Chapter Summaries

Zhang Chen mastered the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror’s first restriction while Longevity Ancestor failed to break the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation and sought help from his allies. After Longevity Ancestor threatened the Innate Peacock through Xu Er Niu, Zhang Chen bargained with the Peacock for the method of transforming the five elements and yin and yang, swore to rescue him, and heard the method begin.

• Longevity Ancestor failed to break Zhang Chen’s Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation, summoned allied ancestors for help, and ordered his disciples to guard it.
• Longevity Ancestor used Xu Er Niu to threaten the Innate Peacock into advising him about the formation, revealing that Xu Er Niu was the Peacock’s descendant and Longevity Ancestor’s daughter.
• Zhang Chen concealed himself from Longevity Ancestor’s attempt to spy through the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror, then offered to rescue the Innate Peacock in exchange for his method.
• The Innate Peacock demanded an oath by the Great Sovereign Demon King, and Zhang Chen swore to rescue him after learning the method.
• The Innate Peacock began explaining how chaos, yin and yang, and the five elements transformed, while Zhang Chen suspected he might be tricked and considered marking him with Soul Hooking Plunder.

Zhang Chen learned the Inverted Yin Yang divine ability from the Innate Peacock and used a Jade Tablet to obtain the Yin Yang Millstone, which absorbed the Innate Yin Yang Origin troubling him. He negotiated to keep the tablet in exchange for a promise to help the Innate Peacock acquire a body, leaving Zhang Chen wondering about the origin of immortals.

• The Innate Peacock taught Zhang Chen Inverted Yin Yang while Xu Er Niu drew Innate Five Elements essence from the peacock to cultivate the Grass Return Pill.
• The Innate Peacock explained how Longevity and an immortal had imprisoned him, then gave Zhang Chen the Jade Tablet containing Inverted Yin Yang.
• Zhang Chen activated the Jade Tablet with Yin-Yang Dual Energies and obtained the Yin Yang Millstone, which absorbed all the Innate Yin Yang Origin in his Primordial Spirit and restored his mana.
• Zhang Chen accused the Innate Peacock of failing to teach him properly and demanded the Jade Tablet as compensation.
• The Innate Peacock agreed to let Zhang Chen keep the Jade Tablet if he later helped him possess a Five Manor Temple disciple and restore his power so he could take revenge on Longevity.

Zhang Chen marked the Innate Peacock and freed it from the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror, then discovered the Peacock could no longer reclaim its Five Feathers. After the temple’s thirty-six bells summoned everyone, Zhang Chen went with Xu Er Niu to the Front Yard while keeping the truth about her father’s plans from her.

• Zhang Chen agreed to lend the Innate Peacock his Five Elements origin in exchange for the Jade Tablet, then marked the Peacock’s true spirit with Soul Hooking Plunder.
• Zhang Chen used the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror’s incantation to pull the Innate Peacock out of its cage and stored it inside his Five Colors Divine Light.
• The Innate Peacock tried to reclaim its Five Feathers but discovered that its connection and imprint had been erased.
• Zhang Chen left the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror, avoided stealing it because Xu Er Niu might need it, and went to Zou Wenlong’s room.
• Thirty-six bell tolls summoned the temple’s disciples, and Xu Er Niu explained that the Four Great Disciples had emerged from seclusion.
• Zhang Chen questioned Xu Er Niu about her father but concealed his suspicion that the Longevity Ancestor planned to sacrifice her.

Zhang Chen agreed to help the Innate Peacock target Monk Haichan, hoping to learn the Five Elements Escape Technique, while the gathered immortals struggled to break the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation. After Xu Er Niu comforted him, Zhang Chen secretly gave her the Inverted Yin Yang incantations to cultivate.

• Xu Er Niu brought Zhang Chen to welcome nine powerful guests, whom a disciple identified as Longevity Old Ancestor's friends gathered to break the formation.
• The Innate Peacock asked Zhang Chen to help seize Monk Haichan's body in exchange for teaching him the Five Elements Escape Technique, and Zhang Chen sought the Great Sovereign Demon King's help to exploit Monk Haichan's greed.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King said he could corrupt Monk Haichan's mind if Zhang Chen stirred even a trace of greed, and the Innate Peacock proposed revealing his Five Elements origin to him.
• Old Ancestor Xuanji and the other guests found that the formation was anchored to Qingcheng Mountain's dragon vein, which Longevity Old Ancestor refused to destroy.
• Zhang Chen persuaded the Innate Peacock to consider teaching him the Five Elements Escape Technique before he acted, but Xu Er Niu interrupted them before he swore an oath.
• Xu Er Niu promised to help Zhang Chen become an immortal, and Zhang Chen secretly gave her the Inverted Yin Yang incantations to study.

