Chapter Summaries

Chen Yang rushed to Yang Lingqing after a Sea Pavilion Upper Cultivator’s spell left her near death, while Yang Xuanzhou was also dying far away. To save her, Chen Yang ordered the Frost Flower Venerable God to manifest the True God Authority, despite warnings that doing so would expose the Canglan Divine Palace to the Upper Realm enemy; as he prepared to act, another voice urged him to stop.

• Chen Yang sensed that Yang Xuanzhou and Yang Lingqing’s soul flames were fading and rushed to Yang Lingqing’s side.
• Chen Yang recognized that the Sea Pavilion Upper Cultivator had used calculated feints and threats to distract him before striking the two Yang Clan cultivators.
• Chen Yang decided he could not save Yang Xuanzhou in time and sought to save Yang Lingqing by using the True God Authority to awaken his true body and cast the Lagging Light Divine Technique.
• The Frost Flower Venerable God and Xu Cang warned Chen Yang that manifesting the True God Authority and Light Divine Technique would reveal the Canglan Divine Palace to the Upper Cultivator.
• Chen Yang insisted that the Frost Flower Venerable God manifest the authority, but another voice urged him not to proceed.

Ghostly Soul, Earthly Baleful, and Poison Absolute tried to help the dying Bai Di, who warned them that a true person from the heavens had attacked him and entrusted them with the future of Canglan’s demonic path. Jun Qian’s projection was destroyed by Zhang Minghe, who then introduced herself to Jun Qian and the two Thunder Summoners as a disciple of Carefree True Immortal.

• Ghostly Soul, Earthly Baleful, and Poison Absolute arrived and found that their spells could not ease Bai Di’s injuries.
• Bai Di told the three Demon Venerables that a true person from the heavens had struck him and entrusted them with the future of Canglan’s demonic path.
• Jun Qian concluded that Yang Xuanzhou and Yang Lingqing were doomed while Bai Di might survive a little longer.
• Zhang Minghe’s enormous flying sword destroyed Jun Qian’s fragment soul projection, causing the immortal arts over Canglan Continent to fade.
• Jun Qian returned with two Thunder Summoners and questioned Zhang Minghe, who identified herself as a disciple of Carefree True Immortal.

Jun Qian considered Zhang Minghe’s Go-With-Nature Talisman and realized it would protect his plans for the origin of creation in the Void Cang Ancient Land. He pretended to object on behalf of the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion and its immortal seedling, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• The Thunder Summoners wondered how Jun Qian would respond to Zhang Minghe placing Dao King Mountain’s talisman on the Void Cang Ancient Land.
• Jun Qian realized the talisman would keep other cultivators from interfering with the ancient land and would not threaten his plans for its immortal seedling.
• Jun Qian recognized that the talisman would also prevent his master and other Gate-realm cultivators from refining the origin of creation before the Carefree True Immortal finished observing the Dao.
• Jun Qian recalled his agreement with an agent in the Void Realm to bring the origin of creation out of the ancient land in the future and claim it together.
• Jun Qian told Zhang Minghe he would obey the True Immortal’s command but argued that the Sea Pavilion’s territory and immortal seedling meant the matter could not be settled with a single word.

Zhang Minghe encountered Zhuang Xuanji in the Void Realm, recognized her extraordinary potential, and wagered that she would break free from her predicament. Meanwhile, Jun Qian’s immortal art dissipated, leaving Bai Di and Yang Lingqing barely alive, while Yang Xuanzhou’s soul flame went out.

• Jun Qian accepted Zhang Minghe’s explanation and departed for the Sea Pavilion, agreeing to discuss compensation for Dao King Mountain’s use of the land.
• Zhang Minghe swept her divine sense through the Void Realm and found that only Zhuang Xuanji met her gaze without fear.
• Zhang Minghe tested Zhuang Xuanji’s judgment with a Dao-calculation coin, and Zhuang Xuanji chose the sword.
• Zhang Minghe put away the coin and departed toward the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion, betting that Zhuang Xuanji would break her dead end.
• After Jun Qian’s immortal art power dissipated, Bai Di and Yang Lingqing survived their injuries, but Yang Xuanzhou’s soul flame was extinguished.
• Chen Yang brought Yang Lingqing to Chengzuo Peak and used the healing power of an avatar stone body to preserve her life.

