Chapter Summaries

The rescued Immortal Kings stopped Boulder Immortal King from attacking Ye Feng after they recognized that his ability to devour demonic energy matched the Darkness Prophecy. As Boulder Immortal King argued with Changxi about Willow God, Ye Feng considered the prophecy’s origins and began guessing who the two Immortal Kings were.

• Bird Grandpa and Essence Wall Grandpa feared Boulder Immortal King would kill Ye Feng, but the other Immortal Kings intervened.
• The Immortal Kings told Boulder Immortal King that Ye Feng’s ability to devour demonic energy proved the Darkness Prophecy, making him reconsider his attack.
• Ye Feng recalled that the Ruthless Great Emperor had come from the future and rejected the idea that prophecy fixed his fate.
• Boulder Immortal King claimed Changxi was the only woman he could accept, and Changxi mocked his past affection for Willow God and fear of another person.
• Ye Feng suspected the other person was the Chaos God and studied Boulder Immortal King and Changxi, both of whom were ultimate Immortal Kings.

Ye Feng agreed to absorb the Dark Matter from the Immortal Kings’ demonized generals after learning that the White-Clothed Woman was Nine Leaves Sword Grass. The Immortal Kings rewarded Ye Feng’s companions, while Pan Shi began teaching the God Striking Stone a precious technique as Nine Leaves urged Ye Feng to get started.

• Nine Leaves asked Ye Feng whether Willow God’s little sister was alive, then asked him to save her sealed generals, and he agreed after learning her name.
• Ye Feng summoned Shi Hao, Huo Ling'er, Yun Xi, Vermilion Bird, Double Pupils Woman, Xia Youyu, and the others to request rewards from the Immortal Kings in exchange for helping their generals.
• Guei Ye and Double Pupils Woman received guidance that could help them break through to the Supreme Realm, while Shi Hao and the others obtained valuable gifts.
• Ye Feng teased the burly Immortal King about having given him Nine Leaves, and the burly man instead offered a fortuitous opportunity to the God Striking Stone.
• Pan Shi used golden light to instruct the God Striking Stone in a mysterious technique, and Nine Leaves told Ye Feng to begin absorbing the generals’ Dark Matter.

Ye Feng absorbed the demonic qi from the Illusory God Realm’s altars, freeing the imprisoned Immortal Kings and Divine Generals while allowing the realm to survive. The system rewarded him for overturning the original storyline, and he invested the attribute points in defense and strength.

• Ye Feng sensed that the burly man shared the God Striking Stone’s unique frequency and recognized him as a descendant of its clan.
• Nine Leaves Sword Grass used her sheathed sword to protect Ye Feng as he crossed the altars toward the True Phoenix Bone.
• Ye Feng absorbed the demonic qi into his body, storing some as a poison pellet and the rest in his Soft Bone Rabbit Right Leg Bone.
• Ye Feng drained the altars of demonic qi, freeing the surviving prisoners while some sealed beings from the Strange Clan turned to Ashes of Calamity.
• Nine Leaves Sword Grass and the other freed Immortal Kings and Divine Generals thanked Ye Feng and left the altar group.
• The system awarded Ye Feng 100,000 distributable Attribute Points and unsealed his soul bones, and he divided the points between defense and strength.

Ye Feng inspected his restored divine armor and studied the complete True Phoenix Precious Technique, realizing its Nirvana ability might let him survive opening the Eight Gates Formation’s Death Gate. He pranked Huo Ling'er by pretending to be injured, then gave her the remaining True Phoenix Bone to study, and she stomped on both his feet in retaliation.

• Ye Feng checked his status panel and found his soul bones restored, his strength and defense greatly increased, and his distributable attribute points spent.
• Ye Feng examined the second True Phoenix Bone, gained the complete True Phoenix Precious Technique, and considered using its Nirvana ability to survive the Eight Gates Formation’s Death Gate.
• Huo Ling'er arrived worried about Ye Feng, and he pretended to be hurt until Vermilion Bird exposed his prank.
• Ye Feng gave Huo Ling'er the remaining True Phoenix Bone so she and Vermilion Bird could study the runes.
• Huo Ling'er stomped on Ye Feng's other foot in punishment and declared they were even.

