Chapter Summaries

After ascending to Foundation Establishment, Qi Yun claimed his teacher's abandoned cultivation grounds and returned to the temple, where he resolved to find his teacher's reincarnation. He examined his unusual Dao Foundation and discovered the Divine Abilities [Wield Myriad Laws] and [Great Luo Edict], then considered using the latter to improve his old Law Techniques.

• True Person Southern Dipper granted Qi Yun permission to inherit his teacher's cultivation grounds, and Qi Yun collected the Bodhisattva Golden Body's severed arm.
• Qi Yun returned to Green Mountain Daoist Temple and mourned the absent Deng Yin as he surveyed the empty, leaf-strewn courtyard.
• Qi Yun vowed to find his teacher's reincarnation using the blood-colored mark in his palm, then cleared the courtyard and began examining his Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Qi Yun discovered that his [Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation] existed within him as [Great Luo Heaven], with only a projection suspended above [Heaven and Earth's Long River of Time].
• Qi Yun identified his new Divine Abilities as [Wield Myriad Laws] and the Supreme Divine Ability [Great Luo Edict], and considered using [Great Luo Edict] to update his Qi Refining Law Techniques.

Qi Yun used the Great Luo Edict to transform Soul Refining Banner into the Human Emperor Banner, then discovered Song Kun was divining his location and resolved to confront him. Song Kun emerged from sixty years of confinement, but Qi Yun’s reverse divination revealed his Foundation Establishment power and injured him.

• Qi Yun used the Great Luo Edict to evolve Soul Refining Banner into Human Emperor Banner, a majestic Law Technique that cleansed its souls into loyal true spirits.
• Qi Yun summoned eight hundred true spirits from the Human Emperor Banner, and they pledged their service to him.
• Qi Yun sensed someone divining his location and traced the karmic connection back to Song Kun.
• Song Kun emerged from confinement in Flower Moon Hall and began divining Qi Yun’s whereabouts to avenge his son and punishment.
• Qi Yun’s reverse divination struck Song Kun with powerful Dao intent, revealing Qi Yun as a Foundation Establishment True Person.
• Qi Yun identified Song Kun and resolved to settle their old grudge.

Qi Yun confronted Flower Moon Hall Master Song Kun after breaking through to Foundation Establishment, and Song Kun’s attack revealed the overwhelming suppression of Qi Yun’s Dao Position. The chapter ended with Song Kun shaken and Qi Yun dismissing his sword as unable to reach him.

• Qi Yun flew to Flower Moon Hall and suppressed its disciples and servants with his presence.
• Song Kun recognized Qi Yun, and the two exchanged insults as other Holy Sect True Persons watched.
• Song Kun attacked with his Northern Dipper Supreme Yin Sword Chapter, unleashing a stellar and lunar sword Gang at Qi Yun.
• Qi Yun’s Dao Position suppressed the sword Gang, and his Law Power dispersed what remained.
• Song Kun and the watching True Persons realized Qi Yun’s Dao Position suppression matched or exceeded that of a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator.
• Qi Yun told Song Kun that his sword did not even qualify to come near him.

True Person Southern Dipper explained that Qi Yun’s Supreme Dao Foundation gave him overwhelming Dao Position suppression, while Song Kun unleashed his full Star Sea Azure Moon Domain and pinnacle sword strike. Qi Yun stopped and returned the attack, wounded Song Kun, then trapped him in the Human Emperor Banner’s Supreme Yin Chain-Form Grand Formation and demanded that he submit.

• True Person Qianxin questioned how Qi Yun could suppress veteran Song Kun, and True Person Southern Dipper attributed it to the Supreme Dao Foundation’s power over other Dao Foundations.
• Song Kun unleashed his Star Sea Azure Moon Domain and sent his strongest sword strike at Qi Yun.
• Qi Yun used Wield Myriad Laws to halt Song Kun’s sword strike and send it back at him, leaving Song Kun badly wounded.
• Qi Yun summoned the Human Emperor Banner and used its eight hundred true spirits to form the Supreme Yin Chain-Form Grand Formation around Song Kun.
• Qi Yun asked Song Kun whether he submitted and threatened to refine him if he refused.

