Chapter Summaries

After attaining True Lordhood, Qi Yun confronted the Crown Prince of Southern Yin and made him promise to conceal their past connection. In his grotto-heaven, Qi Yun recovered from his injuries and clarified his independent path to True Lordhood, ending with the declaration that he himself was Fruition Status.

• The Crown Prince of Southern Yin regretted Qi Yun's rise but considered revealing his secret to Qingyuan True Lord for advantage.
• Qi Yun enveloped the Crown Prince of Southern Yin in a world of light, compelled him to keep silent, and removed a thread of karma before warning that Qingyuan could not always protect him.
• Qi Yun returned to his mote-of-dust grotto-heaven, where his injuries from colliding with the Wrathful Wisdom King Bodhisattva resurfaced and he began to heal.
• While recovering, Qi Yun recalled that his steadfast Dao heart had carried him beyond the Long River of Time and let him establish his own Great Dao imprint without relying on Fruition Status or Golden Nature.
• Qi Yun affirmed his path as “Rely on no Fruition Status, seek no Golden Nature,” and declared, “My Dao is truth, my heart is law! I am Fruition Status!”

Qi Yun and Great Sun Purple Ultimate True Lord confirmed that the True Lord’s unconventional path was viable, then set out for the sect. Near the sect’s territory, Qianxin and Qingli were trapped by Heisha’s formation as Qi Yun arrived and heard Heisha threaten to seize him.

• Qi Yun’s original self congratulated Great Sun Purple Ultimate True Lord on attaining the Dao, and they discussed the strengths and limits of his Fruition Status-free path.
• Qi Yun decided to keep his Supreme Dao Foundation and use the two cultivation paths as references for each other rather than rush to choose between them.
• Qi Yun and Great Sun Purple Ultimate True Lord left the Grotto Heaven and traveled north toward the sect.
• Qianxin and Qingli confirmed Qi Yun’s secret mark near the sect and worried that his return would expose him to Black Mountain’s faction.
• Heisha trapped Qianxin and Qingli in the Thousand Caverns Ten Thousand Mountains Great Formation and declared that he would seize Qi Yun under Wudao Extreme Dharma True Lord’s decree.
• Qi Yun’s calm voice reached the trapped group, asking whether Heisha truly intended to do so.

Qi Yun freed True Persons Qianxin and Qingli by destroying the Thousand Caverns Ten Thousand Mountains Great Formation, then overwhelmed True Person Heisha and called for Black Mountain to appear in person. Black Mountain True Person answered from the Wuji Sacred Sect, arriving amid a vast display of devilish pressure and ancient God and Devil phantoms.

• True Person Heisha activated his Nether Capital Floating Luo Domain against the voice outside the formation, but Qi Yun emerged from the void and seized him.
• Qi Yun stepped down and used a supreme formation infused with his Great Dao True Intention to shatter the Thousand Caverns Ten Thousand Mountains Great Formation.
• Qi Yun moved True Persons Qianxin and Qingli behind him, while True Person Heisha escaped his grasp by reforming from black mist.
• Qi Yun sealed True Person Heisha with nine-colored divine light and struck him into a distant stone mountain, leaving him gravely weakened.
• Qi Yun demanded that Black Mountain come in person, and Black Mountain True Person appeared atop a devil mountain amid ancient God and Devil phantoms.

Qi Yun stood against Black Mountain True Person’s attack until Great Sun Purple Ultimate True Lord appeared, erased Wudao Extreme Dharma True Lord’s talisman, and secured Qi Yun’s appointment as deputy sect master. The chapter ended with Black Mountain True Person emerging wounded from the rubble and Qi Yun demanding that he pay his respects to the new sect master.

• Black Mountain True Person attacked Qi Yun with a talisman containing Wudao Extreme Dharma True Lord’s power, but Great Sun Purple Ultimate True Lord appeared and dissolved the attack with Infinite Light.
• Qi Yun tried to convert Black Mountain True Person by offering reconciliation, but a hand on Black Mountain True Person’s shoulder dispelled the influence before he accepted.
• Wudao Extreme Dharma True Lord threw Black Mountain True Person into a mountain, then agreed to Great Sun Purple Ultimate True Lord’s request to welcome him and protect Qi Yun.
• Wudao Extreme Dharma True Lord issued an edict appointing Qi Yun deputy sect master and ordering everyone in the Wuji Sacred Sect to treat him as they would the sect master.
• Black Mountain True Person climbed out of the rubble, heard the edict, and vomited blood when he realized Qi Yun had taken the sect’s sole deputy sect master position.
• Qi Yun looked toward Black Mountain True Person and asked through a voice transmission why he had not come to pay his respects to the new sect master.

