Chapter Summaries

Qi Yun entered the ruined Buddhist Mirror Heaven of [Miluoluo Mountain], where lingering Buddhist intent suppressed his devil-path cultivation, and used divination to locate [Karma-Burning Valley]. He found Zhu Qing and Shi Xin fighting over a secret location there, and prepared to intervene with a faint golden light.

• Qi Yun entered the [Miluoluo Mountain] Remnant Realm and concealed his devil-path techniques to ease the Buddhist suppression.
• Qi Yun used his Divine Soul and the "Blood-Guided Profound Mysteries" technique to determine the direction of [Karma-Burning Valley].
• An explosion disrupted Qi Yun's concealment, but he realized Zhu Qing and Shi Xin were fighting each other, not targeting him.
• Zhu Qing trapped Shi Xin with the [Eight Gate Absolute Baleful Intent Stakes], but Shi Xin used his compass and restriction techniques to disrupt the cage and escape its attacks.
• Qi Yun decided to take advantage of their fight and formed a Method Formula as faint golden light appeared around him.

Qi Yun summoned Buddhist-empowered Tiger-Walking Chandana to overpower Zhu Qing and Shi Xin, then stopped them from escaping. After a bronze Dharma Protector Vajra appeared and nearly killed both men, it turned its attention to Qi Yun.

• Qi Yun infused the four Tiger-Walking Chandana with Buddhist light, strengthening their bodies and igniting their sabers with Buddhist flames.
• The Tiger-Walking Chandana attacked Zhu Qing and Shi Xin, whose demonic techniques and restrictions were weakened by the Buddhist power around them.
• When Zhu Qing and Shi Xin tried to flee, Qi Yun used Dragon-Binding Cangues to halt them, but Shi Xin escaped underground while Zhu Qing unleashed his suppressed demonic Qi and shattered the restraints.
• A bronze man suddenly struck Zhu Qing and forced Shi Xin out of the earth, leaving both Qi Refining Peak cultivators gravely injured.
• The bronze Dharma Protector Vajra appeared before Qi Yun, invoked the Buddha, and approached him with its golden eyes fixed on him.

True Person Qianxin learned that Black Mountain True Person had reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage and likely leaked the sect’s Dao Foundation secrets, jeopardizing Qi Yun’s first attainment. Meanwhile, Qi Yun used the Dharma Protector Vajra’s mistaken belief that he was an Arhat to make Zhu Qing and Shi Xin explain Karma-Burning Valley.

• True Person Qianxin noticed the old True Person’s deteriorated condition, and the old True Person revealed that Black Mountain True Person had advanced to Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• The old True Person told True Person Qianxin that someone in the southern imperial dynasty had attained the [Primordial Heaven Ultimate Law Dao Foundation], likely because Black Mountain had leaked the secret.
• The old True Person explained that Qi Yun could pursue the diminished Dao Foundation or abandon it, then suggested the still-unclaimed [Primordial Heaven] Dao Foundation.
• Qi Yun realized the Dharma Protector Vajra mistook him for an Arhat because of Mingxin’s lingering Buddhist presence, and he ordered it to bring Zhu Qing and Shi Xin to him.
• Qi Yun asked Zhu Qing and Shi Xin to explain [Karma-Burning Valley], and the two injured men agreed under the Dharma Protector Vajra’s threatening presence.

After learning that the sentient Foundation Establishment Object in Karma-Burning Valley had defeated three Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivators, Qi Yun used [Blood-Guided Profound Mysteries] to discover that Mingxin’s Buddhist beads could suppress it. Recovered enough to act, he rode into the valley concealed on the Dharma Protector Vajra, leaving the watching Holy Sect disciples too afraid to interfere.

• Zhu Qing and Shi Xin separately told Qi Yun that the sentient Foundation Establishment Object had injured three senior brothers and hidden in the valley’s dangerous depths.
• Qi Yun ruled out defeating the object himself and doubted the Dharma Protector Vajra could oppose it because both shared the arhat’s power.
• Qi Yun endured three days of karmic backlash while using [Blood-Guided Profound Mysteries] and [Gather Form and Disperse Qi] to divine a way past the impasse.
• Qi Yun learned that the Buddhist beads containing Mingxin’s lingering will and Buddhist source held an arhat’s [Dao Position] that could suppress the object’s sentience.
• After resting and recovering, Qi Yun sent the Dharma Protector Vajra toward Karma-Burning Valley while concealing himself as clear Qi attached to it.
• The Holy Sect disciples outside the valley recognized the Vajra and hid, allowing Qi Yun to enter safely on its back.

