Chapter Summaries

Yun Qing and the gathered forces of the Western Territory joined together to defend the World Barrier from the Heavenly Demons. After the battle began, Yun Qing led eleven young masters into the demonic tide, where they fought in coordinated formation and cleared a path.

• Yun Qing recognized familiar young cultivators and forces arriving to reinforce the Western Territory, and exchanged greetings with Jiang Shinian, Liu Qingwu, Li Qingming, and Feng Ling'er.
• Feng Ling'er told Yun Qing she was all right after he asked about the trouble in her clan, then challenged him to see who would slay more demonic fiends.
• An Immortal Venerable attacked the demonic tide, prompting Zen Master Mingjing and the leaders of the gathered forces to divide the Western Territory's defensive line.
• Yun Qing led the Yun Clan's Cloud Valor Guards and eleven young masters into battle against the Heavenly Demons.
• Yun Qing's group fought in coordinated roles and carved a clear path through the demonic mist while Yun Qing warned them not to underestimate the enemy.

The Yun Clan's eleven young masters fought through the demonic tide until Yun Poxiao was targeted by a coordinated suicide attack. Yun Qing saved him inside the Primordial Soaring Firmament World, where Yun Poxiao's nascent Dao merged with Yun Qing's and unleashed a powerful strike.

• The Yun Clan's young masters combined their abilities to slaughter Demonic Beasts while joking with one another as they advanced in formation.
• The demonic tide concentrated suicidal attacks on Yun Poxiao, and Yun Qing drew him into the Primordial Soaring Firmament World to protect him.
• Yun Qing moved his domain like a vast formation to intercept the demonic tide while Yun Poxiao watched from within.
• Yun Poxiao entered a tranquil state as he observed Yun Qing's domain and unconsciously followed his Eldest Brother's attack with a punch.
• Yun Poxiao's nascent Dao emerged in the domain and merged with Yun Qing's Great Dao, producing a strike of tremendous power.

Yun Qing and Yun Poxiao combined their power through the Primordial Soaring Firmament World to crush a Demon General and drive him into retreat, while Yun Qing secretly marked him with a Chaos Dao Rune. After the battle, Yun Qing’s siblings realized they might each be able to combine their Daos with his domain, and he promised to try it with them once they returned to the Yun Clan.

• Yun Poxiao resonated with Yun Qing’s domain and helped him unleash a punch that devastated the demonic tide and severely wounded the Demon General.
• The Demon General threatened the Yun Clan, ordered the demonic tide to attack, and fled when Yun Qing and Yun Poxiao struck at him again.
• Yun Qing revealed that he had planted a Chaos Dao Rune on the Demon General so he could track him back to the force behind the invasion.
• The Twelve Young Masters questioned Yun Poxiao about how he had combined his power with Yun Qing’s domain, but could not follow his intuitive explanation.
• Yun Qing’s siblings imagined how their own Daos might combine with his domain, and he promised to test their compatibility after the battle.
• Yun Jinglei, Yun Baojian, and Yun Zui argued over who would try first, while Yun Shuanghua quietly volunteered as well.

Yun Qing and the Twelve Young Masters of the Yun Clan joked about who would get his favor while fighting the demon tide in the Western Territory. As the elders protected and trained the younger disciples, the battlefield began to stabilize, but the cause of the demonic invasion remained unknown.

• Yun Li won Yun Qing's approval, prompting the other young masters to argue over who would get to try next.
• Yun Qing pointed his spear at the approaching demon tide, and Yun Jinglei proposed that whoever killed the most demons would go first.
• Yun Yuan and another Yun Clan Elder watched over the young disciples, letting them fight while intervening to save them from mortal danger.
• Yun Yuan said the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land and other sects had found no clues about the suspicious invasion, and he vowed to fight until the demons revealed their purpose.
• Yun Yuan and the other elder destroyed nearby demonic beasts as the armies of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sacred Land, the Azure Lotus Sword Sect, and other factions pushed the battlefield toward stability.

While Yun Qing fought the Demon Tide in the Western Territory, Qing Kitty and Little Radiant Chick ran wild in Heaven Beyond Heaven, harassing the immortal carp as Yun Huang relaxed and ignored them. Yun Huang eventually watched Yun Qing and Yun Poxiao combine their Daos in battle, taking interest in their technique.

• Qing Kitty chased Little Radiant Chick through Yun Huang's flower garden, trampling the heavenly star epiphyllums before Yun Huang briefly petted the cat and sent it back to play.
• Qing Kitty and Little Radiant Chick repeatedly harassed the immortal carp in the Spirit Pool until the fish hid at the bottom.
• Yun Huang formed a Water Mirror to check on Yun Qing's battle in the Western Territory.
• Yun Huang watched Yun Qing and Yun Poxiao jointly strike a Demon General with an attack combining their Daos within the Chaos Domain, and praised the method.
• Qing Kitty and Little Radiant Chick crowded around the Water Mirror when they saw Yun Qing.

