Arc 19Primordial Unity and Hidden Schemes

Qi Yun established Primordial Unity, tested his power over Dao Fruits, and arranged for three old friends to attempt True Lord attainment. His journey beyond Xuanhuang uncovered conflicting accounts of the Dao Kings’ plans, recovered the Mountains and Rivers Cauldron, and left him investigating a dangerous remnant consciousness connected to Great Tang.

  • Qi Yun declared Primordial Unity as his Daoist name, destroyed a Buddhist incarnation and seal, and freed the True Lords from All Wonders Heaven.
  • Qi Yun erased Nine Nethers True Lord’s mastery of his Dao Fruit and gave three unclaimed Dao Fruits to Qianxin, Situ Huaji, and Ling for their attempts to become True Lords.
  • Qi Yun defeated the Lord of the Ancient Coffin’s ambush and met True Lord Contemplating the One and Feng Xi, who warned him of the returning Dao Kings.
  • Qi Yun followed the Westward Journey Displacement Map to a forest of True Lord tombs and broke the seal concealing the Mountains and Rivers Cauldron.
  • Qi Yun fought Demon Master Kunpeng, learned that the Dao Kings sought to free their Dao Fruits and seize All Wonders Heaven, and killed the Lord of the Ancient Coffin.
  • Qi Yun recovered the Mountains and Rivers Cauldron’s spirituality and returned to Xuanhuang as True Lord Contemplating the One repeatedly announced that the flower would bloom and the fruit would fall.
  • Qi Yun pursued a Dao King’s residual consciousness, resisted its trap, and uncovered a memory of Chang'an and an ancient Sword Intent behind its gates.
  • The Mountains and Rivers Cauldron awakened and denied that His Majesty had died of old age, while Qi Yun’s attempt to refine the remnant revealed a sleeping presence before its will severed the connection.
Chapters 454–479 Vol. 5 Read

Ch. 454[Primordial Unity]

Qi Yun emerged whole in All Wonders Heaven, inscribed Primordial Unity as his Dao, and was acknowledged as a fellow Daoist by the True Lords. When a golden Buddha incarnation attacked him and condemned him as an evil demon, Qi Yun crushed it and destroyed the Buddhist seal around All Wonders Heaven.

  • Qi Yun inscribed [Primordial Unity] across All Wonders Heaven and declared Primordial Unity as his Daoist name.
  • Wudao True Lord, Desolate Halberd True Lord, Qingyuan True Lord Wendao, Vast Sea and Fine Dust, Sage Wang, and Wheel-Turning True Lord greeted Qi Yun as a fellow Daoist.
  • Qi Yun discovered a hidden net of Buddhist Sanskrit characters sealing the outer barrier of All Wonders Heaven.
  • A towering golden Buddha manifested, condemned Qi Yun, and raised a hand to suppress him.
  • Qi Yun challenged the Buddha to descend in its true body, then summoned a vast chaotic hand that crushed the incarnation and annihilated the Buddhist seal.

Ch. 455All Daos Beneath the Heavens Pay Homage, Ten Thousand Laws Kowtow at Court

After the seal between All Wonders Heaven and the Xuanhuang Home Realm broke, the True Lords returned and accepted a fragile peace shaped by Qi Yun’s influence. Qi Yun rejected their overtures, entered seclusion, and examined the newly revealed power of his Hunyuan Great Luo realm.

  • The True Lords broke free of All Wonders Heaven and returned to their homes and factions in the Xuanhuang Home Realm.
  • The returned True Lords surveyed fifty years of change and largely accepted the established balance between the demonic path in the Central Land and the righteous path in the northwest.
  • Qi Yun returned to the Wuji Sacred Sect and destroyed the communication talismans sent by True Lords seeking to meet him.
  • Qi Yun announced that he was entering seclusion and told others not to disturb him unless it was a matter of great importance.
  • Qi Yun closed his eyes and viewed the Law Technique Panel in his Purple Mansion, which stated that Hunyuan Great Luo could forcibly pluck one Dao Fruit.

Ch. 456I'll Pluck Your Dao Fruit!