Huo Ling'er and Vermilion Bird began comprehending the True Phoenix Precious Technique while Ye Feng negotiated with Bird Grandpa to remove the demonic energy from him in exchange for the complete True Dragon Precious Techniques. Bird Grandpa agreed to hand them over, but the negotiations left Essence Wall Grandpa asking Ye Feng what he would demand to purify him.

• Huo Ling'er and Vermilion Bird began comprehending the True Phoenix Precious Technique from the True Phoenix Bone.
• Essence Wall Grandpa and Bird Grandpa asked Ye Feng to absorb the demonic energy invading their bodies so they could avoid becoming demons.
• Ye Feng demanded the True Dragon Precious Technique from Bird Grandpa, who offered one technique and then two before Ye Feng tried to walk away.
• Bird Grandpa agreed to give Ye Feng all the complete True Dragon Precious Techniques but asked him not to pass them on, and Ye Feng refused that condition.
• Essence Wall Grandpa urged Bird Grandpa to stop making demands, then asked Ye Feng what conditions he required to remove his demonic energy.

Ye Feng agreed to remove Essence Wall Grandpa’s demonic energy without asking for anything, while Bird Grandpa taught him the complete True Dragon Precious Technique. Ye Feng began purifying Bird Grandpa’s demonic energy and prepared to help Essence Wall Grandpa as well.

• Essence Wall Grandpa offered Ye Feng a reward for removing his demonic energy, but Ye Feng said he had no requests.
• Bird Grandpa protested that he had to teach Ye Feng the complete True Dragon Precious Technique, then agreed after Essence Wall Grandpa urged him to focus on curing their demonic energy.
• Essence Wall Grandpa suggested Ye Feng collected powerful techniques like Reincarnation, and Bird Grandpa gladly taught him the complete True Dragon Precious Technique.
• Ye Feng reflected that he could not sense how to fuse the True Dragon and True Phoenix Precious Techniques, despite possessing both.
• Ye Feng used his spiritual power and Heavenly Flames to purify the demonic energy inside Bird Grandpa.

Ye Feng helped Stone Village grow stronger through the True Phoenix Precious Technique and the spread of the Dao De Jing, while the approaching calamity threatened the Lower Realm. After Huo Ling'er warned him about suspicious outsiders near the village, Ye Feng went to check on Willow God and discovered she reacted shyly when he touched her roots.

• Ye Feng brought everyone back to Stone Village to study the True Phoenix Bone, then left it with Willow God so villagers could learn the True Phoenix Precious Technique in turn.
• Huo Ling'er told Ye Feng that the Fire Emperor and Stone Kingdom had spread the Dao De Jing, and Ye Feng explained that it was inspiring new cultivation systems across Perfect World.
• Huo Ling'er worried that the great calamity would arrive before the Desolate Region had time to prepare, while Ye Feng noted the Lower Realm’s incomplete laws and its limits.
• Huo Ling'er watched Shi Hu break through to the Array Formation Realm as Stone Village villagers continued advancing through their cultivation realms.
• Huo Ling'er warned Ye Feng that suspicious outsiders, including people from Immortal Dao Lineages, were gathering near Stone Village to track the venerable ones for the Upper Realm.
• Ye Feng went to see Willow God and stroked her exposed roots; her branches trembled as if she were shy.

Nine Leaves Sword Grass visited Willow God in Stone Village and discussed the Seven Kings of the Borderland and the coming dark turmoil. Meanwhile, Ye Feng and the others headed out for training, where they learned that the Blood God Tower had accepted a contract to assassinate them.

• Ye Feng teased Willow God until Nine Leaves Sword Grass arrived and revealed that he had been touching the spot where her trunk met her roots.
• Willow God asked Ye Feng to leave while she caught up with Nine Leaves Sword Grass, who said she wanted to clear the Seven Kings of the Borderland's name and find the woman behind the Darkness Prophecy.
• Two days later, Ye Feng took Shi Hao, Shi Er Meng, and Stone Skin Monkey out for training while Nine Leaves Sword Grass stayed in Stone Village.
• Shi Hao and his companions reached a city without encountering the expected ambush, and Huo Ling'er told them the Hall of Assassins had accepted contracts to kill them.
• Huo Ling'er said more than twenty employers wanted Shi Hao dead and that the bounty on Ye Feng had exceeded one hundred Rune Bones.

