Chapter Summaries

Qi Yun used the Purple-Gold Great Void Tally to forcefully collect treasures from his enemies, then arranged for allies to protect the Green Mountain Daoist Temple while he was away. Desolate Halberd True Lord sent him to Azure Gate to retrieve a lost Fruition Status, warning him not to use anything from the Xuanhuang Home Realm and giving him tools for the journey.

• Qi Yun collected treasures from Black Baleful Intent Edge, and True Person Heisha crushed his throne in rage after Qi Yun left.
• Over several days, Qi Yun visited cultivation grounds of True Persons who had opposed him and took their treasures, leaving them humiliated and silent.
• Qi Yun told friendly True Persons he would be away and entrusted the Green Mountain Daoist Temple to Situ Huaji, Wu Changsheng, and True Person Ling, while allowing his allies to draw from its treasure pavilion.
• Desolate Halberd True Lord gave Qi Yun the Six Realms Heaven and explained that it would take about three hundred days to recharge after sending him to Azure Gate.
• Desolate Halberd True Lord ordered Qi Yun to avoid all means originating from the Xuanhuang Home Realm, retrieve the lost Fruition Status, and return quickly; he also gave Qi Yun a jade case that could resolve one crisis.
• Qi Yun accepted Desolate Halberd True Lord's orders and vowed not to fail.

Qi Yun traveled through the Void Sea to the Azure Gate Realm, where he glimpsed four True Lords carrying an ancient bronze coffin. He hid from Azure Gate’s Heaven’s Will by sealing himself as a stone statue, which remained motionless for nearly three hundred days until a crack appeared.

• Qi Yun activated the [Six Realms Heaven] and traveled through the Void Sea, where he saw the [Heaven and Earth's Long River of Time] and four True Lords carrying an ancient bronze coffin.
• Qi Yun reached the Azure Gate Realm and, following Desolate Halberd True Lord's warning, sealed his powers and transformed into a stone statue to evade Heaven's Will.
• Heaven's Will swept across the wilderness but passed over Qi Yun's statue without detecting him.
• Villagers discovered the statue and treated it as a wild god, leaving offerings as the seasons passed for nearly three hundred days.
• A ray of morning sunlight fell on the statue, and a small fissure slowly opened in its surface.

Qi Yun awakened from a year-long concealment in Azure Gate Realm and entered Clear Source County to investigate its cultivation system. After learning that the realm centered on Divine Soul cultivation, he decided to leave the county for a place with stronger cultivators and better inheritances as he pursued the Fruition Status.

• Qi Yun emerged from his stone shell after Heaven's Will's surveillance weakened and cautiously sensed his surroundings before entering Clear Source County in disguise.
• Qi Yun questioned a stallholder about ghosts and cultivators, learning that local practitioners cultivated their Divine Souls through realms such as Night Wandering.
• Qi Yun observed ritualists at the West City God Temple and gathered books and family records to research Azure Gate's cultivation methods.
• Qi Yun pieced together the Divine Soul realms from Spirit Stabilization through Object Manipulation and tried the Bright Moon Illuminating the Spirit Visualization Method.
• Qi Yun concluded that the Fruition Status was tied to Azure Gate's cultivation path and decided to leave Clear Source County for a more prosperous region.

Qi Yun infiltrated the governor's residence in Great Xuan Prefecture and searched Zhao Yuanzhen's memories for information about the Cloud Dream Great Marsh. He discovered the secret Waking of Insects Plan to overthrow Heaven's Will and decided to use the conspiracy to advance his own aims.

• Qi Yun entered Great Xuan Prefecture using a temporary identity token, then discarded it and headed for the governor's residence.
• Qi Yun subdued the guards and bypassed the residence's defenses before appearing in Zhao Yuanzhen's study.
• Qi Yun suppressed Zhao Yuanzhen and searched his memories for details about the Cloud Dream Great Marsh and the cultivators who visited it.
• Qi Yun found Zhao Yuanzhen's hidden memories about the Waking of Insects Plan, a conspiracy led by the Great Cang Dynasty and allied cultivators to weaken and replace Heaven's Will.
• Qi Yun decided to support the plan for his own purposes and borrow its momentum.