Yun Huang realized Yun Qing’s chaos domain could help him comprehend other Dao Principles and decided to make Yun Qing practice with him when he returned. Meanwhile, an injured Heavenly Demon reached Dutian Lord and provoked his anger by claiming the Yun Clan had insulted him.

• Yun Huang decided to drag Yun Qing into practice after he returned, while Yun Qing sensed an ominous feeling on the Western Territory battlefield.
• Yun Qing kicked Yun Jinglei into the demon tide after his brother joked that Yun Qing was lashing out from embarrassment.
• The wounded high-ranking Heavenly Demon escaped the battlefield and entered a black Devil Palace to report to Dutian Lord.
• The Heavenly Demon told Dutian Lord that Yun Qing and the other Yun Clan youths had mocked the Twelve Dutian Demons and insulted Dutian Lord.
• Dutian Lord erupted in fury, shaking the Devil Palace and startling the kneeling Heavenly Demon.

You Tui killed a defeated Heavenly Demon and vowed to conquer Heavenly Origin, devour its Nine Heavens, and overthrow Pi Hai’s control. As he ordered the entire Western Territory front to advance, Yun Qing and Yun Yuan sensed trouble and received orders to regroup the Twelve Young Masters at the elders’ formation.

• You Tui killed the wounded Heavenly Demon who had returned from fighting the Twelve Young Masters, then consumed his Demon Soul and Demonic Qi.
• You Tui mocked the previous generation’s fear of Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang and vowed to turn Heavenly Origin into a Demon Nest.
• You Tui recalled how Pi Hai had forced him to carry a mysterious living bundle to Heavenly Origin, fueling his resentment toward Pi Hai.
• You Tui ordered every Heavenly Demon on the Western Territory front to advance.
• Yun Qing sensed the chaos mark, and Yun Yuan noticed something amiss across the Demon Tide battle line.
• Yun Qing’s group was ordered to gather at the elders’ formation, while the guardians were told to watch over the children.

Yun Qing and the Heavenly Origin World's defenders repelled waves of Heavenly Demons detonating themselves against the world barrier, but the blasts tore open space and exposed a vast ruined world. The chapter ends as the elders identify it as the Netherworld Ghost Realm.

• Yun Qing returned with the Twelve Young Masters to the defensive line, where Yun Yuan and the elders joined forces with other factions to withstand the first demon-core explosions.
• Yun Qing sensed through his tracking Dao rune that the Heavenly Demons' self-detonations served a deeper purpose.
• Yun Qing saw high-rank Heavenly Demons detonate and noticed that their blasts had made the void thin enough to reveal a shadow beneath it.
• Yun Qing realized that the ruined continent emerging through the rift was only a small part of a much larger hidden territory.
• The Heavenly Demons intensified their explosions, widening the rift as ghostly qi poured out, and a Jiang Clan ancestor identified the revealed world as the Netherworld Ghost Realm.

Yun Yuan explained that the Heavenly Demons had exposed the drifting Ghost Realm and triggered a collapse between it and Heavenly Origin. As the resulting spatial whirlpool dragged people into the Ghost Realm, Yun Qing linked the Twelve Young Masters through their formation, but all eleven siblings and Yun Qing were swept away together.

• Yun Yuan explained that the Ghost Realm drifted outside conventional space and that the Heavenly Demons had disrupted the realms to reveal it.
• A hidden Heavenly Demon kept sending beasts to explode themselves, forcing the Ghost Realm to overlap with the void beyond the Western Territory.
• A Formation Master warned Yun Qing that the overlapping realms would create a whirlpool and drag everything nearby into the Ghost Realm.
• The spatial collapse swallowed Heavenly Demons and Immortal Venerables, then opened a rift beneath the Twelve Young Masters.
• Yun Qing used the Yun Clan token and the Twelve Cloud Towers formation to link the eleven siblings together before the suction swept them all away.

A collapse between the two realms swept Yun Qing, the other young prodigies, and dozens of Immortal Venerables into the Netherworld Ghost Realm. Back in Heaven Beyond Heaven, Little Radiant Chick desperately urged Yun Huang to save Yun Qing, then pecked at his hair when he did not respond.

