Chapter Summaries

Shen Yun found the hidden Nine Heavens Limitless Palace and used Jun Ling Yuan’s connection to unleash a tribulation against Ling Jiuxiao. As Ling Jiuxiao faced destruction, Shen Yun’s cultivation rose, and he sensed his enemy preparing a trump card.

• Shen Yun explored the star-filled vacuum, gathered Immortal Yuan Stones, and deduced the location of the Nine Heavens Limitless Palace through Jun Ling Yuan.
• Shen Yun sent the Sea of Annihilation Thunder into a spatial node, triggering a tribulation that struck Ling Jiuxiao’s palace.
• Ling Jiuxiao tried to block the lightning and locate the tribulation’s source, but the Nine Heavens Limitless Palace was destroyed and he was badly wounded.
• Shen Yun watched from a distant star as his cultivation advanced beyond the Mystic Immortal realm while Ling Jiuxiao was battered by the tribulation.
• Shen Yun sensed Ling Jiuxiao releasing an ominous aura and looked up as his enemy prepared a trump card.

Ling Jiuxiao reached the Peak Mysterious Immortal Realm after manifesting a Divine List and overcoming the Heavenly Tribulation, while Shen Yun conceived a path to unite the Golden Immortal and Daluo realms. When Shen Yun’s divine sense reached Ling Jiuxiao, Ling attacked him, but Shen Yun caught and hurled the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger back.

• Ling Jiuxiao manifested a Divine List that froze the Sea of Annihilation Thunder and swallowed the tribulation’s attacks.
• Ling Jiuxiao shattered his internal shackles and rose from the Early Mystic Immortal Realm to the Peak Mysterious Immortal Realm.
• Shen Yun realized that his Five Qi were not complete and resolved to seek a path that united the Golden Immortal and Daluo realms.
• Shen Yun overcame his Heart Demon Tribulation and sent his divine sense toward the Immortal Ranking.
• Ling Jiuxiao sensed Shen Yun, called him Azure Dragon, and launched the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger through the void.
• Shen Yun caught the Flying Dagger and hurled it back at Ling Jiuxiao.

Shen Yun exploited Ling Jiuxiao’s injuries and dwindling strength, then battled him amid the Sea of Annihilation Thunder. The Seven-Colored Immortal Pagoda was smashed and fell toward the Immortal Realm, shocking the realm’s powerful immortals.

• Shen Yun’s slash pierced Ling Jiuxiao’s defenses, and the Annihilation Thunder wounded him further.
• Shen Yun summoned the Zhou Tian Star Sword Formation and Five Qi Heavens to pressure Ling Jiuxiao as his Immortal Ranking Avatar cracked.
• The Seven-Colored Immortal Pagoda awakened and swept away Shen Yun’s star Sword Qi, but Shen Yun drew in the tribulation thunder and renewed his strength with nearly ten trillion Immortal Yuan Stones.
• Ling Jiuxiao charged into the thunder sea and unleashed Severing Fate and Cutting Life, while Shen Yun struck the Seven-Colored Immortal Pagoda with a giant hand.
• Shen Yun smashed the Seven-Colored Immortal Pagoda, and experts across the Heavenly Domain recognized it as the Seven Treasures Causality Pagoda of the Nine Heavens Immortal Venerable.

Shen Yun turned Ling Jiuxiao’s destiny-based killing move against him and drove the battle into a desperate exchange. Ling Jiuxiao began writing destiny with an immortal brush as Shen Yun unleashed a strengthened Yin-Yang Dao Diagram, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Ling Jiuxiao attacked Shen Yun with the Immortal Monument, intending to erase his existence from the root of destiny.
• Shen Yun revealed that he had mastered the Destiny Heavenly Book beyond Ling Jiuxiao’s level and crossed the River of Destiny to counterattack.
• Shen Yun pierced the Immortal Monument with Primordial Unity Qi, then combined his laws into a Taiji Divine Diagram that pushed Ling Jiuxiao into a disadvantage.
• Ling Jiuxiao summoned an immortal brush and wrote the character for “person” on the Divine List, revealing his aim to write destiny.
• Shen Yun refined four hundred mountains of immortal essence stones to strengthen himself and sent an Eight Trigrams Dao chapter toward Ling Jiuxiao.
• Ling Jiuxiao answered Shen Yun’s attack with the cry “Man Conquers Heaven!”