Qi Yun used his Primordial Unity station to reach into All Wonders Heaven and forcibly seize and suppress the ownerless Five Elements Dao Fruit. After testing the reaction of the True Lords’ bound Dao Fruits, he targeted the Nine Nethers Dao Fruit, leaving its master under threat.

  • Qi Yun reached into All Wonders Heaven and grasped the ownerless Five Elements Dao Fruit with a vast hand.
  • The Five Elements Dao Fruit resisted violently, but Qi Yun suppressed its chaotic power and returned it to its place, docile and unchanged.
  • Qi Yun turned his attention to the True Lords’ Dao Fruits, causing their masters to feel watched and helpless without identifying the source.
  • Qi Yun selected the Nine Nethers Dao Fruit of Nine Nethers Sun-Devouring True Lord as his next experiment.
  • Qi Yun’s great hand appeared above the Nine Nethers Dao Fruit and began to seize it, prompting an angry shout of protest.

Ch. 457The World in His Palm

Nine Nethers Sun-Devouring True Lord confronted Qi Yun after Qi Yun’s enormous hand threatened his Dao Fruit in All Wonders Heaven. Nine Nethers True Lord summoned his Divine Court and manifested a Nine Nethers Great World to resist, while Qi Yun enlarged his hand and began refining.

  • Nine Nethers True Lord sensed a threat to his Dao Fruit, rushed to All Wonders Heaven, and found Qi Yun’s enormous hand reaching for it.
  • Qi Yun redirected the hand toward Nine Nethers True Lord, who unleashed his Dao Domain and manifested the Nine Nethers Divine Court.
  • The hand collided with Nine Nethers True Lord’s domain, dimming the stars within his Divine Court and forcing him to resist with both hands.
  • Nine Nethers True Lord linked with his Dao Fruit and manifested a Nine Nethers Great World, using its power to suppress Qi Yun’s hand.
  • Qi Yun enlarged the hand to encompass the Great World, and a new [Refining-] line appeared beneath [Hunyuan Great Luo] on the Law Technique Panel.

Ch. 458Erasure!

Qi Yun used Primordial Unity to seize and erase Nine Nethers True Lord’s master-bound Dao Fruit, leaving it ownerless and learning the technique’s limits. He then turned to the Hunyuan Dao Fruit and began testing whether anyone besides himself could follow the path he had opened.

  • Qi Yun manifested a second giant hand and used both hands to overpower Nine Nethers True Lord and grasp his Dao Fruit.
  • Qi Yun brought the hands together, erasing Nine Nethers True Lord’s mastery and turning the Dao Fruit into an ownerless one.
  • Qi Yun’s Law Technique updated to allow him to forcibly pluck one Dao Fruit or erase its master, and he put away the Nine Nethers Dao Fruit.
  • Qi Yun learned that using Primordial Unity to pluck or erase a master-bound Dao Fruit exhausted his current strength.
  • Qi Yun produced his Hunyuan Dao Fruit Golden Core and prepared to test whether his path could be walked by someone other than himself.

Ch. 459[Golden Core Dao Attainment Method]

At Green Mountain Daoist Temple, Qi Yun defined the strengths and risks of his Golden Core Dao Attainment Method and began planning around All Wonders Heaven. He summoned his three Dharma Bodies, told them he would soon leave Xuanhuang, and tasked them with protecting three Great True Persons as they attempted to become True Lords.

  • Qi Yun explained that his Golden Core was both a Dao Fruit and a Primordial Spirit, creating a powerful but exceptionally difficult path to True Lord attainment.
  • Qi Yun recognized that his own success depended on extraordinary accumulated Dao resonance and a special opportunity, then concluded that the obstacle to helping others lay in All Wonders Heaven.
  • Qi Yun summoned Great Sun Purple Ultimate True Lord, Youquan Blood Sea True Lord, and his Sword Intent incarnation, who formed a defensive formation and congratulated him on becoming a True Lord.
  • Qi Yun told the three Dharma Bodies that he would leave Xuanhuang soon to personally thank two indistinct figures he saw in the heavens.
  • Qi Yun said he would pluck three unclaimed Dao Fruits from All Wonders Heaven and ordered the Dharma Bodies to protect three Great True Persons during their attempts to reach the True Lord realm.
  • Qi Yun warned that other beings above True Lord might have left backup plans in Xuanhuang, and the three Dharma Bodies grew grave.

