Chapter Summaries

Shi Qingyun gathered Ten Ferry Province cultivators to fight the Netherworld after rescuing them from its attacks. At the border, he defeated and obliterated the Netherworld’s Escape One cultivator while his allies fought the remaining enemies.

• Shi Qingyun asked Xuan Ying to help the Cloud Palace resist the Netherworld, and Xuan Ying agreed before leading the surviving Xuankong Gate disciples to Chen Xuan.
• The Nether Lord learned that Shi Qingyun had gathered cultivators from Ten Ferry Province and declared it time to harvest the final fruits.
• At the provincial border, Shi Qingyun faced a Netherworld force led by an Escape One cultivator, with Old Tao, Xuan Ying, and other allies at his side.
• Shi Qingyun split the enemy force with Slashing Body, then assigned Old Tao and Xuan Ying to lead the fights against the other Netherworld cultivators.
• Shi Qingyun fought the Netherworld’s Escape One cultivator in a starry expanse and gradually gained the upper hand.
• Shi Qingyun struck down the Escape One cultivator, and the towering tree behind him erased the enemy’s body and Primordial Spirit.

Shi Qingyun and Old Tao battled the Nether Lord while Xuan Ying and the other cultivators tried to destroy the Dark Xuan Iron Pillars draining their vitality. Their coordinated efforts began to weaken the Nether Lord, and the chapter ended with an iron pillar starting to sway as Slashing Body struck him.

• The Nether Lord trapped the cultivators in a barrier of Dark Xuan Iron Pillars that drained their vitality and Primordial Spirit power, so Shi Qingyun ordered Old Tao to fight him and the others to destroy the pillars.
• Shi Qingyun and Old Tao challenged the Nether Lord in the starry sky, but his death qi and Black Banner broke Shi Qingyun’s Sword Prison and pushed them back.
• Shi Qingyun and Old Tao launched more attacks, and Shi Qingyun summoned a towering tree that absorbed the Nether Lord’s death qi while Old Tao held him off.
• Xuan Ying led the cultivators in attacking an iron pillar, making it begin to sway and causing cracks to briefly appear across the Nether Lord’s body.
• Slashing Body struck the Nether Lord with a sword attack while he hesitated.

Shi Qingyun fought the Nether Lord while trying to save Old Tao from a life-draining blood curse, then entered a devastating tribulation depicting the war between the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and the Foreign Realm. After enduring countless battles, he deepened his understanding of Escape One and began stepping backward against time.

• The Nether Lord struck Old Tao with a blood curse that drained his vitality, and Shi Qingyun froze the curse while fending off the Nether Lord's soul banner.
• Shi Qingyun trapped the Nether Lord in his Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram, but the Nether Lord tore free and both fighters suffered injuries.
• Shi Qingyun invoked Tribulation Lightning, which struck the Nether Lord, while Shi Qingyun entered the lightning tribulation's battlefields.
• Shi Qingyun fought through successive levels of the tribulation, repeatedly rebuilding his shattered Dao Body and sharpening his abilities.
• Shi Qingyun gained a deeper understanding of Escape One and used the Yin-Yang Step to move backward against time, outpacing a pursuing Escape One cultivator.

Shi Qingyun broke through to Escape One, defeated and killed the Nether Lord, and rescued Old Tao. After striking at divine senses watching from afar, he declared Ten Ferry Province the domain of Cloud Palace.

• Shi Qingyun emerged from the collapsing battlefield after breaking through to Escape One and dispersed the heavenly lightning with his inner-world power.
• Shi Qingyun fought the Nether Lord, overcame his attacks, and killed him with a sword strike that destroyed his armor and Primordial Spirit.
• Shi Qingyun reunited with Xuan Ying and the others, freed Old Tao from the blood curse, and handed him over to Chen Xuan and the others.
• Shi Qingyun drew Stars and slashed apart the divine senses watching from afar, then sent sword strikes into a dark world and wounded a Supreme Being who fled.
• Shi Qingyun declared that Ten Ferry Province belonged to Cloud Palace and ordered the orthodoxies to know it.

After Cloud Palace took control of Ten Ferry Province, Shi Qingyun spent a year consolidating its power before leading its disciples on a campaign against forces supporting the Netherworld. He arrived in the Netherworld and invoked the ancient covenant as war spread through the Border Wasteland.