Shen Yun fought Ling Jiuxiao, whose Dao of Transcendence turned attacks back through reversed cause and effect, and discovered that the technique would soon exhaust him. Just as Ling Jiuxiao appeared trapped, the Heavenly Tribulation began to recede and the dharma idol revealed an unfamiliar face, suggesting that fate had given him a way to survive.

• A figure identical to Ling Jiuxiao emerged from the Divine List, and Shen Yun recognized him as the Great Yan Divine Venerable before his Taiji Divine Diagram collapsed against him.
• Shen Yun attacked with Immortal Beyond the Heavens, but the dharma idol froze his Sword Light and sent its force back at him; Shen Yun used a movement technique derived from the Phoenix Treasure Technique to withstand the backlash.
• Shen Yun realized Ling Jiuxiao's Dao of Transcendence reversed cause and effect, making attacks rebound on their wielders, and concluded that Ling Jiuxiao could sustain it for only two hundred breaths.
• Shen Yun recovered his strength with the Creation Furnace while Ling Jiuxiao searched the Destiny Heavenly Book for a way out and found no likely rescue or escape.
• As Shen Yun announced that fifty breaths remained, the dharma idol's face changed to an unfamiliar one and the Heavenly Tribulation began to recede.
• Ling Jiuxiao saw the tribulation fade and declared that fate still favored him.

Shen Yun left Ling Jiuxiao shaken after the Heavenly Tribulation receded, and news spread that Azure Dragon had defeated the Nine Heavens Immortal Venerable. As factions accepted the account, Li Futuo abandoned his plan to target Azure Dragon and went to visit Ling Jiuxiao, leaving Xuanwu in charge of Sky Devil Mountain.

• After the Heavenly Tribulation collapsed, Ling Jiuxiao regained his strength, but Shen Yun accused him of relying on the Great Yan Divine Venerable's protection and departed.
• Ling Jiuxiao suppressed his doubts and headed toward the Heavenly Realm, resolving to prepare for another clash with Shen Yun.
• The Black Tortoise Envoy and prominent faction leaders confirmed that Azure Dragon had heavily injured Ling Jiuxiao with the Heavenly Tribulation, and the Immortal Realm accepted the report.
• Li Futuo and the gray-robed Vice Sect Master reconsidered their plan to avenge the Sky Devil Saint Son after learning of Azure Dragon's victory over Ling Jiuxiao.
• Li Futuo set out to visit Ling Jiuxiao and ordered Xuanwu to manage Sky Devil Mountain while forbidding anyone from acting recklessly.

Shen Yun interrogated the Golden Bone Corpse King about Shen Qiu, Jade Void Immortal Venerable, and the Underworld rulers, then secretly planted a false memory in the corpse king. The corpse king entered a newly revived passage to the Underworld, unaware that Shen Yun was watching.

• Shen Yun showed the Golden Bone Corpse King an image of Shen Qiu and threatened it with a deadly Sword Qi until it surrendered.
• The Golden Bone Corpse King admitted Shen Qiu had triggered a spatial passage and revealed that Jade Void Immortal Venerable had entered Immortal King Qiankun's God Tomb.
• Shen Yun knocked out the Golden Bone Corpse King and planted a false memory that it had escaped him.
• The spatial node revived, and the Golden Bone Corpse King rushed through the passage toward the Underworld while Shen Yun watched.

Shen Yun weakened the spatial passage and headed to Sky Devil Mountain, planning to draw the Void Cave Devil Emperor into an ambush there. Meanwhile, Jun Ling Yuan reacted to Ling Jiuxiao’s defeat by attacking the Jiang Immortal Dynasty, but the Sky Devil Sect Master appeared before him.

• Shen Yun decided to enlist the major powers to ambush the Void Cave Devil Emperor and prevent the Ancient Heavenly Road from being restored.
• Shen Yun tried to move the spatial node, then used the Creation Furnace to draw out its spatial power and strengthen his Five Qi Universe.
• Shen Yun stabilized the weakened node, saw the Golden Bone Corpse King speeding through the passage, and set off for Sky Devil Mountain.
• Jun Ling Yuan learned that Ling Jiuxiao had been defeated, flew into a rage, and slaughtered guards who tried to stop him in the Jiang Immortal Dynasty.
• The Sky Devil Sect Master appeared in front of Jun Ling Yuan as he tried to leave the dynasty, and Jun Ling Yuan recognized him.

