Chapter Summaries

Jade Divine Firmament explored electromagnetic power and Yuan Ci, while Li Yu cultivated his own path of order and matter, quickly reaching Qi Induction. After advising her on how to study Universal Gravitation, Jade Divine Firmament sent him away so he could continue his cultivation.

• Jade Divine Firmament fired a metal pellet with electromagnetic power, blasting a hole into the void as she declared she had achieved her Dao.
• Li Yu decided his path was order and matter, then absorbed many kinds of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi and fused them into Yin Yang True Qi.
• Li Yu reached Qi Induction and demonstrated his Samadhi Divine Wind True Qi, astonishing Jade Divine Firmament with how quickly he had advanced.
• Jade Divine Firmament said she understood Yuan Ci power but could only sense gravity between stars, so Li Yu advised her to study Stellar Gravity step by step.
• Jade Divine Firmament asked whether Li Yu was ready to Condense Gang Sha, then hurled him out of the void to continue his cultivation elsewhere.

Du Bai and Shi Xuan discovered that the Central Continent Emperor wielded the nation’s Virtuous Dragon Qi and sought the Crown Prince’s help in reaching him. Their visit to Huilong Temple left them questioning the young Crown Prince’s extraordinary background.

• Du Bai and Shi Xuan sensed the imperial palace’s dragon qi, but its pressure forced them to crash outside the palace grounds.
• Li Yu left the palace after kicking Guard Wang away, and Du Bai and Shi Xuan approached him with a letter for the emperor.
• Li Yu saw through the cultivators’ illusion of kneeling and led them to Huilong Temple instead of taking their letter.
• Daoquanzi hurried out and knelt to Li Yu, calling him Ancestor, leaving Du Bai and Shi Xuan astonished by the Crown Prince’s status.

Li Yu sent Shi Xuan and Du Bai from Central Continent to the East Sea, where they struggled to adjust to the Cultivation World before encountering him again. Their arrival drew the leaders of the Penglai and Yingzhou Immortal Sects, who welcomed Li Yu as their shared Ancestor.

• Li Yu ordered Daoquanzi to send Shi Xuan and Du Bai to the East Sea, and Daoquanzi activated a transmission formation to take them there.
• Shi Xuan and Du Bai explored a bustling cultivator market and realized they had no spirit stones, so they planned to sell their possessions.
• Li Yu reappeared, warned them that openly carrying high-grade magic artifacts made them targets, and gave each of them a high-grade spirit stone.
• The Penglai Immortal Sect arrived and bowed to welcome Li Yu, who angrily scolded them for tracking him down.
• The Yingzhou Immortal Sect arrived and also welcomed Li Yu as their Ancestor, shocking everyone on the island.

Du Bai and Shi Xuan visited Lang Huan Pavilion to buy information about cultivation sects and found that the high-grade spirit stone Li Yu had given them was worth far more than their purchases. The clerk persuaded them to spend it on Qiankun Bags and swords suited to their abilities, and they left the shop with their sect research still ahead of them.

• Du Bai and Shi Xuan decided to study the immortal sects and look for sects connected to their inherited cultivation techniques.
• At Lang Huan Pavilion, Du Bai and Shi Xuan chose several jade slips about cultivation techniques, history, the Eight Great Sects, and the Three Islands Sea Domain.
• Shi Xuan offered Li Yu's high-grade spirit stone, and the clerk explained that the shop could not make change for their small purchase.
• The clerk sold Du Bai and Shi Xuan two Qiankun Bags and the Moonlight Sword and Clear Wind Sword, which suited their abilities.

Du Bai and Shi Xuan discussed which sects might suit their cultivation before a group of cultivators ambushed them at their inn. After killing the attackers with high-grade talismans, Du Bai challenged another person waiting outside to come in.