Qi Yun nearly refined Song Kun in the Supreme Yin Chain-Form Grand Formation, but True Person Southern Dipper intervened and sentenced Song Kun to another sixty years of confinement. Southern Dipper also transferred Song Kun’s Remnant Realm responsibilities to Qi Yun and gave him the original general outline of the Blood God Scripture, warning him of its danger.

• Qi Yun used the Supreme Yin Chain-Form Grand Formation to suppress Song Kun’s Star Sea Azure Moon Domain and began to refine him.
• True Person Southern Dipper arrived and persuaded Qi Yun to spare Song Kun, then sentenced Song Kun to sixty years of confinement in Flower Moon Hall.
• True Person Southern Dipper transferred Song Kun’s Remnant Realm responsibilities to Qi Yun and dismissed the Divine Senses spying on them.
• True Person Southern Dipper took Qi Yun to his Daoist temple and revealed that Junior Brother Deng had left him an item before entering reincarnation.
• True Person Southern Dipper gave Qi Yun the original general outline of the Blood God Scripture and warned him to consider its immense danger and karma carefully.

Qi Yun received the dangerous general outline of the Blood God Scripture and suspected the Holy Sect wanted to tempt him into studying it, so he ordered the Human Emperor Banner’s eight hundred true spirits to investigate it instead. He then entered the Holy Sect Treasure Market to find a Foundation Establishment Law Technique and stopped at a stall selling the Foundation Establishment volume of “Basic Sword Qi.”

• Desolate Halberd True Lord questioned True Person Southern Dipper about delivering the Blood God Scripture to Qi Yun and ordered him to monitor Qi Yun’s response.
• Qi Yun doubted that Deng Yin had intended to pass on the scripture and suspected the sect’s warning was meant to provoke him into cultivating it.
• Qi Yun put the lotus pedestal containing the scripture into the Human Emperor Banner and instructed its eight hundred true spirits to study it.
• Qi Yun entered the Holy Sect Treasure Market using his Great Void Jade Tally to search for a suitable Foundation Establishment Law Technique.
• Qi Yun halted at an unremarkable stall when he saw the Foundation Establishment volume of “Basic Sword Qi.”

Qi Yun met True Person Qianxin in the Holy Sect Treasure Market, learned of a safer market for Foundation Establishment cultivators, and agreed to examine Qianxin’s gravely injured companion. Qianxin promised him a great Secret Method if he could help, and ended by asking whether Qi Yun had heard of the Heavenly Court.

• Qi Yun considered buying an Azure Sect sword method until a masked stranger warned him it lacked the essential method of nurturing the sword.
• The stranger revealed himself as True Person Qianxin, gave Qi Yun a bronze pot key to [Pot Heaven Market], and asked him to examine an old friend whose Dao foundation was being eroded by a strange Dao intent.
• Qi Yun agreed to help, and True Person Qianxin led him to the [Thousand Illusions Mortal World] Dao field.
• Qianxin showed Qi Yun Lao Hei, a Foundation Establishment greater demon soaking in a wine vat while Qianxin’s makeshift treatment slowed his worsening injuries.
• Qianxin promised Qi Yun a great Secret Method if he cured Lao Hei, then asked whether Qi Yun had heard of the Heavenly Court.

True Person Qianxin offered Qi Yun a fragment of a Heavenly Court wondrous art in exchange for saving his black bull companion. Qi Yun removed the bull’s affliction, received the art, and discovered that his Law Technique Panel had absorbed the scripture and the talisman formed from the affliction.

• True Person Qianxin explained that the Heavenly Court had gathered True Lords to investigate the vanished True Venerables and reopen the path to their realm, then offered Qi Yun a fragment of its wondrous art for healing the black bull.
• Qi Yun used [Wield Myriad Laws] to probe the black bull and found a frigid Dao intent wrapped around its Dao Foundation.
• Qi Yun extracted the Dao intent from the bull, where it condensed into a [Three Rivers Bitter Cold Divine King Talisman], and asked True Person Qianxin if he had traveled south.
• True Person Qianxin confirmed that he had gone south eighty years earlier and transmitted the original scripture fragment to Qi Yun through divine thought.
• Qi Yun used his [Great Luo Myriad Laws Dao Foundation] to process the scripture and glimpsed the words “South—Sword Instruction.”
• The Law Technique Panel appeared and absorbed the mysterious scripture and the [Three Rivers Bitter Cold Divine King Talisman].