Qi Yun used his new authority as sect master of the Wuji Sacred Sect to punish and remove members of Black Mountain True Person’s faction under the sect laws. In a secret conversation with four True Lords, Wudao True Lord revealed why he tolerated Qi Yun’s purge and warned that the events at Spirit Mountain suggested the Dao Masters were beginning to wake.

• Qi Yun convened the Wuji Sacred Sect’s True Persons and declared that he would restore order while relying on the support of Great Sun Purple Ultimate True Lord and Wudao Extreme Dharma True Lord.
• Qi Yun stripped True Person Fushan and True Person Jinyun of their positions and imposed punishments for their past offenses.
• Qi Yun issued transfers and disciplinary orders against other members of Black Mountain True Person’s faction, dismantling its influence in the sect.
• Wudao True Lord told four True Lords that Great Sun Purple Ultimate True Lord’s reputation could deter enemies from targeting the sect, and he said he would not interfere with Qi Yun’s purge.
• Wudao True Lord warned the four True Lords that the events at Spirit Mountain suggested the Dao Masters were showing signs of waking.

Qi Yun resolved to use the Wrathful Wisdom King Bodhisattva’s Golden Nature to cultivate another self and experience the Xuanhuang Dao Attainment Method alongside his existing path. While preparing to choose a suitable lineage, he discovered that True Person Southern Dipper had secretly assembled decades’ worth of resources for the Blood God Scripture, and decided to investigate it despite the danger.

• Qi Yun enclosed Green Mountain Daoist Temple in a private grotto-heaven and studied the Golden Nature he had obtained.
• Qi Yun weighed the established Xuanhuang Dao Attainment Method against Great Sun Purple Ultimate True Lord’s new path and resolved to cultivate another self to pursue both.
• Qi Yun searched the Holy Sect’s treasury records for resources to support his second cultivation and found a complete set of Blood God Scripture materials prepared over several decades.
• Qi Yun realized True Person Southern Dipper had likely used provocation to guide him toward the Blood God Scripture while leaving a warning he could not explain openly.
• Qi Yun chose to accept the prepared opportunity, trusting that his Law Technique Panel could refine away any hidden trickery.

Qi Yun cultivated the Blood God Scripture for thirty years, mastered the blood sea, and used the Primordial True Body to form the Supreme Nether Underworld Spring Dharma Body. He uncovered the Scripture’s blood sea corruption and a scheme meant to drive cultivators to seek a True Lord’s protection, but his Law Technique Panel showed that his Dharma Body was free of the backlash.

• Qi Yun cultivated the Blood God Scripture for thirty years, transforming his chamber into a vast blood sea and bringing the Scripture’s Foundation Establishment chapter to great perfection.
• Qi Yun used Primordial True Intention to divide off his blood sea cultivation and create the Supreme Nether Underworld Spring Dharma Body.
• Qi Yun examined the Blood God Scripture and realized its power gradually eroded cultivators’ Divine Souls, Dao Foundations, and true spirits.
• Qi Yun deduced that the Scripture’s backlash was meant to push cultivators toward seeking a True Lord’s protection.
• Qi Yun checked his Law Technique Panel and saw that the Supreme Nether Underworld Spring Dharma Body had its blood sea backlash mechanism removed.

Qi Yun learned that the Blood God Scripture left a lasting mark on its cultivators, allowing Youquan to find his deceased teacher’s reincarnation. He sent Youquan overseas to locate and protect the old True Person, then summoned Qianxin, Qingli, and Liuguang to the Great Void Hall.

