Chapter Summaries

Yun Qing rushed to save Yun Zui and Yun Shuanghua as Ao Zhan and Feng Jiuxiao joined them against the demon tide. Ao Zhan and Feng Jiuxiao used the Demon Court’s secret art to exchange genders, leaving Yun Zui and Yun Shuanghua stunned.

• Yun Qing contacted Yun Huang for help, and Yun Huang told him that Ao Zhan and Feng Jiuxiao had arrived to support Yun Zui and Yun Shuanghua.
• A demon beast ambushed Yun Qing, but he blasted it away with Azure Jade before continuing toward the others.
• Ao Zhan and Feng Jiuxiao transformed into their true forms and performed the Dragon-Phoenix Secret Canon to reverse their forms.
• Ao Zhan emerged as a powerful woman, while Feng Jiuxiao became an elegant young man.
• Yun Zui struggled to address Feng Jiuxiao as “Brother-Sister Xiao,” and Ao Zhan laughed at her.

Ao Zhan, Feng Jiuxiao, and Yun Shuanghua used the Dragon-Phoenix Secret Art to push back the beast tide, but Yun Shuanghua rushed from the defensive line to save the last flower in the ruined field. His act awakened the remnant soul of the Demon Flower Evil Lord, who offered him an inheritance and promised to eliminate the beasts.

• Feng Jiuxiao revealed that the Dragon-Phoenix Secret Art had raised his and Ao Zhan's auras to Immortal Lord level, and Ao Zhan charged into the beast tide.
• Ao Zhan, Feng Jiuxiao, and Yun Shuanghua fought together, slowing the beasts' advance with their combined power.
• Yun Shuanghua saw a rhinoceros beast about to crush the last silver-blue flower and rushed out to protect it.
• Yun Shuanghua sheltered the flower, awakening the ruined flower field and manifesting the remnant soul of the Demon Flower Evil Lord.
• The Demon Flower Evil Lord introduced himself, offered Yun Shuanghua his inheritance, and promised to destroy the Demon Beasts if Yun Shuanghua came closer.

Yun Zui tried to keep Yun Shuanghua from accepting the Demon Flower Evil Lord’s inheritance, while Yun Huang watched from the Thirty-Three Heavens. Just as Yun Shuanghua began to agree, Yun Qing broke through the demonic blockade and attacked the Demon Flower Evil Lord.

• Yun Huang saw the Demon Flower Evil Lord coaxing Yun Shuanghua toward his inheritance and reacted with disgust, making the remnant soul sense a threatening presence.
• The Demon Flower Evil Lord promised Yun Shuanghua his inheritance and the flower field, while his floral aura softened the boy’s mind.
• Yun Zui invoked the Eastern Region’s Yun Clan to warn the Demon Flower Evil Lord that Yun Shuanghua had powerful people behind him.
• The Demon Flower Evil Lord resumed coaxing Yun Shuanghua, who began to accept the inheritance.
• Yun Qing tore through the demonic blockade, and Yun Zui pushed Yun Shuanghua down as Yun Qing’s sword light destroyed the Corrupted Demon Beasts and struck the Demon Flower Evil Lord.

Yun Qing arrived in time to break the Demon Flower Evil Lord’s attempt to seize Yun Shuanghua and protect his younger siblings. The Demon Flower Evil Lord rebuilt his phantom and defended his actions, while the group faced him in the ruined flower field.

• Yun Qing destroyed the Demon Flower Evil Lord’s flower silhouette, freeing Yun Shuanghua from its influence and letting him and Yun Zui retreat.
• Yun Qing emerged from the Void Rift with Yun Guihe, and Yun Shuanghua and Yun Zui took shelter behind their eldest brother.
• Yun Qing thanked Ao Zhan and Feng Jiuxiao for protecting the Yun Clan youngsters and agreed they should address the Demon Flower Evil Lord first.
• The Demon Flower Evil Lord reassembled his phantom and claimed he had only been testing Yun Shuanghua before passing on an inheritance.
• Yun Qing accused the Demon Flower Evil Lord of tampering with Yun Shuanghua’s Divine Soul, while the Demon Flower Evil Lord concealed his anger and explained his need for a suitable successor.