Qi Yun infiltrated the Great Cang imperial palace and offered Zhao Xuanji help with the Waking of Insects Plan, revealing critical flaws in its timing and preparations. They agreed to work together, with Qi Yun claiming the Cloud Dream Great Marsh and requesting access to the imperial archives and a safe place to prepare.

• Qi Yun bypassed the capital's formations and palace defenses and entered the Hall of Diligent Governance.
• Qi Yun confronted Zhao Xuanji and revealed his knowledge of the Waking of Insects Plan and the Cloud Dream Great Marsh.
• Qi Yun warned that the appointed time would arrive earlier than expected, the Heaven-Deceiving Grand Formation was badly damaged, and its activation method contained serious errors.
• Qi Yun offered to help the plan by holding Heaven's Will in check and asked for control of everything in the Cloud Dream Great Marsh, help finding an object, access to the imperial archives, and a safe place to prepare.
• Zhao Xuanji accepted Qi Yun's terms, and the two formed a secret alliance.

Qi Yun demonstrated his power to Zhao Xuanji, convincing the emperor to trust him as a variable against Heaven’s Will. Seven days later, while traveling through the Cloud Dream Great Marsh with Mo Wenxuan and two attendants, Qi Yun killed a Moonlight Sect elder who questioned him.

• Qi Yun unleashed a world-shaking presence inside the meteorite core, and Zhao Xuanji accepted that he was powerful enough to become a crucial variable.
• Seven days later, Qi Yun and Mo Wenxuan’s party entered the Cloud Dream Great Marsh to find the Heaven-Deceiving Grand Formation.
• The party encountered Moonlight Sect cultivators trying to capture a blood jade soul coral, and Mo Wenxuan said they had no interest in it.
• Elder Hanpo questioned Qi Yun’s identity and cultivation, and Elder Yinshuang invited him to join their sect.
• Qi Yun crushed Elder Hanpo with his Divine Sense, startling everyone present.

Qi Yun killed Elder Yinshuang and the other Moonlight Sect disciples, deliberately drawing the sect master, True Person Bright Moon, into pursuit. At the Abyss of No Return, Qi Yun activated the Heaven-Deceiving Grand Formation, revealed his true cultivation as Xuanhuang True Person, and ordered Bright Moon to kneel.

• Qi Yun killed Elder Yinshuang, and Mo Wenxuan and the royal attendants attacked and wiped out the remaining Moonlight Sect disciples.
• A Yang Spirit's pressure swept across the Cloud Dream Great Marsh, and Mo Wenxuan identified it as the work of Moonlight Sect's sect master, True Person Bright Moon.
• Qi Yun led Mo Wenxuan and the injured attendants to the Abyss of No Return, where the Heaven-Deceiving Grand Formation lay, and told them to hide.
• True Person Bright Moon arrived and attacked Qi Yun, while Qi Yun activated the Heaven-Deceiving Grand Formation and cut the area off from the outside world.
• Qi Yun shed his disguise, revealed his cultivation as Xuanhuang True Person, manifested the Great Luo Myriad Laws Domain Heaven, and commanded True Person Bright Moon to kneel.

Qi Yun defeated True Person Bright Moon with the Divine Firmament Thunder Talisman and sealed his Yang Spirit incarnation inside the Great Luo Heaven. After assessing the Azure Gate Realm’s cultivation level and recalling reports of changes to its Heaven’s Will, Qi Yun concluded that someone had replaced it.

• True Person Bright Moon attacked Qi Yun with the Grotto-Heaven Divine Light, but Qi Yun seized control of the divine light with Wield Myriad Laws.
• True Person Bright Moon unleashed the Nine Moons and Supreme Yin Monument chains, and Qi Yun countered with the Divine Firmament Thunder Talisman.
• The golden lightning destroyed True Person Bright Moon’s attacks and stripped away his cultivation, after which Qi Yun sealed his dimmed Yang Spirit incarnation inside the Great Luo Heaven.
• Mo Wenxuan witnessed Qi Yun’s swift victory over the Yang Spirit expert and was left speechless with awe and fear.
• Qi Yun judged that the Azure Gate Realm’s Yang Spirit experts were crude compared with Xuanhuang Realm True Persons, then deduced that someone had replaced the Azure Gate Heaven’s Will.

