Chapter Summaries

Xiang Yun exposed Jiang Ba’s Yin Nether Heavenly Thunder as a Yuan Sect ploy and killed him with a single punch, though he claimed Jiang Ba escaped using a blood escape. He seized the thunder pearl and drove Jiang Fulong and the others away, warning them that the Great Desolate Region belonged to the Primordial Hall.

• Xiang Yun pulled the Yin Nether Heavenly Thunder from Wang Wu and identified it as a power tied to the Yuan Sect.
• Jiang Ba charged up with the thunder and attacked Xiang Yun, who shattered his defenses with one punch and left a thunder pearl amid the bloody mist.
• Xiang Yun seized the thunder pearl and accused the Yuan Sect of using Jiang Ba to test him.
• Jiang Fulong tried to attack Xiang Yun, but Hong Wen restrained him.
• Xiang Yun threatened Jiang Fulong and ordered the Yuan Sect’s men to leave the Primordial Hall’s territory.

After Tyrant Extreme Mountain’s defeat, Xiang Yun and Hong Wuji discussed countering the Yuan Sect’s growing influence by forging alliances with the Immortal Sacred Whales, Dao Sect, and Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace. Xiang Yun then gave Hong Wuji a strength-amplifying art that could let him challenge an ordinary Reincarnation Stage expert.

• Xiang Yun watched Jiang Fulong and Tyrant Extreme Mountain’s disciples leave, then returned to the Primordial Battle Hall to speak with Hong Wuji.
• Xiang Yun and Hong Wuji discussed the Yuan Sect’s schemes and planned to enlist the Immortal Sacred Whales, Dao Sect, and Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace against it.
• Xiang Yun told Hong Wuji that Zhou Tong might still be alive and said he would persuade Ying Xuanzi to act.
• Hong Wuji said he had sent a Death Profound Realm elder to contact the Immortal Sacred Whale Clan.
• Xiang Yun gave Hong Wuji a jade slip containing the Heavenly Horn Heaven-Overturning Art, a martial art that amplified strength.

Xiang Yun gave Hong Wuji a strength-amplifying art that could stack with the Primordial Battle Body, then agreed to seek a place at Martial Gathering Island next year. He visited Battle Heaven Peak and encouraged Lin Feihu to undergo his Nirvana tribulation within a month.

• Xiang Yun explained that the Heavenly Horn Heaven-Overturning Art could add roughly tenfold strength and stack with the Primordial Battle Body, prompting Hong Wuji to study it.
• Hong Wuji told Xiang Yun about Primordial Hall's connection to the Gu Family and its chance to compete for a place on Martial Gathering Island; Xiang Yun agreed to go next year.
• Xiang Yun promised to become strong enough to slay a Death Profound expert before the trip, then left to visit his father and cultivate.
• Xiang Yun found Xiang Huang drilling Battle Heaven Peak's disciples and told Lin Feihu that he could break through within a month.
• Xiang Yun offered to help Lin Feihu with the Primordial Battle Body, and Lin Feihu confidently agreed to undergo his tribulation within a month.

Xiang Yun trained the Primordial Hall disciples by forcing them to attack him under the pressure of his Origin Energy. Lin Feihu overcame his fear and reached Eight Yuan Nirvana after Xiang Yun directed him to cultivate on a Pill River platform.

• Xiang Yun corrected the Battle Heaven Peak disciples’ understanding of the Three Heaven-Breaking Forms and demanded that they punch him.
• Xiang Yun expanded to fifty feet and unleashed immense Origin Energy pressure, forcing most of the disciples to their knees while Lin Feihu struggled to remain standing.
• Xiang Yun insulted the disciples and challenged them to attack, prompting Lin Feihu to break through his fear and charge with the Three Heaven-Breaking Forms.
• Lin Feihu and the other disciples repeatedly attacked Xiang Yun, who stood motionless and urged them to hit harder.
• Xiang Yun called out to Lin Feihu, who used the force of his attacks to reach a Pill River platform and cultivate until he advanced to Eight Yuan Nirvana.

