Chapter Summaries

Shi Qingyun and Kuang Xu fought a devastating battle, and Kuang Xu unleashed a colossal sword strike that shook the continent. Shi Qingyun survived beneath the blade and bound it with chains, leaving Kuang Xu facing his resistance.

• Shi Qingyun halted Kuang Xu’s pursuit and clashed swords with him in the sky.
• Kuang Xu smashed through Shi Qingyun’s defenses and sent him crashing deep underground.
• Kuang Xu summoned a blood-red eye and unleashed a massive sword strike that devastated the surrounding land.
• Shi Qingyun survived beneath the enormous sword and stood up as a golden divine being.
• Shi Qingyun shouted “Shatter!” and bound the enormous sword with two chains.

Shi Qingyun fought Kuang Xu to a standstill, but his essence blood was nearly exhausted. Kuang Xu broke through the heaven-and-earth seal to unleash his True One Realm power and battered Shi Qingyun’s Golden Body, leaving the battle at a desperate turn.

• Shi Qingyun used the Two Worlds Fan to freeze Kuang Xu briefly, then struck him with Heaven-Toppling and shattered his deity-grade armor.
• Shi Qingyun and Kuang Xu clashed with their Dharma Aspects while their fierce battle ravaged the surrounding land, and Shi Qingyun’s essence blood dwindled.
• Kuang Xu threatened to destroy Deer-Chasing Academy and Netherworld, while Shi Qingyun vowed to kill him.
• Kuang Xu broke the seal restricting his True One Realm cultivation, triggering the backlash of heaven and earth as an opening appeared in the firmament.
• Kuang Xu struck Shi Qingyun from behind, shattered his Taiji Dao Diagram, and repeatedly slashed at his Golden Body until cracks spread and bones broke.

Shi Qingyun burned his Dao Body Origin and began Dao Transformation to stop Kuang Xu, splitting his Taiji Cave Heaven into a deadly formation. The formation disrupted Kuang Xu’s divine power and Primordial Spirit, while Shi Qingyun’s body cracked and his life force dwindled.

• Shi Qingyun recognized that his attacks had not killed Kuang Xu and resolved to defeat him even at the cost of his life.
• Shi Qingyun ignited his Dao Body Origin, healing his injuries as his Taiji Cave Heaven expanded and his body began to crack.
• Kuang Xu tried to flee, but Shi Qingyun’s Cave Heaven froze space and forced him back into the open.
• Shi Qingyun split the Taiji Cave Heaven into black and white halves that merged with the earth and firmament to form a vast formation.
• Shi Qingyun sacrificed his life force to strengthen the formation, disrupting Kuang Xu’s divine power, Primordial Spirit, and laws.

Shi Qingyun killed Kuang Xu with the Yin-Yang formation but appeared to die from his injuries, leaving the Lower Realm mourning him. As Little Red Bird tended his body with spirit water, Shi Qingyun began absorbing energy and glowing, hinting that he might return to life.

• Shi Qingyun destroyed Kuang Xu with the Yin-Yang formation, then took a silver Void Beast bone before his life force faded away.
• The Demoness sensed Shi Qingyun's apparent death and wept, while the beautiful woman comforted her.
• The Lower Realm mourned Shi Qingyun, and Deer-Chasing Academy rang its bell for three days as the Upper Realm learned of the battle.
• Little Red Bird guarded Shi Qingyun's lifeless body and regularly brought him spirit water, which gradually began to nourish him.
• Shi Qingyun's body started glowing as it absorbed the spirit water and Solar Essence, while a Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram turned beneath him in the void.

Shi Qingyun was reborn through the Divine Lotus, breaking his shackles and entering the Dao of life and death as he reached the venerable peak. After granting Little Red Bird Dao resonance to aid its transformation, he examined his new body and the changes to his cultivation and Dao techniques.

• The Divine Lotus nourished Shi Qingyun until his deathly energy turned to vitality and the shackles within him shattered.
• Shi Qingyun emerged reborn, absorbed the Three Thousand Great Daos, and declared that he had entered the Dao.
• Shi Qingyun granted Little Red Bird Dao resonance, and Little Red Bird began undergoing a transformation.
• Shi Qingyun returned to the Dao Platform, put away his former Yin-Yang Dao Body, and examined the changes from his rebirth.
• Shi Qingyun discovered that his body and primordial spirit had transformed, his cultivation had reached the venerable peak, and his Dao techniques had advanced into the realm of the Dao.

Shi Qingyun returned to Deer-Chasing Academy to see his old friends, then visited his brother Shi Qingfeng in the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital. After sharing wine and reaffirming his resolve to enter the Upper Realm, he prepared to pursue his Dao and bring his sister-in-law back.