Ch. 460Bestowing the Title... True Lord

Qi Yun warned Youquan Blood Sea True Lord and the other Dharma Bodies that multiple beings above the True Lord realm were plotting against Xuanhuang, then gave them instructions before his departure. Later, he summoned Daoist Qianxin, Situ Huaji, and True Person Ling, greeted them as old friends, and stunned them by offering to help them become True Lords.

  • Qi Yun revealed that more than one being above the True Lord realm sought to undermine Xuanhuang, while the other beings were still waiting after the World-Honored One's plans failed.
  • Qi Yun dispelled attention from their discussion, explained the danger of speaking too much about those beings, and gave the three Dharma Bodies instructions and emergency plans.
  • Daoist Qianxin, Situ Huaji, and True Person Ling arrived at Green Mountain and knelt before Qi Yun, addressing him as Hunyuan Great Luo True Lord.
  • Qi Yun invited the three to sit for tea and said he had summoned them to catch up as old friends.
  • Qi Yun told Daoist Qianxin, Situ Huaji, and True Person Ling that he intended to help them become True Lords, leaving them speechless with shock.

Ch. 461Revere Me as a God

Qi Yun explained to Xuanming that the Dao Fruits he plucked would bind their bearers to Primordial Unity, then spent thirty years preparing Qianxin, Situ Huaji, and Ling to become True Lords. At Mystic Grinding Cliff, he gave each man a Dao Fruit and left as their dangerous fusions began.

  • Qianxin, Situ Huaji, and True Person Ling thanked Qi Yun for the chance to become True Lords, and he gave them tokens to take to Mystic Grinding Cliff.
  • Qi Yun told Xuanming that True Lords made with his Dao Fruits would be governed by Primordial Unity, and explained that he had spared his master so Xuanming’s Dao could remain his own.
  • Over thirty years, Qianxin, Situ Huaji, and Ling trained under the Dharma Bodies of three True Lords and reached the Great True Person Realm.
  • Qi Yun opened a passage to All Wonders Heaven and gave Qianxin the Formless Myriad Transformations Dao Fruit, Situ Huaji the Mystic Sea Metal Command Dao Fruit, and Ling the Myriad Yao Great Devil Dao Fruit.
  • The three men began fusing with their Dao Fruits as strange phenomena filled Mystic Grinding Cliff, and Qi Yun left, knowing their test and the task of guarding them had just begun.

Ch. 462All Four Swords Unleashed!

Qi Yun encountered the Lord of the Ancient Coffin beyond Xuanhuang and fought him with the Immortal-Slaying Dao Fruit and Primordial Unity. He destroyed the four coffin-bearing True Lords and shattered the ancient coffin, but the Lord escaped with a golden feather, leaving Qi Yun to wonder who had helped him.

  • Qi Yun followed a guiding spiritual light into the void beyond Xuanhuang, where the Lord of the Ancient Coffin and four coffin-bearing True Lords surrounded him.
  • Qi Yun summoned the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and annihilated the four coffin-bearing True Lords.
  • The Lord of the Ancient Coffin blocked Qi Yun’s sword strike with his coffin, but Qi Yun shattered it with a Primordial Unity punch.
  • Qi Yun pursued the wounded Lord of the Ancient Coffin and struck at him again.
  • The Lord of the Ancient Coffin used a golden feather to escape across the void, and Qi Yun suspected that someone above the True Lord realm had aided him.

Ch. 463The Long River and the Immortal Island

Qi Yun followed a formation through Heaven and Earth's Long River of Time to an immortal island, where True Lord Canyi Budao tested his cultivation with a surprise attack. After they clashed, Canyi praised the tyrannical power of Qi Yun’s Primordial Unity Dao, and Qi Yun noticed someone stepping out beside him.

