Chapter Summaries

Shen Yi joined the battle after breaking through and fought Xue Shuangbai, who was possessed by Feather Venerable, as the others faced the remaining avatars. Their clash escalated into a battle between colossal Dharma Bodies, and the chapter ended as Feather Venerable revealed a new power in the Blood River Dharma Body.

• Shen Yi dispersed Hun Wuji's black mist and wounded the evil ghost, while Sikong Guxing stepped in to face it.
• Meng Ke'er confronted Yu Qing with the Dream Manipulation Art as Yu Chen continued fighting his own body.
• Xue Shuangbai attacked Shen Yi with the Blood Sea Manifestation, and Shen Yi met the eighteen war chariots with a golden dragon punch.
• Xue Shuangbai summoned a Blood River Dharma Body, and Shen Yi countered with his Divine Demon phantom; their colossal weapons clashed and flattened nearby peaks.
• Shen Yi wounded the Blood River Dharma Body, but Xue Shuangbai gave it six wings and unleashed its Heart of the Dharma Body.

Shen Yi defeated and killed Xue Shuangbai, absorbing his Heart of the Dharma Body and strengthening his Divine Demon Dharma Body. Feather Venerable fled with his remaining avatars, but Shen Yi captured Yu Chen’s body and left its fate to Yu Chen.

• Xue Shuangbai transformed his Dharma Body and attacked Shen Yi with holy light, but Shen Yi blocked the attacks with the Taiji Diagram.
• Shen Yi trapped Xue Shuangbai beneath the Taiji Diagram and drove back the other avatars as Meng Ke'er and the others engaged them.
• Shen Yi pierced Xue Shuangbai’s Dharma Body with his war halberd, then killed him with a strike through the throat.
• Shen Yi’s Divine Demon phantom swallowed Xue Shuangbai’s Heart of the Dharma Body and grew stronger.
• Feather Venerable fled with his remaining avatars, abandoning Yu Chen’s body when Shen Yi pursued them.
• Shen Yi subdued Yu Chen’s body and let Yu Chen decide what to do with it.

Yu Chen killed Feather Venerable and joined Shen Yi’s group as they searched for Little Black, but Bai Gula attacked Shen Yi over Bai Xiao’s death. After Bai Gula’s strike left Shen Yi badly injured, Meng Po appeared and prepared to cut into him, just as Bai Gula accused her of being Shen Yi’s accomplice.

• Yu Chen overcame his hesitation and killed Feather Venerable, then thanked Shen Yi for helping him resolve his inner conflict.
• Shen Yi used Little Black’s demonic power to track him, and Meng Ke’er showed the group a brief vision of Spirit Transformation ancestors Bai Gula and Xiang Sheng fighting.
• Bai Gula arrived seeking revenge for Bai Xiao, so Shen Yi sent Meng Ke’er, Yu Chen, and Sikong Guxing ahead to find Little Black and drew Bai Gula away.
• Bai Gula struck Shen Yi through the void, shattering his bones and nearly breaking his golden core.
• Meng Po appeared beside the injured Shen Yi and transformed her oil-paper umbrella into a boning knife, but Bai Gula called out that she was Shen Yi’s accomplice.

Shen Yi escaped Meng Po and Bai Gula’s battle, only to flee into a death-filled region of the Immortal Island. After healing at its edge, he drew the attention of a powerful figure from the darkness.

• Meng Po and Bai Gula fought while Shen Yi recovered enough to flee through the smoke and dust.
• Shen Yi crossed a barrier into a barren land filled with demonic qi, ghosts, and bones.
• Skeletal creatures and resentful spirits attacked Shen Yi, but he burned them away with divine fire and retreated to the boundary.
• Shen Yi stayed at the edge of the dark land and used the Indestructible Scripture to heal completely.
• Shen Yi's howl stirred the undead, and a tall figure flew from the darkness and landed on a nearby stone peak.

