Chapter Summaries

Shi Qingyun killed Li Yu, but Li Yu cursed him with the Wine God Curse, causing his vitality to drain as he traveled across the Boundary Sea. After three years, Shi Qingyun reached a mist-shrouded island and confronted a divine phoenix guarding it.

• Li Yu absorbed the blood-red liquid, repelled the chains with his sword intent, and fought the black dragon before searching for Shi Qingyun.
• Shi Qingyun used Stars to pierce Li Yu from behind, fatally wounding him.
• As he dissipated, Li Yu cast the Wine God Curse on Shi Qingyun, who suppressed it and set off across the Boundary Sea.
• Over the next three years, Shi Qingyun's vitality continued to drain while his understanding of life and death strengthened the Life and Death Dao Diagram.
• Shi Qingyun reached a protected island and struck its barrier, drawing out a divine phoenix wreathed in Southern Bright Separation Flame.
• Shi Qingyun summoned lightning and the form of a ferocious beast, and the divine phoenix recognized his aura before returning through the barrier.

Shi Qingyun entered the Phoenix Ridge Cave Abode, gathered its treasures, and began cultivating on its white jade Meditation Cushion to deepen his Yin-Yang Dao and endure the Wine God Curse. More than a decade later, Mo Li had risen as a leading prodigy while the Nine Heavens prepared for another war, and Chen Xuan reached Self-Slaying under the Cloud Palace’s support.

• Shi Qingyun triggered the formation’s Southern Bright Separation Flame, then entered Phoenix Ridge after opening its Protective Barrier with a Qilin-like divine pattern.
• Shi Qingyun explored the Ancient Hall, moved its Treasure Medicines and medicinal soil into Slashing Body, and left the Nirvana Pool and its True Phoenix Blood untouched.
• Shi Qingyun sat on the white jade Meditation Cushion and cultivated as the Wine God Curse drained his vitality and his Yin-Yang understanding grew.
• More than a decade later, Mo Li defeated gathered prodigies with the World Tree and left without revealing his identity or origins.
• The Nine Heavens’ Dao Traditions prepared for war against the Foreign Realm as cultivation and competition intensified.
• Chen Xuan emerged from tribulation lightning having reached Self-Slaying, and Xuan You and Xuan Ming urged him to keep improving.

After years of risking his life to comprehend the Dao of life and death, Shi Qingyun reached the pinnacle of death and awakened with the help of a mysterious woman’s Nirvana Flame. He began rebuilding his shattered body in the Nirvana Pool as a century-long battle across the Boundary Sea came to an end.

• The Demoness broke through the Self-Slaying barrier into Escape One and reflected on Cloud Palace and Shi Qingyun’s absence.
• Shi Qingyun let the Wine God Curse consume his vitality while studying life and death, and his body and Small World deteriorated toward collapse.
• Shi Qingyun’s vitality went out, but years later a trace of life emerged at death’s pinnacle and his Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram returned.
• A woman who had watched over Shi Qingyun used Nirvana Flame to stabilize his vitality and help him awaken.
• Shi Qingyun entered the Nirvana Pool with treasure medicines and opposing immortal herbs, beginning to restore his body and revive his inner world.
• A battle that had lasted nearly a hundred years across the Boundary Sea slowly drew to a close.

After four hundred years outside and four thousand years on Phoenix Ridge, Shi Qingyun completed his transformation within the Nirvana Pool as the woman accelerated time at the cost of her remaining life. He awakened from his cocoon with a transformed inner world and shackles close to breaking, poised to advance toward the Quasi-Immortal King realm.

• The Red King, Yu Tuo, Wu Shang, and the other survivors withdrew from the battlefield, while the lone wolves who had been forced into the fight were pursued by other Immortal Kings.
• Yu Tuo vowed to find the person responsible and said he had marked the brat, and Wu Shang urged the group to focus on finding the chest.
• A hundred years later, Chen Xuan told the Cloud Palace that Foreign Realm Cultivators were gathering in the Border Wasteland, and the group decided to send a thousand Heavenly God-realm cultivators or higher to gain combat experience there.
• On Phoenix Ridge, the woman drew a stretch of the River of Time from herself and used her precious wheel to accelerate time across the island, spending her remaining vitality to give Shi Qingyun more time to transform.
• After four hundred years outside, cracks spread across Shi Qingyun's cocoon, and he opened his eyes as his inner world completed its transformation and his shackles neared collapse.

