Chapter Summaries

After Qianlong killed the North Yin Great Emperor with a new kind of primeval talisman, the Heavenly Court’s leaders feared the Immortal Court would target the Underworld and Houtu. Chen Shi escaped with Cui Zhenzhen, helped Fan Xiao reconsider his pursuit of revenge, and Qianlong secretly tried to arrange Chen Shi’s death through Heavenly King Li, but Created Being Xiao Wu intercepted his messenger.

• Ziwei Great Emperor and the four divine emperors examined the North Yin Great Emperor’s wounds and realized that primeval talismans could let immortals comprehend the Dao without relying on gods.
• Ziwei Great Emperor ordered the gods to prepare for the Immortal Court’s assault on the Underworld and warned that Houtu could be its next target.
• Qianlong returned to Nanshan Courtyard with the North Yin Great Emperor’s head, and Chen Shi left with Cui Zhenzhen while realizing that Qianlong might have sent him toward Fan Xiao.
• Chen Shi defeated Fan Xiao in another sword clash, then explained how studying mortal life had helped him understand Primordial Chaos Divided and offered him a path to Golden Ao Island.
• Qianlong sent an immortal boy with a bright mirror to Heavenly King Li, hoping to have Chen Shi killed, but Created Being Xiao Wu swallowed the messenger and flew toward the Immortal Court.

Chen Shi warned Houtu Huangdiqi that Ancestor Hidden Dragon had killed the North Yin Great Emperor and sent her nine Profound Sky Primal Talismans to help her defend herself. He then repeatedly used curse rituals against Hidden Dragon, enduring lethal injuries that Cui Zhenzhen helped him survive, and left Hidden Dragon badly wounded while buying Houtu time.

• Chen Shi traveled with Cui Zhenzhen toward Western Penglai and explained that his rivalry with Fan Xiao was a struggle between their paths and the Immortal Court.
• Chen Shi contacted Empress Houtu, revealed that Ancestor Hidden Dragon had killed the North Yin Great Emperor, and sent Houtu Huangdiqi nine Profound Sky Primal Talismans and their divine dao explanations.
• Chen Shi performed a curse ritual against Hidden Dragon, who suffered an invisible attack, while Cui Zhenzhen pulled Chen Shi back onto the star-skiff after he was blasted unconscious.
• After recovering, Chen Shi performed a second ritual, and Hidden Dragon dismissed his first injuries as minor before successive attacks battered him and left him gravely wounded.
• Cui Zhenzhen rescued Chen Shi again as the curse backlash appeared to kill him, and Chen Shi recovered and concluded that he had bought Godmother time to comprehend the talismans.

Ancestor Hidden Dragon realized Chen Shi likely possessed the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll and warned the Immortal Emperor Supreme that eliminating Houtu Huangdiqi could devastate the Immortal Court. Chen Shi replaced his immortal-path Dao patterns with primal talismans, while Houtu Huangdiqi left the Heavenly Court and encountered Feng Huixue with Guangchengzi and Dingguang Buddha waiting for her.

• Ancestor Hidden Dragon suspected Chen Shi had used the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll to hide his identity and told the Immortal Emperor Supreme that the Heavenly Court might be working with Chen Shi to escape the Heavenly Dao treasures’ constraints.
• Ancestor Hidden Dragon urged the Immortal Court and its allies to eliminate Houtu Huangdiqi, then ordered Zuo Gongming to monitor Chen Yindu, Du Yiran, Sha Qiutong, and Hu Xiaoliang.
• Chen Shi replaced the Dao patterns in his body, Primordial Spirit, and Dao realms with primal talismans, suppressing conflicts among the Dao realms until the transformation was complete.
• Chen Shi worried that replacing Houtu Huangdiqi’s divine-way Dao patterns would be even more dangerous and recognized that she would face threats once she left the Heavenly Court.
• Houtu Huangdiqi departed for her Dao domain in the Xuanhuang Sea, where Feng Huixue greeted her and Guangchengzi and Dingguang Buddha emerged from Ci Yi Palace.

