Chapter Summaries

Desolate Halberd True Lord emerged after destroying Lingyong’s false Heaven’s Will and explained to Qi Yun the secrets of the True Lords’ cultivation. Qi Yun learned that refining a Dao Fruit into oneself provoked heaven and earth’s resistance, leaving him to understand why True Lords had to leave Xuanhuang to recover from that pressure.

• Desolate Halberd True Lord appeared from the fading halos, and Qi Yun greeted him after recognizing him.
• Desolate Halberd True Lord praised Qi Yun’s rapid rise to the peak of the Great True Person Realm and warned him not to follow Wudao True Lord’s old path.
• Qi Yun guessed that Desolate Halberd True Lord had shaped the realms connected by the [Six Realms Heaven], and Desolate Halberd True Lord confirmed that he had created five of them.
• Desolate Halberd True Lord explained that True Lords had to refine their heaven-bestowed Dao Fruits into their own Dao Paths, provoking resistance from the origin of heaven and earth.
• Qi Yun realized that True Lords left Xuanhuang to dispel the aversion accumulated through Dao Fruit refinement, and Desolate Halberd True Lord confirmed his deduction.

Desolate Halberd True Lord warned Qi Yun that Wudao True Lord’s rapid, brutal advancement had brought Heaven and Earth’s Aversion, then revealed that the beings above True Lords wanted to destroy Xuanhuang. Four coffin bearers arrived in Lingyong Great Realm and confronted Desolate Halberd True Lord, leaving him to face them as Qi Yun retreated.

• Desolate Halberd True Lord told Qi Yun that Wudao True Lord had endured eight hundred years of isolation to dispel the Aversion Qi caused by his path.
• Qi Yun described the four True Lords carrying a coffin and asked about the powerful beings who had driven Wudao True Lord and the bodhisattvas back to Xuanhuang.
• Desolate Halberd True Lord identified those beings as people seeking to destroy Xuanhuang completely.
• The Lingyong Great Realm shook as a breach opened and four figures carrying an ancient coffin descended to confront Desolate Halberd True Lord.
• The leading coffin bearer said they had come by order to send Desolate Halberd back to Xuanhuang, and Desolate Halberd prepared to fight while ordering Qi Yun to retreat.

Desolate Halberd True Lord fought the coffin-bearing True Lord while Qi Yun fled the devastation, and their clash split Lingyong Realm Heaven and shattered other realms. A pale hand from the ancient coffin stopped the battle and withdrew with the four figures, leaving Desolate Halberd True Lord alive and ready for their next encounter.

• Desolate Halberd True Lord summoned his great halberd and spread [Hegemony Under Heaven] across Lingyong Realm Heaven.
• A coffin-bearing True Lord stepped forward, and their opposing killing presences split Lingyong Realm Heaven apart.
• Qi Yun retreated from the battlefield as Desolate Halberd True Lord and the coffin-bearing True Lord fought across the void, damaging realms and wounding each other.
• A pale hand emerged from the ancient coffin and halted the fighters, warning Desolate Halberd True Lord that next time would not be a mere expulsion.
• The coffin and its four bearers vanished, and Desolate Halberd True Lord vowed to be waiting for them.
• Qi Yun emerged from a life-saving grotto-heaven and realized the coffin's forces had withdrawn from Desolate Halberd True Lord.

After seeing Lingyong Realm Heaven destroyed by the battle between True Lords, Qi Yun returned toward Xuanhuang with Desolate Halberd True Lord, who urged him to become a True Lord soon. They were forcibly diverted to the Wuji Sacred Sect, where Wudao Extreme Dharma True Lord delivered a golden card bearing the image of a heavenly palace, prompting Desolate Halberd True Lord to ask whether the Heavenly Court had emerged.

• Qi Yun witnessed Lingyong Realm Heaven’s ruins and the deaths of its countless inhabitants after the True Lords’ battle.
• Desolate Halberd True Lord removed and destroyed the lingering destructive mist in his wounds, then warned Qi Yun that the True Lords’ enemies would block their return to Xuanhuang.
• Desolate Halberd True Lord urged Qi Yun to become a True Lord soon, warning that the coming war could leave no one in Xuanhuang alive.
• Desolate Halberd True Lord used the Six Realms Heaven to open a passage to Xuanhuang, and Qi Yun followed him inside.
• A force diverted Qi Yun and Desolate Halberd True Lord to the Wuji Sacred Sect’s Great Void Mirror Heaven, where Wudao Extreme Dharma True Lord handed over a golden card depicting a heavenly palace.
• Desolate Halberd True Lord recognized the palace and asked whether the Heavenly Court had emerged.