• Yun Qing linked his younger siblings together with the Twelve Cloud Towers Unity Formation, but Yun Yuan was left behind as they were sucked into the Ghost Realm Rift.
• Yun Yuan plunged through the rift after Yun Qing, and the other Yun Clan elders and Cloud Valor Guards followed.
• The rifts swept young prodigies from across the battlefield into the Ghost Realm, prompting elders from nearly every faction to chase after them.
• A Floating Immortal Abode prodigy was pulled in while the old Formation Master warned others not to enter, so the Formation Master went in too.
• Little Radiant Chick saw Yun Qing disappear from the Water Mirror and begged Yun Huang to save him.
• When Yun Huang calmly kept drinking tea, Little Radiant Chick pecked at his hair.

Yun Huang watched Yun Qing and his siblings get swept into the Ghost Realm, then explained that he intended to let Yun Qing handle trouble there. Yun Qing woke in the Hundred Ghosts Wasteland with all eleven younger siblings accounted for, but without the Second Elder, and found himself surrounded by an immense field of bones.

• Qing Kitty panicked when Yun Qing vanished into the Water Mirror, while Yun Huang calmed him and said Yun Qing had landed where he needed to be.
• Yun Huang declared that Yun Qing’s elder brother should help him shoulder the trouble waiting in the Ghost Realm.
• Yun Qing woke in the Hundred Ghosts Wasteland and used the Radiant Sun Divine Flame to drive back the ghostly mist.
• Yun Qing confirmed that Yun Tianluo, Yun Baojian, Yun Zui, and all the others had survived through the Twelve Cloud Towers Unity Formation.
• Yun Qing searched for the Second Elder but could not find him, then surveyed the bone-covered wasteland and snapped a bone underfoot.

You Tui led a vast Heavenly Demon army into the Ghost Realm, awakening its seven Great Lords. In the White Bone Royal Court, the Skeleton Emperor’s true body stirred as the demons entered his domain.

• You Tui ordered the Heavenly Demons through the Void Rift, intending to devour the Ghost Realm and overpower Heavenly Origin.
• The first wave of demons entered the Ghost Realm, awakening the Ghost Ruins.
• A masked ghost on an opera stage noticed the intruders as eerie signs of awakening spread across all seven forbidden lands.
• The Skeleton Emperor’s true body sat on his throne in the White Bone Royal Court as the demon tide entered his territory.
• Ghostfire ignited throughout the royal court, and its bones clattered as the Skeleton Emperor faced the invasion.

The Yun Clan siblings landed in the Ghost Realm, where Yun Qing repaired a demon beast skeleton he had accidentally broken. After confirming everyone was safe, he called out his siblings for pretending to be unconscious, while the Skeleton Emperor prepared to confront invading Heavenly Demons elsewhere in the realm.

• The Skeleton Emperor condemned the Heavenly Demons for invading his Ghost Ruins and summoned ancient skeletal beings and seven terrifying auras.
• Yun Qing repaired the demon beast bone he had broken and admired the restored skeleton.
• Yun Tianluo awoke, confirmed his siblings were safe, and learned that they had landed in the Ghost Realm without the Second Elder.
• Yun Qing called on his supposedly unconscious siblings to stop pretending, and Yun Jinglei and Yun Zui were the first to respond.
• The other Yun Clan siblings got up, embarrassed by their chaotic tumble through the collapsing space.

After the Yun siblings blamed one another for tumbling into the Ghost Ruins, Yun Qing recognized the Heavenly Demons’ threat and sent his younger siblings to scout while he stayed behind. He reflected that delegating work was enjoyable, though his nature would never let him truly slack off.

• Yun Poxiao pointed out that Yun Qing’s formation had pulled all the siblings into the Ghost Ruins, and the others laughed while blaming their eldest brother.
• Yun Zui regretted that Ruyi was not there, and Yun Qing said they would reunite with her after returning.
• Yun Qing warned that the Heavenly Demons were plotting something by forcing open a connection to the Ghost Realm, and the Twelve Young Masters agreed to stop them.
• Yun Qing ordered his younger siblings to scout in different directions while he remained seated in the wasteland.
• Yun Qing enjoyed being in charge and compared his situation to Yun Huang’s comfortable habit of delegating work.

Yun Qing watched over the Yun Clan siblings as they searched the White Bone Wasteland and sensed that the Ghost Realm’s mysteries were connected. Yun Ruyi arrived at the Netherworld’s heartland with tiny Lin Muyao hidden in her Fortune Pouch, and they discovered an Immortal Court Garden amid the sinister landscape.

• Yun Qing kept his divine sense trained on his siblings while reflecting on the links between the Heavenly Demon, the Ghost Realm, reincarnation, and Yun Chi.
• The Twelve Young Masters of the Yun Clan searched across the White Bone Wasteland.
• Yun Ruyi descended into the Ghost Realm’s innermost heartland, protected from its yin energy by her fortune light.
• Lin Muyao peeked from Yun Ruyi’s Fortune Pouch and marveled at the Nether River, Other Shore Flowers, ghostfire, and inverted Hanging Ghost Mountains.
• Yun Ruyi warned Lin Muyao to stay inside the pouch and shielded her with golden fortune light.
• Lin Muyao spotted an Immortal Court Garden in the Ghost Realm and asked Yun Ruyi what it was.

