped objecting. Yun Yuan then revealed that the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons planned to trigger the Battle of the Heavens early, but Feng Hu accused Yun Qing of being corrupted and fabricating the threat, leaving the gathering on the verge of conflict.

• Zen Master Mingjing offered three pledges and invoked the Buddha's Son's connection to True Person Xuanwei, who stopped opposing the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land's admission.
• Xing Yuanzi, Sword Venerable Azure Sky, Ji Shuyue, Feng Ci, and Xia Zhan supported the proposal, and the Golden Lotus Buddha Seal granted the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land the second Nine Heavens seat.
• Yun Yuan announced that the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons intended to provoke the Battle of the Heavens ahead of time, and the gathered powers questioned the source and reliability of his claim.
• Yun Yuan identified Yun Qing as the prodigy who discovered the demons' scheme, drawing the attention of the Immortal Venerables.
• Feng Hu challenged Yun Qing's credibility, accused him of colluding with Heavenly Demons, and provoked Yun Yuan into rising in anger.

Yun Qing exposed Feng Hu’s personal vendetta and argued that an inner demon had corrupted his Dao Heart, then traced Feng Tianmu’s memory recording to Feng Ling’er and forced Feng Ci to act. The chapter left Feng Ci’s avatar smashing Listening Wind Lodge as clan forces raced to reach Ling’er.

• Feng Hu accused Yun Qing of killing Feng Tianmu and other Feng Clan disciples, then presented a memory recording that he claimed proved Yun Qing had secretly seized their fortune.
• Yun Qing dismissed Feng Hu’s accusations and pointed out signs that an inner demon had entered Feng Hu’s Dao Heart, causing the other Immortal Venerables to retreat from him.
• Yun Qing recognized Feng Ling’er as the witness in the recording and demanded to know how Feng Hu had obtained her memory.
• Feng Ci seized Feng Hu, ordered her allies to locate Ling’er, and learned that Right Elder faction members were guarding Listening Wind Lodge.
• Feng Hu revealed his resentment toward Feng Ling’er’s position as Clan Lady, while Feng Ci’s avatar broke through the lodge with a single palm strike.

Feng Hu unleashed the corrupting breath of Kanming Heavenly Burial to attack Yun Qing, but Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang arrived and suppressed the threat. Yuanhuang killed Feng Hu after Feng Ci stripped him of his Feng Clan position, then declared that harming Yun Qing meant defying him and his Thirty-Three Heavens.

• Feng Ci rescued the unconscious Feng Ling'er and prepared to punish Feng Hu for secretly imprisoning and harming the Feng Clan's sole promising prodigy.
• Feng Hu drew out the residual burial breath of Kanming Heavenly Burial and attacked Yun Qing and the Immortal Venerables, forcing Yun Qing to shield the Second Elder.
• The Immortal Court Seal summoned Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang, whose golden emperor flame suppressed the burial breath and whose imperial might pinned Feng Hu down.
• Feng Ci declared Feng Hu a traitor, stripped him of his Right Elder position, sealed his branch's possessions, and expelled him from the Feng Clan.
• Yuanhuang annihilated Feng Hu and his demonic shadow, then warned the powers of the Nine Heavens and Myriad Worlds that harming Yun Qing meant defying him.
• Yuanhuang returned Yun Qing's ugly Sumeru Puppet Transformation doll to him.

Yun Huang revealed that Feng Hu was not the only person corrupted by Kanming Heavenly Burial, prompting the Immortal Venerables to realize the Heavenly Demons may have tainted investigators sent to the Mu Clan’s ruined territory. Yun Huang cleansed the Nine Heavens Palace Projection and ordered the gathering to continue, as the factions pledged to investigate their own people.

• Yun Qing apologized to Yun Yuan for throwing away his Sumeru Puppet Transformation, and Yun Yuan privately softened despite intending to settle the score later.
• Yun Huang identified black-and-red threads in the blood-colored ash and said Feng Hu was not the only one.
• Yun Qing realized other people might have been bewitched by Heavenly Demons and carrying Kanming burial-aura corruption.
• Feng Ci recalled that Feng Hu had investigated the Mu Clan’s ruined territory, where Heavenly Demons may have planted the corruption for investigators to take away.
• Yun Huang cleansed the Nine Heavens Palace Projection with Divine Flame and ordered the Immortal Venerables to continue.
• True Person Xuanwei, Zen Master Mingjing, and Jiang Shouzhuo pledged to investigate their factions and offer ways to cleanse suspected demonic corruption.

