Chapter Summaries

Su He refined the Small World entrance into a fragment of the Two Realms Battlefield gate and encountered Feng Chao Fei, who revealed that Town Evil Dao Palace held a Dao scripture and challenged him to reach it first. She left Su He warned that entering the Dao Palace marked him for powerful enemies and demanded he reveal his Peacock True Form.

• Su He refined the Small World entrance into a fragment of the Two Realms Battlefield gate and carried it away on his shell.
• Su He placed a Mountain God Seal over the damaged Two Realms Battlefield gate as a warning, then prepared to leave with the Small World.
• Feng Chao Fei appeared without warning, melted the Mountain God Seal, and confronted Su He.
• Su He claimed Ji Feixue was his wife, and Feng Chao Fei decided to verify the claim with the Eldest Princess.
• Feng Chao Fei recognized Su He as a Black Tortoise, challenged him to reach Town Evil Dao Palace's tomb chamber and obtain its Dao resonance first, and warned that the palace marked entrants for assassination.
• Feng Chao Fei demanded that Su He reveal his Peacock True Form.

Feng Chao Fei attacked Su He, but Ji Feixue intervened and drove her away before teasing Su He about calling her his wife. Meanwhile, Azure Thunder discovered sinister Soaring Serpent auras gathering around Zhu and Huai’s eggs and decided Su He should help remove them; Feng Chao Fei later revealed she had shown her Peacock True Form to another presence within her.

• Su He revealed his Peacock True Form and prepared to face Feng Chao Fei, but Ji Feixue appeared and demanded that she keep away from her little husband.
• Feng Chao Fei fled after clashing with Ji Feixue, who broke through her formations and returned to Eastern Cloud Mountain to tease Su He about calling her his wife and keeping a mistress.
• Azure Thunder observed sinister Soaring Serpent auras gathering around Zhu and Huai’s eggs and concluded that Su He could enter the chaos to erase them without disturbing the eggs.
• Feng Chao Fei burned away attackers in an uninhabited starfield and spoke to another presence within her, confirming that it had seen Su He’s Peacock True Form and Ji Feixue.

Feng Chao Fei argued with her other consciousness after confronting Su He, while Su He returned to Long Moon Estate and was recruited by Azure Thunder to help his clan uncles. Su He entered the chaos around the Bountiful God Great World and relieved the pressure on Ancient Locust’s giant egg, but a strange altar began to emerge.

• Feng Chao Fei argued with her clear and smoky voices over Su He and her divided consciousness, then tore through space and disappeared.
• Su He left the Small World entrance beside Long Moon Estate, where Azure Thunder sensed Feng Chao Fei’s aura and told Su He to help Uncle Zhu and Uncle Huai.
• Azure Thunder brought Su He to the chaos surrounding the Bountiful God Great World and explained that Su He had to destroy the ghostly Soaring Serpents threatening the two clan uncles.
• Su He used Divine Might and Random Blades to destroy the Soaring Serpents, then entered the chaos and followed Uncle Huai’s aura to Ancient Locust’s giant egg.
• Su He cleared the Soaring Serpents surrounding Ancient Locust’s egg, and a strange altar bearing four Soaring Serpent statues and a horned figure emerged in the chaos.

A revived Primal Venerable Clan member and a Sealed Emperor Palace prince became caught up in Azure Thunder and Su He’s efforts to control the Stone Drum Altar, which attracted Ghostly Soaring Serpents. After Ji Feixue uncovered that Bai Ling had severed the clan’s existence through time six thousand years earlier, Su He captured Feng Yin and brought the altar to Azure Thunder, who explained how Dragon Turtles’ combat strength compared with cultivators’ realms.