• Youquan changed his face at Qi Yun’s request to conceal his connection to his original body.
• Youquan revealed bloodlit phantoms of Blood God Scripture cultivators and explained that their marks could persist through reincarnation.
• Qi Yun recognized his teacher among the phantoms and vowed to protect him through his reincarnation.
• Qi Yun ordered Youquan to find the old True Person overseas and bring him back safely, promising to remove any obstacles.
• Qi Yun gave Youquan a storage ring with useful supplies and contact methods, and Youquan departed at once.
• Qi Yun sent a message summoning Qianxin, Qingli, and Liuguang to the Great Void Hall.

Daoist Youquan tracked the old True Person’s reincarnation, Xuanming, to the Jade Jade Palace, where he was due to marry the Seventh Princess in three days. After uncovering the pattern of her husbands’ disappearances, Youquan weighed the danger of a rescue and saw a new entry, [Blood God Son], appear on his Law Technique Panel.

• Daoist Youquan followed the Blood Sea imprint across the overseas waters and found Xuanming on Tianquan Island.
• The Seventh Princess visited Xuanming and confirmed that their wedding would take place in three days.
• Daoist Youquan learned from two dead Jade Jade Palace guards that the Seventh Princess had taken a new talented human husband nearly every year, and that each had soon disappeared.
• Daoist Youquan concluded that the marriages concealed an evil cultivation art and considered using the wedding as an opportunity to reach Xuanming.
• Daoist Youquan judged that his current strength could not face the palace’s true dragon directly, and [Blood God Son] appeared on his Law Technique Panel.

Daoist Youquan unleashed his Blood God Sons against the Teng Puppets to build his Blood Sea cultivation through slaughter. As the nest was devastated, his Law Technique Panel upgraded the ability with a three-use rebirth effect, leaving Youquan ready to intensify the massacre.

• Daoist Youquan decided to seek the Blood Sea Fruition Status by slaughtering alien races and traveled to the Bone-Eroding Nether Sea.
• Youquan found tens of thousands of Teng Puppets gathered at a harvest festival and attacked them with his ninety-nine Blood God Sons.
• The Blood God Sons overwhelmed the Teng Puppets and their sea insects, draining their vitality and feeding their killing karma and resentment into Youquan’s Blood Sea cultivation.
• Youquan’s Law Technique Panel upgraded Blood God Son and added Blood God Immortality, allowing each Blood God Son to be reborn on the spot up to three times.
• Youquan laughed at the upgrade and sent his Blood God Sons back into battle as the Blood Sea behind him surged and sinister blood shadows emerged.

At Xuanming and the Seventh Princess’s wedding, a vast phantom blood sea descended upon the Jade Jade Palace, and the blood-robed Youquan appeared beside Xuanming. Youquan offered to kill anyone who had coerced him, leaving the wedding guests facing an imminent confrontation.

• The Jade Jade Palace and Four Seas Alliance sealed off the Seven Stars Surrounding the Moon Sea and drove outsiders from the area for the wedding.
• Xuanming and the Seventh Princess proceeded through the wedding rites as the guests celebrated.
• The sea darkened and chilled as a vast phantom blood sea appeared overhead and moved toward the Jade Jade Palace.
• Youquan appeared beside Xuanming and rested a hand on his shoulder, startling the wedding guests.
• Youquan told Xuanming to point out whoever had coerced him, promising to kill them.

Youquan slaughtered the guests at the Jade Jade Palace wedding and broke through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, trapping the dragon clan leaders in his Blood Sea Netherworld Realm. As he closed in on victory, the Jade Jade Dragon King summoned the Dragon Lord, whose will began to cross into the realm.

• Youquan urged Xuanming to identify his betrayers, but Xuanming could not bring himself to point at anyone.
• Youquan declared that he would kill everyone and unleashed the blood sea, sending his Blood God Sons to attack the wedding guests.
• The Jade Jade Dragon King, the Seventh Princess, and five other Foundation Establishment cultivators attacked Youquan, but his Blood God Sons blocked their assault and grew stronger by devouring their victims.
• Youquan swallowed four jade stones and broke through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, forming the Blood Sea Netherworld Realm over the Jade Jade Palace and the Seven Stars Surrounding the Moon Sea.
• Youquan summoned nine immense blood waves to crush the seven dragon cultivators, and the wounded Jade Jade Dragon King called on the Dragon Lord with a precious scale.
• The Dragon Lord's will began to cross into the realm, and a calm voice spoke the words, "Infinite Light."

