Chapter Summaries

Yun Qing and Lu Qingxiao exchanged polite probes while discussing the Azure Lotus Sword Master, as True Person Xuanwei revealed his plans to attempt the Dao Lord Realm despite the danger. At the Azure Lotus Sword Sect, Yun Qing drew Azure Jade to face a sword strike emerging from Myriad Lotus Heaven.

• Yun Qing asked Lu Qingxiao about the Azure Lotus Sword Master, and Lu Qingxiao recounted how Luo Qinglian defeated eight Sword Venerables and chose his surname after the fallen opponents.
• Jiang Shouzhuo angrily confronted True Person Xuanwei over Qingheng’s identity as the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land’s future World-Honored One and the danger to Daoist secrets.
• True Person Xuanwei told Jiang Shouzhuo he intended to enter life-or-death seclusion and attempt the Dao Lord Realm, accepting the risk that he might die.
• At the Azure Lotus Sword Sect, Yun Qing and Yun Lan grew weary of drinking tea while waiting for Yun Baojian to emerge from Myriad Lotus Heaven.
• A powerful Azure Lotus sword strike cleaved through Myriad Lotus Heaven’s barrier and hurtled toward Yun Qing, who drew Azure Jade to meet it.

Yun Baojian fought his way through Myriad Lotus Heaven, challenging and caring for the ancient swords he encountered before repeatedly charging the Azure-Robed Man and being flung back. The Azure-Robed Man finally stood to give him a proper beating, while Yun Baojian remained eager to fight.

• Yun Baojian provoked ancient swords throughout Myriad Lotus Heaven, battling their sword intents and sharpening his own sword intent.
• Yun Baojian reached the central region and attacked the Azure-Robed Man, who wielded the Azure Lotus Sword to send him flying back to the outskirts.
• Yun Baojian repeatedly fought his way back to the Azure-Robed Man and was sent flying after each encounter, sometimes lasting two strikes.
• The Azure-Robed Man noticed Yun Baojian had cut his Grass Stem, stood up, and said he would give the young swordsman a proper beating.
• Yun Baojian's love of swords led him to use his sword-care supplies to clean and tend the ancient swords after their battles.

Yun Baojian sparred with Luo Qinglian in Myriad Lotus Heaven, awakened his sword domain, and broke through the hardest threshold on the path to the Immortal Lord Realm. After tending the Azure Lotus Sword, he was asked which generation of Azure Lotus Sword Sect disciples he belonged to, leaving him sweating over his answer.

• Luo Qinglian challenged Yun Baojian and pushed him through increasingly difficult sword exchanges until Yun Baojian awakened his Heart Sword and reclaimed his fallen blade.
• Yun Baojian combined insights from the ancient swords in Myriad Lotus Heaven to meet Luo Qinglian's strike and begin comprehending his sword Dao.
• Yun Baojian formed a hundred-zhang sword domain, established his own Dao, and broke through the greatest obstacle separating him from the Immortal Lord Realm.
• Yun Baojian thanked Luo Qinglian, then brought out an extravagant set of sword-care tools and asked to see his true form.
• Luo Qinglian let Yun Baojian tend the Azure Lotus Sword and asked which generation of Azure Lotus Sword Sect disciples he belonged to, making Yun Baojian break into a sweat.

Yun Baojian learned that the Azure-Robed Man held a grudge against Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang, who had reincarnated into the Yun Clan, but the senior sword spirit did not blame him and grew fond of him. Yun Baojian spent his days following the Azure-Robed Man around Myriad Lotus Heaven until a sudden sword strike sent him crashing into the lotus pool.

• The Azure-Robed Man invited Yun Baojian to visit Myriad Lotus Heaven, then teased him after discovering he was not an Azure Lotus Sword Sect disciple.
• Yun Baojian introduced himself as a member of the Eastern Region's Yun Clan, and the Azure-Robed Man angrily identified it as the clan where Yuanhuang had settled after reincarnating.
• The Azure-Robed Man told Yun Baojian to keep polishing his sword and decided not to take his resentment toward Yuanhuang out on him.
• Yun Baojian stayed in Myriad Lotus Heaven, followed the Azure-Robed Man around, and chatted with him about swords and sword cultivators.
• The Azure-Robed Man suddenly launched a sword strike at Yun Baojian, who drew his sword to meet it and crashed into the lotus pool half a quarter-hour later.