Qi Yun refined True Person Bright Moon’s Yang Spirit, reached the peak of the Yin Spirit Realm, and learned that Azure Gate Heaven’s Will controlled the lightning tribulations that granted Yang Spirit status. He used the Divine Firmament Thunder Talisman to temper his own soul and achieved a Yang Spirit through his own power.

• Qi Yun sealed the meteorite core with the True Intention of Northern Defense and drew out the broken True Person Bright Moon.
• Qi Yun used Wield Myriad Laws and Seize Profound Meaning to refine Bright Moon’s Yang Spirit essence, raising his Divine Soul to the peak of the Yin Spirit Realm.
• Qi Yun learned that Azure Gate Heaven’s Will controlled the lightning tribulations required to become a Yang Spirit and suspected it used that authority to control the realm’s cultivators.
• Qi Yun formed the Divine Firmament Lightning-Wielding True Ultimate Grand Formation and summoned the Divine Firmament Thunder Talisman to strike his Yin Spirit with lightning.
• Qi Yun endured the destruction of his soul, nurtured a seed of pure Yang, and transformed his Yin Spirit into a Yang Spirit through his own power.

Qi Yun persuaded Zhao Xuanji to pause the Waking of Insects plan because Azure Gate Heaven's Will was more complicated than they had believed and their chances of success were negligible. He proposed personally training a group of elite cultivators for ten to sixty years, and Zhao Xuanji agreed to find candidates in secret.

• Qi Yun told Zhao Xuanji that the Waking of Insects plan should be paused because Heaven's Will hid a deeper story and acting now risked total defeat.
• Zhao Xuanji considered Qi Yun's strength, recalling Mo Wenxuan's report that Qi Yun had annihilated True Person Bright Moon with a single move.
• Qi Yun asked Zhao Xuanji to find a small group of highly talented, reliable cultivators ranging from the Manifestation Realm to the Yin Spirit Realm.
• Qi Yun said he would train the candidates to become a vital force in the war to overthrow heaven, estimating that it would take ten to sixty years.
• Zhao Xuanji agreed to find the candidates as soon as possible and accepted that the training plan must remain top secret.

Qi Yun secretly trained fifty cultivators chosen by Zhao Xuanji while worrying that the emperor might turn against him after their campaign against Heaven. He learned Demon Seeding in the Dao Heart, expanded its capacity, and quietly planted dormant seeds in the cultivators as they grew stronger.

• Qi Yun began testing and instructing the fifty cultivators assembled in the hidden valley, assessing their abilities and temperaments.
• Qi Yun told Cai Shen he feared Zhao Xuanji might betray him after the campaign against Heaven, and Cai Shen taught him Demon Seeding in the Dao Heart.
• Qi Yun mastered the technique, refined his first Demon Seed, and used the Great Luo Edict to increase his control limit from about thirty people to sixty.
• Qi Yun trained the cultivators in advanced Divine Soul methods and used Wield Myriad Laws to break through their bottlenecks.
• Over several months, Qi Yun secretly planted dormant Demon Seeds in the cultivators' Dao Hearts while their trust and admiration for him grew.

Qi Yun used a man-made heavenly tribulation to guide Zhao Jia through his breakthrough into the Yang Spirit realm, proving his rapid advancement scheme worked. Zhao Jia and the other cultivators became more devoted to Qi Yun, who prepared to accelerate the plan and challenge the Azure Gate Realm’s monopoly on Yang Spirits.

• Wei Liang told Zhao Xuanji that Qi Yun had greatly improved the valley cultivators, but the Imperial City Bureau still had no information about Qi Yun’s origins.
• Over several years, Qi Yun trained the fifty cultivators with Soul-Cleansing Elixir and Wield Myriad Laws, helping seven reach the yin spirit realm and bringing Zhao Jia and Zhao Yi to its peak.
• Demon Seeding in the Dao Heart deepened the cultivators’ devotion to Qi Yun and made them instinctively resist orders that conflicted with his will.
• Zhao Jia attempted to break through to the Yang Spirit realm, and Qi Yun summoned a lightning tribulation by invoking the Divine Firmament’s authority.
• Qi Yun controlled the lightning as it tempered Zhao Jia’s Yin Spirit, and Zhao Jia’s Yin Spirit transformed into a Yang Spirit.
• Zhao Jia thanked Qi Yun and pledged his life to him, while Qi Yun concluded that his rapid Yang Spirit scheme had succeeded and resolved to advance it further.

