Recaps

Chen Shi and Xi Muran compared their versions of the Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection, and Chen Shi won by using the Rootless Method to grasp the technique’s deeper source. Xi Muran conceded but then killed the carriage attendants and warned Chen Shi to keep the secret if he wanted to survive in the immortal court.

• Xi Muran agreed to spar with Chen Shi using only their Heavenly Immortal cultivation, while Little Hongxiu feared the consequences if Xi Muran lost.
• Chen Shi used the Rootless Method to attune to the Primordial Star Domain as he prepared to face Xi Muran’s superior understanding of the Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection.
• Chen Shi and Xi Muran exchanged increasingly powerful stellar divine arts, and Chen Shi’s understanding of their underlying source let his attacks surpass Xi Muran’s.
• Xi Muran conceded defeat and acknowledged that Chen Shi’s version of the Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection was orthodox, though he warned that it might not be the true transmission.
• Xi Muran killed the maidservants and azure qilin on the carriage, then told Chen Shi that anyone who knew the technique had flaws had to die and urged him to forget the matter.

Chen Shi returned to the heavenly court and taught the Undying Immortal Method to wounded soldiers, drawing an enormous crowd of Heavenly Soldiers and Generals seeking the same instruction. Xi Muran learned that Chen Shi was winning the soldiers’ support and wondered whether Heavenly King Li would tolerate it.

• Chen Shi left the aftermath immortals to clean up Xi Muran’s battle site and returned to the heavenly court, where a divine general confronted him about his place on the Immortal Slaying List.
• Chen Shi saw wounded soldiers returning from the Niraya Great World and decided to teach them the Undying Immortal Method so their limbs could regenerate.
• Zhong Lin gathered wounded soldiers, while Black Pot, Bai Fangfang, Xiao Dulu, and others cleared nearby residences to make space for the growing crowd.
• Chen Shi spent six or seven days teaching the wounded soldiers the Undying Immortal Method, and they thanked him for offering them a chance to recover.
• Thousands of Heavenly Soldiers and Generals asked Chen Shi to teach them the method, and he began instructing them as Wu Guanyun reported the gathering to Xi Muran.
• Xi Muran praised Chen Shi’s ability to win the soldiers’ support but questioned whether Heavenly King Li would tolerate his influence.

Xi Muran learned that Chen Shi had won the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals’ loyalty by teaching them the Undying Immortal Method, while the celestial court protected him from his accusers. After the East King Duke reprimanded Chen Shi for his scandals and suspected rebellion, he secretly consulted Houtu Huangdiqi and reaffirmed that Chen Shi’s accusers had been sent to the Heavenly Prison.

• Xi Muran realized Chen Shi had told Heavenly King Li about the Niraya Great World and used the resulting wounded soldiers to win the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals’ loyalty with the Undying Immortal Method.
• Xi Muran learned that immortals who tried to seize Chen Shi at the Heavenly Soldier Camp were beaten by the soldiers, arrested, and sentenced to execution in the Heavenly Prison.
• Chen Shi worried that Chen Yindu and the others had not come to find him, then Jingshu summoned him to meet the angry East King Duke.
• The East King Duke accused Chen Shi of killing immortals, stealing treasures, and buying the Heavenly Soldiers’ loyalty, but he said he had defended Chen Shi before the Great Heavenly Venerate.
• The East King Duke met with Houtu Huangdiqi, who feigned surprise at Chen Shi’s alleged crimes, and he told her the accusations were false and the accusers had been imprisoned.

Chen Yindu failed once again to revive Created Being Xiao Wu, but the furnace’s former master, Hidden Dragon, appeared and took Chen Yindu and his companions to the Immortal Court to study the Dao of Creation. After receiving his grandfather’s letter, Chen Shi suspected Hidden Dragon had lured Chen Yindu there for a hidden reason.

• Du Yiran and Hu Xiaoliang saw Chen Shi’s face appear at the top of the Immortal Slaying List and learned he had been accused of stealing Dao realms and killing immortals.
• Chen Yindu tried to restore Created Being Xiao Wu with the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace, but the revival failed when he could repair only nine-tenths of the damaged Dao patterns.
• Hidden Dragon revealed that he had once owned the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace, offered to teach Chen Yindu the Dao of Creation, and took Chen Yindu, Du Yiran, Hu Xiaoliang, and Sha Qiutong toward the Immortal Court.
• Chen Yindu sent Chen Shi a letter through Hidden Dragon, explaining that he had become Hidden Dragon’s disciple and would go to the Immortal Court.
• After reading the letter, Chen Shi suspected Hidden Dragon wanted something from Chen Yindu and worried that his grandfather and companions might be in danger at the Immortal Court.