After breaking his third physical shackle, Shi Qingyun survived a devastating tribulation and reached the Quasi-Immortal King realm. He studied the Dao with Su Wen, brought Phoenix Ridge into his inner cosmos to preserve her, and prepared to test his strength against the Immortal Kings as Yu Tuo closed in.

• Shi Qingyun broke his third physical shackle, raised his flesh to the level of the Ten Fiends, and advanced to the Quasi-Immortal King realm.
• Shi Qingyun endured a vast heavenly tribulation, repeatedly rebuilding his body and primordial spirit through the power of life and death until the lightning dispersed.
• Shi Qingyun returned to Phoenix Ridge, stabilized Su Wen's fading form, and thanked her for protecting him.
• Shi Qingyun discussed the Dao with Su Wen for ten years, gaining a deeper understanding of the Immortal King realm.
• Shi Qingyun placed Phoenix Ridge inside his inner cosmos so Su Wen could be nourished while he sought a way to restore her body.
• Yu Tuo sensed Shi Qingyun's aura and rushed toward him seeking revenge for An Lan, while Shi Qingyun set out to test his strength against the Immortal Kings.

Shi Qingyun continued his trials in the Boundary Sea, growing stronger as he cultivated and fought corrupted Immortal Kings. As the Nine Heavens prepared for war with the Foreign Realm, he destroyed Yu Tuo’s mark and lured him toward a confrontation.

• Shi Qingyun crushed a corrupted Immortal King with the Yin-Yang Great Millstone and studied the Dao insights released from the body.
• Slashing Body and Stars advanced into Immortal King Artifacts, while Shi Qingyun continued tempering his Quasi-Immortal King primordial spirit with the Great Daos.
• Qin Hao survived a three-day heavenly tribulation and reached the Supreme Being realm as cultivators discussed the Great Dao’s revival.
• Demoness learned that the Foreign Realm was assembling its army, and the Nine Heavens’ Dao traditions mobilized for war at the Border Wasteland.
• Shi Qingyun sensed Yu Tuo approaching, shattered the blood-colored mark Yu Tuo had left in his body, and challenged him to fight.

Shi Qingyun fought Yu Tuo across the Boundary Sea, revealing a body and Dao techniques powerful enough to challenge an Immortal King. After surviving Yu Tuo’s devastating strike and destroying his cauldron’s inscriptions with a punch, Shi Qingyun retreated toward the Nine Heavens while evading Yu Tuo’s attempts to trap him.

• Shi Qingyun’s sword strike collided with Yu Tuo’s attack, and Yu Tuo emerged from the void, recognizing Shi Qingyun as a threat despite his Quasi-Immortal King cultivation.
• Yu Tuo summoned his Black-Gold Cauldron, but Shi Qingyun used his Chaos Dharma Aspect and Slashing Body to attack him alongside it.
• Yu Tuo pierced the Chaos Dharma Aspect and struck Shi Qingyun with a sword, destroying his Dao Body, but Shi Qingyun reassembled through the Yin-Yang Great Millstone and Reincarnation Gate.
• Shi Qingyun punched Yu Tuo’s cauldron hard enough to crack it and obliterate its Dao Marks, sacrificing his right arm before regenerating it.
• As other Immortal Kings sensed their battle, Shi Qingyun retreated toward the Nine Heavens, slipping past Yu Tuo’s spatial blockade with his escape techniques.

Shi Qingyun fought Yu Tuo, then faced an ambush by Wu Shang and the Foreign Realm Immortal Kings, whose attacks pushed him to trigger an Immortal King Tribulation. As the tribulation began, his body started to recover and he endured the lightning with his Chaos Dharma Body, beginning to temper his Dao body.

• Shi Qingyun used three powerful sword strikes to shatter Yu Tuo’s cauldron and body, then pierced his forehead and pinned him to the Boundary Sea.
• Yu Tuo returned through the River of Time as Wu Shang and the Foreign Realm Immortal Kings appeared and attacked Shi Qingyun.
• Shi Qingyun revealed he had anticipated the ambush, and his Primordial Spirit shattered as the Immortal King Tribulation locked onto him.
• Wu Shang, Red King, and Yu Tuo attacked Shi Qingyun, leaving his body ruined, but the tribulation continued to grow stronger.
• Great Dao power from the Boundary Sea flowed into Shi Qingyun, mending his body as Wu Shang and the others withdrew from the tribulation’s range.
• Shi Qingyun summoned his Chaos Dharma Body and endured the tribulation lightning as it began tempering his Dao bones.

