Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing learned that a hidden mastermind was driving the calamity in Northern Spirit Province and led Wangshu and Primordial Lord Bi Shui there to investigate and rescue Dao Lord Hanzun. After a perilous teleport, they found a devastated province and encountered Du'e's group under attack.

• The Five Spirits Lord told Li Yunjing that someone was generating the Tribulation Qi in Northern Spirit Province and may have manipulated Haoyang into absorbing it.
• Li Yunjing summoned Wangshu, Primordial Lord Bi Shui, and Mo Xuan, then ordered Mo Xuan to maintain the sect's work while he prepared to travel north.
• Li Yunjing, Wangshu, and Primordial Lord Bi Shui teleported toward Northern Spirit Province, using the Five Aggregates Cauldron to shield themselves from the barrier's interference.
• The group arrived in a land buried in black ice and Tribulation Qi, where Li Yunjing warned them that their divine senses were suppressed.
• Li Yunjing and the two gods passed a town whose inhabitants had been petrified and fought off frenzied cultivators as the calamity worsened farther north.
• Li Yunjing's group rescued Du'e and his companions from frenzied desolate beasts, and Du'e excitedly asked how Li Yunjing had entered the province.

Li Yunjing and his companions fought their way into the Cold Abyss earth vein and rescued Dao Lord Hanzun from black-furred monsters. They learned that an ancient evil cultivator’s divine sense was using an altar to turn the Northern Spirit Province into a Tribulation Domain, and they faced the danger of destroying it.

• Du'e told Li Yunjing that Dao Lord Hanzun had gone into the earth vein to investigate an altar and that black-furred monsters had driven his forces back.
• Li Yunjing, Wangshu, Primordial Lord Bi Shui, and Du'e defeated the monsters guarding the earth vein entrance and entered the passage.
• The group found Dao Lord Hanzun fighting powerful black-furred monsters around a rune-covered altar, and Li Yunjing helped defeat them with the Five Aggregates Cauldron.
• Dao Lord Hanzun explained that an ancient evil cultivator’s divine sense controlled the altar and was using its Tribulation Pearl to transform the Northern Spirit Province into a Tribulation Domain.
• Dao Lord Hanzun warned that destroying the altar could detonate the Tribulation Pearl and blow apart half the Northern Spirit Province.

Li Yunjing and his allies broke the Calamity-Birth Array and captured the Tribulation Pearl, ending the immediate calamity in Northern Spirit Province. The mastermind's true body escaped and vowed to descend in person, leaving Li Yunjing wary of another attack.

• Five Spirits Lord identified the altar's formation as a Calamity-Birth Array intended to nurture a Tribulation Spirit for the mastermind's descent into the lower realm.
• Li Yunjing assigned Du'e, Wangshu, Primordial Lord Bi Shui, and Dao Lord Hanzun to contain the altar and keep its divine sense occupied while he sealed the array foundation.
• Li Yunjing sealed the array foundation, and the Five Aggregates Cauldron refined the old ghost's avatar.
• The Five Aggregates Cauldron suppressed the Tribulation Pearl and absorbed it along with the mastermind's powerful will.
• The black barrier faded, and Li Yunjing's group returned to the surface as reinforcements approached from the Immortal Alliance and other provinces.
• Li Yunjing warned that the mastermind's true body remained at large and suspected the conflict was only beginning.

The God-Destroying Calamity erupted across the Tianyuan Dao Realm, but preparations promoted by Li Yunjing helped most regions contain the damage. Then extraterrestrial monsters led by the Tribulation Transcendence commander Primeval Blood Eye attacked Luozhen City, and Li Yunjing confronted him as Blood Eye unleashed his blood-eye technique.

• Calamity Qi burst from earth veins across the Tianyuan Dao Realm, causing casualties and destruction, while prepared defenses prevented another province-wide collapse.
• Li Yunjing learned that Northern Spirit Province was recovering and ordered supplies sent to aid its reconstruction.
• A rift opened above Luozhen City, and an army of armored extraterrestrial beings descended and attacked the city's defensive array.
• Wangshu identified the attackers as beings who wielded Calamity Qi, and Li Yunjing went to confront their commander while the sect reinforced its defenses.
• The commander introduced himself as Primeval Blood Eye and said Dao Lord Qingxu had sent him to claim the world.
• Li Yunjing blocked Blood Eye's attack with the Pure Subtlety Spiritual Banner, and Blood Eye fired his Blood Eye: Realm Shattering technique at him.