The four supreme factions’ True Lords attacked the black clouds concealing the Heavenly Court, believing beings above the True Lord realm had orchestrated its fall and manipulated Xuanhuang. Their assault began revealing the ancient complex, including its Southern Heaven gate, while Qi Yun’s Investiture of the Gods trembled in response.

• Qingyuan True Lord Wendao, Dragon Elephant Prajna Bodhisattva, the Eastern Sea Dragon Lord, and Wudao Extreme Dharma True Lord gathered before the cloud-shrouded Heavenly Court with four Great True Persons behind them.
• Qingyuan True Lord Wendao said the Heavenly Court’s fall may have been caused by higher beings silencing it after it discovered a clue, and the others recognized that they had been caught in a scheme.
• Wudao Extreme Dharma True Lord raised his hand, and the four True Lords joined him in preparing to attack the Heavenly Court’s shroud.
• The four True Lords unleashed sword light, Buddha light, a water dragon, and an intent of return to nothingness, gradually tearing apart the black clouds.
• The Heavenly Court emerged from the clouds, revealing its enormous gate marked Southern Heaven and ranks of halls and pavilions.
• Qi Yun watched the Heavenly Court reappear as the Investiture of the Gods in his Purple Mansion trembled.

Qi Yun sensed the Investiture of the Gods resonating with the reappearing Heavenly Court as four True Lords investigated its erased past. Dragon Elephant Prajna Bodhisattva’s attempt to reverse time triggered a realm-wide burst of Dharma light, and the Heavenly Court invited cultivators to enter before All Wonders Heaven began to tremble.

• Qi Yun saw the Investiture of the Gods glow and its runes respond to the Heavenly Court.
• Qingyuan True Lord Wendao, Wudao Extreme Dharma True Lord, the Eastern Sea Dragon Lord, and Dragon Elephant Prajna Bodhisattva tried different methods to investigate the Heavenly Court’s past, but found its cause and effect had been erased.
• Dragon Elephant Prajna Bodhisattva attempted to reverse time, and the Heavenly Court released a flood of Dharma light that engulfed the Xuanhuang Home Realm.
• The Heavenly Court announced that its Southern Heaven Gate would remain open for one sixty-year cycle, inviting those who were fated to seek the three thousand Great Daos.
• All Wonders Heaven trembled after the Heavenly Court’s announcement reached cultivators throughout the realm.

The True Lords rushed to All Wonders Heaven when it began to tremble, only for a hidden golden hand to emerge from an overlooked fruition status and seal the entire realm. A voice declared that Xuanhuang would have no more True Lords, leaving them trapped outside their sealed Dao Fruits.

• Qingyuan True Lord Wendao, Wudao Extreme Dharma True Lord, Eastern Sea Dragon Lord, Dragon Elephant Prajna Bodhisattva, and other powerful figures abandoned the Heavenly Court and rushed to All Wonders Heaven as it shook.
• Dozens of True Lords gathered in All Wonders Heaven and searched its depths for the source of the tremors.
• An overlooked fruition status stirred, and a vast golden hand bearing a revolving swastika emerged from it.
• The golden hand bound All Wonders Heaven and its fruition statuses with Sanskrit chains, sealing the realm and dimming the Dao Fruits.
• A voice said that a full cycle of sixty years had passed and declared, "From today onward, Xuanhuang shall have no more True Lords."
• The True Lords remained outside the sealed All Wonders Heaven, staring at it with furrowed brows.

The True Lords failed to break the golden palm’s seal on All Wonders Heaven, while Great Sun Purple Ultimate True Lord told Qi Yun that every True Lord was trapped. With Xuanhuang facing chaos as cultivators converged on the newly emerged Heavenly Court, Qi Yun took up the Investiture of the Gods and vowed to suppress the turmoil.