• Xuan Ying and the remaining orthodoxies of Ten Ferry Province swore allegiance to Cloud Palace, and Shi Qingyun welcomed them as subordinate institutions.
• Cloud Palace expanded rapidly over the following year, while Chen Xuan advanced to Void Dao and Shi Qingyun consolidated his Escape One cultivation.
• Chen Xuan brought Shi Qingyun a list of Elder Council members and investigated forces supporting the Netherworld, prompting Shi Qingyun to prepare for war.
• Shi Qingyun rallied Cloud Palace's elite disciples, boarded a warship with them, and led them out on a campaign.
• Shi Qingyun appeared in the Netherworld, where Ming Yu and other cultivators confronted him, and he called on them to honor the ancient covenant as war ignited in the Border Wasteland.

Shi Qingyun led Cloud Palace in forcing orthodoxies to honor the ancient covenant and send reinforcements to the Border Wasteland, defeating a vast coalition with three sword strikes. Back at Cloud Palace, he recovered from the battle while the world watched for his next move.

• Shi Qingyun destroyed an uncooperative orthodoxy and continued his campaign, while Cloud Palace’s ranks fell to five thousand but grew stronger through battle.
• Shi Qingyun arrived at Cloud Palace One, now reinforced with rare materials, and headed toward a coalition of sects preparing an ambush.
• Shi Qingyun faced tens of thousands of cultivators and defeated their leaders with three sword strikes, while the Cult Master of the Heaven Severing Sect and elders of the Heavenly Deity Academy intervened.
• The coalition broke and fled, and more orthodoxies sent cultivators to the Border Wasteland as Shi Qingyun’s reputation spread.
• Shi Qingyun returned to Cloud Palace and rested in a pavilion, reading as the outside world speculated about his next move.

After Shi Qingyun’s battle with the Dao traditions, Ni Su told him that the Nine Heavens’ families and sects wanted him to lead a force to the Border Wasteland, and he insisted they send meaningful reinforcements. As Cloud Palace prepared to depart and Shi Qingyun entered seclusion to pursue a breakthrough, the Border Wasteland’s conflict edged toward full-scale war.

• Shi Qingyun reflected on the cost and gains of his battle, while the strange Dao character in his palm seemed to let him perceive and alter the world around him.
• Ni Su told Shi Qingyun that the Nine Heavens’ families and religious traditions wanted him to lead their expedition to the Border Wasteland, and he demanded that they send substantial forces rather than a few Venerables.
• Ni Su agreed to relay his position, and Shi Qingyun recognized that the Heaven Severing Sect was supporting him despite the cost to its interests.
• Shi Qingyun arranged for news of the Border Wasteland’s crisis to spread, prompting independent cultivators to gather in Ten Ferry Province as the major traditions publicly announced a united expedition.
• Shi Qingyun reviewed the volunteers’ registration lists with Chen Xuan, entrusted Cloud Palace’s affairs to him, and entered secluded cultivation to try to break through his realm shackles.
• In the Border Wasteland, the Nine Heavens and the Foreign Realm reached a tense stalemate, and Meng Tianzheng and the other leaders considered the Foreign Realm’s demand for a battle between their younger generations.

Shi Qingyun learned that the Nine Heavens had fallen into a desperate war after the Foreign Realm attacked during the duels, and he ordered the assembled forces to march for the Border Wasteland. The allied warships gathered at Ten Ferry Province, where the aristocratic families’ cultivators showed their disdain for taking orders from him.

• Shi Hao, the Demoness, the Exiled Immortal, Heavenly Son, and other Nine Heavens talents fought the Foreign Realm’s prodigies, while Shi Qingyun advanced to the middle stage of Escape One in secluded cultivation.
• Chen Xuan brought Shi Qingyun news that a Foreign Realm Immortal had attacked the Nine Heavens talents, Meng Tianzheng had been grievously injured intervening, and the Foreign Realm’s army had launched an all-out assault.
• Chen Xuan reported that millions of cultivators and several Supreme Beings were ready to depart for the Border Wasteland.
• Shi Qingyun ordered the assembled cultivators to set out for the Border Wasteland that day.
• Warships from the Heaven Severing Sect, the Heaven Mending Sect, the Vast Sea Academy, and other lineages gathered at Ten Ferry Province, where the Escape One cultivators’ combined auras split the sky.