  • A formation carried Qi Yun into Heaven and Earth's Long River of Time and down to an immortal island in its deepest reaches.
  • A figure formed from the island’s immortal mist attacked Qi Yun from behind, and Qi Yun broke through its control of space and time to counter with his palm.
  • The island suppressed the force of their clash; Qi Yun stumbled back, while the attacker stayed in place with a faint trace of blood at his mouth.
  • Qi Yun recognized the attacker as Patriarch Canyi, and True Lord Canyi Budao revealed himself and praised Qi Yun’s Primordial Unity Dao.
  • Canyi said Qi Yun’s Dao could have absorbed hundreds of years of his cultivation, and Qi Yun apologized for failing to restrain its power.
  • As Qi Yun prepared to speak, he noticed a figure stepping out beside True Lord Contemplating the One.

Ch. 464[Dao King]

Qi Yun learned that the Great Tide of Time would strip away Xuanhuang’s protection and allow World-Honored One and the other Dao Kings to return. True Lord Contemplating the One revealed why the Dao Kings sought to destroy their home realm, leaving Qi Yun to grasp that they feared it producing another Dao King.

  • Qi Yun met Feng Xi, who told him they could speak again once he attained the position of Dao King.
  • True Lord Contemplating the One explained that the Great Tide of Time would weaken Xuanhuang’s protection and let the enemy return.
  • True Lord Contemplating the One revealed that he and Feng Xi had severed part of their foundations and fallen from Dao King to Great Perfection True Lord to remain near Xuanhuang.
  • True Lord Contemplating the One warned Qi Yun that World-Honored One would target him for ruining his plans, giving Qi Yun a reason to help resist the returning enemy.
  • Qi Yun asked why the Dao Kings wanted to destroy Xuanhuang, and True Lord Contemplating the One asked whether he would want another Qi Yun to appear there.
  • Qi Yun realized that the Dao Kings sought to destroy Xuanhuang because they believed the world needed no more Dao Kings.

Ch. 465Scheming!

True Lord Contemplating the One explained that the Dao Kings planned to destroy Xuanhuang and All Wonders Heaven to prevent new rivals from rising, then sent Qi Yun toward a chance to acquire another Imperial Weapon. After Qi Yun departed, True Lord Contemplating the One and True Lord Feng Xi revealed they had failed to probe his Dao and were plotting to use him again.

  • True Lord Contemplating the One explained that destroying Xuanhuang and All Wonders Heaven would stop new Dao Kings from emerging and protect the existing ones.
  • At Passing River Falls, True Lord Contemplating the One warned Qi Yun that the Great Tide of Time was approaching and gave him the Westward Journey Displacement Map to seek another Great Tang Imperial Weapon.
  • True Lord Contemplating the One gave Qi Yun spiritual light to help him return, and Qi Yun left the immortal island for Xuanhuang.
  • After Qi Yun departed, the waters of time closed around Long Ages Immortal Island and sealed it away.
  • True Lord Feng Xi told True Lord Contemplating the One that she had found no way to probe Qi Yun because his will guarded his Dao without any flaw.
  • True Lord Contemplating the One revealed a hazy Dao intent resonating with Qi Yun and said they would risk using him again to achieve their goal.

Ch. 466Old Fox! Little Fox!

Qi Yun questioned the motives of True Lord Contemplating the One despite accepting his gifts, then followed the map into the Unseen. There he uncovered a vast forest of steles and recognized them as True Lord tombs.

  • Cai Kun celebrated Qi Yun's encounter with two Dao Kings, but Qi Yun questioned whether it was good fortune or a calamity.
  • Qi Yun warned that True Lord Contemplating the One's kindness was suspicious because he was a founding patriarch of the Holy Sect and might not truly want to protect Xuanhuang.
  • Qi Yun used the ancient Westward Journey Displacement Map to follow its arrow through the void toward a destination in the Unseen.
  • Qi Yun and Cai Kun arrived at a vast stone forest filled with colossal steles that radiated the remnants of an ancient status.
  • Qi Yun swept away the steles' weathered surfaces, revealing dark red stone carved with enormous ancient characters, and Cai Kun identified them as True Lord tombs.

Ch. 467The Might of Empty Attainment

Qi Yun entered the forest of monuments to uncover how over a hundred True Lords had died, but an unknown force severed his attempt to trace their history. He subdued the monuments’ chaotic Dao intent with his Primordial Unity power, allowing Cai Shen to sense a familiar presence that he recognized as Fourteenth Brother.

