Chapter Summaries

Chen Sanshi improved his cultivation skills, taught his disciples new breathing techniques, and learned that Cao Xie was alive and the Ancestral Vein had begun to revive. Wei Xuan retired from service and died soon after, leaving Chen Sanshi facing a growing threat and the loss of an old companion.

• Chen Sanshi advanced his formation and puppet skills, cultivated overnight, and realized he needed a stronger spiritual vein and the Dragon Scripture’s remaining content.
• Chen Sanshi taught Su Can, Yu Ji, and Yu Lie the Mirror Sun and Mirror Moon Breathing Techniques, which he had developed from the Li family's sword art.
• Zhao Kang brought captured Guiyuan Sect Disciples to court, and Dongfang Jingxing learned that Cao Xie of Heavenly Sword Sect had ordered them to search for Cao clan descendants.
• Wei Xuan reported that the Ancestral Vein had begun to revive, prompting Chen Sanshi to consider destroying it with the Spirit Extinguishing Great Formation.
• Wei Xuan asked Chen Sanshi to guide his grandnephew, then left Tianyong City; he and his wife, Song Guizhi, died and were buried together at Mount Mang.

Chen Sanshi remained in Chang'an for another half year to handle miscellaneous affairs and worked on talismans while his companions cultivated. Elsewhere, the Qianyuan Guard captured Fenglai County, fighting devastated the Imperial City, and Zhou Xuan received an emperor-drafted Imperial Decree.

• Chen Sanshi remained in Chang'an for another half year to handle miscellaneous affairs.
• Chen Sanshi drew talismans while Qianxun, Qing Yu, and the White Jade Spirit Snake cultivated nearby.
• Qianxun had reached the middle stage of the Mystic Body Realm and learned Thousand Feather Flying Blades.
• The Qianyuan Guard captured Fenglai County with five hundred elite soldiers.
• Li Tianba and the master of Thunder God Hall caused the destruction of nearly half the buildings in the Imperial City.
• Zhou Xuan felt relieved after receiving the Imperial Decree that He Lingjun had arranged to have delivered.

The Buddhist sect lost hundreds of thousands of Buddhist Soldiers, while Su Yun endured the effects of the Blood-Scorching Immortal Hong Pill and struggled toward a gate. Deng She arranged an attack on a city's western gate for midnight the night after tomorrow.

• The Buddhist sect lost one hundred thousand Buddhist Soldiers and then another three hundred thousand despite the arrival of the Three Great Bodhisattvas with Srivijaya.
• The two Good Corpses raised their hands to block an attack and suffered searing pain.
• Mu Xifeng brought the twitching Li Guang to his Martial Uncle.
• Su Yun endured waves of pain after taking the Blood-Scorching Immortal Hong Pill.
• Deng She arranged for eight hundred men to attack the weakest western gate at midnight the night after tomorrow.
• Su Yun dealt with the statue, dragged his weakened body toward the gate, and noticed weathering on the corpses by the hole.

True Person Yuling asked Mu Chutai to teach martial cultivation methods to a young man who refused to become her disciple. The chapter then shifted through disconnected incidents and ended with Feng Xue discovering that his Spiritual Power could extend into his surroundings.

• True Person Yuling asked Mu Chutai to teach formulas and mental methods to a young man determined to continue cultivating martial arts.
• Ruan Zhishui revealed that the Blood Coagulation Pills made the dazed incense ineffective, and the skinny youth pinned her down and seized her wrists.
• Prince Rui said he would tie up the woman to prevent her from cutting his throat during the night.
• Qingshuang headed for Fengzao Palace under Nanny Gao's escort after Nanny Defan summoned her.
• Bai San and Yu Qingfan dragged Huang Fei and the others into the circle of light.
• Feng Xue thought of Spiritual Power and sent a ripple into his surroundings.

Chen Sanshi continued waiting for a Golden Body Realm cultivation method, but more than ten days and over a dozen bags of spirit stones yielded no cultivation formula. Elsewhere, Qing Yu threatened a son's life, Ye Yang drove up an auction price, and Qiu Anqing and Jiang Anyi entered a sealed examination compound.