Zhang Chen taught Xu Er Niu the Inverted Yin Yang mnemonic and received the Five Elements Escape Technique from the Innate Peacock. While serving the visiting Old Ancestors, he caught Old Ancestor Xuanji’s attention, and Xuanji’s divination revealed that Zhang Chen’s fate should have ended long ago.

• Zhang Chen taught Xu Er Niu the Inverted Yin Yang mnemonic in secret and spent three days explaining it to her.
• The Innate Peacock taught Zhang Chen the Five Elements Escape Technique, and Zhang Chen considered using the Golden Finger Interface to cultivate all five escape arts.
• The Patriarch assigned Zhang Chen to serve the visiting Old Ancestors with tea and water.
• Old Ancestor Xuanji examined Zhang Chen and offered to divine his future, but Zhang Chen initially refused.
• Zhang Chen gave Xuanji a drop of ordinary blood, and Xuanji’s divination showed that Zhang Chen should have died long ago before asking whether he had experienced anything strange as a child.

Old Ancestor Xuanji sought to take Zhang Chen and Xu Fu as disciples, prompting Longevity Ancestor to suspect a plot against his tribulation and the Grass Return Pill. When Xu Er Niu failed to draw Innate Five Elements qi from the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror, Longevity Ancestor realized the mirror had a problem.

• Old Ancestor Xuanji noticed that Zhang Chen's fate defied his divination and asked him to become a disciple; Zhang Chen said he would go only if Xu Fu could come too.
• Old Ancestor Xuanji asked Longevity Ancestor to release Zhang Chen and Xu Fu, but Longevity Ancestor agreed only to Zhang Chen and arranged to meet Xu Fu the next day.
• Longevity Ancestor suspected Old Ancestor Xuanji and others had discovered the Grass Return Pill and were plotting against his tribulation, so he went to find Xu Er Niu.
• Xu Er Niu told Longevity Ancestor she could not draw Five Elements qi from the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror, despite remembering his chant correctly.
• Longevity Ancestor watched Xu Er Niu repeat the chant and saw that the mirror released no Innate Five Elements qi, leading him to realize the problem lay with the mirror.

Longevity Ancestor discovered that the Innate Peacock had escaped the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror and suspected his fellow cultivators were plotting against him. Zhang Chen exploited those suspicions to win Longevity Ancestor’s trust, then warned Old Ancestor Xuanji that the danger at Five Manor Temple came from Longevity Ancestor himself.

• Longevity Ancestor found the Land of the Ruined Return empty, feared the escaped Innate Peacock, and told Xu Er Niu to cultivate while asking whether she would leave for another Daoist Temple.
• Zhang Chen missed his chance to approach Monk Haichan and studied the Water Escape Technique until Longevity Ancestor summoned him to ask what he had overheard.
• Zhang Chen described Old Ancestor Xuanji and Old Ancestor Hai Chan discussing a pill and a treasure, leading Longevity Ancestor to conclude that the visiting cultivators planned to ambush him during his tribulation.
• Longevity Ancestor gave Zhang Chen a bottle of powder to secretly add to the visitors’ water and promised to teach him Sleeve Universe if he succeeded.
• Zhang Chen and the Great Sovereign Demon King discussed how difficult it would be to kill Longevity Ancestor, then Zhang Chen decided to deepen the distrust between the cultivators and use Monk Haichan to ignite the conflict.
• Zhang Chen warned Old Ancestor Xuanji to leave Five Manor Temple, then revealed that the danger might come from Longevity Ancestor himself.

Zhang Chen convinced Old Ancestor Xuanji that Longevity Old Ancestor had released the Innate Peacock True Spirit and planned to harm the other elders. After the elders confronted Longevity Old Ancestor and concluded the Peacock had escaped, they debated reviving the Immortal Master's true spirit to stop it, while Longevity decided to seek help from the Demon Race and summoned Bai Lu.

