Chapter Summaries

Zhou Yi searched for a private spirit land along the Luo River while slowly dispersing his cultivation, and he reunited with Yellow Ox after three years. Yellow Ox returned as a great demon who had claimed Moyun Cave and gathered fox spirits as maidservants.

• Zhou Yi accepted a demon-extermination mission, exchanged merit points for the Nine Revolutions Spirit Refining Art and supplies, and visited Bright Moon Gorge to return Jiang Kang's jade pendant to Shen Yun.
• Zhou Yi searched the Luo River for a spirit land and explained that he was letting his Dao Foundation collapse naturally so he could return to Qi Refinement without harming his Dantian.
• Zhou Yi recovered valuables and artifacts from the riverbed and marked a stone statue with his name and a contact number.
• After three years of searching more than half the Luo River, Zhou Yi heard Yellow Ox's bellow and flew to meet him.
• Yellow Ox told Zhou Yi that he had become a great demon, claimed a mountain as Moyun Cave, and made the mountain's fox spirits his maidservants.

After years of searching the Luo River without finding a spirit land, Zhou Yi captured a turtle demon who led him to a hidden cavern beneath the riverbed. He began turning the cavern into a fortified Cave Estate, leaving his new home protected by three powerful formations.

• Zhou Yi promised Yellow Ox that the demons of Moyun Cave would not eat humans, then spent years searching the Luo River for a spirit land before giving up and heading toward Great Qian.
• Yellow Ox found a Qi Refining turtle demon, and Zhou Yi bound it with blood and soul contracts, named it Prime Minister Turtle, and gave it spirit ginseng.
• Prime Minister Turtle led Zhou Yi to a concealed riverbed entrance to a spirit land he had once served in under the snake demon.
• Zhou Yi and Yellow Ox entered the cavern, where Zhou Yi found the snake demon's nest, a lifeless snake egg, and the remains of its victims.
• Zhou Yi cleared the cavern, planted spirit herbs, built stone chambers for cultivation and alchemy, and protected the Cave Estate with three formations.

Zhou Yi returned to the Dan Ding Sect under a new identity after rebuilding his cultivation from the mortal state to Foundation Establishment. He began teaching Thunder Methods at the Scripture Hall, where lecturing gave him new insight as his reputation spread.

• Zhou Yi dispersed his cultivation, used the Longevity Dao Fruit to recover from the strain, and began re-cultivating with the Green Wood Art in Immortal's Cave.
• Over thirty years, Zhou Yi reached Foundation Establishment, then went to the Dan Ding Sect to obtain the Blood Ignition Escape Technique and registered as Zhou Can.
• Zhou Yi chose a scripture-teaching duty instead of going to Repentance Cliff, then encountered Real Person Xuanyu at Hundred Flowers Valley.
• Zhou Yi lectured on Thunder Methods at Sun Reflection Peak, impressing the disciples and Real Person Discipline while gaining insight into the Essence of Thunder Methods.
• Half a month later, Zhou Yi continued teaching Thunder Methods to a crowd of more than one thousand disciples.

Zhou Yi learned that Xiao Tiezhun had gained a Nascent Soul Ancestor’s inheritance and a special bestowal, then asked Xuan Yu about core formation and her past failure. At the sect grand competition, he watched a duel and saw a refined young cultivator named Lin Yushu defeat Xuan Jing, though he doubted the victor was the Lin Yushu he remembered.

• Zhou Yi taught disciples the Thunder Method and heard Qin Yu explain that Xiao Tiezhun had advanced to the Pseudo-Core realm and might receive a special bestowal from the five Ancestors.
• Zhou Yi worried that Xiao Tiezhun’s inheritance could conceal a greater danger and returned to Hundred Flowers Valley.
• Xuan Yu explained that she had failed at the True Core stage because her vitality and blood were insufficient, and Zhou Yi thanked her for describing the process.
• Zhou Yi recorded duels at the sect grand competition while studying the cultivators’ escape techniques.
• Lin Yushu defeated Xuan Jing with two flood dragons summoned from his folding-fan Mystic Item, leaving Zhou Yi unsure whether he was the same Lin Yushu he remembered.