• Chen Sanshi remained in the courtyard to wait for a Golden Body Realm cultivation method.
• Chen Sanshi spent over a dozen bags of spirit stones across more than ten days without receiving a single word of a cultivation formula.
• Qing Yu demanded that an old gentleman repent and threatened to kill his son if his repentance was poor or slow.
• Ye Shaoyang drew commonly used spirit talismans while hiding in the grass and tucked them into his belt.
• Ye Yang began bidding after an elder from the Divine Fist Sect and sent the price soaring.
• Qiu Anqing and Jiang Anyi led the fellow examiners across the stone bridge into the inner-curtain gate, after which the main gate was shut and sealed.

Pei Jingzhe faced pursuit by armed men, while Zhuang Yu gained maps and Shangguan Ding discovered Song Zheng's concealed cultivation. Elsewhere, Stephen weighed an attack on the Dark Abyss, and Mongo told Xikeya that Si Liya had not left.

• Pei Jingzhe set her down on a bench, and seven or eight black-clad men appeared in pursuit.
• Zhuang Yu gained Jade Slip maps covering most of Xiliang outside the northwestern region.
• Shangguan Ding discovered that Song Zheng had concealed his Spirit Silence Perfection cultivation.
• Cang Ying and Long Jiu attacked each other under orders from the eldest brothers on both sides.
• Stephen judged that attacking the Dark Abyss offered less than a thirty percent chance of victory unless he could bring the Floating City there.
• Mongo told Xikeya that Si Liya had not left.

After half a year of cultivation in Hundred Flowers Valley, Chen Sanshi opened his Heart Gate and prepared to hunt at Black Obsidian Mountain for merit and resources. As he flew toward the mountain, he noticed someone following him through the clouds.

• Chen Sanshi practiced the Dragon Scripture until his heart became glazed crystal and the Heart Gate opened, advancing his Dragon Scripture to True Force Late Stage.
• Chen Sanshi prepared his Law-Devouring Cicadas, talismans, bow, and other equipment before leaving Hundred Flowers Valley to hunt.
• At Feilai Peak, Chen Sanshi received hunting supplies and heard that the war might soon involve mortals, prompting him to worry that the ancient demons had gained a method like his Mystic Pearl.
• Xue Xianrong and several disciples invited Chen Sanshi to hunt with them, but he politely declined and left the sect alone.
• Chen Sanshi studied the Black Obsidian Mountain map and Myriad Beast Compendium while flying, then noticed someone following him in the clouds.

Chen Sanshi hunted spirit beasts in Black Obsidian Mountain with Qingniao and the White Jade Spirit Snake, ultimately killing a powerful Iron-Spined Bull Python. As he headed back, he encountered an injured woman claiming to be a Guiyuan Sect disciple, but he drew his sword on her.

• Chen Sanshi entered Black Obsidian Mountain and sent Qingniao and the White Jade Spirit Snake ahead to find prey.
• Chen Sanshi and his spirit companions hunted five spirit beasts before the White Jade Spirit Snake led him to an Iron-Spined Bull Python.
• The Iron-Spined Bull Python overwhelmed Chen Sanshi at first, but Qingniao’s soul attack and the White Jade Spirit Snake’s bow attack helped him expose and strike its vulnerable point.
• Chen Sanshi killed the Iron-Spined Bull Python with Dragon Abyss, collected its valuable remains, and left the swamp to avoid drawing attention.
• A bloodied woman claiming to be a Guiyuan Sect disciple asked Chen Sanshi for help, and he stopped and thrust his sword toward her face.

Chen Sanshi encountered a female cultivator who had left behind a sheet of human skin, and cultivators assembled a vast Immortal Summoning Array. Separate incidents followed involving combat, a suspected poisoning, a murder investigation, and Jiang Chengtian's pursuit of Sophia, before Guo Kuan attacked Bu Qianhuai.

• Chen Sanshi turned toward a sinister laugh and saw the female cultivator after she had left behind a sheet of human skin.
• Cultivators assembled an Immortal Summoning Array spanning a hundred li in half an hour.
• Wu Su tossed out meat that a dog swallowed before convulsing and becoming motionless.
• Lin Hanyi concluded that the killer had murdered the night watchman to silence him.
• Jiang Chengtian and the others raced to the airport while he continued tracking Sophia's aura.
• Guo Kuan thrust his right palm toward Bu Qianhuai while Bu Qianhuai's right hand was restrained.