Houtu Huangdiqi confronted Feng Huixue and five Daluo Golden Immortals who had invaded Houde Palace, then led them to the Xuanhuang Sea to fight. There, she unleashed six reincarnation incarnations against her enemies and withstood Dingguang Buddha’s Six Souls Banner, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Houtu Huangdiqi questioned Feng Huixue about betraying her, and Feng Huixue defended her choice to resist the deities’ oppression despite the deaths of tens of thousands of female immortals.
• Houtu Huangdiqi and the five immortals and Buddhas agreed to move their confrontation from Houde Palace to the Xuanhuang Sea.
• As the group traveled, Guangchengzi accused the deities of enslaving immortals, while Houtu Huangdiqi countered that the immortals had helped undermine the Heavenly Court.
• At the Xuanhuang Sea, Houtu Huangdiqi attacked Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha and raised six star-filled cycles of reincarnation, sending separate incarnations against the five opponents.
• Houtu Huangdiqi’s incarnations overwhelmed Ksitigarbha, trapped Dingguang Joyful Tathagata in the Asura path, and engaged Guangchengzi, Immortal Lord Lanke Wang Zhi, and Anqi Emperor Lord.
• Dingguang Joyful Tathagata wielded the Six Souls Banner, but Houtu Huangdiqi resisted its outer dao with the primordial talismans Chen Shi had imparted to her.

Feng Huixue tried to sabotage Houtu Huangdiqi by breaking her connection to her avatars, but found the Demon Suppressing Well nearly empty and failed to destroy the lotus platform. Houtu’s reincarnation-based attacks killed Feng Huixue, and her corpse drifted into view as Guangchengzi and the others continued fighting Houtu.

• Guangchengzi summoned the Immortal Slaying Sword, and Dingguang Buddha used the Six Souls Banner to help the attackers wound Houtu Huangdiqi and her Six Paths avatars.
• Houtu Huangdiqi’s Six Paths of Reincarnation cycled, restoring the injured avatars and leaving Guangchengzi, Anqi Emperor Lord, Dingguang Buddha, Lanke Immortal Lord, and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva to rely on Feng Huixue.
• Feng Huixue entered Daohua Palace and descended into the Eight Trigrams Demon Suppressing Well, where she found nearly all the great demon bones missing and could not break the remaining one free.
• Feng Huixue went to Jiuhua Yuque and sat on Houtu Huangdiqi’s lotus platform, revealing the countless worlds and Houtu’s avatars connected through it.
• Houtu’s avatars struck Feng Huixue through the cycle of reincarnation, battered her to death, and sent her corpse drifting toward Guangchengzi and the others.

Houtu Huangdiqi and her forces crushed the coalition of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, Anqi Emperor Lord, and Lanke Immortal Lord, destroying their strongholds and killing Anqi and Lanke. After the battle, Grandma of Mount Tai reported that the Great Emperor of the Southern Pole of Longevity had been ambushed and killed.

• After Feng Huixue died, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva summoned her five Buddha projections and six reincarnation avatars to fight Houtu Huangdiqi, while Houtu declared that the conflict was a war.
• Houtu and the Ten Yama Kings attacked Ksitigarbha's Underworld strongholds across many worlds, and Houtu destroyed Ksitigarbha's avatar in the Huaguang World.
• Houtu ordered the Prefect of Mount Tai to raid Anqi Emperor Lord's lineage, and he destroyed Anqi's Dao realm, while Houtu's forces also devastated Lanke Immortal Lord's lineage.
• The Three Sanxiao Empresses conquered Mount Jiuxian, prompting Guangchengzi and Dingguang Joyful Tathagata to flee as Anqi Emperor Lord and Lanke Immortal Lord were captured and executed by Houtu.
• Grandma of Mount Tai reported that the Great Emperor of the Southern Pole of Longevity had been ambushed by Immortal Dao experts and killed, shocking Houtu Huangdiqi.

After the Great Emperor of the Southern Pole of Longevity was killed, Chen Shi and Houtu Huangdiqi suspected the assassination was tied to his ability to influence the calamity’s opening and the coming war between the Immortal Court and Heavenly Court. They reached the Immortal Sea to investigate, where the Nine Heavens Responding Yuan Thunder Sound Puhua Heavenly Venerate blamed Immortal of the Southern Pole.

• Houtu Huangdiqi learned that the Great Emperor of the Southern Pole of Longevity had fallen and told Chen Shi that she had survived an ambush by five Daluo Golden Immortals, killing two.
• Chen Shi theorized that the Great Emperor of Longevity had been targeted because he could manipulate part of the calamity’s opening, while Xiaoduan warned that Chen Shi’s forces might rebel if ordered to fight fellow immortals.
• Chen Shi chose to support the Heavenly Court, and he departed Western Penglai with Houtu Huangdiqi to investigate the Great Emperor’s death.
• Houtu Huangdiqi revealed that the Great Emperor of Longevity could direct one percent of the calamity’s power and had used it in experiments against the Three Pure Realms and the Western Paradise.
• Houtu Huangdiqi said that only five people knew of the experiments, leaving Ziwei and Gouchen under suspicion as possible informants.
• Chen Shi and Houtu Huangdiqi arrived at the Immortal Sea, where the Nine Heavens Responding Yuan Thunder Sound Puhua Heavenly Venerate greeted them and accused Immortal of the Southern Pole of the killing.