Yang Lingqing comforted Yang Lingshu as she reflected on his lifelong service to the Yang Clan and the many roles he had taken on as the family grew. With her life nearing its end, she recognized that Yang Yuanxing would need Yang Lingshu’s experience and support to govern the clan.

• Yang Lingshu wept beside Yang Lingqing, and she drew him close and soothed him.
• Yang Lingqing recalled how she had once intended to groom Yang Lingshu as her successor before sending him to the Myriad Transformation Sect to gather intelligence.
• Yang Lingshu rose through the sect to become its Sect Master and repeatedly adapted to the Yang Clan’s changing needs.
• Yang Lingqing reflected on how Yang Lingshu had supported the clan by raising heirs and taking charge during the Northwest crisis.
• Yang Lingqing recognized that Yang Yuanxing needed Yang Lingshu’s counsel and experience as he prepared to lead the Yang Clan.

Yang Lingqing wrote a final message for the Yang Clan and returned to its Sacred Land, where she made her way to Yang Linghu’s grave. She began reminiscing beside his grave as her failing body grew weaker.

• Yang Lingqing wrote a tribute predicting the Yang Clan would endure and its descendants would challenge the heavens, then asked Chen Yang to take her back to the mountain.
• Yang Lingshu gathered and organized Yang Lingqing’s writings, breaking down in tears when he saw the bloodstains.
• Chen Yang brought Yang Lingqing to the former site of Pine Mountain, where Yang Guanfeng and Elder Yu supported her up the path to the Forbidden Ground.
• Yang Guanfeng and Elder Yu carried Yang Lingqing to the cemetery, and she entered alone to visit Yang Linghu’s grave.
• Yang Lingqing spoke to Yang Linghu about the family’s success and Ling Rui’s encounter with him in the Soul Law Land, then coughed up pale pink blood and leaned against the grave mound.

Han Fenghua, Dongfang Shuci, and Fang Hanchuan reached the site of the vanished Heavenly Thunder Tribulation Art and found Yang Xuanzhou dead, while Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang mourned beside him. As they struggled to understand how he had died, Fang Hanchuan suspected an Upper Realm cultivator had intervened, and Han Fenghua began to consider that the attack might not have targeted Yang Xuanzhou alone.

• Han Fenghua, Dongfang Shuci, and Fang Hanchuan sensed the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation Art and hurried toward the Yang Clan members after most of its power had dissipated.
• Dongfang Shuci, Han Fenghua, and Fang Hanchuan arrived and saw Yang Xuanzhou's lifeless, withered body beside the grieving Yang Xuanqing and stunned Yang Xuanlang.
• Dongfang Shuci tried to wake Yang Xuanzhou, while Han Fenghua confirmed that his body was cold and Fang Hanchuan demanded to know what had happened.
• Yang Xuanqing explained that Yang Xuanzhou had survived the lightning tribulation but collapsed after their minds suddenly went dazed.
• Fang Hanchuan suspected an Upper Realm cultivator had descended a technique, and Han Fenghua suggested the attack might not have been aimed only at Yang Xuanzhou.

Yao Santu and the other Yang Clan cultivators emerged from the Kunxu Secret Realm with the Divine Path Stele fragment, unaware that Yang Lingqing and Yang Xuanzhou had died. The Dark Underworld Venerable’s questions and the Dragon Lord’s furious aura left them fearing that something had happened to their clan.