Qi Yun’s Law Technique Panel restored the complete Southern Ming Li Fire Sword Instruction and upgraded his talisman arts, adding Nine Kings Mountain’s Three Rivers Bitter Cold Divine King Talisman. When a True Lord traced the talisman’s karmic link, the panel changed its name to evade the pursuit, leaving Qi Yun free to seek out other sects’ secret arts.

• The Law Technique Panel combined Qi Yun’s demonic Southern Ming Sword Devil art with True Person Qianxin’s fragment to restore the complete Southern Ming Li Fire Sword Instruction.
• The panel upgraded Qi Yun’s talisman arts to the Foundation Establishment Realm and added the Three Rivers Bitter Cold Divine King Talisman.
• True Lord Chiming Shusheng sensed the talisman’s use at Nine Kings Mountain and followed its karmic link toward Qi Yun.
• The panel renamed the talisman the Three Rivers Bitter Cold True King Talisman, severing the karmic connection and preventing Chiming Shusheng from finding Qi Yun.
• Qi Yun realized he could use the panel to practice other sects’ foundational secret methods without being tracked through karma.
• Chiming Shusheng concluded that the art thief had been killed, then warned that he would find whoever dared covet Nine Kings Mountain’s secret art again.

After six months of silent meditation, Qi Yun subdued the arrogance and impatience growing from his rapid cultivation and emerged with a steadier Dao heart. True Person Qianxin told him the Zombie Alliance had been shattered by a resurrected Heavenly Corpse True Lord, and Qi Yun sensed that the chaos held something tied to his breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment middle stage.

• Qi Yun spent six months in silent meditation to temper his Dao heart and curb the arrogance born of his rapid progress.
• Qi Yun emerged from seclusion with a calmer mind and a more harmonious connection to his [great Luo myriad laws Dao foundation].
• True Person Qianxin arrived and told Qi Yun that the Zombie Alliance's Law Corpse method had awakened a sealed Heavenly Corpse Sect True Lord.
• True Person Qianxin explained that the Heavenly Corpse True Lord had devastated the Zombie Alliance headquarters, leaving its territory in chaos and its remaining True Lord missing and badly injured.
• True Person Qianxin urged Qi Yun to join the other Holy Sect True Persons searching the region for opportunities.
• Qi Yun sensed that something in the Zombie Alliance's troubled territory was connected to his breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment middle stage.

Amid the ruins of the Zombie Alliance, Ma Xiong uncovered a stone that revealed itself as a Naturally Born Holy Embryo, drawing the attention of powerful Foundation Establishment True Persons. As they prepared to seize it, a voice declared that the treasure belonged to the Holy Sect.

• True Person Qianxin and Qi Yun watched the cultivators scavenge the Zombie Alliance ruins while waiting for greater treasures to emerge.
• Ma Xiong followed his Spirit-Seeking Ruler into a buried chamber and found a dusty wooden box containing an ordinary-looking stone.
• The stone erupted with a brilliant pillar of light and Dao resonance when Ma Xiong reached for it.
• The Foundation Establishment True Persons turned their attention to Ma Xiong, and True Person Qianxin and Qi Yun recognized the stone as a Naturally Born Holy Embryo.
• An unknown Daoist declared that the treasure was fated to belong to the Holy Sect and that he had come to claim it.

True Person Xuanheng seized the Naturally Born Holy Embryo, and days later Qi Yun intervened when Foundation Establishment cultivators fought over the Ghost Gate Saliva. He drove off an Azure Sect sword cultivator and recovered the treasure, leaving the cultivator fleeing.

• True Person Xuanheng took the Naturally Born Holy Embryo from Ma Xiong, and True Person Qianxin told Qi Yun they could seek an exchange through the sect.
• Old Daoist Heigu, a Yellow Springs Netherworld True Person, a Phoenix Helm True Person, and a body-refining Rogue Cultivator fought over the Ghost Gate Saliva after its discovery killed a Qi Refining disciple.
• An Azure Sect sword cultivator cut through the melee, seized the Ghost Gate Saliva, and fled toward the Azure Sect.
• Qi Yun intercepted the Azure Sect cultivator with a crimson-gold sword rainbow and a vast barrage of Southern Ming Li Fire Sword-Rays.
• The Azure Sect cultivator threw the Ghost Gate Saliva to Qi Yun and escaped, and Qi Yun collected the treasure and departed.