Qi Yun reached the pagoda forest in Karma-Burning Valley and used Mingxin’s prayer beads to defeat the wrathful arhat guarding the fire-element Foundation Establishment Object. He seized the Wisdom King Visage, but only two prayer beads remained, and he prepared to flee.

• The Dharma Protector Vajra carried Qi Yun through Karma-Burning Valley’s deadly Buddhist restrictions to a peaceful forest of pagodas.
• Qi Yun found the azure Wisdom King Visage floating above a dark-gold pagoda and recognized it as a fire-element Foundation Establishment Object.
• Qi Yun threw Mingxin’s white-gold prayer beads toward the mask, causing the two treasures to summon opposing arhat phantoms.
• Mingxin’s phantom overcame the wrathful arhat by dissolving his attacks, then struck him down with a beam of Buddhist light.
• The defeated arhat returned to the Wisdom King Visage, and Mingxin’s prayer beads knocked the mask from the pagoda and brought it to Qi Yun.
• Qi Yun caught the Wisdom King Visage and saw that only two prayer beads remained.

Qi Yun learned that the southern imperial dynasty had claimed the First Attainment of his intended Dao Foundation, blocking his route to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage. Deng Yin offered the more difficult [Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation] with all required objects supplied by the Holy Sect, leaving Qi Yun wary of the price behind the offer.

• Qi Yun secretly returned to his residence with the [Wisdom King Visage], still needing three more Foundation Establishment Objects.
• Deng Yin and True Person Qianxin visited Qi Yun and revealed that the southern imperial dynasty had attained the [Primordial Heaven Ultimate Law Dao Foundation].
• True Person Qianxin explained the advantage of First Attainment, and Deng Yin warned that without it Qi Yun could never enter the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Deng Yin proposed the higher-order [Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation], whose First Attainment remained unclaimed despite its greater difficulty.
• Deng Yin told Qi Yun that the Holy Sect had already gathered all the required Foundation Establishment Objects and would supply them.
• Qi Yun suppressed his initial joy and grew wary of the obligations that might accompany the Holy Sect's offer.

Qi Yun weighed the relatively safe [Primordial Heaven Ultimate Law Dao Foundation] against the lethal [Supreme Dao Foundation], which the Holy Sect called [Great Luo Myriad Laws]. He left without choosing, but his resolve began to tilt toward the dangerous path, while the old True Person predicted he would not settle for safety.

• The old True Person told Qi Yun that none of the twenty-three people who had attempted [Great Luo Myriad Laws] had made it halfway and gave him one month to decide.
• Qi Yun considered the risks and rewards of both Dao Foundations, recalling his past struggles and wondering whether his abilities could make him the sole exception.
• True Person Qianxin questioned whether the old True Person would let Qi Yun attempt the [Supreme Dao Foundation] and called the path a pit that had swallowed countless prodigies.
• The old True Person said Qi Yun might break free of his constraints and succeed, arguing that an ordinary path could hold back the perversity in his nature.
• When True Person Qianxin suggested Qi Yun might choose the safer option, the old True Person declared that he would not.

True Person Deng Yin affirmed that Qi Yun alone would choose whether to pursue the dangerous [Supreme Dao Foundation], while True Person Southern Dipper warned of the risks and relayed True Lord Holy Might’s protection. Deng Yin secretly led Qi Yun to a hidden grotto containing a vast formation and nine-colored cloud Qi, revealing it as the place where Great Luo attained the Dao.

• True Person Southern Dipper questioned Deng Yin’s decision to let Qi Yun pursue the [Supreme Dao Foundation] and warned that Deng Yin might have no guide after reincarnation.
• True Person Southern Dipper told Deng Yin that True Lord Holy Might had pledged to punish anyone who interfered with Deng Yin’s reincarnation or returning soul.
• Deng Yin told True Person Southern Dipper that Qi Yun had never been instructed or forced to choose a Dao Foundation.
• Qi Yun found Green Mountain Daoist Temple empty, then secretly met Deng Yin behind the mountain after confirming no one had followed him.
• Deng Yin brought Qi Yun through a concealed entrance into a vast repository of Daoist texts and then into a grotto containing three enormous talismans beneath nine-colored cloud Qi.
• Deng Yin revealed that the grotto was where Great Luo attained the Dao.