Chen Shi examined the traces left by the Great Emperor of Longevity’s death and concluded that a master of the outer Dao had killed him. He suspected the killer was the mysterious creator of the Sutra of Everlasting Freedom Through a Thousand Calamities, and Houtu Huangdiqi warned that the killing would bring another strike and make war between gods and immortals inevitable.

• Thunder Sound Puhua Heavenly Venerate and Houtu Huangdiqi debated whether the Immortal of the Southern Pole could have killed the Great Emperor of Longevity, and Chen Shi recognized that the battle traces united the outer Dao with the immortal path.
• Chen Shi removed the outer Dao from several contaminated Thunder Department soldiers, though he could not restore their transformed limbs.
• Houtu Huangdiqi concluded that one opponent had killed the Great Emperor of Longevity in a brief clash, while Chen Shi explained that the Emperor’s calamity-manipulating Dao made ordinary Daluo Golden Immortals unable to face him.
• Chen Shi demonstrated the Emperor’s suppressive aura by summoning Emperor Changchun, who sensed it and quickly retreated into the Dao Ruins.
• Chen Shi connected the killer to the mysterious creator of the Sutra of Everlasting Freedom Through a Thousand Calamities and revealed that he had helped the World-Honored One kill the Bright King of Eternal Freedom.
• Houtu Huangdiqi warned that the unidentified killer would strike again and that the Great Emperor of Longevity’s death made war between gods and immortals inevitable.

Chen Shi learned from Empress Houtu about the ancient origins of the great devils and the cyan-rock records of a Green Palace, then realized the underground Green Palace could bring disaster upon Golden Ao Island if its secrets spread. To protect his sect during the coming Immortal-God War, he began cutting off its communications with the Heavenly Court and asked Yan Zhibei about strange finds in the Heavenly Abyss.

• Empress Houtu told Chen Shi that the great devils dated back to the ancient world from which the Earthly Immortal Realm was formed, and that cyan rocks from a dark civilization had recorded a map of the Green Palace and the Dark Sea.
• Chen Shi told Empress Houtu that he and his allies knew of the underground Green Palace, and she warned him that the Three Pure Realms, the Western Heaven, and the Heavenly Court might destroy Golden Ao Island to seize its secrets.
• Empress Houtu advised Chen Shi to account for the time it would take Heavenly Court messengers to reach Western Penglai if the star gate post station were destroyed.
• Chen Shi ordered Jing Mei and Qiao Gu to disguise themselves as immortals of the Three Pure Realms and destroy Western Penglai's star gate post station, then publicly blamed the Three Pure Realms.
• Chen Shi approved Wen Ting's proposal to intercept Heavenly Court messengers and sent him to patrol between Western Penglai and Smoke and Haze.
• Chen Shi asked Yan Zhibei whether he had found cyan rocks or other strange objects while mining in the East Sea Heavenly Abyss.

Chen Shi learned of a mysterious cyan coffin found in the Qingyan mines, then advanced his cultivation and sent his defiled bodies to search for Demon Suppressing Wells. He brought Chen Yindu and Created Being Xiao Wu to the underground Green Palace, where Chen Yindu began deciphering the prehistoric imprints and asked Chen Shi to help manifest the Heavenly Dao deity.

• Yan Zhibei told Chen Shi about a cyan coffin and a beautiful woman discovered in a Qingyan mine and taken away by the Three Pure Realms.
• Chen Shi cultivated to the third Dao realm of the Golden Immortal stage, created Chen Jiuyou from his demonic Dao, and sent his nine defiled bodies to seek Demon Suppressing Wells.
• Created Being Xiao Wu arrived with news that Chen Yindu wanted to visit the underground Green Palace through spiritual possession, and Chen Shi arranged for him to possess Cui Zhenzhen.
• Chen Shi led Chen Yindu and Created Being Xiao Wu across the black lake to the Green Palace, where Chen Yindu studied its prehistoric imprints.
• Chen Yindu examined the spirit tablet and asked Chen Shi to help manifest the Heavenly Dao deity worshipped in prehistoric times using the Dao of the Dark Sea.

