Chapter Summaries

Yu Qi'an told the koi clan that a Qi Luck Golden Rainbow in Qiniu Daoist's secret realm could restore their damaged foundations, so Li Chu agreed to retrieve it with Little Yue'er. Meanwhile, Qin Shuangbai realized Yu Qing's storybook advice had kept her waiting for Li Chu in vain, just as Huo Zhuge arrived to visit.

• The old koi said the clan's fortune had been drained and its members' lifespans shortened, so Yu Qi'an suggested finding the Qi Luck Golden Rainbow in Qiniu Daoist's secret realm.
• Li Chu volunteered to search for the rainbow, and the Old Daoist Priest told him to bring Little Yue'er; the old koi and Little Yue'er hoped it would restore the clan and extend his life.
• Qin Shuangbai waited months for Li Chu to visit after Yu Qing advised her that he was playing hard to get.
• Yu Qing explained that her romantic advice came from storybooks, and Qin Shuangbai threw the book over the wall and threatened to make her marry Big Savage Ox if she kept reading them.
• A visitor knocked at Qin Shuangbai's home and introduced himself as Huo Zhuge, come to pay his respects.

Facing Heaven Pavilion tried to guard the entrance to Gourd Grotto-Heaven, but powerful newcomers repeatedly forced their way past its Black-Clad Guards. Li Chu and Little Yue'er entered after being waved through, where an aged voice explained that the hidden realm had two levels and access to the second required an Immortal Gourd Seed.

• Duan White Robe tested the fissure with a Three-Inch Golden Toad, then entered Gourd Grotto-Heaven with Zhan Liuming after learning it had multiple layers.
• Crying Mask Man and Smiling Mask Man overwhelmed the Black-Clad Guards with their cries and laughter and entered the fissure.
• Old Yellow Ox smashed through the guards' sword formation and charged into the hidden realm, followed by the Prince of Jiangnan and his party, who escaped inside under cover of illusionary fog.
• Daoist Sang forced the Black-Clad Guards to crawl with a single word, then Li Chu and Little Yue'er arrived and entered after the leader let them pass.
• An aged voice welcomed Li Chu to Gourd Grotto-Heaven and explained that its first level held ordinary treasures and seven Immortal Gourd Seeds, while the second level contained the Immortal Treasury.

Li Chu and Little Koi were separated upon entering the Gourd Grotto-Heaven and each found treasures hidden inside illusory animals. Li Chu encountered Huo Zhuge, while Little Koi stayed beneath a tree and continued collecting treasures as she waited for Li Chu.

• Li Chu searched for Little Koi, then found a small pony formed from Spiritual Qi and claimed the Jade Furnace it concealed.
• Li Chu found a tiny boar in the mountains and destroyed its illusory form at the same moment Huo Zhuge struck it with fire meteors, revealing a golden Talisman.
• Huo Zhuge recognized Li Chu and, afraid of provoking him, greeted him warmly; Li Chu was surprised by his friendly attitude.
• Little Koi decided to wait beneath a tree rather than risk getting lost while searching for Li Chu.
• A white rabbit and then a black rabbit crashed into the tree beside Little Koi, each revealing a treasure that she picked up.

Li Chu accepted a golden Talisman from Huo Zhuge, who pretended to help him search for the Qi Luck Golden Rainbow while plotting to kill him. After Li Chu destroyed a Black Qilin and survived Huo Zhuge’s Copper Demon Puppet attack, Huo Zhuge hid his injury and insisted on continuing the search.

• Huo Zhuge introduced himself as Zhuge Yan and let Li Chu take the Talisman left behind by a Void Spirit.
• Li Chu asked Huo Zhuge about the Qi Luck Golden Rainbow, and Huo Zhuge offered to lead him to where he had supposedly seen it.
• Huo Zhuge lured Li Chu into a cave containing a powerful Black Qilin and prepared to attack him with a Copper Demon Puppet.
• Li Chu killed the Black Qilin with one sword strike, and the Puppet’s hammer shattered against his shoulder before rebounding and injuring Huo Zhuge.
• Li Chu found that the Black Qilin had become a Mo Blade, while Huo Zhuge hid his injury and claimed he was kneeling out of shame.
• Huo Zhuge insisted on leading Li Chu onward to search for the Qi Luck Golden Rainbow.

Huo Zhuge repeatedly tried to kill Li Chu while leading him to supposed locations of the Qi Luck Golden Rainbow, but his own traps left him maimed and mute. After Li Chu defeated another Void Spirit, the chapter ended with Huo Zhuge despairing over the dangers of the martial world.