Yin Jiao went to the Heavenly Court to lodge a complaint over Chen Shi’s crimes on the Immortal Slaying List, while East King Duke discovered that Chen Shi had left with Jiang Guo for Golden Ao Island. As Chen Shi and Jiang Guo traveled through the star domain, Chen Shi planned to improve his swordsmanship, but a towering deity appeared and blocked their path.

• Yin Jiao answered his master’s summons, traveled to the Heavenly Court, and joined other deities in appealing against the people on the Immortal Slaying List.
• Great White Star Lord released the deities and told them the Great Heavenly Venerate would investigate their complaints.
• East King Duke learned Chen Shi had left the Heavenly Soldier Camp with Jiang Guo and found out Jiang Guo was a disciple of Golden Ao Island.
• Chen Shi and Jiang Guo traveled toward Golden Ao Island, and Jiang Guo warned Chen Shi that divided cultivation was holding back his progress in the Primordial Chaos Dao Scripture.
• Chen Shi considered mastering the ninth form of the Primordial Chaos Sword Scripture, but a three-headed, six-armed deity rose among the stars and severed their star path.

Chen Shi and Jiang Guo were confronted by Lord Yin Sui, who came to capture Chen Shi, but Yu Hua intervened and helped them escape aboard the stellar boat. Afterward, Yu Hua revealed that Chen Shi was his fellow disciple and returned the Heavenly Net Blood-Transforming Divine Blade, leaving Chen Shi with a new senior brother and a strange explanation of the Human Emperor Banner.

• Lord Yin Sui confronted Chen Shi and accused him of harming Taoyuan Cave Heaven, but Jiang Guo declared Chen Shi a fellow disciple of Golden Ao Island and stood by him.
• Yu Hua arrived, stopped Lord Yin Sui's attack, and revealed that Chen Shi and Jiang Guo were his junior brothers before warning them to flee.
• Yu Hua fought Lord Yin Sui while the black dog piloted the stellar boat through their battle, and Chen Shi, Jiang Guo, and the dog fought off the pursuing malevolent gods.
• Yu Hua wielded the Heavenly Net Blood-Transforming Divine Blade against Lord Yin Sui, while Jiang Guo cleaved through the blood-baleful formation and helped the boat escape.
• After returning to the boat injured, Yu Hua explained that Chen Shi's master had sent the blade to choose a disciple and gave it back to Chen Shi.
• Chen Shi asked about Yu Hua's black-smoke banner, and Yu Hua insisted it was the Human Emperor Banner and that black smoke marked the true path.

Chen Shi’s journey to Golden Ao Island passed through repeated attacks on his pursuers and the desolate, demon-haunted Western Penglai. After surviving a black storm of severed limbs with Jiang Guo and Pot, he finally reached the marshland mountains where Golden Ao Island lay.

• Lone Star Lord explained that Yin Sui had been sent to fight him, then left after saying he had called in helpers to protect Chen Shi.
• Moving stars pursued Chen Shi’s star-skiff, but a field of stars blocked them while the Plague Department detained Yang Sui and Yin Hong; the Thunder and Fire Departments also helped guard Chen Shi’s route.
• Jiang Guo brought Chen Shi and Pot to Western Penglai, where armed immortal cities watched over the desolate region and guarded against Golden Ao Island.
• Chen Shi and Jiang Guo took shelter in their dao domains during a black fur wind, as severed limbs battered the iron city and its immense seal-like patterns suppressed some of them.
• After crossing the storm-struck wasteland and a vast marsh, Chen Shi and Jiang Guo reached the mountains of Golden Ao Island.

Chen Shi arrived at Golden Ao Island, where Jing Mei guided him in the Primordial Chaos Dao Scripture as he prepared to qualify for the island’s greatest legacy. He demonstrated the previously unmastered ninth sword form, astonishing senior disciples and Jiao Jinhua.