Shi Qingyun survived his Immortal King tribulation by burning his primordial spirit and defeating his lightning avatar, then absorbed the tribulation source to recover and transform. He emerged as an Immortal King, concealed his location from other Immortal Kings, and strengthened Slashing Body with the shattered Treasure Cauldron.

• Shi Qingyun burned his primordial spirit to unleash its power and fought the lightning Dao version of himself, unleashing a clash that drove the watching Foreign Realm Immortal Kings away.
• After the battle, Shi Qingyun recovered inside the Treasure Cauldron by absorbing tribulation lightning source, while his primordial spirit shed its outer shell and grew stronger.
• Shi Qingyun's body, primordial spirit, Dao techniques, and chaos dharma aspect transformed as he advanced into Immortal Kinghood.
• Immortal Kings across the Boundary Sea sensed Shi Qingyun and sent their greetings, so he used the Yin-Yang Millstone to conceal the heavenly secrets around him.
• Shi Qingyun shattered the Treasure Cauldron, and Slashing Body devoured its fragments and formed a blood-colored Dao mark carrying taboo power.

Shi Qingyun fought Wu Shang, Red King, and the other Foreign Realm Immortal Kings after entering the Immortal King realm as a Giant. He killed several opponents and faced the remaining Immortal Kings as Wu Shang fought his way out of the worlds trapping him.

• Shi Qingyun emerged as an Immortal King Giant, and he and the Foreign Realm Immortal Kings were drawn onto the River of Time.
• Shi Qingyun used Myriad Worlds Open, my body alone remains! to seal Wu Shang beneath layers of worlds as Red King attacked him with the Red King Cauldron.
• Shi Qingyun shattered a corner of the Red King Cauldron and killed one Foreign Realm Immortal King with three sword strikes.
• Shi Qingyun trapped two more Immortal Kings with Heaven and Earth Unite, Yin-Yang Fusion! and crushed them as nourishment for his inner world.
• Yu Tuo and Red King attacked Shi Qingyun, who summoned his Immortal King Dharma Aspect and launched a counterattack as Wu Shang approached through the ruined worlds.

Shi Qingyun overwhelmed the Foreign Realm Immortal Kings above the Boundary Sea, while the Nine Heavens prepared for a new assault in the Border Wasteland. A Foreign Realm Immortal King tore open the Heavenly Abyss, allowing Supreme Beings through, and the battle began with both sides’ experts clashing.

• Shi Qingyun killed and wounded several Immortal Kings, shattered Yu Tuo’s cauldron and the Red King Immortal Bell, and pursued the fleeing Red King and the others.
• At the Imperial Pass, Heavenly Son, Shi Yi, and the other Nine Heavens Supreme Beings planned for an expected attack by Foreign Realm Immortal Kings while the Demoness prepared for battle.
• A Foreign Realm Immortal King arrived before the Nine Heavens forces and struck the Heavenly Abyss, then used his Dharma Aspect and a Golden Ring Bracelet to tear open a crack in its barrier.
• Foreign Realm Supreme Beings passed through the crack and charged into the Nine Heavens battlefield, where the Exiled Immortal, Heavenly Son, Shi Yi, and the other Supreme Beings met them.
• Heavenly Son used the World Tree, the Exiled Immortal wielded the Heavenly Horned Ant’s horn, and Shi Yi opened the Double Pupils Eye as the battle reached a deadlock.

Shi Qingyun’s Immortal King projection saved the Demoness and the Nine Heavens forces, while Shi Qingyun himself returned and drove the Foreign Realm Immortal Kings away. More than a decade later, he had become the foremost figure in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and established the Cloud Realm around the Cloud Palace.

• The Demoness and the Nine Heavens cultivators were overwhelmed by the True Immortals until the Demoness’s words summoned Shi Qingyun’s Immortal King projection, which killed the attackers threatening her.
• Shi Qingyun pursued the Foreign Realm Immortal Kings, crossed the world barrier, and killed another Immortal King before Wu Shang and the remaining enemies withdrew.
• Shi Qingyun healed the Demoness and the others, and the Immortal King he had killed deterred the Foreign Realm from crossing the Heavenly Abyss for ten thousand years.
• After returning to the Nine Heavens, Shi Qingyun expounded the Dao, erected a monument to the fallen, and became the foremost figure in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Shi Qingyun perfected the Cloud Palace’s Dao Principles to create the Cloud Realm, while Mu Qing and Chen Xuan advanced to the Supreme Being Realm and the Demoness reached the half-step immortal realm.