Li Futuo intercepted Jun Ling Yuan and invited him to Sky Devil Mountain under the pretext of offering a Heaven Returning Pill for Ling Jiuxiao. After Jun Ling Yuan received his master's message agreeing to visit Eternal Night Devil Venerable, the two departed, while Li Futuo’s hidden Divine Sense Incarnation stayed behind to investigate Jun Ling Yuan’s intentions.

• Jun Ling Yuan recognized Li Futuo and respectfully heard how he had brought a Heaven Returning Pill for Ling Jiuxiao.
• Jun Ling Yuan sent his master a message, then prepared to confront King Jiang Wu’s approaching Cultivator Army.
• Li Futuo stopped Jun Ling Yuan from attacking, saying the army had not been in the wrong, and invited him to Sky Devil Mountain.
• Jun Ling Yuan received a message that Ling Jiuxiao planned to visit Eternal Night Devil Venerable and accepted Li Futuo’s invitation.
• Jun Ling Yuan and Li Futuo left for Sky Devil Mountain, while King Jiang Wu ordered his army back to the Imperial City to investigate.
• Li Futuo’s hidden Divine Sense Incarnation emerged from the Cloud Sea and decided to investigate Jun Ling Yuan’s plans.

Golden Bone Corpse King’s fabricated report convinced the Underworld’s leaders to trust him, and Void Cave Devil Emperor led them to the spatial node connecting the realms. After discovering the damaged passage could be repaired, the demons agreed to cross together and began planning a massacre in the Immortal Realm.

• Golden Bone Corpse King recounted a false tale of escaping Shen Yun, and Lord of the Nether River found no sign that he had been controlled.
• Void Cave Devil Emperor ordered Golden Bone Corpse King to lead the Underworld powers to the spatial node.
• Void Cave Devil Emperor activated the node and discovered that it was damaged but repairable within ten days.
• Lord of the Nether River urged the demons to stabilize the passage and cross into the Immortal Realm together, and Void Cave Devil Emperor agreed.
• The demons resolved to enter the Heavenly Domain and blood-sacrifice hundreds of Immortal Cities.

Shen Yun reached Hong Domain and watched events unfold around Sky Devil Mountain as the Underworld prepared to cross realms. After Jun Ling Yuan and a concealed Daluo expert entered the mountain, an explosion at the Criminal Law Hall left Elder Wuchang struck from Soul-Severing Cliff, his fate unknown.

• Shen Yun crossed into Hong Domain with the Spatial Node and judged that the Underworld was preparing a major invasion.
• Shen Yun sensed Jun Ling Yuan and a concealed Daluo expert heading toward Sky Devil Mountain, and suspected Ling Jiuxiao might come there as well.
• Shen Yun concealed himself and continued deducing how the Underworld invasion and Ling Jiuxiao's possible arrival might unfold.
• An explosion erupted at Sky Devil Mountain's Criminal Law Hall, drawing disciples toward the site.
• A disciple reported that Elder Wuchang had been struck off Soul-Severing Cliff with one palm, with his life or death unknown.

Shen Yun arrived at Sky Devil Mountain disguised as the White Tiger Envoy and demanded to meet the acting sect master. After defeating the Black Tortoise Envoy in front of the gathered disciples, he asked to have a proper talk.

• Shen Yun shattered Elder Wuchang’s bones with one palm and sent him off Soul-Severing Cliff when Wuchang attacked him.
• Shen Yun revealed his presence outside the Criminal Law Hall and ordered the Black Tortoise Envoy to come see him.
• The Black Tortoise Envoy intervened and used the Taiyin Heaven and Earth Technique, summoning Black Tortoise and Golden Crow Dharma Images.
• Shen Yun struck with the Heaven and Earth Immortal Sword, overwhelmed the Black Tortoise Envoy, and sent him crashing into a Qiongqi Stone Statue.
• Shen Yun sheathed his sword and asked the Black Tortoise Envoy if they could talk properly.

