Chapter Summaries

Shi Qingyun and his companions ambushed a Foreign Realm force sent to claim the bounty on him, while Shi Qingyun faced their Self-Slaying leader, Xueyan. After Xueyan trapped him in a flaming cauldron, Shi Qingyun broke free and emerged unscathed, putting his opponent under mounting pressure.

• Shi Qingyun, Zhan Shuyu, and Di Chuan traveled to meet the incoming Foreign Realm cultivators, whom Xueyan had brought to capture Shi Qingyun for a bounty.
• While Xueyan focused on Shi Qingyun, Zhan Shuyu and Di Chuan attacked the Void Dao cultivators from behind.
• Shi Qingyun blocked Xueyan's flaming fist and fought him with his Yin-Yang Dao Diagram and Chaos Longsword, severing Xueyan's arm.
• Xueyan regrew his arm with the Blood Hand and trapped Shi Qingyun inside a great cauldron, pouring Dao fire into it to refine him.
• Shi Qingyun used the flames to temper his body, shattered the cauldron and enormous hand, and stepped out as Xueyan felt the pressure around him intensify.

Shi Qingyun and his companions fought off successive Foreign Realm attacks at Fallen God Valley, growing stronger through their battles. A half-step True Immortal then forced open a passage between worlds, and Fu Sheng arrived to try to sever it.

• Shi Qingyun killed Xueyan and wiped out the surrounding Foreign Realm cultivators, strengthening Zhan Shuyu and Di Chuan’s resolve.
• After a month of increasingly difficult battles, Shi Qingyun, Zhan Shuyu, and Di Chuan killed a Self-Slaying cultivator, and the two companions reached the middle stage of the Void Dao realm.
• An enormous rift opened above Fallen God Valley, and a lightning-wreathed Foreign Realm figure arrived with an army behind him.
• Fu Sheng reached Shi Qingyun and the others, accused No Life of orchestrating the attacks, and learned that the Ten Worlds Diagram was stabilizing a passage between the two worlds.
• Fu Sheng unleashed Floating World’s Glamour and swung the Fu Sheng Sword at the passage in an attempt to sever it.

Shi Qingyun, Zhan Shuyu, and Di Chuan fought the invading Foreign Realm forces as Youying awakened and battled the Second Elder. Shi Qingyun slaughtered the Heavenly God legion until reinforcements arrived, leaving the battle still raging.

• Youying emerged from beneath the frozen plain and attacked Shi Qingyun, Zhan Shuyu, and Di Chuan with ice spikes.
• The Second Elder fought Youying while No Life stabilized the Spatial Rift and Foreign Realm forces descended.
• Shi Qingyun, Zhan Shuyu, and Di Chuan charged into the invading army and fought together.
• Shi Qingyun unleashed Sword Prison, killing many Heavenly God cultivators and standing atop a mountain of corpses.
• Nine Heavens reinforcements arrived aboard warships and charged into battle.

Shi Qingyun fought through the Foreign Realm army as Self-Slaying cultivators entered the battlefield and overwhelmed the Nine Heavens forces. After killing three opponents inside his life-and-death scroll, he declared his Dao complete and lured the enemy into range as a Heavenly Tribulation began to gather.

• No Life sent a blood sword at Shi Qingyun, but the Second Elder destroyed it with Time Dao before Youying wounded him with an ice crystal.
• The Second Elder returned to battle while Shi Qingyun swept Foreign Realm cultivators into his Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram and killed them.
• No Life opened a route through the Spatial Passage, allowing Self-Slaying cultivators to join the battle and intensify the slaughter.
• Shi Qingyun trapped three Self-Slaying cultivators in his scroll and killed them with his Star Plucking Hand and Glazed Dharma Aspect.
• Shi Qingyun declared his Dao complete, charged into the enemy ranks, and triggered a Heavenly Tribulation that shattered their incoming attacks.

Shi Qingyun fought Foreign Realm cultivators while his extraordinary Self-Slaying tribulation engulfed the battlefield. As he slaughtered his attackers, he clarified his own path to Slashing Dao and declared that he would cultivate his Invincible Dao rather than rely on the Great Dao outside.

