Recaps

Li Qingshan arrived in a desolate mountain region after the Small Bronze Coffin ran out of power and fell from its passage through space. The coffin devoured the region’s energy and a fleeing group of Immortal Gods before sending Li Qingshan out and vanishing, leaving him to survey the ruined land.

• The Small Bronze Coffin lost power, crashed onto a turtle-shaped mountain, and triggered a vast energy-devouring whirlpool.
• The whirlpool consumed the surrounding world’s energy and life, including a group of fleeing Immortal Gods and the dormant demonic essence within the mountain.
• After the devouring stopped, the coffin released Li Qingshan onto the lifeless ground and flew away through a tear in space.
• Li Qingshan examined the desolated region and remarked on the coffin’s tyrannical devouring force.

Li Qingshan returned to the Eastern Heaven Realm and found it nearing destruction under the Heavenly Dao’s merciless calamity. As he witnessed divine punishment, a God King family’s annihilation, and widespread madness, he realized the world’s destruction had reached its climax.

• Li Qingshan sensed the Eastern Heaven Realm’s chaotic, destructive will and saw that its sky and landscape had been transformed by the coming end.
• Li Qingshan witnessed a curtain of destructive rain annihilate hundreds of Immortal Gods and erase their homeland.
• Li Qingshan saw an enormous dark gold claw destroy a God King-level family’s ancestral seat with a single press.
• Li Qingshan discovered that gods and demons across the Heavenly Realm were slaughtering one another under an influence that corrupted their minds.
• Li Qingshan concluded that the Heavenly Dao’s destruction had reached its most brutal stage and that even the strongest beings were powerless before it.

Li Qingshan searched the ruined Eastern Heaven Realm for clues about his Second Demonic Embryo and discovered a hidden valley where a white-clad girl fought off a gang of Fifth Rank cultivators. He recognized the strange, emotion-severing power of her cultivation art as possibly belonging to the legendary Supreme Forgetfulness Record.

• Li Qingshan searched the ancient battlefields for traces of his Second Demonic Embryo but found little amid the Heavenly Dao's destruction.
• Li Qingshan sensed a cold, severing Dao resonance in a secluded valley and descended to investigate.
• Li Qingshan found the valley's white-clad inhabitant fighting several Fifth Rank independent cultivators who wanted her secrets and inheritance.
• The Fourth Rank girl used an unusual art to disrupt her attackers' divine power and movements, allowing her to withstand their assault.
• Li Qingshan recognized that her art shared the valley's emotion-stripping resonance and suspected it was the legendary Supreme Forgetfulness Record.

Li Qingshan saved Yu Xin from a group of rogue cultivators and discovered her faint connection to Chen Zhan. After learning that she practiced the dangerous Supreme Forgetfulness Record, he resolved not to let her continue down its path of erasing her former self.

• Yu Xin was badly wounded while fighting several Fifth Rank rogue cultivators and prepared to unleash a forbidden art.
• Li Qingshan killed the rogue cultivators without moving, leaving Yu Xin stunned by his power.
• Li Qingshan introduced himself as Chen Zhan's old acquaintance, and Yu Xin asked whether her Uncle Chen was well.
• Li Qingshan recognized that Yu Xin's cultivation art was severing her emotions and identified it as the Supreme Forgetfulness Record.
• Yu Xin's reaction confirmed his suspicion, and Li Qingshan resolved to stop her from losing herself to the art.

Yu Xin asked Li Qingshan to save her from the Supreme Forgetfulness Record, which was eroding her emotions and threatening to replace her true self. After studying the book, Li Qingshan found a way its techniques might help stabilize his own cultivation and offered to shelter Yu Xin while he sought a way to slow the art's influence.

• Li Qingshan warned Yu Xin that the Supreme Forgetfulness Record would gradually erase her Present Self, and she admitted she had chosen it because she needed strength to survive.
• Li Qingshan invoked his friendship with Chen Zhan and urged Yu Xin to hold on to her attachments, prompting her to ask him for help and hand over the original Supreme Forgetfulness Record.
• Li Qingshan studied the record and realized its precise control over consciousness might help him protect the self through the transformations of his Eight-Nine Profound Art.
• Li Qingshan told Yu Xin that continued cultivation could turn her into a puppet of Tai Shang, but offered to help slow the art's encroachment and search for another path.
• Yu Xin bowed and offered to become Li Qingshan's disciple, while he told her to stay with him and recover from her injuries first.