• Zhang Chen warned Old Ancestor Xuanji that Longevity Old Ancestor intended to harm him and showed him a porcelain bottle linked to the Innate Peacock.
• Old Ancestor Xuanji summoned Monk Haichan, Immortal Dongqian, Moonlight Immortal Maiden, and the other elders, claiming his calculations showed Longevity had released the Peacock True Spirit.
• The elders confronted Longevity Old Ancestor, who claimed the Innate Peacock had escaped and vanished.
• Old Ancestor Xuanji urged the elders to restore the Immortal Master's true spirit so it could restrain the Peacock, but they feared the Immortal Master would take revenge on them.
• Longevity Old Ancestor considered seeking an alliance with the Demon Race and ordered someone to summon Bai Lu.

Zhang Chen prepared a scheme to frame Longevity Ancestor by manipulating Monk Haichan, while the Old Ancestors gathered an immortal’s true spirit and planned to revive it in a Five Manor Temple disciple. After sharing a quiet meal with Xu Er Niu, Zhang Chen weighed how to keep her safe when the coming battle began.

• Zhang Chen proposed using Great Sovereign Demon King to make Monk Haichan accuse Longevity Ancestor and leap into the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation.
• Monk Haichan and the Old Ancestors assembled nearly all of an immortal’s true spirit and placed it in his Golden Bowl to recover for seven days.
• Moonlight Immortal Maiden persuaded the Old Ancestors to use a Five Manor Temple disciple as the immortal’s rebirth vessel and a cover for their ambush.
• Xu Er Niu brought Zhang Chen pills and asked about her father, while Zhang Chen concealed his cultivation and resolved to protect her from the truth.
• Zhang Chen cooked a farewell-like feast for Xu Er Niu, then asked Great Sovereign Demon King whether stealing the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror would put her in danger.
• Great Sovereign Demon King told Zhang Chen that Ginseng Fruit was already priceless and that his worries about Xu Er Niu were unnecessary.

Zhang Chen baited Monk Haichan with the Innate Peacock’s Five Feathers, and the greedy monk was seized by the Great Sovereign Demon King. Monk Haichan stole the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror and lured Longevity Ancestor into the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation, where the two faced off.

• Zhang Chen hinted to Old Ancestor Xuanji that Kunlun and Taiping Dao could help defeat Longevity Ancestor, then went to serve Monk Haichan tea.
• Monk Haichan attacked Zhang Chen and tore off his arm, but Zhang Chen offered the Five Feathers and stirred the monk’s greed.
• Zhang Chen escaped to the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation, restored his arm, and prepared the Golden Twisting Scissors to trap Monk Haichan.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King took control of Monk Haichan, who stole the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror using Zhang Chen’s incantation and fled toward the formation.
• Longevity Ancestor pursued Monk Haichan to the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation and demanded the mirror, but Monk Haichan refused to return it.

Monk Haichan framed Longevity Old Ancestor and fell into Zhang Chen’s Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation, where Zhang Chen secretly used the Great Sovereign Demon King to take control of him. The other Old Ancestors gathered outside, still unsure of the truth, while Haichan’s fate shifted into Zhang Chen’s hands.

• Monk Haichan accused Longevity Old Ancestor of attacking him and deliberately fell into the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation, prompting the other Old Ancestors to surround Longevity.
• Longevity Old Ancestor denied the accusation, while Old Ancestor Dongxuan urged the group to rescue Monk Haichan before judging what had happened.
• Monk Haichan woke from the Great Sovereign Demon King's control inside the formation and failed to escape through its spatial barrier.
• Zhang Chen appeared inside the formation, and Monk Haichan offered him rewards and support in exchange for release.
• Zhang Chen demanded half a jin of Monk Haichan’s blood and made him kneel and kowtow, while the Great Sovereign Demon King revealed that its heavenly demon had taken root in Haichan’s heart.

Zhang Chen trapped Monk Haichan in the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation and destroyed his physical form, leaving behind a crystal vessel of his fruit. As Old Ancestor Peacock tried to possess Monk Haichan’s empty body, another colored spirit emerged from a Golden Bowl and targeted Zhang Chen for possession.

• Zhang Chen revealed that he had deceived Monk Haichan and activated the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation to refine him.
• Monk Haichan grew a giant Dharma Idol, but the formation eroded his power until the black-and-white flood dragons struck him down.
• Zhang Chen caught Monk Haichan’s crystal fruit, and the Great Sovereign Demon King explained that it could let Monk Haichan revive.
• Old Ancestor Peacock’s five-colored spirit left its feathers and began to possess Monk Haichan’s empty body.
• A colored spirit revived inside Monk Haichan’s Golden Bowl, recognized the formation, and flew toward Zhang Chen to possess him.