Yun Baojian trained in Myriad Lotus Heaven under the man in azure, who learned that Yun Baojian was the son of Qing Shuang and Yun Lan. When Yun Baojian revealed that Yun Qing was waiting outside, the man in azure recognized his connection to Yuan Huang and prepared to confront him.

• Yun Baojian spent several days learning swordsmanship from the man in azure and polishing the Azure Lotus Sword in Myriad Lotus Heaven.
• The man in azure discovered that Yun Baojian had entered the forbidden ground through his mother Qing Shuang’s prestige and his father Yun Lan’s money.
• The man in azure recalled that he had once traveled outside but that Lu Qingxiao had later asked him to do so less often.
• The man in azure told Yun Baojian his sword Dao was honed and urged him to leave for seclusion before ascending to Immortal Lord.
• Yun Baojian said that Yun Qing was waiting outside, and the man in azure recognized him as someone close to Yuan Huang.
• The man in azure silenced the swords of Myriad Lotus Heaven, raised the Azure Lotus Sword, and told Yun Baojian to wait while he went out to greet Yun Qing.

Yun Qing used Azure Jade to counter Luo Qinglian’s sword strike, after which Luo Qinglian revealed himself as the Azure Lotus Sword Master and offered to teach Yun Qing swordsmanship. The Yun Clan prepared to visit the sect’s source of the Thirty-Three Heavens, while Yun Baojian’s embarrassing attempt to stop the strike was secretly recorded.

• Yun Qing resonated with Azure Jade and canceled out the Azure-Robed Man’s sword strike outside the Lotus-Viewing Pavilion.
• Yun Baojian clung to the Azure-Robed Man’s leg to stop his next strike, while Yun Lan and Lu Qingxiao recorded the scene with Image-Recording Stones.
• Lu Qingxiao addressed the Azure-Robed Man as Sect Master, revealing that he was Luo Qinglian, and Yun Baojian hurriedly tried to hide his embarrassment.
• Luo Qinglian praised Yun Qing’s sword strike and urged him to cultivate the sword, but Yun Qing initially declined because his Great Dao was already set.
• Luo Qinglian offered to teach Yun Qing swordsmanship, and Yun Qing accepted the opportunity.

Luo Qinglian taught Yun Qing about Sword Domains and revealed that Yun Qing was close to forming one through his complete system of order. When Yun Qing opened his Dao Domain, he began shaping the chaos into the Soaring Firmament, and a Heavenly Gate and celestial palaces emerged.

• Luo Qinglian offered to teach Yun Qing and Yun Baojian swordsmanship, then explained that Yun Qing was only a hair’s breadth from a Sword Domain.
• Luo Qinglian asked Yun Qing to release his Dao Domain, and Yun Qing spread a realm of formless chaos around them.
• Luo Qinglian asked where heaven was within the chaos, prompting Yun Qing to realize that his Dao aimed to establish the Soaring Firmament.
• Azure Jade rang as Yun Qing concentrated, and a Heavenly Gate rose from the chaos.
• Celestial steps, bridges, clouds, and ten thousand palaces emerged beyond the Heavenly Gate, startling Yun Baojian.

Yun Qing completed his Dao domain by merging the sword domain into it, then sparred with Yun Baojian under Luo Qinglian’s guidance. When Yun Qing explained that he had come seeking the Azure Lotus Sword Sect’s lost origin of the Thirty-Three Heavens, Luo Qinglian revealed that the origin was himself.

• Yun Qing formed a complete Dao domain by incorporating the sword domain and used it to shatter Luo Qinglian’s attack.
• Luo Qinglian praised Yun Qing, then ordered Yun Baojian to fight him for practice.
• Yun Qing and Yun Baojian spent several days sparring and consolidating their gains.
• Yun Qing told Luo Qinglian that he had come to discuss obtaining the sect’s origin of the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Luo Qinglian said that the origin was him, leaving Yun Qing and Yun Baojian stunned.

