Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing’s right arm remained strong after recovering, and he gathered the Luozhen Sect’s leaders to reveal two completed Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats. Eager to retake Black Wind Cliff, the sect prepared to depart after learning the boats’ controls.

• Li Yunjing waited to see whether his right arm would wither again, but it stayed strong, so he left the teleportation array.
• Li Yunjing summoned the Luozhen Sect’s higher-ups and announced that the time had come to attack Black Wind Cliff again.
• Li Yunjing revealed two Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats, and the gathered leaders inspected them and learned they surpassed the Extreme Crossing Boat.
• Fang Tong asked who had forged the boats, but Li Yunjing did not reveal that Meng Chang and the others had made them.
• Li Yunjing agreed to set off immediately, then told everyone to learn how to operate the boats, whose controls had been changed.

Li Yunjing led the Luozhen Sect’s Nascent Soul Realm cultivators aboard two Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats toward Black Wind Cliff, intending to destroy the Demon Beast stronghold. After learning the Northern Dark True Spirit could suppress the barrier for only three breaths, he launched an attack on the beast tide and ordered the boats to charge.

• Li Yunjing assigned the Luozhen Sect’s Nascent Soul Realm and higher cultivators to the assault on Black Wind Cliff and left lower-level cultivators behind.
• Aboard the Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boat, Li Yunjing summoned the Northern Dark True Spirit, which said it could suppress the barrier for three breaths but could not locate its core.
• Li Yunjing decided to destroy Black Wind Cliff with the upgraded boats’ firepower while the barrier was down.
• At Black Wind Cliff, Demon Beasts swarmed out under the command of the Spirit Concentration Realm Perfection bear demon.
• Li Yunjing ordered the Thousand-Li Spirit Eye Array to mark Nascent Soul Realm Demon Beasts’ weak points, and the Spirit-Breaking Cannons blasted two paths through the horde.
• Li Yunjing ordered one Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boat to circle behind the Demon Beasts while the main boat advanced from the front at full speed.

Li Yunjing and Fang Hexuan led the Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats in destroying the Demon Beast tide, but grew wary when the expected barrier failed to appear. After the battlefield was cleared, the earth trembled and a blood-colored curtain of light descended from the sky.

• Li Yunjing ordered the Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats to unleash their formations while the cultivators attacked the Demon Beasts.
• Fang Hexuan killed the great bear with divine lightning and joined the slaughter as the boats wiped out the beast tide.
• Li Yunjing ordered his people to collect Demon Beast materials after the boats landed, but he and Fang Hexuan worried that the barrier had not appeared.
• Li Yunjing rejected the idea that the barrier had run out of energy, reasoning that the Northern Dark Earth Vein should have replenished it.
• The earth trembled, and a red dot burst open into a blood-colored curtain of light that descended toward the ground.

Li Yunjing and his allies faced the blood-red barrier’s renewed assault and discovered that its core lay inside Black Wind Cliff. As the blood demon attacked their flying boats, they charged the Nine Heavens Mystic Crane Cannon to destroy the cliff.

• Li Yunjing ordered everyone onto the flying boats when the blood-red barrier appeared, and the barrier filled the area with corrosive mist.
• The mist formed blood spears, poisoned hands, and blood corpses that attacked the boats, while it eroded their defenses and afflicted cultivators with hallucinations.
• Li Yunjing asked Five Spirits Lord to locate the barrier’s core, and Five Spirits Lord found it inside Black Wind Cliff.
• Li Yunjing ordered the boats to fire their Nine Heavens Mystic Crane Cannons and destroy Black Wind Cliff.
• A blood demon emerged from the mist and attacked the boats, but their defensive formations held as the cannon finished charging.

Li Yunjing and the Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats destroyed Black Wind Cliff’s blood barrier, then helped the Northern Dark True Spirit purify the polluted earth vein node. The spirit rewarded Li Yunjing with earth vein essence and proposed that claiming more nodes could restore it as an Ancestral Vein.

