Chapter Summaries

Yun Qing and Yun Huang discussed how to restore the final layer of the Thirty-Three Heavens without provoking the Azure Lotus Sword Sect over Luo Qinglian. They realized Blood Nie planned to exploit resentment among Heavenly Origin’s great sects, and chose to wait and watch as he set his scheme in motion.

• Yun Qing asked Yun Huang what they would do about the final layer of the Thirty-Three Heavens, which depended on Luo Qinglian returning to his place as its origin.
• Yun Qing warned that forcibly taking Luo Qinglian from the Azure Lotus Sword Sect could shatter the alliance between the sect and the Yun Clan.
• Yun Huang revealed that a demon would push events forward, and Yun Qing realized the Heavenly Demons were targeting the Thirty-Three Heavens rather than the Nine Heavens.
• Yun Qing and Yun Huang agreed to watch what happened instead of acting against the Heavenly Demons in advance.
• In an unknown Blood Domain, Blood Nie accused Yun Huang and Yun Qing of underestimating the great sects’ resentment and issued his Demon Decree.

Luo Qinglian enjoyed a peaceful visit with Lu Qingxiao as Blood Nie launched a hidden attack on the Azure Lotus Sword Sect. Liu Qingwu uncovered the attack’s effect on the disciples, then was struck by a vision of Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang destroying the sect.

• Luo Qinglian praised Lu Qingxiao’s swordsmanship and gave him two precious treasures.
• Lu Qingxiao told Luo Qinglian that Qingming and Qing Wu had emerged from seclusion with their sword arts improved.
• Blood Nie infiltrated the Azure Lotus Sword Sect with demons and objects bearing Heavenly Demon seeds and Kanming Heavenly Burial aura.
• Liu Qingwu arrived at the Sword Demonstration Plaza and found the disciples entranced by the burial aura.
• The bloody aura entered Liu Qingwu’s sea of consciousness, where he saw the Azure Lotus Sword Sect burning beneath Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang.

Liu Qingwu and Li Qingming escaped illusions conjured by an Outsider Demon and rushed to warn their master and Luo Qinglian. Meanwhile, Kanming Heavenly Burial’s corruption spread through Myriad Lotus Heaven’s Sword Pool, and Luo Qinglian sensed the crisis.

• Liu Qingwu was trapped in an illusion where Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang attacked the Azure Lotus Sword Sect and captured Luo Qinglian.
• Li Qingming awakened Liu Qingwu with a touch of her finger, untouched by the illusion because of her clear sword heart.
• Li Qingming and Liu Qingwu flew toward Myriad Lotus Heaven to find their master, Lu Qingxiao, and warn them about the danger outside.
• Luo Qinglian noticed Myriad Lotus Heaven shaking as the spirit spring darkened and an ancient sword in the Sword Pool began to turn blood-red.
• Kanming Heavenly Burial’s corruption spread through the Sword Pool, tainting thousands of broken swords as Luo Qinglian released sword qi.

The Heavenly Demon’s hidden corruption erupted across the Azure Lotus Sword Sect, and Luo Qinglian suppressed the Sword Pool’s frenzy while Lu Qingxiao sealed Myriad Lotus Heaven. The backlash then infected Luo Qinglian and trapped him in memories of Yuan Huang destroying the Thirty-Three Heavens.

• Luo Qinglian suppressed the rampaging ancient swords as Lu Qingxiao discovered red mist spreading through the Azure Lotus Sword Sect.
• The sect’s Sword Venerables sealed off the mountain region and tried to contain more than a hundred outbreaks of Kanming Heavenly Burial breath.
• Luo Qinglian cut apart the corruption stirring the ancient swords, while Lu Qingxiao sealed Myriad Lotus Heaven with its foundational restrictions.
• Red markings appeared on Luo Qinglian’s arm as the twisted Sword Dao rebounded upon him, and he ordered Lu Qingxiao to stay away.
• Luo Qinglian was overcome by a vision of Yuan Huang destroying the Immortal Court and remembered how the Immortal Emperor’s actions had shattered heaven and earth.