The Demon Flower Evil Lord revealed that he had planned to possess Yun Shuanghua, but Yun Qing confronted him with a powerful Dao technique after receiving the Emperor Lord’s order to kill him. The Evil Lord recognized the emperor’s aura and Radiant Sun Divine Flame, then began crying and drooling as he stared at Yun Qing.

• The Demon Flower Evil Lord recalled how he had intended to use the beast tide to isolate Yun Shuanghua and possess his body.
• After Yun Qing and the others received reinforcements, the Evil Lord emerged and prepared to seize Yun Shuanghua by force.
• Yun Qing listened to a message from Heaven Beyond Heaven and unleashed his primordial firmament technique against the Evil Lord.
• The Evil Lord recognized the aura of the emperor Lingxiao Dao and Radiant Sun Divine Flame on Yun Qing’s spear.
• Yun Qing advanced to attack, but the Evil Lord began shedding tears and drooling as he looked at him.

Yun Qing fought the Demon Flower Evil Lord, whose lovesick rambling about Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang scandalized everyone and infuriated Yun Huang. After Yun Huang ordered Yun Qing to attack, the Evil Lord unleashed his deadly Myriad Flowers Dao, and Yun Qing countered it with his ordered Dao Domain.

• The Demon Flower Evil Lord mistook Yun Qing’s Radiant Sun Divine Flame for Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang’s immortal fire and reminisced about their supposed intimate past, leaving Yun Qing and the others stunned.
• Yun Huang cracked his wine cup while watching from the Sea of Flowers and ordered Yun Qing to attack immediately.
• Yun Qing attacked with his Soaring Firmament Dao Domain, prompting the Demon Flower Evil Lord to raise myriad flowers and summon the remnant spirits he had refined.
• The Demon Flower Evil Lord used his Myriad Flowers Dao to drain vitality from the battlefield, forcing Yun Shuanghua, Ao Zhan, and Feng Jiuxiao to defend themselves.
• Yun Qing rang the Immortal Bell within his Primordial Soaring Firmament World and blocked the Evil Lord’s draining laws with his Dao Domain.

Yun Qing fought the Demon Flower Evil Lord, whose lovesick reminiscences about Yun Huang repeatedly distracted him. After Yun Qing delivered Yun Huang’s message to slay him, the Demon Flower Evil Lord unleashed his full power, and Yun Qing charged back into battle determined to grow strong enough to protect Yun Huang.

• Yun Qing mocked the Demon Flower Evil Lord during their fight, but the ancient remnant soul kept comparing his attacks to his past entanglement with Yuan Huang.
• Yun Huang’s radiant sun divine flame flared as Yun Qing struck the Demon Flower Evil Lord, and Yun Qing relayed Yun Huang’s command to slay him.
• The Demon Flower Evil Lord erupted in fury, awakened countless evil flowers, and unleashed his thousand-armed Dharma Form with Ten Thousand Flowers Bury the World.
• Yun Qing and the Demon Flower Evil Lord collided their Great Dao domains, and the resulting shockwave sent both fighters flying while Yun Qing suppressed his injuries.
• Yun Qing steadied himself and charged into the evil flowers again, while the Demon Flower Evil Lord resumed addressing Yun Huang with lovesick tenderness.

Yun Yuan and the Demon Court's forces broke through the sealed Ruinous Expanse and arrived just as the Demon Flower Evil Lord made a suggestive declaration about Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang. Their reactions and Yun Qing's flustered denial provoked Yun Huang to channel his power through Yun Qing, who attacked the Demon Flower Evil Lord with his Long Spear.

• Yun Yuan broke through the spatial barrier with the Yun Clan Elders and confirmed Yun Shuanghua and the others were safe.
• The Dragon Lord, Phoenix Lord, and Demon Court forces tore open the barrier and rushed in, hearing the Demon Flower Evil Lord's declaration about Yuanhuang.
• The Yun Clan and Demon Court stared at the Demon Flower Evil Lord and exchanged knowing looks, while Yun Qing denied knowing about his past with Yuanhuang.
• Yun Huang's Imperial Might descended, transforming Yun Qing's appearance and power as the Soaring Firmament Heavenly Court responded to its former master.
• Yun Qing, wielding Yun Huang's Divine Power, thrust the Long Spear through the Demon Flower Evil Lord's chest, and the wounded soul blushed at the familiar spot.