Shen Yi fought his way through the Immortal-Demon Burial Ground, defeated a powerful Ghost General, and rested in a forest oasis. In a canyon, he witnessed a vision of the Immortal-Demon War and then found a city at its far end.

• Shen Yi fought the Ghost General with his Divine Demon Dharma Body and shattered its body, though its soul fire scattered to escape.
• Shen Yi continued through the dark land, overcame more ghosts and monsters, and reached a green mountain forest where he rested.
• Shen Yi entered a vast canyon strewn with the remains of immortals and gods and sheltered from a fierce wind.
• Shen Yi witnessed a vision of the Immortal-Demon War, ending with a lone Immortal King facing the Devil Race army.
• Shen Yi crossed the canyon, touched the battlefield, and saw a city appear at its end.

Shen Yi explored a ruined ancient city, claimed the Immortal King's Battle Halberd, and witnessed an immortal corpse awaken before the forbidden ground vanished. Back on Immortal Island, he encountered Meng Po again and prepared to fight her.

• Shen Yi entered the ancient city and found immortal and demon skeletons scattered around its central square.
• Shen Yi pulled the Immortal King's Battle Halberd from an immortal corpse, restoring its silver radiance.
• The ancient city crumbled, revealing more skeletons, Higanbana flowers, and a cemetery filled with nameless graves and wandering immortal phantoms.
• After Shen Yi left, the pierced corpse awakened as the bones gathered black aura around it, then vanished as the forbidden ground disappeared.
• Shen Yi returned to Immortal Island with the halberd and learned from Meng Po that she had beaten Bai Gula half to death.
• Shen Yi gripped the halberd and prepared to fight Meng Po.

Shen Yi learned that Meng Po recognized the Silver Dragon Battle Halberd, then entered the Forbidden Zone of Life to search for his companions. After surviving the zone’s life-draining curse, he reached a fork before three towering mountains and faced a choice of paths.

• Meng Po identified Shen Yi’s weapon as the Silver Dragon Battle Halberd, an Immortal King’s weapon whose Dragon Spirit had sealed itself away, and shared fragments of her memories.
• Ox-Head and Horse-Face carried Shen Yi to the Forbidden Zone of Life, then burrowed into the earth rather than enter it.
• Shen Yi entered the zone, resisted its cultivation-suppressing curse with golden light, and cautiously passed an armored skeleton.
• Shen Yi discovered that soil protected living things from a life-draining force, filled a Cosmic Ring with soil, and used it to cross the affected forest.
• Shen Yi passed rare spirit herbs without stopping and reached a three-way fork beneath three towering mountains.

Shen Yi traversed the middle sacred mountain, where a life-giving spring and immortal peaches restored and strengthened him before the ancient tree’s radiance brought him to ultimate sublimation and gifted him two sacred fruits. He returned to the fork in the road and saw mysterious armed figures on the left and right mountains.

• Shen Yi chose the middle path and endured a curse that drained his flesh and vital essence before reaching a restorative spring.
• Shen Yi filled bottles with the springwater, then ate two immortal peaches and advanced to the fifth level of the Golden Core realm.
• Shen Yi harvested the four remaining ripe peaches and continued to the summit, where he found a golden ancient tree bearing two sacred fruits.
• The ancient tree’s radiance tempered Shen Yi’s body and soul, bringing him to ultimate sublimation, and it gave him both sacred fruits.
• Shen Yi returned to the fork and saw a cloaked figure holding a Sky-Breaking Longbow on the left mountain and a sword-wielding figure on the right.

Shen Yi escaped the Forbidden Zone of Life and reunited with Little Black, who had defeated the Candle Dragon and reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage. After Shen Yi gave Meng Ke’er the promised sacred medicine, Little Black suggested they seek a thread of immortal source about to condense on the Immortal Island.

