Chapter Summaries

Shi Qingyun met Mo Li, who removed the Lei Family curse from his palm and gave him a talisman to conceal his aura. After Mo Li and Mo Xiaoqi left, Shi Qingyun used the talisman and urged Little Red to grow stronger as he considered the road ahead.

• Shi Qingyun struggled to remove the thunder runes in his palm until Mo Li arrived and identified them as a curse planted by the Lei Family.
• Mo Li offered to break the curse in exchange for a favor, and Shi Qingyun agreed.
• Mo Li used his power to destroy the runes, heal Shi Qingyun, and discover his fleshly body godhood and entry into the Dao Realm.
• Mo Li gave Shi Qingyun a talisman to hide his aura, then departed with Mo Xiaoqi, who asked Shi Qingyun to remember her.
• Shi Qingyun activated the talisman, brought out Little Red, and told it to grow stronger so it could help him.

Shi Qingyun rose to fame as the Cloud Emperor by defeating prodigies and crushing those who ambushed him, then arrived in Vast Sea City for a showdown with Di Chong. The two met beneath the watching crowd, and their fighting spirits clashed as the battle was about to begin.

• Shi Qingyun defeated Lei Meng and began challenging prodigies across the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, earning the title Human Butcher after destroying forces at Pengzhou Wilderness Ridge.
• Chen Xuan reached Vast Sea City ahead of the battle, where cultivators discussed Shi Qingyun and Di Chong and Lei Meng departed after Chen Xuan taunted him.
• Chen Xuan welcomed Cloud Palace members and promised them future status as founding elders.
• Di Chong arrived from an Immortal Palace and challenged the absent Cloud Emperor, until Shi Qingyun appeared and matched his overwhelming aura.
• Shi Hong arrived to find Chen Xuan on his master's orders, while Shi Qingyun and Di Chong faced each other with their fighting spirits surging.

Shi Qingyun overwhelmed Di Chong with his sealing techniques and Heaven-Toppling palm, but hidden elders rescued Di Chong before Shi Qingyun could finish him. The spectators believed Shi Qingyun had killed his rival, and Cloud Palace celebrated his victory and growing fame.

• Di Chong and Shi Qingyun fought fiercely, trading powerful attacks before Di Chong unleashed Immortal King Nine Seals and Shi Qingyun countered with the Kun Peng Precious Technique.
• Shi Qingyun trapped Di Chong with Sealing Heaven and Locking the Dao, but Di Chong broke free with Void Great Rift Slash.
• Shi Qingyun battered Di Chong with Heaven-Toppling and other attacks, shattered his Cult Master-level armor, and left him gravely wounded.
• Shi Qingyun used Spatial Strangulation against Di Chong, but hidden elders intervened and rescued Di Chong, leaving Shi Qingyun standing beside a twisting space rift.
• Shi Qingyun realized the elders had taken Di Chong away and considered the fame he had gained, while the watching cultivators assumed he had slain Di Chong.
• Chen Xuan and the members of Cloud Palace cheered Shi Qingyun, and the surrounding cultivators marveled at his rapid rise and victory.

Shi Qingyun’s victory over Di Chong spread his fame across the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, and he prepared Cloud Palace before departing for the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm. He arrived at the Uninhabited Zone as the Immortal Dao Flower Bud neared its final bloom, where the gathered prodigies and the Demoness reacted to his presence.

• Cultivators celebrated Shi Qingyun’s victory while Lei Meng left in resentment, and news of the battle spread across the Dao Provinces.
• In an ancient hall, an imposing figure ordered preparations to deal with Shi Qingyun in the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm, while Di Chong recovered in a blood pool.
• At Cloud Palace, Shi Qingyun told Shi Hong to protect their home while he was away, then departed for the secret realm.
• Shi Qingyun arrived in the Uninhabited Zone as cultivators awaited the Immortal Dao Flower Bud’s final petal, drawing the attention of Qin Hao, Shi Yi, and others.
• The Demoness spotted Shi Qingyun, grew dazed, and began walking toward him as a woman asked, “Xuan'er, what's wrong?”