Li Yunjing killed Commander Blood Eye and led Luozhen’s disciples to defeat the Desolate Ancient army, but the widening rift promised a larger invasion. The Five Spirits Lord revealed that Immortal Lord Qingxu was behind the attack, seeking the Dao Ancestor of Creation’s inheritance and a breakthrough through the God-Slaying Tribulation.

• Li Yunjing used the Luozhen Great Spiritual Banner to purify and destroy Commander Blood Eye.
• Li Yunjing ordered Luozhen’s disciples to leave the city and fight; they routed the Desolate Ancient army, and spirit cannons destroyed its fleeing remnants.
• The Five Spirits Lord sensed more enemies beyond the widening rift, including cultivators from other Dao Realms.
• The Five Spirits Lord explained that Qingxu had betrayed the Dao Ancestor of Creation, stolen half of his Dao Scripture, and caused the Five Spirits Lord to fall to the lower realm.
• The Five Spirits Lord identified Immortal Lord Qingxu as the mastermind, seeking to use the God-Slaying Tribulation to break through and seize the Dao Ancestor’s inheritance.
• The Five Spirits Lord said Qingxu had sent a split consciousness to command a coalition army, and Li Yunjing asked how much power Qingxu could bring to bear.

Li Yunjing attended an Immortal Alliance council in Heaven-Soaring City, where Zhang Jianchen revealed that Dao Lord Qingxu commanded more than two million enemies beyond the expanding rift. With the leaders divided over how to defend, Li Yunjing proposed taking the fight into the void and presented Luozhen Province’s flying warship blueprints.

• Li Yunjing received Zhang Jianchen’s summons, entrusted Mo Xuan with sect affairs, and traveled to Heaven-Soaring City.
• Zhang Jianchen showed the gathered leaders Dao Lord Qingxu’s vast army and warned that it could cross the expanding rift within three months.
• The leaders argued over whether to defend the rift or attack the enemy, but reached no decision.
• Li Yunjing declared that they could not hold the line and said he had a way to take the army across the void.
• Li Yunjing revealed blueprints for Luozhen Province’s void-capable Province Class warship and Creation Class flagship, leaving the leaders stunned and skeptical.

Li Yunjing persuaded the Immortal Alliance to build a void fleet using Luozhen Sect’s warship technology, while Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi supplied rare materials from High Antiquity. The alliance formed a shipbuilding bureau, but Li Yunjing warned that Dao Lord Qingxu would attack before the fleet could be completed.

• Li Yunjing revealed that the Luozhen Sect had built thirty-six Mystic Crane Class frigates and three Province Class battleships, and could expand production with sufficient resources and craftsmen.
• Li Yunjing agreed to share the shipbuilding blueprints and provide core craftsmen, on the conditions that the headquarters be in Luozhen Province, the Immortal Alliance control resources and the fleet, and others not copy the technology without authorization.
• Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi emerged from seclusion and donated star core adamantine, void stones, and Star Raft wreckage to improve the fleet’s ships and spirit cannons.
• Zhang Jianchen established the Void Shipbuilding General Bureau, appointing Li Yunjing as chief and Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi as honored elders, with a three-month deadline for the first fleet.
• Li Yunjing warned Zhang Jianchen and the others that Dao Lord Qingxu would not allow three months of preparation and that Luozhen Province’s shipbuilding headquarters would need protection.

Li Yunjing returned to Luozhen Province and organized a massive shipbuilding effort, but disputes over construction methods, material allocations, and pill supplies threatened to stall the work. He resolved the craftsmen’s argument with a combined welding standard, then turned to confront Zhao Kun over the Flowing Cloud Sect’s materials.

• Li Yunjing established the Shipbuilding General Administration in Heavenly Craft Valley, assigned responsibilities, and mobilized craftsmen and resources from across the Dao Realm.
• Shi Jian and Liu Chengqi argued over fusion welding and forge welding, while Zhao Kun protested that his sect’s escort ships received lower-grade Fallen Star Iron and Liu Yunsong warned that pill supplies were being depleted.
• Mo Xuan asked Li Yunjing to take charge, and Li Yunjing tested both welding methods by hammering and vibrating sample bars.
• The fusion-welded bar broke under simulated void vibrations, while the forge-welded bar remained intact, so the Craft God proposed combining the two methods.
• Li Yunjing ordered the Craft God to establish a unified process using both welding methods, settling the dispute before going to hear Zhao Kun’s complaint.