Chen Shi, Chen Yindu, and Created Being Xiao Wu assembled a flawless god from the Green Palace’s Dao textures and revived it with the black lake’s outer Dao power. After the god attacked them, they restrained it, destroyed its body, and captured its head for study, while Created Being Xiao Wu absorbed much of the unleashed Dao power.

• Chen Shi transferred his humanity into Created Being Xiao Wu’s thunder pool, and the three deciphered the Green Palace’s Dao textures until they assembled a humanoid deity.
• The black lake’s outer Dao radiance entered the deity and revived it, and the god awakened in confusion before growing furious at the skeletons around them.
• The god transported Chen Shi, Chen Yindu, and Created Being Xiao Wu to the black lake and attacked them with karmic tribulations, shattering Chen Shi’s Limitless Dao Field.
• Chen Yindu and the others activated the primordial talismans they had planted in the god, severed its head, sealed it, and dissolved its body.
• Created Being Xiao Wu absorbed much of the black lake’s Dao power but had to refine it with Chen Shi’s help, while Chen Yindu studied the god’s head and decided it was too resistant to use as a second brain.

Chen Shi studied the flawless immortal’s head with Chen Yindu, then resisted abandoning his humanity to imitate Created Being Xiao Wu. While Chen Shi and Little Awl secluded themselves, his nine tainted bodies searched for Demon Suppressing Wells, and his lustful body encountered Fan Xiao in Sinan County. Fan Xiao revealed the location of a well and warned that Immortal Court experts were preparing to release its great demons, while he himself was left to face the bill at a brothel.

• Chen Yindu severed Chen Shi’s connection to Created Being Xiao Wu, warning him that relying on absolute divinity could erode his humanity; Cui Zhenzhen awoke with improved cultivation and an understanding of meta-runes.
• Chen Shi considered creating his own Created Being Xiao Wu using his nine tainted bodies, but chose not to act and entered seclusion with Little Awl to study meta-runes.
• Chen Shi sensed that one of his tainted bodies had found a Demon Suppressing Well and sent its great demon into the Well Demon Domain, increasing his cultivation.
• In Sinan County, Chen Shi’s lustful body rescued Fan Xiao from being press-ganged and took him to Myriad Flowers Pavilion, where Fan Xiao recounted how a swindler resembling Chen Shi had robbed him.
• Fan Xiao told Chen Shi that Immortal Court experts were searching for Demon Suppressing Wells to release their imprisoned demons, and directed him to the well in Hundred Saints Cave.
• After Chen Shi left for the well, Fan Xiao discovered that his junior brother had not paid the brothel bill, and the women threatened to beat the cost out of him.

Congyun, Fang Qianxue, Tong He, and Lu Chen tried to release the demons imprisoned beneath the Hundred Saints Cave to aid the Immortal Court’s attack on the Plague Department. Chen Shi’s physical body and Chen Jiuyou stopped them, but the failed plot left the Plague Province in open turmoil, while Chen Shi’s other defiled bodies gathered in Cang County to undertake a major operation.

• Congyun explained the origins of the Hundred Saints Cave as the four Immortal Court disciples entered to free the demons and attack the Plague Department.
• Fang Qianxue killed the believers and divine avatars who witnessed the seal being broken, but Chen Shi’s physical body arrived and killed her with Ten Suns Violating the Dipper.
• Congyun, Tong He, and Lu Chen broke the chains binding the demons’ cauldrons, then fought Chen Shi’s physical body as the demons began to escape.
• Chen Jiuyou used the Demon Blood Treasure Tree to capture the great demons, while Chen Shi’s physical body killed Congyun, Tong He, and Lu Chen before the cave collapsed.
• Grand Tutor Leng Dongliu learned that his disciples had died and withdrew with True Master Zuo Xuan and Madam Yuan Ling, while the Plague Province’s rebellion intensified.
• Chen Shi’s defiled bodies gathered in Cang County, where his calamity body said they would join forces for a major operation.

Chen Shi’s eight filth bodies attacked Cang County’s magistrate estate to seize the Demon Refining Cauldrons, but a young man named Huangfu Jun defeated and killed them. Chen Jiuyou summoned his master, and the bodies revived as a ninth figure appeared beneath the Demon Blood Treasure Tree.