  • Qi Yun tried to deduce the origins of the True Lords’ gravestones, but a black crack severed every causal thread and blocked his investigation.
  • Qi Yun followed the Westward Journey Displacement Map into the forest of monuments, while Cai Shen retreated into the bronze coin ornament.
  • Cai Shen could not sense the other Imperial Weapons amid the monuments’ chaotic Dao intent, so Qi Yun rose above the forest and used his Primordial Unity power to suppress and refine it.
  • With the surrounding wills subdued, Cai Shen sensed a familiar Great Tang presence beneath a monument and identified it as Fourteenth Brother.

Ch. 468One Step Further!

Qi Yun found the stele containing Fourteenth Brother’s presence and broke its powerful seal by borrowing the Sacred Yuan Literary Star Dao Fruit. After an unknown demonic wind stole the seal’s scattered remains, Qi Yun turned his attention toward the void where it had vanished.

  • Cai Shen told Qi Yun that Fourteenth Brother’s presence came from a dark-gold, dragon-patterned stele in the northwest of the stele forest, which held a powerful seal.
  • Qi Yun devoured the residual Dao Intent and power throughout the stele forest, strengthening his Hunyuan Great Luo Dao and updating the Law Technique Panel.
  • Qi Yun shattered the dark-gold stele and summoned the power of the Sacred Yuan Literary Star Dao Fruit to confront the seal’s platinum phantom.
  • Qi Yun used the Confucian Dao principle that the people came first to destroy the phantom and break the seal.
  • An ink-black demonic wind swept away the scattered platinum remains before Qi Yun could capture them, and Qi Yun angrily looked toward its escape route.

Ch. 469Great Sage

Qi Yun pursued the demonic wind using the Spring and Autumn Brush Technique, only to be lured into a trap by the Lord of the Ancient Coffin and a hidden Demon Race Great Sage. As Qi Yun and the Great Sage prepared to pit their peerless formations against each other, Cai Kun arrived and recognized the Great Sage as Demon Master Kunpeng.

  • Qi Yun traced the demonic wind’s cause-and-effect thread and raced after it, while Cai Kun took the iron box that carried the faint presence of Fourteenth Brother and followed.
  • Qi Yun sensed an ambush in the darkness, where the Lord of the Ancient Coffin and a Demon Race Great Sage had sealed the void with nine grotto-heavens.
  • Qi Yun summoned the Immortal-Slaying Dao Fruit and began forming the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, frightening the Lord of the Ancient Coffin.
  • The black-robed Great Sage revealed himself as a formation master and raised a vast formation of nine grotto-heavens, depicting the rise and decline of all things.
  • Cai Kun arrived, recognized the formation as the Hetu Luoshu Grand Formation, and identified the black-robed Daoist as Demon Master Kunpeng.

Ch. 470Demon Master

Qi Yun faced Demon Master Kunpeng, who revealed himself as an ancient master of the Hetu Luoshu Grand Formation, and unleashed the complete Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation against him. Kunpeng was annihilated but reappeared through a mysterious escape, offering Qi Yun another life to destroy and leaving their confrontation unresolved.

  • Cai Shen identified the black-robed Daoist as Demon Master Kunpeng and explained the origins of the Hetu Luoshu Grand Formation.
  • Kunpeng activated the formation, evolving a vast world that pressured Qi Yun's phantom Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and gradually suppressed its destructive force.
  • Qi Yun plunged the Immortal-Slaying Dao Fruit into his chest, summoned the true formation diagram, and greatly amplified the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
  • Kunpeng reversed the Hetu Luoshu Grand Formation and condensed it into an ancient Mirror Heaven connected to Heaven and Earth's Long River of Time.
  • The Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation annihilated Kunpeng, but he re-formed from demonic mist and offered Qi Yun another life to take.

Ch. 471The Truth

Demon Master Kunpeng warned Qi Yun not to trust Canyi and showed him the Xuanhuang Treasure Tree to explain the nature of Dao Kings. Qi Yun concluded that the World-Honored One and the other Dao Kings intended to destroy Xuanhuang so their Dao Fruits could break free and become new Xuanhuangs.

