Chapter Summaries

Ling Xuanxiao sought the Burial Dust Samsara Mirror while keeping Xiao Qing under guard and learning the legend behind the treasure. The chapter left Yellow Sand City in uproar after Huang Chengan announced that Shu Mountain Remnants were hiding there.

• Ling Xuanxiao ordered Nangong Wan to investigate Huang Chengan, the Yellow Sand Sect's master, in Yellow Sand City.
• Xiao Qing woke in Di Nüfeng's room and was immobilized when she tried to escape.
• Ling Xuanxiao told Xiao Qing her family had been killed by the Snake God and offered her a way to avoid capture in exchange for the Burial Dust Samsara Mirror.
• Xiao Qing revealed the legend that the Ancient Snake God used the mirror and sacrifices to become immortal, and that her Golden Family guarded it.
• Huang Chengan's sand statue came alive and announced to Yellow Sand City's citizens that Shu Mountain Remnants were in the city.

Huang Chengan publicly taunted Li Xuanxiao, revealed his master Gou Shengzi’s role in Shu Mountain’s destruction, and displayed the corpses of Shu Mountain disciples to lure Li out. As Nangong Wan learned Li’s identity and Xiao Qing agreed to help him find the Burial Dust Samsara Mirror, Li’s avatar sensed the Self Corpse entering the inn.

• Huang Chengan announced that Li Xuanxiao was in Yellow Sand City and challenged him to come to the Yellow Sand Sect for revenge.
• Nangong Wan realized that Li Xuanxiao was a Shu Mountain disciple after hearing Huang Chengan’s speech.
• Huang Chengan dropped the corpses of Shu Mountain disciples from the sky and taunted Li to retrieve them.
• Xiao Qing recognized Li Xuanxiao as a disciple of Silver Sword Peak and offered to help him find the Burial Dust Samsara Mirror in exchange for safe passage from Yellow Sand City.
• Li Xuanxiao’s avatar froze when the Self Corpse swaggered into the inn.

Li Xuanxiao’s Self Corpse openly attacked the Yellow Sand Sect disciples at an inn, prompting Li Xuanxiao and Di Nüfeng to reveal themselves and intervene. As Huang Chengan called for his senior brother, a gigantic face made of lightning appeared in the sky.

• Li Xuanxiao recognized his Self Corpse entering the inn with Nangong Wan and realized it was making no effort to hide.
• Zhang Yuanying identified Self Corpse Li Xuanxiao, who killed two disciples and pierced Zhang Yuanying’s chest before unleashing the Myriad Souls Banner on the others.
• Li Xuanxiao confronted his Self Corpse, and Di Nüfeng emerged; her Dharma Eyes confirmed that both Li Xuanxiaos were real.
• Huang Chengan arrived and attacked, but Di Nüfeng shattered his lightning with a punch and sent him flying.
• Huang Chengan called out to his senior brother, and an enormous face formed from lightning appeared in the sky.

Di Nüfeng began crossing her tribulation as Li Xuanxiao and his Self Corpse fought Huang Chengan. After Huang Chengan struck down what appeared to be Li Xuanxiao, the two Li Xuanxiaos joined forces and awakened the Myriad Souls Banner against him.

• Di Nüfeng released her suppressed cultivation and rose toward the enormous lightning palm forming in the clouds.
• Li Xuanxiao used his sword formation and Five Poisons Corrupting Heart Palm to halt Huang Chengan while his Self Corpse drew Huang Chengan away.
• Li Xuanxiao's Self Corpse tried to teleport with the Myriad Souls Banner, but Li Xuanxiao took control of it, leaving Huang Chengan to pierce Li Xuanxiao's body.
• The apparent corpse transformed into poisonous vines that trapped Huang Chengan as Li Xuanxiao and his Self Corpse attacked him from both sides.
• The two Li Xuanxiaos joined forces to wield the Myriad Souls Banner, whose runes flared as they poured spiritual power into it.