• Huo Zhuge sent a Heavenly Poison Instant Kill Scorpion at Li Chu, but the attack rebounded and forced Huo Zhuge to sever his own left arm and burn it away with the scorpion.
• Li Chu defeated the giant loach Void Spirit and found a black-jade paper scroll instead of the Qi Luck Golden Rainbow.
• Huo Zhuge persuaded Li Chu to let him guide him to another location, where Li Chu sensed a yellow bird in a towering ancient tree.
• Huo Zhuge tried to attack Li Chu with the Five Prisons Divine Fire Pill, but swallowed the divine flame when someone called Li Chu from behind.
• Li Chu killed the yellow bird, while Huo Zhuge spat out the flames and burned his throat, leaving him lame, one-armed, and mute.

The Envoy of Sorrow and Joy battled the minotaur guarding an Immortal Gourd Seed, then tricked him and fled with it. As the factions began meeting across the first layer, Little Yue'er remained beneath her tree, surrounded by treasures.

• The Envoy of Sorrow and Joy found an Immortal Gourd Seed and clashed with the minotaur, who defended Gourd Grotto-Heaven with the Dao-Guiding Profound Bell.
• The Smiling Mask Man and Crying Mask Man proposed a strength contest, and the minotaur agreed to wrestle Crying Mask Man in his true form.
• The Smiling Mask Man snatched the seed while the minotaur was holding his ground, and Crying Mask Man threw the contest before fleeing with his partner.
• The enraged minotaur chased after the two Strange Demon Sect members, protesting that they were bullying an honest ox.
• The factions began encountering one another on the first layer, while Little Yue'er stayed beneath a tree and watched more treasures pile up around her.

Li Chu reunited with Big Ox in the Gourd Grotto-Heaven while Huo Zhuge tried to recruit him against the little Daoist priest. The chapter left Big Ox turning against Huo Zhuge and reporting him to Li Chu.

• Big Ox arrived and greeted Li Chu, while Huo Zhuge tried to hide that he knew the burly man.
• Huo Zhuge pointed out the golden mirror, and Li Chu collected it with the other treasures.
• Huo Zhuge secretly told Big Ox that he wanted to kill Li Chu and urged him to help.
• Big Ox weighed his alliances and concluded that Huo Zhuge and he could not defeat Li Chu.
• Big Ox went to Li Chu and announced that he was reporting Huo Zhuge.

Huo Zhuge escaped after Big Ox warned Li Chu of his schemes, while the Bull-Headed Man was trapped by the Crying Mask Man and Smiling Mask Man. Zhan Liuming intervened, and Li Chu arrived in time to kill Smiling Mask Man; the surviving Crying Mask Man then met the Venerable One, who set out to find Li Chu and his burly companion.

• Big Ox told Li Chu that Huo Zhuge was a Demon Sect member plotting against him, prompting Huo Zhuge to flee with a fire-escape talisman.
• The Crying Mask Man and Smiling Mask Man lured the Bull-Headed Man into a sound-amplifying array and nearly crushed him.
• Zhan Liuming broke the array, rescued the Bull-Headed Man, and fought the two stone-bodied demons.
• Li Chu and Big Ox arrived, and Li Chu killed Smiling Mask Man with a strike from the Chunyang Sword.
• The Crying Mask Man escaped by throwing away his mask, then told the Venerable One that a young Daoist priest and a burly man had killed his companion.

Li Chu healed the ox-headed guardian and set out with him and Big Ox to find the Qi Luck Golden Rainbow near the Two Worlds Forest. Meanwhile, a powerful white-feathered young man attacked Huo Zhuge and Vajra Slave, leaving them fleeing for their lives.

• Li Chu healed the ox-headed guardian, who offered to guide him to the Qi Luck Golden Rainbow near the Two Worlds Forest.
• Big Ox joined Li Chu, while Zhan Liuming departed to search for the Immortal Gourd Seed.
• The ox-headed guardian explained that he opposed the Strange Demon Sect taking the master's treasures because they sought to provoke conflict between humans and demons.
• A white-feathered young man found Huo Zhuge and wounded Vajra Slave with a feather that wielded the power of law.
• The young man set Vajra Slave ablaze as Vajra Slave carried Huo Zhuge away, and Huo Zhuge wondered who their pursuer was.

Daoist Sang interrupted Venerable Xuange’s pursuit of Huo Zhuge and Vajra Slave, then fought him as their battle threatened to tear apart the secret realm. Meanwhile, Li Chu found Little Koi and discovered she had gathered a mountain of treasures, before the distant clash shook the sky.

• Daoist Sang took the Immortal Gourd Seed and noticed the distant fight as Venerable Xuange pursued Huo Zhuge and Vajra Slave.
• Venerable Xuange confronted Daoist Sang, but Daoist Sang agreed to let him continue chasing the two until Huo Zhuge invoked Grandmother Willow.
• Daoist Sang blocked Venerable Xuange, and the two exchanged attacks that crushed laws and cracked the secret realm.
• Li Chu found Little Koi in the forest, where she revealed a pile of treasures large enough to astonish him and the two oxen.
• The battle between the mighty beings darkened the sky and opened cracks across the heavens, and the Bull-Headed Man identified it as immortals fighting.