Zhang Chen stopped an immortal’s true spirit from possessing him, then learned from the Innate Peacock that the immortal had been resurrected after being excavated from a tomb among the Thirty-Three Heavens. The Innate Peacock proposed a plot against the elders of Five Manor Temple and urged Zhang Chen to abandon Qi Refining for bloodline cultivation, leaving Zhang Chen unconvinced.

• An immortal’s true spirit invaded Zhang Chen’s body, but Zhang Chen used Soul Hooking Plunder to mark it and drag it out, even after it fled into Monk Haichan and clashed with the Innate Peacock.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King explained that the true spirit’s fruit was a mass of spatial origin, so Zhang Chen stored it in Ba Snake Space rather than trying to destroy it.
• Zhang Chen reclaimed the Innate Peacock’s Five Feathers from Monk Haichan, and the Innate Peacock proposed luring the elders of Five Manor Temple into the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation to kill them, rescue a little girl, and devour their origins.
• The Innate Peacock told Zhang Chen that the immortal had been excavated from a ruined tomb among the Thirty-Three Heavens and resurrected by someone who studied corpse raising.
• The Innate Peacock revealed that he had once tried and failed to cultivate Qi Refining, then advised Zhang Chen to pursue the Innate Bloodline Great Dao instead; Zhang Chen remained doubtful of his claims.

Zhang Chen and the Innate Peacock devised a plan to turn the Old Ancestors against Longevity Old Ancestor. After the Peacock impersonated Monk Haichan and accused Longevity of attacking him, he persuaded the Old Ancestors to enter the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation, leaving Zhang Chen without allies to restrain Longevity.

• Zhang Chen agreed that the Innate Peacock would leave the formation and lure the Old Ancestors inside, and he returned the vajra scepter to him.
• The Innate Peacock emerged disguised as Monk Haichan and accused Longevity Old Ancestor of striking him into the formation.
• The Old Ancestors believed Monk Haichan’s claim after finding his cultivation weakened, and Longevity Old Ancestor left without convincing them.
• Monk Haichan urged the Old Ancestors to enter the formation, claiming he could help them break it and use its power against Longevity.
• Moonlight Immortal Maiden questioned Monk Haichan, but the Old Ancestors agreed to follow him into the formation.
• Zhang Chen realized the Peacock had brought everyone inside and wondered who would help him restrain Longevity Old Ancestor.

Zhang Chen revealed that he had trapped the ancestors in the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation and worked with the Innate Peacock, who planned to devour their origins. After the ancestors attacked, Zhang Chen vanished into the sands and the formation’s power surged, leaving them to join forces to try to break out.

• The ancestors realized the yellow sands were draining their magical power and Dao Comprehension, then heard a voice accuse the Peacock of luring them into the formation.
• Monk Haichan fled to Zhang Chen and the Innate Peacock, revealing that the Peacock intended to devour the ancestors’ origins and restore his strength.
• Old Ancestor Xuanji confronted Zhang Chen, who admitted that the trap was his plan, while the Innate Peacock revealed his identity.
• The ancestors rejected Zhang Chen’s offer to spare them and Old Ancestor Fulu attacked him, but Zhang Chen turned into yellow sand and disappeared as the Innate Peacock escaped.
• The formation’s power intensified, and Old Ancestor Xuanji urged the ancestors to strike one point together; they unleashed their divine abilities against it.

Zhang Chen defeated the Old Ancestors in the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation, collected their blood for the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, and let the Innate Peacock consume their bodies. The Innate Peacock began cultivating inside the formation to recover his strength, while Zhang Chen left to test whether he could devour the Immortal Remains safely.

• The Old Ancestors burned their foundations and attacked the formation, but Zhang Chen used the Golden Twisting Scissors to kill them and collect their indestructible remains.
• Zhang Chen drained the ten corpses of their blood, completing the amount needed to cultivate the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, then allowed the Innate Peacock to swallow their bodies.
• The Innate Peacock promised to help Zhang Chen kill the Longevity True Person after refining the corpses, explaining that the Grass Return Pill would take nine thousand years to mature.
• The Innate Peacock entered seclusion in a protected space within the formation, wary that the Longevity Taoist could detect him if he left.
• The Innate Peacock and the Great Sovereign Demon King warned Zhang Chen that the Immortal Remains held dormant true spirits that could possess him if he brought them into his Ba Snake Space.
• Zhang Chen left with the Immortal Remains, intending to test whether his devouring skill could absorb them.