Shi Qingyun arrived at the Border Wasteland with a formidable fleet and rallied the sects to join the battle, while the Nine Heavens’ prodigies faced mounting pressure on the front lines. Shi Hao chose to continue alone after sending his wounded companions back, and Demoness was left fighting off a Foreign Realm hunting party in the Void Turbulence.

• Shi Yimeng watched as Shi Qingyun revealed a terrifying blood-red eye and led his warships out of the void, causing the assembled cultivators to abandon their attempt to humiliate him.
• Shi Qingyun urged the cultivators to defend the Border Wasteland, then led the Cloud Palace fleet through a Spatial Rift toward the battlefield.
• Shi Hao split a shattered continent with a sword ray, sent his wounded companions back to the Imperial Pass, and vanished to fight alone.
• Demoness fled through the Void Turbulence, using reflected cultivators to delay six Foreign Realm pursuers.
• A Foreign Realm Escape One cultivator shattered Demoness’s mirror with a Dark Gold Cauldron, but the cauldron struck a Spatial Rift and triggered violent spatial turbulence.

Shi Qingyun rescued the badly injured Demoness from the Foreign Realm cultivators and brought her back to safety. After she woke and learned that the Nine Heavens had halted their decline, he left for a meeting of Supreme Beings at the Imperial Pass.

• Demoness fled the Foreign Realm cultivators through shattered space while Shi Qingyun and the Nine Heavens cultivators approached the Border Wasteland.
• Shi Qingyun arrived as Demoness was about to be overwhelmed, shielded her with a tide of starlight swords, and destroyed the pursuing cultivators.
• Shi Qingyun carried the unconscious Demoness away, and she later woke in a familiar room and told him she had missed him.
• Shi Qingyun told Demoness that a million cultivators from the Nine Heavens had halted their decline, though the Foreign Realm's next assault was approaching.
• Shi Qingyun received a message, left Demoness, and entered a gathering of Supreme Beings where Jin Taijun and others had been arguing.

Shi Qingyun exposed Jin Taijun’s secret contact with the Foreign Realm’s Night Watchman after opposing the Jin Clan’s call to retreat from the Imperial Pass. He confronted her as she tried to flee, leaving the Jin Clan’s fate on the brink.

• Shi Qingyun condemned Jin Taijun and the Jin Clan for proposing retreat, and his words helped the Supreme Beings decide to hold the Imperial Pass.
• Shi Qingyun warned Xuan You and Xuan Ming to watch the Jin Clan, while Jin Taijun resolved to act against him before he grew stronger.
• Shi Qingyun and several Supreme Beings waited outside the Imperial Pass for proof of the Jin Clan’s betrayal, despite their doubts about condemning a Longevity Family.
• A black-robed cultivator used a formation and a mysterious box to contact the Foreign Realm’s Night Watchman, confirming the suspicions of Shi Qingyun and the Supreme Beings.
• Shi Qingyun blocked Jin Taijun’s escape with Slashing Body and confronted her as she asked why he would not leave the Jin Clan alone.

Shi Qingyun exposed the Jin Clan’s collusion with the Foreign Realm, and Jin Taijun sacrificed herself as the Imperial Pass leaders prepared a counterattack. The Jin Clan was slaughtered, while Xuan You and Xuan Ming planned to use its surviving collateral branches as bait.

• Shi Qingyun and the other Supreme Beings cornered Jin Taijun, who revealed evidence of her dealings with the Foreign Realm and dissolved herself to preserve part of the Jin Clan’s bloodline.
• Shi Qingyun urged the leaders to strike the Foreign Realm first, and Xuan You and Xuan Ming supported his plan.
• Shi Qingyun sent Xuan You and Xuan Ming to purge the Jin Clan, and the clan’s estate fell into chaos as Jin Yang was killed.
• Two Supreme Beings and five thousand Cloud Palace disciples massacred the Jin Clan through the night, while friendly factions stayed out of the conflict.
• Xuan You and Xuan Ming found surviving collateral members of the Jin Clan and discussed using them as bait, with possible pardon if they survived the battlefield.

