Chapter Summaries

Wang Chen mastered the Taiqing Concealment Art, then left Su Ziling in the Xuan You Immortal Mansion before teleporting to Nine Provinces Immortal City. He arrived at his destination, where an unseen force swept him and the other travelers out of the teleportation hall.

• Wang Chen raised the Taiqing Concealment Art to Grand Completion and discovered he could freely alter his aura, life breath, and soul breath.
• Wang Chen asked Su Ziling where she wished to stay while he traveled, and she chose the Xuan You Immortal Mansion so she could focus on cultivation.
• Wang Chen took Su Ziling to the Xuan You Immortal Mansion, found its spiritual energy restored, and sealed the entrance before returning to Luodu Immortal City.
• Wang Chen disguised himself with the Thousand Transformations Mask and paid five hundred Medium Spirit Stones to teleport from Luodu to Nine Provinces Immortal City.
• Wang Chen arrived in the teleportation hall at Nine Provinces Immortal City, where a cold voice ordered everyone out and an irresistible force swept them away.

Wang Chen arrived in Nine Provinces Immortal City, obtained a temporary residence permit, and hired the local cultivator Wei Tongfang to explain how he could descend to the lower realm. Wei Tongfang began describing the obstacles involved, leaving Wang Chen to learn what might prevent his journey.

• Wang Chen and the Luodu cultivators arrived in Nine Provinces Immortal City and were astonished by its immense hall and crowds of powerful cultivators.
• Wang Chen paid fifty Medium Spirit Stones for a temporary residence permit valid for fifty days and left the registration hall.
• Wang Chen marveled at the vast city and its protective barrier before Wei Tongfang approached and offered to act as his guide.
• Wang Chen accompanied Wei Tongfang to a teahouse and asked about traveling to the lower realm.
• Wei Tongfang charged Wang Chen fifty Medium Spirit Stones and began explaining the serious obstacles to descending to the lower realm.

Wang Chen learned that strict rules, high merit costs, and a tribulation in the Mountain Sea Realm made it impossible for him to bring Xu Xinlan to the Upper Realm soon. Wei Tongfang offered to arrange a meeting with an Upper Realm Emissary who might deliver resources to her, and Wang Chen agreed to pay after the meeting.

• Wei Tongfang explained that Wang Chen would need approval and five thousand Immortal Alliance merit points to descend to the Mountain Sea Realm, which was undergoing a tribulation.
• Wang Chen worried that he would break his promise to bring Xu Xinlan to the Upper Realm within thirty years.
• Wei Tongfang suggested that an Upper Realm Emissary could deliver cultivation resources to someone in the lower realm for a private fee.
• Wei Tongfang offered to arrange a meeting for one thousand Medium Spirit Stones, but Wang Chen refused to pay a deposit.
• Wei Tongfang agreed to make the arrangements first, and Wang Chen exchanged communication talismans with him.

Wang Chen explored Nine Provinces Immortal City while Wei Tongfang arranged a meeting with Du Jiuniang, an Immortal Alliance cultivator bound for the Mountain Sea Realm. At Flying Cloud Pavilion, Wang Chen revealed his true aura and earned Du Jiuniang’s recognition.

• Wang Chen spent five days exploring Nine Provinces Immortal City and witnessed a Dao Integration True Venerable’s grand procession.
• Wei Tongfang told Wang Chen he had arranged a meeting with Du Jiuniang, who was preparing to serve as an immortal envoy to the Mountain Sea Realm.
• Three days later, Wei Tongfang brought Wang Chen to Flying Cloud Pavilion, where Du Jiuniang met him with two other female cultivators.
• Wang Chen recognized Du Jiuniang and released the suppression of his Taiqing Concealment Art, revealing his Mana aura.
• Du Jiuniang sensed Wang Chen’s hidden strength, expressed surprise, and invited him to sit.

Wang Chen paid Du Jiuniang to deliver supplies and a letter to Xu Xinlan in the Mountain Sea Realm, then learned she had a quota to bring someone to the upper realm. Unable to afford her price immediately, he secured the chance to claim the quota next year if he gathered enough Immortal Alliance merit points.

• Wang Chen negotiated with Du Jiuniang and paid her four hundred and fifty High Spirit Stones to deliver a Storage Bag of cultivation resources and a letter to Xu Xinlan.
• Wang Chen gave Du Jiuniang two letter talismans containing Xu Xinlan's hair so she could identify and locate her in the lower realm.
• Du Jiuniang offered Wang Chen a quota to bring someone to the upper realm for one Extreme Spirit Stone or five thousand Immortal Alliance merit points.
• Wang Chen admitted he had neither and learned Du Jiuniang would travel to the Mountain Sea Realm on the third day of next month.
• Du Jiuniang agreed to deliver the supplies and, if Xu Xinlan was alive, offer Wang Chen the quota next year if he gathered enough merit points.
• After Wang Chen left, the woman in the red dress objected to Du Jiuniang's offer, while Sister Jingya said Wang Chen seemed worth befriending.