After a century of rebuilding his cultivation, Zhou Yi emerged with a high-grade Mystic Item and prepared to enter Dan Ding Sect again. Meanwhile, the He Family searched the Luo River for a spiritual land, and its cultivators set out to pursue a nearby water demon they believed could lead them to one.

• Zhou Yi left the sect grand competition, accepted the assignment to hunt the Black Skull Fiend, and spent decades reconstructing his cultivation through different arts.
• Zhou Yi broke through to Foundation Establishment for the fourth time, reflected on his century of training, and planned to obtain the True Dragon Nine Transformations after reentering Dan Ding Sect.
• Zhou Yi emerged from seclusion, found that the Rivers and Mountains Cauldron had reached high grade, and sent Prime Minister Turtle to catch fish for dinner.
• He Dong and the He Family cultivators searched the Luo River for a spiritual land, while criticizing Dan Ding Sect and worrying about their family's future.
• A He Family scout reported aquatic demon aura beneath the water, and He Zheng urged the group to pursue the water demon with the family's inherited talismans and Mystic Items.

Zhou Yi defended his spirit land from six He Family cultivators, then learned that the Heavenly Demon Sect had thrown Cloud Province into chaos. After recognizing He Zheng as a descendant of someone who had once helped him, Zhou Yi let the survivors stay under his protection while securing his own cultivation grounds.

• Prime Minister Turtle lured He Dong and five other cultivators into the spirit land, where Zhou Yi trapped them in the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation.
• Zhou Yi captured He Zheng and used Soul Bewildering Art to learn that the Heavenly Demon Sect was backing Rogue Cultivators against the Dan Ding Sect and had destroyed Clear Wind Mountain.
• Zhou Yi stopped the formation after learning He Zheng descended from True Person He Sheng, who had once guided him.
• He Zheng asked Zhou Yi to take in the surviving He Family members, and Zhou Yi allowed them to remain if they accepted his terms.
• Zhou Yi separated his secluded cultivation grounds from the area where the He Family would cultivate, and the survivors agreed to submit to him.

Zhou Yi sheltered the He Family cultivators, gathered news of the Heavenly Demon Sect’s growing havoc, and traveled to Great Marsh Market to pursue his own goals. At the Outer Affairs Hall, he began buying evil cultivators’ heads from returning disciples to earn merit, as reports revealed the mortal cost of the conflict.

• Zhou Yi allowed He Dong and the He Family cultivators to stay in Immortal's Cave in exchange for intelligence and daily work refining the Rivers and Mountains Cauldron.
• He Dong reported that demonic cultivators were targeting mortals, the Qing Kingdom Royal Family had recruited a Daoist to seek women for an elixir, and Great Marsh Market was offering merit for killing demons.
• He Dong asked permission to defend the Dao and eliminate demons to earn merit, and Zhou Yi let him go.
• Zhou Yi entrusted the restriction formation disk to Prime Minister Turtle, then flew to Great Marsh Market and visited Yan Yunying’s grave at Hundred Flowers Valley.
• At the Outer Affairs Hall, Zhou Yi bought Song Chu and his companions’ evil cultivator head for two thousand Spirit Stones and gained forty merit points.
• Zhou Yi continued buying heads from returning disciples and heard that evil cultivators were using mortals as hostages to ambush righteous-path cultivators.

Zhou Yi acquired two unusual spirit beasts and later accepted a ten-year assignment guarding Great Marsh Market in exchange for a true transmission secret art. As Dan Ding Sect’s war with the demonic cultivators intensified, he chose a post that would let him avoid direct combat while gaining access to the Minor Heaven Severing Art.

• Zhou Yi exchanged merit points for two Beast Tokens, used pills to learn about a golden-feathered Azure Cloud Hawk and a mutated Iron Tail Tiger, and took both beasts home.
• Zhou Yi learned that Xuanxiao had killed True Yang Demon Lord’s sole Golden Core heir, prompting the Demon Lord’s pursuit and the ensuing heavenly demon invasion.
• Zhou Yi decided to stay at Dan Ding Sect for ten years, hoping to cultivate the Minor Heaven Severing Art while avoiding demon-slaying duties.
• As Dan Ding Sect disciples increasingly joined the fighting, Zhou Yi left a Thunder Method manual for his students and returned to Hundred Flowers Valley to pack.
• Zhou Yi accepted an external duty guarding Great Marsh Market for ten years in exchange for a true transmission secret art, including the Minor Heaven Severing Art.

