Chapter Summaries

Qi Yun repaid his debt to Wealth Connects to the Divine and restored its artifact spirit, Cai Kun, to its true body. Cai Kun could not locate the final Supreme Dao Foundation, but pointed Qi Yun toward Luo Hetu, the Duke of Xuan and a renowned diviner.

• Qi Yun offered five captured gods to Wealth Connects to the Divine, settling his debt and severing their karmic connection.
• Qi Yun returned Cai Kun’s artifact spirit to the ancient golden tree, restoring the Imperial Weapon to wholeness.
• Cai Kun praised Qi Yun’s strength and agreed to help him find the last Supreme Dao Foundation.
• Cai Kun used the Imperial Weapon to search for the foundation but found its traces hidden or cut off by a power he judged to be at least a middle-realm True Lord.
• Cai Kun suggested seeking his third elder brother, Luo Hetu, the Duke of Xuan, who specialized in deduction and divination.

Qi Yun entered the Wuji Sacred Sect’s hidden sanctuary and used a golden branch to slip through a vast restriction into a sealed cave. After protecting Cai Shen from an attack by a mysterious figure, he recognized what lay beneath the pool as a True Lord’s corpse.

• Qi Yun learned that the person he sought was at the Wuji Sacred Sect and entered its Great Void Mirror Heaven.
• Qi Yun used a branch from Wealth Connects to the Divine’s true body to find and breach a hidden restriction.
• Qi Yun summoned Cai Shen in a dark cave, where Cai Shen approached a strange gray pool.
• A towering figure of nothingness emerged from the pool and struck at Cai Shen’s spirit body.
• Qi Yun blocked the attack with his Sword Intent, causing the figure to vanish and the pool to grow still.
• Qi Yun looked into the pool and identified its contents as a True Lord’s corpse.

Qi Yun and Cai Kun explored a vast underground space beneath the Holy Sect, where they discovered sealed Dao's Lingering Calamity and a collection of ancient treasures. Cai Kun located the chamber connected to Luo Hetu, but a mysterious voice spoke as they approached it.

• Qi Yun and Cai Kun descended through the dark pool and found thirty-three chambers containing terrifying remains.
• Cai Kun explained that the sealed remains were Dao's Lingering Calamity, True Lord bodies corrupted by lingering malice and obsession.
• Qi Yun and Cai Kun searched the underground space and discovered chambers holding ancient weapons, strange relics, and forbidden objects.
• Cai Kun sensed Luo Hetu's location and led Qi Yun toward a small, neglected chamber at the edge of the others.
• A mysterious voice spoke to Qi Yun and Cai Kun, telling them to lower their heads and look beneath their feet.

Qi Yun left the underground chambers after realizing that rescuing Senior Luo would require power capable of shaking the Great Void Mirror Heaven, and that Luo might be safer where he was. Back in the Wuji Sacred Sect’s hall, Qi Yun followed the riddle’s clue to the sect master’s jade throne and uncovered a True Lord’s handwriting sealed inside it.

• Qi Yun thanked the voice in the stone chamber and left with Cai Shen, explaining that the chambers were bound to the Great Void Mirror Heaven and that they could not safely rescue Senior Luo without overwhelming power.
• Qi Yun and Cai Kun escaped the secret domain and returned to the Wuji Sacred Sect’s sect master’s hall.
• Black Mountain True Person and the other True Persons recognized Qi Yun as Acting sect master and left the hall at his command.
• Qi Yun examined the jade throne, sealed the hall against outside detection, and attacked the throne with gray Sword Qi.
• Qi Yun stripped away the throne’s outer shell and found an ancient scripture sealing a golden light, which he identified as a True Lord’s handwriting.

Qi Yun challenged the Supreme Dao Foundation sealed by True Lord Contemplating the One, using the Immortal-Slaying Lord Status and Immortal-Extinguishing Sword against the True Lord’s overwhelming power. The True Lord unexpectedly withdrew his seal, leaving Qi Yun with the ninth and final foundation, and Qi Yun declared that he lacked nothing.