• The blood-red tribulation lightning spread across the battlefield, forcing both sides to stop fighting and seek shelter from it.
• Shi Qingyun summoned his Glazed Dharma Aspect, whose roar killed many Heavenly God cultivators and let Zhan Shuyu and his companion escape the enemy lines.
• Shi Qingyun attacked the Foreign Realm Self-Slaying cultivators who tried to prepare defenses, then fought several of them at once as the tribulation raged overhead.
• Shi Qingyun unleashed 108,000 Swords, killing Void Dao and Heavenly God cultivators and binding Slashing Dao cultivators with shackles from the void.
• As he watched lives fall around him, Shi Qingyun clarified that his Invincible Dao included imperfection and that he would cultivate his own Dao rather than slash it to match the Great Dao outside.

Shi Qingyun endured the heavenly tribulation after severing his connection to the outside Great Dao, and awakened to a transcendent state as his body became a world. He rebuilt his Dao body and manifested a Chaos Dharma Body that stopped the thunder dragons, leaving the watching cultivators stunned as a blood-red eye opened above the firmament.

• Shi Qingyun struck down the Slashing Dao cultivators with a sword stroke that severed their vitality through Yin-Yang and time.
• Shi Qingyun told the Stars within him to leave what came next to him alone, then endured the heavenly tribulation as it stripped away his Dao marks and left him a skeleton.
• Shi Qingyun realized he had found his true self beyond the past, future, and outside Great Dao, and transformed his body into a Yin-Yang world.
• Shi Qingyun regrew his flesh and summoned a Chaos Dharma Body, which stood against the thunder dragons without being harmed.
• Zhan Shuyu, Di Chuan, and the Slashing Dao cultivators watched Shi Qingyun's transformation in amazement as a blood-red eye opened above the firmament.

Shi Qingyun survived the Dao-Slaying Tribulation, broke the Immortal-Slaying Guillotine, and entered the Self-Slaying realm before dispersing the tribulation clouds. As the Nine Heavens celebrated his breakthrough, No Life emerged from a spatial fissure and demanded that they submit to his world.

• Shi Qingyun named the Chaos Longsword formed from his flesh and blood Slashing Body as he prepared for the Dao-Slaying Tribulation.
• Shi Qingyun broke free of the Execution Platform’s shackles with help from his chaos Dharma Aspect and shattered the Immortal-Slaying Guillotine.
• Shi Qingyun entered the Self-Slaying realm and used his Dao to disperse the tribulation clouds, briefly drawing the Heavenly Dao Eye’s gaze.
• Zhan Shuyu and the others relaxed when Shi Qingyun survived his breakthrough.
• No Life stepped through a spatial fissure, suppressed the Nine Heavens cultivators, and demanded their submission.

Shi Qingyun and the Nine Heavens defenders fought No Life’s invasion as Meng Tianzheng destroyed the passage bringing Foreign Realm reinforcements. With the enemy cut off, Shi Qingyun overwhelmed the remaining Self-Slaying cultivators, while the Second Elder continued battling No Life.

• The Second Elder abandoned his attack on Youying and joined the fight against No Life, while Youying’s Primordial Spirit escaped his aging body.
• Shi Qingyun summoned the Immortal King Artifact Stars and struck No Life, then the Second Elder took up the spear and used its power against him.
• Shi Qingyun and the Nine Heavens cultivators fought off the Foreign Realm forces, and Shi Qingyun suppressed their ranks with Yin-Yang energy.
• Meng Tianzheng fired arrows from Imperial Pass, struck the passage, and shattered it, cutting off reinforcements and killing cultivators caught in its collapse.
• Meng Tianzheng continued firing arrows across the battlefields as the Second Elder wounded No Life with Stars.
• Shi Qingyun’s Dao river swallowed the remaining Self-Slaying cultivators, dissolving their bodies and Great Daos.

After the battle, Shi Qingyun learned that the Second Elder was dying from invading Immortal Dao Laws and was left responsible for Imperial Pass. Returning with the surviving disciples, Shi Qingyun confronted Jin Yang, who attacked him after discovering he had reached Self-Slaying.

