Chapter Summaries

Li Xuanxiao’s killing of Fanyue transformed his tribulation into a Six-Nine Great Heavenly Tribulation as he approached a Supreme-grade Golden Core. As the final bolt descended, he drew it away from the mountain to protect the beings there, leaving him vulnerable to the watching Evil Cultivators.

• After Li Xuanxiao killed Fanyue and gained immeasurable merit, his Four-Nine Minor Heavenly Tribulation changed into a Six-Nine Great Heavenly Tribulation.
• Li Xuanxiao prepared layers of protective clothing and magical items before the purple lightning struck him.
• Heavenly Cripple and Earthly Defect recognized that Li Xuanxiao was forming a Supreme-grade Golden Core and planned to kill him and take it after the tribulation.
• Li Xuanxiao endured the lightning with the Flood Dragon Armor and used a Dao character and medicinal silver needles to strengthen his Golden Core.
• When the final bolt threatened the mountain’s living beings, Li Xuanxiao flew away from his tribulation site and drew the lightning after him.
• Feng Sanniang and the lame old man watched Li Xuanxiao risk his life and prepared to take advantage of his compassion.

Ling Xuanxiao survived the tribulation and formed a Supreme-grade Golden Core, but his weakened state drew hostile cultivators who tried to exploit his compassion. He escaped their ambushes and killed the Lame Old Daoist, then continued fleeing as the Gold-Silver Blood Snake's poison began affecting him.

• Ling Xuanxiao emerged from the lightning tribulation with a Supreme-grade Golden Core and sensed numerous cultivators gathering nearby.
• Feng Sanniang threw a pair of Dao companions toward her pythons to force Ling Xuanxiao to choose whom to save, but he attacked and killed her while the pair died to the snakes.
• Ling Xuanxiao fled into the forest and used traps to kill the two one-armed brothers and the other pursuers following him.
• The Lame Old Daoist caught up and struck Ling Xuanxiao, but an Acquired Spirit Treasure absorbed the blow, and Gold-Silver Blood Snake venom killed the Daoist.
• Ling Xuanxiao finished off the Lame Old Daoist and kept fleeing, though his vision blurred and he needed a place to recuperate.

After recovering from his tribulation, Li Xuanxiao emerged from underground into Luoshui Town, where he could not use spiritual power and found a set of conflicting rules governing the town. As night approached, he entered a brightly lit inn to seek shelter.

• Li Xuanxiao spent three months recovering underground while his two puppets took turns digging.
• Li Xuanxiao emerged and discovered that he could neither circulate spiritual power nor use his earth-escape technique.
• Li Xuanxiao saw eleven rules for Luoshui Town appear, including restrictions on leaving, nighttime candles, and reporting to the Government Office.
• Li Xuanxiao reasoned that he had entered a rule-bound Blessed Land created by a deceased Integrated Body Realm Cultivator.
• As night neared, Li Xuanxiao walked through the quiet town and entered an inn, where the waiter asked if he wanted to stay.

Li Xuanxiao gathered with other trapped cultivators and confronted the rule requiring new residents to report to the Government Office, where they would lose their five senses. He found a way to satisfy both rules and left the Government Office with his senses restored.

• Li Xuanxiao explained the town's rules to Wen Qi and two other Qingmen Mountain Sect disciples, then went to his room to consider the reporting deadline and its penalty.
• Li Xuanxiao reunited with Zhang Tianxin and Han Yao, who had entered the town and delayed reporting to the Government Office.
• The next day, Li Xuanxiao and the others saw residents stripped of their senses and gathered with newcomers outside the Government Office.
• Li Xuanxiao deliberately removed his own five senses before entering the Government Office to report as a new resident.
• Li Xuanxiao emerged with all five senses restored, revealing that the office's penalty did not affect residents who had already lost them.

Liu Qiushui learned that Elder Sikong was about to be resurrected in Luoshui Town, while Li Xuanxiao tested the town’s rules and sought a way to escape the seven-day marriage requirement. The chapter ended as a constable ordered Li Mengyun to undress and sing.