• Qi Yun’s probing sword strike awakened the purple-gold scripture, which revealed the Dao intent of True Lord Contemplating the One and threatened to reshape Great Luo Heaven.
• Qi Yun summoned Cai Kun, who used credit to heal the injuries Qi Yun had suffered from wielding the Immortal-Slaying power and Immortal-Extinguishing Sword.
• Qi Yun borrowed the Immortal-Slaying Lord Status again, summoned the Immortal-Extinguishing Sword, and struck at the scripture’s core.
• True Lord Contemplating the One’s illusion seized the sword, recognized Qi Yun’s status, and glimpsed his circumstances, but then dispersed and burned away the scripture and its seal.
• Qi Yun took the freed Supreme Dao Foundation, bringing all nine foundations into his grasp, and said, “Now—I lack nothing.”

Qi Yun gathered all twelve supreme Dao Foundations in Great Luo Heaven and began refining them into a Great Dao Golden Disk, preparing to unite the Supremes and attain realization through emptiness. With his sword Dao incarnation guarding the sealed realm, he started the perilous process and brought forth the Law Technique Panel.

• Qi Yun formed a sword Dao incarnation and entrusted it with guarding Great Luo Heaven while he entered seclusion.
• Qi Yun sealed Great Luo Heaven off from Xuanhuang and summoned his three refined Dao Foundations alongside the nine others he had acquired.
• The twelve supreme Dao Foundations resonated and formed a chaotic halo surrounded by manifestations of their Daos.
• Qi Yun condensed the halo into a Great Dao Golden Disk and caused the Law Technique Panel to appear.
• Qi Yun gripped the disk and began refining it.

Qi Yun refined the Twelve Supremes' Dao intent to advance Great Luo Heaven, but the slow progress was interrupted when the Supremes' manifestations invaded his secret realm. After fighting the Supreme Sovereign incarnation, Qi Yun faced the remaining figures, including True Lord Canyi Budao and a familiar figure whose arrival stabilized Great Luo Heaven.

• Qi Yun began refining the Great Dao Golden Disk's twelve torrents of Supreme Dao intent into Great Luo Heaven, but its progress remained painfully slow.
• Twelve powerful presences invaded Great Luo Heaven, and Qi Yun recognized the first manifestation as the Supreme Sovereign Mystic Firmament Dao Foundation.
• Qi Yun clashed with the Supreme Sovereign incarnation, countering its attacks with his own Divine Abilities and sealing its Dao power with Heaven-Banning Rule before striking it and healing a cut from its imperial killing intent.
• Qi Yun challenged the other eleven figures to attack together, and they emerged one by one, including True Lord Canyi Budao, whom Qi Yun recognized as a Supreme cultivator.
• The twelfth figure stepped into Great Luo Heaven, stabilizing the secret realm, and Qi Yun recognized the familiar dark blue Daoist robe and laughed that the situation had gotten out of hand.

Qi Yun endured the twelve Supreme incarnations in Great Luo Heaven, learned to plunder their Dao intent, and joined forces with Canyi’s incarnation to defeat them. After resolving his final trial through a discussion of the Dao, he absorbed the twelve supreme origins, triggering a transformation that shook All Wonders Heaven and suggested a new Fruition Status was forming.

• Qi Yun fought the twelve Supreme incarnations, suffered severe injuries, and relied on Cai Kun’s golden lights to restore his strength.
• Qi Yun used Seize Profound Meaning to plunder Dao intent from the incarnations, deepening his understanding and accelerating his progress in Great Luo Heaven.
• Canyi’s Hongmeng attacks disrupted the incarnations’ coordination and destroyed several of them, allowing Qi Yun to defeat the remaining incarnations with their own Dao intent.
• After the other incarnations were defeated, Canyi’s incarnation dissolved, and the Great Luo Myriad Laws incarnation invited Qi Yun to discuss the Dao instead of fighting.
• Qi Yun defended his Dao during their discussion, and the Great Luo incarnation accepted his answer, transformed into Flowing Light, and entered his Purple Mansion alongside the other eleven supreme origins.
• Qi Yun began an immense transformation as All Wonders Heaven trembled, and the True Lords saw a figure forming in the chaos and wondered whether a new Fruition Status was emerging.