Ren Yuanzi planned to use Zhou Tong against Xiang Yun after Jiang Ba’s defeat, while the Dao Sect prepared to host an exchange with the Primordial Hall and the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace. As the Primordial Hall arrived, Xiang Yun considered the Yuan Sect’s past scheme against Wang Jie and resolved to deal with the Three Little Kings if the scheme came to pass again.

• Ren Yuanzi learned that Xiang Yun had defeated Jiang Ba despite the Yin Nether Heavenly Thunder and considered seeking permission to use Zhou Tong against him and Hong Wuji.
• Ying Xuanzi gathered the Dao Sect’s hall masters and disciples to welcome the visiting sects, while Ying Huanhuan and Ying Xiaoxiao discussed Xiang Yun’s strength.
• Hong Wuji arrived with the Primordial Hall’s delegation, and Ying Xuanzi sensed that Hong Wuji had grown more powerful.
• Xiang Yun surveyed the Dao Sect’s disciples and recalled that Wang Jie had died in a Yuan Sect scheme at the previous sect competition.
• Xiang Yun decided that if the Yuan Sect’s scheme against the Dao Sect happened again, he would kill the Three Little Kings within three punches.

Xiang Yun welcomed the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace to the Dao Sect’s three-sect exchange and met Ling Qingzhu again, while the visiting disciples debated their lodging arrangements. After yielding the preferred halls to Taiqing Palace, Xiang Yun prepared to use the exchange to demonstrate the Primordial Hall’s strength and pursue his own request.

• Ying Xuanzi and Hong Wuji discussed the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace’s expected arrival as Xiang Yun noticed Ying Huanhuan glaring at him.
• Yi Taiqing arrived with Ling Qingzhu, and Xiang Yun and Ling Qingzhu exchanged glances while Yi Taiqing tried to assess Xiang Yun.
• Yi Taiqing went with the other sect leaders to Dao Xuan Peak and left Ling Qingzhu to follow the Dao Sect’s arrangements for the visiting disciples.
• Ying Xiaoxiao assigned the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace the Earth and Flood Halls and the Primordial Hall the Heaven and Desolate Halls, prompting objections from Taiqing Palace disciples.
• Xiang Yun offered Taiqing Palace the Heaven and Earth Halls and asked the Primordial Hall disciples to accept the Flood and Desolate Halls; they obeyed in unison.

Ying Huanhuan escorted Xiang Yun to Desolate Hall and tried to probe whether he had truly defeated Xiang Huang, but Xiang Yun saw through her goading and offered to prove his strength if she wagered the Great Desolation Scripture. As they arrived, Xiang Yun surveyed Dao Sect’s resources and criticized the quality of its disciples, irritating Ying Huanhuan.

• Ying Xiaoxiao assigned Yuan Yun to escort the Primordial Hall cultivators to Flood Hall, while Xiang Yun sent Ning Chen and Feihu to stay there and chose to visit Desolate Hall.
• Ying Huanhuan volunteered to guide Xiang Yun, and Ling Qingzhu noticed her interest in him.
• Ying Huanhuan questioned whether Xiang Yun had really beaten Xiang Huang, but Xiang Yun dismissed her doubts and offered to fight if she wagered the Great Desolation Scripture.
• Xiang Yun recognized that Ying Huanhuan was trying to fish for information, and she called him an arrogant jerk with no sense of romance.
• Xiang Yun admired Desolate Hall’s resources and described how Yuan Sect’s victories and influence had allowed it to grow stronger than the other super sects.
• Xiang Yun criticized the quality of Dao Sect’s disciples, leaving Ying Huanhuan grinding her teeth in irritation.

Xiang Yun settled the Primordial Hall disciples in the Desolate Hall and traded barbs with Ying Huanhuan before Ling Qingzhu arrived to speak with him privately. Ling Qingzhu revealed that her master had come to see him, and Xiang Yun remarked that Ling had benefited greatly from their past encounter.

