Chapter Summaries

Shen Yun confronted the Lord of Star Palace and questioned her decision to help Dugu Buqun, prompting her to explain that she had acted to suppress the Demonic Calamity. When Shen Yun looked into the Floating Life Mirroring Moon Pool, it showed no reflection of him, and the Lord of Star Palace realized he was outside the River of Destiny.

• Lie Yang and Su Xin confronted Shen Yun, while Su Xin recognized him as the person who killed her former disciple Dugu Galuo.
• Linglong First Elder told Shen Yun that Lie Yang and Su Xin had crossed the first calamity and were Supreme Great Powers.
• The Lord of Star Palace stopped the clashing auras and admitted that she had ordered the Second Elder to help the Sacred Temple.
• Shen Yun challenged the Lord of Star Palace over her support for Dugu Buqun, and she said the Floating Life Mirroring Moon Pool had revealed the Three Lights Staff was vital to suppressing the Demonic Calamity.
• Shen Yun examined the Floating Life Mirroring Moon Pool and found that it showed no reflection of him, shocking the Lord of Star Palace because he was not within the River of Destiny.

Shen Yun reached the Nearly the Dao realm through the Floating Life Mirroring Moon Pool, shocking the gathered experts and exposing Elder Fate Star’s secret scheme. After the hall master eased tensions, Shen Yun left to pursue the Kunpeng Treasure Technique, warned that several Immortal Lords would soon travel to Divine Fall Island.

• Lord of Star Palace was shocked that Shen Yun could not be calculated or observed.
• The Floating Life Mirroring Moon Pool transformed as Shen Yun entered the Nearly the Dao realm, astonishing Elder Fate Star and the other onlookers.
• Shen Yun saw through Elder Fate Star’s plan to control Hall Master Dugu and use the Three Lights Divine Artifact to suppress Xuanmen.
• Shen Qingruo lamented the gap between her cultivation and Shen Yun’s, while Mu Lingxi and Elder Fate Star tried to comfort her.
• Shen Yun thanked the hall master and left with the others to seek the Kunpeng Treasure Technique.
• Lord of Star Palace secretly warned Shen Yun that several Immortal Lords would soon go to Divine Fall Island and that the journey would be perilous.

Shen Yun traveled toward North Nether after learning that several Immortal Lords planned to enter the forbidden Divine Fall Island, and he secretly investigated the Heart Demon Emperor’s identity. At Star Palace, Suxin and Lieyang learned how to revive their Young Ancestor, while Lord of Star Palace hinted at a coming contest over the World Origin.

• Shen Yun asked Gu Hanzhou and Azure Dragon about Divine Fall Island and told them that several Immortal Lords were going there together.
• Shen Yun ordered Xuan Zhong and Xuan Ting to gather detailed records about Dugu Galuo, suspecting her identity was connected to the Heart Demon Emperor.
• Uncle Yuan announced that the spirit boat had reached North Nether, whose dark waters stretched to the horizon.
• Suxin and Lieyang offered Lord of Star Palace Origin Qi of Stars and requested a meeting with the Immortal Lord of Heavenly Secrets.
• Lord of Star Palace told Suxin and Lieyang that their Young Ancestor needed an extreme-yin Spiritual Sense Precious Pill to fully revive.
• Lord of Star Palace wondered whether Shen Yun would contend for the World Origin and called him the son of the Immortal Lord.

Lieyang and Suxin returned to Liang Yi Palace and awakened Jiang Xueci from her ancient slumber with a Grand Yin Spirit Condensing Pill. Jiang Xueci foresaw the coming great annihilation and rejected the plan to make her Penglai Immortal Lord’s disciple, declaring that she would become a venerable herself.

• Lieyang and Suxin crossed the Eastern Sea Region and entered Liang Yi Palace’s forbidden ice plain.
• Suxin used the Grand Yin Spirit Condensing Pill to awaken the young woman sealed in a sapphire-blue coffin.
• Jiang Xueci emerged from the coffin and predicted that the epoch’s end would arrive in nine thousand six hundred years.
• Lieyang told Jiang Xueci that Penglai Immortal Lord was willing to accept her as his only personal disciple.
• Jiang Xueci declared that the tenth epoch’s great annihilation was coming and that she would become a venerable without taking another master.