• Zhao Che, Dai Wei, Yuan Cheng, and Yao Santu emerged from the Kunxu Secret Realm after recovering the Divine Path Stele fragment.
• Yao Santu thought that the expedition had gone safely and waited for the two elders, unaware that Yang Lingqing and Yang Xuanzhou had died.
• The Dark Underworld Venerable questioned the four about their party and concluded that the problem had not arisen on their side.
• The Dark Underworld Venerable brought the four to another exit, where the Dragon Lord’s fierce aura scattered the cultivators nearby.
• Dai Wei and Yuan Cheng asked Yao Santu what had happened, while Zhao Che sensed pain and another emotion beneath the Dragon Lord’s rage.

Yang Yuanhong mourned Yang Xuanzhou’s death as the Yang Clan faced the helplessness of being too weak to challenge the celestial cultivator who had attacked them. As the clan’s younger cultivators resolved to grow stronger, a violent upheaval in the Kunxu Battlefield revealed Ling Shuang’s presence and newly enhanced Taicang Sword Intent.

• Yang Yuanhong wept while holding Yang Xuanzhou’s corpse, and the Yang Clan cultivators grieved over their inability to avenge him.
• Chen Huai'an urged the younger cultivators to cultivate harder so they could one day confront their enemy, and Lin Qiao and the others agreed.
• The Kunxu Battlefield shook violently, forcing the cultivators to protect themselves with spatial Daoist Magic.
• Dark Underworld Venerable shielded the Yang Clan and sensed Ling Shuang’s aura, discovering that her Taicang Sword Intent had advanced and its killing power had more than tripled.

Dark Underworld Venerable prepared to intervene as Yang Lingrui risked his life, but a phenomenon covering the Canglan Continent froze most cultivators and revealed a principle linking the Daos of time and space. The phenomenon vanished, the Kunxu Secret Realm settled, and Yang Lingrui emerged unharmed, though he and Dark Underworld Venerable were unsure who had saved him.

• Dark Underworld Venerable prepared to take control of the secret realm to protect Yang Lingrui.
• A vast phenomenon spread across the Canglan Continent, disrupting Daoist magic and freezing most cultivators and living beings.
• Dark Underworld Venerable perceived that the Daos of time and space could transform into one another under certain conditions.
• The phenomenon dispersed after about an hour, and the unstable Kunxu Secret Realm returned to calm.
• Yang Lingrui emerged through the air, and Dark Underworld Venerable checked him for injuries before warning him about his risky actions.
• Yang Lingrui thanked Dark Underworld Venerable for saving him, but Dark Underworld Venerable and Yang Lingrui both questioned whether he had been the one to act.

Cultivators across the Central Region investigated Yang Xuanzhou’s death after returning from the Kunxu Secret Realm. The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion concluded that an Upper Realm cultivator from beyond their domain had likely killed him, leaving everyone to speculate about the attacker’s motives.

• Cultivators returned from the northern lands and spread news that Yang Xuanzhou had died in the Kunxu Secret Realm, though many doubted it.
• Central Region cultivators learned that heavenly lightning had struck the Kunxu Secret Realm, the Yang Family Sacred Land, and Yantian Palace, and suspected the Yang Clan was its main target.
• Cultivators initially believed Yang Xuanzhou had died beneath the lightning, but Lingxiao Dao Academy, Meishan, and Fuyao Sect confirmed he had survived it and withheld his true cause of death.
• The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion reported that a high-level Upper Realm cultivator from beyond the Canglan Continent had likely caused both lightning tribulations and the fatal attack on Yang Xuanzhou.
• Cultivators across the continent began speculating about the outsider’s motives.

Han Fenghua visited Luo Qianchou to ask how Lingxiao Dao Academy should respond to rumors surrounding the Yang Clan. After hearing Luo’s explanation of the danger posed by an Upper Cultivator and the plight of weaker factions, Han Fenghua reconsidered his judgment and acknowledged his own emotional bias.