Li Yunjing settled disputes over shipbuilding materials and pills, allowing the new fleet to be completed. When a massive enemy force attacked, Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi destroyed much of it and pursued the survivors through the rift, discovering their stronghold on a floating rock in the void.

• Li Yunjing upheld the rules for meteorite iron and redirected pills to the front lines, halving the shipbuilders’ allowance.
• Li Yunjing established the Shipbuilding Council, and ten days later twenty Mystic Crane Class frigates and two Luozhen Province Class main warships stood ready.
• A force of more than a hundred bone warships, over a thousand primordial flying beasts, and tens of thousands of warriors attacked Luozhen Province.
• Xuanjizi destroyed the enemy vanguard with his horsetail whisk, while Yunyouzi killed the primordial commander and four Tribulation Transcendence Stage leaders.
• Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi routed nearly half the invading army, then followed the survivors through the rift and found their stronghold on a floating rock in the void.
• Yunyouzi struck down several thousand fleeing cultivators as the survivors escaped behind the floating rock’s barrier.

After Yunyouzi and Xuanjizi routed the enemy vanguard, Li Yunjing remained wary and resolved to take the initiative. Dao Lord Qingxu revealed that he sought the Divine Seal of Creation and planned to strengthen his forces before attacking Tianyuan again.

• Yunyouzi and Xuanjizi returned to Luozhen City after defeating the vanguard, and they warned Li Yunjing that Dao Lord Qingxu had watched without intervening.
• Li Yunjing recognized that the enemy's main force had not yet acted and grew more determined to strike rather than defend passively.
• Dao Lord Qingxu rebuked Blood Baleful Intent and the other commanders for losing most of the vanguard, then rejected a full assault because the two Loose Immortals could inflict heavy losses.
• Qingxu disclosed that he wanted the Divine Seal of Creation and the Dao Ancestor's inheritance hidden in the Tianyuan Dao Realm.
• Qingxu ordered his forces to conquer three weakened western worlds, strengthen his avatar and army, and harass Tianyuan until its defenders let down their guard.
• Alone in his tent, Qingxu recalled that the Dao Ancestor of Creation had expelled him for cultivating Tribulation Power and vowed to claim the Divine Seal to prove his former master wrong.

Li Yunjing proposed striking Qingxu’s forces in the void before they could grow stronger, and the Immortal Alliance approved an expedition with Li as commander. The fleet set sail toward the heavenly rift, leaving the Dao Realm’s defenses to Zhang Jianchen and the two Loose Immortal patriarchs.

• Li Yunjing urged Zhang Jianchen to take the offensive, and Zhang agreed to bring the proposal before the factions.
• At the council, Li argued that an expedition could destroy Qingxu’s forward bases and buy time; a majority voted in favor.
• Zhang Jianchen appointed Li commander in chief, and Li selected Dao Lord Hanzun, Dao Lord Xuanyuan, other specialists, and a force of operators, formation disciples, and elite warriors.
• Li arranged for two capital ships and twenty frigates to sail, while Zhang Jianchen and the two Loose Immortal patriarchs guarded the rear.
• Three days later, Li and the expedition boarded the Mystic Yellow, the Azure Nether, and the frigates at Heavenly Craft Valley, then sailed toward the rift in the heavens.

Li Yunjing led the fleet through the void and used a diversion to target the black bone umbrella protecting the Floating Tribulation Stone. The Creation Destruction Cannons struck the umbrella, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Li Yunjing guided the concealed fleet through the void toward the Floating Tribulation Stone.
• He sent twenty Mystic Crane Class ships to attack the enemy patrol ships and draw the defenders away from the shield.
• Commander Blood Baleful Intent pursued one group of ships while the other exiled Dao Masters chased the second group.
• Li Yunjing ordered the Mystic Yellow and Azure Nether to fire their fully charged main cannons at the black bone umbrella.
• The beams vaporized the elders who tried to block them and struck the black bone umbrella.