• Shi Qingyun bonded with Little Red, whose bloodline had returned to its ancestral state, and traveled with it to Deer-Chasing Academy.
• Shi Qingyun saw Deer-Chasing Academy thriving and quietly visited the War Goddess, Elder Bai, and his other old friends.
• The War Goddess received Shi Qingyun's letter and promised to protect Deer-Chasing Academy as he pursued his Dao.
• Shi Qingyun traveled to the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital and reunited with Shi Qingfeng.
• Shi Qingyun told Shi Qingfeng that he had chosen to enter the Upper Realm despite the danger and vowed to bring his sister-in-law back, while Shi Qingfeng encouraged him.

Shi Qingyun raided Xiling Beast Mountain for Treasure Medicine before using the Void Beast Bones to travel to the Upper Realm. He arrived safely, but the Upper Realm’s powerful Dao laws suppressed him, so he planned to reconstruct his True Body.

• Shi Qingyun and Little Red left, and Shi Qingyun went to Xiling Beast Mountain to gather resources for his journey.
• Shi Qingyun broke through Xiling Beast Mountain’s defenses and forced its Venerable to let him take Treasure Medicine without harming the disciples.
• After hearing people gossip about the Red Demon, Shi Qingyun found a weak spot in the world barrier and prepared to cross into the Upper Realm.
• Shi Qingyun used the Void Beast Bones to carry himself and Little Red through a spatial passage into the Upper Realm.
• Shi Qingyun arrived in the Upper Realm and realized its stronger Dao laws suppressed him, so he decided to reconstruct his True Body.

Shi Qingyun used rare treasures and a God-Level Magical Artifact to transform his body beneath the Upper Realm’s thunder, tempering himself with the Great Dao. After forming a new body, he refined his old body and infused its Yin-Yang origin and essence blood into his Taiji Cave Heaven, which began evolving into a world.

• Shi Qingyun found a thunderous mountain range and prepared to transform there with Little Red.
• He refined ferocious beast true blood, spirit spring sacred water, and rare medicines in two cauldrons, then entered the medicinal pool with Little Red.
• A formation turned the thunder striking the cauldrons into pure energy, while Shi Qingyun shattered the Dao marks in his body so the Upper Realm’s Great Dao could transform him.
• Shi Qingyun completed his brutal tempering, emerged with a resilient new body, and refined his old body with three thousand Dao flames.
• He sent the Yin-Yang origin and essence blood refined from his old body into his Taiji Cave Heaven, which began separating chaos and evolving into a new world.

Shi Qingyun developed the Taiji Cave Heaven into the embryonic Yin-Yang World, gaining power over the Three Thousand Great Daos and a new Dao art. He refined Treasure Liquid to awaken Little Red’s Vermilion Bird bloodline, and Little Red emerged at the Arraying Realm with an unstable foundation as onlookers gathered outside the Thunder Extreme Land.

• Shi Qingyun realized the Cave Heaven’s evolution let him borrow world power and command the Three Thousand Great Daos, and he named it the Yin-Yang World.
• A divine light from the world bestowed Shi Qingyun with a Dao art, while his Heavenly Dao Eye and resistance to heavenly lightning continued to develop.
• Shi Qingyun refined lightning and world power into Treasure Liquid and gave it to Little Red, awakening its Vermilion Bird bloodline.
• Cultivators gathered outside the Thunder Extreme Land to investigate the disturbance, and Chen Xuan arrived amid speculation about a clash with an ancient monster.
• Little Red emerged from the cauldron after breaking through to the Arraying Realm, but Shi Qingyun noted that its foundation was unstable.

Shi Qingyun sealed Little Red’s excess cultivation and left the Thunder Extreme Land after defeating Chen Xuan with a single spatial technique. Chen Yi took Chen Xuan away and hinted that the Chen Family might seek an alliance with Shi Qingyun.

• Shi Qingyun sealed Little Red’s cultivation into reserves, reducing it to the middle stage of spirit transformation, and Little Red transformed into a small red bird.
• Little Red emerged from the Thunder Extreme Land in its enormous form as the watching cultivators recognized it as a pure-blooded creature with the Vermilion Bird bloodline.
• Chen Xuan challenged Shi Qingyun, offering his cultivation resources, and attacked with his Nine Heavens Thunderfall technique.
• Shi Qingyun used Spatial Banishment to suppress Chen Xuan and nearly send him into a spatial rift, defeating him in one move.
• Chen Yi appeared, apologized for Chen Xuan, and invited Shi Qingyun to visit the Chen Family, but Shi Qingyun declined and departed with Little Red.
• Chen Yi reprimanded Chen Xuan and suggested the Chen Family could join the rising great tide by boarding a powerful ally’s ship, leaving Chen Xuan startled.