• Li Yunjing ordered the Nine Heavens Mystic Crane Cannon to fire, and two cannon blasts destroyed Black Wind Cliff’s barrier core.
• Li Yunjing released the Northern Dark True Spirit, which used the Northern Dark Vein-Suppressing Seal to purify pollution around the node.
• Li Yunjing cut down black tentacles attacking the seal and lent his Law Power as the Northern Dark True Spirit removed the pollution’s roots from the earth vein core.
• The earth vein node returned to its pure ice-blue state, and the Northern Dark True Spirit gave Li Yunjing a drop of its source essence.
• Li Yunjing proposed taking more nodes and connecting them into a network, and the Northern Dark True Spirit said the network might let it become an Ancestral Vein again.

Li Yunjing heard the Northern Dark True Spirit’s plan to use a giant nest and accumulated earth vein essence power to rise beyond an Ancestral Vein. He then met a group of Biyuan People, a nearly vanished human lineage, and an elderly member approached him.

• The Northern Dark True Spirit told Li Yunjing about a ritual in which an earth vein built a giant nest to gather essence power and transform its fate.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit said the ritual was recorded in detail and appeared genuine, and Li Yunjing left him to handle it as he saw fit.
• Fang Tong told Li Yunjing that someone wanted to meet him and led him west.
• Li Yunjing discovered at least a hundred Biyuan People, a short-statured human lineage long absent from the Five Provinces.
• Fang Tong spoke with an elderly Biyuan man, who approached Li Yunjing leaning on a walking stick.

Li Yunjing learned that the Biyuan People believed he was the First Ancestor’s envoy, destined to help resurrect their ancestor, and discovered that three ancient races also wanted to follow him. The representatives explained that they sought his protection to ensure their races survived.

• Zhi Qianshu saluted Li Yunjing and explained the Biyuan People’s legend that the Luozhen Sect would destroy Black Wind Cliff and its leader would help resurrect their First Ancestor.
• Li Yunjing questioned the legend, but Zhi Qianshu insisted that its predictions had already come true and the Biyuan People would assist him.
• Zhi Qianshu told Li Yunjing that the Blood Cicada Race, Winged Human Race, and Crypt Race also wanted to follow him in exchange for an enormous secret realm.
• Zhi Qianshu summoned representatives of the three races on a Mountain-Bearing Beast, and they came before Li Yunjing.
• The Blood Cicada representative told Li Yunjing that the three races wanted to survive.

Li Yunjing accepted the Biyuan People, Blood Cicada Race, Winged Human Race, and Crypt Race as allies of the Luozhen Sect, valuing their abilities despite suspecting they might be involved in resurrecting the Biyuan People's first ancestor. He then set out with the Crypt Race member for a secret realm that only Great Qiu People could enter, and Fang Hexuan hinted that he might know why.

• Li Yunjing agreed to accept the three races, valuing the Blood Cicada Race's healing skills, the Winged Human Race's aerial strength, and the Crypt Race's underground expertise.
• The Crypt Race member revealed that a secret realm lay in a secluded valley five thousand li away and allowed only Great Qiu People to enter; Zhi Qianshu confirmed it.
• Li Yunjing sent Fang Tong to escort Zhi Qianshu and the Biyuan People to the Luozhen Sect, while the other two representatives went to gather their people.
• Li Yunjing traveled toward the secret realm with the Crypt Race member and wondered why it excluded other human populations.
• Fang Hexuan told Li Yunjing that he might know the reason for the restriction, though he was unsure whether his idea was correct.

Fang Hexuan told Li Yunjing that an ancient conflict among the human peoples had led to the Great Qiu People’s dominance and suggested the secret realm might hold clues about its cause. At the realm’s entrance, Li Yunjing touched a bronze door and vanished, and Fang Hexuan and the others disappeared after touching it too.