• Han Fenghua flew into a rage over an intelligence brief about the Yang Clan and went to see Luo Qianchou.
• Han Fenghua entered Luo Qianchou’s residence and found Long Zhu, Xiao Huai, and First Prince Xiao Yu there.
• Han Fenghua argued that the academy should publicly support the Yang Clan and distrust factions that had switched sides.
• Luo Qianchou explained that the Yang Clan’s calamity was caused by an Upper Cultivator and that weaker factions were seeking a way to survive.
• Han Fenghua accepted Luo Qianchou’s reasoning and admitted that his emotions had clouded his judgment.

Peak cultivators from both righteous and demonic paths secretly gathered at Demon Suppression Pass after an Outer Domain Upper Cultivator attacked the Yang Clan and Bai Di. Bai Di’s injuries and the threat to all who sought ascension drove the leaders to form an alliance, leaving them to confront the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and consider the danger posed by the upper realm.

• Chen Yang, the Dark Underworld Venerable, and Qin Changsheng joined other supreme and peak cultivators in a secret meeting on the Outrealm Battlefield.
• The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion faced demands for an explanation after it spread baseless criticism of the Yang Clan and disrupted the righteous factions.
• The cultivators recalled how the Outer Domain Upper Cultivator’s spell had struck Yang Lingqing, the Yang Clan Patriarch, Yang Xuanzhou, and Bai Di without warning.
• Bai Di survived with grievous injuries and diminished cultivation, abandoned hopes of restoring his Profound Insight cultivation, and brought the three demonic peak cultivators to Qin Changsheng.
• The leaders of both paths viewed the attack as a warning to every cultivator seeking to advance and ascend.

Bai Di met with Ye Chenfeng, Venerable Daohé, and Nie Wuchen at Demon Suppression Pass to explain the attack by Upper Cultivators from beyond the heavens. He argued that the attackers had been unable to kill him because they were bound by some unknown restriction, leaving the group with hope that they could still resist.

• Bai Di greeted Ye Chenfeng, who set aside his complicated feelings about his old rival to discuss the matter at hand.
• Bai Di described the attack that had ravaged his body and shared what he had learned from the sinister art that descended from the heavens.
• Poison-Extinguishing Demon Venerable gave Bai Di a pill when pain interrupted his account.
• Bai Di reasoned that the attackers' Power of Time should have killed him instantly, so their failure to do so suggested they faced a restriction or other constraint.
• Ye Chenfeng agreed that the attackers had no reason to spare Bai Di out of kindness, and the group took hope that the Upper Cultivators could not strike at will.

Bai Di explained a detailed strategy to change Azure Waves’ fate and named the long-term undertaking New Heaven, winning Ye Chenfeng’s commitment to the struggle. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s headquarters was breached, and two strange old cultivators played chess before its confidential chamber as its defenders were unable to approach.

• Bai Di laid out the stages, contingencies, and plans for the response strategy to Ye Chenfeng, Venerable Daohé, and Nie Wuchen.
• Bai Di named the undertaking to change the order of heaven and earth New Heaven.
• Ye Chenfeng endorsed the plan and declared that he and the other cultivators would accept death rather than let higher cultivators control future seekers of the Dao.
• Bai Di and Ye Chenfeng pledged to work together, formally beginning the New Heaven campaign.
• The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s defenders gathered at its breached headquarters, where two strange old cultivators played chess and prevented anyone from approaching the doorway.

The master of Penglai Palace and a peak grand demon from Demon Soil blocked the entrance to Heavenly Secrets Pavilion after Chen Yang persuaded them to oppose the fate of being enslaved by upper cultivators. When the pavilion’s Grand Elder returned, the grand demon’s spell failed against him, and the Grand Elder explained that he was worried about the pavilion master inside.

• The master of Penglai Palace and the peak grand demon from Demon Soil joined the deliberation over Outrealm Battlefield after Chen Yang warned they might be enslaved by upper cultivators after ascending.
• The two peak cultivators appeared at Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and blocked its entrance, astonishing the cultivators there with the grand demon’s presence in righteous territory.
• The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Grand Elder returned, dismissed the surrounding cultivators, and approached the two elders as they played Go.
• The grand demon cursed at the Grand Elder and struck him with a spatial spell, but the Grand Elder’s treasure prevented it from taking effect.
• The Grand Elder bowed and asked the grand demon to calm down, explaining that he could not leave the pavilion master alone inside the sanctuary.