The Dragon Lord withdrew rather than risk fighting the Great Sun Purple Ultimate True Lord, leaving Youquan free to slaughter the Jade Jade Dragon King’s forces. After Youquan gave Xuanming the Seventh Princess, Xuanming killed her, while Youquan continued toward the wounded Dragon King.

• The Dragon Lord recognized the Great Sun Purple Ultimate True Lord and withdrew his manifestation rather than risk aggravating his unhealed injuries.
• The Jade Jade Dragon King cursed Youquan, then watched in disbelief as the Dragon Lord abandoned him.
• Youquan’s blood-wave dragons and Blood God Sons killed the Four Seas Alliance True Persons, leaving the Jade Jade Dragon King and Seventh Princess alive.
• Youquan brought the dying Seventh Princess before Xuanming and told him she was his.
• The Seventh Princess pleaded for her life, but Xuanming stabbed her with the dagger she had once given him and killed her.
• Youquan continued toward the wounded Jade Jade Dragon King and quietly approved of Xuanming’s actions.

Youquan drained the Jade Jade Dragon King until the dying dragon summoned Buddhist aid with a hidden string of prayer beads. Two Arhats arrived, but the Blood Sea’s hostility toward their opposing Great Dao stirred Youquan to kill them, and he began by finishing the Jade Jade Dragon King.

• Youquan gripped the Jade Jade Dragon King by the neck and devoured his dragon essence, blood, cultivation, and life force.
• Near death, the Jade Jade Dragon King tore away a scale to reveal nine Buddhist prayer beads and called for rescue, offering to join the Buddhist Order as a Dharma-protecting Heavenly Dragon.
• The prayer beads opened a golden passage, and two Arhats emerged to find Youquan holding the nearly skeletal dragon in a blood-soaked realm.
• Youquan recognized the Buddhist cultivators as natural enemies of the Blood Sea and decided to kill them.
• The Arhats demanded that Youquan release the Jade Jade Dragon King and submit to judgment, but Youquan broke the dragon’s neck and turned to face them.

Youquan devoured the Jade Jade Dragon King and defeated Arhats Baoguang and Baoshan with his Blood God Sons. After seven days of cultivation in an ocean trench, he realized the Dao Fruit had been in his sea of blood all along.

• The Jade Jade Dragon King's bloodline strengthened Youquan's Blood God Sons, raising all 7,500 of them to Foundation Establishment level.
• Baoshan sent eighteen golden-bodied Arhats against Youquan, but the Blood God Sons overwhelmed them with repeated attacks.
• Baoguang and Baoshan joined their Domain Heavens to hinder the Blood God Sons, so Youquan made successive waves of them self-destruct and shattered both domains.
• Youquan devoured Baoguang, while the remaining Blood God Sons restrained Baoshan as he attempted to detonate his Dao Foundation.
• Youquan escaped as more Buddha light gathered on the western horizon, then spent seven days cultivating in an ocean trench.
• A blood-colored light dissolved into Youquan's palms, and he understood that the Dao Fruit was in his sea of blood.

Youquan discovered a Dao Fruit hidden in the blood sea and sent a Blood God Son toward the Wuji Sacred Sect. Qi Yun restored Xuanming’s past-life memories and then received envoys bearing decrees from three True Lords, leaving the northwest’s next upheaval poised to begin.

• Youquan realized he could borrow a True Lord’s power through the blood sea’s Dao Fruit and sent a Blood God Son toward the Wuji Sacred Sect.
• Qi Yun restored Xuanming’s memories of his past life as True Person Deng, and they reunited as teacher and disciple.
• True Person Qianxin informed Qi Yun that envoys from the Azure Sect, the Phoenix Helm, and the Yellow Springs Netherworld had arrived with True Lords’ decrees.
• Xuanming learned that Qi Yun had become the Wuji Sacred Sect’s deputy sect master and went with True Person Qianxin to settle in.
• Qi Yun met Lingxuzi, Zhu Yun, and Minggu in the Great Void Hall as they delivered their respective True Lords’ messages.