Luo Qinglian’s ancient resentment and the Sword Dao’s blood fury drove him to attack Yun Huang in Heaven Beyond Heaven, while the Heavenly Demons watched their conflict unfold. Yun Huang stopped Luo Qinglian’s strike, and Yun Qing realized the Azure Lotus Sword Sect was in danger, but Yun Huang did not know what had caused the crisis.

• Luo Qinglian’s memories of Yuan Huang and the Sword Dao’s madness turned his Azure Lotus Sword into the Red Lotus Sword, and he slashed open Myriad Lotus Heaven on his way to Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• Lu Qingxiao pursued Luo Qinglian as factions across Heavenly Origin began speaking against Yun Huang’s demands.
• Blood Nie watched Luo Qinglian’s advance and hoped his clash with Yun Huang would grievously weaken Heavenly Origin.
• Luo Qinglian interrupted Yun Qing and Yun Huang’s gathering and attacked Yun Huang, who stopped the sword with his Dharma Form’s fingers.
• Yun Qing saw blood baleful intent flowing into Luo Qinglian through the Sword Dao and warned Yun Huang that something had happened to the Azure Lotus Sword Sect.
• Yun Huang said he did not know what had happened.

Yun Qing realized the Azure Lotus Sword Sect was in danger and rushed to help while Yun Huang restrained Luo Qinglian. At the same time, Yun Baojian continued sparring with his mother, the Azure Frost Sword Venerable, at the Yun Clan Ancestral Grounds.

• Yun Qing admitted he had only guessed at the Heavenly Demons’ plan and realized Luo Qinglian’s condition meant something had happened to the Azure Lotus Sword Sect.
• Yun Qing ordered Yun Clan elders to mobilize and hurried toward the Azure Lotus Sword Sect, asking Yun Huang to restrain Luo Qinglian without hurting him.
• Yun Huang sealed Luo Qinglian with the laws of the Heavens and promised to hold him for three days, then resolved to cut off Blood Nie’s reach.
• At the Yun Clan Ancestral Grounds, the Azure Frost Sword Venerable repeatedly knocked Yun Baojian back during their sparring match.

After the Azure Lotus Sword Master was corrupted and attacked Heaven Beyond Heaven, Yun Qing and Lu Qingxiao rushed to the Azure Lotus Sword Sect and uncovered a widespread demonic plot. Yun Qing’s Double Pupils helped the Sword Sect suppress the hidden sources of corruption, but Blood Nie prepared another move.

• Yun Che sent the Azure Frost Sword Venerable and Yun Clan elites to reinforce the Azure Lotus Sword Sect, while Yun Yuan mobilized elders from the Nine Heavens.
• Yun Qing met Lu Qingxiao, reassured him that the Azure Lotus Sword Master was contained, and learned that demonic corruption was spreading through the Sword Sect’s Sword Dao.
• Yun Qing used his Double Pupils to detect more than a hundred traces of burial energy throughout the sect and helped identify a corrupted Sword Casket as one source.
• Yun Qing directed the Sword Venerables and Sword Chiefs to uncover and seal hidden corruption in swords, disciples, Storage Rings, and even a brick, allowing affected disciples to awaken.
• Blood Nie watched the Sword Sect’s recovery and formed an eerie demonic seal.

Blood Nie triggered the hidden demonic nodes beneath the Azure Lotus Sword Sect, but reinforcements from the Yun Clan and across Heavenly Origin arrived to help suppress the attack. Blood Nie’s plan to exploit resentment against Yuan Huang failed, and he discovered that his planted agents had been captured.

• Blood Nie activated dozens of blood nodes, causing the Azure Lotus Sword Sect’s Sword Peaks to erupt and the demonic force to surge.
• Yun Yuan arrived with reinforcements from the Nine Heavens Divine Palaces, while the Azure Frost Sword Venerable, Yun Baojian, and Yun Clan elites joined the fight.
• Yun Qing directed the rescuers to demonic sources, and Yun Yuan said Immortal Venerables from several Primordial Dao Lineages were on their way.
• Blood Nie expected the arriving factions to attack the Azure Lotus Sword Sect, but they instead joined the defense and attacked the demonic fiends.
• Blood Nie learned his planted agents had vanished, then used Temporal Reversal on a captured agent’s transmission to see him urge an ancient faction to rebel against Yuanhuang.