Chen Sanshi rescued a girl with a rare Yin Spiritual Root from an Immortal Master Landlord, then returned to Great Han and completed preparations for Tianyong City’s first Foundation Establishment cultivators. He refined Foundation Establishment Pills and explained how official seals would let cultivators remain in Eastern Continent despite the Heaven and Earth Seal’s suppression.

• Chen Sanshi saw mortals suffering under Immortal Master Landlords and rescued Chen Er Ya, whose Yin Spiritual Root had drawn his attention.
• Chen Er Ya tried to kill Chen Sanshi and then herself, but accepted his offer to cultivate after Azurebird killed the landlord; Chen Sanshi renamed her Yunchuan.
• Chen Sanshi exchanged his sect rewards, learned that Elder Yuling and Jiang were away, and returned to Great Han to prepare Foundation Establishment Pills for Tianyong City.
• Xu Wencai presented the new Ninth Rank Immortal Official system and a Black Ice Platform list of officials suspected of disloyalty; Chen Sanshi ordered proven collaborators quietly executed and the others monitored.
• Chen Sanshi taught Bai Chaotong alchemy and refined eight Foundation Establishment Pills, then gathered Tianyong City’s cultivators and explained that official ranks and seals could protect them from Eastern Continent’s Law Suppression.

Chen Sanshi awarded ranks and Official Seals to the cultivators gathered at the White Jade Plaza, then assigned Zinan and Deng Wuchang new tasks. At a family banquet, he discovered Chen Duhe was secretly developing an Incense Martial Path, supported his decision, and left for Tianshui Continent the next day to pursue further breakthroughs.

• Emperor Tianwu oversaw the awards ceremony, granting ranks and Foundation Establishment Pills to cultivators and explaining the magical Official Seals.
• Chen Sanshi tasked Zinan with arranging Official Seals and sent Deng Wuchang to Tianshui Continent to obtain formation inheritances.
• Chen Sanshi praised Xu Yunhuan's spiritual-plant cultivation and gathered his family for a banquet, where he noticed Chen Duhe was absent.
• Chen Sanshi found a hidden chamber filled with shrines and incense burners, and Chen Duhe explained that he was developing the Incense Martial Path without worshipping any god.
• Chen Sanshi agreed to let Chen Duhe pursue his own path as long as he did not harm the innocent, and the two returned to the family banquet.
• Chen Sanshi left for Tianshui Continent the next day, intending to advance his cultivation and prepare for Core Formation and the Golden Body Realm.

Chen Sanshi learned that Qingxu Sect’s Supreme Elder was undergoing a Nascent Soul tribulation while the sect prepared to send cultivators to the border wars and Dragon Elephant City. When Cao Xie arrived to investigate Chen Sanshi, True Person Yuling protected him, and a sudden sword strike interrupted their confrontation.

• Chen Sanshi spent more than half a year cultivating alone in Hundred Flowers Valley and failed to absorb the Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
• Lord of Mount Tai beat Young Taoist Sixteen and took his Storage Bag, while Chen Sanshi gave Sixteen medicine for his injuries.
• Chen Sanshi watched the strange phenomena above Taiyuan Peak as the Supreme Elder faced a heavenly tribulation, then learned Qingxu Sect was mobilizing cultivators for the border war and Dragon Elephant City.
• Representatives from nine Nascent Soul upper sects arrived to observe the Supreme Elder’s breakthrough, and Sixteen warned Chen Sanshi to wear the mask True Person Yuling had given him before meeting Cao Xie.
• Cao Xie demanded to investigate Lu Shengzhi and prepared to use a soul-searching technique, but True Person Yuling stood between them.
• A furious voice called out to Cao Xie as a sword strike arrived, and Cao Xie recognized it as a divine ability.