Qi Yun waited among the Zombie Alliance ruins as He Sha arrived under the pretense of guarding him on Black Mountain's orders. Their confrontation was interrupted when the sealed Heaven-Disordering Black Coffin emerged from the ruins, stirring the Human Emperor Banner and giving Qi Yun a new plan.

• Qi Yun continued watching the ruins and refining the Ghost Gate Saliva until True Person Qianxin returned and warned him that He Sha had arrived.
• He Sha introduced himself to Qi Yun and used veiled praise of his Supreme Dao Foundation to provoke and draw attention to him.
• He Sha claimed Black Mountain had sent him to protect Qi Yun, then invoked Black Mountain's authority when True Person Qianxin tried to send him away.
• True Person Qianxin withdrew rather than confront Black Mountain's followers, leaving Qi Yun alone with He Sha.
• A massive black coffin rose from an abyss in the ruins, and the Foundation Establishment True Persons recognized it as the Zombie Alliance's Heaven-Disordering Black Coffin.
• The Human Emperor Banner stirred inside Qi Yun, who noticed He Sha's reaction and began forming a plan.

Qi Yun tried to contend for the Heaven-Disordering Black Coffin, but He Sha blocked him while the other Foundation Establishment True Persons began fighting over it. The coffin opened and unleashed Law Corpses that rapidly grew Dao Positions, while phantom coffins trapped the True Persons; the Human Emperor Banner inside Qi Yun reacted with excitement.

• Qi Yun decided to contend for the Heaven-Disordering Black Coffin, but He Sha blocked him and insisted that he remain out of danger.
• The chains restraining the Heaven-Disordering Black Coffin snapped, and its lid crashed to the ground as the Foundation Establishment True Persons retreated and watched.
• Countless Law Corpses poured from the coffin, and their remains returned to it so they could be resurrected stronger and gradually acquire Dao Positions.
• The Foundation Establishment True Persons tried to retreat, but phantom black coffins appeared behind them and trapped them with a powerful suction.
• Qi Yun sensed the phantom coffin behind him while the Human Emperor Banner within him trembled with growing excitement.

Qi Yun used [Wield Myriad Laws] to seize black coffin phantoms and turn their power against He Sha, then gathered more coffins by rescuing other True Persons. He left He Sha struggling against the growing pressure while the rescued cultivators recoiled after learning he belonged to the Wuji Sacred Sect.

• Qi Yun subdued the black coffin phantom threatening him and refined it into a palm-sized phantom.
• Qi Yun merged his coffin phantom with the one attacking He Sha, strengthening its burial power and weakening He Sha's Abyssal Sand River.
• Qi Yun pretended to flee, then returned with another seized coffin phantom and fused it with the one behind He Sha, tearing open He Sha's defenses.
• Qi Yun left again while He Sha panicked and struggled against the pressure of the fused coffins.
• Qi Yun collected black coffin phantoms that were tormenting Foundation Establishment True Persons and told them he was a Great Luo True Person of the Wuji Sacred Sect.
• The rescued True Persons checked themselves for harm, thanked Qi Yun stiffly, and cautiously moved away from him.

Qi Yun used the Heaven-Disordering Black Coffin and the Human Emperor Banner to defeat He Sha and absorb the fused coffin phantom. He then changed the Supreme Yin Chain-Form Grand Formation into the Black Coffin Burial and Annihilation Grand Formation.

• He Sha summoned his complete Form-Floating Flowing Abyss Dao Foundation manifestation to resist the black coffin formed from six fused phantoms.
• Qi Yun deployed the Supreme Yin Chain-Form Grand Formation, breaking He Sha’s stalemate and leaving him vulnerable to the black coffin’s deathly force.
• A black hand seized He Sha, and a chain dragged him into the main Heaven-Disordering Black Coffin.
• Qi Yun caught the escaping fused black coffin with Wield Myriad Laws and absorbed it into the Human Emperor Banner.
• Qi Yun transformed the formation, causing black coffins to rise from the ground as the Black Coffin Burial and Annihilation Grand Formation.