Zhou Yi returned to Immortal's Cave, instructed Prime Minister Turtle to care for two demon beasts, and asked He Dong to monitor the growing unrest. Near Great Marsh Market, he saved Liu Ling'er from a demonic cultivator, discovered her family ties to his past, and returned her ancestors' Spirit Stones as the Qing Kingdom fell into chaos.

• Zhou Yi told Prime Minister Turtle to draw essence blood from the eagle and tiger demon beasts daily and restore them with spirit ginseng.
• Zhou Yi visited He Dong, promised him a Foundation Establishment Pill in twenty years, and ordered him to report news from the market and mortal realm.
• Zhou Yi struck down the Old Daoist who was pursuing Liu Ling'er and killed him after searching his soul.
• Zhou Yi learned that Liu Ling'er inherited the Divine Bull Transformation from a family originally from Ling Province of Great Yong.
• Zhou Yi returned the Liu Family's ancestral Spirit Stones to Liu Ling'er and learned that rebel kings had plunged much of the Qing Kingdom into chaos.

Zhou Yi entered Great Marsh Market, met its Foundation Establishment leaders, and investigated the strained trade and hidden Demonic Dao threat. After nearly half a year of cultivation and study, he recognized that formations, talismans, pills, and artifacts all relied on restriction patterns.

• Zhou Yi presented his identity token to Xuan Zhou and Huang Xu, then attended a banquet with the market’s Foundation Establishment True Persons and swore an unusual oath to defend the market.
• Xuan Zhou assigned Zhou Yi Cave Estate Number Nine, and Zhou Yi surveyed the market’s rising prices and bought a large collection of cultivation inheritances and supplies.
• Several cultivators followed Zhou Yi after his purchases, and he lured them away from the market and used soul-searching to discover that three of his eight pursuers were Heavenly Devil Palace spies.
• Nearly half a year passed as Zhou Yi cultivated and studied the four cultivation arts while the market’s Rogue Cultivators divided between serving demonic arts and hunting demons for rewards.
• Zhou Yi realized that formations, talismans, pills, and artifacts all depended on restriction patterns, and he used his study of formations to deepen his understanding of the other arts.

Zhou Yi was drawn into a trap while accompanying Xuan Zhou and other cultivators toward the capital to stop a supposed demonic threat. Black Skull revealed himself as the mastermind and sealed them inside a formation, leaving Zhou Yi and the others facing a powerful Ghost King Sect fiend.

• Zhou Yi fled Hua Yue at Phoenix Cry Pavilion, while she joined six Foundation Establishment cultivators in plotting against him and Xuan Zhou.
• Xuan Zhou told the Foundation Establishment cultivators that Heavenly Devil Palace fiends planned to blood-sacrifice the capital, then offered a true inheritance quota as a reward for intervening.
• Zhou Yi and the others set out for the capital, and Zhou Yi fell behind so he could escape before they reached the danger.
• Seven black banners appeared and sealed the cultivators inside a formation, while Zhou Yi used his blood-shadow technique to evade the first attack and regroup beside Xuan Zhou.
• Black Skull of Ghost King Sect appeared, identified himself as a Pseudo-Core fiend, and accused Xuan Zhou of trying to lure him into a siege.

Zhou Yi escaped Black Skull’s formation and killed him with the Soul Stabilizing Mirror and Qianyang Separating Fire Pearls. He returned to Dan Ding Sect, received a reward, chose the Minor Heaven Severing Art, and exchanged for Foundation Establishment Realm Thunder Methods.