Li Yunjing led the Tianyuan fleet in a surprise attack on the Floating Tribulation Stone, inflicting heavy casualties and damaging its protective umbrella before withdrawing with few losses. After returning to Heavenly Craft Valley, he briefed the leadership on Qingxu’s forces and defenses, while warning that the enemy’s true strength remained unknown.

• Li Yunjing ordered the fleet to withdraw after its attack tore open the Tribulation Umbrella and killed or wounded tens of thousands of enemy soldiers.
• Blood Baleful Intent pursued the retreating fleet, but the Mystic Yellow and Azure Nether repelled his warships with their shields and secondary cannons.
• Dao Lord Qingxu stopped Blood Baleful Intent, acknowledged that he had underestimated Li Yunjing, and ordered the army to stay alert and expand its forces by conquering three small worlds.
• Li Yunjing’s fleet returned to Heavenly Craft Valley with no deaths, one damaged escort ship, and three severely wounded crew members, prompting a jubilant welcome.
• Li Yunjing briefed the leadership that Qingxu commanded about two hundred thousand troops at the Floating Tribulation Stone and that the black bone umbrella could quickly repair damage from the main cannon.

Li Yunjing rushed a fleet to Northern Spirit Province after learning a large enemy force was approaching, while leaving other forces to defend Luozhen Province and Central Divine Province. The fleet reached the desolate province, where heavy Tribulation Qi obscured the area and scattered living beings appeared to be waiting to the north.

• Li Yunjing ordered accelerated warship construction and void combat training as the Dao Realm prepared for future battles.
• After a month of shipbuilding and relative calm, a communication talisman warned Li Yunjing that a large enemy force was moving toward Northern Spirit Province.
• Li Yunjing concluded Qingxu planned to circle behind their forces and cut through Central Divine Province, then divided the defenders to guard against both an attack and a feint.
• Li Yunjing led twenty-five warships north with Xuanjizi, while Zhang Jianchen returned to oversee Divine Central Province and Yunyouzi stayed to defend Luozhen Province.
• At Northern Spirit Province, the fleet found no visible army, but Dao Lord Hanzun sensed many living beings and Dao Lord Xuanyuan detected scattered figures through the dense Tribulation Qi.
• Li Yunjing ordered the fleet forward with its main cannons charged and shields at full strength.

Li Yunjing learned that Dao Lord Qingxu had destroyed the Purple Wind Dao Realm and was conquering other realms, then arranged shelter for its refugees. He urged Zhang Jianchen to contact other Dao Realms and build an alliance before Qingxu could grow too powerful.

• Fang Minghui led fewer than thirty thousand survivors from the Purple Wind Dao Realm to seek refuge with the Luozhen Sect fleet.
• Fang Minghui told Li Yunjing that Qingxu had destroyed the Purple Wind Dao Realm and three others, and was marching on the Golden Sand Dao Realm.
• Li Yunjing promised the refugees shelter and supplies in Northern Spirit Province, provided they followed Tianyuan's rules and helped resist Qingxu.
• Li Yunjing returned to Heaven-Soaring City and told Zhang Jianchen about Qingxu's conquests and his growing strength.
• Li Yunjing proposed using ancient cross-realm teleportation formations to contact other Dao Realms and form an alliance against Qingxu.

Li Yunjing persuaded Zhang Jianchen to unite the lower realms against Qingxu and ultimately break free of the Mystic Yellow Immortal Realm’s control. Zhang Jianchen contacted other Dao Realms, and three agreed to send representatives to Tianyuan.

• Li Yunjing revealed his plan to unite the lower realms and establish an independent order where cultivators could become immortals without ascending to the Mystic Yellow Immortal Realm, and Zhang Jianchen agreed.
• Zhang Jianchen summoned the leaders of the seventeen oldest Dao lineages, and they agreed to reactivate ancient cross-realm teleportation arrays.
• The Crimson Sand and Netherworld arrays received no response, while the Golden Sand Dao Realm rejected Zhang Jianchen’s warning and offer of an alliance.
• The Vast Waves, Crimson Yellow, and Mystic Ice Dao Realms agreed to send representatives to Tianyuan to investigate Qingxu’s threat and consider cooperation.
• Dao Lord Lanxi, Dao Lord Chiyan, and Dao Lord Bingxuan arrived from their respective Dao Realms.