Jiang Xueci planned to use Shen Yun to perfect her cultivation at the Enlightenment Tea Gathering. Meanwhile, Shen Yun and the Kun Clan reached Sky Silence Island, where they found the Kunpeng Treasure Technique had been destroyed.

• Jiang Xueci said Shen Yun might hold the opportunity she needed to perfect the Tai Su Yin Yang Immortal Scripture, and Suxin and Lieyang supported her plan to seize his cultivation.
• Jiang Xueci stopped Suxin from investigating Shen Yun immediately and chose the Enlightenment Tea Gathering as the time to act.
• Uncle Yuan led Shen Yun and the others across the Northern Darkness to Sky Silence Island, driving away deep-sea demons with his Kun Clan bloodline pressure.
• Shen Yun used the Three Lights Staff to break the restriction hiding the island's northern mountain wall.
• The group discovered that a huge palm print had erased the runes and dao marks from the Northern Darkness Cold Iron, apparently destroying the Kunpeng Treasure Technique.

Shen Yun and the others discovered that the Heart Demon Emperor had destroyed the Kunpeng Treasure Technique, leaving only a trace of Dao Charm. Shen Yun comprehended that remnant and created a new movement method, leaving Uncle Yuan worried about the Kun Clan’s future.

• Gu Hanzhou judged that the Heart Demon Emperor had used overwhelming will to erase the Kunpeng Treasure Technique from the Northern Darkness Cold Iron.
• Azure Dragon tore the remaining Northern Darkness Cold Iron from the mountain wall, revealing a trace of Dao Charm.
• Shen Yun comprehended the remnant’s meaning of yin and yang and space, while Uncle Yuan failed to grasp it and nearly suffered Qi Deviation.
• Shen Yun created a new movement method from the Dao Charm, surpassing the original technique’s legacy.
• Gu Hanzhou recognized Shen Yun’s new method, and Uncle Yuan feared the approaching Enlightenment Tea Gathering would bring disaster to the Kun Clan.

Shen Yun chose to take his group to Linglong Immortal Island, where they witnessed the island’s splendor and the corruption surrounding its recruitment. The First Elder led them through the mountain gate with full authority, leaving the cultivators who had mocked outsiders stunned.

• Shen Yun accepted the First Elder’s invitation and steered the Spirit Boat toward Linglong Immortal Island.
• Shen Yun and his group arrived at the prosperous island, where the First Elder offered Shen Qingruo and Mu Lingxi a tour of its marketplace.
• A family seeking to enroll Zhao Yu planned to use connections with Gu Family disciples, prompting Mu Lingxi to compare the arrangement to Bai Luo’s dealings and the First Elder to vow to root out corruption.
• The group crossed Linglong Marketplace and reached the mountain gate, where cultivators discussed the Enlightenment Tea Gathering and mocked applicants from outside the region.
• The First Elder bypassed the line and ordered the mountain guards to stand down; they obeyed at once, silencing the crowd and prompting a Central Continent cultivator to boast about his region’s geniuses.

Shen Yun and his companions rested in Water Cloud Pavilion while he considered his cultivation, until Gu Wangsheng and a group of noble scions arrived and tried to drive them out. The First Elder returned, declared that he had invited them, and struck at Gu Wangsheng.

• The First Elder welcomed Shen Yun and his companions, served them tea, and went to arrange a grotto-heaven for their cultivation.
• Shen Yun considered entering seclusion and studying spiritual arts after reaching a bottleneck in his Primordial Chaos Law.
• Gu Wangsheng arrived with Zhao Yu and other noble scions, boasting of his victory over the Yu Family and arranging a secret disciple assessment for them.
• The scions demanded that Shen Yun and his companions leave Water Cloud Pavilion, while Uncle Yuan angrily defended them.
• Gu Wangsheng ordered Shen Yun's group to leave, but Shen Yun said they had been invited and warned him not to make matters ugly.
• The First Elder returned in fury, confirmed that he had invited Shen Yun's group, and struck toward Gu Wangsheng.

