Chapter Summaries

Li Chu killed the Wood Man King with a long-range strike from the Chunyang Sword, startling the Red-Browed Sword Saint and Baili Guxing with its immense power. Wang Longqi remained poisoned, and after learning he might be saved by Old Man Changchun, Li Chu offered to help find him in the northern lands, but Yu Qi'an warned Li Maoqing that it was time for him and Qin Zhenghu to feel homesick.

• The Chunyang Sword struck the Wood Man King and triggered a catastrophic avalanche across the polar region.
• The Red-Browed Sword Saint and Baili Guxing witnessed the sword light return and wondered whether its wielder was a Sword God.
• The Little Divine Doctor told Wang Longqi that Old Man Changchun might be able to cure his poison and offered Seven-Day Ice Spirit Powder to buy time.
• Li Chu offered to help Wang Longqi search for Old Man Changchun in the northern lands.
• Yu Qi'an told Li Maoqing that, with his cultivation recovering, he and Qin Zhenghu should feel homesick.

Li Chu retrieved the Immortal Phoenix Gall and returned to Virtuous Cloud Temple, where Wang Longqi prepared to travel north for a cure. Yu Qi'an revealed his past with Guo Longque and Human Realm Fire, leaving Li Chu wary that the journey might bring more than a search for Old Man Changchun.

• Li Maoqing and Qin Zhenghu were sent away from Virtuous Cloud Temple, and Li Maoqing left Li Chu a scroll of the Ten Thousand Sword Art.
• Yu Qi'an told Li Chu and the others that he had helped found Human Realm Fire with Guo Dang, who later became Guo Longque, the rebel leader of Broken Stele Mountain.
• Yu Qi'an advised Wang Longqi to seek help from Human Realm Fire if the search for Old Man Changchun ran into trouble, while the Little Divine Doctor prepared medicine to preserve Wang Longqi's life.
• Li Chu flew to the Wood Man King's former site, retrieved the Immortal Phoenix Gall, and returned to Virtuous Cloud Temple.
• Wang Longqi drank the Ice Spirit Powder and set out with the others to travel north.

Wang Longqi and his companions reached Medicine King Town to seek Old Man Changchun, but the town admitted only patients with severe and unusual ailments. Wang Longqi entered the contest to prove his misery, and his story stunned the crowd.

• Cold King Ji Bangying sent Ninth Madam Wenxiang to Medicine King Town after she complained that she had been poisoned.
• Du Lanke discovered that Medicine King Town admitted only ten difficult cases a day and returned to tell Li Chu and Wang Longqi they would have to compete for entry.
• Wang Longqi stepped forward to challenge the patients boasting of their illnesses and disabilities.
• Wang Longqi described the thirty-two poisons in his body and his seven-day lifespan, explaining that looking at a beauty could kill him.
• The crowd and Medicine King Town's disciples were shaken by Wang Longqi's account.

Wenxiang arrived in Medicine King Town to investigate Old Man Changchun and await a contact, while Li Chu secured entry for his group after defeating Zhen Guanxi. Wenxiang recognized the contact among the newcomers, but Wang Longqi became captivated when she struck him with a window rod.

• Wenxiang had Lang Yuguan examine her, but he found no poison, and she decided to wait for Old Man Changchun while watching for her contact.
• Wenxiang told Fangfang that the Two Joys Bell had not yet signaled the contact and suspected Old Man Changchun was absent from Medicine King Town.
• Zhen Guanxi demanded the final entry spot, but Li Chu immobilized his followers and shattered Zhen Guanxi's bones when he blocked his punch.
• The Medicine King Town disciple allowed Li Chu, Wang Longqi, and Du Lanke to enter, and Wang Longqi picked up a bell dropped by the fleeing Yanzhao Sect men.
• Wenxiang sensed the contact's arrival and recognized Wang Longqi, then struck him on the head with a window rod; he looked up at her and cried, "My life is over!"

Li Chu learned that Old Man Changchun and Old Man Xuanhu had vanished after investigating a deadly poison and a mysterious pavilion in Dragon Absolute Ridge. Lang Yuguan revealed that the investigation centered on a strange case and the words “Undying Medicine,” while Wenxiang and Fangfang continued to hide their identities in Medicine King Town.