Jin Kaiyuan and the Jin Clan survivors lured the Foreign Realm army toward Imperial Pass, where Shi Qingyun’s forces sprang a formation ambush. After the Foreign Realm Supreme Beings broke the formation and charged, Shi Qingyun called on the concealed experts and prepared to join the fight.

• Jin Kaiyuan agreed to lead the Jin Clan survivors as bait, and Shi Qingyun declared the battle plan ready at Imperial Pass.
• The Foreign Realm captured the Jin Clan group, and Jin Kaiyuan convinced a Supreme Being that the Jin Clan had been attacked by Imperial Pass forces.
• The Foreign Realm True Immortal ordered an assault on Imperial Pass, believing the Nine Heavens’ internal conflict created an opportunity to break through.
• Jin Yang activated a prepared formation that teleported the Jin Clan survivors away as Shi Qingyun’s Myriad Net Great Formation unleashed blood swords on the Foreign Realm army.
• The Foreign Realm Supreme Beings shattered the formation and led their forces toward Imperial Pass, prompting Shi Qingyun to call on the concealed Supreme Beings and channel power into his sword.

Shi Qingyun and the Nine Heavens forces gained the advantage against the Foreign Realm invasion, but An Lan’s Immortal King Dharma Body appeared and attacked the Heavenly Abyss. An Lan opened a breach in the barrier, allowing a True Immortal to enter the Nine Heavens.

• Shi Qingyun trapped the Foreign Realm forces in an alternate space and used Sealing Heaven and Locking the Dao to suppress them as the Nine Heavens cultivators attacked.
• Shi Qingyun, Heavenly Son, Shi Yi, and the Cloud Palace disciples fought fiercely, and their forces gradually gained the advantage across the battlefield.
• Beyond the Heavenly Abyss, An Lan appeared through the River of Time, killed the True Immortal who had disrupted their plans, then restored him to life.
• An Lan tried to lift the Heavenly Abyss but stopped when he realized it absorbed the Nine Heavens' Dao principles and could not yet be moved by his Dharma Body.
• An Lan struck the Heavenly Abyss with the Crimson Peak Spear, opened a breach, and the True Immortal flew through it into the Nine Heavens.

Shi Qingyun fought a True Immortal at the Imperial Pass until Ye Fan arrived through the River of Time and killed the invader. An Lan confronted Ye Fan, and as Shi Hao reached the battlefield, Ye Fan gave him a mysterious blood bead before facing An Lan’s threat.

• The Foreign Realm True Immortal shattered Shi Qingyun and the Supreme Beings’ combined defense, but Shi Qingyun used his chaos dharma body and the Stars to split the immortal’s descending palm.
• As the True Immortal attacked again, Ye Fan emerged from the River of Time atop a cauldron and killed him with a streak of divine light.
• Ye Fan recognized Shi Qingyun as “Yun,” while An Lan challenged him for interfering with the past and attacking someone from his realm.
• Shi Hao rushed toward the Imperial Pass and saw Ye Fan, then An Lan’s true body emerged and merged with his dharma body.
• An Lan hurled the Crimson Peak Spear at Ye Fan, who blocked it with his fist as the River of Time surged and entangled him in red threads.
• Ye Fan sent a taboo blood bead into Shi Hao and warned An Lan that he could deal with him without attacking him directly.

Little Fan Ye confronted Liu Qianqian over a rival game company and sought World of Warcraft distribution rights, then broke down and clung to Qin Lan, inadvertently triggering her second skill. Meanwhile, Shi Qingyun fused with his future self, trapped An Lan and Yu Tuo in his world, and began using its power against them.

• Little Fan Ye challenged Liu Qianqian about Divine Thunder Technology, then asked Angela for World of Warcraft distribution rights and received her approval.
• Little Fan Ye told Gao Yuanyuan she planned to seek compensation from him, but became visibly upset and returned to the villa with Qin Lan.
• Little Fan Ye sought comfort in Qin Lan's embrace and realized she had accidentally triggered the second skill she had shared with her secretary.
• Shi Qingyun's future self fused with him, causing his cultivation to surge as An Lan and Yu Tuo called for reinforcements.
• Shi Qingyun pulled An Lan and Yu Tuo into his world, where his Yin-Yang chains drained An Lan's power until Yu Tuo freed him.
• Shi Qingyun declared that everything in his world belonged to him and froze both Immortal Kings with Rewind Time.