After sixty years, Qi Yun returned to Zhao Xuanji and helped Great Cang ignite the gathered People's Qi of All Living Beings, breaking through Heaven's Will. As Zhao Xuanji celebrated the breach, Qi Yun saw an unfamiliar world emerging beyond it and suspected it was Azure Gate's cultivation world.

• Zhao Xuanji dismissed the court and found the unchanged Qi Yun waiting in the Hall of Diligent Governance.
• Qi Yun told Zhao Xuanji that everything was ready, and they agreed to assail Heaven that day.
• Qi Yun and Zhao Xuanji activated the formation disks secretly placed across Great Cang, gathering the people's Qi throughout the dynasty.
• Qi Yun ignited the gathered Qi as the Heaven-Assailing Great Flame, which shattered Heaven's Will and opened a vast hole in the sky.
• Zhao Xuanji wept with relief at the breach and thanked Qi Yun, while Qi Yun watched an unfamiliar world appear beyond it and wondered if it was Azure Gate's cultivation world.

As Heaven’s Will sent the cultivators of the Azure Gate True Realm to overwhelm Great Cang, Qi Yun transformed the dynasty’s formation to drain its people’s karmic cause and effect and refine it into a Dharma Ending poison. He revealed himself as Qi Yun of the Wuji Sacred Sect of northwest Xuanhuang, a Foundation Establishment True Person of the Great Luo Heaven Realm, as the gray fire surged toward the invading cultivators.

• The Azure Gate True Realm appeared, and its cultivators poured through the opening with their wills taken over by Heaven’s Will.
• Qi Yun activated the scattered formation disks across Great Cang, turning them blood-red and drawing cause and effect from every citizen.
• Qi Yun explained to Zhao Xuanji that he was using Great Cang’s accumulated cause and effect to create a Dharma Ending poison, leaving the people unable to reincarnate for about ten lifetimes.
• Qi Yun told Zhao Xuanji his name, sect, and cultivation realm as the gray light rushed into the Fire of All Living Beings and became a deathly flame.

Qi Yun unleashed [Dharma Ending] through the sky opening, annihilating the invading cultivators and forcing the surviving army into a rout. When thirty-seven Yang Spirits from Azure Gate True Realm appeared, fifty Yang Spirits rose behind Qi Yun, and he ordered them to leave none alive.

• Qi Yun spread [Dharma Ending] through the sky opening, and its gray decay turned the invading cultivators to ash.
• The cultivator army collapsed into a chaotic retreat as ash, remains, and wrecked flying ships rained down.
• Thirty-seven Yang Spirits from Azure Gate True Realm gathered at the opening and drove back the spreading grayness.
• Fifty Yang Spirits rose behind Qi Yun, and the two groups' pure Yang pressures collided above the imperial city.
• Qi Yun pointed at the thirty-seven True Realm Yang Spirits and ordered his allies to leave none alive.

As the Yang Spirits' battle devastated the imperial city, Qi Yun's plan awakened the true Azure Gate Heaven's Will and set it against the Counterfeit Heaven's Will. The true will began to falter, but the counterfeit manifested as a blue-gray halo, which Qi Yun recognized as the [Fruition Status].

• The Yang Spirits' collision reduced the imperial city to ruins while Qi Yun remained protected at the edge of the battlefield.
• Qi Yun sensed the true Azure Gate Heaven's Will awakening and celebrated that his sixty years of planning had stirred it from its slumber.
• The true and counterfeit Heaven's Wills struggled for control, distorting the world's natural laws, but the counterfeit gradually gained the upper hand.
• The counterfeit Heaven's Will manifested as a hazy blue-gray halo, and Qi Yun's token began to pulse intensely.
• Qi Yun connected the token's reaction to the halo and identified the counterfeit Heaven's Will as the [Fruition Status].

