Chapter Summaries

Shi Qingyun refined a medicinal cauldron from an Immortal King’s dragon vein and used Immortal King origins, the Reincarnation Grass, and the Three Lives Flower to refine five pills. After a thousand years of guarding and cultivation, the pills remained in the cauldron while Shi Qingyun continued his enlightenment.

• Shi Qingyun had Cang Yuan and the others guard the mountain range while he bound its dragon vein and transformed it into a medicinal cauldron, making the dragon’s remnant soul its artifact spirit.
• Shi Qingyun used the Yin-Yang Great Millstone and the Sinful Slaughter Spear to grind Immortal King Corpses into Great Dao origins inside the cauldron.
• Shi Qingyun added the Reincarnation Grass and the Three Lives Flower, and their essences fused with the golden energy to form five pills as his Immortal King Dharma Aspect sheltered the cauldron.
• Shi Qingyun entered enlightenment, and Slashing Body took human form to control the cauldron and refine the pills.
• Cang Yuan and the others guarded the formation for a thousand years as eight waves of Great Dao imprints helped their cultivation advance.
• Heavenly lightning struck the cauldron for ten years and was absorbed, while Cang Yuan and the others drove off treasure seekers and fed their corpses to Sinful Slaughter.

After a thousand years in seclusion, Shi Qingyun became the master of the Yin-Yang Great Dao and reached the pinnacle of the unparalleled realm. He used the Azure Rebirth Pellet to awaken Su Wen, then sensed several figures approaching across the Boundary Sea.

• Cang Yuan and the Immortal Kings guarded Shi Qingyun as space shattered around him and the Yin-Yang Great Dao descended.
• Shi Qingyun merged with the Yin-Yang Great Dao, became its master, and sent its black-and-white pearl into the River of Time.
• Shi Qingyun returned to the mountain peak, reached the pinnacle of the unparalleled realm, and reclaimed five Treasure Pellets from the Dao Fire.
• Shi Qingyun used a strand of vitality and an Azure Rebirth Pellet to awaken Su Wen, who went to the Nirvana Pool to recover.
• Shi Qingyun returned to Cang Yuan and the others, whose surroundings now followed the order of Yin-Yang, then noticed figures approaching across the Boundary Sea.

Shi Qingyun faced Zhenkong, a half-step unparalleled Immortal King seeking a final chance to break through, and watched him unleash a Dao technique that reflected moments from his past. Zhenkong’s body began to crumble as Shi Qingyun halted the reflected world, but Zhenkong still threw a punch.

• Shi Qingyun sensed Zhenkong among the Immortal Kings and went to meet him after Zhenkong discovered him through the Seven-Colored Precious Mirror.
• Zhenkong sent his followers away, explaining that he might not survive the coming battle and asking them to rejoin him if he did.
• Shi Qingyun arrived, and Zhenkong declared that he had only one move to use against him.
• Zhenkong summoned a colored river and merged figures of himself from the past into his body to amplify his power.
• Shi Qingyun’s Yin-Yang life-and-death scroll stopped Zhenkong’s attempt to reflect its world, and Zhenkong thrust a fist toward him as his body crumbled.

Shi Qingyun defeated Zhenkong, spared him, and took the Dao marks from his Ancient Mirror before returning to find Su Wen undergoing heavenly punishment as she pursued her Path of Nirvana. He steadied the Myriad Dao Divine Cauldron to help her temper herself, then ordered Slashing Body to cut down the lightning.

• Shi Qingyun overwhelmed Zhenkong in battle and left him alive, promising to claim his life once he reached the Unparalleled realm.
• Shi Qingyun took Zhenkong's Ancient Mirror, extracted Dao marks from it, and returned to Cang Yuan and the others.
• Cang Yuan told Shi Qingyun that Su Wen had faced heavenly punishment, which the Myriad Dao Divine Cauldron had swallowed.
• Shi Qingyun used his Great Dao Divine Eye to reveal Su Wen enduring destruction and rebirth as she refined a divine pill and pursued her Path of Nirvana.
• Shi Qingyun steadied the Myriad Dao Divine Cauldron and helped Su Wen focus on her cultivation.
• Shi Qingyun ordered Slashing Body to cut down the raging heavenly lightning, and Slashing Body complained before complying.