Li Qingshan spent nearly three years in seclusion integrating the Supreme Forgetfulness Record with his Eight-Nine Profound Art and other cultivation insights. He completed a safer, comprehensive cultivation system and passed its Foundation Establishment Chapter and first transformation to Yu Xin, leaving her with a new path forward.

• Li Qingshan healed Yu Xin's injuries, restored the valley, and began seclusion to develop a cultivation art for her.
• After his first seclusion, Li Qingshan taught Yu Xin that emotion was not an obstacle so long as she mastered it rather than becoming attached to it.
• Li Qingshan continued his deductions through further periods of seclusion while guiding Yu Xin, who gradually grew more lively and cheerful.
• Nearly three years later, Li Qingshan completed a new Eight-Nine Profound Art system that combined insights from the Western Emperor Scripture, Demon Summoning Scripture, Supreme Forgetfulness Record, and Eight-Nine Profound Art.
• Li Qingshan transmitted the Foundation Establishment Chapter and first transformation of the new art to Yu Xin, who wept with joy and gratitude as she received it.

Li Qingshan accepted Yu Xin as his second personal disciple and removed the Supreme Forgetfulness Record from her, helping her establish a new foundation with the Eight-Nine Profound Art. He then began teaching her to cultivate and control her power, explaining how the Departed Self deepened her understanding and strengthened her mind.

• Yu Xin formally swore herself to Li Qingshan, and he accepted her as his second personal disciple.
• Li Qingshan warned Yu Xin that the Supreme Forgetfulness Record was eroding her origin and began removing its foundation despite the severe pain it caused her.
• After two hours, Li Qingshan expelled the remaining Dao resonance and guided Yu Xin through the Eight-Nine Profound Art's foundation-building cycle with his origin Qi.
• Yu Xin formed a new, harmonious foundation, and Li Qingshan instructed her to strengthen it gradually.
• Li Qingshan taught Yu Xin to control her energy through the lake's balance of stillness and motion, and explained how the Departed Self drew wisdom from her past.

Li Qingshan recounted to Yu Xin how he met Uncle Chen and how the Demonic Embryo led to his corruption and transformation. After years of guidance, Yu Xin completed her foundation establishment and reached the Fifth Rank, while Li Qingshan looked toward the still-chaotic Heavenly Realm.

• Li Qingshan told Yu Xin that Uncle Chen had once saved him and a Sacred Battle Angel couple from Blood Angels, then discussed the Dao with him as Li Qingshan began conceiving the Eight-Nine Profound Art.
• Li Qingshan explained that a Demonic Embryo corrupted him, an enemy disrupted his attempt to form a Divine Embryo, and he later became a great demon before eventually returning.
• Yu Xin repeatedly practiced drawing spirit-gathering runes, and Li Qingshan secretly corrected one so she could stabilize it.
• Under Li Qingshan's guidance, Yu Xin advanced to the Fifth Rank and completed her foundation establishment, overcoming the dangers left by the Supreme Forgetfulness Record.
• Li Qingshan praised Yu Xin's progress, and she thanked him for giving her a new life.
• Li Qingshan gazed beyond the valley toward the Heavenly Realm, where chaos and slaughter continued.

Li Qingshan protected his valley from increasingly powerful intruders, stripping a God King and his followers of their cultivation and teaching Yu Xin about using the laws of heaven and earth. As the name Heartless Realm Lord spread, the valley gained a period of peace, which Li Qingshan urged Yu Xin to use for cultivation.

• Li Qingshan strengthened the valley’s restrictions, driving away weaker Immortal Gods who tried to enter.
• Li Qingshan reassured Yu Xin and told her to focus on cultivation while he handled the disturbances outside.
• A Dark Gold God King and his followers attacked the valley, but Li Qingshan stopped their assault, stripped away their cultivation, and cast them into the mortal world.
• Li Qingshan explained to Yu Xin that he had borrowed the laws of heaven and earth to defeat them, and urged her to study those laws as she grew stronger.
• Li Qingshan dealt with two more intruders, and reports of vanished God Kings spread until people called the valley the Heartless Realm and Li Qingshan the Heartless Realm Lord.
• With the region quiet again, Li Qingshan told Yu Xin to make use of the peaceful time to cultivate.