The Lord of Penglai Palace took over the chess match against the Grand Elder of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion after the great demon of the Demon Soil failed to uncover anything unusual. He opened at Tianyuan and fell behind in the middle game, leaving the great demon convinced that he was headed for defeat.

• The great demon of the Demon Soil considered killing the suspicious opponent, but the Lord of Penglai Palace reminded him that they had come to seek an explanation and should avoid turning the dispute into a fight.
• The Lord of Penglai Palace admitted that the great demon had always been better at chess, despite their apparently even record.
• The Lord of Penglai Palace let the Grand Elder of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion choose to move second, then placed his first stone at Tianyuan.
• The Grand Elder of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion dismissed the Tianyuan opening and played normally, confident that the Heavenly Secrets Disk would secure his victory.
• By the middle game, the great demon of the Demon Soil saw the Lord of Penglai Palace on the defensive and believed his defeat was certain.

The Lord of Penglai Palace unsettled the Grand Elder of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion during their fast Go match, while an extra stone appeared on the board and changed the game’s direction. The Grand Elder noticed the anomaly but, unable to prove cheating and aware of his own secret assistance, resumed play.

• The Grand Elder of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion lost focus after the Lord of Penglai Palace spoke and made a weak move in the lower-right corner.
• The great demon noticed that an extra stone had appeared on the board, placed diagonally opposite the Grand Elder’s move.
• The Lord of Penglai Palace played in that corner, and the Heavenly Secrets Disk then chose the location of the extra stone as the Grand Elder’s best move.
• The Grand Elder questioned the Lord of Penglai Palace about the stone, but he could not accuse him without proof and knew his own outside assistance could also be exposed.
• The Lord of Penglai Palace urged the Grand Elder to stop stalling, and the Grand Elder agreed to play at once.

Chen Yang’s outburst during negotiations shook the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s mountain formation, while the Grand Elder kept the pavilion cultivators from charging into the Restricted Forbidden Ground. The chapter ended with Chen Yang pinning the Pavilion Master against a wall inside the treasure tower.

• The Penglai Palace Master and the Demon Soil great demon agreed that Chen Yang’s upheaval expressed dissatisfaction rather than an intent to kill.
• Chen Yang’s spatial tremors cracked the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s mountain-protecting formation.
• The Grand Elder stopped the pavilion cultivators from rushing into the Restricted Forbidden Ground and silenced their protests with the Heavenly Secrets Disk.
• The Grand Elder confirmed that the Pavilion Master’s life was not in danger and urged everyone to wait without causing trouble.
• Chen Yang pressed the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master’s head against a wall inside the Forbidden Ground’s treasure tower.

Chen Yang questioned the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion master about who had leaked information on the Sea Pavilion Upper Cultivator’s spell, while evidence from the Void Realm suggested someone had secretly interfered with Canglan Continent. The pavilion master’s reaction strengthened Chen Yang’s suspicion, and he relayed his conclusion to Nangong Jinghe.

• Chen Yang pressed the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion master to reveal the person behind the information leak, and the master refused before yielding to Chen Yang’s threat.
• Chen Yang recalled Nangong Jinghe’s account of a Scarlet Flame Flying Sword interrupting the Sea Pavilion Upper Cultivator’s spell and driving him away.
• Chen Yang and the Dark Underworld Venerable doubted the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s public account and suspected that someone had tipped it off.
• After Chen Yang raised his suspicions, Zhuang Xuanji inspected the damaged formation between the realms with Nangong Jinghe and three Treading Void cultivators.
• Zhuang Xuanji found evidence that someone had secretly sent a spell or objects down to Canglan Continent while the formation was being repaired.
• Chen Yang took the pavilion master’s reaction as confirmation and relayed his conclusion to Nangong Jinghe through Yang Yuanhong.