Zhang Chen survived the Heavenly Dao backlash after trying to probe Monk Haichan's Immortal Remains, then hid his injuries and buried the remains in the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation. The Longevity Ancestor discovered that the other Old Ancestors had vanished and began investigating the formation, while Zhang Chen kept his secrets hidden.

• Zhang Chen pierced Monk Haichan's spiritual relic with the Innate Mosquito's mouthpart, and the backlash shattered his arm and wounded his crystalline core before the sea of blood helped him recover.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King explained that the Immortal Remains held the power of a Fruit Position connected to the Heavenly Dao, and Zhang Chen buried the remains inside the formation.
• Zhang Chen returned to his room, concealed his damaged clothes, and resumed his duties while the Longevity Ancestor remained unaware that the Old Ancestors had vanished.
• The next day, Zhang Chen reported the missing Old Ancestors to the Longevity Ancestor, who used his Heavenly Eye but found no trace of their auras.
• The Longevity Ancestor traced the vanished auras to the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation, considered several possibilities, and told Zhang Chen he no longer needed to serve him.

Zhang Chen secluded himself within the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation and forged the Blood Transformation Divine Blade. After emerging, he reunited with Xu Er Niu and celebrated her new plant-growing method.

• Zhang Chen asked Longevity Ancestor for permission to enter seclusion, then told Xu Er Niu he would try to cultivate mana.
• Zhang Chen concealed himself inside the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation and used eighteen types of blood to cultivate the Blood Transformation Divine Blade.
• After forty-nine days, Zhang Chen completed the crimson blade and recognized that it would let him cultivate martial arts and strengthen his fighting ability.
• Zhang Chen checked on Monk Haichan, who remained in deep refinement, then returned to his courtyard and told Xu Er Niu he had cultivated Qi Sense.
• Zhang Chen and Xu Er Niu shared a meal beneath the moonlight, where Xu Er Niu demonstrated a method that made a plant grow, flower, bear fruit, and produce a seed within three breaths.

Zhang Chen sent Xiu Liu to place the Blood Transformation Divine Blade in the hands of a Five Manor Temple cultivator so it could grow stronger on the battlefield between Five Manor Temple and Taiping Dao. Over four years of war, Zhang Chen’s Blood Sea expanded as casualties mounted, while Five Manor Temple grew increasingly depleted.

• Xu Er Niu visited Zhang Chen, who urged her to use her plant-growing ability to cultivate spiritual herbs, but she preferred growing fruit.
• A white fox and a golden loach learned of tensions at Five Manor Temple and decided to ask the Crow King to test the temple’s strength.
• Taiping Dao sent a hundred thousand Demon Clan troops south, and the Longevity Ancestor ordered Chen Zhou and Sun Xiang to lead disciples down the mountain to fight them.
• Zhang Chen summoned Xiu Liu and instructed him to use a Blood Puppet to pass the Blood Transformation Divine Blade to a Five Manor Temple cultivator for the coming battle.
• As Zhang Chen cultivated in seclusion, the war replenished and expanded his Blood Sea; by the fourth year, half of Five Manor Temple’s disciples were gone and the Longevity Ancestor had entered seclusion.

Zhang Chen successfully learned Water and Wood Escape, then began converting the Innate Mosquito’s mouthparts into points to pursue the remaining Five Elements techniques. As Five Manor Temple faced a worsening war, Xu Er Niu urged him to flee with her, and Zhang Chen asked whether she would leave without seeing her father.

• Zhang Chen cultivated Water Escape and used ten million experience points to gain Wood Escape, then realized he needed thirty million more points to master the remaining techniques.
• Zhang Chen speculated that only beings with mysteries yielded points and decided to convert the energy stored in his Devouring Space by feeding it the Innate Mosquito’s mouthparts.
• Zhang Chen found Xu Er Niu eating grapes in the courtyard, and she told him that the Demon Race was overwhelming Five Manor Temple and many senior brothers and subject kingdoms had fallen.
• Xu Er Niu explained that plants and trees carried her fragmented reports and urged Zhang Chen to flee the mountain with her.
• Zhang Chen asked Xu Er Niu whether she planned to leave without seeing her father.