Li Yunjing and Zhang Jianchen secured alliances with three Dao Realms by demonstrating Tianyuan’s powerful foundations and exchanging warship technology. When an envoy reported that Qingxu’s army was about to conquer the Golden Sand Dao Realm, Li Yunjing decided Tianyuan would send help.

• Li Yunjing showed the representatives of the Vast Waves, Crimson Yellow, and Mystic Ice Dao Realms Tianyuan’s ten Ancestral Veins, void fleet, and Innate Immortal Artifact, and all three agreed to form an alliance.
• Tianyuan and the three Dao Realms exchanged warship designs and techniques, improving their ships enough for a Luozhen Province Class capital ship to injure a Loose Immortal.
• An envoy from the Golden Sand Dao Realm arrived near death and reported that Qingxu’s army had surrounded his realm and was close to breaking its barrier.
• Dao Lord Hanzun and others argued against helping Golden Sand because it had rejected Tianyuan’s earlier offer, but Li Yunjing urged them to save it to prevent Qingxu from growing stronger and to win the trust of other Dao Realms.

Li Yunjing led an allied fleet from the Tianyuan Dao Realm to rescue the Golden Sand Dao Realm from Qingxu’s forces. After defeating the enemy vanguard and welcoming Dao Lord Golden Sand, the allies entered the realm and discovered that it had suffered extensive damage.

• Li Yunjing persuaded the allied Dao Realms to send troops, and Zhang Jianchen appointed him supreme commander.
• The Luozhen, Vast Waves, Crimson Yellow, and Mystic Ice forces gathered at Heavenly Craft Valley and traveled through an unstable teleportation passage to the Golden Sand Dao Realm.
• Li Yunjing ordered the fleet to attack Qingxu’s forces from behind, destroying enemy warships and disrupting their assault on the realm wall.
• Dao Lord Hanzun led Cold Abyss warriors in a boarding attack while Dao Lord Lanxi and Dao Lord Chiyan supported the allied advance.
• Dao Lord Golden Sand led his defenders out through the realm wall, helping the allies crush the enemy vanguard and capture soldiers and supplies.
• Dao Lord Golden Sand welcomed Li Yunjing, and the allies entered the Golden Sand Dao Realm, where they saw that it was in a dire state.

After saving the Golden Sand Dao Realm, Li Yunjing helped it join and strengthen the alliance, which grew to seven Dao Realms and established a unified command and defense system. Qingxu revealed that his earlier attack had only been a probe and ordered an incarnation wielding thirty percent of his power to descend and pursue the Divine Seal of Creation.

• Dao Lord Golden Sand formally joined Li Yunjing’s alliance, and Li Yunjing gave the realm frigates and shipbuilding blueprints.
• Li Yunjing spent seven days reinforcing Golden Sand’s defenses before returning to Luozhen Province with his fleet.
• The Wind-Soaring and Vast Cloud Dao Realms sought protection, bringing the alliance to seven Dao Realms.
• Representatives established a joint command under Li Yunjing, shared shipbuilding plans, and organized mutual defenses.
• At Floating Tribulation Stone, Qingxu explained that the vanguard’s defeat had been a probe and ordered an incarnation with thirty percent of his power to descend.

Dao Lord Qingxu’s three-hundred-thousand-strong army confronted the allied forces of seven Dao Realms at Tianyuan’s northern barrier. After the armies exchanged formations and attacks, black tribulation fire threatened to burn through the allies’ defensive barrier.

• Zhang Jianchen assembled the seven realms’ allied forces at the northern barrier to face Dao Lord Qingxu’s advancing army.
• Xue Tu challenged the allied army, fought Fang Hexuan to an advantage, then withdrew after Mu You held him in combat for a hundred moves.
• Li Yunjing and the enemy commander ordered their forces into battle formations, and the Spirit-Devouring Formation’s black tornado struck the allies’ Mystic Yellow Eight Gates.
• The Crimson Yellow Dao Realm fired tens of thousands of flame shells, but the enemy’s Bone Umbrella Formation blocked them.
• The black-robed commander unleashed Heaven-Burning tribulation fire, and Dao Lord Lanxi warned that it could burn through the barrier.