Li Qingshan learned that the Stone Gate would return him to his original world in one year, so he began searching the Three Realms for clues to the Primordial Great Demon's fate. Memories he collected revealed how the demon had been defeated and divided, but the locations of its remains remained uncertain.

• The Stone Gate told Li Qingshan that his return passage would open after 365 days, prompting him to resolve the mystery of his missing demonic body before leaving.
• Li Qingshan spread his divine sense across the Three Realms and searched powerful beings and artifacts for memories about the Primordial Great Demon and the final battle.
• Li Qingshan searched the memories of an injured Mid-level God King and a captured investigator, gathering accounts of the allied forces and a sealed remnant of the demonic body.
• Li Qingshan pieced together how the uncontrolled Primordial Great Demon devastated the Three Realms before a coalition of powerful beings fought and suppressed him in the Seventeenth Layer of Hell.
• A mysterious, immensely powerful expert shattered the demon's body, and the surviving forces divided and sealed its parts in locations described by conflicting rumors.

After recovering clues about the Primordial Great Demon's scattered body, Li Qingshan prepared to leave the valley and search for the sealed torso. He protected Yu Xin with a powerful seal and set out for the Destruction Dao, his first lead.

• Li Qingshan pieced together the memories and sensed faint connections pointing toward distant fragments of the demonic body, though he could not yet pinpoint their locations.
• Li Qingshan told Yu Xin he had to leave to settle his unfinished karma and instructed her to remain in the valley until the calamity ended.
• Li Qingshan established a powerful barrier around the valley to protect Yu Xin from the world-ending calamity.
• Li Qingshan departed, and Yu Xin returned to cultivation after bidding him farewell.
• Li Qingshan identified the Destruction Dao and the Nine Heavens Sacred Land as likely sources of information about the sealed torso, then headed toward the Destruction Dao.

Li Qingshan attacked the Destruction Sect and the Nine Heavens Sacred Land to find out where the Primordial Great Demon's torso had been sealed. After defeating both powers’ leaders, he learned the torso had been banished into an unknown stretch of space and time, and that the Kunlun Demon Clan might know more; he headed for Kunlun in the Human World.

• Li Qingshan stormed the Ten Thousand Demon Rift and destroyed the Destruction Sect’s Ten Thousand Demons God-Slaying Grand Formation with the Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Li Qingshan defeated the Destruction Sect master and two grand elders, then learned that the Destruction Sect did not know the torso’s location but the Kunlun Demon Clan might.
• Li Qingshan went to the Nine Heavens Sacred Land and fought the Heaven-Shocking Sword Master after the guardian refused to reveal the seal’s location.
• Li Qingshan defeated the Heaven-Shocking Sword Master, who said several powerful figures had banished the torso into an unknown stretch of space and time.
• Li Qingshan left for Kunlun in the Human World to seek further information from the Kunlun Demon Clan.

Li Qingshan entered the Kunlun Profound World and defeated Great Saint Xuan Zhan to learn where Yuanshi's demon body had been banished. He returned to Mount Kunlun knowing the torso lay in an unreachable dimension and began preparing for the Stone Gate's approaching return.

• Li Qingshan entered the Kunlun Profound World and defeated the demon guardians who tried to stop him.
• Li Qingshan confronted Great Saint Xuan Zhan at the Demon Emperor Hall and overcame his attacks by half a move.
• Great Saint Xuan Zhan revealed that the Primordial Great Demon's torso had been cast into an isolated dimensional rift with no known location or coordinates.
• Li Qingshan left the Kunlun Profound World, while Huang Yi watched the battle and became determined to pursue supreme power.
• Li Qingshan returned to a snowy peak in the Mount Kunlun Range and prepared for the Stone Gate's return.

Li Qingshan followed a causal link from the Stone Gate through the void and found the sealed torso of the Primordial Great Demon. After studying the seal for three months, he slipped inside and discovered that Red Hair had entered the body.