• Destiny Transfer Chen Shi determined that Magistrate Huang Jue held the Demon Refining Cauldrons and planned to transport them to the Dipper Department, so the filth bodies prepared to raid the estate.
• Stealth Chen Shi concealed Cang County’s sun, and the group stormed the estate, splitting up to attack the guests from the Immortal Court, the Three Pure Realms, and the Western Paradise.
• Killing, Fire, Deception, and Greed Chen Shi fought the estate’s guests while Rat Body Chen Shi destroyed the prefectural yamen, killed Huang Jue, and uncovered the Demon Refining Cauldrons.
• Destiny Transfer Chen Shi recognized the dark-green-robed young man’s authentic Scripture of Passing a Thousand Calamities to Eternally Proving Freedom and ordered Rat Body to flee, but Huangfu Jun killed him and then overwhelmed the other filth bodies.
• As Rat Body Chen Shi died, Chen Jiuyou emerged from the Well Demon Domain and struck Huangfu Jun, who identified himself as Huangfu Jun and challenged Chen Shi, the Heavenly King.
• Chen Jiuyou called for his master, and the eight dead filth bodies revived as a ninth figure appeared beneath the Demon Blood Treasure Tree and approached Huangfu Jun.

Chen Shi confronted Huangfu Jun, exposed the danger in his master’s Sutra of Everlasting Freedom through a Thousand Calamities, and then fought him after Huangfu challenged him. Huangfu survived Chen Shi’s Five Prisons Execution Hand, but Chen Shi began a ritual against him from Cang County.

• Chen Shi’s true body emerged from the Well Demon Domain, and Huangfu Jun realized the Chen Jiuyou he had faced was only a Dao body.
• Chen Shi condemned the Western Heaven’s Method of Self-Transformation and Freedom and questioned whether Huangfu Jun’s master had passed him a flawed scripture that transferred karmic tribulations onto its practitioners.
• Huangfu Jun’s Dao heart wavered, but he returned to Chen Shi and insisted his scripture was flawless; Chen Shi’s words shook him again, and he surrendered the Three Pure Demon Refining Cauldrons before preparing to leave.
• Huangfu Jun turned back and attacked Chen Shi with his Thousand Calamities Dao Field, but Chen Shi transferred his tribulations to his Destiny Transfer Body and countered with the Five Prisons Execution Hand.
• Chen Shi’s Five Prisons Execution Hand shattered Huangfu Jun’s Dao realm and pursued him across the South Continent of Jambudvipa and into the starry sky; Huangfu survived the blow after exhausting its power.
• In Cang County, Chen Shi performed a ritual at an altar, bowed toward Huangfu Jun’s name on a white banner, and said, “Fellow Daoist Huangfu, receive my bow!”

Chen Shi’s three curses failed to kill Huangfu Jun, who survived grave injuries and eventually chose to visit Golden Ao Island rather than report Chen Shi. Huangfu Jun asked whether their agreement to examine the Scripture of A Thousand Calamities for Eternal Freedom still stood, and Chen Shi prepared to study the technique with him.

• Huangfu Jun redirected Chen Shi’s three curse-bows onto three species on a distant planet, wiping them out while surviving the attacks.
• Chen Shi returned to Biyou Palace and told Xiaoduan that Huangfu Jun had endured his curses and might be a dangerous rival.
• Huangfu Jun recovered from his severe injuries with the help of spirit-root fruits, debated whether to report Chen Shi, and ultimately decided to visit Golden Ao Island.
• Chen Shi and Xiaoduan waited more than half a year for Huangfu Jun, while Qiao Gu brought him to Biyou Palace after meeting him outside Western Penglai.
• Huangfu Jun asked Chen Shi whether their agreement still stood and warned him not to cultivate the Scripture of A Thousand Calamities for Eternal Freedom, since its hidden loopholes could alert Huangfu Jun’s master.

Chen Shi completed the Scripture of Eternal Freedom for Huangfu Jun, revealing that Mr. Huaiyi’s version had been designed to harvest its practitioners. After Huangfu Jun learned the truth and survived a deadly ambush, Chen Shi left the Wangyou Realm and encountered Yang Bi.

• Chen Shi studied Huangfu Jun’s Scripture of Eternal Freedom and promised to complete it, while Huangfu Jun departed to search for the Three Pure Demon Suppressing Wells.
• Over the following months, Huangfu Jun let Chen Shi’s filth body steal Demon Refining Cauldrons, while another faction secretly searched the wells and sometimes reached them first.
• Huangfu Jun was ambushed by Heavenly Court forces, who killed or wounded his companions and nearly killed him while targeting the Demon Refining Cauldron.
• Chen Shi showed Huangfu Jun the completed Dao patterns and explained that practitioners across the worlds were being harvested through Mr. Huaiyi’s incomplete method.
• Huangfu Jun activated the completed method, sensed its many practitioners, and realized that Mr. Huaiyi had continued harvesting them; Chen Shi concluded the Three Pure Realms sheltered his master.
• As Chen Shi left the Wangyou Realm, Yang Bi mocked his apparent neutrality, and Chen Shi greeted him with delight.