Li Xuanxiao escaped Yellow Sand City with Nangong Wan after his Self Corpse fled Huang Chengan and the city descended into chaos. Outside the city, Xiao Qing explained the Snake People Tribe’s moving Shrine, and Li Xuanxiao asked Di Nüfeng if she could locate it.

• Li Xuanxiao failed to reclaim the Myriad Souls Banner as it pulled Self Corpse Li Xuanxiao inside and flew away, then fled when Huang Chengan broke free and unleashed his Dao Domain.
• Huang Chengan’s thunder killed several cultivators, and he returned to Yellow Sand City furious over Zhang Yuanying’s death and the disappearance of the Shu Mountain Disciple’s remains.
• Nangong Wan found Li Xuanxiao after being wounded and trapped in the sealed city; he gave her healing medicine and led her away.
• Li Xuanxiao collected the Shu Mountain Disciple’s remains into the Myriad Souls Banner, and he and Nangong Wan escaped Yellow Sand City through black mist.
• Huang Chengan ordered the Snake People Tribe to search the desert for Li Xuanxiao, promising to help them find the fragment they sought.
• Outside the city, Xiao Qing described the Shrine’s deadly rules and shifting location, and Li Xuanxiao asked Di Nüfeng whether she could sense it.

Xiao Qing led Li Xuanxiao and Di Nüfeng to the hidden entrance of the Snake God's shrine in the desert. With the shrine located, Li Xuanxiao called for reinforcements from the Heavenly Fiend Hall as the group prepared for a dangerous confrontation.

• Xiao Qing revealed that she had tracked the shrine's movements for years and knew where its entrance would appear.
• Half a month later, Xiao Qing guided Di Nüfeng and Li Xuanxiao through the desert and identified the entrance's location.
• Di Nüfeng could sense the shrine only from the precise spot Xiao Qing indicated, and Xiao Qing explained that the entrance would soon disappear.
• Li Xuanxiao judged that Di Nüfeng could not face the Snake God and other powerful cultivators alone, so he asked her to summon the Heavenly Fiend Hall.
• Di Nüfeng said she had already sent Zhang Tianxin a command arrow, crushed her transmission talisman, and the Flying Ships turned back toward them.

Di Nüfeng and the Snake God battled outside the Snake People shrine while Li Xuanxiao entered it with Xiao Qing to claim the Burial Dust Samsara Mirror. Huang Chengan confronted them in the hall, leaving Li Xuanxiao facing a powerful group as he prepared to fight for the mirror.

• Di Nüfeng overwhelmed three Snake People leaders, but Mo Zi arrived from Yellow Sand City to challenge her.
• The Snake God emerged from beneath the earth and attacked Di Nüfeng with flames as the Heavenly Fiend Hall's Four Guardian Vajras approached.
• Li Xuanxiao followed Xiao Qing through the shrine, reached the hall containing the Burial Dust Samsara Mirror, and cut its chains with Sword Qi.
• Huang Chengan entered the hall with seven cultivators and confronted Li Xuanxiao as he caught the falling mirror and shielded Xiao Qing.

Li Xuanxiao escaped the divine shrine with the Burial Dust Samsara Mirror as the Snake God fought Di Nüfeng, only for the Snake God to be revealed as the Mirror Spirit’s vessel. When the Mirror Spirit’s transformation triggered a heavenly tribulation, Li Xuanxiao seized the chance to return his natal True Essence to heaven and earth and prepare to break through into Deity Transformation.

• The Ancient Snake God ordered the nine Snake People leaders to form a formation against Di Nüfeng, while the battle between Heavenly Fiend Hall and the Snake People Tribe continued outside.
• Li Xuanxiao took the Burial Dust Samsara Mirror and fled through the collapsing halls with Xiao Qing’s guidance as Huang Chengan pursued him.
• The colossal serpent manifestation poisoned and wounded Di Nüfeng, but the Snake God turned back toward the shrine after sensing the mirror had been taken.
• A giant hand tore apart the Snake God, and the Mirror Spirit revealed that it had been using the Snake God as a shell to accumulate immortal source and transform into an immortal.
• Heavenly lightning descended as the Mirror Spirit revealed its true form, and Li Xuanxiao returned his hundred years of natal True Essence to heaven and earth to prepare for a Deity Transformation breakthrough.