Yun Qing and Yun Baojian learned that Luo Qinglian was the Sword Dao’s origin, one of the Thirty-Three Heavens who blamed Yun Huang for destroying his home. Yun Qing left without taking Luo Qinglian, deciding Yun Huang had sent him to Myriad Lotus Heaven only to receive sword instruction.

• Luo Qinglian revealed that he was an origin of the Thirty-Three Heavens and part of the Great Dao of the sword, leaving Yun Qing and Yun Baojian astonished.
• Yun Qing realized Yun Huang’s destruction of the heavens had likely caused Luo Qinglian’s resentment toward him.
• Yun Qing dragged Yun Baojian away despite his repeated longing looks at Luo Qinglian.
• Luo Qinglian called after them and asked to be taken along, but Yun Qing refused and continued leaving.
• Yun Qing concluded that Yun Huang had arranged the visit for his sword cultivation and treated the mission to retrieve the origin as a cover.

Yun Qing and Yun Baojian left Myriad Lotus Heaven after meeting Luo Qinglian, then told Yun Lan that the Azure Lotus Sword Master was a manifested origin of the Thirty-Three Heavens. Yun Lan mistook the revelation as a threat to his marriage and began sending gifts to his wife, leaving the alliance between the Yun Clan and the Azure Lotus Sword Sect seemingly safe for now.

• Luo Qinglian tried to persuade Yun Qing to stay and fight him, but Yun Qing politely refused and dragged Yun Baojian out of Myriad Lotus Heaven.
• Yun Qing and Yun Baojian reunited with Yun Lan and Lu Qingxiao, exchanged farewells, and boarded Yun Lan's vessel for the Yun Clan.
• Yun Qing told Yun Lan that Luo Qinglian was a manifested origin of the Thirty-Three Heavens and that he had deep enmity with His Majesty.
• Yun Lan worried that the ancient feud might harm his marriage to Qing Shuang, so he decided to send her gifts to secure their relationship.
• Yun Lan ordered azure sky mystic stone and other presents sent to his wife, while Yun Qing and Yun Baojian watched in silence.

Yun Qing returned from the Azure Lotus Sword Sect and found Yun Huang relaxing in Heaven Beyond Heaven while the Yun Clan’s Three Masteries performed for him. Yun Huang teased him about his visit and Luo Qinglian, while Yun Qing sulked without answering.

• Yun Baojian entered secluded cultivation to gather Immortal Power and break through to Immortal Lord, while Yun Lan stayed to guard him.
• Yun Qing left the Yun Clan and found Yun Huang enjoying music and dancing from Yun Ge, Yun Pengxing, and Yun Hua in Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• Yun Qing admired the Three Masteries’ performance but grew irritated that Yun Huang had claimed the best viewing seat and was drinking Immortal Pomegranate Wine.
• Yun Huang asked Yun Qing for the primordial essence of the Thirty-Three Heavens, but Yun Qing slapped his hand away, took a rocking chair, and drank a cup of wine.
• Yun Huang laughed at Yun Qing’s sulking and asked whether his visit to the Azure Lotus Sword Sect had gone poorly and Luo Qinglian had refused to return.

Yun Qing arrived to confront Yun Huang about Luo Qinglian, but Yun Huang distracted him with Vermilion Fruit Spirit Wine and rewarded the Three Masteries for their performance. The Three Masteries left for the Immortal Court’s Grand Music Bureau to seek its artistic legacies, while Yun Qing stayed with Yun Huang.

• Yun Qing watched Yun Ge, Yun Pengxing, and Yun Hua perform music, dance, and painting for Yun Huang, then joined his younger brother in applauding them.
• Yun Huang offered Yun Qing ten-thousand-year Vermilion Fruit Spirit Wine, and Yun Qing drank cup after cup while discussing the factions’ movements after the Nine Heavens Gathering.
• Yun Qing prepared to raise the matter of Luo Qinglian taking human form and presiding over the Azure Lotus Sword Sect, but Yun Huang stopped the performance and addressed the Three Masteries.
• Yun Huang gave Yun Ge, Yun Hua, and Yun Pengxing access tokens to the old Grand Music Bureau and told them to seek out its legacies.
• Yun Hua hurried off with Yun Ge and Yun Pengxing toward the Grand Music Bureau, while Yun Qing watched them go and turned back to Yun Huang.