• The True Lords and Buddhist cultivators set aside their suspicions, but the True Lords’ attacks could not damage the golden chains sealing All Wonders Heaven.
• Great Sun Purple Ultimate True Lord sent Qi Yun a fading message explaining that a hidden Dao Fruit had sealed All Wonders Heaven and trapped every True Lord inside.
• Qi Yun realized that powerful beings above the True Lords had orchestrated the crisis and that Xuanhuang would be left without its usual protectors.
• As cultivators rushed toward the Heavenly Court, Qi Yun brought out the Investiture of the Gods and ordered the True Lords to break the seal while declaring that he would suppress the turmoil in Xuanhuang.

Cultivators across Xuanhuang rushed to the Heavenly Court after its appearance, and the Great True Persons arrived first at the Southern Heaven Gate. Qi Yun barred them from entering for sixty years and demonstrated his power by instantly killing a Great True Person who challenged him.

• News of the Heavenly Court and its Great Dao spread across Xuanhuang, drawing cultivators from every region toward the West Sea.
• More than a dozen Great True Persons reached the Southern Heaven Gate and confirmed that the palace was the legendary Heavenly Court.
• Qi Yun appeared at the gate and told the Great True Persons that the Heavenly Court was too dangerous to enter and that they must wait sixty years.
• A black-robed Great True Person challenged Qi Yun and asked why they should obey him.
• Qi Yun used Immediate Execution by Beheading to turn the challenger to ash.
• Qi Yun declared that with the True Lord absent, he had the final say in Xuanhuang.

Before the Southern Heaven Gate, Qi Yun faced more than a dozen Great True Persons after Celestial Master Chen claimed Qi Yun could use Immediate Execution by Beheading only once a day. As the opposing cultivators unleashed their combined power, Qi Yun summoned Great Luo Heaven and ten Great True Person-level allies from the Investiture of the Gods, leaving both sides locked in a devastating clash.

• Celestial Master Chen told the Great True Persons that Qi Yun could not use Immediate Execution by Beheading again for twelve shichen, and Qi Yun challenged him to calculate whether he would still be alive then.
• The Dragon-Slaying Sword Master and the other Great True Persons attacked Qi Yun with their combined Sword Intent, flames, ghostly power, sea and ice techniques, talismans, and other abilities.
• Qi Yun opened his eyes to reveal the powers within them and manifested Great Luo Heaven, whose presence began to suppress the opposing cultivators’ Dao domains.
• Qi Yun summoned the Investiture of the Gods, which released the Sacred Yuan Wenqu Star Lord and the nine great provincial governors of Lingyong.
• Qi Yun’s force and the Great True Persons’ attack collided, distorting the void and bringing the two sides into a tense deadlock.

Qi Yun used the Divine Firmament Thunder Talisman and Heaven-Banning Rule to turn the battle against the outnumbering Xuanhuang Great True Persons. He left the Dragon-Slaying Sword Master and True Person Sansi sealed inside his sleeve, intending to borrow their Dao Paths to suppress heaven.

• Qi Yun directed the nine Province Lords and Sacred Yuan Wenqu Star Lord to defend against the Xuanhuang Great True Persons’ combined attacks.
• Qi Yun summoned the Divine Firmament Thunder Talisman, pinning True Person Zַhuanlun, Lady Jiuli, and the North Sea dragon prince beneath a storm of Heaven’s Will lightning.
• As his side began to falter under the enemy’s numbers, Qi Yun used Gather Form and Disperse Qi to leave his original body maintaining the Thunder Method and rush toward the Dragon-Slaying Sword Master and True Person Sansi.
• Qi Yun used Heaven-Banning Rule to sever both swordsmen’s connections to their Great Daos and suppress their powers.
• Qi Yun drew the Dragon-Slaying Sword Master and True Person Sansi into his sleeve, saying he needed to borrow their Dao Paths to suppress heaven.

Qi Yun plundered the sword Dao attainments of the Dragon-Slaying Sword Master and True Person Sansi, making his own Sword Intent surge as he prepared to refine a Law Technique. In All Wonders Heaven, Desolate Halberd True Lord defended him against the furious Sword Pavilion True Lords, who ultimately held back from fighting.