• Jiang Guo brought Chen Shi to Golden Ao Island, where Chen Shi inspected the polluted immortal wells and spirit spring.
• Black Pot fought the hu dog at the mountain gate, beat it with an iron rod, and returned with the once-ferocious hound submissively following behind.
• Jing Mei explained that Chen Shi needed more sword qi to pass the trial for the Master’s legacy, then guided him in cultivating the Primordial Chaos Dao Scripture.
• Chen Shi demonstrated the first eight sword forms and the ninth form, Primordial Chaos Divided, leaving Jing Mei unable to offer guidance on his sword technique.
• Chen Shi practiced both scriptures and gradually increased the sword qi he could control.
• Qiao Gu and Jiao Jinhua arrived, saw Chen Shi perform the ninth form, and reacted in disbelief that he had mastered it.

Chen Shi entered Dao Comprehension Cliff to face the Primordial Chaos Sword Scripture carved into its walls. Though he matched each technique perfectly and advanced deeper, mysterious flaws in his defenses kept leaving him injured.

• Uncle-Master Jiao explained Golden Ao Island’s history and warned Chen Shi that the Three Pure Ones’ disciples might target him, but Chen Shi chose to stay and follow Master’s path.
• Uncle-Master Jiao brought Chen Shi to Dao Comprehension Cliff and explained that visitors had to counter the carved sword techniques with the Primordial Chaos Sword Scripture.
• Chen Shi entered the cliff with all one hundred and eight strands of Profound Yellow Sword Qi and countered the first move, but a piece of his sleeve was cut away.
• Chen Shi countered Wind Marquis Unevenness and Scattering Green Flames, yet unexplained cuts appeared on his clothing and the red bead fell from his crown.
• Chen Shi countered Azure Heaven is Dead, but a trace of blood appeared on the back of his neck as he continued searching for the flaw in his swordsmanship.

After Uncle-Master Jiao identified the lack of human feeling in Chen Shi’s swordsmanship, Chen Shi learned benevolence by witnessing the renewal of life in a village and then traveled through the mortal world to deepen his understanding. He eventually returned to Golden Ao Island and asked to challenge Dao Comprehension Cliff again.

• Uncle-Master Jiao took Chen Shi from Dao Comprehension Cliff to a village in western Penglai and explained that his swordsmanship lacked human Dao and benevolence.
• Uncle-Master Jiao set twelve bamboo pitch pipes in the earth and told Chen Shi to watch them while he experienced the village’s changing seasons and daily life.
• On the vernal equinox, Chen Shi heard the bamboo pipes sound as the earth awakened, understood Earthly Qi's Greeting and the human Dao within it, and cleansed the village of Outer Dao.
• Chen Shi told the food-delivering child he would walk through the mundane world until he achieved perfection, then left the village; Uncle-Master Jiao and Jiang Guo later found that Chen Shi had transformed its Great Dao.
• Chen Shi traveled for years through the mortal world, observing nature, customs, and the rise and fall of nations, while Uncle-Master Jiao, Jiang Guo, Black Pot, and the others waited for him.
• Chen Shi returned to Golden Ao Island and told Uncle-Master Jiao that he wished to challenge Dao Comprehension Cliff again.

After years of traveling through the mortal world, Chen Shi returned to Golden Ao Island and advanced farther than any disciple had in the Dao Comprehension Cliff. He survived the ninth move, Primordial Chaos Divided, and declared that he had comprehended it, opening the possibility of reaching Master’s place of enlightenment and obtaining his true inheritance.

• Chen Shi described how observing the seasons and suffering in the Xiang Kingdom helped him understand the first eight moves of the Primordial Chaos Sword Scripture, though Primordial Chaos Divided still eluded him.
• Chen Shi entered the Dao Comprehension Cliff and passed the first eight sword moves, reaching Heaven's Net Shattered without being injured.
• Chen Shi stepped forward to face Primordial Chaos Divided, but its sword intent shattered his Profound Yellow Separated and began splitting his body apart.
• Uncle-Master Jiao, Qiao Gu, Jing Mei, Jiang Guo, and Black Pot joined forces to protect Chen Shi, and the move severely injured them all before Hu Dog carried them to Caiwei Palace and fed them immortal pills.
• As the group recovered, Chen Shi said he had comprehended Primordial Chaos Divided, and Uncle-Master Jiao explained that this could let him reach the Brush Washing Pool and obtain Master’s true inheritance.