Shi Qingyun merged his past, present, and future selves and briefly released a wisp of emperor’s light, discovering a painful method to temper his Dao Body toward the Emperor-Glowing Immortal King level. As he returned to supreme Immortal King strength, the Boundary Sea was being ravaged by the Great Cleansing.

• Slashing Body began tempering himself with heavenly lightning after Shi Qingyun gave him a bead of Yin-Yang Origin.
• Slashing Body fought the Great Dao Divine Lightning with his sword while Cang Yuan watched in astonishment and Shi Qingyun comprehended Dao Techniques.
• Profound darkness stirred in the Boundary Sea, consuming Immortal Kings and driving survivors into a desperate flight amid the Great Cleansing.
• Shi Qingyun used the River of Time to send his present self into the past, then merged his past, present, and future selves.
• Shi Qingyun’s fusion produced a wisp of emperor’s light that shattered his Dao Body, which he repeatedly repaired with Yin-Yang Qi.
• Shi Qingyun concluded that repeated use of the fusion could temper his Dao Body, but the River of Time separated the two figures and returned him to supreme Immortal King strength.

Shi Qingyun gathered Su Wen and the others and led them away from the chaotic Boundary Sea toward the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. After a hundred years, they arrived and found Demoness undergoing an immortal ascension tribulation.

• Shi Qingyun saw Su Wen complete her fiery nirvana and shared the refined essence with her as she emerged reborn as a giant phoenix.
• Shi Qingyun sensed the approaching great cleansing and decided to return to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths with Su Wen and the others.
• Su Wen burned and slew the Immortal Kings pursuing the group, then rejoined Shi Qingyun as he erased their trail through the River of Time.
• After a hundred years of travel, Shi Qingyun and the others reached the embankment of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Shi Qingyun and the others approached the place where Demoness and the others were in seclusion and saw Demoness undergoing an immortal ascension tribulation.

Shi Qingyun returned with Demoness and other Immortal Kings, reviving the Great Dao of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths while Wu Shang began a long-planned scheme in the Border Wasteland. After glimpsing a future of annihilation within a thousand years, Shi Qingyun gave Chen Xuan Immortal Liquid to help him reach the True Immortal realm.

• Demoness completed her tribulation with help from a reflected Quasi-King version of Shi Qingyun, then reunited with Shi Qingyun after nearly ten thousand years apart.
• Shi Qingyun and the others inspected Heavenly Son and the other cultivators in seclusion, then returned to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Cang Yuan and seven other Immortal Kings inscribed their Great Daos into the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, prompting a complete revival and leading factions to invest heavily in their disciples.
• Wu Shang watched the Great Dao revive from the Border Wasteland and declared that his nearly ten-thousand-year scheme was beginning.
• Shi Qingyun and Demoness saw shattered echoes of a future that pointed to annihilation within a thousand years, and Shi Qingyun promised to try to prevent it.
• Shi Qingyun answered Chen Xuan's summons and gave him a drop of Immortal Liquid, which could raise his cultivation to True Immortal.

Shi Qingyun reunited with the Sacrificial Spirit and helped her advance her understanding of the Dao before returning to his Cave Abode. He gave Little Red an Immortal King-level Vermilion Bird bloodline and then began cultivating above the River of Time as the Immortal Kings guarded the Immortal Domain.

• Shi Qingyun welcomed the Sacrificial Spirit, shared Spirit Wine with her, and spent ten days guiding her in discussing the Dao before she returned to seclusion with immortal liquid.
• Shi Qingyun restrained Little White, threatened to inspect his belly after hearing he had claimed to be starving, and sent him away with immortal liquid to refine.
• Shi Qingyun offered Little Red a powerful bloodline, and Little Red eagerly agreed to undergo the painful fusion.
• Shi Qingyun erased the will of a Vermilion Bird and fused its Immortal King-level bloodline into Little Red, who emerged from a giant egg as a Supreme Being before returning to his Daoist-boy form.
• Shi Qingyun sent Little Red to refine his new bloodline, then went above the River of Time to merge his past and Future Self and cultivate.
• Immortal Kings watched the Boundary Sea and chose to focus on guarding the Immortal Domain rather than investigate the disturbance in the River of Time.