Li Xuanxiao used the Mirror God's attempt to defy heaven to trigger his own heavenly tribulation, and the two tribulations battered them both. As the Mirror God faced destruction, Li Xuanxiao began forcing his Nascent Soul to transform into a god.

• Li Xuanxiao unleashed his suppressed cultivation as the Mirror God took over the Ancient Snake God's body, causing their heavenly tribulations to overlap.
• The tribulation shattered the Ancient Snake God's body and soul, while Di Nüfeng tried and failed to reach Li Xuanxiao through the lightning.
• A golden wheel of fate appeared, and a second, more powerful wave of tribulation struck the Mirror God and Li Xuanxiao.
• The Ancient Snake God's remains vanished, and a pale, hairless person crawled out from within them.
• The tribulation showed the Mirror God visions of his past and future deaths, cracking his Dao heart as white lights rained down upon him.
• With the Mirror God near defeat, Li Xuanxiao clenched his fist and began breaking through from Nascent Soul toward god transformation.

After killing the Mirror God, Li Xuanxiao absorbed the tribulation lightning and broke through from Nascent Soul to Spirit Transformation. He confronted Huang Chengan, overcame his Snow Mountain Painting, and killed him while Di Nüfeng held Mo Zi back.

• Li Xuanxiao absorbed the tribulation lightning, reforged his body, and reached Spirit Transformation.
• Li Xuanxiao emerged from the ruined shrine and met Huang Chengan’s attack head-on, revealing his newfound strength.
• Huang Chengan summoned a Snow Mountain Painting, and Li Xuanxiao’s golden sword light shattered the manifested mountain.
• Mo Zi charged toward Li Xuanxiao, but Di Nüfeng blocked him and fought him despite the poison spreading through her body.
• Li Xuanxiao pierced Huang Chengan’s throat with Sword Qi and finished him by driving sword light through his skull.

Gou Shengzi divined that a Shushan Remnant could one day kill him after Huang Chengan’s death, while Li Xuanxiao stayed in Yellow Sand City. Nangong Wan escaped Li Xuanxiao and returned to find her parents dead and her uncle leading the Nangong Lineage, then fainted.

• Gou Shengzi learned that Huang Chengan had been killed by a Shushan Disciple and divined that this person might one day kill him.
• Nangong Wan received a letter saying her parents had died and concealed her distress from Li Xuanxiao.
• Li Xuanxiao reflected on the impact of Huang Chengan’s death and welcomed the fear it would spread among his enemies.
• Nangong Wan dug the Gu Worm from her body, escaped Li Xuanxiao, and traveled home.
• Nangong Wan found her family in mourning and learned that Nangong Lin had become the Lineage head.
• Madam Sun bluntly confirmed Nangong Wan’s parents were dead, and Nangong Wan fainted.

Nangong Wan was forced by Nangong Lin and Madam Sun to marry Sun Shoucai and change her surname, but she killed him on their wedding night. As Nangong Lin struck her amid the ensuing attack, Li Xuanxiao appeared to protect her and told her to call him Master.

• Nangong Wan refused to marry Sun Shoucai, but Nangong Lin had her confined and Madam Sun urged him to secure their position by changing her surname.
• Two months later, Madam Sun sent Nangong Wan to marry Sun Shoucai, and Nangong Lin announced that she would take the Sun surname and eventually be removed from the family register.
• On their wedding night, Sun Shoucai entered the bridal chamber and tore away Nangong Wan's veil, but she killed him with a flash of light.
• Covered in blood and surrounded by attackers, Nangong Wan ran out of strength, and Nangong Lin struck at her with his palm.
• Li Xuanxiao appeared in front of Nangong Wan, who recognized him, and told her to call him Master.