The First Elder beat Gu Wangsheng and two Gu Family disciples for taking bribes and offending Shen Yun’s group, then Gu Ming ordered them sent to the Law Enforcement Hall. Yu Qingxian expelled the dishonest scions, and Gu Ming concluded that the Supreme Elder would have to decide how to handle the matter.

• The First Elder brutally beat Gu Wangsheng and two Gu Family disciples after accusing them of accepting bribes and offending honored guests.
• Yu Qingxian and Gu Ming arrived, and Gu Ming stopped the First Elder from continuing the beating.
• Gu Ming ordered the three injured men detained in the Law Enforcement Hall for a hundred years.
• Gu Ming greeted Shen Yun and Mu Lingxi, while Yu Qingxian welcomed Shen Yun and ordered the cheating scions to leave.
• The First Elder invited Shen Yun’s group to view a grotto-heaven, while Gu Ming decided to summon the Supreme Elder to resolve the matter.

Gu Ming learned from Gu Changqing that Fang Tianyi was powerful enough to defeat Ancestor Wuxiang while only at the seventh heaven of Tribulation Crossing, and that the Cultivation World would undergo a great upheaval within a cycle. After breaking through to the Eighth Layer of Void Return Realm, Shen Yun discovered a mysterious dragon-head mask bearing the words “Tian Quan” and sensed an unusual visitor nearby.

• Gu Ming reported the Gu Family’s dispute with Shen Yun to Gu Changqing, who warned him about Fang Tianyi’s terrifying strength.
• Gu Changqing told Gu Ming that the Cultivation World would be reshuffled within ten to sixty years and advised the Gu Family to prepare.
• After half a year of secluded cultivation, Shen Yun broke through to the Eighth Layer of Void Return Realm.
• Shen Yun found an ancient dragon-head mask in Moon Washing Cave Heaven and read the seal-script words “Tian Quan” on its back.
• Shen Yun sensed a powerful aura from the mask that resonated with the Phoenix Treasure Technique and flew toward the mysterious visitor.

Shen Yun met Vermilion Bird Envoy, who revealed that she was a pure-blooded phoenix and invited him to join Tian Quan. She warned him that Holy Son Golden Crow could challenge him at the Enlightenment Tea Gathering, leaving Shen Yun determined to strengthen himself before the gathering.

• Shen Yun met Vermilion Bird Envoy in the Void Turbulence Domain, and she explained that Tian Quan was an intelligence organization whose four envoys could refuse the Dao Lord's orders.
• Shen Yun inspected the Azure Dragon Mask and hesitated to trust Vermilion Bird Envoy, so she removed her mask and revealed herself as the surviving pure-blooded phoenix from the previous epoch.
• Vermilion Bird Envoy told Shen Yun that You Huang was cultivating in seclusion and thanked him for helping her, then warned him that the Golden Crow Clan would seek revenge for Emperor Golden Crow's death.
• Vermilion Bird Envoy warned that Holy Son Golden Crow might challenge Shen Yun at the Enlightenment Tea Gathering and described his formidable talent and strength.
• Shen Yun decided to find a way to reach the Ninth Layer of Void Return Realm quickly and turned his attention toward improving his alchemy skills at Linglong Marketplace.

Shen Yun went to Linglong Marketplace to buy pill formulas and learned that Poison Hand Pill King was competing in a pill duel at Penglai Pavilion. He entered the pavilion to see the contest, where his interest in the rival alchemists left the story poised for the duel.

• Shen Yun parted from Vermilion Bird Envoy after she advised him to trust Black Tortoise Envoy only halfway and keep his distance from White Tiger Envoy.
• Shen Yun found Yu Linglong and Dragon Horse on his way to Linglong Marketplace, and Yu Linglong recommended Penglai Pavilion for its selection of spiritual herbs.
• Shen Yun chose Penglai Pavilion despite Dragon Horse's warning that its prices were high, and the group traveled to the bustling marketplace.
• Shen Yun overheard cultivators say that Poison Hand Pill King had bought a Seven-Orifice Exquisite Ganoderma and was favored by the Golden-winged Great Peng and Golden Crow clans.
• Shen Yun learned that Poison Hand Pill King would duel True Man of Sitting and Forgetting at Penglai Pavilion, then entered to watch.