• Liu Qiushui heard that Elder Sikong, a former Body Integration Realm elder of Heavenly Fiend Hall, was about to be resurrected in Luoshui Town and went to see him.
• After Ling Xuanxiao escaped a rule by severing and restoring his five senses, others copied him, while Lu Jing and Li Xuanxiao considered how to satisfy or circumvent the forced-wedding rule.
• Zhang Tianxin brought Li Mengyun to meet Li Xuanxiao as a possible marriage partner, though Li Xuanxiao remained focused on finding a way out of the Forbidden Zone.
• Two black-clad constables ordered the newcomers to kill one another, and one survivor remained after the group fought.
• Li Xuanxiao went downstairs to approach the constables, who ordered Li Mengyun to take off her clothes and sing.

Li Xuanxiao killed two constables, disguised himself in their black clothes, and entered the Mountain God Temple to test the town’s contradictory rules. Outside Luoshui Town, Liu Qiushui chose not to rescue him, while inside, Li Xuanxiao faced an azure dragon after his candle went out.

• Li Xuanxiao killed the skinny and fat constables, then gave Li Mengyun his clothes and took the constables’ black garments for himself.
• Li Xuanxiao discovered that constables could leave Luoshui Town and learned Rule Twelve, but suspected they still could not reveal the town’s secrets.
• Liu Qiushui recognized Li Xuanxiao as Murong Mo and decided not to risk destroying Elder Sikong’s restriction to save him.
• Li Xuanxiao entered the Mountain God Temple and confronted a massive azure dragon.
• The dragon lunged at Li Xuanxiao and extinguished his candle, but he stood firm under the rules that the temple was safe and the candle must not go out.

Ling Xuanxiao uncovered the truth behind the confinement of Luoshui Town and destroyed the Mountain God shrine to escape. The town vanished with the confinement, taking the countless people trapped there with it.

• Liu Qiushui left Ling Xuanxiao behind, expecting Elder Sikong to revive soon and everyone in the confinement to die.
• Zhang Tianxin killed the constables outside the Mountain God Temple, and Ling Xuanxiao put on blood-soaked clothes that triggered a new rule: he had to destroy the Mountain God to leave Luoshui Town.
• Zhang Haoran revealed that he had created the confinement to give his mayfly wife another life, despite the many innocent people who had died as a result.
• Ling Xuanxiao rejected Zhang Haoran's plea, beheaded the shrine, and condemned his obsession for the lives it had cost.
• The confinement faded and Luoshui Town vanished, along with the countless white bones within it.

Li Xuanxiao freed Luoshui Town, helped its survivors, and delivered the letters of the dead to their families before returning to Shu Mountain. Meanwhile, Liu Qiushui learned that the restriction had been broken and questioned her undercover agent about Murong Mo.

• Li Xuanxiao killed the Heavenly Fiend Hall disciples guarding Luoshui Town’s outskirts and burned their bodies.
• After the restriction vanished, Zhang Tianxin and Li Mengyun realized Li Xuanxiao had left; Zhang Tianxin led the people whose senses were sealed toward her sect.
• Li Xuanxiao performed the Rebirth Mantra, collected letters from the dead, and later delivered them with money to their families.
• Li Xuanxiao returned to Shu Mountain after delivering the last letter and reflected on the suffering caused by Zhang Haoran’s choices.
• Liu Qiushui learned that the restriction had been broken, Elder Sikong had died, and the guards had disappeared.
• Liu Qiushui confronted her undercover agent after discovering that Murong Mo was alive and hurt him for insisting Murong Mo had died.

Song Qize investigated Murong Mo’s disappearance at Liu Qiushui’s request, while Li Xuanxiao grew suspicious that the inquiry might expose his role in Murong Mo’s death. Song Qize learned that Li Xuanxiao had vanished alongside Murong Mo and went to find him at Silver Sword Peak.