Chen Shi recovered on Golden Ao Island, comprehended Primordial Chaos Divided, and transformed his Dao realm with Innate Qi. The chapter ended with him entering his master's Dao-comprehension ground and finding warm tea waiting beside the Brush Washing Pool.

• Chen Shi summoned Dragon Roaming Rogue Cultivator, Mu Daozi, Empress Shao, and Pei Rogue Cultivator to refine healing pills, which helped the injured Golden Ao Island disciples recover.
• Chen Shi connected Primordial Chaos Divided to the Primordial Chaos Dao Scripture and comprehended Innate Qi, transforming his Dao field and causing a cultivation holy land to form in the Western Ox Continent.
• Yang Bi and Li Tianqing decided to seek their own path beyond Chen Shi's Dao realm, but after achieving Dao Integration they could not sense or ascend to the Earthly Immortal Realm, so they resolved to build a ship and leave the Dark Sea.
• Chen Shi demonstrated Primordial Chaos Divided to the Golden Ao Island disciples and began teaching them its underlying principles through the Yin and Yang Qi.
• Chen Shi passed through the Dao Comprehension Cliff, defeated the ninth move with Primordial Chaos Divided, and entered his master's Dao-comprehension ground, where he drank warm tea.

Chen Shi comprehended his Master's Primordial Chaos Limitless Dao at Dao Comprehension Cliff, expanding his cultivation method while discovering it could not absorb the First Dao Rule. His stay restored Golden Ao Island's corrupted sacred grounds, and Jing Mei and the others set out to find him after realizing he had gone into dangerous Western Penglai.

• Chen Shi drank the tea at Dao Comprehension Cliff, studied his Master's painting of an island in the Dark Sea, and memorized its landscape.
• Chen Shi comprehended the Primordial Chaos Limitless Great Dao and integrated many cultivation methods into the Primordial Chaos Limitless Innate Skill, but failed to absorb the First Dao Rule.
• Chen Shi continued enriching the Innate Skill, then cleaned the tea set and departed without the others noticing he had visited the cliff.
• Jing Mei, Qiao Gu, Jiang Guo, and Uncle-Master Jiao discovered that Golden Ao Island's immortal herbs, wells, dao spring, Heavenly Origin Dao Tree, vicious dragon, blessed lands, and dao mine had recovered.
• Uncle-Master Jiao realized Chen Shi had likely restored Golden Ao Island and noticed he had also purged external dao pollution from a place in Western Penglai.
• Jing Mei learned Chen Shi had gone into Western Penglai and flew off to search for him.

Chen Shi traced Penglai West’s Great Dao pollution to a Five-Colored Stone embedded in a giant skull and took the stone for the Dao Ruins. When Kong Daoquan, a disciple of Yunxiao Cave, demanded it back and threatened Golden Ao Island, Chen Shi fought him and drove him into a bloody retreat.

• Chen Shi examined a vast beast skeleton and tossed its bones into the Dao Ruins for Black Pot to use.
• Chen Shi entered a polluted mine, found the Five-Colored Stone embedded in a giant skull, and took it back to the Dao Ruins.
• Kong Daoquan revealed that the mine and stone belonged to his family and demanded the stone, but Chen Shi refused, asserting Golden Ao Island’s claim to Penglai West.
• Kong Daoquan taunted Chen Shi about injuries suffered by Golden Ao Island disciples at the hands of the Jade Pure lineage, then attacked him with five-colored divine light.
• Chen Shi used the Five-Colored Stone and his sword techniques to wound Kong Daoquan, sever one of his legs, and force him to flee.

Chen Shi completed his transformation to Limitless Daoist magic, broke through to the True Immortal realm, and killed Kong Daoquan as the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade advanced into a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal treasure. After Kong Daoquan's sect learned of his death, its forces mobilized to hunt Chen Shi, while new Great Dao anomalies began appearing across the world.