Chen Shi met Yang Bi, who had lured him into a trap and accused him of endangering the Heavenly Court. Chen Shi explained that the Western Ox Continent had become the Heavenly Immortal Realm, prompting Yang Bi to ask for a place there, though the armed forces he had concealed remained present.

• Chen Shi recognized Yang Bi as the strategist behind Huangfu Jun's ambush and recalled their past alliance at Despair Slope.
• Yang Bi hosted Chen Shi with celestial maidens to distract his desire-flesh, then accused him of colluding with Huangfu Jun and threatening the Heavenly Court.
• Chen Shi revealed that he pursued the Scripture of Achieving Eternal Freedom Through a Thousand Kalpas and was loyal to the Western Ox Continent, which he called the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
• Chen Shi told Yang Bi that Li Tianqing and Zhong Wuwang had ascended to the Heavenly Immortal Realm and described its restored Heavenly Dao, guiding treasures, and shared control of sacred lands.
• Yang Bi reconsidered his plans after learning his wife and son lived in the Heavenly Immortal Realm, then asked Chen Shi to reserve him a place there.
• Chen Shi asked why Yang Bi had brought armed forces to ambush him, and Yang Bi dispersed the clouds to reveal the waiting immortals and gods.

Chen Shi warned Yang Bi that Huangfu Jun’s completed Perpetual Freedom Scripture made him too dangerous to attack, then revealed how the Demon Blood Treasure Tree could refine Great Demon remains. After the Ministry of War’s Demon Refining Cauldrons were stolen and Heavenly King Li was sent to suppress the Western Penglai bandits, Yang Bi reached Golden Ao Island to warn Chen Shi, who sent Fairy Xiaoduan to meet Li without harming him.

• Chen Shi examined Yang Bi’s troops, learned they meant to eradicate Huangfu Jun, and warned that Huangfu Jun’s strengthened Perpetual Freedom Scripture could make an attack disastrous.
• Chen Shi showed Yang Bi the Demon Blood Treasure Tree refining Great Demon remains and explained that his primal talismans could protect him from Huangfu Jun’s technique.
• Chen Shi asked Yang Bi to help study the Perpetual Freedom Scripture, and Yang Bi agreed to visit Golden Ao Island through Chen Shi’s Well Demon Domain.
• Two months later, the Ministry of War reported that thieves had stolen all its Demon Refining Cauldrons, while Yang Bi found Huangfu Jun’s technique too powerful to analyze safely.
• Doumu Yuanjun told Yang Bi that Heavenly King Li had been ordered to suppress bandits near Western Penglai, and Yang Bi hurried to warn Chen Shi.
• Yang Bi arrived at Golden Ao Island through the Well Demon Domain and warned Chen Shi about Heavenly King Li, so Chen Shi sent Fairy Xiaoduan to meet him without hurting him.

Heavenly King Li led Great General Juling to Zhangren Province to confront Chen Shi, but Fairy Xiaoduan ambushed him with dark bird sacred fire and drove him to Golden Ao Island for refuge. When she arrived and offered to finish him off, the badly injured Heavenly King Li tried to crawl away from her.

• Heavenly King Li explained that the Great Heavenly Venerate had sent him to make Chen Shi march against the Three Pure Realms, while Great General Juling expected Golden Ao Island's bandits to attack.
• Jing Mei, Qiao Gu, and the other Golden Ao Island fighters ambushed the heavenly ship, but Great General Juling resisted their attacks and Heavenly King Li overwhelmed them with his Unoccupied Tathagata Treasury.
• Yan Zhibei tried to hold off Heavenly King Li so the others could escape, but Fairy Xiaoduan intervened with dark bird sacred fire and struck Heavenly King Li until he fled.
• Heavenly King Li crashed near Chen Shi and Yang Bi on Golden Ao Island and asked Chen Shi for help, claiming a Great Shang remnant had injured him.
• Fairy Xiaoduan arrived, admitted that she had struck Heavenly King Li too hard after he called her a Great Shang remnant, and proposed killing him as he crawled away.