Ye Feng learned that Heaven had ordered assassin forces to target him, Shi Hao, Guei Ye’s disciple Shi Qingfeng, and Heaven Mending Pavilion. After Shi Hao and the others left to deal with the threat, Ye Feng took Huo Ling'er shopping in Medicine Capital, ostensibly to buy medicinal ingredients.

• Huo Ling'er told Ye Feng that the Blood God Tower had placed bounties on him, Shi Hao, Shi Er Meng, Stone Skin Monkey, and Shi Qingfeng.
• Ye Feng concluded that Heaven had ordered the assassination missions to target Guei Ye and everyone connected to him, including Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Huo Ling'er explained that Heaven Mending Pavilion's Pavilion Master and elders had destroyed more than thirty assassin forces after their disciples were attacked.
• Ye Feng told Shi Hao and the others to go out, and Shi Hao led Shi Er Meng, Stone Skin Monkey, and Shi Qingfeng away to deal with the assassins.
• Ye Feng received 123 distributable Attribute Points for overturning the original storyline when the assassin forces accepted the mission.
• Ye Feng invited Huo Ling'er to shop for medicinal ingredients in Medicine Capital, while she suspected he wanted to draw out assassins.

Ye Feng and Huo Ling'er shopped in Medicine Capital, where they bought a bone that Huo Ling'er recognized as a Phoenix Bone. After refining it and adding her blood, they unlocked the secret of the Ancient Vermilion Bird Seventh Strike, Starfire.

• Huo Ling'er linked arms with Ye Feng as they walked through the city, and Ye Feng teased her about Stone Village's marriage customs.
• Ye Feng questioned a seller about a supposed True Dragon Bone and bought the bone at a reasonable price.
• Huo Ling'er sensed the bone's hidden mystery and recognized it as a Phoenix Bone.
• Ye Feng refined the Phoenix Bone into a crystalline drop, but its runes remained unreadable.
• Huo Ling'er added her blood to the drop, awakening its runes, and she and Ye Feng identified the secret as the Ancient Vermilion Bird Seventh Strike, Starfire.

Ye Feng and Huo Ling'er discovered the True Phoenix Bone contained the Ancient Vermilion Bird Seventh Strike, Starfire, and Huo Ling'er claimed it for Fire Nation. After Medicine God Sect disciples tried to rob them, Huo Ling'er fought back and challenged the sect’s senior disciple to a fight.

• Huo Ling'er deciphered the Ancient Vermilion Bird Seventh Strike, Starfire, and recognized the droplet as a True Phoenix Bone; Ye Feng confirmed he had memorized the technique.
• Ye Feng allowed Huo Ling'er to take the droplet for Fire Nation and place it in her Universe Bag.
• Two Medicine God Sect men demanded Ye Feng and Huo Ling'er hand over their Universe Bags as a protection fee, and Huo Ling'er realized they were trying to rob them.
• Huo Ling'er bound the two men with the Ancient Vermilion Bird First Strike, then punished the Medicine God Sect disciples who came to their aid.
• A Medicine God Sect senior brother confronted Huo Ling'er, and she declared she would tear down the sect; he prepared to fight her.

Huo Ling'er used the Ancient Vermilion Bird Seventh Strike to destroy Medicine God Sect disciples and repel their Supreme Elder before she and Ye Feng entered the Medicine God's Courtyard to search for the Medicine God's legacy. Ye Feng sensed someone hiding inside the temple.

• Huo Ling'er burned the Medicine God Sect's Senior Brother to ash with Starfire, and the spreading ashes ignited nearby disciples and vegetation.
• Huo Ling'er discussed the power of the Ancient Vermilion Bird's later strikes with Ye Feng and noticed that the area appeared to be a ruin.
• The Medicine God Sect's Supreme Elder attacked Huo Ling'er, but she shattered his palm technique with one finger, forcing him to apologize and leave.
• Ye Feng led Huo Ling'er into the abandoned Medicine God's Courtyard, where they searched for the Medicine God's opportunity and a Pill Recipe.
• Ye Feng sensed someone hiding in a corner of the divine temple and called them out.