Qi Yun watched the Azure Sect's True Lord Vast Sea and Fine Dust pierce the Heaven-Disordering Black Coffin and begin dismantling the Zombie Alliance's former territory for its resources. The surviving cultivators speculated about the Azure Sect's motives as its True Lord uprooted the land's spiritual essence, treasures, and remnant realms.

• Qi Yun studied the Human Emperor Banner's new Black Coffin Burial and Annihilation Grand Formation, which could stack coffins to seal and destroy powerful enemies.
• The Heaven-Disordering Black Coffin's presence grew stronger after swallowing nearly ten Foundation Establishment True Persons, leaving the survivors wary and the battlefield in a tense silence.
• A thousand-zhang magical sword descended from the sky, pierced the Heaven-Disordering Black Coffin, and pinned it to the earth.
• The surviving Foundation Establishment True Persons identified the attacker as Azure Sect's True Lord Vast Sea and Fine Dust and speculated about why the Azure Sect had acted first to claim the Zombie Alliance's legacy.
• Qi Yun silently divined the Azure Sect's motives as True Lord Vast Sea and Fine Dust used azure sword threads to extract the territory's earth-vein essence, treasures, Yin and soul essences, and Zombie Alliance remnant realms.

After True Lord Vast Sea and Fine Dust destroyed the Heaven-Disordering Black Coffin, Qi Yun seized its scattered fragments and strengthened the Human Emperor Banner while Foundation Establishment True Persons fought over the remains. He Sha survived the coffin’s destruction, but True Person Qianxin trapped him and confronted him over Black Mountain.

• True Lord Vast Sea and Fine Dust’s Law sword vanished, and the shattered Heaven-Disordering Black Coffin scattered its treasures across the battlefield.
• Qi Yun used his Southern Ming Li Fire Sword Gang and Human Emperor Banner to capture fragments, driving off a Rogue Cultivator True Person who tried to interfere.
• As Qi Yun refined the fragments, the Human Emperor Banner updated and doubled its true spirits from eight hundred to sixteen hundred.
• He Sha emerged from the rubble, badly weakened, and vowed to report Qi Yun to Senior Brother Black Mountain.
• True Person Qianxin trapped He Sha in mortal-world baleful mist and threatened to kill him despite Black Mountain’s possible retaliation.

True Person Qianxin killed He Sha after defeating his desperate Yellow Springs corpse-sand attack. He and True Person Southern Dipper arranged to conceal the killing and blame the Yellow Springs Netherworld, then heard that Black Mountain would not be elected when the sect changed its leadership.

• He Sha warned True Person Qianxin that killing him could bring Black Mountain's wrath, but Qianxin chose to attack anyway.
• He Sha unleashed Yellow Springs Sandstorm and Quicksand Soul Burial, but Qianxin's mortal world heavenly curtain extinguished both attacks.
• True Person Qianxin killed He Sha, reducing his body to ash and destroying him in body and soul.
• True Person Southern Dipper appeared through the peach blossom and said he would hide the karmic traces and shift blame to the Yellow Springs Netherworld.
• True Person Qianxin worried that Black Mountain's rank and support could win him the sect leadership, but an aged voice declared that Black Mountain would not be elected.

Qi Yun joined the scramble for the Zombie Alliance’s True Ancestor Law Altar, where thirteen pearls of Undying True Blood emerged. More than twenty Foundation Establishment True Persons immediately charged for the treasure, and battle broke out.

• The Human Emperor Banner’s update enhanced the spirituality of its sixteen hundred true spirits, and Qi Yun prepared to attack two Foundation Establishment True Persons before True Person Qianxin summoned him to the altar.
• Qi Yun and True Person Qianxin reached the cavern, where more than twenty Foundation Establishment True Persons from several factions had gathered around the True Ancestor Law Altar.
• A Phoenix Helm True Person challenged the Azure Sect’s claim to the altar, and an Azure Sect sword cultivator insisted they should take it away to seal it.
• True Person Qianxin told Qi Yun that the altar contained a Great True Person’s corpse blood, which could serve as a life-saving treasure if properly refined.
• The altar activated and refined its accumulated ashes into thirteen pearls of Undying True Blood, prompting the gathered True Persons to charge for the bronze cauldron and begin fighting.