Wang Chen visited Huizhenfang to gamble on Ancient Sealed Jade, using Heavenly Merit to guide his search. He found a promising piece and drove off a rival who tried to snatch it, leaving with the jade purchased for twenty-five Medium Spirit Stones.

• Wang Chen went to Huizhenfang’s Immortal Market seeking a new way to earn Spirit Stones.
• He learned about the Sealed Jade gambling venue and its fixed-price and auction offerings.
• Wang Chen spent fifty thousand Heavenly Merit to activate his lucky feeling and searched the fixed-price jade.
• Wang Chen spotted an overlooked piece of Sealed Jade priced at twenty-five Medium Spirit Stones and reached for it.
• A cultivator tried to knock Wang Chen aside and take the jade, but Wang Chen jolted him away and paid for the piece.

Wang Chen bought two Ancient Sealed Jade pieces at Huizhen Workshop and used his intimidating presence to deter a hostile Golden Core cultivator from the Zhang Family. As he prepared to return to the inn, he stopped at the sight of the workshop’s slave market.

• Wang Chen secured a fixed-price Sealed Jade, ignored the skinny Golden Core cultivator's threats, and challenged him to fight in the Life-and-Death Arena.
• Wang Chen bid on Ancient Sealed Jade while the skinny Golden Core cultivator tried to provoke him by competing against him.
• Wang Chen won the Ancient Sealed Jade he had been watching after mocking the skinny cultivator, who stayed silent rather than bid against him.
• Wang Chen left the jade-gambling grounds with two pieces and decided to open them later at the inn.
• Wang Chen stopped on his way out of Huizhen Workshop when he noticed the tents of its slave market.

Wang Chen entered Huizhen Workshop’s demon slave market after feeling drawn to a particular tent and bought an injured fox woman and a filthy little girl with fluffy ears. He returned to his inn and released the girl from the Grand Mystic Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram.

• Wang Chen followed an unseen pull into a tent selling demon slaves and heard a fox woman beg him to buy her.
• The dealer tried to sell the fox woman as a cultivation cauldron for five hundred Medium Spirit Stones, but Wang Chen rejected the price and prepared to leave.
• The dealer lowered the price to one hundred Medium Spirit Stones, and Wang Chen also insisted on buying the little girl in the nearby cage.
• Wang Chen paid for both demonfolk, drew them into the Grand Mystic Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram, and received their slave contract certificates.
• Wang Chen returned to his inn, sealed his room, and released the little girl from the treasure diagram.

Wang Chen reunited with Yuan Yuan and learned how she and Xiangxiang had ended up in the slave market. After rescuing Xiangxiang and promising to help her recover, he heard Yuan Yuan ask him to save Bai Susu, who was trapped beneath the Demon Suppressing Pagoda.

• Wang Chen revealed his face to Yuan Yuan, and she recognized her former master and embraced him.
• Yuan Yuan told Wang Chen that Bai Susu had fled to the Haotian Realm to recover but was besieged and trapped beneath a Demon Suppressing Pagoda.
• Yuan Yuan asked Wang Chen to save Xiangxiang, who had rescued and cared for her before they were captured and sold.
• Wang Chen released Xiangxiang from the Grand Mystic Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram, gave her Pills, and offered to escort her once she recovered.
• Wang Chen spent several days caring for Yuan Yuan while Xiangxiang healed in seclusion.
• Yuan Yuan asked Wang Chen to save Bai Susu, whom she called Mother.

Wang Chen agreed to help Yuan Yuan rescue Bai Susu and set out with her, but an enemy who had tracked him from the city attacked them in the sky. The chapter ended with Wang Chen diving toward the ground as his pursuer ordered the chase.

• Wang Chen promised Yuan Yuan he would do his best to rescue Bai Susu, and Yuan Yuan used a damaged Essence Blood Talisman to sense Bai Susu's location.
• Wang Chen placed the recovering Xiangxiang inside the Grand Mystic Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram and left Nine Provinces Immortal City with Yuan Yuan.
• After traveling southwest, Wang Chen discovered a silver Flying Ship pursuing them and dodged its beam attack and descending net.
• Wang Chen put away his Flying Ship, drew Yuan Yuan into the diagram, and escaped the net by flashing a hundred zhang away.
• Wang Chen recognized the pursuer's voice as the man he had encountered at Huizhenfang Immortal Market, then dove toward the ground as the man ordered his crew to chase him.