• Shen Yi questioned a cursed skeleton, learned Little Black had left the Forbidden Zone of Life safely, and spared it before departing.
• Little Black’s memories revealed that he had killed the Candle Dragon, devoured its soul, and refined its reverse scale into a treasure that protected his soul.
• Little Black cultivated in a Grotto-heaven Spirit Realm, reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage, and reunited with Meng Ke’er and the others.
• Little Black transformed into a golden dragon and carried Meng Ke’er and the others to Shen Yi.
• Shen Yi reunited with Little Black and gave Meng Ke’er the sacred medicine he had promised her.
• Little Black told Shen Yi and the others that a thread of immortal source was about to condense on the Immortal Island and asked whether they should seek it.

Shen Yi and his companions searched the Immortal Island for a healing spring, only to encounter the wounded Bai Gula in the Spirit Spring Grotto-heaven. They broke through his bloody attack and faced him in battle, with Shen Yi charging forward.

• Shen Yi warned Meng Ke'er, Yu Chen, and the others that powerful immortals might seize the immortal source, so they chose to search for other treasures.
• Little Black revealed that Spirit Spring Water could reactivate a dried-up spring that might restore Yu Chen's flesh, and Shen Yi supplied three bottles of the water.
• The group followed Torch Dragon's memories to the Spirit Spring Grotto-heaven, where they sensed blood qi and suspected Bai Gula was hiding.
• Bai Gula, badly wounded by Meng Po, discovered Shen Yi's group and attacked them with a bloody handprint.
• Meng Ke'er, Yu Chen, and Sikong Guxing countered the handprint, while Shen Yi spread his Divine Demon Wings and charged at Bai Gula.

Shen Yi and his companions fought Bai Gula until Meng Po arrived and drove him off. After warning Shen Yi that an immortal source had appeared and the Immortal Island was no longer safe, Meng Po vanished, and the group learned they had found the spirit spring.

• Shen Yi, Little Black, Meng Ke'er, Sikong Guxing, and Yu Chen attacked the wounded Bai Gula, but he used essence blood to restore his injuries and unleashed a sea of blood.
• Bai Gula overwhelmed Meng Ke'er and Sikong Guxing, then Meng Po arrived with Ox-Head and Horse-Face and halted his blood essence.
• Bai Gula broke free of Ox-Head and Horse-Face's chains with a blood lotus, but Meng Po scattered its petals and revealed her Spirit Transformation strength.
• Bai Gula targeted Shen Yi with the blood lotus, then used Meng Po's intervention as a feint to escape.
• Meng Po warned Shen Yi to leave the Immortal Island because an immortal source had appeared, then vanished with Ox-Head and Horse-Face.
• Meng Ke'er remarked that Meng Po seemed fond of Shen Yi, and one of Shen Yi's companions reported that they had found the spirit spring.

Shen Yi and his companions left Immortal Island before its immortal source unleashed a catastrophic battle, then learned that the island had vanished and powerful beings had appeared. As upheaval spread across the West Sea and Feather Venerable took control of the Feather Clan, Shen Yi resolved to act against him.

• Shen Yi restored the spirit spring, allowing Yu Chen to regain his body and break through into the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Shen Yi led the group off Immortal Island before the immortal source emerged and awakened terrifying dormant beings.
• Xiang Sheng told Meng Ke'er and Shen Yi that Immortal Island's will expelled everyone after powerful beings fought over the immortal source, and that the island then vanished.
• Meng Ke'er entered Secluded Cultivation to break through into the Nascent Soul Realm as news arrived of upheaval across the West Sea.
• The Feather Clan announced Feather Venerable as its new chief, while an immortal, a great demon, and the Blood Emperor also made dramatic moves.
• Yu Chen called for action against Feather Venerable, and Shen Yi decided on a decapitation operation.

Shen Yi’s group lured the Feather Venerable to Bone Island by capturing the Thirteenth Elder, hoping to destroy the Venerable’s remaining avatars. The Feather Venerable arrived with two avatars, and his indifference to the captive elder left the Thirteenth Elder feeling abandoned as the confrontation began.