• Du Bai discovered that the Guanghan Sect's techniques suited his cultivation, though it accepted only female disciples, while Shi Xuan chose the Penglai Immortal Sect as his intended destination.
• Du Bai and Shi Xuan agreed to cultivate in the market district and see what happened when Penglai and Yingzhou recruited disciples in half a year.
• An attacker opened the ward on their inn room, and a group of cultivators launched spells and talismans at them.
• Shi Xuan blocked the first barrage with the Samsara Banner, and Du Bai protected them with an Immovable as a Mountain talisman.
• Du Bai unleashed an Ice Thunder Talisman, killing the attackers with its storm of ice spikes.
• Du Bai called out to another person outside and invited them to test his remaining high-grade talismans.

Shi Xuan and Du Bai confronted Ming Qingyue after an inn attendant helped arrange an attack on them. She apologized, offered them free cave residences at Lingri Peak, and discussed the upcoming Penglai Dharma Assembly, where she also planned to seek entry; Shi Xuan then learned a secret from the captured attendant.

• Shi Xuan and Du Bai threatened to destroy their High-grade Magic Artifacts when they sensed people approaching.
• Ming Qingyue arrived with four Qi Induction guards, apologized for the attack, and handed over the inn attendant who had colluded with outsiders.
• Ming Qingyue offered Shi Xuan and Du Bai free cave residences at Lingri Peak, and they accepted her compensation.
• While leading them to Lingri Peak, Ming Qingyue explained that the Penglai Dharma Assembly would assess cultivation and character, and said she would attend too.
• Du Bai entered his cave residence, while Shi Xuan took the inn attendant into his own and learned a secret from him.

Shi Xuan learned of a secret passage into the Falling Star Sea and kept it as a potential escape route while he and Du Bai settled into cultivation. Meanwhile, Li Yu agreed to give the Penglai and Yingzhou Sect Leaders the Nine Methods of the Great Dao, beginning his plan to use their disciples to test his cultivation paths.

• Shi Xuan learned that robbers had a lair in the inner sea of the Falling Star Sea, killed the waiter who revealed the secret, and kept the passage in mind as a route of retreat.
• Shi Xuan and Du Bai settled into their cave abode and cultivated while waiting for the Dharma gathering half a year later.
• Zhang Zhengyan and Dongxuanzi followed Li Yu and begged him for Great Dao true laws after he warned them that the Yu Yu True Inheritance could bring ruin to their sects.
• Li Yu decided to create cultivation methods for the sects so their disciples could help him test his paths of order and matter.
• Li Yu transmitted the Nine Methods of the Great Dao to Zhang Zhengyan and Dongxuanzi, launching his lab rat plan.

Li Yu visited the Penglai Sect and discovered Xu Zhifei frozen inside Chaos Ice after failing to survive the Heavenly Being Tribulation. He offered to help Xu Zhifei escape his calamity in exchange for some Chaos Ice, intending to experiment on him.

• Li Yu dismissed two old Daoists and was joined by Yu Linglong and Fairy Mingqin, who were assigned to serve him.
• Li Yu asked Yu Linglong and Fairy Mingqin to take him to Penglai Island, but they dropped him while trying to carry him with their flight light.
• Yu Linglong carefully flew Li Yu to Tianshu Peak, where he sent the two Fairies away and entered the Heaven-Connecting Hall.
• Li Yu found the entrance to the Sky-Splitting Great Immortal Formation and called to Xu Zhifei, who was trapped inside Chaos Ice.
• Li Yu offered to help Xu Zhifei escape the Heavenly Being Tribulation if he gave him some Chaos Ice, while privately planning an experiment on him.

Li Yu rescued Xu Zhifei from the Chaos Ice, removed his Heavenly Being Tribulation, and changed his cultivation to the Heavenly River True Method. Xu Zhifei emerged from his long confinement, and the cultivators of Penglai Island knelt before Li Yu in awe.