Yun Xi reunited with Ye Feng and Huo Ling'er at the temple, where the Medicine God Sect’s Supreme Elder returned with powerful defenses. Huo Ling'er broke through them with her Bloodline Power, and the Double Pupils Woman descended to face Ye Feng, leaving the Supreme Elder startled by his name.

• Yun Xi revealed herself to Huo Ling'er and Ye Feng, and Huo Ling'er greeted her warmly.
• The Medicine God Sect’s Supreme Elder called the group out of the temple, and Huo Ling'er attacked him but found his defenses strengthened.
• Huo Ling'er activated her Bloodline Power and used the Ancient Vermilion Bird Sixth Strike to break the Supreme Elder’s Guard rune and send him flying.
• The Supreme Elder called for help as a staircase descended from the heavens, and Ye Feng stopped Huo Ling'er from delivering a final blow.
• The Double Pupils Woman descended and questioned Ye Feng about whether he knew she was behind the Supreme Elder’s actions.
• The Supreme Elder asked the Double Pupils Woman if Ye Feng was his name.

Ye Feng learned why the Double Pupils Woman had come to the Medicine God Sect and accepted a bronze fragment that could lead to an Emperor Butterfly. He followed the Supreme Elder into Divine Valley to find the fragment’s other half, entering the first of more than a hundred formations guarding the First Spirit Root.

• The Double Pupils Woman revealed that she had promised the Medicine God to protect his sect during a future calamity, and the Supreme Elder of the Medicine God Sect begged Ye Feng for forgiveness.
• The Supreme Elder offered Ye Feng rare medicinal herbs and a World Treasure Box fragment, explaining that the complete artifact could reveal the resting place of an Emperor Butterfly.
• Ye Feng ordered the Supreme Elder to take him to the other half of the fragment, which was said to lie with the Medicine God’s youngest son in the Secluded Cave beneath Divine Valley.
• The Double Pupils Woman warned Ye Feng that more than a hundred formations guarded the First Spirit Root, then followed him and the others through a Teleportation Array into Divine Valley.
• Ye Feng reached the first formation, a desolate place that drained the vitality of living things, and knew that Upper Realm giants had built the formations to protect and nourish the First Spirit Root.

Ye Feng entered the formations surrounding the First Spirit Root with Huo Ling'er, Yun Xi, the Double Pupils Woman, and Lin Kun, then retrieved the missing half of the World Treasure Box himself. After Lin Kun’s attempt to make him the Medicine God Sect’s master failed, Lin Kun declared Ye Feng the sect master under a supposed sect rule, and Huo Ling'er warned that the sect was trying to latch onto him.

• Lin Kun led Ye Feng and the others through the second formation and into the third, where Medicine God Sect disciples had been studying the remaining restrictions.
• The Double Pupils Woman explained that the First Spirit Root could likely only be obtained during great chaos in the Desolate Region and offered to help Ye Feng break the formation.
• Ye Feng used Suction Palm to draw the bronze fragment from a corpse in the mist, completing the World Treasure Box.
• Ye Feng rejected Lin Kun’s request to become his disciple and used Chaos Qi to activate the World Treasure Box, becoming its master.
• Lin Kun claimed that whoever obtained the World Treasure Box became the Medicine God Sect’s sect master, and Huo Ling'er warned Ye Feng that the sect wanted him as its guardian deity.

Ye Feng accepted Lin Kun’s request and became the Medicine God Sect’s Guardian Spirit, then found and opened the Divine Ice Jar containing the Emperor Butterfly. The newly awakened larva fed on Ye Feng’s Chaos Stone, and the chapter ended with Ye Feng revealing that it was female.

• Lin Kun asked Ye Feng to protect the Medicine God Sect, and Ye Feng agreed to become its Guardian Spirit.
• Lin Kun led Ye Feng and the others to the sect’s forbidden grounds, where they found the Divine Ice Jar beside the earth vein spirit root.
• The Double Pupils Woman said Ye Feng’s willow leaf and Chaos Stone could sustain the Emperor Butterfly and asked to take it for three days after it became a butterfly.
• Ye Feng opened the Divine Ice Jar, and the Emperor Butterfly emerged from its golden pill form as a silkworm larva.
• The larva tried to eat Ye Feng’s willow branch, so he offered it the Chaos Stone, and it began feeding on it.
• The Medicine God Sect disciples congratulated Ye Feng, who received 23 distributable Attribute Points and told Huo Ling’er that the larva was female.