• Yuan Geng revived in the chaos and tried to hunt Su He, but Feng Yin sealed him in a bronze mirror and fled while Azure Thunder defeated Feng Bu Si.
• Ji Feixue intercepted Feng Yin and Eunuch Mo, killed Eunuch Mo, erased Feng Yin’s memories of the Primal Venerable Clan, and took Yuan Geng for analysis.
• Ji Feixue discovered that Bai Ling had used the Power of Time to sever half of the Primal Venerable Clan’s existence six thousand years earlier.
• Su He began refining Ink Point from Ancient Locust’s materials, then heard a drumbeat in the chaos and followed it to Feng Yin and the Stone Drum Altar.
• Feng Yin attacked Su He, but Su He’s spirit snake stole the altar; Su He lured Feng Yin out of the chaos, where Azure Thunder subdued him and destroyed the pursuing Ghostly Soaring Serpents.
• Azure Thunder told Su He that Dragon Turtles classified his combat strength as Heaven-Treading First Step, while ordinary cultivators would consider him equivalent to Heaven-Treading Third Step.

Su He forged the Heaven Opening Brush and discovered that silently reciting the Tao Te Ching granted Azure Thunder profound insights, then returned to Long Moon Estate as Azure Thunder prepared for outside scrutiny. At Bai Ze Pavilion, Ji Feixue pressured Bai Ze to delay the Dragon Turtle Clan’s rise in the rankings, and Bai Ze began suppressing Azure Thunder’s latest update.

• Su He asked Azure Thunder about Dragon Turtles taking human form, then refined the Kui Bull Leg Bone into the Heaven Opening Brush with the Toad’s help.
• Su He tested Dianmo in the chaos, opened a watery world, and sensed a connection between the Black Tortoise Star Mansions and his Dao path.
• Su He silently recited the Tao Te Ching after Azure Thunder sealed off their surroundings, and Azure Thunder completed the Turtle-Serpent True Method and warned Su He to keep the scripture secret.
• Azure Thunder killed Feng Yin to prevent him from learning Su He’s secret, sent Su He through a passage to Long Moon Estate, and prepared formations against the factions investigating the Dragon Turtles.
• Ji Feixue demanded that Bai Ze delay the Dragon Turtle Clan’s ranking rise, and Bai Ze used its remaining slot to suppress Azure Thunder’s update.

Ji Feixue used the Bai Ze List to seal information about several Dragon Turtles while Bai Ze suspected Su He was hiding a dangerous secret. Su He returned to Long Moon Estate, where he learned Qian Qian Zi was unconscious with her soul missing, and realized Bai Ling’s inheritance might help locate it.

• Ji Feixue had Bai Ze seal Azure Thunder’s and Ancient Lo’s information, but left Su He’s and Grand Ancestor Tai’s pages untouched; Grand Ancestor Tai briefly appeared and gave Ji Feixue a rune.
• Ji Feixue sealed Zhu’s and Huai’s information, then left after Bai Ze accused her of tricking it into wasting its slots.
• Bai Ze suspected Su He’s return and immediate entry into Nirvana concealed a major secret, then went into Bai Ze Pavilion to inherit the previous generation’s memories and cultivation.
• Su He returned to Long Moon Estate, where Ya Ya proudly told him she had rescued Qian Qian Zi, who was unconscious and missing her divine soul.
• Su He and Su Hua Nian sought help from Nan Ming True Person and Shen Chen Dao Ren, and Su He remembered Bai Ling’s inheritance could let him divine once a year.

Su He used Bai Ling’s divination rune to glimpse Qian Qian Zi’s past life, then Nan Ming True Person took her body to try to summon back her missing soul. Su He returned to Long Moon Estate with Su Hua Nian and promised to stay home, though she firmly rejected his claim that she was his wife.