• Shi Qingyun gave Treasure Medicine to the wounded Zhan Shuyu and Di Chuan, and the Second Elder returned after fighting No Life.
• The Second Elder returned Stars to Shi Qingyun, revealed that Immortal Dao Laws had invaded his body, and entrusted Imperial Pass's affairs to him before disappearing to suppress his injuries.
• Shi Qingyun led the survivors back toward Imperial Pass and saw other battered warships returning after attacks on several key positions.
• Jin Yang blocked Shi Qingyun's group and accused Zhan Shuyu of being a Foreign Realm spy.
• Shi Qingyun used his pressure to slam Jin Yang and his companions into the ground, and Jin Yang realized Shi Qingyun had broken through to Self-Slaying.

Shi Qingyun returned to the Imperial Pass after defeating Jin Yang’s attempt to provoke him, then learned of Second Elder’s past and watched him depart for a final battle. As war approached, Shi Qingyun honed his World in the Palm technique and reunited with Demoness and the other disciples facing an Escape One expert’s pressure.

• Zhan Shuyu fought Jin Yang and drove him into retreat before Shi Qingyun ordered them to stop, prompting Jin Yang to withdraw.
• Shi Qingyun visited Meng Tianzheng, who told him how Second Elder had lost his beloved and remained in the Border Wasteland; Second Elder then set out to join the coming battle against the Foreign Realm.
• Shi Qingyun developed his World in the Palm divine ability and received word that Xuanzhi and the others had arrived in a dangerous situation.
• Shi Qingyun found Demoness, Shi Hao, Heavenly Son, Shi Yi, and other disciples resisting the pressure of an Escape One expert, and Demoness smiled when she saw him.
• Shi Qingyun reunited with Demoness and walked with her through the Imperial Pass beneath the evening sky.

Shi Qingyun and Shi Hao trained together before joining the Nine Heavens’ campaign against the Foreign Realm, where the younger generation began fighting on the battlefield. After Demoness demonstrated her Void Nether Dao Seed and left to temper herself alone, Shi Qingyun prepared to seek his own battles.

• Shi Qingyun sparred with Shi Hao, displaying his Yin-Yang laws and new movement technique, while Shi Hao tested the Dao weapon Slashing Body.
• Shi Qingyun and Demoness discussed the coming battles, and Demoness said she was nearing a breakthrough and could handle herself.
• Shi Hao, Heavenly Son, and the Nine Heavens’ prodigies marched to the front, where Shi Qingyun led them against Foreign Realm cultivators besieging their people.
• Shi Hao and the other prodigies defeated the Foreign Realm cultivators, then began hunting enemies and gaining battlefield experience.
• Demoness used her Void Nether Dao Seed to make a group of Foreign Realm cultivators attack one another, then told Shi Qingyun to go temper himself without her.
• Shi Qingyun agreed to meet Demoness at the Imperial Pass from time to time and set off to seek battle.

Shi Qingyun rescued the wounded Li Yu and returned with him to the battlefield, where Wu Ya had slaughtered the Nine Heavens cultivators. Shi Qingyun confronted Wu Ya while Li Yu faced the deaths of his master and companions, and Wu Ya’s bell blasted Li Yu backward as the fight began.

• Wu Ya mocked the Nine Heavens cultivators and ordered his followers to hunt them down while seeking Shi Qingyun.
• Shi Qingyun rescued Li Yu from two Foreign Realm cultivators and learned that Li Yu’s primordial spirit was shattered and his divine flame was fading.
• Li Yu begged Shi Qingyun to save his master and companions, and Shi Qingyun agreed to find them before taking Li Yu with him.
• Shi Qingyun and Li Yu arrived at Wu Ya’s battlefield and saw the bodies of Li Yu’s master and fellow cultivators.
• Li Yu broke down in grief and prepared to attack Wu Ya as Shi Qingyun charged at him.
• Wu Ya recognized Shi Qingyun, expanded his great bell, and its attack shattered Li Yu’s golden shield and hurled him backward.

Shi Qingyun killed Wu Ya and his followers, then buried the dead of the Nine Heavens Divine Light Pavilion. As the war’s young cultivators gained fame, Shi Qingyun became the Foreign Realm’s foremost target, and Chi Ling’s group decided to deal with him.