Li Xuanxiao intervened when Nangong Lin tried to kill Nangong Wan, then slaughtered the Nangong and Sun family members who attacked them. Afterward, he left Nangong Wan alive, while Di Nüfeng continued to suffer from her wound and Li Xuanxiao took precautions against Heavenly Dao suppression.

• Li Xuanxiao caught Nangong Lin's strike against Nangong Wan and sent him flying.
• Li Xuanxiao defeated the Nangong clansmen and cut down the Sun family members who rushed to attack.
• Nangong Lin tried to placate Li Xuanxiao and invite Nangong Wan home, but Li Xuanxiao struck him down despite Nangong Wan's plea.
• Li Xuanxiao kicked Nangong Wan away and left her alive; she accepted that he had saved her and faced the deaths of her family.
• Di Nüfeng coughed up poisonous blood from her unhealed wound and avoided Li Xuanxiao, who continued cultivating and sealed his Primordial Spirit's aura to reduce the risk of Heavenly Dao suppression.

Li Xuanxiao found Di Nüfeng gravely poisoned by the Ancient Snake God's Natal Snake Poison and searched for a cure. He discovered a way to detoxify her, but it required two exceptionally rare ingredients, and he promised she would not die while he was there.

• Li Xuanxiao planned to leave seclusion for ancient battlefield ruins, but Zhang Tianxin told him something had happened to Di Nüfeng.
• Li Xuanxiao entered Di Nüfeng's bedchamber and found her weakened, with bluish-purple veins and a foul-smelling wound.
• Li Xuanxiao realized Di Nüfeng had been poisoned by the Ancient Snake God and examined her severe injuries.
• After half a month of research and travel, Li Xuanxiao identified the poison as Natal Snake Poison, which had taken root in Di Nüfeng's nine vital acupoints and consumed her lifespan.
• Li Xuanxiao found a detoxification method, but it required scarce ingredients, including one unavailable in the Central Continent.
• Di Nüfeng asked if she would die, and Li Xuanxiao promised she would not while he was there.

Li Xuanxiao and Zhang Tianxin fought their way out of a trap while buying supplies to treat Di Nüfeng’s poisoning. With Extreme Toad Poison still missing, Li Xuanxiao set out with Di Nüfeng for the northern frozen lands, while Heaven’s Secrets Tower identified her condition and sent Mo Zi after them.

• Li Xuanxiao spotted a fake Blood Spirit Crystal during a trade, then he and Zhang Tianxin were ambushed aboard the merchant vessel and fought their way free.
• Zhang Tianxin told an enemy that the Heavenly Fiend Hall was not finished, though the hall was suffering losses and unrest under pursuit by the Extreme Demon Guard.
• Li Xuanxiao found that Extreme Toad Poison was the only required ingredient still missing and decided to search the northern frozen lands himself.
• Li Xuanxiao warned Di Nüfeng not to use spiritual power, disguised her with a headscarf, and departed with her several days later.
• Gou Shengzi concluded that Di Nüfeng had been poisoned by the Snake God's natal venom and ordered Mo Zi to pursue Li Xuanxiao and bring back his corpse.

Cao Changjing refused an offer to return to Burial Soldier City and was trapped by three former senior brothers, while Ling Xuanxiao listened from the next room. As the formation closed in on Cao Changjing, it suddenly shattered, leaving everyone stunned.

• Heavenly Fiend Hall sent Flying Ships to seek the Ice Poison Toad, but a black-robed man ambushed the fleet and demanded the release of the Shushan Disciples.
• Ling Xuanxiao traveled north aboard a Flying Ship fleet, taking pills to strengthen himself and giving a medicinal pill to the sleeping Di Nüfeng.
• A messenger told Cao Changjing that Wen Yuan would forgive his past and let him return to Burial Soldier City, but Cao Changjing refused.
• The messenger trapped Cao Changjing in a spatial formation with three former senior brothers, who attacked him with coordinated flying swords.
• Cao Changjing fought back with his iron hammer but was wounded and nearly defeated before the formation suddenly broke.