• Fang Hexuan explained that a biography in the Heavenly Palace described a war among the human peoples that nearly wiped out the Martial God People and left the Great Qiu People dominant.
• Li Yunjing, Fang Hexuan, Lu Xian, and Xie Zheng followed a Crypt Race outsider to a barren valley and found a hidden cave behind a cliff that blocked Divine Sense.
• Fang Hexuan blasted a hole through the cliff, revealing a limestone cave and an ancient bronze door.
• Li Yunjing touched the bronze door and vanished in a flash of light.
• Fang Hexuan, Lu Xian, and Fang Liushui touched the door and vanished as the Crypt Race outsider entered the cave, watching it with an unfathomable expression.

Li Yunjing and his companions entered a vast secret realm filled with ancient wonders, but the Five Spirits Lord identified it as the deadly Myriad Spirits Ruins of Return. They learned that finding its Myriad Spirits Crystal Core was the only way to escape, and Li Yunjing was directed toward an apparently safer area as Lu Xian asked what he had discovered.

• Li Yunjing and Fang Hexuan’s group arrived in a world of ancient ruins, floating islands, and extraordinary Spiritual Qi.
• Fang Hexuan probed the surroundings and found that Divine Sense and escape techniques were severely suppressed.
• The Five Spirits Lord told Li Yunjing that the realm was the Myriad Spirits Ruins of Return, a deathtrap whose apparent creatures were formed from accumulated emotions.
• The Five Spirits Lord explained that finding the Myriad Spirits Crystal Core was the only way to leave and could grant control over the ruins.
• The Five Spirits Lord directed Li Yunjing toward a region with strong signs of life that seemed less dangerous, and Lu Xian asked what Li Yunjing had discovered.

Li Yunjing led Fang Hexuan, Lu Xian, and Xie Zheng to a hollow filled with High Antiquity Spirit Plants and helped them pass through its protective formation. At the hollow’s center, they found a towering stele covered in High Antiquity characters and carved with a phoenix.

• Li Yunjing sensed unusually dense life energy and guided the group through a region of deadly poisonous plants.
• The four discovered a hollow packed with rare High Antiquity Spirit Plants, but Fang Hexuan identified a protective Myriad Spirits Formation.
• Li Yunjing used the Ten Thousand Formations Celestial Pivot Banner to find a weak node and led the group safely into the formation.
• The group traveled toward the hollow’s center, where the Spirit Plants grew more potent and Spiritual Qi condensed into droplets.
• The four reached a huge black stone stele covered in High Antiquity characters, with a carved phoenix and red gemstone eyes.

Fang Hexuan deciphered the stele’s inscription and learned that the Qingyun Clan had left a legacy in the Myriad Spirits Garden while warning of a great devil sealed beneath it. As the ground began shaking, the seal broke, and a gigantic black-scaled claw emerged, turning the garden to ruins.

• Fang Hexuan read the stele and revealed that it recorded the Qingyun Clan’s legacy and warned its descendants not to disturb the seal beneath it.
• Li Yunjing told Lu Xian and Xie Zheng about the Qingyun Clan’s role in the survival and rise of humanity in Tianyuan.
• Fang Hexuan urged the group to leave the seal alone, and the four gathered more than half of the nearby Spirit Plants.
• The ground shook, and the Five Spirits Lord warned Li Yunjing that something underground was about to burst out.
• Li Yunjing, Fang Hexuan, Lu Xian, and Xie Zheng flew into the sky as the stele cracked and an evil presence poured from the fissure.
• Fang Hexuan shielded Li Yunjing and ordered everyone to run, but a gigantic black-scaled claw emerged and reduced the Myriad Spirits Garden to ruins.

Li Yunjing used the Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture to purify the Devil Qi and reveal the runes sustaining the Myriad Spirits Devil Master, allowing Fang Hexuan, Xie Zheng, and Lu Xian to destroy them. As more devil soldiers emerged and the giant claw moved to destroy the stone stele, Fang Hexuan moved to stop it while the others held off the attackers.