Qi Yun questioned the three sect representatives about their plan to counterattack the Central Land and the intentions of the True Lords behind it. Separately, he sent Youquan to the North Sea Dragon Palace with an offer to heal the Dragon Lord’s injuries and a question about whether the Ancestral Dragon had awakened.

• Nether Bone True Person, Lingxuzi, and Zhu Yun told Qi Yun that the three sects wanted the Holy Sect to join their counterattack against the Central Land.
• Zhu Yun explained that they had waited to approach the Holy Sect because its leadership had recently changed, and Lingxuzi revealed that they had secured the Overseas Dragon Clan’s support.
• Lingxuzi and Zhu Yun described the Dragon Clan’s injuries and ancient grudge against the Buddhist Order as reasons for joining the campaign.
• Qi Yun said he would report the proposal to Patriarch Wudao, then asked what the True Lords presiding over the three sects were really plotting.
• Youquan finished refining the Merfolk Clan on an isolated island, and Qi Yun’s incarnation gave him a lotus seed to take to the Dragon Lord with an offer to heal his Dao injuries.
• Qi Yun instructed Youquan to ask the Dragon Lord whether the Ancestral Dragon had already awakened.

Qi Yun halted Youquan’s attack on the North Sea Dragon Palace, where Youquan had been confronted by nine true dragons and a vast army. As the Dragon Lord emerged and froze the standoff with a word, Youquan stood ready with a World-Purifying White Lotus seed.

• Qi Yun told the three sect representatives he would report their proposed counterattack on Central Land to the True Lord, then dismissed them to the guest quarters.
• Youquan traveled north through the North Sea, defeating or intimidating several groups and spreading fear of the Blood Demon Daoist.
• Youquan reached the North Sea Dragon Palace and felt the ancient Dragon Clan’s overwhelming presence.
• Nine true dragons and tens of thousands of Dragon Palace soldiers confronted Youquan, who sent nine rivers of Blood God Sons toward their formation.
• Qi Yun spoke into Youquan’s Purple Mansion, stopping the attack, and Youquan revealed a lotus seed from the World-Purifying White Lotus.
• The Dragon Lord commanded both sides to wait, halted the battle with his power, and appeared within a dark blue light.

Youquan presented the North Sea Dragon Lord with a white lotus from Great Sun Purple Ultimate, which healed most of the Dragon Lord’s Dao injury and removed the Buddhist power of conversion. Youquan then asked whether the Ancestral Dragon had awakened, and an ancient presence answered by demanding to know who had told him about it.

• The North Sea Dragon Lord’s ancient gaze halted the battle outside the Dragon Palace and drew Youquan into a deep-blue Dao realm.
• The Dragon Lord recognized the white lotus as a gesture from Great Sun Purple Ultimate and accepted it, allowing its power to purge the Buddhist conversion from his body.
• The Dragon Lord’s Dao injury healed by eighty percent, and he asked Youquan what Great Sun Purple Ultimate wanted in return.
• Youquan asked whether the Ancestral Dragon had awakened, plunging the Dao realm into darkness as a pair of enormous dragon eyes appeared.
• A voice from the darkness asked Youquan who had told him about the Ancestral Dragon.

True Lord Wudao agreed to join the northwestern sects and the Dragon Clan in a counterattack on the Central Land, while insisting that the Wuji Sacred Sect lead the demonic path and ordering Black Mountain to the front. After surviving the Dragon Lord’s overwhelming pressure, Youquan relayed Qi Yun’s message and proposed a high-stakes deal to the Dragon Clan.

• True Lord Wudao used his Dao seal to examine the Sea of Karma and found the future of the counterattack hidden by a fog created through the combined influence of multiple powers.
• True Lord Wudao told Qi Yun that the Wuji Sacred Sect would join the counterattack and ordered him to demand leadership of the demonic path for the Holy Sect.
• True Lord Wudao ordered Black Mountain to command the front lines, and Qi Yun agreed to bring the decree to him at the Silent Devil Cave.
• The North Sea Dragon Lord’s pressure vanished, and Youquan concealed his near-erasure after recognizing the Dragon Lord’s warning not to speak of what had happened.
• Qi Yun sent Youquan a message, and Youquan told the Dragon Lord he had delivered it before proposing that the Dragon Clan join a high-stakes game.