Qi Yun completed the major update of his Law Technique, formed the Hunyuan Great Luo Dao, and summoned its Dao Fruit from All Wonders Heaven. After swallowing the fruit, he declared that his fate belonged to him rather than heaven.

• Qi Yun absorbed the remaining Supreme Dao intent as the [Great Luo Heaven] progress reached 100% and the panel updated to [Hunyuan Great Luo].
• Qi Yun’s presence surged as he advanced beyond the peak of the Great True Person realm, while the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang phenomenon spread across the Xuanhuang Home Realm.
• Qi Yun declared that his Dao was complete and called his Fruition Status to return from All Wonders Heaven.
• The [Hunyuan Dao Fruit] crossed the World-Honored One’s seal and descended to Qi Yun, astonishing the True Lords who watched.
• Qi Yun swallowed the [Hunyuan Dao Fruit Golden Core] and declared that his fate was his own, not heaven’s.

After consuming the Dao Fruit Golden Core, Qi Yun tried to ascend into All Wonders Heaven, defying the Xuanhuang Home Realm’s Heaven’s Will and enduring its increasingly devastating lightning. The final strike hid him from view, but a ringing verse announced the arrival of Great Luo Heaven.

• Qi Yun gained vast power and perception from the Dao Fruit Golden Core, then stepped upward through the sky as his pressure condensed.
• The Eye of the Firmament appeared, and Heaven’s Will unleashed a sea of lightning when Qi Yun continued his ascent.
• Qi Yun shielded himself with a chaos auspicious cloud and pressed onward, repeatedly healing as dark-gold lightning shattered his Dao body.
• Two indistinct figures watched from beyond All Wonders Heaven; one began to intervene, but the other stopped him.
• As Qi Yun neared All Wonders Heaven, the lightning condensed into a colossal bolt that struck him, and the True Lords thought he had perished.
• A clear voice recited a verse declaring that Great Luo Heaven lay before them.

Qi Yun emerged whole in All Wonders Heaven, inscribed Primordial Unity as his Dao, and was acknowledged as a fellow Daoist by the True Lords. When a golden Buddha incarnation attacked him and condemned him as an evil demon, Qi Yun crushed it and destroyed the Buddhist seal around All Wonders Heaven.

• Qi Yun inscribed [Primordial Unity] across All Wonders Heaven and declared Primordial Unity as his Daoist name.
• Wudao True Lord, Desolate Halberd True Lord, Qingyuan True Lord Wendao, Vast Sea and Fine Dust, Sage Wang, and Wheel-Turning True Lord greeted Qi Yun as a fellow Daoist.
• Qi Yun discovered a hidden net of Buddhist Sanskrit characters sealing the outer barrier of All Wonders Heaven.
• A towering golden Buddha manifested, condemned Qi Yun, and raised a hand to suppress him.
• Qi Yun challenged the Buddha to descend in its true body, then summoned a vast chaotic hand that crushed the incarnation and annihilated the Buddhist seal.

After the seal between All Wonders Heaven and the Xuanhuang Home Realm broke, the True Lords returned and accepted a fragile peace shaped by Qi Yun’s influence. Qi Yun rejected their overtures, entered seclusion, and examined the newly revealed power of his Hunyuan Great Luo realm.

• The True Lords broke free of All Wonders Heaven and returned to their homes and factions in the Xuanhuang Home Realm.
• The returned True Lords surveyed fifty years of change and largely accepted the established balance between the demonic path in the Central Land and the righteous path in the northwest.
• Qi Yun returned to the Wuji Sacred Sect and destroyed the communication talismans sent by True Lords seeking to meet him.
• Qi Yun announced that he was entering seclusion and told others not to disturb him unless it was a matter of great importance.
• Qi Yun closed his eyes and viewed the Law Technique Panel in his Purple Mansion, which stated that Hunyuan Great Luo could forcibly pluck one Dao Fruit.

Qi Yun used his Primordial Unity station to reach into All Wonders Heaven and forcibly seize and suppress the ownerless Five Elements Dao Fruit. After testing the reaction of the True Lords’ bound Dao Fruits, he targeted the Nine Nethers Dao Fruit, leaving its master under threat.