• Ying Huanhuan showed Xiang Yun where the Primordial Hall disciples would stay and explained the Desolate Hall's cultivation rules.
• Xiang Yun dismissed the Great Desolation Body and ordered Xun Wu and the others to avoid unnecessary clashes but never lose.
• Ling Qingzhu arrived, and Xiang Yun sent the Primordial Hall disciples away before he and Ling exchanged teasing remarks.
• Xiang Yun and Ling Qingzhu moved to a quiet mountain peak, where he removed her veil and put it in his Universe Bag.
• Ling Qingzhu said her master had come specifically to see Xiang Yun, and Xiang Yun noted that Ling had reached Three Yuan Nirvana after benefiting from their past encounter.

Xiang Yun reunited with Ling Qingzhu, listened to her complaints about competition within the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace, and teased her about Ying Huanhuan before taking her to the Desolate Hall’s cultivation room. The chapter ended with them becoming intimate, which Ling Qingzhu justified as cultivation.

• Xiang Yun and Ling Qingzhu sat together, and he asked about her strength and standing in the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace.
• Ling Qingzhu told Xiang Yun that senior sisters had begun competing with her for cultivation resources since she entered the Nirvana Realm.
• Xiang Yun offered to beat up Ling Qingzhu’s rivals, then told her he had met Ying Huanhuan in the Geomagnetic Mountain Range.
• Xiang Yun kissed Ling Qingzhu when she denied being jealous, then carried her to the Desolate Hall’s resting hall as Xun Wu watched.
• Xiang Yun and Ling Qingzhu entered a cultivation room and became intimate, with Ling Qingzhu saying she did it all for cultivation.

Xiang Yun and Ling Qingzhu cultivated together, and he gained a strand of Chaos Light after comprehending Supreme Power. When they returned to the hall, Yi Taiqing reprimanded Ling Qingzhu and challenged Xiang Yun, who openly called himself her Dao companion and defended his youthful boldness.

• Xiang Yun and Ling Qingzhu cultivated in the cultivation room, stabilizing her breakthrough to Three Yuan Nirvana while Xiang Yun developed his Innate Dao Embryo.
• Xiang Yun discovered a strand of Chaos Light in his dantian and realized he had comprehended Supreme Power, which could strengthen his bargain with the Great Desolation Tablet and help suppress Yimo.
• Xiang Yun woke Ling Qingzhu, and the two returned to the main hall, where Hong Wuji and Yi Taiqing had been waiting.
• Yi Taiqing scolded Ling Qingzhu for being away too long, but Xiang Yun stepped in and defended her.
• Xiang Yun declared that he was Ling Qingzhu's Dao companion, and Yi Taiqing warned him about recklessness by invoking Zhou Tong's fate.

Xiang Yun urged Yi Taiqing to investigate the Yuan Sect’s suspected ties to the Yimo and proposed an alliance with the Dao Sect and Primordial Hall. Yi Taiqing agreed to investigate, while Xiang Yun raised the possibility that Zhou Tong was still alive.

• Xiang Yun argued that the Yuan Sect might target the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace if its leaders gained a path to the Reincarnation Stage.
• Xiang Yun claimed the Yuan Sect was secretly collecting Yimo corpses to build an army, and Ling Qingzhu stood by him despite Yi Taiqing’s demand for evidence.
• Xiang Yun invoked the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace’s secret duty as successor to the Supreme Palace, prompting Yi Taiqing to agree to investigate and ally with the Primordial Hall if the accusation proved true.
• Yi Taiqing asked whether Xiang Yun belonged to the Supreme Palace and learned he had modified the Supreme Induction Art himself as a gift to Ling Qingzhu.
• Xiang Yun suggested Ying Xuanzi might agree to an alliance if Zhou Tong was still alive, leaving Ling Qingzhu stunned.

Yi Taiqing investigated Xiang Yun’s claims about the Yuan Sect and learned that Ling Qingzhu’s cultivation treasure could not be borrowed, while Xiang Yun reviewed the rules for the Great Desolation Tablet trial. Xiang Yun suspected Ying Xuanzi was using the trial to draw the Yuan Sect’s attention, and decided to force Ying Xuanzi into action by exposing Ying Huanhuan’s identity as the Ice Master’s reincarnation.