• Shen Yi and his group appeared on True Feather Island, where Yu Chen challenged the Feather Venerable and fought off a Six-Winged clan member.
• Yu Chen revealed his identity to the Thirteenth Elder, but the elder refused to believe that the current Feather Venerable was the same person as before.
• Little Black captured the Thirteenth Elder, and Shen Yi sent the Feather Venerable a message naming Bone Island as the meeting place.
• Shen Yi prepared formations on Bone Island, and the Feather Venerable arrived with two avatars, all three bearing eight black wings.
• Yu Chen confronted the Feather Venerable, who recognized that Yu Chen had been reborn.
• The Thirteenth Elder heard the Feather Venerable dismiss his life as worthless and admit that the elder had obstructed his rise to clan leader.

Shen Yi and Feather Venerable fought fiercely on Bone Island while Yu Chen and Sikong Guxing battled Hun Wuji and the Thirteenth Elder faced Seventeen. Feather Venerable revealed that Seventeen was his younger brother transformed into a clone, then summoned a gigantic hand to seize Shen Yi.

• The Thirteenth Elder joined Yu Chen and faced Seventeen, while Yu Chen and Sikong Guxing fought Hun Wuji and his evil ghost.
• Shen Yi and Feather Venerable exchanged blows with their fists and divine weapons, tearing Bone Island apart as their forces clashed around them.
• Shen Yi noticed Feather Venerable's clones were losing, but Feather Venerable took control of Seventeen and severely wounded the Thirteenth Elder.
• The Thirteenth Elder realized Feather Venerable had refined his own younger brother into a clone, and Feather Venerable admitted he wanted Shen Yi's body as a vessel.
• A terrifying aura descended from the sky, two strange beams appeared, and a gigantic palm reached down to seize Shen Yi.

Shen Yi realized Feather Venerable’s overwhelming true-body phantom could not remain for long and tried to escape with Yu Chen and Sikong Guxing. The Thirteenth Elder sacrificed himself to destroy Feather Venerable’s phantom and clear a path for them, while asking Shen Yi to spare the Feather Clan.

• Yu Chen told Shen Yi that Feather Venerable’s attackers had been clones and puppets, while the eyes in the sky belonged to his true form.
• Shen Yi deduced that Feather Venerable’s powerful form was temporary, raised formations to conceal their escape, and fled with Yu Chen and Sikong Guxing.
• Feather Venerable’s light shattered Shen Yi’s formations, and Yu Chen tried to stay behind before Shen Yi pulled him onward.
• The Thirteenth Elder blocked Feather Venerable’s attack and asked Shen Yi to leave the Feather Clan a path to survive.
• The Thirteenth Elder bound Feather Venerable with his feather sword and self-destructed, destroying the phantom and blasting Bone Island apart.

After surviving the Thirteenth Elder’s self-destruction, Shen Yi returned to the Central Plains with Yu Chen and Sikong Guxing. He reached the Town of Evil Suppression to begin adapting to life on the mainland, but a familiar enemy seemed to approach.

• The Willow Spirit Guardian calmed the sea and guided a fishing boat to rescue Shen Yi, Yu Chen, and Sikong Guxing, who had been unconscious for three days.
• Shen Yi awoke in Willow Village, reunited with Yang Hua, and used Sacred Mountain Spirit Spring water to heal Yu Chen and Sikong Guxing.
• Shen Yi gave spring water to Willow Village’s spirit guardians, who created an Immortal Spring for the village before sending him and his companions to One-Line Sky.
• At One-Line Sky, Shen Yi explained the Central Plains and Qin State to Yu Chen and Sikong Guxing, rejecting Sikong Guxing’s suggestion to take revenge on Qin State.
• Shen Yi, Yu Chen, Sikong Guxing, and the awakened Little Black entered the Town of Evil Suppression, where galloping horses and arrogant shouts approached from behind.