Yun Qing showed Yun Huang his evolving Dao Domain and asked him to name it, while the two brothers also discussed Yun Huang’s plans for Luo Qinglian. The chapter ended with Yun Huang demanding that Yun Qing be quiet for three breaths before Yun Qing immediately asked for a name again.

• Yun Qing thanked Yun Huang for giving the Three Masteries an opportunity to visit the Grand Music Bureau, then asked about Luo Qinglian.
• Yun Huang explained that Luo Qinglian was Azure Nether Limitless Heaven given form and suggested Yun Qing could drag him out of Myriad Lotus Heaven.
• Yun Qing displayed a Dao Domain combining chaos, an azure Heavenly Gate, and sword intent, and Yun Huang praised it as not half bad.
• Unable to settle on a name for his Dao Domain, Yun Qing asked Yun Huang to name it.
• Yun Huang pointed out that Yun Qing planned to use the domain to fight him, and Yun Qing listed his many services to persuade him to help.
• Yun Huang ordered Yun Qing to be quiet for three breaths, but Yun Qing resumed asking for a name as soon as the time was up.

Yun Huang named Yun Qing’s chaos Dao realm Primordial Soaring Firmament, then dumped the task of returning Luo Qinglian to the Thirty-Three Heavens on him and vanished. Yun Qing delayed that problem and went to inspect the Yun Clan’s work rebuilding the ruined Nine Heavens, where he saw how much restoration remained.

• Yun Huang named Yun Qing’s Dao realm Primordial Soaring Firmament, which delighted Yun Qing.
• Yun Huang asked Yun Qing to handle Luo Qinglian and slot him back into the sky, then disappeared before Yun Qing could object.
• Yun Qing decided to put off dealing with Luo Qinglian, hoping Yun Huang would eventually take the matter back.
• The chapter explained how the intangible Thirty-Three Heavens differed from the Nine Heavens, which were nine physical celestial domains devastated by a Yun Clan ancestor.
• After the Nine Heavens Gathering, the powers began rebuilding the celestial domains, and Floating Immortal Abode’s formation masters arrived to survey the ruins.
• Yun Qing inspected the nearly empty Cloud Firmament Heaven and went to find the Yun Clan’s Nine Heavens Restoration Team.

Yun Qing toured the Nine Heavens’ reconstruction with Yun Guihe and unexpectedly helped the Formation Masters reconnect a cloud vein using the Immortal Court Seal. At the ruined Grand Firmament Palace, Yun Guihe discovered that seemingly ordinary cloud deer carried signs of an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon.

• Yun Qing reunited with the recovered Yun Guihe, who volunteered to help restore the Nine Heavens with his spatial-formation expertise.
• Yun Qing inspected the reconstruction, used the Immortal Court Seal to fix a cloud vein’s law coordinates, and left the seal with the Yun Clan’s Formation Masters.
• Yun Qing and Yun Guihe reached the ruined Grand Firmament Palace and saw spirit beasts return as spiritual energy gathered.
• Yun Guihe detected a faint gray-black aura and warned Yun Qing that the cloud deer were no ordinary spirit beasts.
• Yun Qing used his Double Pupils to see black-and-red threads and a blood-colored growth inside a deer, confirming Yun Guihe’s suspicion of an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon.

Yun Qing discovered that a cloud deer carried a faint trace of kanming heavenly burial and suspected the herd was spreading demonic seeds. He and Yun Guihe followed it to the edge of the heaven, where Yun Shuanghua and Yun Zui were in danger, and rushed to reach them.