• Su He used Bai Ling’s divination rune and saw Mou Wan enter reincarnation beside a statue of Qian Qian Zi, after the Immortal Venerable imprinted Su He’s existence on Mou Wan’s true spirit.
• Nan Ming True Person examined Qian Qian Zi and found that her soul had left intact, then took her body to her cave residence to attempt to summon it back.
• Nan Ming True Person gave Su Hua Nian Spiritual Plant Seeds as a housewarming gift and warned Su He that Long Ming’s listed prices were inflated.
• Su Hua Nian explained that she had recovered a treasure vault from her previous life and could now focus on her cultivation after Ya Ya’s illness had healed.
• Su He told Su Hua Nian he would stay home with his daughter and wife, and she insisted that she was not his wife or Dao companion.

Su Hua Nian told Su He that she could not cultivate a turtle body and asked whether he could cultivate a human one, then revealed her history with Feng Yi Ju and her feelings for Su He. The chapter ended with Su He asking if they were husband and wife and Su Hua Nian drawing her sword in embarrassment and anger.

• Su He escaped Su Hua Nian’s sword strike, then found Ya Ya trying to cook her eggshells with the Toad’s jade shrimp pendant.
• Su Hua Nian ordered Ya Ya to eat the eggshells, sleep to digest them, and study with Azure Aunt, then took Su He aside.
• Su Hua Nian explained that a divine treasure in her heart aperture prevented her from cultivating a turtle body, and Su He wondered whether he could cultivate a human body.
• Su Hua Nian said she would wait for Su He and revealed that she had married Feng Yi Ju, though they had always lived apart, and that Ya Ya was her biological daughter.
• Su He declared that he would kill Feng Yi Ju and asked whether he and Su Hua Nian were now husband and wife; Su Hua Nian drew her sword in furious embarrassment.

Su He and Su Hua Nian agreed to marry, drawing congratulations and betrothal gifts from the Dragon Turtle Clan. After Azure Thunder welcomed Su Hua Nian into the family and brought her to the Mountains and Seas Profound Realm, the chapter ended with her asking Su He about the Cloud Dream Marsh Long Princess.

• Su He embraced Su Hua Nian and proposed, and she accepted; the Heavenly Water Clan mermen congratulated them while Ya Ya worried about losing her place in the family.
• Green Snake sensed the powerful marriage fate from the red rope she had tied and gathered a basket of marriage stones.
• Su He joked that he would ask the Dragon Turtle elders for betrothal gifts, and Azure Thunder arrived and whipped him while showering treasures across the cliff.
• Azure Thunder welcomed Su Hua Nian as family and took her and Ya Ya into the Mountains and Seas Profound Realm, where Su Hua Nian became a Frost Snow Turtle and Ya Ya entered as a Conscious Entity.
• After Azure Thunder left, Su Hua Nian warned Su He that her maternal grandfather might oppose their relationship, then asked him about the Cloud Dream Marsh Long Princess.

Su Hua Nian learned that Ji Feixue’s ordinary marriage certificate named Su He as her husband and seemed to be adding Su Hua Nian as another wife, while Su He could not explain the bond between himself and the Long Princess. After Su Hua Nian guided Su He in observing the Black Tortoise constellations, they returned to the garden, where she healed in his embrace and accepted the security she felt with him.

• Su Hua Nian asked Su He to show her what had happened after the Dragon God Ceremony, and he used Recollection to reveal his muddled exchange with Ji Feixue and their marriage certificate.
• Su Hua Nian recognized the document as a genuine marriage certificate, and Su He wondered whether his previous life had connected him to Ji Feixue or to Su Hua Nian.
• In an unknown world, Meng Xuan saw Ji Feixue lamenting Su He’s supposed infidelity and discovered that a marriage certificate named Su He and Ji Feixue while Su Hua Nian’s name began to appear.
• Su He contemplated the stars while silently reciting the Tao Te Ching, and Su Hua Nian used the Heavenly Star Palace Star Sensing Technique to guide his consciousness toward the Black Tortoise Seven Mansions.
• Su He and Su Hua Nian returned to the garden pool, where Su Hua Nian teased and resisted his advances before settling into his arms to heal.
• Su Hua Nian remembered how Su He had protected Ya Ya and realized that being held by him brought her security, then embraced him and began circulating her energy.