Shi Qingyun arrived in Star Plucking City, learned that cultivators were gathering for the opening of the Star Plucking Immortal’s legacy, and explored the city before settling in at Star Plucking Tower. There, he witnessed a confrontation between the Five Star Plucking Tigers and Xing Baiqing, who vowed to settle their grudge in the Secret Realm.

• Shi Qingyun entered Star Plucking City and heard Meng Qi describe the legend of a True Immortal who created the city by refining a star.
• Shi Qingyun gave Meng Qi Lightning Strike Stones in exchange for news, and Meng Qi told him that cultivators were gathering at Star Plucking Tower for the Star Plucking Immortal’s legacy.
• Shi Qingyun decided to wait for the legacy site to open and wandered through the city, finding new insight in its ordinary bustle.
• Shi Qingyun checked into Star Plucking Tower and overheard the Five Star Plucking Tigers boasting about their chances in the Secret Realm.
• Xing Baiqing attacked the Five Star Plucking Tigers, but Wang Hu shattered her ice blade and teleported away with his companions, promising to settle the score inside the Secret Realm.

Shi Qingyun cultivated in Star Plucking Tower as factions gathered in Star Plucking City to compete for a rumored immortal inheritance. When the inheritance opened, he joined the ascent and began fighting off attackers on the way to the Heavenly Stairway.

• Shi Qingyun cultivated for several days, drawing a tremendous flow of stellar power that astonished the other guests of Star Plucking Tower.
• Di Chong, the youngest lord of the Immortal Palace, arrived in Star Plucking City with Xing Baiqing and Xing Ye, stirring up the competition for the inheritance.
• A formation of stars opened a vortex above the city, revealing a Heavenly Stairway and announcing that cultivators above Divine Flame could not enter.
• Cultivators surged toward the stairway, and battles erupted before they reached it as competitors attacked one another.
• When several cultivators surrounded Shi Qingyun, he unleashed freezing power that turned them into ice sculptures and shattered them.

Shi Qingyun fought through the cultivators blocking the Heavenly Stairway and endured its flesh-tempering and heart-questioning trials. After reaching what seemed to be the road’s end, he awoke in his familiar original-world room, leaving him unsure why he had returned there.

• Shi Qingyun and Di Chong slaughtered their attackers and raced toward the Heavenly Stairway.
• Shi Qingyun stepped onto the bridge and endured its divine-power suppression, while Di Chong and the other cultivators followed.
• The stairway crushed some climbers and divided the survivors into groups according to their strength and status.
• Shi Qingyun realized the stairway also tested the heart by making him experience different lives, but he kept advancing with his Dao heart intact.
• After another step plunged the world into darkness, Shi Qingyun woke in his original-world room and heard someone urging him to get up for class.

Shi Qingyun completed the Heart-Questioning Road, left his peaceful dream life behind, and entered the Immortal's Cave Abode trial. On the Star Road, he discovered that his Myriad Laws Invulnerable physique could withstand the chaotic Law Tide with ease.

• Shi Qingyun relived an ordinary life with Wang Hu and later visited his parents' graves, accepting that he could not return to that life and that his daughter-in-law was waiting for him.
• Shi Qingyun emerged from the Heart-Questioning Road, used his Taiji Dao Diagram to protect himself, and entered the vortex to the Immortal's Cave Abode.
• Shi Qingyun found himself on one of 108 Star Roads leading toward a glowing continent and waited for other cultivators to arrive before activating the trial.
• Shi Qingyun and the other cultivators used the power of their laws to open their Star Roads, where a chaotic Law Tide injured those who could not resist it.
• Shi Qingyun realized his Myriad Laws Invulnerable ability dispersed the Law Tide, then advanced using his body alone and astonished nearby cultivators.

Shi Qingyun endured the Star Road’s law tides, overcame the inheritance’s final test by pitting his Great World against a world formed from laws, and shattered the Secret Realm. Outside, Di Chong was sent out and ordered an attendant to seize Shi Qingyun when he emerged.

• Shi Qingyun advanced ahead of Di Chong and the other cultivators as the Star Road’s laws battered and tempered his body.
• After half a day, Shi Qingyun reached the floating continent while most competitors had fallen, and the inheritance’s final test began.
• The gathered Powers of Laws formed a colossal planet above Shi Qingyun, while Di Chong and the other cultivators were transported out of the Inheritance Land.
• Shi Qingyun used his Yin-Yang Dao Diagram to break the frozen space and time, then summoned his Great World to collide with the world of laws and shatter the Secret Realm.
• Di Chong appeared outside, reacted angrily to the crowd’s questions, and ordered a ghostlike figure to seize Shi Qingyun when he came out.
• The Heavenly Stairway crumbled, and the cultivators still climbing it fell into the void.