• Yi Taiqing agreed to investigate Xiang Yun’s claims about the Yuan Sect and took Ling Qingzhu back with her.
• Yi Taiqing noticed Ling Qingzhu’s progress toward Four Yuan Nirvana and ordered her to defeat Ying Xiaoxiao.
• Ling Qingzhu privately told Yi Taiqing about her cultivation method, and Yi Taiqing urged her to focus on cultivation.
• Hong Wuji gave Xiang Yun the exchange rules, including his requirement to defeat Nirvana Realm fighters and the Desolate Hall’s leaders before joining the trial.
• Xiang Yun and Hong Wuji concluded that Ying Xuanzi’s rules might shift the Yuan Sect’s attention toward the Primordial Hall.
• Xiang Yun decided to expose Ying Huanhuan as the Ice Master’s reincarnation so Ying Xuanzi would have no choice but to act.

Xiang Yun used Supreme Power to nourish the World Tree and discovered it could draw energy from across the Tianxuan Continent and provide a way to escape. The influx rapidly strengthened him, leaving him with a Yuan Spirit Cuticle ahead of his expected fight against Chen Zhen and Wu Dao.

• Xiang Yun refused to tell Hong Wuji the secret he planned to share with Ying Xuanzi, then urged Hong Wuji to cultivate harder.
• Xiang Yun sealed himself in a cultivation room to study how Supreme Power affected the World Tree.
• The World Tree absorbed Xiang Yun's Supreme Power and formed natural formations across its roots, trunk, and leaves.
• The World Tree pierced the Tianxuan Continent's Plane Embryo and drew Nirvana Qi, heaven and earth Qi, demonic Qi, Primordial Qi, thunder Qi, and World Power from across the continent.
• Xiang Yun realized he could use the World Tree's roots to travel to other places on the continent and escape danger.
• The World Tree's energy rapidly strengthened Xiang Yun, who condensed a Yuan Spirit Cuticle usually formed at Nine Yuan Nirvana and anticipated trouble for Chen Zhen and Wu Dao.

Xiang Yun disrupted the Desolate Hall disciples’ cultivation in the Pill River to pressure Wu Dao into letting him study the Desolate Stone. After Wu Dao agreed, Xiang Yun headed for it, while Wu Dao worried he might master Desolate Energy and the Great Desolation Scripture.

• Xiang Yun’s cultivation created a vortex that drained Nirvana Qi from the Desolate Hall disciples around the Pill River.
• Wu Dao confronted Xiang Yun, who argued that he was only a Six Yuan Nirvana cultivator and offered to stop if he could study the Desolate Stone.
• Wu Dao allowed Xiang Yun alone to comprehend the Desolate Stone, and Xiang Yun left for it after taunting the Desolate Hall disciples.
• The Desolate Hall disciples followed Xiang Yun to watch him, while Wu Dao changed direction to see for himself, fearing Xiang Yun might master the Great Desolation Scripture.

Xiang Yun entered the Desolate Hall’s Martial Arts Hall to test himself against the Desolate Stone and its Desolate Energy. He absorbed the energy with his black hole dantian and then repelled the Stone’s stronger surge with his blood and Qi, leaving the watching disciples astonished.

• Xiang Yun entered the Desolate Stone platform after saying the deputy hall master had approved his visit.
• Ying Huanhuan and Ling Qingzhu watched Xiang Yun, and Ling Qingzhu challenged Ying Huanhuan’s hostility toward him.
• Xiang Yun studied the Desolate Art and decided to see whether he could derive a martial art from it without relying on the Great Desolation Scripture.
• Xiang Yun used his black hole dantian to devour the Desolate Energy and swiftly approached within fifty zhang of the Desolate Stone.
• Xiang Yun leaped closer, and when the Desolate Stone unleashed a surge of energy, his blood and Qi forced it back.

Xiang Yun sat atop the Desolate Stone and absorbed its Desolate Energy, rapidly condensing a Desolation Seed as the stone fought back. He summoned the World Tree to crush its attack and continued devouring its power.

• Xiang Yun reached the Desolate Stone and resisted its petrifying Desolate Energy with his Qi and blood.
• Xiang Yun climbed onto the stone and endured its furious surge of Desolate Energy, while Pang Feng and the other disciples retreated.
• Xiang Yun absorbed the Desolate Energy and compressed it into a Desolation Seed, astonishing Pang Feng and Ying Huanhuan with his speed.
• The Desolate Stone attacked Xiang Yun with a beam of gray light, but Xiang Yun summoned the World Tree to crush the attack and absorb its energy.
• Xiang Yun taunted the Desolate Stone as it tried to resist his absorption.