Shi Qingyun entered the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm and climbed its Great Dao steps, using their laws to strengthen the world within him. After he killed cultivators who ambushed him, he saw Demoness surrounded by disciples of the Demon Dragon Dao Sect and Sword Valley.

• Shi Qingyun entered the Secret Realm and found a heavenly stairway whose steps embodied different Great Daos.
• Shi Qingyun absorbed the Fire Great Dao from one step, causing its seed within him to sprout and strengthening the Yin-Yang Great World.
• Outside the Secret Realm, Qin Changsheng displayed Qin Hao's battle, while Shi Qingyun's image showed black-robed cultivators surrounding him.
• Shi Qingyun killed the attackers with a storm of snowflakes and continued climbing as his Great Dao comprehension deepened.
• Shi Qingyun saw Demoness fighting disciples of the Demon Dragon Dao Sect and Sword Valley, who had surrounded her and taunted her.

Shi Qingyun killed the Sword Valley and Demon Dragon Dao Sect disciples who had attacked Demoness, then reunited with her as they climbed the bluestone steps. After Demoness entered the Immortal Ancient Small World, Shi Qingyun remained behind and began a transformation toward the Divine Flame, stirring all Three Thousand Great Daos.

• Shi Qingyun appeared behind the Sword Valley disciple, killed him, and let Demoness kill the Demon Dragon Dao Sect disciple.
• Shi Qingyun and Demoness continued up the steps, while the Heaven Severing Sect Cult Master confronted the angry Sword Valley and Demon Dragon Dao Sect representatives outside.
• At the three-thousandth step, Shi Qingyun told Demoness to enter the sacred land and break through to the Divine Fire Realm, promising to find her.
• Demoness entered the Immortal Ancient Small World, and Shi Qingyun sat on the final step to cultivate.
• Shi Qingyun's cultivation stirred the Great Dao throughout the bluestone steps, affecting the other cultivators and startling the Cult Masters.
• Shi Qingyun began advancing toward the Divine Flame as the Cult Masters debated his connection to the Three Thousand Great Daos.

Shi Qingyun tempered himself with the Three Thousand Dao Fires, broke through to the Divine Fire Realm, and condensed immortal qi. As he consolidated his cultivation, a group of newly advanced cultivators gathered with murderous intent, and he challenged their confidence in killing him.

• Shi Qingyun used the Three Thousand Dao Fires to temper his body and Yin-Yang Great Dao, then broke through to the Divine Fire Realm.
• His Yin-Yang Great World transformed as Yin-Yang qi formed mountains, rivers, vegetation, a black sun, and a white moon.
• Shi Qingyun absorbed primordial qi, strengthened his physical potential, and condensed a wisp of immortal qi.
• Shi Yi, Qin Hao, Ning Chuan, and other cultivators entered the Sacred Deity Land to seek opportunities after sensing Shi Qingyun's breakthrough.
• A group of newly advanced Divine Fire cultivators surrounded Shi Qingyun as he consolidated his cultivation, and he called out their murderous intent.

Shi Qingyun fought thirty-six Divine Fire Realm cultivators sent by the Immortal Palace and defeated them with overwhelming force. He then entered the chaos vortex, leaving the observers to reckon with his strength and the Immortal Palace's failed attack.

• Shi Qingyun recognized that the attackers were connected to the Immortal Palace and faced their challenge without fear.
• The thirty-six cultivators formed a star-based formation and sent a stellar projection crashing down on Shi Qingyun.
• Shi Qingyun’s sword strike split the first star, and the remaining stars disrupted cultivators attempting to advance on the bluestone steps.
• Shi Qingyun used world power to unleash Successive execution, shattering the stars and killing the attackers.
• Observers praised Shi Qingyun’s strength, while the Immortal Palace expert concealed his anger and other cultivators blamed the Immortal Palace.
• Shi Qingyun entered the chaos vortex, which would take him to a land of fortune suited to him.