The old True Person explained that Qi Yun’s impending Great Luo Myriad Laws was one of the twelve Supreme Dao Foundations, attainable only at a place where its previous bearer had died. He revealed that the cavern had been his own last chance to rebuild his damaged Dao Foundation, but he had not taken it because he was afraid.

• The old True Person told Qi Yun that Great Luo Myriad Laws was a Supreme Dao Foundation, one of twelve that could suppress all other Dao Foundations.
• He explained that Supreme Dao Foundations required a place of Dao attainment where a previous bearer had died, and that no successor could attain the same foundation until its bearer died or underwent Liberation by Violence.
• Qi Yun realized that the cavern was the place where the previous bearer of Great Luo Myriad Laws had died, and asked his teacher about it.
• The old True Person revealed that his master had found the cavern as a last hope after his own Dao Foundation was damaged, but he had ultimately refused to start anew because he was afraid.

Qi Yun accepted the dangerous attempt to attain the Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation despite the deaths of twenty-three previous prodigies and the lingering resentment in the place of Dao attainment. Deng Yin secured permission for Qi Yun to proceed, while True Person Southern Dipper relayed that the True Lord recognized the foundation but would not concern himself with who attained it.

• Deng Yin explained that fear had made him abandon his own chance to replace his damaged Dao Foundation, and said he had chosen Qi Yun for his daring, resolute nature.
• Deng Yin warned Qi Yun that his master’s master had killed the previous Great Luo holder, leaving resentment and added dangers in the place of Dao attainment, and had suffered severe karmic backlash.
• Deng Yin asked whether Qi Yun truly intended to pursue the Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation, and Qi Yun confirmed his resolve without hesitation.
• True Person Southern Dipper challenged Deng Yin about Qi Yun’s decision, and Deng Yin said, “I am no match for him.”
• True Person Southern Dipper agreed to give Qi Yun a chance and told Deng Yin to bring him the next day.
• True Person Southern Dipper told Deng Yin that the True Lord recognized the Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation but would not concern himself with who attained it.

True Person Southern Dipper brought Qi Yun to a hidden cultivation site and left him to pursue the Great Luo Foundation Establishment method from a seemingly blank stele. Qi Yun discovered that the method had to be contemplated and imprinted upon his Divine Soul, and began his path toward the Great Luo Myriad Laws.

• True Person Southern Dipper led Qi Yun through the apricot grove and told him to cultivate beside a waterfall, a pool of genuine Innate One, and a pitch-black stele.
• True Person Southern Dipper explained that the stele held the original Great Luo Foundation Establishment method and that Qi Yun could not rely on his predecessors' experiences.
• Qi Yun recognized the blue-gray water as genuine Innate One, distinct from the imitative True Qi produced by his cultivation method.
• Qi Yun examined the blank stele for an extended time, trying his Divine Sense, True Qi, Law Techniques, and Blood-Guided Profound Mysteries without success.
• Qi Yun entered a state of deep perception and saw shifting Dao script appear on the stele within his perception.
• Qi Yun realized he had to contemplate and imprint the Dao traces into his Divine Soul, then use them to create his own Great Luo Myriad Laws.

Qi Yun activated the Law Technique Panel’s automatic deduction of Great Luo Heaven and entered the Innate One Qi Pool to pursue a Supreme Dao Foundation, drawing the attention of powerful beings across the lands. Guan Sihai repelled their probes from the Wuji Sacred Sect, and the chapter ended with Chiyang warning True Person Southern Dipper that the pool seemed to be leaking.

• Qi Yun saw Great Luo Heaven begin auto-updating on the Law Technique Panel and entered the Innate One Qi Pool to refine its energy and pursue a Supreme Dao Foundation.
• Powerful wills across the cultivation world sensed Qi Yun’s Great Luo Dao resonance and tried to trace its source.
• Guan Sihai used the Great Void Mirror Heaven to shield the Wuji Sacred Sect and crush the intruding probes.
• True Person Southern Dipper sensed Qi Yun’s breakthrough and noted that he had reached the threshold after two years of contemplation.
• Chiyang arrived and urgently told True Person Southern Dipper that the Innate One Qi Pool seemed to be leaking.