• Qi Yun reached into All Wonders Heaven and grasped the ownerless Five Elements Dao Fruit with a vast hand.
• The Five Elements Dao Fruit resisted violently, but Qi Yun suppressed its chaotic power and returned it to its place, docile and unchanged.
• Qi Yun turned his attention to the True Lords’ Dao Fruits, causing their masters to feel watched and helpless without identifying the source.
• Qi Yun selected the Nine Nethers Dao Fruit of Nine Nethers Sun-Devouring True Lord as his next experiment.
• Qi Yun’s great hand appeared above the Nine Nethers Dao Fruit and began to seize it, prompting an angry shout of protest.

Nine Nethers Sun-Devouring True Lord confronted Qi Yun after Qi Yun’s enormous hand threatened his Dao Fruit in All Wonders Heaven. Nine Nethers True Lord summoned his Divine Court and manifested a Nine Nethers Great World to resist, while Qi Yun enlarged his hand and began refining.

• Nine Nethers True Lord sensed a threat to his Dao Fruit, rushed to All Wonders Heaven, and found Qi Yun’s enormous hand reaching for it.
• Qi Yun redirected the hand toward Nine Nethers True Lord, who unleashed his Dao Domain and manifested the Nine Nethers Divine Court.
• The hand collided with Nine Nethers True Lord’s domain, dimming the stars within his Divine Court and forcing him to resist with both hands.
• Nine Nethers True Lord linked with his Dao Fruit and manifested a Nine Nethers Great World, using its power to suppress Qi Yun’s hand.
• Qi Yun enlarged the hand to encompass the Great World, and a new [Refining-] line appeared beneath [Hunyuan Great Luo] on the Law Technique Panel.

Qi Yun used Primordial Unity to seize and erase Nine Nethers True Lord’s master-bound Dao Fruit, leaving it ownerless and learning the technique’s limits. He then turned to the Hunyuan Dao Fruit and began testing whether anyone besides himself could follow the path he had opened.

• Qi Yun manifested a second giant hand and used both hands to overpower Nine Nethers True Lord and grasp his Dao Fruit.
• Qi Yun brought the hands together, erasing Nine Nethers True Lord’s mastery and turning the Dao Fruit into an ownerless one.
• Qi Yun’s Law Technique updated to allow him to forcibly pluck one Dao Fruit or erase its master, and he put away the Nine Nethers Dao Fruit.
• Qi Yun learned that using Primordial Unity to pluck or erase a master-bound Dao Fruit exhausted his current strength.
• Qi Yun produced his Hunyuan Dao Fruit Golden Core and prepared to test whether his path could be walked by someone other than himself.

At Green Mountain Daoist Temple, Qi Yun defined the strengths and risks of his Golden Core Dao Attainment Method and began planning around All Wonders Heaven. He summoned his three Dharma Bodies, told them he would soon leave Xuanhuang, and tasked them with protecting three Great True Persons as they attempted to become True Lords.

• Qi Yun explained that his Golden Core was both a Dao Fruit and a Primordial Spirit, creating a powerful but exceptionally difficult path to True Lord attainment.
• Qi Yun recognized that his own success depended on extraordinary accumulated Dao resonance and a special opportunity, then concluded that the obstacle to helping others lay in All Wonders Heaven.
• Qi Yun summoned Great Sun Purple Ultimate True Lord, Youquan Blood Sea True Lord, and his Sword Intent incarnation, who formed a defensive formation and congratulated him on becoming a True Lord.
• Qi Yun told the three Dharma Bodies that he would leave Xuanhuang soon to personally thank two indistinct figures he saw in the heavens.
• Qi Yun said he would pluck three unclaimed Dao Fruits from All Wonders Heaven and ordered the Dharma Bodies to protect three Great True Persons during their attempts to reach the True Lord realm.
• Qi Yun warned that other beings above True Lord might have left backup plans in Xuanhuang, and the three Dharma Bodies grew grave.

Qi Yun warned Youquan Blood Sea True Lord and the other Dharma Bodies that multiple beings above the True Lord realm were plotting against Xuanhuang, then gave them instructions before his departure. Later, he summoned Daoist Qianxin, Situ Huaji, and True Person Ling, greeted them as old friends, and stunned them by offering to help them become True Lords.