Blood Nie watched a spacetime rewind showing Heavenly Origin factions’ undercover agents urging rebellion against Yuan Huang, only for their elders to reveal how badly they had lost to him before. The agents were restrained or silenced, and Blood Nie saw that the factions had rebelled in the past but no longer wanted to fight Yuan Huang.

• An undercover agent urged a clan’s elders to unite against Yuan Huang, but they recalled his past destruction and ordered the agent tied up before he could provoke him.
• Blood Nie watched the recording and complained that the clan elders had no backbone, then switched to another location.
• At a sect, an undercover agent called for the recovery of its dignity, but the Grand Supreme Elder explained Yuan Huang’s past damage and had the agent thrown into the dungeon.
• At a spirit clan, the ancestor said Yuan Huang had beaten the clan’s fighting spirit out of them and ordered the agent dragged away.
• Blood Nie watched sixteen or seventeen similar scenes, including a Heavenly Demon agent whose words were covered up to keep Heaven Beyond Heaven from hearing them.
• Blood Nie concluded that the factions had all rebelled against Yuan Huang before, but their leaders no longer wanted to risk fighting him again.

Yun Qing helped the Azure Lotus Sword Sect purge hidden demonic burial breath, with Immortal Venerables following his double-pupiled vision to find and destroy each trace. After the crisis ended, leaders from across Heavenly Origin invited him to inspect their own factions, while Blood Nie raged at the sects for refusing to resist Yuan Huang.

• Blood Nie smashed a recording stone and cursed Heavenly Origin's factions for submitting to Yuan Huang, while the Heavenly Demons stayed silent.
• Yun Qing detected hidden tainted breath throughout the Azure Lotus Sword Sect, and the gathered Immortal Venerables sealed and purified it wherever he pointed.
• Yun Qing found contamination hidden inside a sword embryo, beneath a cultivator's shoe sole, and near Yun Yuan, who struck it apart.
• The burial breath was cleared, the pool regained its clarity, the sword intents settled, and disciples recovered from their illusions.
• Immortal Venerables offered Yun Qing eye-protecting spiritual liquid and invited him to inspect their sects, while Yun Yuan joked that they could not all be nearby.

After the Azure Lotus Sword Sect recovered, Luo Qinglian remained chained in Heaven Beyond Heaven until Yun Huang released him exactly three days later. Luo Qinglian regained his senses and acknowledged the Yun Clan’s help, but as he began to speak to Yun Huang, a hidden blood-red line lit up inside his sword.

• The Azure Lotus Sword Sect disciples woke from the illusions, and Lu Qingxiao told Li Qingming and Liu Qingwu that their Sword Master had gone to cut down Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang.
• Yun Qing realized the promised three days had passed and rushed back to Heaven Beyond Heaven, with Lu Qingxiao following him.
• Yun Huang withdrew the chains as soon as Yun Qing and Lu Qingxiao arrived, and Luo Qinglian immediately attacked Yun Huang.
• Lu Qingxiao grabbed Luo Qinglian’s leg and urged him to regain his senses, but Luo Qinglian revealed he was already clear-minded and had attacked out of anger.
• Luo Qinglian thanked Yun Qing for the Yun Clan’s help, then began addressing Yun Huang as a blood-red line inside the Azure Lotus Sword suddenly lit up.

Yun Qing reunited with Little Radiant Chick and Qing Kitty after the bird swallowed Blood Nie’s hidden Burial Breath, then learned that Luo Qinglian had agreed to return to the Thirty-Three Heavens. Luo Qinglian’s return was left set for today after Yun Huang offered to choose the day for him.