Shi Qingyun welcomed the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths’ factions and former fellow cultivators into the Cloud Realm, where he granted them permission to establish Dao lineages and promised to take his friends to the Boundary Sea after they reached their limits. Before entering secluded cultivation, he searched the world for the missing Sacrificial Spirit of Deer-Chasing Academy.

• Shi Qingyun and Demoness met with the factions’ leaders and prodigies, and he allowed the factions to establish Dao lineages in the Cloud Realm.
• Shi Qingyun dismissed the leaders, then reunited with Exiled Immortal, Heavenly Son, and their former fellow cultivators over wine and a discussion of the Dao.
• Exiled Immortal, Heavenly Son, and the others asked for help reaching the Boundary Sea, and Shi Qingyun told them to first cultivate to their utmost limits.
• Shi Qingyun surveyed the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, ignored the Remnant Immortal, and searched for the Sacrificial Spirit of Deer-Chasing Academy.

Shi Qingyun rescued the Deer-Chasing Sacrificial Spirit from a dead True Immortal, then withdrew to cultivate as the Nine Heavens entered a golden age. In the Foreign Realm, Kundi and the other Immortal Kings planned to expose the Nine Heavens during the coming Dark Calamity, while Yu Tuo awaited An Lan’s recovery.

• Shi Qingyun found the Deer-Chasing Sacrificial Spirit in a tomb and destroyed the True Immortal who was trying to seize her body.
• Shi Qingyun returned to Demoness, explained what had happened, and later entered seclusion to study the Giant level and compile the Yin-Yang Great Dao True Scripture.
• The Great Dao grew more active under Shi Qingyun’s presence, and Mo Li advanced to the Escape One Realm amid a surge of cultivation across the Nine Heavens.
• Wu Shang, Red King, Yu Tuo, and the other Foreign Realm Immortal Kings discussed Shi Qingyun, while Kundi declared that his monstrous talent and possession of the chest made him a threat.
• Kundi proposed revealing the Nine Heavens’ location during the coming Dark Calamity so Boundary Sea Immortal Kings would attack it, and the Foreign Realm rulers agreed to the plan.
• Yu Tuo watched over An Lan’s recovering Primordial Spirit as the golden age in the Nine Heavens reached its peak and new prodigies rose.

Shi Qingyun created and refined a new cultivation method, then shared its first four stages with the world. He brought the Exiled Immortal, Heavenly Son, the Demoness, and others to the Boundary Sea, where he established a protected palace for them to study techniques and pursue immortality.

• Shi Qingyun comprehended the Dao, created a cultivation system based on bodily cultivation and an inner cosmos, and endured his law-creation tribulation.
• After more than a century of refinement, Shi Qingyun revealed the Yin-Yang Immortal Scripture and taught its first four stages to cultivators across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Shi Qingyun returned to his cultivation sanctuary and offered to take the Exiled Immortal, Heavenly Son, the Demoness, and the others into the Boundary Sea to seek transformation into immortals.
• Shi Qingyun led the group along the perilous narrow path to the Boundary Sea, where they saw a corpse beneath the embankment and marveled at the strange realm.
• Shi Qingyun placed a palace in the lightning sea and surrounded it with formations strong enough to withstand an Immortal King's attack for a time.
• The Exiled Immortal, Heavenly Son, and the others entered the palace to study techniques, and the Demoness followed after urging Shi Qingyun to be careful.

Shi Qingyun entered the Boundary Sea to strengthen himself and began hunting its Immortal Kings, while the Immortal Domain’s kings decided to bring the Nine Heavens’ surviving races under their control. Emperor Yu assembled allies to seek a Three Lives Flower and revealed that he had invited the legendary Corpse Collector—Shi Qingyun—whose arrival left the group facing an overwhelming presence.

• Shi Qingyun entered the Boundary Sea, declaring that he would pursue the supreme realm with his sword.
• The Immortal Kings decided to bring the surviving races of the Nine Heavens into the Immortal Domain, and Pan King returned to his city troubled by their scheming.
• Shi Qingyun killed several Immortal Kings on an unnamed island, collected their corpses and weapons, and continued his hunt through the Boundary Sea.
• Emperor Yu led his group through an eerie island in search of a Three Lives Flower said to be nearing maturity.
• Emperor Yu told his companions that the legendary Corpse Collector would join them, recounting how he had once defeated a group of Giants and pinnacle experts.
• Shi Qingyun arrived before Emperor Yu and his five allies, questioned whether they were his helpers, and drew their attention with his terrifying aura.