• Qi Yun used Seize Profound Meaning to strip the Dragon-Slaying Sword Master and True Person Sansi of their sword Dao attainments, then gathered the resulting Sword Intent into a mark on his brow.
• Qingyuan True Lord Wendao and True Lord Vast Sea and Fine Dust confronted Desolate Halberd True Lord and Wudao True Lord over Qi Yun's actions.
• Desolate Halberd defended Qi Yun and challenged Qingyuan to fight, while Wudao's power helped counter the Sword Intent pressing against them.
• Qingyuan and Vast Sea chose not to fight, though the Sword Pavilion True Lords remained hostile toward Qi Yun.
• Qi Yun inspected his Law Technique Panel and directed his surging sword Dao intent into a Law Technique, causing its progress bar to rise and new insights to enter his mind.

Qi Yun refined the sword Dao profound meaning he had seized into [Basic Sword Qi 50.0], gaining a defense-ignoring Sword-Ray that nearly killed the Dragon Crown Prince of the South Sea. He then confronted the Great True Persons of Xuanhuang and declared that he would destroy the Heavenly Court.

• Qi Yun poured the sword Dao profound meaning taken from the Dragon-Slaying Sword Master and True Person Sansi into [Basic Sword Qi], evolving it through fifty versions until it gained the ability to ignore defense.
• Qi Yun struck the Dragon Crown Prince of the South Sea with a Sword-Ray that split his dragon pearl and defenses, then dispersed it just before it killed him.
• Qi Yun summoned millions of varied Sword-Rays and aimed them at the Great True Persons gathered above the battlefield.
• The Hegemon Sect elder challenged Qi Yun for opposing the cultivation world's pursuit of the opportunity before them.
• Qi Yun declared that he would destroy the Heavenly Court.

Qi Yun unleashed hundreds of millions of defense-ignoring Sword-Rays against the Heavenly Court, shattering its outer barriers and damaging its palaces. When more than ten Great True Persons attacked to stop him, Qi Yun threatened to kill them and invoked Great Luo Edict.

• Qi Yun redirected his Sword-Rays toward the Heavenly Court and ordered them to attack.
• The Sword-Rays tore through the Heavenly Court’s layered defenses and began cracking its structures, while the canopy’s radiance dispersed some of the assault.
• Qi Yun unleashed a torrent of Sword-Rays ten times greater, engulfing the Heavenly Court and overwhelming its defenses.
• More than ten Great True Persons attacked Qi Yun to stop him from destroying the Heavenly Court.
• Qi Yun threatened to kill anyone who advanced, cowed the attackers with his Sword Intent, and activated Great Luo Edict.

Qi Yun’s [Basic Sword Qi] broke through its limit and reshaped itself, triggering the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang phenomenon that made the Great True Persons believe he was becoming a True Lord. In All Wonders Heaven, the Sword Dao Dao Fruit responded to him, while the chapter ended with his Law Technique Panel revealing a new mechanism: [Immortal-Slaying Dao Fruit].

• Qi Yun’s [Basic Sword Qi 50.0] overcame its suppression and forced the Law Technique Panel to complete his status to accommodate the technique.
• Qi Yun radiated sword light as Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang appeared around him, terrifying the Great True Persons who feared he was becoming a True Lord.
• The Dragon Crown Prince of the South Sea suggested fleeing, but the Dragon Crown Prince of the Eastern Sea said they could not escape a True Lord within the Xuanhuang Realm.
• In All Wonders Heaven, the Sword Dao Dao Fruit responded to Qi Yun, astonishing True Lord Vast Sea and Fine Dust and the other Sword Dao True Lords.
• Desolate Halberd True Lord mocked the Sword Dao True Lords and predicted Qi Yun would claim authority over the Sword Dao once All Wonders Heaven opened.
• Qi Yun’s Law Technique Panel displayed [Basic Sword Qi 51.0] and the new mechanism [Immortal-Slaying Dao Fruit].

Qi Yun drew on the Immortal-Slaying Dao Fruit and prepared to strike the Heavenly Court, but the World-Honored One emerged through Arhat Moluo Dan and attacked him with a vast Buddha’s palm. As Qi Yun summoned the sword Dao Fruition Status, it pierced All Wonders Heaven’s seal and sent a strand of ancient gray Sword-Ray toward him.