Shi Qingyun inherited the divine spear Stars and Jing Mu’s Star Plucking Hand technique inside the Secret Realm, then cultivated until he could pluck a distant star from the sky. Outside, Di Chong continued waiting for him as the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm approached.

• Shi Qingyun awoke in a starry realm, where the spear Stars tested him and accepted his blood as its new master.
• Stars explained that its former master, the quasi-king Jing Mu, had died fighting the Foreign Realm and that the Secret Realm had formed from his remains.
• Stars entered Shi Qingyun’s body as a Dao Protector and passed on Jing Mu’s Star Plucking Hand technique.
• Shi Qingyun cultivated the technique while people outside gradually gave up waiting, but Di Chong insisted on staying in Star Plucking City.
• Shi Qingyun saw Jing Mu’s remains protecting a small world, then used Star Plucking Hand to seize a distant star.

Shi Qingyun received the Star Plucking Hand inheritance and crossed the Bridge of Rebirth, learning of the sacrifices behind it. When he emerged in Star Plucking City, Qin Yi and other cultivators attacked him for the inheritance, and Shi Qingyun slaughtered them with his newly acquired technique.

• Shi Qingyun honored the enormous hand that had given him its inheritance and vowed to fulfill its will to forge the Immortal when Heaven and Earth changed.
• Shi Qingyun combined the one hundred and eight Star Roads into a road to the heavens and crossed the Bridge of Rebirth, where Stars explained that it held the names and remains of the comrades who had fought beside Master.
• Shi Qingyun emerged through the vortex in Star Plucking City, where Qin Yi waited to seize him and hand him over to the young master.
• Qin Yi demanded the inheritance and attacked Shi Qingyun, prompting the surrounding cultivators to join the fight.
• Shi Qingyun broke Qin Yi's Coiling Dragon Staff with the Star Plucking Hand and crushed him, then killed the other cultivators who tried to flee.

After escaping the pursuit of You Lang and other cultivators, Shi Qingyun recovered in a lightning sea and hid in Dingnan City under a mask. As he rested, Lei Tao and several powerful men approached, bringing a new danger.

• Shi Qingyun escaped the pursuing cultivators by unleashing Great World Descends, leaving You Lang badly wounded and the surrounding mountain range destroyed.
• Shi Qingyun restored his strength in a lightning sea by refining its lightning, then resolved to seek guidance from Upper Realm Prodigies before the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm opened.
• A group of blue-robed cultivators tracked Shi Qingyun's traces and continued pursuing him.
• Shi Qingyun entered Dingnan City wearing a Ghost-Face Mask and checked into the city's finest inn to rest.
• Shi Qingyun cultivated solar and lunar essence by the window the next morning, unaware that Lei Tao and several lightning-patterned men were approaching.

Shi Qingyun escaped a Lei Family ambush that destroyed his inn and killed nearby cultivators, then faced Lei Tao in the city. After baiting Lei Tao into lowering his guard, Shi Qingyun unleashed his transformed Heaven-Toppling palm against him.

• Shi Qingyun sensed danger, escaped the inn with Little Red, and a bolt of crimson-white lightning destroyed the building and nearby area.
• Shi Qingyun recognized the attack as the Lei Family's doing and confronted Lei Tao, who demanded the relic and mocked him.
• Shi Qingyun claimed he had killed two True One Realm opponents and declared Lei Tao would be his third.
• Lei Tao dismissed Shi Qingyun's boasts and threatened to torture him, unaware that Shi Qingyun had been waiting for an opening.
• Shi Qingyun summoned a golden divine being and unleashed Heaven-Toppling Earth-Covering and No Life, sending a world-bearing palm toward Lei Tao.

Shi Qingyun killed Lei Tao and his companions with a golden Dharma Aspect, then escaped and faced an ambush by Divine Fire Realm cultivators seeking a relic treasure. He used Heaven-Sealing Dao to suppress them and cut them down, while a distant old man agreed to help him at the little girl's request.

• Shi Qingyun crushed Lei Tao and his companions with his golden Dharma Aspect, killing them despite their thunder attacks.
• Shi Qingyun opened a spatial rift and fled before the Lei Family could arrive, but several cultivators followed him to a mountain hollow.
• Masked Divine Fire Realm cultivators confronted Shi Qingyun, accused him of suffering a backlash, and demanded that he hand over a relic treasure.
• An old man watching with a little girl agreed to help Shi Qingyun after she asked him to chase away the attackers.
• The cultivators attacked, but Shi Qingyun sealed their powers with Heaven-Sealing Dao and killed them with his black sword.