• Li Qingshan sensed the Stone Gate form a clear causal link to the banished torso and opened a passage into the void.
• He endured the void’s dangers and reached the cocoon of law chains sealing the Primordial Great Demon’s torso.
• Li Qingshan’s Five-Colored Divine Light and Heaven-Overturning Seal failed to break the self-repairing seal.
• He studied the seal for three months, found its fragile balance points, and opened a brief gap by disrupting them.
• Li Qingshan entered the seal and found the torso bound within, with Red Hair having entered its body.

Li Qingshan entered the Primordial Great Demon’s Bitter Sea and recovered two Immortal Medicines, the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword, and the Zhoutian Star Battle Great Banners, though he could not find the Dao Bell or pill furnace. He realized the demon had become his first Other Self through the Stone Gate, then began his return journey as the passage opened for three days.

• Li Qingshan pierced the demonic Qi and retrieved the Kirin Immortal Medicine Seed and humanoid Immortal Medicine remnant, sealing them in jade boxes.
• Li Qingshan recovered the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword and Zhoutian Star Battle Great Banners but found no trace of the Dao Bell or pill furnace.
• Li Qingshan sensed a profound connection to the Primordial Great Demon and understood that the Stone Gate had shaped it into his first Other Self.
• Li Qingshan recognized that Other Selves could let him resonate with and eventually unify the powers, memories, and Dao Fruits of selves across different worlds.
• The Stone Gate announced that return transit would begin in three days, and Li Qingshan prepared to leave while reflecting on Yu Xin and the demon’s scattered remains.
• Li Qingshan stopped resisting the Stone Gate’s pull and vanished from the sealed void, certain he would return to the world.

The author reflected on the Divine Tomb arc’s ambitions, weaknesses, and unresolved foreshadowing, then announced that Li Qingshan would return to the Shrouding the Heavens World in the next volume. The chapter ended with thanks to readers and a promise to write the new volume with more care.

• The author explained choosing the chaotic period ten thousand years before Chen Nan’s resurrection to explore Chen Zhan’s story and a less-used part of the setting.
• The author described plans for a crossover loop involving Li Qingshan’s second journey to the Divine Tomb World, his future Great Emperor status, and the sea of stars, Divine Spring, and small coffin.
• The author acknowledged problems with the arc’s battle scenes, pacing, climaxes, and explanations of how different power systems compared.
• The author promised to develop the causal links between Chen Zhan and the protagonist, the two-crossing loop, and the protagonist’s war against Heaven.
• The author listed plot points the volume addressed, including the old turtle’s lost cultivation, Shen Ji’s death, and Heavenly Realm Yu Xin avoiding replacement by the Supreme Forgetfulness Record.
• The author thanked readers and announced that Li Qingshan would return to the Shrouding the Heavens World in a new volume with multiple plotlines and viewpoints.

After returning from the Divine Tomb World, Li Qingshan used Great Emperor Wushi’s Heaven-Deceiving Array Patterns to evade the overwhelming tribulation his rapid cultivation had summoned. He sensed Ji Haoyue, Ye Fan, and the Big Black Dog near Burning Heaven Valley, then the mysterious blood from the Small Bronze Coffin awakened and began transforming his body.

• Li Qingshan returned to his secluded cave in the Eastern Wasteland as a massive heavenly tribulation descended upon him.
• Li Qingshan traced the Heaven-Deceiving Array Patterns, causing the tribulation to lose its target and disperse.
• Li Qingshan sensed Ji Haoyue confronting demons near Burning Heaven Valley, with Ye Fan and the Big Black Dog among them.
• Li Qingshan realized the Small Bronze Coffin’s drop of blood had awakened, flooding his body with life and the laws of a supreme being.
• The awakened blood nourished Li Qingshan’s flesh and Dao patterns, making his divine body glow like immortal gold.

Li Qingshan completed a profound transformation of his physique, awakening hidden Divine Treasure portals and producing manifestations that shook the Southern Region. As the visions faded, he realized his new body might be the legendary Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo once possessed by Great Emperor Wushi.