• Liu Qiushui ordered Song Qize to find Murong Mo and lure him away from Shu Mountain, and Song Qize set off for the Murong Lineage.
• Li Xuanxiao overheard Song Qize mention Murong Mo and became alarmed, then returned to Silver Sword Peak and reunited with Zhao Lu.
• Li Xuanxiao investigated Song Qize’s ties to Murong Mo and worried that Song Qize might learn he had killed Murong Mo.
• Song Qize visited the Murong Lineage and questioned people who had worked with Murong Mo, but Su Wan was in seclusion and Jiang Luoshui barely remembered Murong Mo.
• Song Qize learned that Li Xuanxiao had disappeared alongside Murong Mo and went to Silver Sword Peak to seek him out.

Song Qize mistook Ling Xuanxiao for the Murong Mo Liu Qiushui sought, then lured him outside Shu Mountain so Liu Qiushui’s hidden Nascent Soul cultivators could capture him. Ling Xuanxiao ambushed Song Qize first and threatened him, leaving Song convinced that the Law Enforcement Hall had uncovered his undercover identity.

• Song Qize questioned Ling Xuanxiao about Murong Mo’s death and concluded that Liu Qiushui was actually looking for Ling Xuanxiao.
• Liu Qiushui punished Song Qize repeatedly for his mistakes, then confirmed Ling Xuanxiao’s identity from a portrait and ordered Song to lure him out of Shu Mountain.
• Song invited Ling Xuanxiao to search for a supposed Nascent Soul cultivator’s tomb, and Ling agreed while suspecting a trap.
• Song waited at their meeting place as two Nascent Soul cultivators hid nearby, unable to enter the Shushan Sword Formation’s range.
• Ling Xuanxiao, disguised and concealed beneath the ground, dragged Song into the earth, beat him, and held a Talisman Blade to his throat.
• Song mistook Ling Xuanxiao for a Law Enforcement Hall disciple and feared his undercover identity had been exposed.

Li Xuanxiao exposed Song Qize as Liu Qiushui’s undercover agent and allowed himself to be captured so he could reach Asura Hall. He revealed his disguise as Daoist Lingxu and summoned Shu Mountain’s forces to attack Liu Qiushui’s stronghold.

• Li Xuanxiao revealed Song Qize’s secrets about Liu Qiushui, and Song Qize confessed that she had ordered him to lure Li Xuanxiao out of Shu Mountain.
• Li Xuanxiao used Song Qize to draw two Asura Hall cultivators into capturing him and carrying him to Asura Hall.
• Liu Qiushui confronted Li Xuanxiao, attacked him with fire dragons, and recognized that he was protected by Shu Mountain’s Spirit Concealment Art.
• Li Xuanxiao transformed into Daoist Lingxu as a powerful sword strike breached Asura Hall’s restrictions.
• Daoist Lingxu revealed the Green Lotus Precious Color Banner, and Shu Mountain’s elders and disciples teleported into Asura Hall.

After Shu Mountain devastated Asura Hall, Li Xuanxiao stayed in seclusion to stabilize his Supreme-grade Golden Core and refine his foundation. When Li Mengyun repeatedly tried to find him, he secretly sent her home, and years later she recognized the reason for her strange trips to Shu Mountain as he passed by.

• Shu Mountain captured or killed most of the demonic disciples at Asura Hall's holy hall, while Liu Qiushui escaped severely injured.
• Shu Mountain and the other four great immortal sects used information from prisoners to destroy Asura Hall's branch halls, while Li Xuanxiao cultivated in seclusion.
• Li Xuanxiao suppressed the power of his Supreme-grade Golden Core and made a five-year plan to stabilize and perfect his foundation.
• After divining an ill-omened peach blossom, Li Xuanxiao discovered that Li Mengyun was traveling to Shu Mountain and carried her back home before she could reach him.
• Li Mengyun repeatedly attempted to find Li Xuanxiao, but he returned her home each time; years later, she recognized him in a crowd and called out her thanks as he walked away.