Zhan Liuming obtained an Immortal Gourd Seed as Daoist Sang and Venerable Xuange fought across the secret realm. Daoist Sang revealed that he had refined immortal qi and summoned an Azure Dragon with the Life-Blooming Brush, leaving Venerable Xuange crying out that he had gone straight for a killing blow.

• Zhan Liuming slew a Void Spirit and picked up the Immortal Gourd Seed as the sky began to crack above him.
• Venerable Xuange propped up the descending sky with two mountains and defended against Daoist Sang's Sky Gale, but Daoist Sang weakened him and attacked with a giant wooden hand.
• Venerable Xuange escaped the falling mountains and wooden hand by teleporting away in a purple beam.
• Huo Zhuge, Vajra Slave, the Prince of Jiangnan, Li Chu, and Big Ox watched the battle, while the Bull-Headed Man explained that the Immortal Gourd Seed was needed to reach the secret realm's second layer.
• Daoist Sang revealed a wisp of immortal qi that he had refined over a hundred years, then infused it into the Life-Blooming Brush and summoned an Azure Dragon.
• Venerable Xuange recognized the Azure Dragon as a living law of heaven and earth and cried out as Daoist Sang unleashed the potentially lethal attack.

Venerable Xuange survived Daoist Sang’s Azure Dragon strike, then pursued Li Chu to avenge his subordinate. Duan Zhang, commander of Facing Heaven Pavilion in Hangzhou Prefecture, intervened and forced Venerable Xuange to retreat.

• Zhan Liuming saw a death omen over Daoist Sang, while Li Chu admired the Azure Dragon that Daoist Sang summoned against Venerable Xuange.
• Venerable Xuange survived the Azure Dragon’s attack by scattering his feathers, then revealed that he had planted a decaying Law in Daoist Sang and left to seek a way to break it.
• Venerable Xuange threatened Huo Zhuge and Vajra Slave, but Crying Mask Man clarified that they had not killed Messenger Le, so Venerable Xuange searched the secret realm for the actual killer.
• Venerable Xuange found Li Chu and prepared to kill him for killing his subordinate, but a white-robed man intervened and declared that he would protect Li Chu.
• Venerable Xuange withdrew after learning the man was Duan Zhang, commander of Facing Heaven Pavilion in Hangzhou Prefecture.

Prince of Jiangnan entered the second layer of Gourd Grotto-Heaven, where the Immortal Gourd Seeds transformed entrants into gourd-bodied forms with new abilities. As others followed, Little Koi revealed she had a seed and gave it to Li Chu, who prepared to enter as the voice announced that all seven seeds had been gathered.

• Prince of Jiangnan used the red Immortal Gourd Seed to descend into the second layer and became a gourd-bodied doll.
• An ancient voice explained that entrants would gain different Dharma Bodies and abilities, and that a Snake Spirit and Scorpion Spirit held the keys to Treasure Mountain.
• Venerable Xuange entered with the cyan seed, while Duan Zhang and Zhan Liuming entered with green and yellow seeds.
• Vajra Slave revealed a purple seed, and Huo Zhuge persuaded him to hand it over so Huo Zhuge could descend instead.
• Little Koi discovered a golden Immortal Gourd Seed and gave it to Li Chu, who accepted it as the hope of the group.
• As six figures appeared in the cloudbank, the ancient voice announced that the seven Immortal Gourd Seeds had been gathered.

Li Chu entered the second layer of the mystic realm and gained the golden seed’s thousand-mile eyes and wind-following ears, but he discovered that his gaze could unleash black flames. After he killed a Giant Centipede with that power, the spectators wondered whether his strength exceeded even the seed’s previous master.

• Li Chu entered the second layer, transformed into Second Calabash Brother, and gained thousand-mile eyes and wind-following ears.
• The spectators discussed the seven seeds’ abilities, while Big Ox questioned whether Li Chu’s power was truly limited to clairvoyance.
• A Giant Centipede chased Li Chu up a slope, leaving him unable to draw his sword or use his usual abilities.
• Li Chu glared at the Giant Centipede, and black flames erupted from it and burned it to nothing.
• Bull-Headed Man suggested that Li Chu might be drawing out more power from the seed than his Master had, while Big Ox suspected the power was even greater.

Li Chu discovered that his Golden Seed abilities could unleash devastating eye techniques and locate the hidden Snake Spirit and Scorpion Spirit. As the Jiangnan Prince’s group clashed with Duan White Robe and Zhan Liuming, Li Chu blasted off Huo Zhuge’s remaining arm, and Huo Zhuge fled.