• Blood Nie’s concealed Burial Breath shot toward Yun Qing, but Little Radiant Chick appeared and swallowed it before it could reach his eyes.
• Yun Qing panicked over Little Radiant Chick eating the vile breath, then calmed down when Yun Huang explained that its Radiant Sun Divine Flame had already burned it away.
• Yun Qing found Qing Kitty nestled in Little Radiant Chick’s feathers and was astonished that the kitten was still at the Qi Refining stage.
• Yun Qing welcomed both companions, fed them Vermilion Fruits, and embraced them after Little Radiant Chick shrank back into a palm-sized fluffball.
• Luo Qinglian reminded Yun Qing that he had come to persuade him to return to the Thirty-Three Heavens, then agreed to resume his place there.
• Yun Huang suggested that Luo Qinglian return that very day, despite Luo Qinglian’s claim that he had planned to choose an auspicious day over the next several million years.

Luo Qinglian agreed to return his true form to its place while keeping his avatar in the Azure Lotus Sword Sect. As the Azure Lotus Sword awakened, Sword Heaven rose from the void and began returning to its place among the Thirty-Three Heavens.

• Luo Qinglian agreed to return his true form after Yun Huang promised to receive the missing heaven, while Lu Qingxiao worried that his master might provoke the Immortal Emperor.
• Yun Qing promised that Luo Qinglian could return freely to the Azure Lotus Sword Sect, then accidentally patted Yun Huang's head while soothing Little Radiant Chick and Qing Kitty.
• Lu Qingxiao covered Luo Qinglian's mouth to stop him from mocking Yun Qing and Yun Huang, then urged him to begin moving his origin.
• Luo Qinglian stirred the Azure Lotus Sword, causing swords throughout the Azure Lotus Sword Sect to ring and Sword Dao origins to surge skyward.
• An immense azure lotus formed in Myriad Lotus Heaven as Sword Heaven returned to its place and the final gap in the Thirty-Three Heavens began to close.

After returning to his rightful place, Luo Qinglian remembered that he had once admired Yuan Huang’s Dao Sword, while Yun Huang amused Yun Qing by revealing the embarrassing secret. Luo Qinglian left to confront the Heavenly Demon, and Yun Qing remained concerned that Qing Kitty was stuck at Qi Refining.

• Luo Qinglian recalled that, before becoming a person, Sword Origin Heaven had eagerly gathered around Yuan Huang and admired his supreme Dao Sword.
• Yun Huang told Yun Qing that Luo Qinglian had been unusually well-behaved around him in the past.
• Luo Qinglian vowed revenge on the Heavenly Demon and left with Lu Qingxiao.
• Yun Qing questioned Qing Kitty and Little Huang about their cultivation, but Yun Huang said there was no known precedent for overcoming Qing Kitty’s bottleneck.

Yun Qing comforted Qing Kitty after Yun Huang said he might never advance beyond Qi Refining, then sent Vermilion Fruits to Ye Hui through the Heavenly Origin Cauldron. In the Human World, Ye Hui explored his Chaos Heaven-Devouring Python abilities, while Yun Ruyi comforted Lin Muyao and persuaded her to help restore the land; Yun Ruyi then said she would briefly leave.

• Yun Qing reassured Qing Kitty that he could grow into a majestic Cat Ancestor, and shared Vermilion Fruits with Qing Kitty and Little Radiant Chick.
• A Vermilion Fruit dropped onto Ye Hui, who transformed into a little black snake, happily ate it, and then tested his ability to consume nine-heavens Geng metal and travel through the void.
• The Great Xia Ancient Dynasty investigated possible Heavenly Demon agents as Ye Hui cultivated and worked to rebuild the passage between the Human and Immortal Worlds.
• Lin Muyao learned that the Heavenly Pivot Sect's sect master and Ye Tianchen had died, and Yun Ruyi comforted her and told her about her birth parents.
• Yun Ruyi asked Lin Muyao to help restore spiritual veins in the Human World, and Lin Muyao agreed and resumed her work.
• Yun Ruyi told Lin Muyao she would leave for a short time in a few days but would return within a day.

Yun Ruyi invited Lin Muyao to travel with her toward the Netherworld Domain, while Yun Qing took a rare day off in Heaven Beyond Heaven and fell asleep. His rest led him into an unusual dream of a gray-white river filled with indistinct figures.