Su He and Su Hua Nian spent a peaceful stretch at Long Moon Estate while Ya Ya stabilized her realm, then welcomed Xia Da Li, who learned they were married and sought help with Azure Origin Sect’s troubles. Su He gave Xia Da Li a Mountain God Seal to arrange for Profound Heaven Sect to guard the Heaven-Treading Battle Domain, and Su Hua Nian agreed to bring Junior Sister Green Snake back for the Azure Origin Grand Ceremony.

• Su Hua Nian awoke in Su He's embrace, and Ya Ya arrived eagerly asking whether a little brother had been born before inviting her parents to play.
• Su He fished a giant shrimp for Ya Ya, while Su Hua Nian asked the merfolk to build a Water Palace beneath Autumn Lake.
• After two months of quiet life, Su He and Su Hua Nian met Xia Da Li, and Su Hua Nian introduced Su He as her husband.
• Su He refused to return the Great Wisdom King Demon Statues but gave Xia Da Li a Mountain God Seal to arrange for Profound Heaven Sect to guard the Heaven-Treading Battle Domain.
• Su Hua Nian agreed to bring Junior Sister Green Snake back for the Azure Origin Grand Ceremony, and Ya Ya persuaded her parents to go out and play.

Su He, Su Hua Nian, and Ya Ya went on a family outing, during which Ya Ya crashed their flying boat near Ape Mountain Stronghold and subdued its bandits. After a day exploring Tai Yue City, they returned to the stronghold, where Ya Ya confronted its chief again and wondered whether to kill him for being so miserable.

• Ya Ya accidentally sent the flying boat hurtling toward Ape Mountain Stronghold, where its Mountain King tried and failed to stop it.
• Ya Ya punished two bandits who discussed coaxing her into joining them, then tied up the stronghold’s bandits with lightning before Su Hua Nian scolded her for nearly killing them in the crash.
• Su He, Su Hua Nian, and Ya Ya visited Tai Yue City, where Ya Ya bought Storytelling Dolls and a porcelain sculpture of their family.
• The city lord recognized Su He and ordered his disciples not to disturb the family outing or let troublemakers approach them.
• On their way back to Long Moon Estate, Ya Ya stopped at Ape Mountain Stronghold and heard its chief plead that the bandits had turned to robbery out of hardship.

Ya Ya’s family returned to Long Moon Estate, where Su He continued cultivating and asked Thousand Rivers for help reaching the missing Qian Qian Zi. Ji Feixue taught him how to build a Soul Summoning Altar, then reacted with surprise when Su He said he owed Qian Qian Zi a life and asked whether he had remembered.

• Ya Ya renamed the bandits’ stronghold Azure Dragon Stronghold and played with a puppet Iron Eating Beast during the trip home.
• Su He and Su Hua Nian returned to Long Moon Estate, stargazed together, and resumed their cultivation routines.
• Su He asked Nan Ming True Person whether Qian Qian Zi had awakened, and Nan Ming suggested building a Soul Summoning Altar to contact her.
• Meng Xuan revealed in Thousand Rivers that Ji Feixue was Su He’s other wife, and Ji Feixue arrived and called him her Little Husband.
• Ji Feixue taught Su He how to build a Soul Summoning Altar, and Su He told her he owed Qian Qian Zi a life.
• Ji Feixue asked Su He if he had remembered.

Su He learned that Ji Feixue had lost a large portion of her memories, then found a new approach to studying Black Tortoise Star Mansions by connecting them to beast techniques. After visiting Azure Origin to seek a Turtle-Snake Combined Attack Art, he returned to Listening Sea Lake and made its Old Crocodiles remember him by beating them.