Yun Qing stopped Yun Huang from killing the human and demon witnesses, then tried to protect the Immortal Emperor’s reputation by questioning him about the Demon Flower Evil Lord’s final claims. Yun Huang explained that the supposed romance was a series of beatings, and the witnesses hurriedly agreed that the demon had lied.

• Yun Huang burned away the Demon Flower Evil Lord’s remnant soul after the demon died declaring his love for Ji.
• Yun Qing realized Yun Huang still intended to silence the witnesses and stopped him by condemning the demon for sullying the Immortal Emperor’s good name.
• Yun Qing asked Yun Huang to explain the demon’s claims of intimacy, and Yun Huang said he had burned and beaten the demon during their fight.
• Yun Huang confirmed that his palm strike had sent the Demon Flower Evil Lord thirty thousand zhang underground and crushed his skull.
• Yun Qing backed away from Yun Huang, leaving the Yun Clan Elders and Demon Court figures to deny hearing anything and condemn the demon’s words as lies.

Yun Qing and the clans set aside the Demon Flower Evil Lord incident to investigate the contaminated beasts and demonic seeds, while Yun Huang withdrew to Heaven Beyond Heaven. After recalling his ancient fight with the Demon Flower Evil Lord, Yun Huang felt a pang of conscience and decided to help Yun Qing.

• Yun Yuan and the others insisted that the Demon Flower Evil Lord had lied about knowing Yun Huang, and Yun Qing signaled them to stop overacting.
• Yun Qing redirected everyone to the beast tide, contaminated demon beasts, demonic seeds, and the missing Kanming Heavenly Burial, then discovered Yun Huang had departed.
• Yun Qing led the Yun Clan and Demon Court members in sealing the area and investigating the demonic seeds.
• In Heaven Beyond Heaven, Yun Huang recalled defeating the Demon Flower Evil Lord in ancient times and burned away the resurfaced memory with the Radiant Sun Divine Flame.
• Yun Huang watched Yun Qing direct the investigation and decided to help so Yun Qing would not come back to interrupt his music.

Yun Huang purified the Demon Flower Evil Lord’s inheritance and sent it to Yun Shuanghua, who accepted it and began cultivating under guard. Yun Qing then investigated the suspicious beast tide and found that corrupted beasts came from widely separated regions of the Demon Court.

• Yun Huang stripped the Demon Flower Evil Lord’s inheritance of its vile arts and thoughts, leaving a pure flower Dao inheritance essence.
• The inheritance slipped past Yun Qing, Yun Yuan, and Yun Guihe before striking Yun Shuanghua on the head.
• Yun Qing confirmed the inheritance held no remnant soul and persuaded Yun Shuanghua to accept it as a gift purified by Yun Huang.
• Yun Shuanghua absorbed the inheritance, causing floral patterns and spiritual energy to gather around him as silver-purple flowers bloomed in the ruined field.
• Yun Yuan and Yun Guihe stayed to guard Yun Shuanghua while Yun Qing returned to investigate the beast tide.
• Demon Court experts identified corrupted beasts from distant regions, including a Dark-Backed Rhinoceros from the Northern Court, leaving Yun Qing concerned about how far the corruption had spread.

Yun Qing traced the malignant aura from the Nine Heavens to Green Mountain Nether Marsh in the Ten Directions Demon Court, where his Double Pupils showed it overlapping with underground waterways. He warned the Demon Court experts that the threat could not have spread widely through the waterways without being discovered by now.

• Yun Qing examined the residual aura in Cloud Firmament Heaven and decided to investigate its source at Green Mountain Nether Marsh.
• Feng Jiuxiao invited Yun Zui to the Demon Court with the promise of fine wine, and she eagerly joined Yun Qing’s group.
• Yun Qing and the Demon Court group reached the sealed forest in Green Mountain Nether Marsh, where the first mutated Cloud Deer had been found.
• Yun Qing followed the aura deeper into the marsh and saw its traces overlap with underground waterways connected across the Demon Court.
• The Demon Court experts feared the malignant aura could spread through the waterways, but Yun Qing said it could not have spread widely without being detected.