• Yun Ruyi offered Lin Muyao a brocade pouch for protection and invited her to come along, and Lin Muyao eagerly agreed.
• Yun Ruyi looked toward the Netherworld Domain and hoped their journey would avoid the worst possible outcome.
• With the Nine Heavens Restoration complete, Yun Qing left the remaining investigations to the elders and settled down beside a spiritual lake in Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• The Little Radiant Chick and Qing Kitty joined Yun Qing atop a cloud of spiritual mist, and he amused himself with poetry before falling asleep.
• Yun Qing dreamed of a boundless nether gloom and a gray-white river carrying countless indistinct figures.

Yun Qing dreamed that Yun Chi’s soul was swallowed before reincarnation, then learned from Yun Huang that reincarnation had shattered when the three realms were separated. Their conversation was interrupted by a massive demon tide attacking Heavenly Origin’s western world barrier.

• Yun Qing dreamed of Yun Chi being swallowed by a ghostly maw and suspected the Ghost Ruins were disrupting reincarnation.
• Yun Qing went to ask Yun Huang about the dream, and Yun Huang said the Ghost Realm situation had reached the point where they had to act.
• Yun Huang revealed that reincarnation had shattered when the immortal, human, and ghost realms were separated.
• An urgent message warned Yun Qing that a demon tide was invading, and he and Yun Huang saw heavenly demons gnawing at Heavenly Origin’s western world barrier.

Yun Qing returned to the Yun Clan Ancestral Grounds as a massive demon tide gathered beyond the world barrier, and he organized the Twelve Young Masters to join the battle. The clan prepared to depart once Yun Zui returned from the Phoenix Clan, while Yun Tianluo asked what they would do about Yun Ruyi.

• Yun Qing left Yun Huang to watch Little Radiant Chick and Qing Kitty and hurried back to the Yun Clan Ancestral Grounds.
• Yun Che and Yun Yuan briefed Yun Qing on a demon tide of at least a hundred thousand Heavenly Demons gathering at the western frontier.
• Yun Qing received word that Yun Zui and Feng Jiuxiao had emerged together from the Phoenix Ancestral Homeland.
• Yun Qing proposed taking the younger generation to fight and temper themselves, and Yun Yuan and Yun Che agreed to accompany them.
• The Twelve Young Masters gathered at the Ancestral Grounds, and Yun Qing said they would set out after Yun Zui returned.
• Yun Tianluo asked Yun Qing what they would do about Yun Ruyi.

Yun Zui reunited with the Yun Clan after refining the Phoenix Clan's nirvana flames into her fire Dao, and she traded jokes with Yun Jinglei before Yun Qing called everyone to discuss reinforcing the Western Territory. The clan prepared to join the fight against the demonic tide, with the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land leading the response.

• Yun Qing said Yun Ruyi would not join the gathering because she still had to follow her own path.
• Yun Zui and the Seventh Elder arrived at the Ancestral Homeland, and Yun Qing recognized the strength of Yun Zui's renewed fire Dao.
• Yun Jinglei asked Yun Zui about her cultivation, and she teased that she could beat eight of them before challenging him to a match.
• Yun Qing stopped the joking and told the clan to leave extra Heavenly Demons for Yun Jinglei on the battlefield.
• The First Elder explained that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land would lead the Western Territory response while other powers sent elite reinforcements.

The Yun Clan organized a Western Territory expedition, including thirty-six young members whose relatives had fallen in battle, and Yun Qing led the force through teleportation formations. They reached the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land, where the Heavenly Demon’s swarm was attacking the world barrier.

• Yun Che assigned Yun Yuan to lead thirty thousand Cloud Valor Guards and elders to reinforce the Western Territory while contingents were stationed across the Nine Heavens.
• Yun Qing learned that thirty-six young clan members had volunteered, including many who had lost relatives on the Nine Heavens Azure Cloud List.
• Yun Qing led the young members and Cloud Valor Guards through the Cross-Regional Teleportation Formations toward the Western Territory.
• Yun Jinglei and Yun Tianluo arrived in the Western Territory and saw demonic creatures gnawing at the world barrier near the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land.
• The Yun Clan announced its arrival as the Heavenly Demon’s forces pressed against the barrier.