• Li Qingshan’s transformation awakened his hidden Divine Treasure portals and bathed him in a new sacred radiance woven from golden light, seven-colored Dao patterns, and Chaos Qi.
• The transformation triggered vast manifestations across the sky, including Green Lotus Grows in Chaos and Myriad Selves as One, while Order Divine Chains gathered around Li Qingshan’s cave.
• The Fire Cloud Sect’s master ordered the sect sealed and forbade anyone from approaching the manifestation, while the Lin Clan ancestor led his family in worship and prepared offerings.
• Cultivators across the region fled or watched in awe as the manifestations shook the Southern Region and revealed power far beyond the Dao Palace Secret Realm.
• Li Qingshan examined the changes to his Five Great Secret Realms, felt his body and Dao resonance reach a new height, and suspected he had formed the legendary Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo.

Ye Fan agreed to let the Black Emperor help him approach Yan Ruyu’s hidden demon faction, hoping to draw on the Demon Emperor’s Heart and find clues about Pang Bo. In Wei Capital, they learned the Profound Origin Sect had tightened security around its rear mountain and that a veiled woman’s party was searching for people with vigorous blood Qi.

• Ye Fan practiced creating a physical combat art, then discussed his wish to return to Earth and his concerns about finding Pang Bo with the Black Emperor.
• The Black Emperor told Ye Fan that Yan Ruyu and demon elites were likely hiding at the Profound Origin Sect with the Demon Emperor’s Heart, and proposed using Ye Fan as its vessel.
• Ye Fan accepted the plan after the Black Emperor promised to protect him, and they set out for Wei Capital to arrange a way into the demon faction.
• At Old Sun’s Spirit Food Shop, Ye Fan and the Black Emperor heard that Ji Haoyue was pursuing the demon race’s Emperor Weapon and that the Profound Origin Sect had restricted access to its rear mountain.
• Old Sun reported that unfamiliar people, led by a veiled woman with an icy gaze, had been asking about special constitutions and people with vigorous blood Qi.

Ye Fan entered the Profound Origin Sect’s peach grove with the Black Emperor’s help and was chosen to host the Demon Emperor’s Sacred Heart. After using his cauldron to draw a drop of sacred blood essence and strengthening himself, Ye Fan learned that the demon race might soon leave the Wei Kingdom because Ji Haoyue planned to challenge them.

• The Black Emperor prepared Formation-Breaking Pieces and coached Ye Fan on how to enter the Profound Origin Sect’s rear mountain without raising suspicion.
• Ye Fan and the Black Emperor slipped into the peach grove, where Qin Yao recognized the Black Emperor and brought Ye Fan to Yan Ruyu as a candidate to host the Sacred Heart.
• Yan Ruyu agreed to place the Demon Emperor’s Sacred Heart in Ye Fan’s Life Spring, and the ritual revealed that the heart could not approach the Green Copper piece within him.
• Ye Fan used his cauldron to extract a bead of sacred blood essence, nearly draining his Life Spring before the Green Copper piece calmed the heart, then absorbed the blood and grew stronger.
• Qin Yao flirted with Ye Fan and told him to prepare to leave the Wei Kingdom because Ji Haoyue intended to challenge the demon race.

Yan Ruyu led the demon group toward Burning Heaven Valley to evade the Ji Family, but they found the volcanic range filled with the remnants of a terrifying heavenly tribulation and were surrounded by Ji Family experts. Ji Haoyue demanded the Demon Emperor's Saint Weapon and demonstrated the power of his Divine Body, while the Black Emperor and Ye Fan prepared to wait for a chance to take the Demon Emperor's Sacred Heart.

• Yan Ruyu changed the demons’ route to Burning Heaven Valley after learning that an unknown expert had sealed the ancient battlefield passage.
• Yan Ruyu, the Black Emperor, Ye Fan, and the demons entered the volcanic range and sensed the lingering traces of a devastating heavenly tribulation and Emperor Dao laws.
• Ji Family experts surrounded the demons, and Ji Haoyue revealed himself, challenging Yan Ruyu and demanding the Demon Emperor's Saint Weapon.
• A demon woman attacked Ji Haoyue, but his Bright Moon Rises over the Sea phenomenon erased her and her weapon.
• The Black Emperor told Ye Fan to let the others wear each other down and watch for a chance to take the Demon Emperor's Sacred Heart and gather the remaining lightning-fire essence.

Ji Haoyue and Yan Ruyu fought with their powerful anomalies and sacred weapons, leaving both sides weakened. Ye Fan and the Black Emperor used the opening to slip away toward the lava lake to seek clues about Pang Bo.