• Shi Qingyun broke through Wu Ya’s defenses and killed him with a punch, destroying his Dao Body and Primordial Spirit.
• Shi Qingyun eliminated Wu Ya’s attacking followers and returned to Li Yu, whose life had already faded.
• Shi Qingyun raised graves for the fallen and erected a tablet marking the grave of the Nine Heavens Divine Light Pavilion.
• Shi Qingyun hunted Foreign Realm Self-Slaying cultivators across the Border Wasteland as Shi Hao, Heavenly Son, Shi Yi, and other young fighters gained renown.
• Chi Ling and the other Foreign Realm cultivators discussed Shi Qingyun’s growing threat and decided to leave him to their older generation while Wu Feng pursued Shi Hao and the other leaders.

Shi Qingyun defeated and killed Ke Yuan, a peak Self-Slaying cultivator from the Void Beast Clan, then escaped before the Foreign Realm reinforcements arrived. Chi Ling and the other prodigies used Fairy Xiaoyu’s Time-Reversal Disk to review the battle and discover which direction Shi Qingyun fled.

• Chi Ling and the Foreign Realm prodigies agreed to hunt Shi Qingyun and kill him or summon reinforcements with their transit talismans.
• Shi Qingyun found the bodies of Nine Heavens cultivators after a battle, buried them, and continued toward a Chaos Sea as Foreign Realm cultivators pursued him.
• Ke Yuan revealed himself and attacked Shi Qingyun, but Shi Qingyun overpowered him with Slashing Body and killed him.
• After sensing the incoming reinforcements, Shi Qingyun escaped at extreme speed using a Kunpeng Phantom.
• Chi Ling and the other prodigies arrived, found Ke Yuan dead, and used Fairy Xiaoyu’s Time-Reversal Disk to replay the battle and locate Shi Qingyun’s escape route.

Shi Qingyun summoned the Nine Heavens' prodigies as Chi Ling and the Foreign Realm cultivators cornered him, and the two sides launched a fierce battle. With Shi Qingyun's Heaven-Sealing Earth-Locking suppressing their opponents, the fight remained deadlocked as cultivators on both sides began to fall.

• Shi Qingyun used a blood token to summon allies, prompting Shi Hao, Shi Yi, Exiled Immortal, Heavenly Son, and others to travel through Spatial Passages to his aid.
• Chi Ling led the Foreign Realm prodigies in surrounding Shi Qingyun and declaring their intent to kill him and break the Nine Heavens' younger generation.
• Shi Hao and the other Nine Heavens cultivators arrived just as the battle was about to begin, and both sides gathered their forces.
• Shi Qingyun unleashed Heaven-Sealing Earth-Locking to suppress the Foreign Realm cultivators' strength, then charged Chi Ling as the two groups clashed.
• Shi Hao and the other Nine Heavens cultivators fought multiple opponents, and Self-Slaying cultivators from both sides began falling as the battle raged.

Shi Qingyun killed Chi Ling and survived an attack by a Foreign Realm expert as their duel spiraled into a war between the Nine Heavens and the Foreign Realm. After the Nine Heavens won at great cost, he returned to Imperial Pass, reunited with Demoness, and joined Shi Hao and the other prodigies at a gathering.

• Shi Qingyun broke out of Chi Ling's Dao Fire trap and killed him with Yin-Yang Step.
• A Foreign Realm Escape One cultivator attacked Shi Qingyun, but a long cane struck the assailant and freed him.
• Shi Qingyun joined the battle and slaughtered Foreign Realm cultivators alongside Shi Hao and the Nine Heavens fighters.
• The Nine Heavens won the battle after both sides suffered devastating losses, and Shi Qingyun agreed to meet Shi Hao and the others at Imperial Pass.
• Shi Qingyun returned to Imperial Pass, stabilized his cultivation, and reunited with Demoness.
• Shi Qingyun and Demoness arrived at the Flying Terrace Pavilion, where he greeted the other prodigies and they celebrated their victory.