Wang Chen destroyed the pursuers’ flying ship and killed the five Golden Core cultivators who had surrounded him. He then killed their arrogant leader despite a Nascent Soul True Immortal’s plea, leaving the conflict with that powerful elder unresolved.

• Wang Chen lured the pursuing flying ship and five Golden Core cultivators into attacking him.
• Wang Chen’s Dragon Abyss Sword split the flying ship in two, sending it crashing down.
• Wang Chen crushed the five Golden Core cultivators with his Mountain Splitting Palm and killed the two survivors who begged for mercy.
• Wang Chen froze the spoiled young man as he fled and struck him with the Dragon Abyss Sword.
• A Nascent Soul True Immortal’s protective item blocked the sword, and the elder pleaded for mercy.
• Wang Chen broke the protection with the Five Elements Primordial Fan and beheaded the young man with the Dragon Abyss Sword.

After killing the attackers, Wang Chen erased the battlefield and escaped while a white-haired old man’s attempt to divine his whereabouts backfired. Wang Chen continued toward his destination, gave Yuan Yuan two pieces of Ancient Sealed Jade, and sorted the spoils from the five Golden Core cultivators.

• Wang Chen destroyed the instigator’s corpse, burned away the traces of the battle, collected the five Golden Core cultivators’ equipment, and took the wreckage of the Magic Treasure Flying Ship.
• On Layered Jade Peak, a white-haired old man tried to divine what had happened, but his tortoiseshell shattered and left him badly injured.
• Wang Chen received a notification that he had lost 1000 Heavenly Merit and suspected someone had tried to calculate his whereabouts.
• After flying thousands of miles, Wang Chen released Yuan Yuan and resumed traveling by Magic Treasure Flying Ship.
• Wang Chen gave Yuan Yuan the two pieces of Ancient Sealed Jade, then broke the restrictions on the five Sumeru Rings, sorted their contents, and destroyed the rings.

Wang Chen found the Buddhist temple where Bai Susu was being suppressed and confronted Zen Master Fahai. After Fahai blocked his opening attack, Wang Chen launched the Seven Severing Sword Formation against the temple, beginning a battle that remained unresolved.

• Wang Chen spotted the temple from his flying ship, landed nearby, and went to investigate it alone.
• Wang Chen met Fahai, who denied knowing about his friend and invited him into the temple, but Wang Chen refused.
• Wang Chen attacked Fahai with Mountain Splitting Palm, and Fahai blocked the strike with a barrier empowered by the temple.
• Wang Chen summoned the Seven Severing Sword Formation, prompting Fahai to retreat into the temple and unleash waves of Sanskrit chants and golden light.
• Wang Chen's sword qi shattered the temple's golden attacks, then the Seven Severing Sword Formation battered the temple's defenses without yet breaking through.

Fahai used the Heavenly Dragon Buddhist Chant and Golden Light Temple against Wang Chen, but Wang Chen’s sword formation broke the temple and wounded them both. Fahai then suppressed Wang Chen with his Brocade Kasaya and advanced to fight him at close range.

• The Heavenly Dragon Buddhist Chant killed creatures and Rogue Cultivators within a hundred li, but Wang Chen resisted it with his powerful Divine Soul and the Primordial Dao Stele.
• Wang Chen’s Seven Severing Sword Formation steadily wore down Golden Light Temple’s protective treasure light.
• Fahai unleashed the Heavenly Dragon Incantation, but Wang Chen’s Seven Absolutes Greatsword split the golden dragon and destroyed Golden Light Temple.
• The temple’s destruction blasted the greatsword away, and Wang Chen and Fahai both spat blood from the backlash.
• Fahai cast the Great Vajra, Heaven and Earth Sealing Law with his Brocade Kasaya, immobilizing Wang Chen and cutting off his control of his treasures.
• Fahai approached Wang Chen in a close-combat stance, revealing a five-clawed golden dragon tattoo on his chest.

Wang Chen defeated Fahai in close combat after both were trapped by the Heaven and Earth Sealing Law, then cremated the monk and claimed his Sarira. With the sealing power gone, Wang Chen brought down the surviving tower at Golden Light Temple.

• Wang Chen revealed that he had cultivated the Heavenly Dragon Vajra Righteous Dharma to the peak of the seventh level.
• Wang Chen struck Fahai with Vajra Fist, fatally crushing the monk despite Fahai's attempt to block the blow.
• Fahai died after the sealing power vanished, and Wang Chen received three million Heavenly Merit.
• Wang Chen cremated Fahai, collected the Sarira left among the ashes, and stored it in the Cangqing Ring.
• Wang Chen destroyed the tower that had remained standing behind Golden Light Temple.