Qi Yun established the Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation after absorbing an unprecedented amount of Innate One Qi, alarming the sect’s True Persons. He had passed the first hurdle, but the dangerous trial in the incomplete Land of Dao Attainment still awaited him.

• True Person Chiyang reported that the Innate One Pool was rapidly losing its Qi and that several Remnant Realms had become unstable.
• True Person Southern Dipper brought True Person Chiyang to the sealed apricot grove, where they saw a vortex swallowing the pool’s Innate One Qi.
• Qi Yun’s Law Technique Panel advanced through updates as he refined the Great Luo principles and formed a living, world-like Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation in his Purple Mansion.
• The vortex’s consumption paused, and the spreading Dao intent led True Person Southern Dipper to realize that Qi Yun had succeeded in establishing his Dao Foundation.
• True Person Deng Yin warned that earlier aspirants who reached this stage had died in the incomplete Land of Dao Attainment, leaving Qi Yun’s final trial uncertain.

After Qi Yun forged his Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation, the Land of Dao Attainment forcibly dragged him away despite True Person Deng Yin and True Person Southern Dipper's attempt to stop it. Inside the ruined land, he faced the former Great Luo True Person in a debate of Dao truths, and his answers began to unsettle the resentful challenger.

• The Land of Dao Attainment seized Qi Yun and pulled him away, while True Person Deng Yin and True Person Southern Dipper failed to intercept it.
• Qi Yun arrived in the ruined Great Luo Land of Dao Attainment, where he encountered the former Great Luo True Person who had been slain by his grandmaster.
• The former Great Luo True Person began the Dao contention and challenged Qi Yun with questions about Great Luo, the myriad laws, authority over the Daos, and the right to inherit the Dao.
• Qi Yun answered that Great Luo and the myriad laws arose from his own heart and convictions, and rejected the former Dao lord's accusation that his Dao was stolen.
• Qi Yun's answers unsettled the former Great Luo True Person, whose deathly Dao resonance wavered as he began to show shock and doubt.

Qi Yun overcame the former Great Luo True Person’s resentment in the Dao debate and entered the Second Contest, where both had to rebuild the Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation from nothing. He surpassed the resentment and seized it, refining it before it could begin a Third Contest.

• Qi Yun’s understanding of Great Luo deepened during the debate, and his words shifted the Dao’s momentum away from the former Great Luo True Person’s resentment.
• The resentment tried to initiate the Second Contest, and Qi Yun answered by raising his hand as the contest began and erased both of their cultivation and established understanding.
• Qi Yun and the resentment began rebuilding the Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation, but the resentment followed its old path while Qi Yun shaped a foundation around his own self-sovereign Dao heart.
• Qi Yun accelerated, surpassed the resentment, and formed a more complete Great Luo Heaven phantom as the resentment’s version faltered.
• The resentment cried that it still had a Third Contest, but Qi Yun seized it by the throat and refined it.

Qi Yun completed his Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation after refining the former Great Luo True Person’s resentment and Dao essence, then watched the True Person find release and reincarnation. Heaven and earth began forcing Qi Yun toward his Foundation Establishment tribulation, but a mysterious great halberd intervened and a True Lord declared that no one could force him to undergo it.

• Qi Yun absorbed the former Great Luo True Person’s pure Dao essence and established a complete Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation.
• The former Great Luo True Person regained his clarity, shared a final verse about the supreme one and all living beings, and dispersed into the world.
• The incomplete Land of Dao Attainment crumbled, returning Qi Yun to the ancient cavern in the rear mountains of the Green Mountain Daoist Temple.
• Heaven and earth began pulling Qi Yun toward the Foundation Establishment Realm Heaven because of his Supreme Dao Foundation.
• A pitch-black great halberd descended from the Great Void Mirror Heaven, blocked the pull, and a True Lord told Qi Yun to hone his Dao Foundation before undergoing tribulation.