Shen Yun, posing as the White Tiger Envoy, confronted the Black Tortoise Envoy about Sky Devil Mountain’s plan to join forces with Ling Jiuxiao against the Azure Dragon. After learning that Ling Jiuxiao was coming, Shen Yun left with a hidden Fate Mark controlling Elder Wuchang, while the Black Tortoise Envoy was summoned to the Stone Forest.

• Shen Yun warned the Black Tortoise Envoy that he knew Sky Devil Mountain planned to join forces with Ling Jiuxiao against the Azure Dragon.
• Elder Wuchang arrived with inner-sect allies seeking revenge, but the Black Tortoise Envoy forced them back and sentenced Wuchang to five hundred years at Black Wind Cave.
• Shen Yun secretly bound Elder Wuchang with a Fate Mark, intending to use him to uncover information.
• The Black Tortoise Envoy told Shen Yun they would have to wait for Ling Jiuxiao to arrive before reaching a conclusion, and Shen Yun departed after warning him not to choose the wrong side.
• Li Futuo sent the Black Tortoise Envoy a message that the Nine Heavens Immortal Venerable was about to arrive and ordered him to come to the Stone Forest at once.

Ling Jiuxiao met with Eternal Night Devil Venerable and asked for a Heavenly Heart Saint Orchid to repair his damaged Dao Foundation. The Devil Venerable agreed and revealed the orchid within his Divine Map, where Ling Jiuxiao plucked it as the Stone Forest burst into life.

• Eternal Night Devil Venerable emerged from seclusion and met Ling Jiuxiao at the Stone Forest.
• Ling Jiuxiao told Eternal Night Devil Venerable that Azure Dragon had ambushed him and damaged his Dao Foundation, then asked for a Heavenly Heart Saint Orchid.
• Eternal Night Devil Venerable agreed and unveiled the Innate Divine Map hidden beneath the Stone Forest.
• Ling Jiuxiao recognized something within the Divine Map, and Eternal Night Devil Venerable told him to take it.
• Ling Jiuxiao pierced the Divine Map's restrictions and plucked the Heavenly Heart Immortal Orchid, releasing vast vitality across the Stone Forest.

Ling Jiuxiao described the Azure Dragon’s extraordinary abilities to the gathered powers, who decided to trap and kill him when he entered the Immortal Ancient Battlefield. Their plans were interrupted by a thunderous warning outside the Stone Forest.

• The Eternal Night Devil Venerable praised Ling Jiuxiao and asked how the Azure Dragon had injured him.
• Ling Jiuxiao said the Azure Dragon could control Heaven’s Tribulation, wield the Five Qi as a Personal Universe, and had perfected the Destiny Heavenly Book.
• Li Futuo and the others recognized the Azure Dragon as a grave threat, while Ling Jiuxiao urged them to keep their plans secret.
• Ling Jiuxiao proposed using the Hundred Refinements Immortal King’s divine array to weaken the Azure Dragon, then killing him with a formation forged by the Fourth Array Emperor and supported by Wan Jinsheng.
• The Eternal Night Devil Venerable assigned Li Futuo to raise Xuanwu to Half-Step Daluo before the Immortal Ancient Battlefield opened.
• A voice outside the Stone Forest warned that the sect master had forbidden anyone to approach and demanded to know what crime the intruders had committed.

Ling Jiuxiao discovered that Elder Wuchang carried Azure Dragon’s hidden mark, and Eternal Night Devil Venerable killed him, revealing the power of destiny. A vast passage to the Underworld then opened near Sky Devil Mountain, and seven legendary Underworld figures emerged as the mountain’s defenders realized they were in grave danger.

• Elder Wuchang tried to report the Acting Sect Master and White Tiger Envoy, but the gray-robed Vice Sect Master ordered him to leave and added a thousand years to his sentence.
• Ling Jiuxiao arrived, sensed something unusual about Elder Wuchang, and learned that he had recently dealt with the White Tiger Envoy and Acting Sect Master.
• After connecting Elder Wuchang to Azure Dragon, Ling Jiuxiao declared him dangerous, and Eternal Night Devil Venerable killed him, exposing Azure Dragon’s Destiny Power.
• A tremendous explosion opened a passage to the Underworld, and Eternal Night Devil Venerable and Ling Jiuxiao combined their powers to attack it.
• Nine black void caves appeared in the passage, and seven powerful Underworld figures descended, including the Void Cave Devil Emperor, Lord of the Nether River, and Five Prisons War Gods.