• Qi Yun revealed that more than one being above the True Lord realm sought to undermine Xuanhuang, while the other beings were still waiting after the World-Honored One's plans failed.
• Qi Yun dispelled attention from their discussion, explained the danger of speaking too much about those beings, and gave the three Dharma Bodies instructions and emergency plans.
• Daoist Qianxin, Situ Huaji, and True Person Ling arrived at Green Mountain and knelt before Qi Yun, addressing him as Hunyuan Great Luo True Lord.
• Qi Yun invited the three to sit for tea and said he had summoned them to catch up as old friends.
• Qi Yun told Daoist Qianxin, Situ Huaji, and True Person Ling that he intended to help them become True Lords, leaving them speechless with shock.

Qi Yun explained to Xuanming that the Dao Fruits he plucked would bind their bearers to Primordial Unity, then spent thirty years preparing Qianxin, Situ Huaji, and Ling to become True Lords. At Mystic Grinding Cliff, he gave each man a Dao Fruit and left as their dangerous fusions began.

• Qianxin, Situ Huaji, and True Person Ling thanked Qi Yun for the chance to become True Lords, and he gave them tokens to take to Mystic Grinding Cliff.
• Qi Yun told Xuanming that True Lords made with his Dao Fruits would be governed by Primordial Unity, and explained that he had spared his master so Xuanming’s Dao could remain his own.
• Over thirty years, Qianxin, Situ Huaji, and Ling trained under the Dharma Bodies of three True Lords and reached the Great True Person Realm.
• Qi Yun opened a passage to All Wonders Heaven and gave Qianxin the Formless Myriad Transformations Dao Fruit, Situ Huaji the Mystic Sea Metal Command Dao Fruit, and Ling the Myriad Yao Great Devil Dao Fruit.
• The three men began fusing with their Dao Fruits as strange phenomena filled Mystic Grinding Cliff, and Qi Yun left, knowing their test and the task of guarding them had just begun.

Qi Yun encountered the Lord of the Ancient Coffin beyond Xuanhuang and fought him with the Immortal-Slaying Dao Fruit and Primordial Unity. He destroyed the four coffin-bearing True Lords and shattered the ancient coffin, but the Lord escaped with a golden feather, leaving Qi Yun to wonder who had helped him.

• Qi Yun followed a guiding spiritual light into the void beyond Xuanhuang, where the Lord of the Ancient Coffin and four coffin-bearing True Lords surrounded him.
• Qi Yun summoned the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and annihilated the four coffin-bearing True Lords.
• The Lord of the Ancient Coffin blocked Qi Yun’s sword strike with his coffin, but Qi Yun shattered it with a Primordial Unity punch.
• Qi Yun pursued the wounded Lord of the Ancient Coffin and struck at him again.
• The Lord of the Ancient Coffin used a golden feather to escape across the void, and Qi Yun suspected that someone above the True Lord realm had aided him.

Qi Yun followed a formation through Heaven and Earth's Long River of Time to an immortal island, where True Lord Canyi Budao tested his cultivation with a surprise attack. After they clashed, Canyi praised the tyrannical power of Qi Yun’s Primordial Unity Dao, and Qi Yun noticed someone stepping out beside him.

• A formation carried Qi Yun into Heaven and Earth's Long River of Time and down to an immortal island in its deepest reaches.
• A figure formed from the island’s immortal mist attacked Qi Yun from behind, and Qi Yun broke through its control of space and time to counter with his palm.
• The island suppressed the force of their clash; Qi Yun stumbled back, while the attacker stayed in place with a faint trace of blood at his mouth.
• Qi Yun recognized the attacker as Patriarch Canyi, and True Lord Canyi Budao revealed himself and praised Qi Yun’s Primordial Unity Dao.
• Canyi said Qi Yun’s Dao could have absorbed hundreds of years of his cultivation, and Qi Yun apologized for failing to restrain its power.
• As Qi Yun prepared to speak, he noticed a figure stepping out beside True Lord Contemplating the One.