Shi Qingyun found himself in an eerie tomb from the Immortal Ancient war, where dead warriors and skeletal creatures attacked him. As he fought to escape, Tu Ran sent a squad after him and prepared to settle his long-running struggle with Tu Tao.

• Shi Qingyun explored a bone-filled tomb sealed by a great formation and sensed strange auras growing stronger near its center.
• Tu Tao awakened from the earth, mourned the fallen, and declared that he and his brothers would fight one last battle as his strength continued to fade.
• A skeletal hand seized Shi Qingyun, and he destroyed the attacking skeleton before fleeing a swarm of undead warriors and arrows.
• Tu Ran ordered two warriors and a squad to capture or kill Shi Qingyun, then vowed to defeat Tu Tao and send everyone from the Nine Heavens into Senluo Purgatory.
• Shi Qingyun killed a gigantic skeletal beast but found himself surrounded by skeletal cultivators, including two with rotted flesh.

Shi Qingyun defeated the skeletal cultivators and met Tu Tao, a veteran of the Immortal Ancient Realm who had fought in the Deadly Ground for tens of thousands of years. Tu Tao asked him to destroy the Black Soul Crystal at the heart of the black mist in exchange for Spirit-Absorbing Liquid, and explained that reaching it required Life Qi.

• Shi Qingyun used the opposing powers of Life-and-Death Qi and Extreme Yang Power to defeat the skeletal cultivators and the two men wielding giant axes.
• Tu Tao appeared with a host of cultivators, recognized Shi Qingyun as a prodigy from the Immortal Ancient Realm, and introduced himself.
• Tu Tao recounted how an Immortal King had formed a great formation to suppress a Foreign Realm Immortal King, while the trapped cultivators fought on for tens of thousands of years.
• Tu Tao offered Shi Qingyun Spirit-Absorbing Liquid if he would help destroy the Black Soul Crystal that generated the black mist.
• Tu Tao explained that the Immortal King's corpse and crystal were suppressed by the Spirit-Absorbing Formation, but approaching the crystal required Life Qi, which the dead cultivators lacked.

Shi Qingyun fought through Tu Ran’s skeletal army and unleashed a Taiji Dao Diagram that weakened the enemy forces. Its effect briefly lowered Tu Ran’s strength by an entire realm, allowing Tu Tao to press his attack.

• Tu Ran appeared with black mist and summoned an army of blood-eyed skeletons, then urged Tu Tao to join his race.
• Tu Tao refused Tu Ran’s offer and led the cultivators into battle while Tu Ran charged him with a Blood-Colored Ancient Sword.
• Shi Qingyun fought through the skeletons as Tu Ran redirected more of them to stop him, and Tu Tao’s cultivators moved to help.
• Shi Qingyun used the Yin-Yang Great Millstone to grind nearby skeletons into golden radiance and spread a Taiji Dao Diagram across the battlefield.
• Shi Qingyun activated Heaven-Sealing Earth-Locking and Rebirth Reincarnation, weakening the skeletons and reducing Tu Ran’s strength by an entire realm.
• Tu Tao seized the opening and pressed Tu Ran with his attacks for several breaths.

Shi Qingyun reached the immortal corpse and found a strange crystal feeding on its remains, but Tu Ran attacked and began absorbing the black mist. After the skeletal giant protecting Tu Ran overwhelmed him, Shi Qingyun prepared to face it with the Scarlet-White Long Sword.

• Shi Qingyun crossed the black mist using his Yin-Yang Dao Diagram and the Two Worlds Fan, then resisted the immortal corpse’s mind-bending aura with the Yin-Yang Great World.
• Shi Qingyun found a crystal drawing life force from the immortal corpse and prepared to destroy it, but Tu Ran struck him from behind and sent him flying.
• Tu Ran reached the corpse and crystal, became obsessed with gaining immortality, and absorbed the surrounding black mist as his cultivation fluctuated and rose.
• Shi Qingyun attacked Tu Ran with his Golden Body Dharma Aspect, but a skeletal giant appeared and blocked the blow with one finger.
• Tu Tao, gravely wounded and near death, entrusted everything to Shi Qingyun and died thinking of A Yin and the people he had lost.
• The skeletal giant shattered Shi Qingyun’s Golden Body Dharma Aspect and drained his life force, so Shi Qingyun allowed the mist to approach and readied the Scarlet-White Long Sword with Extreme Yang Power.