• Old Du knocked Wang Longqi unconscious after he saw Wenxiang, then carried him to the infirmary, where Lang Yuguan confirmed that Wang Longqi’s blood was dangerously poisonous.
• Li Chu showed Lang Yuguan Xuanhu Villa’s token and explained that he had come to find the missing physicians and seek a cure for Wang Longqi.
• Wenxiang and Fangfang decided to conceal their rebel identities and investigate what was happening in Medicine King Town.
• Lang Yuguan told Li Chu that his fellow physician Chen Xingjin had been summoned to Dragon Absolute Ridge to treat a pregnant woman who appeared elderly and suffered from Seven Absolute Heaven Fiend.
• After Chen Xingjin and his family died from the same poison, Old Man Changchun and Old Man Xuanhu went to Dragon Absolute Ridge and disappeared; Lang Yuguan said their notes mentioned “Undying Medicine.”

Li Chu learned that the strange old woman was a young woman parasitized by a Luchong, then set out for Dragon Absolute Ridge to find the physicians who could help Wang Longqi. He reached Dragon Tooth Town, where deadly miasma and widespread mourning had emptied the streets, and learned that the physicians had gone into the mountains.

• Lang Yuguan diagnosed the old woman as parasitized by a Luchong, and she said she came from Dragon Tooth Town below Dragon Absolute Ridge.
• Wang Longqi woke up, but Old Du knocked him unconscious again after Wenxiang tried to catch his attention.
• Li Chu decided to find Old Man Changchun and Old Man Xuanhu, then immobilized Zhen Guanxi and the Yanzhao Sect disciples who confronted him before leaving for Dragon Tooth Town.
• Li Chu found Dragon Tooth Town deserted amid mourning streamers and rising miasma, and a local woman told him the two physicians had entered Dragon Absolute Ridge.
• The woman said Wang Er had guided the physicians and was likely at Widow Liu's house, adding that Widow Liu was his wife.

Li Chu learned that the two old miracle doctors had entered Yellow Immortal Tomb and found evidence of powerful demonic qi inside, while Wenxiang and Fangfang tried to get Wang Longqi alone in Medicine King Town. The chapter ended with a mysterious black figure knocking Wang Longqi unconscious and vanishing.

• A woman in Dragon Tooth Town told Li Chu that Wang Er was Widow Liu's husband and a ghost who visited people at night.
• Li Chu froze Wang Er and made him reveal that Old Man Changchun and Old Man Xuanhu had entered Yellow Immortal Tomb, where they had transformed into weasels; Wang Er had fled after seeing them.
• Li Chu used the Mind's Eye Art to detect dense demonic qi in Yellow Immortal Tomb, then sent the Chunyang Sword into its caves.
• In Medicine King Town, Wenxiang sent Fangfang to lure Du Lanke away from the medical hut so she could approach Wang Longqi.
• Wenxiang urged Wang Longqi to give her something quickly, but a black figure appeared, struck him unconscious, and vanished.

Li Chu questioned the weasels in Yellow Immortal Tomb and learned that Old Man Changchun and Old Man Xuanhu had gone to Wild Chicken Forest to seek the ancestor’s Treasure Pouch. He traveled there with the big yellow weasel while, in Medicine King Town, Wenxiang began considering ruthless measures and Wang Longqi insisted she had fallen in love with him.

• Li Chu found a group of weasels surrendering in Yellow Immortal Tomb and asked their leader about the two missing divine physicians.
• The big yellow weasel explained that the physicians had learned the ancestor’s Treasure Pouch was with the Wild Chicken Clan and had gone to Wild Chicken Forest.
• Li Chu made the big yellow weasel guide him to Wild Chicken Forest, and they reached the clan’s cave during the night.
• Wenxiang complained that the Old Daoist Priest kept thwarting her plans and said she would resort to ruthless means.
• Wang Longqi and Du Lanke discussed Wenxiang’s repeated visits, and Wang Longqi claimed she had fallen in love with him.

Li Chu disguised himself as a demon to reach Black-Spotted Tiger’s birthday banquet and ask about two missing physicians. When Yellow-Spotted Tiger recognized Li Chu from a portrait and tried to seize him, Li Chu froze the tiger brothers and the demons fled, leaving him to question Black-Spotted Tiger.