Yun Qing and the Demon Court experts traced the Kanming Burial Breath to a nine-orifice mystic water lotus in a mountain lake. They realized it had used the lotus and visiting Demon Beasts to spread demonic contamination, though the group had not yet dealt with the source.

• Yun Qing led the concealed group to a clear mountain lake and identified it as the place harboring the vile breath.
• The Demon Court experts searched the lake and found a nearly mature nine-orifice mystic water lotus guarded by a Black-Armored Water Nian, but detected no demonic qi.
• Yun Qing pointed out that the lotus itself had been contaminated and explained that anything could serve as a vessel for the burial breath.
• Yun Qing deduced that the Black-Armored Water Nian had killed the original host, after which the burial breath had settled into the lotus.
• Yun Qing and the elders concluded that the lotus drew Demon Beasts to the lake, allowing the burial breath to seed them and spread contamination back across their home regions.

Yun Qing helped the Ten Directions Demon Court uncover and destroy kanming burial breath hidden inside the nine-orifice mystic water lotus, earning the Demon Emperor’s gratitude. As Yun Qing prepared to leave and investigate a separate void passage threatening the Yun Clan, Feng Jiuxiao stopped him to address the incident involving Young Master Shuanghua and Yun Zui.

• Yun Qing recognized that the lotus’s hidden burial breath amplified negative emotions, and the Demon Court experts realized how close they had come to being deceived.
• The Demon Emperor appeared, uprooted the lotus, and annihilated it together with the tainted breath.
• The Demon Emperor thanked Yun Qing and ordered the Dragon Lord and Phoenix Lord to seal Green Mountain Nether Marsh and investigate everyone who had approached it.
• Yun Qing briefly tried to glimpse the Demon Emperor’s origins with his double pupils, but the ruler’s divine light blocked his view.
• Yun Qing decided to return to the Yun Clan to investigate the secret passage through the void in Cloud Firmament Heaven.
• Feng Jiuxiao stopped Yun Qing and said the Demon Court had failed in its duty despite Young Master Shuanghua and Yun Zui escaping serious harm.

Yun Qing allowed Yun Zui to accept Feng Jiuxiao’s invitation to cultivate in the Phoenix Clan, then investigated the spatial passages used by the corrupted Demon Beasts. He lured their hidden accomplice into revealing itself and captured it, but learned that the threat was tied to Lord Blood Nie.

• Feng Jiuxiao offered Yun Zui the chance to refine Phoenix Clan nirvana true marrow, and Yun Zui eagerly agreed to go into seclusion with him.
• Yun Qing returned to Cloud Firmament Heaven, where Yun Yuan reported that the hidden spatial passage might have been left by the wandering Void Salamander, the Heavenly Lord of Strange Wandering Life.
• Yun Qing and the Yun Clan elders secretly continued their investigation while repairing the Nine Heavens, then tracked a hidden demon to a ruined spatial crevice.
• Yun Qing speared and pinned the demon against the spatial barrier, revealing that the Yun Clan had never stopped investigating.
• The captured demon warned Yun Qing that Lord Blood Nie would not spare the Yun Clan.

After Yun Qing burned away a demonic presence tied to Blood Nie, he pushed ahead with restoring Cloud Firmament Heaven and conscripted Yun Jinglei to help investigate dangerous void passages. Yun Jinglei proved exceptionally useful, but Yun Qing assigned him seventeen more sites and left him begging to enter seclusion.

• Yun Qing destroyed the demonic presence, which revealed that Blood Nie had exploited a hidden passage in Heavenly Origin.
• Yun Qing decided that Rebuilding the Nine Heavens needed to accelerate and, short on help, enlisted Yun Jinglei with Yun Zhenye's cooperation.
• Yun Zhenye and Yun Qing signed a temporary reassignment for Yun Jinglei despite his protests.
• Yun Jinglei used the Unbounded Void Secret Art to explore hidden passages and locate spatial hazards for Yun Qing.
• Yun Qing assigned Yun Jinglei seventeen more sites to investigate, and Yun Jinglei cried out that he wanted to enter seclusion.