• Chen Shi continued absorbing Kong Daoquan's vital qi while completing his transformation to Limitless Daoist magic, and Kong Daoquan's sect failed to purge the blade poison with pills or a copied Taiji Diagram.
• Kong Daoquan died when the blade poison overwhelmed him, and Daoist Kuang led Yunxiao Cave Heaven's disciples and martial elders to hunt down the Golden Ao Island assailant.
• Chen Shi broke through to the True Immortal realm as Kong Daoquan died, and the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade absorbed the remaining vital qi and became a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal treasure.
• Chen Shi subdued the blade's growing demonic nature and expanded his Dao realm until it swallowed Fulou Village, whose villagers became subjects within it.
• New Great Dao anomalies formed across the Western Ox Continent and the Underworld, while True Man Zhang identified the heavenly writing above New Xiang Imperial Capital as the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll.

True Man Zhang discovered that Chen Shi’s Heavenly Mechanism Scroll predicted disasters and the destruction of numerous Heavenly Dao treasures, while Chen Shi reached the True Immortal realm and was surrounded by the Three Pure Ones’ forces. As enemies moved against Golden Ao Island, Uncle-Master Jiao revealed overwhelming Primordial Unity Golden Immortal power.

• True Man Zhang explained the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll, then saw its prediction of an earthquake in Gongzhou come true and read predictions that at least twenty-seven Heavenly Dao treasures would be destroyed that night.
• Chen Shi pondered the nature of the thirty-three heavens Dao realm after reaching the True Immortal realm, then fought off an immortal formation and killed a Golden Immortal guarding Western Penglai.
• Chen Shi was trapped by immortal soldiers who blocked his connection to his Dao realm, while Gu Daoling accused him of killing Kong Daoquan and Senior Sister Jing Mei arrived to stand with him.
• Daoist Kuang and Yunxiao Cave Heaven threatened Golden Ao Island over Chen Shi, then noticed that the Jade Purity Dao Spring had been restored and ordered everyone on the island taken into custody.
• Uncle-Master Jiao released his immense aura, subdued the approaching Daoists, and revealed that he had reached the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm.

Crippled Jiao revealed overwhelming strength against Yunxiao Cave Heaven, but Western Penglai’s outer-Dao pollution caused him to collapse before he could finish Daoist Kuang. Chen Shi, Jing Mei, and Qiao Gu fought through the siege and escaped, though Chen Shi realized his two senior siblings were also succumbing to pollution.

• Crippled Jiao pretended to surrender Western Penglai and Golden Ao Island, then attacked Daoist Kuang and injured Yan Jinzhi and the other Yunxiao Cave Heaven daoists while Jiang Guo bound them.
• Crippled Jiao pursued Daoist Kuang through the Black Fur Wind and broke his limbs, but outer-Dao pollution made Crippled Jiao convulse and fall, allowing Daoist Kuang to flee.
• Jing Mei defended Chen Shi against Gu Daoling and the Yunxiao Cave Heaven formations, using her golden dou and Yin and Yang Qi to break through the attackers.
• Qiao Gu arrived and killed Gu Daoling, then led Chen Shi and Jing Mei through the formations and away from Yunxiao Cave Heaven’s pursuing disciples.
• Chen Shi realized that Qiao Gu and Jing Mei were convulsing because Western Penglai’s outer-Dao pollution had affected them, and he thought he could resolve it.

Chen Shi brought Qiao Gu, Jing Mei, and Crippled Jiao to Golden Ao Island, suppressing their external Dao backlash, then became an inner-chamber disciple and learned the Master’s principle of teaching without class distinction. As Golden Ao Island faced a growing siege, Chen Shi entered his Dao realm and summoned the people of Fulou Village to help him fight.

• Chen Shi carried Qiao Gu and Jing Mei toward Golden Ao Island, suppressing their external Dao backlash, and rescued Crippled Jiao from a mountain col along the way.
• At Golden Ao Island, Crippled Jiao activated the mountain-guarding grand array, and Chen Shi explained how he harmonized the external Dao within others to restrain its backlash.
• Jing Mei recovered with water from the Jade Purity Dao Spring, led Chen Shi to pay respects to the Master, and explained the Master’s principle of education without distinction of class.
• As the Three Pure lineages gathered outside Golden Ao Island, Jing Mei sent Chen Shi and Jiang Guo to hide in Dao Comprehension Cliff.
• Chen Shi entered his Dao realm, went to Fulou Village, and asked its villagers and a duck to come help him fight.

Chen Shi gathered powerful allies from Emperor Changchun and Yuanjun Niangpo before returning to Fulou Village, while Yunxiao Cave Heaven and its allies surrounded Golden Ao Island. The invading Primordial Unity Golden Immortals discovered that Chen Shi’s seemingly ordinary household staff were formidable cultivators.