Shi Qingyun fled into the Boundary Sea with the injured Yu Tuo, pursued by Foreign Realm Immortal Kings, and disrupted Wang Yu’s Immortal King Tribulation to free his captive. Wang Yu mistook Yu Tuo for the one who had ruined his tribulation and vowed to kill him.

• Shi Qingyun beheaded An Lan, wounded Yu Tuo, and sealed both Immortal Kings before sending Shi Hao back to Imperial Pass.
• Shi Qingyun encountered Ye Fan across time, then left the Nine Heavens as Foreign Realm Immortal Kings pursued him toward the Boundary Sea.
• Shi Qingyun returned the Ten Thousand Dao Tree and his inner cosmos consciousness to the Nine Heavens, entered the Boundary Sea, and collected a True Immortal’s corpse.
• Shi Qingyun found Wang Yu undergoing his Immortal King Tribulation and sent the cage holding Yu Tuo into the tribulation lightning, breaking it open.
• Wang Yu blamed Yu Tuo for disrupting his tribulation and threatened to kill him, while Yu Tuo cursed Shi Qingyun.

After escaping Yu Tuo, Shi Qingyun followed the route revealed by Heaven's Question through the Boundary Sea, enduring its chaotic laws as he tempered his body and cultivation. While Wang Yu’s grievance with Yu Tuo sparked a growing battle among Immortal Kings, Shi Qingyun reached the Supreme Being realm and continued toward his destination, still striving to strengthen his physical body.

• Wang Yu charged at Yu Tuo, while Shi Qingyun used Heaven's Question to find a safe route and headed toward it as his cultivation fell to Escape One Peak.
• Shi Qingyun used Stars and his Chaos Dharma Aspect to withstand the Boundary Sea’s chaotic laws, deliberately letting some of them temper his body and Dao Principles.
• Wu Shang tried to persuade Wang Yu to forgive Yu Tuo, but Wang Yu demanded that the alleged mastermind be found or the grievance settled by battle.
• The Red King attacked Wang Yu’s group, starting a clash among Immortal Kings that Wu Shang widened by dragging nearby spectators into the fighting.
• Shi Qingyun continued across the Boundary Sea, where his cultivation rose to the Supreme Being realm and he absorbed chaotic laws to temper his Dao Body.

Shi Qingyun spent ten years crossing the Boundary Sea, tempering his body toward the True Immortal realm while the Nine Heavens prepared for the next war. As he neared a place foretold to bring great fortune, a gigantic snow-white sword struck at him from above.

• After Shi Hao was taken to the Foreign Realm, the Nine Heavens and Foreign Realm settled into a five-hundred-year ceasefire, and the prodigies entered secluded cultivation.
• Demoness awoke, mourned Shi Qingyun's departure, and vowed to wait for his return.
• Over the next ten years, Mo Li advanced into the Void Dao Realm with the World Tree's help and set out to travel.
• Shi Qingyun tempered his body in the Boundary Sea, reaching the peak of the Supreme Being level and bringing his Dao Body to the True Immortal level.
• Following a sign of great fortune, Shi Qingyun charged into the void, was knocked back, and saw a gigantic snow-white sword descending toward him.

Shi Qingyun fought Li Yu, a True Immortal who attacked him to study his Dao Body. Shi Qingyun wounded Li Yu and trapped him in a layered assault of illusions, chains, and a black dragon, leaving Li Yu poised to counterattack with his wine gourd.

• Li Yu arrived in the Boundary Sea and struck at Shi Qingyun, whose Chaos Dharma Aspect and Yin-Yang Dao Diagram blocked his attacks.
• Li Yu revealed that he wanted to study Shi Qingyun's Dao Body, and Shi Qingyun attacked him with Slashing Body and the Yin-Yang Step.
• Shi Qingyun and Li Yu clashed with swords and fists until Shi Qingyun blasted Li Yu backward and pursued him with a sword strike.
• Shi Qingyun used the Life-and-Death Diagram to pull Li Yu into a battlefield illusion, then revealed chains and a black dragon waiting to attack him as he escaped.
• Li Yu faced the encircling chains and lunging dragon, then took the precious gourd from his waist.