Ye Feng gave the Emperor Butterfly larva to the Double Pupils Woman and promised to pay for its upkeep, then reunited with Shi Hao and the others in the Medicine Capital. After they rejected Immortality Mountain’s summons, Yun Xi said farewell to Ye Feng and left for the Upper Realm.

• Ye Feng gave the Emperor Butterfly larva to the Double Pupils Woman and handed her his Chaos Stones to cover its expenses.
• The Double Pupils Woman chose to stay in the Medicine Capital, where she hoped to obtain the First Spirit Root.
• Ye Feng and his companions returned to find Shi Hao, Stone Skin Monkey, Shi Er Meng, and Shi Qingfeng had killed assassins and displayed their heads at the city gates.
• Immortality Mountain sent Ye Feng and Shi Hao an edict ordering them to appear, but they refused to go and Shi Qingfeng called for the edict to be destroyed.
• Yun Xi urged Ye Feng to leave the Lower Realm with her, but he stayed for its resources and the coming chaos; she hugged him goodbye and left for the Upper Realm.

Yun Xi left for the Upper Realm, while Ye Feng stayed in Stone Village as the Desolate Region catastrophe approached. Nine Leaves Sword Grass agreed to help Ye Feng clear the names of the Seven Kings of the Borderland, then stunned the villagers by telling him to carry Willow God around the village when she formed a Spirit Body.

• Yun Xi left for Heavenly God Mountain after Ye Feng refused to accompany her to the Upper Realm, and Huo Ling'er watched her go.
• The Double Pupils Woman warned Ye Feng not to forget the Emperor Butterfly larva's child support before leaving the inn.
• Ye Feng returned to Stone Village and spent a month refining pills and medicines for the Emperor Butterfly.
• Willow God trembled as the catastrophe neared, and Nine Leaves Sword Grass explained that powerful beings from the Upper Realm were probing the Lower Realm's laws.
• Nine Leaves Sword Grass agreed to help Ye Feng clear the names of the Seven Kings of the Borderland, but said she would not fight the Divine Generals unless Ye Feng's life was in danger.
• Nine Leaves Sword Grass told Ye Feng to carry Willow God around Stone Village for ten laps when she formed a Spirit Body, shocking the villagers.

The White-Clothed Woman revealed that Ye Feng was likely the person Willow God’s master had chosen for her, and she arranged for him to carry Willow God around Stone Village. Willow God manifested her powerful dharma body, but when Ye Feng tried to lift her, she dodged him.

• The White-Clothed Woman told Willow God that Ye Feng matched the person her master had arranged for her, and Willow God silently accepted the proposed marriage.
• Ye Feng agreed to carry Willow God around Stone Village ten times after reading her response.
• The White-Clothed Woman announced that Willow God’s time had come, and Willow God emerged from her tree in a magnificent dharma body.
• The villagers and visiting Venerables knelt in awe before Willow God, while Ye Feng recognized that the White-Clothed Woman was an Immortal King.
• At the White-Clothed Woman’s urging, Ye Feng approached Willow God to carry her, but Willow God flashed away as he reached for her.

Willow God agreed to Ye Feng’s request on the condition that he marry her and Nine Leaves Sword Grass, revealing that Nine Leaves liked him too. Huo Ling’er then arrived in Stone Village and urged Ye Feng to go to the women, while the Desolate Region faced impending chaos.

• Ye Feng became annoyed when Willow God hesitated to let him carry her around Stone Village, but she explained that she wanted to add a condition.
• Willow God revealed a playful promise she and Nine Leaves Sword Grass had made about sharing husbands, and Ye Feng realized Nine Leaves had been pursuing him indirectly.
• Nine Leaves admitted that Ye Feng gave her a feeling she had never experienced before, and Stone Village’s residents envied him for winning the affection of both women.
• Ye Feng asked why Huo Ling’er had come to Stone Village instead of taking refuge with the Fire Nation royal family in Saint Emperor Palace.
• Huo Ling’er said Stone Village was livelier and urged Ye Feng to go to Willow God and Nine Leaves Sword Grass.