• Fulou Village’s residents discussed whether to help Chen Shi or kill him, but Chen Shi left before they could act.
• Chen Shi visited Emperor Changchun, who sent You Yu and Tao Tang to assist him against Yunxiao Cave Heaven.
• Chen Shi sought Yuanjun Niangpo, and Ding Sisi agreed to fight on her behalf, with Yuanjun ready to intervene if needed.
• Chen Shi returned to Fulou Village with Ding Sisi, You Yu, and Tao Tang, and the residents put away their weapons and welcomed them.
• Yunxiao Cave Heaven gathered sixteen Primordial Unity Golden Immortals to besiege Golden Ao Island, including Yong Guike, who had once inflicted Qiao Gu’s lingering Dao wound.
• Fu Gucheng and the gathered immortals watched in shock as the duck, the mangy dog, and Fulou Village’s residents revealed powerful Three Flowers cultivation.

Fu Gucheng and eighteen Primordial Unity Golden Immortals attacked Golden Ao Island, convinced its supposed experts were a deception. Chen Shi’s villagers and animals revealed the true power of the green stele and defeated the attackers, leaving Fu Gucheng’s forces at their mercy.

• Yong Guike argued that Golden Ao Island’s many apparent Primordial Unity Golden Immortals had to be fakes, so Fu Gucheng and the other daoists broke the island’s mountain-protecting array.
• Crippled Jiao tried to meet the attackers but collapsed when the outer dao counterattacked, while Chen Shi told the villagers to fight using what they had learned from the green stele.
• Chen Shi sacrificed the mallard duck, which swept Yong Guike aside with its sword-feather divine ability, and Tang Feng attacked Fu Gucheng with Lingbao techniques.
• Qu Lihua, the villagers, the mangy dog, and the immortal youths defeated the other attackers, while Tang Feng beat Fu Gucheng and the youths seized the Yin Yang Mirror.
• With the besieging Primordial Unity Golden Immortals down, Chen Shi sacrificed the duck again as it prepared to swallow the immortal cities and the soldiers within them.

Great Immortal Chi Jing arrived at Golden Ao Island and confronted its defenders over control of Western Penglai, while Emperor Changchun argued that the restored holy land represented a victory for his Master’s lineage. Chi Jing discovered that Changchun’s Dao realm was corrupted by the Outer Dao and withdrew in alarm.

• Chen Shi watched a duck swell to immense size and nearly swallow the immortal cities, until Chi Jing’s blazing Dao realm anchored them with chains.
• Chi Jing subdued the Yin Yang Mirror’s attack on You Yu and Tao, then revealed himself as a Daluo Golden Immortal whose cultivation had surpassed his former Primordial Unity realm.
• Chi Jing recognized the Fulou Village group’s Lingbao lineage, noticed Chen Shi’s remarkable transmission and the revived Jade Purity Dao Spring, and praised Golden Ao Island’s restoration.
• Emperor Changchun appeared in Mingfei Pavilion, and he and Chi Jing disputed whether Yunxiao Cave Heaven was reclaiming its ancestral territory or intruding on a contest between Dao lineages.
• Chi Jing touched Changchun’s hand and saw dark Outer Dao energy erupt from the cracks in Changchun’s Zenith Heaven Dao realm, then retreated and declared that the Outer Dao had suppressed the immortal Dao.

Emperor Changchun helped Chen Shi force Great Immortal Chi Jing to withdraw from Golden Ao Island, and Chi Jing later learned of the destruction of the Heavenly Court’s Heavenly Dao magic treasures. Chen Shi thanked the villagers who had rescued him, then met Emperor Changchun, who revealed that Chi Jing had been injured by a powerful deity.

• Emperor Changchun and a hidden outer Dao-contaminated woman warned Great Immortal Chi Jing against seizing the Jade Purity Dao Spring, and Chi Jing agreed to release his captured disciples and withdraw.
• Chen Shi directed Shang Dugong and the others to free Fu Gucheng and his companions, after which Chi Jing took them away and the experts returned to the Dao Ruins.
• At Yunxiao Cave Heaven, Chi Jing speculated that Chen Shi could refine the outer Dao and questioned who had given him authority over the Dao Ruins.
• A Heavenly Court messenger reported that thirty-two Heavenly Dao magic treasures had been destroyed in a simultaneous raid, and Chi Jing claimed thirty-two Daluo Golden Immortals had carried it out.
• Chen Shi thanked the villagers, duck, and dog at Fulou Village, then visited Emperor Changchun, who said Chi Jing’s injuries bore the incense-fire aura of a powerful deity.