Zhang Huaiqing interrupted Cao Xie’s confrontation with Chen Sanshi, but Cao Xie still soul-searched Lord of Mount Tai before leaving. Chen Sanshi learned that Zhang Huaiqing knew his identity and accepted True Person Yuling’s help preparing for Core Formation, then chose to travel to Dragon Elephant City for a chance to obtain Jade Dew of Creation; Cao Xie later told two Nascent Soul Cultivators that Zhang Huaiqing had reached the Mid Nascent Soul Stage.

• Zhang Huaiqing arrived in the courtyard and stopped Cao Xie from attacking Chen Sanshi, assuring Cao Xie that Chen Sanshi was not the person he sought.
• Cao Xie captured Mu Chutai and tortured him with a soul search, then left with Zhang Huaiqing after finding no new information.
• Chen Sanshi helped Mu Chutai recover, and True Person Yuling explained that Zhang Huaiqing had protected him partly because he wanted to use his Huangtian Breathing Soil.
• True Person Yuling gave Chen Sanshi spirit materials for Core Formation and offered to hunt a third-realm Demonic Beast, but Chen Sanshi chose to seek Jade Dew of Creation at Dragon Elephant City instead.
• True Person Yuling agreed that Chen Sanshi could accompany his Second Senior Sister to Dragon Elephant City while his Eldest Senior Sister remained injured.
• Cao Xie met two Nascent Soul Cultivators and reported that Zhang Huaiqing had broken through directly to the Mid Nascent Soul Stage.

Cao Xie resolved to pursue power by rebuilding Great Sheng, while Chen Sanshi prepared for a long journey to Dragon Elephant City and discovered his Second Senior Sister Jiang Xiyue unconscious and frozen beside the pool. Jiang Qiongsu began treating her with the help of two matching jade pendants, leaving Chen Sanshi to step aside.

• Cao Xie planned to use rival sects to target Zhang Huaiqing and revealed to Rong Roujun his ambition to destroy Great Song and rebuild Great Sheng as an immortal dynasty.
• Chen Sanshi studied his senior brother’s compass, collected formations and supplies through Deng Wuchang and Dongfang Jingxing, and prepared to leave for Dragon Elephant City in five days.
• Chen Sanshi went to the pool to try absorbing the Red Lotus Karmic Fire and found Jiang Xiyue unconscious, badly injured, and covered in frost.
• Jiang Qiongsu used her jade pendant to connect with Jiang Xiyue’s matching pendant and began melting the frost before asking Chen Sanshi to step aside.

Chen Sanshi helped Jiang Qiongsu suppress Jiang Xiyue’s mysterious illness, then joined the Qingxu Sect’s expedition to Dragon Elephant City. Mu Chutai unexpectedly joined the journey as well and tried to get Jiang Xiyue’s attention, but she ignored him.

• Jiang Qiongsu asked Chen Sanshi to use his flames and a jade pendant to melt the ice around Jiang Xiyue and stabilize her illness, then asked him to keep its nature secret.
• Chen Sanshi warned Jiang Qiongsu about the danger he had learned of, and she said she would report it to their master before he rested for the night.
• The Qingxu Sect assembled more than six thousand cultivators for the journey to Dragon Elephant City, and Chen Sanshi set out with fifteen other Foundation Establishment cultivators and Jiang Xiyue.
• Mu Chutai persuaded Daoist Xuancheng to let him join the expedition, while other elders suspected he was fleeing an impending Holy Sect soul search.
• Aboard the Flying Boat, Mu Chutai demonstrated sword techniques to attract Jiang Xiyue’s attention, but she ignored him, and Chen Sanshi realized Mu wanted to teach her privately.

Chen Sanshi traveled with the Qingxu Sect toward Dragon Elephant City, where he learned about the border defenses and the demonic cultivators’ infiltration. At the Great Wall of Demon Suppression, disguised enemies ambushed the group, and Chen Sanshi and the others began fighting back.

• Mu Chutai tried to teach Jiang Xiyue swordsmanship, but she attacked him; Chen Sanshi blocked her strike and suffered frost damage.
• Jiang Xiyue later gave Chen Sanshi healing pills and said Mu Chutai deserved to die.
• The Flying Boat traveled toward Dragon Elephant City, and Chen Sanshi received frequent cultivation instruction from Mu Chutai.
• The Qingxu Sect disciples reached Sixue Dao and learned how the Great Wall of Demon Suppression prevented high-altitude flight and earth-escape.
• Jia Ziyan claimed demonic cultivators had begun a blood sacrifice and tried to divert the group, but Xue Xianrong exposed the deception and attacked.
• Chen Sanshi detected sha qi and struck the disguised demonic cultivators as more than two hundred enemies surged from the mountains.