After a thousand years of seclusion, Shi Qingyun learned that the World-Destroying Incense had exposed the Nine Heavens to invading Immortal Kings. He led the defense and slaughtered many attackers, but the enemy host still gathered across the embankment.

• A black-robed figure lit the World-Destroying Incense in the Border Wasteland, exposing the Nine Heavens and drawing lost wanderers toward it.
• Shi Qingyun appeared above the Nine Heavens, failed to destroy the Incense, and ordered its inhabitants to prepare for battle.
• Cang Yuan, Su Wen, and other defenders gathered with Shi Qingyun as religious lineages sent their prodigies into the Cloud Realm.
• Shi Qingyun killed an approaching Immortal King with the Sinful Slaughter Spear, then led the defenders against the invading kings.
• Shi Qingyun drew more than a dozen Immortal Kings into his Ink-Wash Realm and turned them to ash, frightening the survivors, who recognized him as the Corpse Picker.

Shi Qingyun fought the invading Immortal Kings for ten thousand years, holding the Boundary Sea embankment while the Nine Heavens came close to falling. Reinforcements arrived in time to turn the tide, and he drove the invaders back, though he was left badly wounded.

• Shi Qingyun refused to let the Immortal Kings enter without accepting his mark, then battled eight Giants and Unparalleled experts as others attacked the Nine Heavens.
• Shi Qingyun’s allies guarded the gateways while the fighting continued for millennia, and the Nine Heavens’ defenders began to fall as its worlds crumbled.
• Emperor Yu and his Dao companion arrived and killed an Immortal King threatening the Nine Heavens, while Zhenkong joined the battle and eased the defenders’ pressure.
• Shi Qingyun killed the last Unparalleled opponent after the World-Destroying Incense had burned for ten thousand years, then forced the remaining invaders to retreat from the Boundary Sea.

Shi Qingyun restored the shattered Nine Heavens and Ten Earths after reaching the Emperor-Glowing Immortal King realm, then discovered and destroyed a passage and gateway connecting them to the Immortal Domain. The chapter ended as several Immortal Domain figures charged him and their forces collided.

• Shi Qingyun reached the Emperor-Glowing Immortal King realm and hurried to the Nine Heavens, where he found widespread destruction from the battle.
• Shi Qingyun froze time and used Immortal King Corpses to restore the shattered lands and heal the survivors.
• A thousand years later, Cang Yuan told Shi Qingyun that pills had been given to the fallen Immortal Kings to prepare for their resurrection.
• Shi Qingyun sensed an unusual boundary with the Immortal Domain, uncovered a passage, and destroyed it with a burst of divine light.
• Shi Qingyun shattered the Two-Realm Portal despite two True Immortals trying to stop him, then faced several approaching figures as their powers collided.

Shi Qingyun forced open a passage into the Immortal Domain, then returned to the Nine Heavens and launched a revenge attack on the Foreign Realm. After slaughtering an invading army and destroying the Border Wasteland, he faced a group of Foreign Realm Immortal Kings beneath the World Tree.

• Shi Qingyun entered the Immortal Domain, overpowered Tai Shi and Qi Chu, and agreed with Qi Yu to reopen the passage for exchanges in ten thousand years.
• Shi Qingyun returned to the Nine Heavens, saw the Boundary Sea darkness advancing, and declared that it was time to settle everything.
• In the Foreign Realm's Border Wasteland, Shi Qingyun killed a True Immortal and wiped out millions of invading cultivators with a snap of his fingers.
• Slashing Body arrived carrying the heads of two Foreign Realm Immortal Kings and drove a blood-colored sword through the Border Wasteland city.
• Shi Qingyun entered the Foreign Realm and drew dozens of Immortal Kings from the World Tree; one attacked him with a blood-colored needle.