• The Mountain Chicken Demon revealed that the two physicians had been sent to Black-Spotted Tiger after asking about Yellow Immortal’s Treasure Pouch.
• Li Chu persuaded the Mountain Chicken Demon to guide him to Tiger Head Peak and help disguise him as a newly transformed mountain pig demon named Hao Nan.
• Li Chu entered Black-Spotted Tiger’s birthday banquet, where he learned that the tiger’s elder brother Yellow-Spotted Tiger had arrived from Golden Province.
• Yellow-Spotted Tiger recognized Li Chu from a portrait and ordered the demons to seize him.
• Li Chu froze Yellow-Spotted Tiger and Black-Spotted Tiger, and the other demons fled the cave.
• Li Chu released Black-Spotted Tiger’s acupoints to question him, and Black-Spotted Tiger told him to call him Little Tiger.

Li Chu learned that the two missing divine physicians were being held at Three Kings Ridge in Golden Province and followed Yellow-Spotted Tiger there to rescue them. He reached their prison, but the three Demon Kings had anticipated his arrival and surrounded him.

• Black-Spotted Tiger revealed that Yellow-Spotted Tiger had released the miasma in Dragon Absolute Ridge on a mysterious man's orders and taken the two divine physicians to Three Kings Ridge.
• Yellow-Spotted Tiger explained that the mysterious man had helped rescue Three Kings Ridge's chief leader and had ordered the miasma released from the refined Treasure Pouch.
• Li Chu confirmed the physicians were at Three Kings Ridge and made Yellow-Spotted Tiger guide him there, secretly using a Follow-Along Talisman to track the tiger's movements.
• Yellow-Spotted Tiger entered the prison and left the bell containing the talisman near Old Man Changchun and Old Man Xuanhu.
• Li Chu broke through the mountain into the prison and began to free the two physicians, but the three Demon Kings and their demons surrounded him.

Li Chu rescued two divine physicians from the Demon Kings at Three Kings Ridge and learned that King Wan Shi of Yu Du Palace was behind the plot involving Dragon Absolute Ridge’s miasma. Elsewhere, Fangfang lured Old Du into a sealed pit, while Wenxiang visited Wang Longqi and Old Du unexpectedly knocked him unconscious again.

• Li Chu confronted Lion-Camel King, who recognized him, dismissed Yellow-Spotted Tiger, and tried to let him leave with the physicians; when Li Chu asked how he escaped the Iron Prison, Lion-Camel King claimed he had served his sentence.
• Fangfang led Old Du away from Medicine King Town under the pretense of gathering herbs, then fell into a pit and was trapped inside with him when iron barriers sealed it shut.
• Wenxiang visited Wang Longqi, who misunderstood her offer to help, but Old Du returned and knocked Wang Longqi unconscious with a knife-hand chop.
• Li Chu made Lion-Camel King, Treasure Elephant King, and Mystic Eagle King face the wall and explain the Iron Prison escape and the miasma at Dragon Absolute Ridge.
• Lion-Camel King identified King Wan Shi of Yu Du Palace as the one behind the events.

Mystic Eagle King recounted how Yu Du Palace had rescued Lion-Camel King and recruited Three Kings Ridge into an alliance. After Old Man Changchun and Old Man Xuanhu linked Yu Du Palace to the ancient Yu Dynasty’s experiments on the Undying Medicine, Li Chu forced the three Demon Kings to become undercover agents, leaving them with the codenames Liu, Guan, and Zhang.

• Mystic Eagle King explained that a Yu Du Palace envoy had rescued Lion-Camel King and arranged an alliance with Three Kings Ridge.
• Old Man Changchun and Old Man Xuanhu told Li Chu that Dragon Absolute Ridge’s miasma and the demons’ pill formulas resembled methods connected to the Yu Dynasty’s Undying Medicine.
• Old Man Changchun suggested that the three Demon Kings keep their alliance with Yu Du Palace and investigate King Wan Shi, and Li Chu agreed.
• Lion-Camel King, Treasure Elephant King, and Mystic Eagle King accepted Old Man Changchun’s poison pills and wore Li Chu’s tracking bells rather than face Li Chu’s sword.
• Li Chu assigned the three Demon Kings the codenames Liu, Guan, and Zhang.