Yun Qing and Yun Zhenye used Yun Jinglei’s Seamless Secret Art to scout a shattered spatial passage, and Yun Qing learned why Jinglei’s branch gave its members such conspicuous names. Yun Zhenye revealed that the art could make cultivators forget they existed and become permanently cut off from the world.

• Yun Qing asked Yun Zhenye whether Yun Jinglei needed seclusion to break through, and Yun Zhenye said he did not.
• Yun Jinglei searched the shattered spatial passage while Yun Qing and Yun Zhenye recorded the routes he found.
• Yun Zhenye explained that his branch cultivated the Seamless Secret Art and that its members’ loud names served as anchors against its dangers.
• Yun Zhenye told Yun Qing that advanced practitioners could unconsciously conceal themselves until they forgot they existed and risked dissolving into the void.
• Yun Zhenye recalled standing among people who could neither notice nor remember him while he failed to dismiss the art.

Yun Qing oversaw the Nine Heavens’ restoration, putting Yun Jinglei to work while cultivating and welcoming Yun Lan’s Southern Mountain businesses. He inspected the neighboring Divine Palaces, ending his visit to the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land eager to escape its teachings.

• Yun Zhenye explained that Yun Jinglei’s lively temperament let him master the Seamless Secret Art’s concealment and emergence without suffering its usual tribulation.
• Yun Qing gave Yun Jinglei far more spatial nodes to survey than he had promised, and the young master’s work helped accelerate the Nine Heavens’ restoration.
• Yun Qing cultivated steadily and visited Yun Huang for advice, while Yun Jinglei continued to complain about his workload.
• Yun Lan brought Southern Mountain’s businesses to Cloud Firmament Heaven and offered Yun Qing a thirty-percent share of their local profits.
• Yun Qing inspected Sword Lotus Heaven and noted the Azure Lotus Sword Sect’s sword-filled renovations before visiting the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land.
• Yun Qing listened to the monks’ Buddhist teachings and tried to make a swift escape.

After the Nine Heavens were fully restored, Yun Qing watched his younger siblings emerge from seclusion and advance their cultivation while the Heavenly Demons remained mysteriously absent. With the Yun Clan’s forces nearly ready, Yun Qing demanded to know what the Heavenly Demons were waiting for and let his suppressed Dao Resonance surge forth.

• After touring the other domains, Yun Qing ordered Yun Jinglei to add more spatial features to Cloud Firmament Heaven, then continued rebuilding the Nine Heavens as the Heavenly Demons vanished.
• Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang activated the Nine Heavens Formation Foundations, restoring the Nine Heavens and raising Heavenly Origin’s world grade.
• Yun Hua, Yun Ge, and Yun Pengxing emerged as Half-Step Immortal Lords, while Yun Baojian and Yun Tianluo reached the Immortal Lord Realm.
• Yun Lie and Yun Li brutally trained Yun Poxiao, strengthening his physique as Yun Li gained the power to briefly fight at the Immortal Lord level; Yun Shuanghua absorbed the Myriad Flowers Dao and developed new flower eyes.
• Yun Qing reviewed his siblings’ progress and worried that Yun Zui remained in the Phoenix clan’s Nirvana Pool, though reports said the baptism was proceeding normally.
• With the Twelve Young Masters largely prepared for war, Yun Qing released his Dao Resonance and demanded to know what the Heavenly Demons were waiting for.

After the Nine Heavens were restored, Yun Qing visited Yun Huang in Heaven Beyond Heaven and found the Heavenly Dao celebrating wildly. His attempt to suggest that Yun Huang and the Heavenly Dao resembled a married couple offended them both, and he concluded that they merely had to coexist.

• Yun Qing finished most of the Grand Firmament Palace backlog and went to Heaven Beyond Heaven to discuss the Nine Heavens’ defenses and the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Yun Qing saw the Heavenly Dao dancing in celebration and watched it form a cloud heart for him.
• Yun Huang welcomed Yun Qing to share tea and refreshments, and Yun Qing complained that an Immortal Emperor had an easy life.
• Yun Huang’s glance made the Heavenly Dao shrink its heart and hide at a distance.
• Yun Qing compared Yun Huang and the Heavenly Dao to a married couple, and both angrily told him to be silent.
• Yun Qing decided that Yun Huang and the Heavenly Dao remained together only because they could neither break their bond nor kill each other.