• Qi Yun realized the Immortal-Slaying Dao Fruit required Basic Sword Qi to reach the level of a True Lord, then forced the power into his grasp despite its crushing weight.
• As Qi Yun aimed his Immortal-Slaying strike at the Heavenly Court, a Buddhist invocation halted his Sword-Rays and transformed Arhat Moluo Dan into the World-Honored One.
• The World-Honored One stepped between Qi Yun and the Heavenly Court, demanded that Qi Yun spare it, and summoned a colossal Buddha’s palm when Qi Yun refused.
• Qi Yun endured the palm’s pressure and shouted, “Sword, come!” to summon the sword Dao Fruition Status from All Wonders Heaven.
• The Fruition Status pierced All Wonders Heaven’s seal and sent an ancient gray Sword-Ray through the opening toward Qi Yun.

Qi Yun received the Immortal-Slaying Dao Fruit’s power and used a sword drawn from its formation to destroy the World-Honored One’s manifested figure. The World-Honored One’s voice lingered after his form vanished, while the sword returned to Qi Yun’s brow.

• Ancient gray light entered Qi Yun’s brow, empowering him with the Immortal-Slaying Dao Fruit as the World-Honored One accelerated his Buddha palm strike.
• Qi Yun pierced the palm’s Buddhist seal with Sword-Rays, then summoned part of the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to halt the blow, but the strain made him cough blood.
• The World-Honored One approached Qi Yun as the formation faltered, believing Qi Yun could not wield it and declaring that he had to die.
• Qi Yun revealed that he had only meant to wield one sword, drew the Immortal-Ending sword light from the formation, and struck the World-Honored One.
• The sword erased the World-Honored One’s defenses and figure; his voice lingered before the sword returned to Qi Yun’s brow, and the Buddhist light over the West Sea faded.

After Qi Yun slew the World-Honored One’s True Lord-level incarnation, the surviving Great True Persons tried to flee, but he stopped them and concealed the West Sea from the True Lords watching from All Wonders Heaven. He waited for cultivators from across Xuanhuang to gather, intending to find nine supreme beings among them.

• The Great True Persons realized Qi Yun had slain the World-Honored One’s incarnation and began retreating in fear.
• Qi Yun stopped the fleeing Great True Persons, weakened by the backlash from borrowing True Lord power through the Immortal-Slaying Dao Fruit.
• Qi Yun used the Dao Fruit’s remaining power to shroud All Wonders Heaven in fog, blocking the True Lords’ view of the West Sea.
• Desolate Halberd True Lord deflected Sage Wang’s questions about Qi Yun’s actions, while the other True Lords watched and wondered what he intended.
• Qi Yun waited before the Heavenly Court as cultivators converged on the West Sea, planning to find nine supreme beings among them.

Qi Yun sensed and captured eight cultivators carrying Supreme Dao Foundations as countless cultivators gathered at the Heavenly Court. He declared the Heavenly Court closed for sixty years while the True Lords investigated a great tribulation, and the crowd dispersed after the Great True Persons accepted his decree.

• Qi Yun used Great Luo Heaven to locate eight Supreme Dao Foundations among the assembled cultivators, then pulled their bearers into the phantom realm.
• Qi Yun announced that the Heavenly Court concealed the root of a great tribulation and would be closed for one sixty-year cycle while the True Lords sought a solution.
• The cultivators protested the closure, suspecting Qi Yun was keeping the Heavenly Court's opportunities for himself.
• Black Mountain True Person, Lady Jiuli, True Person Zhuanlun, the Dragon Crown Prince of the Eastern Sea, and other Great True Persons accepted Qi Yun's decree and urged the crowd to obey.
• The gathered cultivators abandoned their protests and departed, leaving Qi Yun to watch the crowd disperse.

After the righteous path abandoned the Central Land, Qi Yun searched for the ninth supreme Dao Foundation, which he needed to survive the tribulation of merging all nine. He realized where it was hidden and arrived at the ruined Spirit Mountain Sacred Realm, where he uncovered Wealth Connects to the Divine.

• The demonic path took the empty Central Land as the righteous path retreated to the northwest, reversing Xuanhuang's long-standing balance of power.
• Qi Yun tried to locate the ninth supreme Dao Foundation using the eight captured foundations, but his divinations found nothing.
• Qi Yun realized the final foundation had been deliberately hidden and that he had to find all nine before attempting to merge them, or a deadly tribulation would descend.
• Qi Yun left his Great Luo Heaven secret realm and traveled to the ruins of the Spirit Mountain Sacred Realm.
• Qi Yun opened the ground beneath the ruins and revealed Wealth Connects to the Divine, whose presence drew countless gazes that quickly withdrew when they sensed him.