  • Demon Master Kunpeng recreated a hall in the void and told Qi Yun not to believe anything Canyi said.
  • Demon Master Kunpeng conjured an image of the Xuanhuang Treasure Tree and explained that all existence originated from it.
  • Demon Master Kunpeng pointed out a Buddhist golden fruit absorbing purple qi and explained how Dao Kings formed their own realms and Dao Fruits.
  • Qi Yun deduced that the World-Honored One and the other Dao Kings sought to destroy Xuanhuang and free their Dao Fruits from its branches.

Ch. 472Purpose

Qi Yun learned that the Dao Kings sought not only to destroy Xuanhuang but also to seize the sole All Wonders Heaven and control the next era. After Demon Master Kunpeng vanished, Qi Yun killed the Lord of the Ancient Coffin and left with Cai Kun.

  • Qi Yun asked why the Dao Kings did not cooperate, and Demon Master Kunpeng explained that only one All Wonders Heaven existed for them to claim.
  • Qi Yun realized the Dao Kings planned to seize All Wonders Heaven amid Xuanhuang's collapse, then asked Kunpeng about his role in the coming conflict.
  • Kunpeng described himself as a defeated demon driven into hiding, then collapsed the Mirror Heaven hall and sent Qi Yun back to the void.
  • The Lord of the Ancient Coffin noticed Kunpeng had vanished, and Qi Yun trapped him inside a corner of the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
  • Qi Yun killed the Lord of the Ancient Coffin with one sword strike and gathered twenty-four black pearls from the remaining Dao intent.
  • Qi Yun reflected on Kunpeng's revelations, then took Cai Kun and sped away.

Ch. 473Flowers Bloom, Fruit Is Picked

True Lord Contemplating the One and True Lord Feng Xi discussed the need to advance their plan as another presence disturbed the Long River of Time. Qi Yun opened the ancient iron chest and revealed the Great Tang’s Mountains and Rivers Cauldron, an Imperial Weapon of defense and suppression.

  • True Lord Contemplating the One and True Lord Feng Xi saw ripples in the Long River of Time and discussed the threat posed by the World-Honored One and the others.
  • True Lord Contemplating the One declared that the flower would bloom only when he allowed it and that nobody else would claim its fruit.
  • True Lord Contemplating the One gazed into the river and saw a figure advancing through time as its Qi approached a threshold.
  • Cai Shen showed Qi Yun the iron chest, whose surface was covered in more than a hundred seals placed by different True Lords.
  • Qi Yun dissolved the seals with Primordial Unity’s power and opened the chest, revealing the Mountains and Rivers Cauldron.
  • Cai Shen identified the cauldron as Fourteenth Brother’s Imperial Weapon, and Qi Yun assessed its powerful defensive Dao intent.

Ch. 474Mountains and Rivers Cauldron

Qi Yun awakened the Mountains and Rivers Cauldron’s spirituality and took it with him to recover, then received a cryptic message from True Lord Contemplating the One through the token. He left for the Xuanhuang Home Realm, while True Lord Contemplating the One watched the Long River of Time and said the moment was near.

  • Cai Shen called to the silent Mountains and Rivers Cauldron, and Qi Yun determined that its spirituality had been suppressed by seals laid down by more than a hundred True Lords.
  • Qi Yun used Primordial Unity power to untangle the cauldron’s spiritual channels until its dragons and defensive Dao patterns awakened.
  • Qi Yun said the cauldron needed time to recover and took it with him, while Cai Shen thanked him and offered the brothers’ help.
  • As Qi Yun prepared to return to Xuanhuang, True Lord Contemplating the One’s token relayed the words, “The flower-will bloom- The fruit-will fall- Are you-ready?”
  • Qi Yun said someone could not wait any longer and departed with Cai Kun for the Xuanhuang Home Realm.
  • On Long Ages Immortal Island, True Lord Contemplating the One said the moment was very near, while True Lord Feng Xi watched in silence.

Ch. 475Making a Move

Qi Yun considered True Lord Contemplating the One’s cryptic prophecy and concluded that the Mountains and Rivers Cauldron may have been sealed to conceal what it knew. As the cauldron slowly recovered, Qi Yun waited for the hidden players to make their move.