• Fang Hexuan, Xie Zheng, and Lu Xian attacked the giant claw, but their strikes barely harmed it, and Lu Xian warned that the Devil Qi devoured Law Power.
• The Five Spirits Lord identified the enemy as the Myriad Spirits Devil Master, and Li Yunjing purified devil plants and spreading Devil Qi with the Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture.
• Li Yunjing used the Supreme Unity Spirit Eye to spot black runes within the Devil Qi, and Fang Hexuan, Xie Zheng, and Lu Xian destroyed them at his direction.
• The fissure widened, releasing more Devil Qi and devil soldiers, while the giant claw reached for the stone stele to break the seal.
• Fang Hexuan unleashed Divine Firmament Divine Lightning against the devil soldiers and ordered Xie Zheng and Lu Xian to hold them off while he stopped the claw.

Li Yunjing discovered a hidden chamber containing a way to reinforce the great demon’s seal and learned that Zhi Qianshu had deliberately weakened it. Qingyun Neng’s remnant soul remained to help, while Fang Hexuan, Xie Zheng, and Lu Xian continued fighting the demon outside.

• Fang Hexuan held off the great demon’s giant claw while Xie Zheng and Lu Xian fought the endless demon soldiers.
• The Five Spirits Lord sensed something unusual to the Xun southwest, and Li Yunjing followed the signal into a hidden chamber.
• Li Yunjing found bamboo slips and an Azure Wood Origin Crystal that could summon Qingyun Neng’s remnant soul to reinforce the seal.
• Qingyun Neng told Li Yunjing that someone had deliberately damaged the seal and identified the culprit as a Biyuan person.
• Li Yunjing realized Zhi Qianshu had likely weakened the seal to help resurrect the Biyuan People’s first ancestor.
• Qingyun Neng revealed that the culprit had destroyed the remnant souls and contingencies of the other six people who once helped seal the demon.

Li Yunjing fused with the Azure Wood Origin Crystal as a great devil threatened to break free, then faced Zhi Qianshu’s evil-intent body. His Demon-Slaying Lightning Eye awakened and blasted the enemy with golden lightning, purifying his Devil Qi.

• Grandmaster Qingyun warned Li Yunjing that the great devil’s second claw had entered the chamber and urged him to fuse with the Azure Wood Origin Crystal.
• Li Yunjing seized the crystal, reached Nascent Soul Perfection, and discovered Zhi Qianshu’s evil-intent body in the chamber.
• Zhi Qianshu explained that his evil-intent body had been sealed by his benevolent-intent body and had destroyed the other remnant souls while seeking the great devil’s power.
• Zhi Qianshu attacked Li Yunjing, who used the crystal’s power to defend himself and counter with Qingwei Light Blades.
• A golden vertical eye opened on Li Yunjing’s forehead, and he unleashed Demon-Slaying Divine Lightning that pierced Zhi Qianshu’s barrier and purified his Devil Qi.

Li Yunjing used the Azure Wood Origin Crystal to stop the great devil from killing Fang Hexuan, Xie Zheng, and Lu Xian, then drew on the Myriad Spirits Garden’s Spirit Plants to restore the Myriad Spirits Formation. The formation trapped the great devil and began to consume its body.

• Li Yunjing recovered after destroying Zhi Qianshu’s evil-thought body, but a great devil began crawling from its shattered seal.
• Li Yunjing blocked the great devil’s attack on the exhausted Fang Hexuan, Xie Zheng, and Lu Xian with Demon-Slaying Divine Lightning and the Azure Wood Origin Crystal’s power.
• Li Yunjing told Fang Hexuan and the others that he could rebuild the Myriad Spirits Formation by connecting the crystal to the garden’s Spirit Plants.
• Li Yunjing drew life energy from the Spirit Plants, reached Dao Union Perfection, and activated the Myriad Spirits Formation.
• The formation trapped the great devil in a green cage and began eating away at its body.

Li Yunjing discovered that the great demon bore the Qingyun Clan mark and learned it had once been Qingyun, who blamed the world for the clan’s downfall. When the demon shattered the Myriad Spirits Formation and tried to devour them, Li Yunjing awakened the Void Divine Treasury and swallowed it, leaving his companions stunned and asking what technique he had used.