• Li Chu joined Duan White Robe and Zhan Liuming, who assumed his Golden Seed abilities were mainly useful for scouting.
• Prince of Jiangnan, Huo Zhuge, and Venerable Xuange gathered and planned to track down the Golden Seed’s owner so they could find the Snake Spirit and Scorpion Spirit.
• Snake Spirit revealed that Li Chu had killed a Void Spirit with a glance, while Li Chu used his enhanced senses to locate the two spirits.
• Prince of Jiangnan’s group confronted Duan White Robe and Zhan Liuming, and the six fighters began battling on the mountain peak.
• Huo Zhuge attacked Li Chu with his Purple Gold Gourd, but Li Chu’s glance erased Huo Zhuge’s right arm, forcing him to flee.

Li Chu defeated Huo Zhuge, drove off Prince of Jiangnan and Venerable Xuange, and tracked Snake Spirit and Scorpion Spirit to Gourd Island. He went alone to confront them and began unleashing his power against the island.

• Duan White Robe and Zhan Liuming joined Li Chu in driving Prince of Jiangnan, Venerable Xuange, and the wounded Huo Zhuge into retreat.
• Huo Zhuge persuaded Prince of Jiangnan and Venerable Xuange to follow Li Chu’s group and use their search for Snake Spirit and Scorpion Spirit to find the pair.
• Li Chu located Snake Spirit and Scorpion Spirit beneath Gourd Island and warned Duan White Robe and Zhan Liuming that the island held traps tailored to their abilities.
• Li Chu crossed to Gourd Island alone, intending to force Snake Spirit and Scorpion Spirit out rather than search for the underground palace entrance.
• Li Chu shifted his spiritual energy to his eyes, rose into the air, and unleashed heavenly light against Gourd Island.

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• The author explained that a reader had privately asked what other books he had written, prompting him to recount his writing history.
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• The author recalled that girls he pursued kept rejecting him with the words, “You're a good person.”
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Li Chu used a full-power glance to destroy Gourd Island and its underground palace, scattering Venerable Xuange, Prince of Jiangnan, and Huo Zhuge while exposing Snake Spirit and Scorpion Spirit. As the two spirits summoned five gigantic elemental beings to fight him, Li Chu calmly revealed that he had a giant of his own.

• Venerable Xuange, Prince of Jiangnan, and Huo Zhuge rode a bat toward Li Chu, believing they could attack him while he was alone.
• Li Chu unleashed a full-power glance that shattered the island and underground palace, flinging the three attackers far into the sky.
• Snake Spirit slapped Scorpion Spirit as the underground palace collapsed, and Duan White Robe and Zhan Liuming realized Li Chu had caused the destruction.
• Snake Spirit and Scorpion Spirit emerged from the rubble and prepared to fight Li Chu, who needed them to open the Immortal Treasury.
• Snake Spirit summoned the Five Elements Giants, and Scorpion Spirit challenged Li Chu to face them.
• Li Chu looked at the giants and said that he had one too.

Li Chu summoned a Spiritual Power Giant and destroyed the Five Elements Giants with overwhelming ease. Snake Spirit and Scorpion Spirit fled, but Li Chu located them with his clairvoyant sight and fired two flaming arrows.

• Li Chu formed a Spiritual Power Giant and shattered the Rock Giant with one punch.
• Li Chu charged the Seawater Giant and burst it apart with another punch.
• Snake Spirit ordered the remaining giants to stall Li Chu, then fled with Scorpion Spirit.
• Li Chu summoned a giant flaming sword and cut down the Bronze Giant, Flame Giant, and Root Wood Giant in one strike.
• Li Chu spotted Snake Spirit and Scorpion Spirit from afar, drew a giant war bow, and manifested two flaming arrows.
• Li Chu murmured, "Hit," as Snake Spirit and Scorpion Spirit stopped to find somewhere to hide.

Li Chu and his companions found the Immortal Treasury with the Tiger Tally and Ruyi, only to discover Daoist Sang had reached its deepest chamber first. After Li Chu froze Daoist Sang with his gaze, the Crystal Gourd grew to reveal a figure inside.

• Li Chu took the Tiger Tally and Ruyi after the Snake Spirit and Scorpion Spirit reverted to their original forms, and the Ruyi guided him, Duan White Robe, and Zhan Liuming west.
• The three entered a hidden valley where Li Chu used the Tiger Tally to halt twelve stone statues and open the passage onward.
• Li Chu found a Crystal Gourd in a cavern and saw Daoist Sang reveal himself while lifting it.
• Li Chu distracted Daoist Sang with a question and froze him with the White Light in his eyes, causing the Crystal Gourd to fall.
• The Crystal Gourd struck the floor, expanded to a person's height, and revealed a vague figure inside.