• Ji Haoyue swallowed the demon elder's Jade Firmament Peak with his Bright Moon Rises over the Sea anomaly, then massacred the demon cultivators as they tried to break through.
• Yan Ruyu ordered the demons to scatter, then charged Ji Haoyue with the Demon Emperor's Saint Weapon and revealed her Golden Lotus Growing in the Sea of Bitterness anomaly.
• Ji Haoyue countered with a secret treasure bearing the Void Mirror's Dao resonance, and the two anomalies and weapons clashed, leaving both combatants weakened.
• A Ji Family expert used the replica mirror to kill an exhausted demon elder, and Yan Ruyu retaliated by destroying him and two nearby Ji Family experts.
• The Black Emperor urged Ye Fan to escape while the fighters were weakened, and Ye Fan followed him toward the lava lake near the heart of Li Qingshan's tribulation.

Li Qingshan’s transformation unleashed world-shaking Dao phenomena that overwhelmed Yan Ruyu, Ji Haoyue, Ye Fan, the Black Emperor, and everyone on the battlefield. After the phenomena vanished, Li Qingshan appeared, released the frozen world, and greeted Ye Fan and the Black Emperor at the site of his past tribulation.

• Yan Ruyu and Ji Haoyue’s clash was interrupted when auspicious light, purple Qi, and the nine mantras of the Nine Secrets filled the sky.
• The Green Lotus Grows in Chaos appeared, and the Dao resonance healed wounds, stirred insights in Ye Fan, and subdued the Ji Family and demon race cultivators.
• The Black Emperor recognized Li Qingshan as the source of the phenomena and celebrated that he had become an Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo.
• The phenomena converged into a chaos vortex and an eternal domain, then disappeared as overwhelming pressure froze everyone and everything on the battlefield.
• Li Qingshan appeared, lifted the pressure with a sweep of his sleeve, and left Ji Ziyue recognizing him as the Holy Son of Jade Pool.
• Li Qingshan looked over the battlefield and told Ye Fan and the Black Emperor that the old place was livelier than before.

Li Qingshan saved Pang Bo by purifying the demon soul inside him, then declared the Azure Emperor Lineage under the Jade Pool’s protection. The Ji Family withdrew after surrendering its Void Mirror replica, leaving Ji Haoyue humiliated and Ji Ziyue shaken.

• Li Qingshan purified the demon soul possessing Pang Bo and restored his clarity, and Ye Fan caught his weakened friend.
• Yan Ruyu thanked Li Qingshan and asked him to shelter the Azure Emperor’s descendants, and he decided that protecting them could help him reach the Azure Emperor.
• The Ji Family’s seventh elder argued that the demon race should not keep the Saint Weapon, but Li Qingshan condemned the Ji Family’s actions and placed the Azure Emperor Lineage under the Jade Pool’s protection.
• Li Qingshan demanded the Ji Family leave its Void Mirror replica behind, and the seventh elder reluctantly surrendered it.
• The Ji Family retreated in disgrace as Ji Haoyue felt defeated and Ji Ziyue looked back at Li Qingshan with fear and awe.

After the Ji Family fled, Li Qingshan comforted Ye Fan and Pang Bo and prepared to take the demon clan with him. The Black Emperor sensed that Li Qingshan might have formed an Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo, while witnesses spread news of Li Qingshan’s overwhelming power across the Eastern Wasteland.

• The demon warriors celebrated their survival, and Yan Ruyu and Qin Yao thanked Li Qingshan for saving the Azure Emperor Lineage.
• The Black Emperor sensed a resonance like Great Emperor Wushi’s and excitedly asked whether Li Qingshan had formed an Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo; Li Qingshan said his Great Dao was not yet complete.
• Li Qingshan advised Pang Bo to recover and grow stronger, then urged Ye Fan to refine his Sea of Bitterness and prepare to approach the Dao Palace realm.
• Li Qingshan told Yan Ruyu that the Azure Emperor Lineage would need his help, then transported the demons, Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and the Black Emperor away.
• Distant cultivators and spies discussed the Ji Family’s defeat and Li Qingshan’s apparent use of the Nine Secrets, and news of his power began spreading across the Eastern Wasteland and beyond.