Li Xuanxiao helped Cao Changjing defeat three Spirit Transformation Stage cultivators who attacked him aboard the Flying Ship, then met him under the name Zhang Haoran. He learned Cao Changjing was bound for Cangzhou and claimed he needed rare Extreme Toad Poison to save his gravely ill wife.

• Li Xuanxiao used a formation and a poisonous palm strike to help Cao Changjing break the attackers’ formation and force the three men off the Flying Ship.
• Li Xuanxiao ambushed the three men as they fled, killed them with talismans and poison, and erased the traces of the battle.
• Cao Changjing thanked the disguised Li Xuanxiao, who introduced himself as Zhang Haoran and accepted an invitation to drink.
• While drinking, Li Xuanxiao learned Cao Changjing was revisiting an old place in Cangzhou and told him he sought Extreme Toad Poison to save his gravely ill wife.

Ling Xuanxiao traveled with Cao Changjing aboard the Qianfeng Merchant Group’s Flying Ship fleet to Cangzhou, preparing supplies and helping Di Nüfeng endure the teleportation. After Snow Monsters launched an unexpectedly massive assault and halted the fleet, the passengers faced a crisis in the devastated region.

• Ling Xuanxiao bought poison, alchemy materials, puppet materials, and talisman paper aboard the Flying Ships while building rapport with Cao Changjing.
• During the fleet’s teleportation, Di Nüfeng suffered pain as the formation stirred the poison in her body and leaned against Ling Xuanxiao.
• The fleet emerged above Cangzhou’s snow mountains, where Snow Monsters attacked the Flying Ships.
• Armored snow-mountain apes swarmed the ships, while chains from the mountains tore at their defenses and brought the fleet to a halt.
• Cao Changjing recalled Cangzhou’s devastation after the great battle, and the merchant group leader urged everyone to stop watching and help.

Qin Wenke helped the White Ape Leader unite the snow mountain tribes and ambush a fleet of Flying Ships. After a three-day battle, he joined the White Ape Leader in negotiating a price for the fleet, where his identity as a Shushan Disciple was recognized.

• The White Ape Leader recalled sparing Qin Wenke, a captured Shushan Disciple, and later relying on his counsel to unify several tribes.
• Qin Wenke warned the White Ape Leader that the fleet’s defenders were holding back to avoid mutual ruin, and advised negotiating for a higher price once the battle had worn them down.
• After three days of fighting left both sides exhausted and the Flying Ships immobilized, the White Ape Leader sent a representative to negotiate, but the first talks failed.
• The White Ape Leader brought Qin Wenke aboard the Flying Ship for the second day of negotiations, where several cultivators recognized him as a Shushan Disciple.
• The caravan leader and the White Ape Leader agreed on a price, then the caravan leader mocked them as Qin Wenke and the White Ape Leader prepared to leave.

Qin Wenke recognized Li Xuanxiao among the crowd, then found a message declaring that Shushan had not perished. Li Xuanxiao and Cao Changjing traveled to Cangzhou, where Cao Changjing planned to introduce him to someone who might know about the Ice Poison Toad.

• The caravan leader and cultivators mocked Qin Wenke for being a Shushan Disciple, until Qin Wenke spotted Li Xuanxiao in the crowd.
• Li Xuanxiao vanished before Qin Wenke could approach him, and Qin Wenke left the Flying Ship with the White Ape Leader.
• After the caravan departed, Qin Wenke found a Shushan jade pendant bearing the words “Shushan Has Not Perished!!”
• Li Xuanxiao drank with Cao Changjing, who said their next contact might know about the Ice Poison Toad.
• Two months later, Li Xuanxiao and Di Nüfeng disembarked with Cao Changjing in Cangzhou, where Cao Changjing described the region’s growing disorder.