• Ji Feixue admitted that she could not remember many things and suspected Bai Ling had cut away her memories.
• Su He asked Long Min to build a Soul Summoning Altar and arrange for Merfolk to study with Azure Thunder's clan.
• Su He studied Long Moon Estate's records, found a theory linking star mansions with beasts, and decided to study the Black Tortoise through techniques involving turtles and snakes.
• Su Hua Nian asked Su He to deliver sword art to Sword Washing Pond and retrieve her personal clothing from Water Pool Hut; Su He also decided to seek the Pan Wu Dao Evolution Art in Azure Origin.
• Su He returned to Listening Sea Lake, subdued three Crocodile Kings, and made them bring him prey as an offering.
• Qiao Chang Lun arrived and teased Su He for bullying ordinary crocodiles.

Su He returned to Qing Yuan for a cultivation art, checked on Su Hua Nian’s belongings and Old Daoist Ge, and completed the inheritance of Heaven’s Punishment. After sharing a tender exchange with Su Hua Nian, he rescued Si Ze and discovered her junior brother Zong Sunye dead, with traces linking the Non-Phase Sword Sect corpses to Zhu Yan, the Scholar, and Sealed Emperor Palace.

• Su He asked Qiao Chang Lun for the Pan Wu Dao Evolution Art and learned that Old Daoist Ge had not responded to the sect’s messages.
• Su He greeted Qing Yuan’s elders, gave Gu Lin a sword-intent inheritance and a Sword Dao jade slip, and gave Ge Feng research on beast taming.
• Su He searched Su Hua Nian’s cottage and tried to contact Old Daoist Ge through his statue, but received no reply.
• Su He completed the inheritance of Heaven’s Punishment, tested its power, and then communicated with Su Hua Nian in the Mountains and Seas Profound Realm.
• Su He rescued Si Ze from her pursuers and followed her to Zong Sunye’s corpse, where he found Non-Phase Sword Sect disciples among the dead and detected traces of Zhu Yan, the Scholar, and Sealed Emperor Palace.

After Zong Sunye was killed by Non-Phase Sword Sect disciples, Su He and Si Ze attacked the sect, where Su He exposed Zhu Yan’s role in stirring up the conflict and killed it with help from Azure Thunder. Su He stopped the summoned Netherworld creatures from slaughtering the sect and demanded to know where Scholar was.

• Si Ze asked Su He to save Zong Sunye, and Su He placed the corpse in an ice coffin before taking her to the Non-Phase Sword Sect.
• Su He shattered the sect’s protective formation, defeated Zhu Yan, and drove it back into the sect.
• Zhu Yan manipulated the disciples into attacking Su He, so Su He opened a Netherworld Passage and summoned ghostly soldiers whose war aura poisoned Zhu Yan.
• Azure Thunder killed an Adult Zhu Yan through a passage, and Su He crushed the Zhu Yan before him with the Mountain God Seal and erased it with Reverse Source Severing.
• Elder Xu begged Su He to spare the disciples, and Su He recalled the ghostly creatures before asking where Scholar was.

Su He left the ruined Non-Phase Sword Sect after learning the Scholar had deceived Elder Xu and maimed Qiao Chang Lun, while Elder Xu took his own life. Back at Long Moon Estate, he watched Ya Ya begin building a nation with Azure Dragon Stronghold and sought turtle-snake cultivation methods, until Ji Feixue appeared with an offer to help.

• Qiao Chang Lun told Elder Xu that the Scholar had severed his arms and that Su He had saved him, prompting Elder Xu to doubt the Scholar’s accusations about the Sect Leader.
• Su Hua Nian arrived, confirmed Su He was unharmed, and Qiao Chang Lun told Elder Xu about the events surrounding Feng Yi Ju and Ya Ya.
• Elder Xu revealed that the Scholar had last visited three days earlier, and Qiao Chang Lun asked Su He or Su Hua Nian to take over as Qing Yuan’s Sect Leader.
• Su He gave Qiao Chang Lun a Jade Slip and left with Su Hua Nian; Elder Xu asked Qiao Chang Lun to erase his name from the Azure Origin Grand Ceremony, then struck his own crown and died.
• At Long Moon Estate, Su He and Su Hua Nian watched Ya Ya and Green Snake return stolen wealth and organize Azure Dragon Stronghold, while Ya Ya prepared to attack Red Slope Town.
• Su He asked the Chat Area for turtle-snake cultivation methods, and Ji Feixue appeared in white dragon form and offered to help him find them.