• Xuan Zhou killed Hua Yue, while Black Skull trapped Xuan Zhou and Zhou Yi in the Profound Yin Soul Gathering Formation.
• Zhou Yi identified the formation’s weak point and escaped, but Black Skull pursued him by tracking ghostly qi in his Dantian.
• Zhou Yi lured Black Skull close with Foundation Establishment Pills, then used the Soul Stabilizing Mirror and Qianyang Separating Fire Pearls to kill him.
• Zhou Yi returned to Dan Ding Sect and learned that Xuan Zhou had died, Black Skull had been reported dead, and the Ghost King Sect had occupied Great Marsh Market.
• Wu Shuo told Zhou Yi he had received 330,000 bounty merit and could choose a true transmission secret art; Zhou Yi selected the Minor Heaven Severing Art.
• Zhou Yi exchanged for every Foundation Establishment Realm Thunder Method in the catalogue.

Zhou Yi used the Minor Heaven Severing Art and divined a deadly calamity within a hundred days, prompting him to leave the Dan Ding Sect. After the danger passed, he returned to Luo River and found the He Family hiding in its spirit land amid the conflict between the Ghost King Sect and Dan Ding Sect.

• Zhou Yi finished removing the tracking mark, tested his improved control over Thunder Methods, and studied the Minor Heaven Severing Art.
• Zhou Yi sacrificed lifespan to divine the next day, ten days, and a hundred days, receiving a sign of a bloody calamity in the hundred-day reading.
• Zhou Yi suspected danger within the Dan Ding Sect and left on a demon-extermination assignment rather than wait for the calamity.
• Danyangzi decided to take Sun Xing as a disciple, but learned that Sun Xing had left the sect and waited in vain for his return.
• Zhou Yi later divined that the danger had passed, returned to Luo River, and observed the He Family hiding as the Ghost King Sect and Dan Ding Sect fought over Qing Kingdom.

Zhou Yi secluded himself to disperse and rebuild his cultivation while the He Family waited for him to die and sought to expand its use of Luo River Blessed Land. The chapter left the He Family planning to endure until the blessed land became theirs after Zhou Yi's death.

• Zhou Yi warned Golden Eagle and Black Tiger to keep supplying essence blood, then entered a deep stone chamber to cultivate Eagle Transformation and prepare for another Foundation Establishment.
• Zhou Yi spent twenty years in seclusion until his Dao Foundation dissipated, then returned to the blessed land to cultivate the Earth Element Art.
• He Zheng urged He Dong to stop waiting for Zhou Yi and request two more mu of Spirit Fields, but He Dong insisted they remain patient and respectful.
• Prime Minister Turtle refused He Zheng's request to rent more fields and demanded that the He Family first pay rent for the land it had already cultivated.
• The He Family cultivators complained about Prime Minister Turtle, but He Dong told them to wait, expecting the blessed land to become theirs after Zhou Yi died.

After waiting decades for Old Tang to die, the He Family lost He Dong and passed leadership to He Si. Zhou Yi rebuilt his cultivation, achieved Foundation Establishment through his own efforts, and was discovered when the He Family finally broke into his formation.

• He Dong urged the He Family to wait out Old Tang, then, ten years later, named He Si his successor before dying at the age of one hundred and thirty.
• After nineteen more years, Zhou Yi finished his fifth cultivation dispersal and began rebuilding his cultivation, deciding not to use Black Tiger for Tiger Transformation.
• Zhou Yi reached the peak of Qi Refinement, took a Foundation Establishment Pill to protect his Dantian, and achieved Foundation Establishment without relying on it.
• Zhou Yi converted his Mana to the Five Elements Scripture and found that his cultivation speed had more than doubled.
• He Zheng brought Elder Zhong to the formation, where Zhong broke the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation; Zhou Yi allowed the He Family to enter.

Zhou Yi discovered that Yun Province was descending into a sect war and decided to leave human territory until the Righteous-Demonic Sword Duel ended. In Hundred Springs City, his favorable divination led him to uncover and destroy several heretical cultivators before he flew onward.

• Zhou Yi used lightning to kill He Zheng's companions, spared He Zheng to search his memories, and learned that Golden Core battles and sect warfare were spreading across Yun Province.
• Zhou Yi killed Zhong Yi after taking his family's formation manual, then ordered Prime Minister Turtle to pack up and prepared to leave Yun Province.
• Zhou Yi traveled underground to Hundred Springs City, where he killed a gray-robed daoist who had been feeding townsfolk Heart-Eater gu disguised as pears.
• Zhou Yi searched the city with his divine sense and used lightning to kill several other heretical cultivators who were harming its residents.
• Zhou Yi abandoned his plans to celebrate, reflected on the disorder in the city, and flew away from Hundred Springs City.