Shi Qingyun fought Xue Jue after Tu Ran absorbed the Immortal King Corpse and became Xue Jue’s new body. As Xue Jue moved to kill Shi Qingyun, Stars intervened and a man in a Chaos Daoist Robe emerged from the void.

• Shi Qingyun shattered the White Bone Giant and attacked Tu Ran, but Tu Ran caught his sword after the Immortal King Corpse dissolved into golden radiance and healed his body.
• Xue Jue’s severed halves rejoined, and he revealed that he had made the Immortal King’s body his Dao foundation and planned to use Shi Qingyun’s body to slaughter the Nine Heavens.
• Shi Qingyun used Heaven-Sealing Earth-Locking and Great World Descends against Xue Jue, but Xue Jue survived the clash and approached him with a blood-colored saber.
• As Xue Jue raised his saber to strike Shi Qingyun, Stars answered his call, time fell still, and a man in a Chaos Daoist Robe walked out of nothingness.

After Changming and Xue Jue were swallowed by the River of Time, Shi Qingyun reached a grassland of warriors’ graves and received an Immortal King cultivation art and Spirit-Absorbing Liquid. He used the liquid to heal and strengthen himself, broke through to the middle stage of the Divine Flame realm, and formed a second strand of immortal qi before beginning to temper a third.

• Changming sacrificed himself to the River of Time as it swallowed him and Xue Jue, while Shi Qingyun was carried away from the battlefield.
• Shi Qingyun arrived at a grassland of graves, paid his respects to Tu Tao and the other warriors, and received an Immortal King cultivation art and a drop of Spirit-Absorbing Liquid.
• Shi Qingyun swallowed the Spirit-Absorbing Liquid, which healed his injuries and helped him reach the middle stage of the Divine Flame realm.
• Shi Qingyun cultivated his Yin-Yang Dao Techniques, expanded the Yin-Yang Great World, and formed a second strand of immortal qi.
• Shi Qingyun decided to temper a third strand of immortal qi and then cultivate his Primordial Spirit.

Shi Qingyun faced a lightning tribulation to obtain his third strand of immortal qi, fighting powerful figures manifested from the thunderclouds before enduring the full force of the storm. He survived, recovered through heaven and earth’s reward, and fused two strands of immortal qi into a Chaos Fire Seed.

• Shi Qingyun sent his primordial spirit and body into the gathering lightning tribulation, where a swordsman, a Daoist, and a woman attacked him with powers of lightning and strange laws.
• Shi Qingyun and his golden-body dharma aspect fought the three figures, defeating the swordsman, Daoist, and woman with their sword strikes and Yin-Yang power.
• As the thunderclouds grew denser and golden thunder dragons gathered, Shi Qingyun merged his primordial spirit and dharma aspect into his body and charged into the storm.
• After the thunderclouds dispersed, Shi Qingyun survived with severe injuries and absorbed the golden river of energy that heaven and earth granted him.
• Shi Qingyun healed completely as two strands of immortal qi emerged and fused above his head into a Chaos Fire Seed.

Shi Qingyun returned to the Immortal Ancient Arena after tempering his body and compressing his cultivation to the peak of the Divine Flame realm. He began defending his arena with ease, showing mercy to challengers who bore him no malice, before facing a jealous man in pink robes.

• Shi Qingyun developed his flesh and Primordial Spirit with the three strands of immortal qi, then compressed his cultivation after briefly breaking into the Heavenly God realm.
• The cultivators gathered for the Immortal Ancient Arena, and Shi Qingyun's arrival astonished them; Shi Hao and the other prodigies met his pressure with their own auras.
• When the arena battles began, Shi Qingyun claimed an arena, and Lianhua Fairy challenged him with an attack hidden in a storm of petals.
• Shi Qingyun shattered Lianhua Fairy's attack with spatial ripples and gently knocked her out of the arena, then treated later challengers leniently when they bore him no malice.
• Shi Qingyun faced a pink-robed man who stared at him with jealousy.