After fifty years of refining his Supreme Dao Foundation under Guan Sihai’s protection, Qi Yun withdrew his suppression and entered the Foundation Establishment Realm Heaven to face his long-delayed tribulation. The earth-surging yin fire began burning his body and cultivation, but his Dao Foundation restrained the flames as he endured their tempering.

• Qi Yun spent fifty years sorting and integrating his insights until he had completely mastered his Supreme Dao Foundation, though his cultivation remained at the Qi Refining Stage.
• Qi Yun stopped suppressing his Dao Foundation, and Guan Sihai withdrew the halberd that had concealed him from heaven and earth.
• Powerful figures across the world turned their attention toward Qi Yun as he rose into the Foundation Establishment Realm Heaven.
• Qi Yun entered the tribulation realm, where the earth-surging yin fire immediately spread through his body and began consuming his cultivation.
• Qi Yun activated his Supreme Dao Foundation to restrain the fire, then sat cross-legged and endured its tempering as his body began advancing toward a higher realm.

Qi Yun used [Wield Myriad Laws] to turn the wind and fire tribulations into nourishment, then struggled against the Long River of Time and began raising his Dao Foundation beyond it. When hostile cultivators tried to destroy his [Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation], Deng Yin appeared to protect him.

• Xun wind joined the earth-surging yin fire inside Qi Yun, threatening to destroy his body, Divine Soul, and Dao Foundation.
• Qi Yun used [Wield Myriad Laws] to seize control of the wind and fire, reverse their nature, and temper his body and Divine Soul.
• The water calamity struck through the Long River of Time, flooding Qi Yun with temporal force and the memories of countless departed beings.
• Qi Yun recalled the former Great Luo True Person’s words, then drove his Dao Foundation upstream and began breaking free of the Long River of Time.
• Several malicious Dao Foundations attacked Qi Yun as he ascended, while Guan Sihai’s halberd strike was blocked by powerful figures who warned him that it was not yet time for a [Supreme Dao Foundation] to appear.
• Deng Yin broke into the Foundation Establishment Realm Heaven with a sea of blood, stood between Qi Yun and the attackers, and told him he had kept the old man waiting.

Qi Yun reunited with Deng Yin in the Foundation Establishment Realm Heaven, where his teacher revealed a possession attempt as a final lesson before sacrificing himself to destroy the hostile Dao Foundations. With the threats gone and Deng Yin's warning in mind, Qi Yun broke free of the Long River of Time and attained Foundation Establishment.

• Deng Yin praised Qi Yun's Supreme Dao Foundation, then appeared to freeze him and reach for his Ancestral Aperture to possess his body.
• Deng Yin stopped the attack, warned Qi Yun to trust no one in the Holy Sect, including the True Lord, and bid his disciple farewell.
• Deng Yin entered the Boundless Blood Sea Realm, unleashing a blood lotus and blood sea that dragged the hostile Dao Foundations into the Long River of Time and destroyed them all.
• Qi Yun resolved to continue without his teacher's protection and unleashed his perfected Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation.
• Qi Yun rose above the Long River of Time, overcame the three tribulations of wind, fire, and water, and formally became a Foundation Establishment True Person.

Qi Yun returned to the Wuji Sacred Sect after attaining a Supreme Dao Foundation, earning the congratulations of its Foundation Establishment True Persons. Desolate Halberd Shattering Void True Lord arrived with a Bodhisattva’s severed arm as an apology for an attempt to obstruct Qi Yun, then offered to introduce him to Wudao Extreme Dharma True Lord.

• Qi Yun returned to the Wuji Sacred Sect, and the powerful gazes watching from outside withdrew after recognizing that he had become a Supreme True Person.
• True Person Qianxin and the other Foundation Establishment True Persons congratulated Qi Yun, who credited the sect, his teacher, and their support for his success.
• Desolate Halberd Shattering Void True Lord arrived and presented Qi Yun with a severed arm whose golden blood and Buddhist power revealed it belonged to a Bodhisattva.
• Desolate Halberd Shattering Void True Lord explained that he had confronted the southern priests and monks who had plotted against Qi Yun and offered to collect more if the apology was insufficient.
• After praising Qi Yun’s Dao Position, Desolate Halberd Shattering Void True Lord offered to introduce him to Wudao Extreme Dharma True Lord when Wudao emerged from seclusion, then departed.