Ji Feixue visited Long Moon Estate, signed Su Hua Nian onto Su He’s Marriage Certificate, and spoke with Su He about Town Evil Dao Palace and the Dragon Turtle Clan’s connection to Black Tortoise. Su He realized Ji Feixue may have prepared the seven Turtle Snake Combined Attack cultivation arts for him long before she gave them to him.

• Ji Feixue gave Su He seven cultivation arts, followed him to Long Moon Estate, and playfully lashed him while he searched for her.
• Ji Feixue showed Su Hua Nian the Marriage Certificate, and Su Hua Nian used sword qi to make her name solidify beside Ji Feixue’s.
• Ji Feixue refused to explain her history with Su He, warning that speaking of it would cause them to die under Heaven and Earth’s suppression.
• Ji Feixue told Su He she knew of Town Evil Dao Palace because an Azure Dragon had fled into it while she pursued him, and she said she could not enter the palace herself.
• Ji Feixue explained that Grand Ancestor Tai’s clan-wide advancement and Bai Ling’s knowledge suggested the Dragon Turtle Clan knew more about Black Tortoise than Su He had realized.
• Su He suspected Bai Ling knew of Black Tortoise and wondered whether Ji Feixue had prepared the seven Turtle Snake Combined Attack cultivation arts specifically for him.

Su He learned how to modify divine powers from Ji Feixue, cultivated through autumn and winter, and watched Ya Ya gain experience helping people. The Soul Summoning Altar was completed outside Long Moon Estate, and Su He rewarded the mermen who built it.

• Ji Feixue explained that Su He had to find and understand a divine power’s source before altering it, and warned that changes could not be reversed.
• Ji Feixue questioned Su He about Bai Ling’s inheritance and left after hearing that two powerful talisman scripts could not be viewed; she then secretly checked on Su Hua Nian before departing.
• Su He joined Su Hua Nian to observe the stars and cultivate while heavy rain fell for ten days, and Ya Ya ventured out to help commoners and confront corrupt officials.
• Su He mastered the Pan Wu Dao Evolution Art and deepened his understanding of Turtle and Snake Complementary as winter arrived.
• A merman told Su He that the Soul Summoning Altar outside Long Moon Estate was complete, and Su He tested the altar before giving the builders Water Droplets infused with his true essence.

Su He and his allies found Qian Qian Zi’s divine soul, but a Buddhist curse prevented her return, so Master San Xiang confronted the monk responsible. As Master San Xiang fought Yuan Yi beneath Eastern Cloud, Su He recognized the rejuvenating monk as Mou Wan.

• Su He projected Long Min’s soul-summoning ritual into Thousand Rivers, and the altar found Qian Qian Zi’s divine soul, only for a swastika to force it back.
• Su Hua Nian took over the ritual, and Shen Chen Dao Ren awakened Master San Xiang, who used his prayer beads to strengthen the summoning and reveal Qian Qian Zi more fully.
• Master San Xiang traced the Buddhist curse to a monk from the Buddhist Realm, while a Profound Heaven Sect cultivator pursued the Sealed Emperor Palace clansman who had interfered.
• Su He descended toward the underground palace as Master San Xiang fought Yuan Yi in a Spirit Mountain Contest that became a flurry of punches.
• As Master San Xiang’s Immovable Wisdom King Body broke through and his body grew younger, Su He recognized him as Mou Wan, the man from Bai Ling’s Talisman Script divination.