Qi Yun fought the [Fruition Status] after discovering that it had become the False Heaven's Will, but the [True Heaven's Will] lent him its power and transformed his [Great Luo Heaven]. The chapter ended with Qi Yun receiving the world's recognition and wondering if he had borrowed the position of a True Lord.

• The [Fruition Status] targeted Qi Yun, and its pressure forced him to open [Great Luo Heaven].
• As the [Fruition Status] overwhelmed his domain, Qi Yun prepared to open the jade box Desolate Halberd True Lord had given him.
• The [True Heaven's Will] supported Qi Yun, stabilizing [Great Luo Heaven] and then pouring the essence of [Azure Gate] into it.
• Qi Yun's cultivation surged as [Great Luo Heaven] expanded and transformed, alarming the Yang Spirits fighting nearby.
• The [Fruition Status] unleashed a devastating attack, but the [True Heaven's Will] granted Qi Yun the world's recognition and control over its cause and effect.
• Qi Yun looked at his hands and wondered whether he was borrowing the position of a True Lord.

Qi Yun reclaimed the Fruition Status from False Heaven’s Will but failed to seize the Heavenly Position, then lost most of True Heaven’s Will’s power as Zhao Xuanji absorbed it and rose to near-True Lord strength. The chapter ended with Qi Yun accusing Zhao Xuanji of turning against him after using his help.

• Qi Yun used Wield Myriad Laws to battle False Heaven’s Will and tear away its hold on the Heavenly Position.
• False Heaven’s Will unleashed a final attack, causing the Heavenly Position to escape while Qi Yun secured the Fruition Status in his Purple Mansion.
• As Qi Yun tried to use the Six Realms Heaven to return to the Xuanhuang Realm, most of True Heaven’s Will’s power was suddenly drained from him.
• Zhao Xuanji rose from the ruins, absorbed the returning Dao resonance and authority, and rapidly advanced to a level near the True Lord realm.
• Zhao Xuanji drew the remaining power from Qi Yun into his palm, and Qi Yun asked if he meant to burn the bridge after crossing the river.

Qi Yun used the Desolate Halberd True Lord’s incarnation to battle the True Heaven’s Will, weakening Zhao Xuanji and exposing that the fifty Yang Spirits he summoned served Qi Yun instead. After they called Qi Yun their master, he ordered them to kill Zhao Xuanji.

• Zhao Xuanji demanded the Fruition Status and attacked Qi Yun with imperial dragon phantoms when Qi Yun refused to give it up.
• Qi Yun opened a jade case and summoned the Desolate Halberd True Lord’s incarnation, which praised him and struck at the True Heaven’s Will.
• The clash destabilized Zhao Xuanji’s power, reducing him from near the Pseudo-Lord level to the Peak of the Yang Spirit Realm.
• Zhao Xuanji summoned fifty Yang Spirits and ordered them to take Qi Yun down, but they ignored him.
• At Qi Yun’s prompting, Zhao Jia, Zhao Yi, and the other Yang Spirits knelt and called him master.
• Qi Yun turned away from Zhao Xuanji and ordered the fifty Yang Spirits to kill him.

Qi Yun and fifty Yang Spirits defeated and killed Zhao Xuanji in the Azure Gate Realm, then returned to the Xuanhuang Realm after receiving a strand of purple essence from Desolate Halberd True Lord. At Green Mountain Daoist Temple, Qi Yun learned that the Southern Yin Dynasty had fallen into chaos after its imperial lord became a monk, while Situ and Wu Changsheng had gone to watch.

• Zhao Jia and the forty-nine other Yang Spirits overwhelmed Zhao Xuanji, and Zhao Jia killed him by breaking his neck.
• After ten days of battle in the sky, Desolate Halberd True Lord sent Qi Yun a strand of purple essence and told him to go.
• Qi Yun used the [Six Realms Heaven] to return to the Xuanhuang Realm and took the Yang Spirits into the Great Luo Domain Heaven.
• Qi Yun arrived at Green Mountain Daoist Temple and found it unusually quiet, then met True Person Ling.
• True Person Ling told Qi Yun that the Southern Yin Dynasty was in chaos because its imperial lord had announced he was becoming a monk, and that Situ and Wu Changsheng had gone to watch.