Shen Yi humiliated Qin Jian and settled into Town of Evil Suppression while cultivating ties to support his plan to establish a sect. When Qin Jian returned with General Qin Shan, the general apologized to Shen Yi, leaving Qin Jian and the townsfolk bewildered.

• Shen Yi stopped Qin Jian's horse, subdued him, and slapped him in front of the townsfolk.
• Shen Yi acquired a residence and befriended the city's prominent figures, sharing treasures and gaining influence among the townsfolk.
• Shen Yi told Yu Chen that he planned to establish a sect and had been building relationships with the secular authorities to support it.
• Shen Yi, Yu Chen, and Sikong Guxing practiced socializing in Town of Evil Suppression, while Little Black was spared from it.
• Qin Jian returned through the air with soldiers, but General Qin Shan apologized to Shen Yi for his nephew's earlier offense.

Shen Yi learned that he had been appointed chief envoy of Qianyuan's delegation to Qin and prepared to travel to Changyang City with Qin Shan. As the mission set out, Shen Yi warned Qin Shan about a Western Sea cultivator in Qin territory, while Jiang Miaoyi's delegation also entered Qin State.

• Jiang Haohan appointed Shen Yi chief envoy of Qianyuan's birthday delegation, and Qin Shan revealed that Qin Jian would lose his command and return to the capital for three years of reflection.
• Qin Shan apologized to the people of Town of Evil Suppression and announced a three-year exemption from taxes and corvée labor, winning back their support.
• Shen Yi told Qin Shan he had encountered and fought a Feather Clan cultivator from the Western Sea, prompting Qin Shan to order a secret investigation of Qin's southwestern border.
• Qin Shan and Shen Yi discussed the emperors' encounter at Wangxian Valley, which had become a forbidden zone for living beings.
• As the delegation departed, Qin Jian galloped away alone after threatening Shen Yi, while Jiang Miaoyi and Shen Qing entered Qin State territory.

Shen Yi reunited with Jiang Miaoyi and Shen Qing in Changyang City after a year apart, and he recounted his journey to Jiang Miaoyi. The chapter ended with an old man watching the posthouse and asking whether Shen Yi was inside.

• Jiang Miaoyi's delegation met Shen Yi's group outside Changyang City, where Shen Qing rushed to embrace Shen Yi and Jiang Miaoyi reunited with him.
• Shen Yi introduced Yu Chen and Sikong Guxing to Jiang Miaoyi, and Qin Shan welcomed the group into the city.
• Qin Jian threatened Shen Yi as soldiers took him away, while Qin Shan grew more disappointed in the prince's conduct.
• At the posthouse, Jiang Miaoyi questioned Shen Yi about Meng Ke'er, and Shen Yi told her about his journey while leaving out their ambiguous moments in the Yellow Springs.
• Yu Chen and Sikong Guxing took Shen Qing for a stroll, while an old man in a tavern watched the posthouse and asked whether Shen Yi was there.

At the King of Qin’s birthday banquet, Zhou Chen and Shen Yi presented rare gifts to Qin Zhao, while Zhou Chen tried to provoke Shen Yi. The chapter ended as a fragrant scent drew everyone’s attention to a Jade Bottle in Shen Yi’s hand.

• Before the banquet, Jiang Miaoyi told Shen Yi that she had prepared an extra birthday gift for him if he could not produce one himself.
• Outside Changle Palace, Zhou Chen mocked Shen Yi, who replied coolly and entered the banquet hall.
• Zhou Chen presented an East Sea Luminous Pearl and a suit of Skyfall Sunken Silver Secret Armor, then challenged Shen Yi to present his gift.
• Shen Yi offered Qin Zhao a Ten Thousand Year Blood Ginseng and a Nine-Leaf Lotus Heart, astonishing the officials with the gifts’ rarity and his account of the Western Sea.
• Zhou Chen presented a Phoenix Egg said to contain signs of life, and the officials reacted with shock.
• A fragrant scent drew everyone’s attention to the Jade Bottle in Shen Yi’s hand.