Shi Qingyun left the Border Wasteland for the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, where he discovered the Netherworld’s influence spreading across Ten Ferry Province. As Chen Xuan and Mu Qing discussed the threat, Shi Qingyun approached, and the chapter ended with two bickering Daoist attendants entering their hall.

• Meng Tianzheng told Shi Qingyun the Foreign Realm might send a Human Dao Supreme to kill him, then assigned him to return to the rear and deal with clans and sects shirking their duties.
• Shi Qingyun asked Demoness to stay in the Border Wasteland, and they parted before he departed by Flying Boat the next morning.
• Shi Qingyun bid farewell to Shi Hao, Exiled Immortal, Zhan Shuyu, and the others, then left the Border Wasteland for the Three Thousand Dao Provinces.
• Shi Qingyun sensed a sinister black fog over Ten Ferry Province and headed there, suspecting the Netherworld was responsible for the trouble.
• Chen Xuan and Mu Qing discussed the Netherworld’s disciples seizing people in Ten Ferry Province while two little Daoist attendants entered and argued over who had come first.

Chen Xuan and the Cloud Palace defenders fought off an assault by Hei Yun and the Netherworld, but were quickly overwhelmed. Shi Qingyun arrived just as Hei Yun moved to destroy the Cloud Palace and froze the attackers, freeing the captured defenders.

• Shi Little Red, Little White, and Chen Xuan discussed how to defend the Cloud Palace, then rushed out when the mountain-protecting formation came under attack.
• Hei Yun emerged from the black clouds, declared that the Cloud Emperor had fallen, and ordered the Netherworld forces to capture the Cloud Palace cultivators as sacrifices.
• Chen Xuan, Little Red, Little White, Mu Qing, and the Cloud Palace disciples charged out to fight, but the Netherworld forces captured many of them.
• Hei Yun subdued Chen Xuan and Mu Qing with black chains and summoned a skeletal claw to destroy the Cloud Palace.
• Shi Qingyun appeared, seized Hei Yun, and froze the Netherworld attackers within a hundred li, shattering the chains binding the Cloud Palace defenders.

Shi Qingyun learned that the Netherworld planned to sacrifice Ten Ferry Province’s living beings to reach the Supreme Being realm, then chose to keep Cloud Palace there and lead a campaign against the invaders. Cloud Palace’s forces set out to fight the Netherworld and gather those willing to resist.

• Shi Qingyun interrogated Hei Yun, who revealed the Nether Lord’s plan and that the major sects had left Ten Ferry Province, then Shi Qingyun killed him as he tried to self-destruct.
• Little Red and Little White welcomed Shi Qingyun back, and he praised the Cloud Palace disciples before bringing them home.
• Chen Xuan reported that Cloud Palace had grown into a second-rate lineage, and Shi Qingyun decided it would claim Ten Ferry Province rather than evacuate.
• Shi Qingyun ordered Cloud Palace to split into groups, attack the Netherworld’s forces, and recruit cultivators willing to resist.
• Chen Xuan rallied the assembled disciples, who vowed to fight and offer their loyalty to the Palace Master.

Shi Qingyun and the Cloud Palace’s teams intervened as Netherworld forces attacked sects across the region, recruiting the Kong Yuan Sect and rescuing Xuan Ying. Shi Qingyun killed two Netherworld Self-Slaying cultivators and their Primordial Spirits, then revealed himself as the Cloud Palace’s Palace Master, the Cloud Emperor.

• Chen Xuan, Mu Qing, Little Red, Little White, Bao Cai, Peng Yong, and Shi Qingyun departed from the Cloud Palace with teams to confront the Netherworld forces.
• Little Red killed a Heavenly God attacking the Kong Yuan Sect, offered the survivors a place in the Cloud Palace, and led them toward the next battle.
• Shi Qingyun arrived at the Xuankong Gate and trapped two Netherworld Self-Slaying cultivators in a Void Cage as they attacked Xuan Ying.
• Shi Qingyun crushed the two cultivators’ bodies and destroyed their fleeing Primordial Spirits with a sword strike.
• Shi Qingyun introduced himself as the Cloud Palace’s Palace Master, and Xuan Ying recognized him as the Cloud Emperor before returning to the battle.