Shen Yun sought Old Turtle’s help after the Underworld attacked Sky Devil Mountain, and Old Turtle began summoning aid while heading toward the battle. At Sky Devil Mountain, the Five Prisons War Gods trapped Ling Jiuxiao as Void Cave Devil Emperor and Lord of the Nether River overwhelmed the defenders, leaving Eternal Night Devil Venerable in grave danger.

• Shen Yun asked Old Turtle whom to contact if several Demon Emperors appeared, and Old Turtle named Myriad Tribulations Immortal King.
• Shen Yun told Old Turtle that the Underworld was attacking Sky Devil Mountain and asked him to contact Turtle Elder; Old Turtle sent word and set off to watch the battle.
• Void Cave Devil Emperor swallowed more than half of the Abyss Demon Flame with his nine black holes as Ling Jiuxiao tried to block the invaders’ retreat.
• The Five Prisons War Gods surrounded Ling Jiuxiao and fought him, forcing him to abandon his attempt to help the others.
• Lord of the Nether River’s Nether Feather Heavenly Burial killed many Sky Devil Mountain officials, while Void Cave Devil Emperor attacked Eternal Night Devil Venerable.

Eternal Night Devil Venerable fought the Void Cave Devil Emperor while trying to reach the Two-Realm Passage, but the Lord of the Nether River joined the battle and overwhelmed him. As Jun Ling Yuan prepared to flee, Shen Yun spotted his escape plan and intervened through the grand formation.

• The Void Cave Devil Emperor summoned his Nine-Headed Dharma Image, and Eternal Night Devil Venerable answered with four Daluo Immortal Artifacts and charged into battle.
• The Lord of the Nether River realized Eternal Night Devil Venerable was aiming for the Two-Realm Passage and warned the Void Cave Devil Emperor, who intercepted him.
• The Lord of the Nether River broke through Li Futuo's formations and joined the fight, leaving Eternal Night Devil Venerable badly wounded and outnumbered.
• Jun Ling Yuan laid out an escape route and secretly sent a voice transmission to Ling Jiuxiao as he prepared to flee.
• Shen Yun noticed Jun Ling Yuan's actions through the peripheral formation and used its power to kick him from behind.

Jun Ling Yuan warned Ling Jiuxiao that Azure Dragon had formed a blockade around Sky Devil Mountain, forcing Ling Jiuxiao and the Eternal Night Devil Venerable to abandon their plan and attempt a desperate escape. Just as they neared freedom, thirty-six formations appeared and trapped them, prompting Ling Jiuxiao to accuse his wicked disciple of betraying him.

• Jun Ling Yuan reported that Azure Dragon had deployed a formation around Sky Devil Mountain, making escape difficult.
• Ling Jiuxiao and the Eternal Night Devil Venerable agreed to flee and burned their origin power to break through the encirclement.
• The pursuing Demons shattered Sky Devil Mountain's protective formation, killing many inner disciples while Outer Sect disciples and servants escaped.
• Ling Jiuxiao and the Eternal Night Devil Venerable endured the Five Prisons War Gods' Dark Matter-infused Fivefold Purgatory and pushed toward the mountain's edge.
• Thirty-six formations suddenly appeared and sealed off the surrounding heaven and earth, and Ling Jiuxiao accused his wicked disciple of revealing the formation.

Shen Yun failed to destroy the Two-Realm Passage, so he began draining its Space Law to weaken it while refining the power he extracted. Meanwhile, Ling Jiuxiao and the Eternal Night Devil Venerable were battered to the brink of death, but the Eternal Night Devil Venerable used his final Heavenly Heart Saint Orchid and broke through the last formations.

• Shen Yun attacked the Two-Realm Passage, found he could not destroy it, and used his Spacetime Law and Five Qi Universe to drain the passage's Space Power.
• Ling Jiuxiao and the Eternal Night Devil Venerable broke through formations as seven great Demons pursued and repeatedly attacked them.
• The Void Cave Devil Emperor taunted the two as their strength and defenses were exhausted, and Ling Jiuxiao's body was destroyed after he broke through three more formations.
• The Eternal Night Devil Venerable revealed his final trump card by refining the Heavenly Heart Saint Orchid and recovering much of his strength.
• The Eternal Night Devil Venerable charged through the final ten formations and shattered the Space Barrier.