Wang Chen freed Bai Susu from the Demon Suppressing Pagoda and restored enough spiritual energy for her to awaken. As they departed, she explained how Fahai had imprisoned her, and Wang Chen considered sheltering her in the Xuan You Immortal Mansion despite the White Colt Tower within it.

• Wang Chen spent his remaining High Spirit Stones replenishing Bai Susu's spiritual energy until Yuan Yuan helped awaken her.
• Bai Susu transformed into human form, reunited with Yuan Yuan, and thanked Wang Chen for saving her.
• Wang Chen took Bai Susu and Yuan Yuan away aboard his Magic Treasure Flying Ship.
• Bai Susu told Wang Chen that Fahai had killed her captors and imprisoned her in the Demon Suppressing Pagoda to force her into becoming his Buddhist mount.
• Wang Chen considered hiding Bai Susu in the Xuan You Immortal Mansion but remembered that the White Colt Tower was inside.

Wang Chen learned of the Ancient Covenant and accepted Bai Susu’s vow of goodwill, then brought her and Yuan Yuan to the Xuan You Immortal Mansion. There, he introduced them to Su Ziling and gave Bai Susu a key to the mansion as she settled in.

• Bai Susu explained that the Ancient Covenant united humans and demons against the void Heavenly Demons, then swore an everlasting bond of goodwill with Wang Chen.
• Wang Chen accepted the covenant’s binding force, and Bai Susu told him she trusted him without asking him to swear in return.
• Wang Chen stored Bai Susu and Yuan Yuan in the Grand Mystic Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram, returned to Nine Provinces City, and traveled by transmission array to Luodu.
• Wang Chen brought Bai Susu and Yuan Yuan to the Xuan You Immortal Mansion and introduced them to his Dao companion, Su Ziling.
• Wang Chen gave Bai Susu a key to the mansion, which she accepted before praising the place as a good cultivation site.

Wang Chen lent Bai Susu the White Colt Tower, and she took charge of restoring Yuan Yuan’s newly opened spirit treasures. He then took Xiangxiang toward Green Hill, where Hu Fei was startled by how much Wang Chen had changed.

• Bai Susu asked to borrow the White Colt Tower, and Wang Chen agreed, then gave her his stored Spirit Stones to help restore its spiritual energy.
• Yuan Yuan showed Wang Chen the Wind Fire Wheels and Hun Tian Ling she had opened from the Ancient Sealed Jade, and Bai Susu offered to repair them and help Yuan Yuan cultivate.
• Bai Susu teased Wang Chen about supporting their household, and Wang Chen agreed to find more Spirit Stones.
• Wang Chen handed control of the Xuan You Immortal Mansion to Bai Susu and took Xiangxiang toward Green Hill to keep his promise to her.
• After traveling for five days, Wang Chen reached Changsheng Immortal City and called for Hu Fei at the fox clan’s teleportation point.
• Hu Fei appeared and was shocked that he could no longer see through Wang Chen’s cultivation.

Wang Chen reached Green Hill as a Nascent Soul True Immortal and asked the Fox Queen to shelter Xiangxiang, who was accepted into the fox clan’s sacred land. The Fox Queen then let him reunite with Hu Jiaojiao, and Wang Chen promised to wait for her to reach the Demon King realm.

• Wang Chen revealed his Nascent Soul cultivation to Hu Fei and asked him to inform the Fox Queen about Xiangxiang.
• Hu Fei brought Wang Chen into Green Hill, where the Fox Queen agreed to let Xiangxiang stay.
• The Fox Queen allowed Wang Chen to meet Hu Jiaojiao, and Green Hill’s formation transported him to her cottage.
• Wang Chen and Hu Jiaojiao embraced, and she admitted she worried about the difference between their cultivation progress.
• Wang Chen promised to wait for Hu Jiaojiao to advance to the Demon King realm.

Xu Xinlan was forced by the Xu family into marrying the dissolute Golden Core True Person Wang, despite her loyalty to Wang Chen. As she was carried to the Wang Clan, the wedding sedan stopped amid a sudden commotion, leaving her facing an unknown change.

• Xu Xinlan refused her sister-in-law's demand that she marry True Person Wang and recalled how the Xu family had abandoned her when she needed help.
• Xu Xinlan packed her valuables to flee, but her Fifth Uncle arrived and immobilized her with his cultivation.
• The Xu family seized Xu Xinlan's home and shops, confined her, and sealed her Mana.
• Two days later, Xu Xinlan was dressed in a bridal gown and sent by sedan to the Wang Clan.
• The sedan stopped amid a commotion, and someone abruptly lifted its curtain.