Zhou Yi traveled through the Ten Thousand Mountains disguised as a winged demon and reached Moyun Peak, where the Yellow Ox had established a refuge for nearby villagers. After testing the village chief, Niu Yong, Zhou Yi entered Moyun Cave to see the Yellow Ox.

• Zhou Yi’s group encountered a strange fish marked as a Yan River Dragon King demon soldier, and Zhou Yi declined Ao Dian’s invitation to his birthday banquet.
• Zhou Yi left for Moyun Peak with the Golden Eagle after storing the turtle and tiger demons in his Beast Taming Pouch.
• At Moyun Peak, Zhou Yi tested the villagers’ resolve and learned that their chief was named Niu Yong and that they had taken the surname Niu in honor of the Ox God.
• Zhou Yi entered Moyun Cave and found that the Yellow Ox had expanded its tunnels into a network of caverns for cultivation and escape.

Zhou Yi reunited with the yellow ox at Moyun Ridge, learned that humans there had developed a promising martial path, and prepared to defend the mountain from an invading demon alliance. The demon kings entered Moyun Cave and were trapped in Zhou Yi’s formation.

• Zhou Yi took command of the demon soldiers at Moyun Ridge and heard the yellow ox describe the growing human village and its martial body-tempering methods.
• Zhou Yi praised the humans’ Beast Blood Baptism techniques and resolved to support the development of their martial path.
• A demon soldier warned Zhou Yi that Ao Dian and five other demon kings had arrived with over a thousand soldiers, so Zhou Yi sent the Golden Eagle to investigate and ordered the yellow ox to gather the troops.
• Ao Dian led the demon kings into Moyun Cave, intending to flatten it and drive the yellow ox away from the humans it sheltered.
• Zhou Yi’s eight golden pillars trapped the demon kings in a formation, and Ao Dian urged them to attack one point together to escape.

Zhou Yi defeated the six Demon Kings who attacked Moyun Cave, killing four and forcing Wild Chicken Spirit and Ao Dian to submit. After taking command of the cave and its demon soldiers, he prepared to cultivate in seclusion while ordering his followers to guard the surrounding mountains.

• Ao Dian and the other Demon Kings transformed and attacked Zhou Yi's formations, but the formations and divine fire badly wounded them.
• Tiger King destroyed his Demon Core to break through the formation, and Pig King charged out before Zhou Yi stopped him with the Rivers and Mountains Cauldron.
• Zhou Yi killed Black Wolf King and the leopard demon with his Thunder Method, while Wild Chicken Spirit and Ao Dian surrendered and accepted contracts.
• Zhou Yi incorporated the surviving demon soldiers into Moyun Cave and ordered Ao Dian to appease Jade Tooth Demon King's envoy with spirit ginseng.
• Ao Dian explained the Ten Thousand Mountains' demon hierarchy, and Zhou Yi ordered his followers to guard the surrounding mountains while he cultivated in seclusion.

Over the decades, Zhou Yi quietly cultivated while Jin Ang grew into a talented young martial artist under his guidance. A supremely auspicious divination led Zhou Yi to suspect that White Bone Cave and its Five Venom Spiders held an opportunity for him.

• Several months after Ao Dian bribed the Toad Spirit, Moyun Peak and the surrounding territory became Zhou Yi's domain, and Zhou Yi spent the next ten years cultivating.
• Jin Ang visited Zhou Yi on Moyun Peak, reported that he had begun bone forging, and received Bone Forging Pills and advice.
• Zhou Yi divined that Jin Ang had extraordinary potential, while resolving to offer him only limited protection.
• Prime Minister Turtle reported the mountain's recent developments and Ao Dian's invitation to the Dragon Lord of Azure Wave Lake's birthday banquet, which Zhou Yi declined.
• Twenty years later, Zhou Yi reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and drew a supremely auspicious Five Poisons oracle slip.
• Prime Minister Turtle identified White Bone Cave, a thousand li west, as the lair of a powerful nest of Five Venom Spiders, and Zhou Yi suspected it was linked to the oracle.