Shen Yun visited Penglai Pavilion seeking a high-rank pill recipe and learned that Poison Hand Pill King had forced True Man of Sitting and Forgetting into an alchemy wager. When Qiongqi, the Golden-winged Great Peng, and Kun Wuji insulted Qin Muye and his guests, Shen Yun confronted them.

• Shen Yun entered Penglai Pavilion and asked an attendant for a seventh-rank or higher pill recipe that could increase cultivation speed.
• The steward recognized Yu Linglong and offered Shen Yun and his companions three precious pills as an apology for the delay.
• Qin Muye arrived, welcomed Shen Yun personally, and explained that Poison Hand Pill King had poisoned True Man of Sitting and Forgetting's disciple to force a wager over the Five-Colored Spirit Nourishing Flower.
• Shen Yun and the others went to the third-floor alchemy room, where Qiongqi and the Golden-winged Great Peng mocked Qin Muye and his guests, while Kun Wuji reacted with fear at seeing Shen Yun.
• Shen Yun released his aura and confronted Qiongqi, the Golden-winged Great Peng, and Kun Wuji.

Shen Yun overwhelmed Qiongqi Young Master and Golden Peng Holy Son before Qin Muye’s eighth-grade array halted the fight. The demons identified Shen Yun as the Primordial Chaos Dao Lord and turned their attention to the pill-refining gamble, which began when the hourglass ran out.

• Shen Yun struck first with his Divine Sense, forcing Qiongqi Young Master and Golden Peng Holy Son back and leaving them at a disadvantage.
• Qin Muye activated Penglai Pavilion’s eighth-grade array, suppressing the demons and stopping the fight under the pavilion’s rules.
• Golden Peng Holy Son and Qiongqi Young Master swallowed their anger, while Kun Wuji was relieved he had avoided Shen Yun’s attention.
• Shen Yun calmly took his seat, and Golden Peng Holy Son recognized him as the Primordial Chaos Dao Lord.
• Golden Peng Holy Son and Qiongqi Young Master discussed Holy Son Golden Crow’s plan to use the Five Elements Tribulation Resolving Pill against Shen Yun.
• When the final grain of sand fell, the two pill refiners opened their eyes and the pill-refining gamble began.

True Man of Sitting and Forgetting and Poison Hand Pill King began their wagered duel as True Man sought an antidote for his poisoned disciple, Zhao Qingshu. Just as the crowd expected True Man to win, he collapsed beside his cauldron, and the spectators accused Poison Hand of secretly poisoning him.

• True Man of Sitting and Forgetting confronted Poison Hand Pill King and began refining a Dragon Elephant Returning Yuan Pill.
• Qin Muye explained that Zhao Qingshu had been poisoned by Soul Shattering Dust after encountering a Medicine Immortal Token, while Shen Yun noted that Zhao did not appear poisoned.
• Poison Hand calmly prepared his own pill and watched True Man refine, prompting the crowd to believe True Man had the advantage.
• Shen Yun praised True Man's control of the ingredients, while Qiongqi Young Master and Golden Peng Holy Son mocked the spectators and predicted the duel's outcome.
• The alchemy platform shook, True Man collapsed and lost control of his cauldron, and the crowd accused Poison Hand of poisoning him in secret.

Shen Yun cured True Man of Sitting and Forgetting’s Spirit-Splitting Dust poisoning, overturning the demons’ attempt to sabotage the wagered duel. Poison Hand Pill King insisted the duel’s outcome was already decided, while Shen Yun’s pointed remark left Zhao Qingshu under suspicion.

• True Man of Sitting and Forgetting lost control of the Molten Lava Blood Flame after being poisoned, ruining the medicinal power in his cauldron.
• Shen Yun recognized that True Man of Sitting and Forgetting had likely been poisoned before the duel and suspected Zhao Qingshu.
• Qin Muye ordered physicians to save True Man of Sitting and Forgetting, and they identified the poison as Spirit-Splitting Dust.
• Shen Yun used Nirvana True Fire and the Primordial World to purge the poison, restoring True Man of Sitting and Forgetting.
• Zhao Qingshu thanked Shen Yun, who made a pointed remark about his devotion to his master.
• Poison Hand Pill King recovered his composure and claimed the duel was already decided despite the cure.