• Li Yu entered the ice cave and learned that Xu Zhifei was trapped in the Heavenly Being Tribulation after body snatching left his spirit and flesh incompatible.
• Li Yu offered Xu Zhifei the Heavenly River True Method, then took him into the Resource Library to study and treat him.
• Li Yu extracted Xu Zhifei's tribulation power, refined his Galaxy True Qi into Heavenly River True Qi, and restored his body.
• Li Yu returned Xu Zhifei to Penglai Island, where Xu thanked him and agreed to integrate his cultivation insights into the new method.
• Xu Zhifei collapsed the Sky-Splitting Great Immortal Formation, prompting cultivators on Penglai Island to rush to Tianshu Peak.
• Xu Zhifei told the gathered cultivators that Li Yu had helped him pass the First Heavenly Tribulation of Decline, and they knelt before Li Yu.

Li Yu taught the gathered cultivators that heavenly tribulations tested and fulfilled them, then explained how they could rebuild their foundations through the Nine Methods of the Great Dao. He traveled with Xu Zhifei to the Southern Wilderness to find Yin Yang Malevolent Aura, arriving at a valley where he prepared to condense it.

• Jiang Yehe begged Li Yu to help him survive his imminent tribulation, but Li Yu rebuked him and lectured the gathered cultivators on the purpose of heavenly tribulations.
• Li Yu explained three steps toward merging with the Great Dao and instructed the cultivators to convert their arts into the Nine Methods of the Great Dao where appropriate.
• Fairy Mingqin asked how the Yingzhou Sect's Supreme Nine Dissolutions Scripture Commentary should be converted, and Li Yu advised combining it with the lightning arts.
• Li Yu asked Xu Zhifei where to find Yin Yang Five Elements Malevolent Aura, and Xu Zhifei offered to escort him to the Southern Wilderness for Yin Yang Malevolent Aura.
• Li Yu and Xu Zhifei traveled by flying vessel to a valley radiating cold and heat, where Li Yu prepared to condense the Yin Yang Malevolent Aura.

Li Yu absorbed nearly all the Yin Yang Malevolent Aura in a valley over half a year, then returned to Penglai to prepare for condensing Five Elements Malevolent Aura. Meanwhile, Du Bai and Shi Xuan accompanied Ming Qingyue to the Penglai Dharma Assembly, where Meng Yuqian took an unfounded dislike to them.

• Li Yu entered the valley and absorbed its Yin Yang Malevolent Aura to comprehend the laws it contained.
• After half a year, Li Yu emerged having absorbed ninety-nine percent of the aura, while leaving its foundation intact so it could recover.
• Li Yu returned to Penglai with Xu Zhifei and said he would next condense Five Elements Malevolent Aura at Five Elements Heaven.
• Du Bai agreed to attend the Penglai Dharma Assembly with Shi Xuan and Ming Qingyue before deciding whether to join the Yingzhou Sect.
• Ming Qingyue brought Du Bai and Shi Xuan aboard her Dragon Boat and arrived with them at Penglai Welcoming Guest Island.
• Meng Yuqian saw Du Bai and Shi Xuan with Ming Qingyue, grew jealous, and resolved to harm them.

Shi Xuan, Ming Qingyue, and Du Bai crossed Penglai's invisible rainbow bridge, which tested the cultivators with illusions and fear. Du Bai resisted the bridge's heart-bewildering tricks and heard an unknown voice behind him as he continued onward.

• Xie Fangwei introduced himself as the Penglai Dharma Assembly's presiding host and led the way across a rainbow bridge that vanished from sight.
• Several cultivators tried to fly across and fell into the clouds, so the participants began walking along the invisible bridge.
• Du Bai found himself isolated by an illusion, but he used the true meaning of "My heart, myself—Freedom Eternity" to see through it and reunite with Shi Xuan and Ming Qingyue.
• As the bridge grew emptier and its winds intensified, Du Bai resisted rising fear and suspicious thoughts without slowing down.
• An unknown voice spoke behind Du Bai, startling him as he wondered who had called out.