  • Qi Yun tended the recovering Mountains and Rivers Cauldron and speculated that “the flower will bloom, the fruit will fall” meant a Dao Fruit was nearing maturity.
  • Cai Shen judged that Demon Master Kunpeng’s account of the Dao King and the Xuanhuang Treasure Tree was likely at least partly true.
  • Qi Yun asked how the Mountains and Rivers Cauldron had been sealed, and Cai Shen recalled that it vanished after the Demon-Subduing Great Tribulation until Qi Yun found it in a forest of steles.
  • Qi Yun reasoned that more than a hundred True Lords had sealed not only the cauldron but also what it knew, and told Cai Shen to stay beside it as it recovered.
  • Qi Yun expanded his awareness across Xuanhuang, sensed the World-Honored One, Demon Master Kunpeng, True Lord Contemplating the One, and other hidden beings, and waited for them to act.

Ch. 476Traitor!

Qi Yun detected a Dao King's residual consciousness near Xuanhuang and realized it was bait meant to draw him out. He went to investigate for a chance to strengthen his understanding of the Dao King realm, but the remnant surged toward him and called him a traitor connected to Shen.

  • Qi Yun sensed a warning from True Lord Contemplating the One's token and discovered a Dao King's residual consciousness drifting near the True Lord Stele Forest ruins.
  • Qi Yun concluded that someone had placed the remnant as bait to lure him out, but decided to pursue it for the chance to deepen his understanding of the Dao King realm.
  • Qi Yun left Cai Kun behind to nurture the Mountains and Rivers Cauldron and traveled alone into the void.
  • Qi Yun approached the remnant and found that a stronger power had erased most of its memories and existence.
  • The remnant suddenly rushed toward Qi Yun and whispered that he carried the presence of Shen, calling him a traitor.

Ch. 478Chang'an!

Qi Yun sealed the contaminated Dao King's remnant thought after tracing its hidden will to a distant watcher and discovering that its memories showed the ancient imperial city of Chang'an. Back at the Wuji Sacred Sect, he learned True Lord Contemplating the One had repeated his cryptic message and chose to wait for the flower to bloom, while the sealed remnant began stirring again.

  • Qi Yun traced the chilling will attached to the remnant thought to a watcher in the darkness, recognized the figure behind it, and resisted the trap of refining the remnant.
  • Qi Yun suppressed the remnant with a Dao pattern and saw its final memory: Chang'an, the ancient capital of Great Tang where the twenty-four Imperial Weapons were enshrined.
  • Qi Yun sealed the remnant thought and returned to the Green Mountain Daoist Temple, telling Cai Shen that refining it recklessly could cause an accident.
  • Cai Shen told Qi Yun that True Lord Contemplating the One had sent the message, “The flower will bloom, the fruit will fall,” and Qi Yun decided to wait and see what it brought.
  • True Lord Contemplating the One anticipated that events would soon unfold as True Lord Feng Xi watched silently, and the sealed remnant’s images began flowing again as Chang'an’s gate opened slightly wider.

Ch. 479Mountains and Rivers Awakens!

Qi Yun witnessed the Mountains and Rivers Cauldron fully awaken, then learned that His Majesty had not died of old age. When Qi Yun tried to refine a sealed remnant consciousness, its hidden will stopped him, while an unseen gaze surveyed him and two distant powers before withdrawing.

  • On the thirty-ninth day, Qi Yun saw a pure, ancient Sword Intent behind the gates in the remnant consciousness and failed to deduce its origins.
  • On the forty-fifth day, the Mountains and Rivers Cauldron fully awakened, submitted to Qi Yun, and agreed to stay by his side.
  • The Mountains and Rivers Cauldron told Qi Yun and Cai Shen that His Majesty had not died of old age, but could not explain further.
  • During the night, Qi Yun began refining the remnant consciousness and glimpsed a void with something sleeping inside before its will severed the connection.
  • An emotionless gaze watched Qi Yun, then turned toward the World-Honored One’s Dao field and True Lord Contemplating the One’s Long Ages Immortal Island before withdrawing.
Arc 19 of 20
Arc 19 of 20