Yun Ruyi met a mysterious woman in a serene garden, whose distant gaze reached Yun Qing in the Ghost Realm and stirred an inexplicable sense of loss in him. Yun Huang sensed a familiar but unfamiliar wisp of ghostly aura beside Yun Qing and began divining the heavenly secrets.

• Yun Ruyi greeted a woman concealed behind the gauze of a jade pavilion and recalled their past journey across the Nether River.
• The woman’s gaze crossed the Ghost Realm and settled on Yun Qing in the White Bone Graveyard.
• Yun Qing sensed someone watching him, then felt a gentle breeze and an unfamiliar ache as a name nearly came to mind.
• Yun Qing murmured to Yun Huang that he thought he had remembered someone but could not recall who.
• Yun Huang dropped his teacup after noticing a wisp of ghostly aura beside Yun Qing, then began a divination that threw the stars into disorder.

Yun Ruyi visited a woman in the Nether River Pavilion, who explained that she detested Manjusaka because its flowers and leaves could never meet. Yun Ruyi teased that the two of them had waited long enough to meet, while the chapter ended with a Mid-Autumn mooncake mini-theater and an author’s note.

• The Cosmic Star Lord noticed Yuan Huang divining the Ghost Realm and began divining it himself.
• Lin Muyao overheard Yun Ruyi speaking with the woman in the Pavilion and wondered why the garden excluded Other Shore Flowers.
• The woman said she detested Manjusaka because its flowers and leaves could never meet, and her words caused the flowers outside the garden to wither.
• Yun Ruyi tucked Lin Muyao into the Brocade Pouch and teased the woman that they had waited long enough to meet.
• King Moon made Little Radiant Chick and Qing Kitty into mooncakes and handed them out to readers for Mid-Autumn Festival.

Yun Qing and his younger siblings found the White Bone Wasteland eerily empty, then left for the deeper Ghost Realm after its enormous Demon Beast skeleton refused to react. Once they were gone, the skeleton revealed it had been pretending to be dead and recognized Yun Qing as the brother of a god of slaughter.

• Yun Qing’s younger siblings returned from scouting and reported that no ghost creatures or baleful beings were within a hundred miles.
• Yun Tianluo warned that the empty wasteland could mean a powerful presence had driven everything away, and the group realized the enormous Demon Beast skeleton was the likely cause.
• Yun Qing approached and provoked the skeleton, but it stayed motionless, so he led the eleven figures toward the heart of the Ghost Realm.
• After Yun Qing and his siblings had left, the skeleton sighed with relief and lit green ghostfire in its eye sockets.
• The Demon Beast skeleton recognized Yun Qing as the brother of a god of slaughter and wondered why he had come to the Ghost Realm.

Yun Qing and his companions left the wasteland while the Ghost Creature he had repaired sent a warning about him deeper into the White Bone Graveyard. As Yun Tianluo explained the Ghost Realm’s history and formidable rulers, Yun Qing remembered an old ghost acquaintance.

• The powerful ghost inside the beast skeleton recognized Yun Qing, stayed still while he repaired its bones, and sent a flame to notify the king.
• Yun Qing wondered why the ghost had not attacked, then asked Yun Tianluo to explain the Ghost Realm’s background.
• Yun Tianluo described the Ghost Realm’s ancient power, its ruthless cultivation system, and the Seven Great Lords of the Ghost Ruins, each of whom was at least a Half-Step Dao Lord.
• Yun Jinglei feared that encountering one of the Great Lords would be disastrous, while Yun Qing watched the increasingly bone-covered surroundings and recalled an old ghost acquaintance.

Yun Qing and his clan entered the White Bone Graveyard, where he suspected the Skeleton Emperor ruled and hoped to ask about the Ghost Realm. When the Skeleton Emperor learned Yun Qing had arrived, he panicked and wondered whether Yun Qing knew what was happening with the Ghost Mother.

• Yun Qing told his companions that the White Bone Graveyard might belong to an old acquaintance of Brother Huang and that they would likely be safe there.
• The Skeleton Emperor dismissed a messenger's warning about intruders, assuming demons were approaching his domain.
• The messenger shouted that Yun Qing had arrived and identified him as the elder brother of that person.
• The Skeleton Emperor confronted the messenger and confirmed that Yun Qing had come with young members of his clan.
• The Skeleton Emperor worried that Yun Qing might have discovered what was happening with the Ghost Mother, but questioned why he had sent youngsters instead of coming himself.