Qingxu Sect disciples fought an ambush of demonic cultivators until Elder Xue Jingfeng and reinforcements arrived, forcing the attackers to retreat. As Chen Sanshi prepared to meditate aboard the departing warship, Cao Zhi recognized him despite his disguise.

• Chen Sanshi and the Qingxu Sect disciples fought the demonic cultivators, while Mu Chutai used his sword to kill several enemies and Chen Sanshi protected him from a Foundation Establishment attacker.
• The disguised Demon Suppression Division commander activated a formation that filled the battlefield with Malevolent Blood Energy, and the demonic cultivators gained the advantage as Jiang Xiyue restrained her fighting because of her injuries.
• A Golden Core cultivator named Zhong Wutai arrived and pursued Mu Chutai, but Elder Xue Jingfeng intervened and fought him as reinforcements from the Demon Suppression Division and Guiyuan Sect arrived.
• The demonic cultivators retreated, and the Qingxu Sect survivors boarded a warship for Dragon Elephant City after two of their Foundation Establishment disciples had died.
• As Chen Sanshi settled down to meditate, Cao Zhi called him Big Brother, and Chen Sanshi wondered how Cao Zhi had seen through his disguise.

Chen Sanshi arrived at Dragon Elephant City, learned how cultivators could earn Copper Coins toward Jade Dew of Creation, and began a compulsory search for demonic cultivators. After days without a lead, his squad found a trail into a poor village, where they questioned a starving woman holding a dying child.

• Cao Zhi suspected Chen Sanshi might be his disguised elder brother and said he would kill him regardless of whether the suspicion was correct.
• Chen Sanshi entered Dragon Elephant City, received his identity token, and learned that Jade Dew of Creation cost two thousand Copper Coins.
• Chen Sanshi spent three days patrolling Sixue Dao before setting out with Su Yang, Lu Zhiyong, and Qi Refining cultivators to search for demonic cultivators.
• After four fruitless days, the squad found demonic cultivators near a village and discovered that one had fled inside.
• Su Yang pursued the fugitive into a dilapidated house, where the cultivators found only a gaunt woman and a dying child.

Chen Sanshi hunted demonic cultivators in Sixue Dao while cultivating and deciphering a mysterious compass, but the search yielded fewer rewards over time. Two years later, he discovered an entire village whose residents had all died by suicide, suggesting the demonic cultivators had a larger scheme.

• Chen Sanshi exposed an Earth-Escaping demonic cultivator in a village, but the cultivator killed himself before the disciples could question him; afterward, a woman killed herself and her sick child, and Chen Sanshi buried them.
• Chen Sanshi hunted demonic cultivators with his fellow disciples for over a month, and the Blind Woman secretly gave him seventy Copper Coins.
• Over the next two years, Chen Sanshi cultivated, improved his formation skills, and continued hunting, while the war spread and demonic cultivators in Sixue Dao became harder to find.
• Chen Sanshi noticed Cao Zhi following him and flew toward Qingxu Sect disciples, where Lu Zhiyong told him that something was wrong with a village.
• Chen Sanshi and Lu Zhiyong found that every resident of the village had died by suicide, leading Chen Sanshi to suspect that the demonic cultivators had a purpose beyond sacrifices or cultivating demonic arts.

The chapter consisted of disconnected scenes involving military preparations, hidden identities, battles, and escapes. It left the characters’ separate conflicts unresolved.

• Zhong Ling noticed Dilina’s unnatural voice and silently nodded.
• Pang Lan went upstairs to browse the finer goods.
• Avril pressed her fingerprint against the watch screen as instructed.
• Xiao Yi flew east after reassuring his companion that the enemy could not detect them.
• Zhao Xin’s full power caused Kangxi’s space to collapse around him.
• Sun Yanbing blocked the Yan Hai Sect cultivators from returning to their island.