Shen Yun exposed Zhao Qingshu’s betrayal, revealing that his poison had been cured long ago and that he had joined the Demon Race. The Golden-winged Great Peng King crippled Zhao Qingshu, and Golden Peng Holy Son’s attempt to blame Shen Yun ended with him vomiting blood.

• Shen Yun told True Man of Sitting and Forgetting that Zhao Qingshu’s poison had already been cured.
• Zhao Qingshu admitted he had betrayed Penglai Pavilion to join the Demon Race, enraging True Man of Sitting and Forgetting and the gathered cultivators.
• Qiongqi Young Master and Golden Peng Holy Son defended Zhao Qingshu, but the Golden-winged Great Peng King attacked and shattered his qi sea and meridians.
• Golden Peng Holy Son accused Shen Yun of breaking Penglai Pavilion’s rules, and Shen Yun pointed out that the Golden-winged Great Peng King had made the attack.
• Qin Muye backed Shen Yun’s response and blamed the Demon Race, prompting Golden Peng Holy Son to spit blood in anger.

The Golden Peng Holy Son and Qiongqi Young Master backed down after Shen Yun turned their accusations against them, but Poison Hand Pill King challenged the injured True Man of Sitting and Forgetting to a pill-refining contest. Poison Hand Pill King produced an upper-grade seventh-tier Yellow Millet Dream Pill and demanded the Five-Colored Spirit Nourishing Flower, until an unknown voice offered to take his place.

• Shen Yun mocked the Golden Peng Holy Son by claiming he had abandoned darkness for the light, leaving the demon camp humiliated while Kun Wuji stayed out of the conflict.
• Poison Hand Pill King rallied the demons and pressured Penglai Pavilion to concede the wager for the Five-Colored Spirit Nourishing Flower.
• True Man of Sitting and Forgetting prepared to face Poison Hand Pill King, but Qin Muye and the others urged him not to compete while still severely injured.
• Poison Hand Pill King refined an upper-grade seventh-tier Yellow Millet Dream Pill, then used his strange poison to dissolve the lightning tribulation as he seized it.
• Poison Hand Pill King demanded the Five-Colored Spirit Nourishing Flower, and a magnetic voice offered to try in True Man of Sitting and Forgetting's place.

Shen Yun accepted the challenge to compete against the Poison Hand Pill King and used the Seven Orifices Exquisite Wisdom Wheel to rapidly deduce the pill formula. After a hundred breaths of preparation, he stepped onto the alchemy platform to begin the contest.

• Shen Yun ignored Qin Muye and True Man of Sitting and Forgetting's warnings and declared that the Poison Hand Pill King was not strong enough to defeat him.
• The Poison Hand Pill King challenged Shen Yun, who borrowed the pill formula and ingredients from True Man of Sitting and Forgetting.
• Shen Yun memorized the formula while the Qiongqi Young Master and Holy Son Golden Crow mocked his chances.
• Shen Yun used the Seven Orifices Exquisite Wisdom Wheel and the Book of Zhou Tian Yan Dao to simulate alchemy fifty times and build his Pill Dao experience.
• After a hundred breaths, Shen Yun stopped deducing to protect his Divine Sense and stepped onto the alchemy platform.

Shen Yun began refining the Dragon Elephant Returning Yuan Pill and astonished the gathered alchemists by wielding Innate Origin Fire and Innate Five Elements Origin. As the pill tribulation descended, he caught the heavenly lightning bare-handed and absorbed it to temper his body.

• Shen Yun ignited the cauldron with Innate Origin Fire, shocking Poison Hand Pill King and the others with its power.
• Shen Yun refined more than a hundred spirit herbs at once, turning them into pure medicinal liquid and leaving the alchemists in awe.
• True Man of Sitting and Forgetting praised Shen Yun’s technique as Shen Yun used Innate Five Elements Origin to process difficult ingredients.
• Poison Hand Pill King recognized the ingenuity of Shen Yun’s methods, while Qiongqi Young Master realized the demons were likely headed for another defeat.
• Shen Yun completed the pill refinement process, and a pill tribulation struck the chamber.
• Shen Yun caught the heavenly lightning bare-handed and absorbed its power with his Chaos Dao Body.