Du Bai fought Meng Yuqian on the restricted rainbow bridge after Meng Yuqian attacked him out of jealousy over Ming Qingyue, then killed him with the Great Freedom Demon Lord’s soul-absorbing divine ability. Meng Yuchang alerted their great-grandfather Meng Li, who vowed revenge.

• Meng Yuqian used a Wind Guiding Bead to summon fierce winds and try to knock Du Bai off the rainbow bridge, explaining that he targeted Du Bai because of Ming Qingyue.
• Du Bai resisted the wind with the Thousand Jin Drop, then used martial arts to reach Meng Yuqian and beat him senseless.
• When Meng Yuqian threatened to kill him after the assembly, Du Bai used the Great Freedom Demon Lord’s divine ability to pull out and absorb Meng Yuqian’s soul.
• Meng Yuchang learned that Meng Yuqian had died on the rainbow bridge and sent a talisman to summon their great-grandfather, Meng Li.
• Meng Li stormed out of his cave abode and vowed not to let the killer go unpunished.

After the Myriad Phenomena Mirror revealed Du Bai beating Meng Yuqian, Meng Li tried to kill him, but Mo Yuan intervened and insisted on a proper investigation. Mo Yuan summoned Du Bai and began questioning him with the mirror, which he claimed would expose any lie.

• Mo Yuan ordered the cultivators at the Penglai Dharma Assembly to remain while the death of Meng Yuqian was investigated.
• Meng Li arrived and demanded justice for Meng Yuqian, and Mo Yuan agreed to examine the attendees' actions with the Myriad Phenomena Mirror.
• The mirror showed Ming Qingyue and Shi Xuan passing without incident, then revealed Du Bai beating Meng Yuqian after Meng Yuqian ambushed him.
• Meng Li attacked Du Bai with a fire dragon, but Mo Yuan stopped him and said the death required further investigation because fists and feet could not destroy a soul.
• Mo Yuan called Du Bai forward, warned that the mirror would reveal lies, and asked whether he had killed Meng Yuqian.

Du Bai passed the Myriad Phenomena Mirror and Azure Sun Lamp tests, concealing that he had killed Meng Yuqian. He then exposed the Blood River Ancestor hiding inside Yu Wendao, who escaped after draining him dry.

• Du Bai denied killing Meng Yuqian, and the Myriad Phenomena Mirror showed no sign that he was lying.
• Mo Yuan illuminated Du Bai's soul with the Azure Sun Lamp, judged it pure, and cleared him to leave.
• Meng Li suspected Du Bai but held back as Mo Yuan continued testing the gathering's cultivators.
• When Yu Wendao passed the Myriad Phenomena Mirror, Du Bai subtly raised his hand and the Azure Sun Lamp reacted.
• The Blood River Ancestor drained Yu Wendao's body and soul, revealed himself, and escaped as Mo Yuan tried to seize him.
• Du Bai realized the Blood River Ancestor had taken the blame for him and secretly laughed.

Du Bai exposed the Blood River Ancestor's avatar at the Penglai Dharma Assembly, where Li Yu captured it, but Meng Li still blamed Du Bai for Meng Yuqian's death and plotted against him. Du Bai left the assembly, and when Xie Fangwei pursued him at Mo Yuan's instruction, Du Bai suspected Penglai was moving against him and drew his sword.

• Du Bai used the Demon Lord Jade Slip to stir the Blood River Ancestor's hidden avatar, prompting Meng Li and Mo Yuan to attack it.
• The Blood River Ancestor's avatar escaped their attacks, but Li Yu caught it from a passing flying boat and put it away.
• Mo Yuan declared the true culprit eliminated and resumed the assembly, while Meng Li vowed to avenge Meng Yuqian and ordered Meng Yuchang to watch Du Bai.
• Du Bai told Shi Xuan and Ming Qingyue that he had never intended to join Penglai, then left the crowd.
• Mo Yuan sent Xie Fangwei to stop Du Bai, who turned with Moonlight Sword drawn and suspected Penglai of attacking him.