Li Chu learned that Wang Longqi could only be saved with an Ice Gall Holy Heart Lotus from the Cold Moon Sect, so he went to seek one at Hanging Moon Mountain. The sect rejected powerful petitioners and flung Xuan Mingjing away when he tried to force his way in, leaving Li Chu waiting outside its guarded mountain gate.

• Wang Longqi learned that the Life-Shaping Pill could restore his poisoned body, but it required the Cold Moon Sect's Ice Gall Holy Heart Lotus, and Li Chu offered to seek it for him.
• Old Man Changchun and Old Man Xuanhu warned Li Chu that the Cold Moon Sect was guarded and rarely gave outsiders access to Little Jade Pool.
• Li Chu arrived at Hanging Moon Mountain and waited among Cultivators seeking medicine as the Cold Moon Sect's disciples opened the mountain gate.
• The Cold Moon Sect refused the Four Waters Gang deputy leader's offer of gold and jade discs for Jade Sword Flower leaves.
• The Cold Moon Sect refused Xuan Mingjing's offer to subordinate the Tianqi Sect for a hundred years in exchange for an Amber Moon Immortal Flower.
• Xuan Mingjing attacked the mountain gate, and a Cold Moon Sect elder hurled him into the sky and warned him not to return.

The Three Kings learned that Crown Prince Shen of Yuanfei Mountain had put a bounty on Li Chu because a woman who rejected him showed him Li Chu’s portrait. They resolved to report the discovery to Li Chu, while Li Chu waited nervously to seek medicine from the Cold Moon Sect.

• The Mystic Eagle King told the Lion-Camel King and Treasure Elephant King that Crown Prince Shen had spread Li Chu’s portrait and bounty across Golden Province.
• The Mystic Eagle King explained that Crown Prince Shen blamed Li Chu after the woman who broke off their engagement showed him Li Chu’s portrait as the kind of person she liked.
• The Lion-Camel King urged his brothers to treat Li Chu as a powerful patron who could help them advance, and the three brothers agreed to win his favor.
• The three Demon Kings decided to tell Li Chu what they had learned about Yuanfei Mountain rather than take sides in the conflict.
• Li Chu sneezed while waiting for his turn to seek medicine from the Cold Moon Sect, having watched many people fail to obtain it.

Li Chu sought an Ice Gall Holy Heart Lotus from the Cold Moon Sect to save his poisoned friend, but the sect refused other desperate medicine-seekers, including Tong Yulin. The disciples unexpectedly invited Li Chu inside, leaving him wondering why he had been granted an audience.

• A man from Hedong Six-Mile Village begged the Cold Moon Sect for an Ice Gall Heart Lotus to save his family, but the disciples refused him.
• Tong Yulin revealed that Tong Zhiyang was his father and asked for a Moonlight White Immortal Fruit for the woman he loved, but the disciples sent him away.
• Li Chu introduced himself and offered to negotiate compensation for an Ice Gall Holy Heart Lotus, and a disciple immediately invited him to meet the Elder in charge of Little Jade Pool.
• A tied-haired disciple took Li Chu into the Cold Moon Sect on a white crane and admitted that his looks had been part of the reason he was allowed in.

Li Chu visited Little Jade Pool to seek the Ice Gall Holy Heart Lotus, and Elder Suxin offered it in exchange for his help investigating a secret realm on the northern ice plains. The realm admitted only men, and after Li Chu arrived to join the expedition, Qingshui Jian challenged him; Li Chu’s display of the Ten Thousand Sword Art left Qingshui Jian abruptly claiming they were friends.

• The woman with bound hair brought Li Chu to Qianyu Peak, where Green Vine introduced him to Elder Suxin.
• Elder Suxin agreed to give Li Chu the Ice Gall Holy Heart Lotus if he helped the Cold Moon Sect investigate a secret realm revealed on the northern ice plains.
• Elder Suxin explained that the secret realm might be connected to Little Jade Pool, whose dwindling immortal water made the discovery crucial to the Cold Moon Sect.
• Green Vine told Li Chu that he and Qingshui Jian would represent the sect in the realm, which admitted only men, and warned him that Qingshui Jian was competitive.
• Qingshui Jian mocked Li Chu and displayed his Ten Thousand Sword Art, so Li Chu answered with a display that darkened the sky and turned the earth red.
• Qingshui Jian stared at Li Chu’s sword display, then laughed and called him “Bro.”