Shi Qingyun and Emperor Yu’s group fought through Strange Stone Island’s monsters and discovered an ancient battlefield protecting the Three Lives Flower. They headed toward the flower as a powerful blindfolded man appeared behind them.

• Shi Qingyun found the Three Lives Flower deep beneath Strange Stone Island and led the group toward it.
• Shi Qingyun used his Sinful Slaughter Spear to kill a stone giant and absorb its resentful fiend aura, stunning the others with the weapon’s power.
• The group fought their way through monsters whose bodies were as tough as immortal kings, while Sinful Slaughter pierced and absorbed many of them.
• Shi Qingyun’s Great Dao Divine Eye revealed an ancient battlefield guarding the Three Lives Flower, and the seven advanced toward it.
• A blindfolded man appeared at the place where the group had stopped, and the chaotic laws around him became orderly.

Shi Qingyun and Emperor Yu’s group reached the Ancient Battlefield, learned that the Three Lives Flower was being ripened with Immortal Kings’ lives, and waited in seclusion while battles raged. Thirty years later, Shi Qingyun emerged with his physical body at the Half-Step Unparalleled realm and joined the others as the flower’s fragrance intensified.

• Shi Qingyun dispelled visions of the Dark Calamity and led the group toward the Three Lives Flower.
• Shi Qingyun killed or captured three corrupted Immortal Kings and learned that Jue Mi was gathering Immortal Kings to nourish the flower.
• Shi Qingyun and Emperor Yu’s group chose to wait for the flower to bloom and cultivated inside a petrified Immortal King’s Dao Body.
• Jue Mi watched the Three Lives Flower ripen and vowed to use it to avenge himself on Butcher.
• After thirty years, Shi Qingyun awakened from seclusion with a Half-Step Unparalleled physical body and appeared before Emperor Yu and the others.

Shi Qingyun and the others moved to seize the Three Lives Flower as Jue Mi’s factions fought over it. Shi Qingyun claimed the flower and unleashed his Dharma Aspect, but Jue Mi and Sha Xin counterattacked, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Shi Qingyun learned that the Three Lives Flower would mature within three days and that Jue Mi and the Loose Cultivator Alliance were the two strongest factions on the Ancient Battlefield.
• Sha Xin led the Loose Cultivator Alliance into battle against Jue Mi’s forces, while Shi Qingyun used his Great Dao Divine Eye to trace the slain Immortal Kings’ blood energy toward the flower.
• The Three Lives Flower emerged from underground after strange runes destroyed Jue Mi’s formation, and Sha Xin struck it away from Jue Mi as both factions rushed to claim it.
• Shi Qingyun pierced a Supreme Expert with his spear, seized the Three Lives Flower, and stored it in his inner cosmos as Emperor Yu and the others joined him.
• Shi Qingyun summoned his Immortal King Dharma Aspect and destroyed the Buddha with a Heaven-Toppling palm, scattering the Immortal Kings across the battlefield.
• Jue Mi and Sha Xin attacked Shi Qingyun’s Dharma Aspect with a spear and disciplinary ruler, forcing it to retreat.

Shi Qingyun defeated Jue Mi and Sha Xin, helped Emperor Yu’s group win the battle over the Three Lives Flower, and enslaved Cang Yuan and six other Immortal Kings. After reaching a golden mountain range, he gave Emperor Yu the flower’s past petal, and the remaining allies departed.

• Shi Qingyun used his Yin-Yang Dao to destroy Sha Xin and Jue Mi, then returned to the Sea of Blood and crushed the opposing Immortal Kings with his Dharma Aspect.
• Emperor Yu and his companions finished off the defeated enemies, while Shi Qingyun bound Cang Yuan and six other black-clothed Immortal Kings with the disciplinary ruler and accepted their allegiance.
• Shi Qingyun left with Cang Yuan and the others, and news spread across the Boundary Sea that the Corpse Picker had defeated two Giants and reached the ranks of the Unparalleled.
• After decades of travel, Shi Qingyun found a golden mountain range and gave Emperor Yu the Three Lives Flower’s past petal as agreed.
• Emperor Yu promised to repay Shi Qingyun before leaving, and the other five companions departed, leaving Shi Qingyun with Cang Yuan and his six followers.