Shi Qingyun and Gu Ancestor defeated the Foreign Realm’s Immortal Kings and destroyed its World Tree, leaving the realm’s Heavenly Dao and Great Dao collapsing. After Slashing Body reported that he had destroyed the imperial clans’ spiritual veins, Shi Qingyun prepared to leave the ruined Foreign Realm.

• Shi Qingyun used his Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Dao Axis to kill an Immortal King and battled Wu Shang and the other Foreign Realm Immortal Kings.
• Gu Ancestor emerged from seclusion and fought Red King while Shi Qingyun continued the battle.
• Kundi unleashed black energy from an Ancestral Artifact to empower the Foreign Realm Immortal Kings, but Shi Qingyun and Gu Ancestor defeated them over three thousand years.
• Shi Qingyun pierced Kundi and destroyed the Foreign Realm’s World Tree, then struck into the realm’s depths as its Heavenly Dao and Great Dao collapsed.
• Shi Qingyun healed the badly injured Gu Ancestor, who realized the conflict was over.
• Slashing Body reported that he had severed the spiritual veins beneath the imperial clans’ territories, and Shi Qingyun calmed his killing intent.

After destroying the Foreign Realm, Shi Qingyun returned to the Nine Heavens, which grew stronger and allied with the Immortal Domain as the Great Calamity approached. He ascended to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm and sent Mo Li into the Myriad Dao Divine Cauldron with a bead containing his past and future, tasking him with protecting it.

• Shi Qingyun returned to the Nine Heavens after destroying the Foreign Realm, and the Gu Ancestor was welcomed back as an Immortal King.
• The Nine Heavens' disciples explored the Foreign Realm, grew stronger, and found opportunities among its surviving resources.
• Shi Qingyun opened the Boundary Gate, where Qi Yu and the Immortal Domain's Immortal Kings greeted him and entered the Nine Heavens.
• The Nine Heavens and Immortal Domain exchanged visits and swore oaths to aid each other when the Great Calamity arrived.
• Shi Qingyun transcended kinghood and broke through into the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, sensing three powerful gazes turn toward him.
• Shi Qingyun gave Mo Li a Chaos-Colored Bead and a scene depicting Shi Hao's experiences, then sent him into the Myriad Dao Divine Cauldron to protect them.

Shi Qingyun entered the Ultimate Ancient Land and fought its three Quasi-Emperors while the resulting Dark Calamity devastated the Myriad Heavens. After returning and reuniting with Shi Hao and the others, he married the Demoness, then joined Shi Hao on a journey Above the Heavens, leaving their child to ask whether Father had gone to fight the big bad guys.

• Shi Qingyun sent Mo Li beyond time, said farewell to the Demoness, and left the Nine Heavens through the River of Time.
• Shi Qingyun pushed back the Boundary Sea’s darkness and confronted the powers in the Ultimate Ancient Land, where a battle erupted after he declared his supremacy.
• While Shi Qingyun fought in the Ultimate Ancient Land, Cang Yuan, Su Wen, Heavenly Son, Shi Yi, and many other Immortal Kings died resisting the Dark Calamity; Shi Hao became a second Emperor.
• Shi Qingyun defeated three Quasi-Emperors and returned to the Nine Heavens, where Shi Hao and the restored Immortal Kings welcomed him.
• Shi Qingyun married the Demoness, then later joined Shi Hao and the Boundary Sea’s Immortal Kings in traveling Above the Heavens to seek the source of darkness.
• In the bamboo forest, the Demoness’s child asked whether Father had gone to fight the big bad guys.

Demoness comforted the little one, who vowed to become a hero like Daddy and protect Mommy. She looked toward the figure on the River of Time and said she would wait for him to return; the author then shared closing remarks about completing the novel.

• Demoness told the little one that Daddy was a great hero who had to drive away the bad guys.
• The little one said they wanted to become a hero and protect Mommy like Daddy.
• Demoness gazed toward the figure on the River of Time and said she would wait for him to come back.
• The author reflected on finishing the novel, thanked readers and supporters, and wished them well.