Du Bai refused Xie Fangwei’s offer to join Penglai and set out for Yingzhou, knowing the Meng Family might seek revenge. Meng Yuchang ambushed him while he restored his vital energy, but Du Bai killed him with the Moonlight Sword and fled.

• Xie Fangwei told Du Bai that the Meng Family did not control Penglai and warned him to be careful, but Du Bai chose to join Yingzhou instead.
• Xie Fangwei reported Du Bai’s decision to Mo Yuan, who recognized marks left by Daoquanzi on Du Bai and Shi Xuan and sent a talisman to the Yingzhou Mingqin Fairy.
• Du Bai learned that Meng Yuchang was the Meng Family’s most notable disciple and traveled toward Bright Moon Market, stopping often to restore his vital energy.
• Meng Yuchang ambushed Du Bai on an uninhabited island and attacked, believing Du Bai was helpless after exhausting his vital energy.
• Du Bai used the Moonlight Sword to behead Meng Yuchang, stored his corpse in a jade slip, and fled toward Bright Moon Market.

After Du Bai killed Meng Yuchang, Fairy Mingqin blocked Meng Li and declared Du Bai a Yingzhou disciple. Du Bai fled toward Golden Turtle Island, unaware that Mingqin and Meng Li were pursuing him.

• Meng Li discovered Meng Yuchang’s Life Soul Tablet had shattered and rushed to the island where he died.
• Meng Li pursued Du Bai, but Fairy Mingqin intercepted him and claimed Du Bai as a disciple of Yingzhou.
• Meng Li could not challenge the stronger Mingqin and returned to Penglai to complain.
• Du Bai reached Bright Moon Market and teleported to Golden Turtle Island, hoping to escape to the Southern Wasteland.
• Fairy Mingqin learned Du Bai’s destination and followed him through the teleportation formation.
• Meng Li learned Du Bai had gone to Golden Turtle Island and teleported there after Mingqin.

Fairy Mingqin brought Du Bai from Golden Turtle Island to Yingzhou after revealing that he was connected to the sect through Daoquanzi and Patriarch Li. Du Bai arrived at Yingzhou Island, where he had to pass the entrance test before he could officially join and gain the sect’s protection.

• Du Bai tried to flee Golden Turtle Island, but Fairy Mingqin caught up with him and stopped his attack.
• Fairy Mingqin introduced herself as a Golden Core Grandmaster of the Yingzhou Immortal Sect and explained that Du Bai bore an elder’s mark because of Daoquanzi.
• Du Bai recognized that Daoquanzi had marked him and Shi Xuan under Patriarch Li’s instruction, then agreed to go with Fairy Mingqin to Yingzhou.
• Meng Li watched them depart and vowed to avenge Meng Yuchang and Yuqian.
• Fairy Mingqin explained that Daoquanzi was a Nascent Soul elder who sometimes disguised himself, and that Patriarch Li was the reincarnation of Yingzhou’s founding patriarch.
• Fairy Mingqin brought Du Bai to Yingzhou Island and told him he had to pass the entrance test before formally joining the sect.

After moving into the Bamboo Tower, Du Bai refined the souls and body of the Meng brothers, absorbing their Soul Power, divine abilities, Bloodline Power, and abundant belongings. As he trained in seclusion, rumors about him spread and cultivators began plotting to challenge him before the Yingzhou Dharma Assembly.

• Du Bai refined the Meng brothers’ souls, raising his Soul Power to the Out of Body pinnacle and extracting their spell restriction talismans.
• Du Bai fused five of Meng Yuchang’s divine abilities into his soul, gaining powerful innate spells that surpassed the Out of Body stage.
• Du Bai decomposed Meng Yuchang’s body, transferred his supplies and treasures into the jade slip’s Storage Space, and absorbed his Bloodline Power through body tempering.
• Stories about Du Bai spread through the Bamboo Tower area, and cultivators considered defeating him to attract the attention of Yingzhou experts.