Shi Qingyun won his thousandth arena battle, then faced the other champions in a combined-arena melee alongside Shi Hao and the returning ancient prodigies. He badly wounded the Eight-Crown King, who escaped at the last moment.

• Shi Qingyun killed Xuan Ran after Xuan Ran mocked his mask, then defeated successive challengers with a single sword strike.
• Shi Qingyun won his thousandth battle and became the first arena champion before the arenas merged into one.
• The champions surrounded Shi Qingyun and Shi Hao, while Demoness joined Shi Qingyun and Shi Hao recognized his identity.
• The Exiled Immortal, Ning Chuan, and the Ten-Crown King appeared and proposed clearing weaker cultivators from the arena; Demoness then left as the five prodigies began attacking the others.
• Shi Qingyun fought the Eight-Crown King, struck him with Star Plucking Hand, and nearly killed him before the Eight-Crown King escaped through a spatial fluctuation.

Shi Qingyun fought the strongest arena champions, then escaped with the Demoness into a passage leading to a hall of jade coffins. He obtained a Yin-Yang seed and a scripture page before the Cult Masters’ intrusion threatened the secret realm, leaving him and the Demoness heading out to face whatever awaited them.

• Shi Qingyun joined the final arena melee and drove Ning Chuan from the battle while contending with Tianzi and the others.
• Shi Qingyun used Great World Descends as the arena and surrounding world began to shake, then carried the Demoness through a passage opened above the arena.
• Shi Qingyun and the Demoness crossed a corridor lined with jade coffins and followed the guidance of their instincts toward their inheritances.
• Shi Qingyun opened a coffin and took a Yin-Yang seed and a divine-gold scripture page, then found Shi Hao trying to pry open another coffin.
• Tianzi warned that the Cult Masters were forcing their way into the secret realm, and Shi Qingyun left with the Demoness, prepared to confront them if they attacked.

Shi Qingyun returned to Cloud Palace after escaping the collapsing Secret Realm and refusing the Immortal Palace’s invitation to join them. His arrival stirred the palace, and its disciples wondered whether he had made a breakthrough.

• Shi Qingyun and Demoness escaped the fractured Secret Realm and emerged among Cult Masters waiting to seize inheritances.
• The Heaven Severing Sect's Cult Master recognized Shi Qingyun as the Cloud Emperor, while Demoness withdrew her hand and went to her master.
• An Immortal Palace envoy invited Shi Qingyun to join the sect with core treatment and personal instruction from an immortal, but Shi Qingyun refused.
• After Shi Qingyun left, the envoy checked an Immortal-Seeking Disk, found it gave no reaction, and resolved that Shi Qingyun should not be allowed to live.
• Shi Qingyun returned to Cloud Palace, where his aura sent the Beast Kings into their caves and drew Shi Hong and the disciples’ attention.

Shi Qingyun returned to Cloud Palace, drove off spies, and celebrated with his growing community of Divine Fire Realm cultivators. After the revelry began, he shared a quiet drink with Mu Qing and urged her to look beyond the vengeance she had fulfilled.

• Shi Qingyun sensed spies watching Cloud Palace, warned that he would deal with them later, and wounded them with ice crystals as they fled.
• Chen Xuan, Mu Qing, and Shi Hong discussed Shi Qingyun’s return before he appeared, impressing the cultivators with his overwhelming presence.
• Shi Qingyun caught Shi Hong by the scruff when he rushed to greet him, then announced a feast and produced a Divine Fire Realm corpse for everyone to eat.
• Cloud Palace’s cultivators celebrated, and some lower-ranked members began refining the nourishing meat while Shi Qingyun went alone to Star Plucking Pavilion.
• Mu Qing joined Shi Qingyun for wine, thanked him for helping her avenge her enemy, and heard him encourage her to explore the unknown beyond her fulfilled wish.