Xiang Yun absorbed the Desolate Stone’s power until the World Tree pulled him into the Great Desolation Tablet’s hidden space. He called for the Tablet to appear, and the desolate world collapsed around him.

• Xiang Yun used the World Tree to suppress the Desolate Stone and absorb its Desolate Energy, raising his Desolation Seed’s level.
• Wu Dao and Gu Mo realized Xiang Yun had subdued the Desolate Stone, then saw the Great Desolation Tablet’s power envelop him and summoned the sect master.
• Wu Dao sent the Desolate Hall disciples away, while Pang Feng told Ying Huanhuan that Xiang Yun might have entered the Great Desolation Tablet.
• Xiang Yun found himself in a barren space and realized the World Tree had broken through a boundary to bring him there.
• Xiang Yun called for the Great Desolation Tablet to appear, and the sky and land shattered before darkness engulfed him.

Ying Xuanzi and the others watched Xiang Yun get drawn into the Great Desolation Tablet, where he met its Tablet Spirit and offered to help deal with the Yimo Kings. Xiang Yun used the World Tree to devour a fragment of Yimo power, leaving the Yimo furious but still trapped inside the tablet.

• Ying Xuanzi and Hong Wuji learned from Wu Dao that Xiang Yun had entered the Great Desolation Tablet unexpectedly.
• The pillar of light around Xiang Yun intensified, reminding Ying Xuanzi, Wu Dao, Chen Zhen, and Gu Mo of the sign that had accompanied Zhou Tong's comprehension of the Great Desolation Scripture.
• Xiang Yun met the Tablet Spirit, which offered to pass on the Great Desolation Scripture if he tried to help suppress the Yimo Kings.
• Xiang Yun sent a World Tree root into the tablet and devoured a fragment of Yimo power, strengthening himself.
• The Yimo within the tablet threatened Xiang Yun, who dismissed them as fertilizer and told them to make their threats after escaping.

Xiang Yun absorbed Yimo power through the World Tree, strengthening his essence, Qi, spirit, and cultivation until he broke through to Seven Yuan Nirvana while comprehending the Great Desolation Scripture. His sudden Nirvana Tribulation vanished when he absorbed the surrounding Nirvana Fire, leaving the onlookers waiting for him to emerge and explain what happened.

• Xiang Yun used the World Tree to draw Yimo power into himself, rapidly nourishing his essence, Qi, spirit, and Mental Energy.
• Xiang Yun broke through to Seven Yuan Nirvana while still comprehending the Great Desolation Scripture, and Nirvana Fire engulfed him.
• Ying Xuanzi, Hong Wuji, Yi Taiqing, Ying Huanhuan, and Ling Qingzhu worried that Xiang Yun would not survive the tribulation while unconscious.
• Ying Huanhuan and the others watched in surprise as Xiang Yun absorbed the Nirvana Fire and his presence surged.
• Ying Xuanzi said they would have to wait for Xiang Yun to come out before learning what had happened.

Xiang Yun received and mastered the Great Desolation Scripture from the Tablet Spirit, then returned to the Desolate Hall with news about the Yimo threat. He left Ying Xuanzi and the others curious about what he knew, while using that information to bargain with them.

• The Tablet Spirit gave Xiang Yun the Great Desolation Scripture after Xiang Yun helped suppress the Yimo King.
• Xiang Yun learned that the Yimo had stopped eroding the Tablet Spirit, and he agreed to return after the Tablet Spirit recovered so they could go deeper.
• Xiang Yun left the World Tree and revealed his mastery of true desolation to Wu Dao, Ying Xuanzi, Ying Huanhuan, and the others.
• Xiang Yun said he had learned secrets about the Dao Sect’s safety and hinted that Ying Xuanzi would have to pay a price to hear them.
• Ying Huanhuan challenged Xiang Yun over the Great Desolation Tablet, and Ling Qingzhu came over to straighten his robes.