• Yun Qing spotted fetal movement inside a cloud deer and identified it as contamination from kanming heavenly burial.
• Yun Qing stopped Yun Guihe from intercepting the herd and ordered him to alert the Yun Clan Elders.
• Yun Qing warned the factions restoring the Nine Heavens not to perform divinations or calculations on contaminated demon beasts.
• Yun Qing and Yun Guihe followed the cloud deer toward the edge of the heaven, where Yun Guihe realized Yun Shuanghua and Yun Zui were nearby.
• Yun Qing and Yun Guihe rushed toward Yun Shuanghua and Yun Zui after fearing the cloud deer would infect them.

Yun Zui and Yun Shuanghua explored the flower field in Cloud Firmament Heaven while Yun Zui complained that nearly everyone else was absent. After they discovered a white deer hiding in the void with an ominous presence, they fled, sensing that its danger had nothing to do with its cultivation.

• Yun Shuanghua tended a silver-purple flower growing in the desolate Wasteland of Cloud Firmament Heaven as Yun Zui teased him and explained that their relatives and friends were away or in seclusion.
• Yun Shuanghua reflected on how the Yun Clan had cared for him and how Yun Yuan had once asked Yun Qing to look after him.
• Yun Shuanghua and Yun Zui suddenly attacked a hidden figure with the Dragonblood Thornbush and Heaven-Burning Drunken Flame.
• The attack revealed a silent white deer with scarlet eyes and a faint ring of black markings in its pupils.
• Yun Zui seized Yun Shuanghua and they fled, recognizing that the deer posed a threat beyond its apparent strength.

Yun Zui and Yun Shuanghua encountered a white deer whose burned body regenerated with black-red flesh, then found themselves surrounded by a herd of corrupted demon beasts. They fought their way toward an escape route, but Yun Shuanghua noticed something wrong in the sky.

• Yun Zui sent up a distress signal, but no Yun Clan Elders responded because they had gone in the opposite direction to seek a treasure.
• Yun Zui and Yun Shuanghua tried to flee after attacking the white deer with fire and thorny plants, but the deer regenerated and more appeared.
• Yun Zui and Yun Shuanghua discovered that numerous corrupted demon beasts had surrounded them and blocked their escape route.
• Yun Zui and Yun Shuanghua stood back to back and attacked the herd, while Yun Shuanghua spotted something wrong in the sky.

Yun Zui and Yun Shuanghua were trapped in a sealed domain and overwhelmed by corrupted Demon Beasts. Ao Zhan and Feng Jiuxiao arrived in time to save them, while Yun Qing and Yun Guihe fought their way toward the flower fields.

• Yun Zui and Yun Shuanghua discovered that a blood-red barrier had cut off the domain and their communications as Demon Beasts surrounded them.
• Yun Qing and Yun Guihe battled through waves of corrupted beasts, learned that the area had been spatially severed, and rushed to rescue the two Immortal Kings.
• A demonized white deer attacked Yun Shuanghua at close range, while a black panther threatened Yun Zui.
• Ao Zhan struck the white deer with his dragon power, and Feng Jiuxiao swept the panther away with her phoenix wing.
• Yun Zui burned the deer with the Heaven-Burning Drunken Flame, and Yun Shuanghua recovered enough to unleash his Dragonblood Thornbush vines against the horde.

Yun Zui, Yun Shuanghua, Ao Zhan, and Feng Jiuxiao fought off demonized beasts while learning how the contamination had spread and why it was difficult to trace. As a spatial rift opened and the group called for help, Yun Qing and Yun Guihe continued toward the flower fields, with Yun Qing worried about his friends.

• Feng Jiuxiao and Ao Zhan joined Yun Zui and Yun Shuanghua, and the four fought back the surrounding Demon Beasts.
• Feng Jiuxiao and Ao Zhan explained that the Demon Court had found widespread contamination among lower-tier beasts, while the source, Kanming Heavenly Burial, remained untraceable.
• Yun Zui, Ao Zhan, and Feng Jiuxiao explained why the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion could not safely divine the threat, and said the beasts were targeting them.
• The four joined forces against the horde as a black-and-red rift opened, and Ao Zhan and Feng Jiuxiao sent their location to the Demon Court through their bloodlines.
• Yun Qing and Yun Guihe continued toward the flower fields, and Yun Qing killed a diving Blood-Feathered Giant Eagle with his spear and radiant sun divine flame.