Li Xuanxiao sold pills and magical artifacts at several markets to replenish his resources, then visited his hometown to pay respects at his parents’ funeral. Before returning to Shu Mountain, he found a ghost named Su Xiao waiting for her absent husband and gave her one month before his formation sent her into reincarnation.

• Li Xuanxiao borrowed money, refined pills, and sold them and his old magical artifacts at four markets.
• Li Xuanxiao secretly watched his family mourn his parents in Songyang Town, then left incense and kowtowed at their graves.
• Li Xuanxiao discovered a female ghost in a dry well and tried to send her into reincarnation with the Rebirth Mantra.
• Su Xiao explained that she had died while waiting for a scholar who promised to marry her.
• Li Xuanxiao placed a formation around the well and gave Su Xiao one month for her obsession to fade before the formation sent her into reincarnation.

Ling Xuanxiao met a virtuous water ghost and helped him reunite with his deceased wife, Su Xiao, so she could let go and reincarnate. After returning to Silver Sword Peak, Ling Xuanxiao resumed refining pills and dreamed of a threat against someone he was meant to protect.

• Ling Xuanxiao summoned a water ghost who had saved a drowning child and learned that it had once sacrificed its chance at reincarnation to save a father for his daughter.
• Ling Xuanxiao promised to seek the water ghost's appointment as a River God and told it that its wife, Su Xiao, was dead and trapped in a well in Songyang Town.
• The water ghost returned to Songyang Town and reunited with Su Xiao, whose lingering obsession vanished as she entered reincarnation.
• Ling Xuanxiao used a magical treasure to help the couple meet, then lamented its destruction and continued on his way.
• Ling Xuanxiao returned to Silver Sword Peak, reinvested his profits in alchemy supplies, and anticipated Shu Mountain's disciple selection.
• Ling Xuanxiao had a nightmare in which someone threatened to slaughter his sect and the world if they harmed a woman.

As Shu Mountain prepared for its next disciple recruitment, Li Xuanxiao inspected the sect for hidden dangers, then endured a foreboding dream and spent two months refining pills. He emerged ready to sell them, still wary of what the recruitment might bring.

• Li Xuanxiao surveyed Shu Mountain and recorded several disciples’ troubles as potential dangers to monitor.
• He checked that the cafeteria auntie had not been bullied, unaware that Sweeping Grandfather resented his attention to her.
• Sweeping Grandfather raged in his spatial domain and decided to find Li Xuanxiao something to do.
• Li Xuanxiao dreamed of a voice threatening to destroy Shu Mountain and the world if anyone harmed a woman, then resolved to stay and protect the sect.
• Li Xuanxiao entered seclusion and refined pills for two months, using half his strength before emerging to prepare to sell them.

Li Xuanxiao sold pills at Phoenix Crying Hollow Market, then used his avatars, poison, and a formation to kill five cultivators who ambushed him. A bald cultivator who had discovered three avatars attacked, but Li Xuanxiao defeated him while his true body remained hidden; the battle exposed the serious risks of his Outer Body Technique.

• Li Xuanxiao sold out his pills at the market while hiding multiple avatars in separate locations.
• After five cultivators followed him, Li Xuanxiao's first and second avatars killed the Golden Core cultivator with a poisoned silver needle and trapped the four Foundation Establishment cultivators in the Four Symbols Formation.
• Li Xuanxiao's avatars searched the bodies and dissolved them with Bone-Eroding Powder, while a bald cultivator revealed that he had killed Li Xuanxiao's third avatar.
• The bald cultivator used a Treasure Umbrella to counter the Crane-Top Silver Needles, but Li Xuanxiao bound him with Golden Locks and used a hooked staff to create an opening for the needles.
• Li Xuanxiao's true body, hidden in an underground cave, revealed that he had a fourth avatar and had planned the ambush after the bald cultivator first noticed him.
• Li Xuanxiao reflected that the bald cultivator had come close to finding his true body and that his Outer Body Technique divided his power and injured him when an avatar died.