Yun Huang’s appearance brought the factions at the Nine Heavens Gathering into line, and the leaders made pledges to investigate the Heavenly Demons and protect Heavenly Origin. After the daylong meeting ended, Feng Ci left with Feng Hu’s ashes as the factions hurried home to search for hidden Netherworld calamity breath.

• Ji Shuyue, Xia Zhan, Lu Qingxiao, and the other faction leaders pledged to investigate the old Great Zhou case, the Human World, and possible threats to Heavenly Origin.
• Yun Yuan and Yun Qing reacted inwardly to the leaders’ sudden solemnity before Yun Huang, who departed after looking toward Yun Qing.
• Yun Qing and Yun Yuan resumed the Nine Heavens Gathering, and the Immortal Venerables spent the day establishing pledges and settling provisions.
• The faction leaders left Cloud-Embracing Summit in haste, fearing that Netherworld calamity breath might have been planted among their people or sacred sites.
• Feng Ci gathered some of Feng Hu’s ashes, apologized to Yun Yuan, and returned to the Feng Clan because Ling’er was unwell.

After the Nine Heavens assembly, Yun Qing reflected on the long-lived powers and reunited with Yun Huang in Heaven Beyond Heaven. Yun Huang immediately tasked him with locating the remaining heavens, beginning with a lost Dao Resonance Origin hidden within the Azure Lotus Sword Sect.

• Feng Ci departed, and the gathered powers left the Cloud-Embracing Summit after declaring that the assembly had reached its decisions.
• Yun Qing and Yun Yuan watched the elders depart and reflected on the loneliness of longevity and the old friends who remained.
• Xing Yuanzi warned Yun Qing and Yun Yuan that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion would investigate the Mu Clan's old case but must not probe Kanming Heavenly Burial too deeply.
• Yun Qing washed in the Nine Luminaries Heavenly Marrow Pool and found Yun Huang relaxing in a flower garden between the Star River and the Sea of Clouds.
• Yun Huang told Yun Qing to locate the remaining Thirty-Three Heavens and revealed that the lost Dao Resonance Origin of one was hidden within the Azure Lotus Sword Sect.

Yun Qing traveled with Yun Lan and Yun Baojian to the Azure Lotus Sword Sect, where he planned to investigate the sect’s hidden Dao origin while ensuring Baojian entered Myriad Lotus Heaven safely. On the journey, they discussed the mysterious Azure Lotus Sword Master, whose extraordinary history made Yun Qing suspect the sect was hiding more than its heaven’s origin.

• Yun Huang sent Yun Qing to Cloud Dream Marsh, where Yun Qing learned that Yun Baojian would enter seclusion in Myriad Lotus Heaven in two days.
• Yun Qing told Yun Lan and Yun Baojian that he intended to recover the Azure Lotus Sword Sect’s Dao resonance, and Yun Lan proposed securing Baojian’s cultivation benefits before negotiating about it.
• Yun Qing, Yun Lan, Yun Baojian, and Southern Mountain Lineage stewards set out for the Azure Lotus Sword Sect aboard Flowing Clouds, Ten Thousand Brocades.
• Yun Lan explained that Yun Huang had reclaimed the other Thirty-Three Heavens by attacking their holders directly, while Yun Qing reflected that the Yun Clan had mostly followed along and signed handover documents.
• Yun Lan and Yun Baojian described how the Azure Lotus Sword Master had defeated the eight sword chiefs with one strike at the Eastern Sea sword gathering ten thousand years earlier.
• Yun Qing and Yun Lan remarked that the Azure Lotus Sword Master’s achievements were strangely little known, and Yun Lan said outsiders had seen him only a handful of times since he became sect master.

Yun Lan brought Yun Qing and Yun Baojian to the Azure Lotus Sword Sect, where Lu Qingxiao tested Yun Baojian’s sword heart and admitted him to Myriad Lotus Heaven for secluded cultivation. As Yun Lan waited outside the sacred ground, Lu Qingxiao asked Yun Qing what other business had brought him there.

• Yun Lan explained that Lu Qingxiao knew Azure Lotus best, and Yun Qing immediately understood the resemblance between Lu Qingxiao and his own brother Yuanhuang.
• Yun Lan used gifts and old friendships to secure a warm welcome for the party at the Azure Lotus Sword Sect.
• Lu Qingxiao tested Yun Baojian with his sword intent, and Yun Baojian drew his sword half an inch and held firm.
• Lu Qingxiao led Yun Baojian into Myriad Lotus Heaven, where Yun Baojian began secluded cultivation among the ancient swords and azure lotuses.
• Yun Lan, Yun Qing, and Lu Qingxiao waited at the Lotus-Viewing Pavilion, and Lu Qingxiao asked Yun Qing whether he had come for anything besides accompanying Yun Baojian.