• Li Yunjing noticed the Qingyun Clan mark on the great demon, which revealed that the demon had once been Qingyun.
• Qingyun said the world had betrayed his clan and that he planned to devour Li Yunjing to absorb the power Qingyun Neng had left behind.
• Qingyun shattered the Myriad Spirits Formation and tried to suck in Li Yunjing and the others, draining Li Yunjing’s Law Power and shaking the Azure Wood Origin Crystal.
• Li Yunjing awakened the Void Divine Treasury and opened a spatial rift that swallowed Qingyun and the surrounding demonic Qi.
• Fang Hexuan supported the exhausted Li Yunjing while Xie Zheng and Lu Xian gathered around, and Fang Hexuan asked what Law Technique he had used.

Li Yunjing and his companions struggled to contain the great devil as the Core of the Ruins of Return awakened and revealed the Lord of the Ruins of Return. The great devil explained that the Lord sought to possess Li Yunjing, whose Void Divine Treasury made him an ideal vessel.

• The great devil nearly broke free of the Void Divine Treasury, but Fang Hexuan, Xie Zheng, and Lu Xian helped Li Yunjing stabilize it temporarily.
• A far more powerful presence awakened, and the Core of the Ruins of Return announced that the ruins were restarting and all living beings would serve as nourishment.
• A pupil-less black eye appeared above a pillar of white light, and the four men learned it belonged to the Lord of the Ruins of Return.
• A voice tried to convince Li Yunjing that he had become the Lord, but Fang Hexuan used Divine Firmament Divine Lightning to break the bewitchment.
• The Lord focused on Li Yunjing as the Power of the Ruins of Return spread, and the great devil explained that the Lord wanted to possess him through his Void Divine Treasury.

The Sages of High Antiquity sealed the Lord of the Ruins of Return and entrusted Li Yunjing with their memories, hidden-treasure map, and the Black-Yellow Realm's source. The Lord was only sealed for a hundred years, and a concealed wisp escaped toward the secret realm's exit as it vowed to wait for Li Yunjing outside.

• The Core of the Ruins of Return rose from the abyss and unleashed a devouring force that overwhelmed Li Yunjing, Fang Hexuan, and the others.
• The Black-Yellow Realm's source light shone golden, drove back the corruption, and revealed nine phantom figures of the Sages of High Antiquity.
• The sages cast a golden net over the Core of the Ruins of Return, sealed it in the abyss, and restored the sky and landscape.
• The leading sage gave Li Yunjing memories about the realm's destruction, the Lord's origins, and a map to hidden treasures; another sage refined the great devil into energy.
• The sages warned Li Yunjing that the seal would last only a hundred years, then gave him the source mark before fading away.
• A hidden wisp of black presence slipped out of the abyss toward the secret realm's exit, while the Lord of the Ruins of Return vowed to wait for Li Yunjing outside.

Li Yunjing learned that the Black-Yellow Origin Mark was the Myriad Spirits Crystal Core, but he decided to collect the Nine Sages’ inheritances before leaving the ruins. He claimed the Pill Sage’s treasures and reached the second inheritance site with Fang Hexuan and the others.

• The Black-Yellow Origin Mark pulsed and then fell still, while Li Yunjing studied the Nine Sages’ map as Fang Hexuan healed.
• The Five Spirits Lord told Li Yunjing that the Black-Yellow Origin Mark was the Myriad Spirits Crystal Core and warned him not to remain in the ruins too long.
• After Fang Hexuan and the others recovered, Li Yunjing led them to the first inheritance site and opened a hidden bronze gate with the Black-Yellow Origin Mark.
• Li Yunjing obtained the Hundred Herbs Pill Furnace, ten bottles of ancient spirit pills, and the Shennong Pill Scripture from the Pill Sage’s chamber.
• The first inheritance site collapsed after the group left, and Li Yunjing led them to the second site and opened its bronze gate.