Chen Shi learned that Emperor Changchun and Yuanjun Niangpo had both been injured by living Outer Dao after approaching a mysterious cyan palace in the Dark Sea. He restored the balance between Emperor Changchun’s immortal Dao and the Outer Dao, then discovered Yuanjun Niangpo had suffered a similar fate and also had a map said to have been left by the Three Pure Ones.

• Chen Shi asked Emperor Changchun about his Dao injury, and Emperor Changchun explained that Outer Dao had infected him at a cyan palace in the Dark Sea and kept him safe from calamities.
• Emperor Changchun allowed Chen Shi to refine the Outer Dao in his body, and after more than ten days their Dao reached a balance and his hairpins fell from his head.
• Chen Shi visited Yuanjun Niangpo, who asked him to treat her injuries after he had helped Emperor Changchun.
• Yuanjun Niangpo told Chen Shi that she had encountered the same cyan palace, injured herself with her divine treasure to escape the Outer Dao, and obtained her Dark Sea map from a source said to be the Three Pure Ones.

After conditioning Yuanjun Niangpo and Emperor Changchun, Chen Shi found his Dao realms transformed and returned to Golden Ao Island, where he cleared the external Dao from his fellow disciples’ Dao realms. The chapter ended with Chen Shi learning that Senior Brother Yan Zhibei mined ore in the Heavenly Abyss and Senior Brother Bai Jingming was being studied in Redwood Valley.

• Chen Shi discovered new Dao manifestations in his Dao realm, including a Jade Palace, dragon-horses, and the Eastern Well, and found similar changes in his Well Demon Domain.
• Chen Tang and True Man Zhang visited the Path of Life and Death, where Chen Tang learned that his son had reached the second-layer Dao realm and discussed why newly forged immortals could not ascend.
• Back on Golden Ao Island, Chen Shi explained that powerful immortals were tenants in his Dao realm and offered to clear the external Dao from his fellow disciples’ Dao realms.
• Chen Shi cleared the external Dao from Jiang Guo’s Dao realm but sensed that it might gradually return, then noticed similarities between external Dao contamination and the corruption affecting Emperor Changchun’s Dao Laws.
• Over a month, Chen Shi cleared the external Dao from Golden Ao Island’s disciples, helping their injuries heal and allowing Qiao Gu, Senior Sister Jing Mei, and Hu Dog to improve their cultivation.
• Chen Shi began treating Yan Zhibei and Bai Jingming’s Dao realms, and Senior Sister Jing Mei explained that Yan Zhibei mined in the Heavenly Abyss while Bai Jingming was being studied in Redwood Valley.

Chen Shi learned that the thirty-three Heavenly Dao magic treasures had been destroyed and sought Houtu Huangdiqi and Emperor Changchun to understand the attacks. Back at the Heavenly Dao Residence, he encountered Feng Huixue, whom Houtu had identified as an accomplice, and demanded she pay him respect.

• Chen Shi left Golden Ao Island with Jade Purity spring water, while Bai Jingming returned after his Dao injuries and outer Dao pollution were cured.
• Black Pot told Chen Shi that attackers had destroyed all thirty-three Heavenly Dao magic treasures, including the Yu Heng Gate and Yao Guang Pool.
• Houtu Huangdiqi told Chen Shi that her Myriad Ages Treasure Mirror had been destroyed, thousands of immortal maidens had been killed or injured, and Feng Huixue had acted as an inside accomplice.
• Chen Shi reported the attacks to Emperor Changchun, who warned that a great calamity of gods and immortals was approaching and suggested Houtu might have prepared a replacement treasure.
• Wu Guanyun and soldiers from the Fire Character Camp celebrated the destruction of the treasures, and Feng Huixue arrived at the Heavenly Dao Residence.
• Chen Shi challenged Feng Huixue to pay her respects to him as the Immortal Emperor's disciple, and she bowed while restraining her anger.