Ling Xuanxiao captured an Eight-tentacled Octopus to study how its mimicry could improve his Body Double Technique, then returned to Silver Sword Peak and raised it as a Spirit Pet. Zhao Lu told him that recruitment had been moved up and Silver Sword Peak would soon have a new Peak Master, leaving him uneasy about what lay ahead.

• Ling Xuanxiao saw an Eight-tentacled Octopus fool five cultivators with a substitute, then captured it and brought it away to study its mimicry.
• Ling Xuanxiao dismantled his backup escape routes, avoided Su Wan and Jiang Luoshui, and returned safely to his hut on Silver Sword Peak.
• Ling Xuanxiao examined his spoils, rejected the Divine Elephant Prison Suppression Method because it would make him bald, and asked the Eight-tentacled Octopus for guidance.
• Two months later, Zhao Lu found the tiny octopus under Ling Xuanxiao's blanket and mistook it for his lover before he explained that it was his Spirit Pet.
• Zhao Lu told Ling Xuanxiao that recruitment had been moved up by a month and Silver Sword Peak would get a new Peak Master, making him wary of the future.

After emerging from fifteen years of seclusion, Lu Ziyin became Silver Sword Peak Master and took Li Xuanxiao along to search for promising disciples. They saved Feng Liuli from a wolf demon, but villagers accused her of bringing disaster, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Lu Ziyin took over as Silver Sword Peak Master and assigned disciples to seek new recruits for Shu Mountain.
• Li Xuanxiao revealed he had reached Foundation Establishment and persuaded Lu Ziyin to let him accompany him down the mountain.
• After several days of finding no suitable candidates, Lu Ziyin and Li Xuanxiao encountered a wolf demon attacking a village and Lu Ziyin rescued Feng Liuli.
• Feng Liuli introduced her younger brothers, Fugui and Wangcai, and said her late grandfather Tiezhu had told her to join Shu Mountain when she turned sixteen.
• Villagers surrounded Feng Liuli and called her a calamity, blaming her for their misfortunes.

Lu Ziyin and Li Xuanxiao rescued Feng Liuli from villagers who blamed her for misfortune, and Li Xuanxiao helped her prepare for the journey to Shu Mountain. After leaving, he recorded her as a possible reincarnated great expert and resolved to watch her carefully.

• Villagers tried to beat Feng Liuli to death, but Lu Ziyin shielded her and claimed she had an ordinary fate after coughing blood while calculating it.
• Li Xuanxiao suspected Feng Liuli had a special bloodline that drew the ferocious beast to the village, and Feng Liuli said she intended to join Shu Mountain to protect others.
• Lu Ziyin left for Shu Mountain after Li Xuanxiao offered to handle matters, and Li Xuanxiao promised to teach Feng Liuli self-defense techniques.
• Li Xuanxiao rebuilt Feng Liuli’s hut, fed her and her younger brothers, celebrated her birthday, and taught her sword techniques before departing when her father returned.
• Li Xuanxiao recorded Feng Liuli as a possible reincarnated great expert and decided not to act against her without learning more.

Li Xuanxiao helped register candidates for Shushan’s disciple selection and grew alarmed at the unusual names and risks he encountered. He then witnessed Lu Ziyin identify Feng Liuli as his Calamity of Life and Death, and devised a plan to intervene before the assessment.

• Li Xuanxiao returned to Silver Sword Peak and questioned candidates, recording their risk levels while reacting to the names Ye Fan, Han Li, Wang Teng, and Gu Yue Fangyuan.
• Li Xuanxiao marked Gu Yue Fangyuan as a major risk and later recorded Feng Liuli’s information as the registration ended.
• Lu Ziyin followed the glowing spirit pearl to Servant Peak and realized Feng Liuli was his Calamity of Life and Death, but he chose not to kill her.
• Li Xuanxiao watched Lu Ziyin’s discovery through the Twin Image Stone and feared the consequences of their calamity.
• Li Xuanxiao worried that Feng Liuli would join Silver Sword Peak as Lu Ziyin’s disciple after the assessment, then announced that he had a great idea.