Li Chu overwhelmed Qingshui Jian with his Ten Thousand Sword Art, then met Qing Jianling and Cang Yunzi before joining them on the Cold Moon Sect’s expedition into the Secret Realm. The group entered the Northern Ice Plains realm and encountered a strange snowman riding a towering monster.

• Li Chu displayed a vast crimson Sword Domain, shocking Qingshui Jian and Green Vine.
• Qingshui Jian explained his rivalry with his sister Qing Jianling, and Li Chu urged him to fight politely alongside his companions.
• Qing Jianling introduced Cang Yunzi of Cloud Wandering Temple as another ally for the Secret Realm expedition.
• The Cold Moon Sect party traveled to the Northern Ice Plains and entered the mountain-wall passage after three Great Snow Mountain disciples.
• Inside the realm, Li Chu, Qingshui Jian, and Cang Yunzi faced fierce icy winds and spotted a towering creature carrying a round snowman that cried, “Snowman knows what to do!”

Li Chu, Cang Yunzi, and Qingshui Jian traveled through the frozen realm with Nunu, a snowman who hoped they would help the snowmen defeat the Snow Monsters. After Li Chu destroyed a giant Snow Ape despite the realm weakening their abilities, the group reached the snowmen’s enormous city, Naixue City.

• Nunu told Li Chu, Cang Yunzi, and Qingshui Jian about the realm’s snowmen, Snow Beasts, Snow Monsters, and the Holy Mountain’s fairyland.
• The Snow Beast detected a Snow Monster, and Li Chu spotted its hiding place as Nunu led the group around it.
• A giant Snow Ape chased them, and Qingshui Jian discovered that the strange wind prevented him from using his techniques normally.
• Nunu’s snowball attack barely affected the Snow Ape, so Li Chu struck it with a pillar of crimson sword qi and destroyed it.
• The group reached the snowmen’s vast ice city, and Nunu introduced it as Naixue City.

Li Chu agreed to undergo the Ice and Snow Ritual so he could enter Cloud Peak Fairyland and search for immortal water while helping the snowmen reclaim a spring from the Snow Monsters. The ritual succeeded, transforming him into a snowman so extraordinarily handsome that Nunu feared losing his title as the world’s handsomest snowman.

• Nunu brought Li Chu, Qingshui Jian, and Cang Yunzi to meet the snowman elder, who explained that outsiders could help the snowmen fight the Snow Monsters in exchange for searching the city and Holy Mountain.
• The snowman elder revealed that Cloud Peak Fairyland contained Yin and Yang Springs whose waters could produce immortal water, but the Snow Monsters had occupied the Yin Spring and could reach the summit by using a stolen Ice and Snow Ritual.
• Li Chu volunteered to undergo the ritual, agreeing to help reclaim the spring if it succeeded, and the group went to the altar above the Ice Cave guarded by the Ice Qilin.
• As the snowmen gathered and snow buried Li Chu on the altar, the snowman elder declared the ritual complete and the snow melted away to reveal Li Chu transformed into a snowman.
• The gathered snowmen marveled at Li Chu’s beauty, while Nunu lamented that he might no longer be the most handsome snowman in the world.

Li Chu and his companions transformed into Snowmen and climbed to Cloud Peak Fairyland to challenge the Snow Monster clan over the Yin-Yang Springs. The chapter ended with Li Chu effortlessly destroying a supposedly powerful statue, leaving Yue Lun convinced he faced a Great Demon King.

• A white dragon persuaded three Sword Sect disciples to help the Snow Monster clan seize the other Yin-Yang Spring and revealed that its subordinates had been sent to kill the rival cultivators.
• Li Chu, Qingshui Jian, and Cang Yunzi became Snowmen and discovered that their snowballs carried tremendous force; Li Chu's throw shattered a distant iceberg and briefly awakened the Ice Qilin, which quickly shut its eyes again.
• Li Chu and his companions climbed the Cloud Vine to Cloud Peak Fairyland, studied the map of the three routes between the springs, and agreed that Li Chu would take the middle route.
• Yue Lun and two Sword Sect disciples reached the opposite side, and Yue Lun met Li Chu in the middle lane and introduced himself.
• Yue Lun's snowball hit Li Chu without harming him, while Li Chu's snowball missed Yue Lun and destroyed the powerful statue behind him with a single strike.