Chapter Summaries

Su He opened a new space in Northern Chaos with the Heaven Opening Brush and organized the spoils from his recent battles. In the Mountains and Seas Profound Realm, Su Hua Nian revealed that she had been Immortal Venerable Tantai Ling, and the Barren Ancestor recalled that she had once beaten Grand Ancestor Tai.

• Su He entered Northern Chaos, used the Constancy Hexagram with the Heaven Opening Brush to carve out a space, and anchored its World Source with a volcano and the Obstruction Hexagram.
• Su He had the Toad sort his Source Stones and treasures, then discovered that a prison guard uniform fragment and an iron chain did not belong to him.
• Su He met Su Hua Nian in the Mountains and Seas Profound Realm, where she said she planned to seek a breakthrough at Southern Sea Ice Cliff or Fallen Phoenix Valley.
• Azure Thunder asked Su Hua Nian about her past life, and she revealed that she had been Tantai Ling.
• The Barren Ancestor recognized Tantai Ling as an Immortal Venerable and said she had once hung up and whipped Grand Ancestor Tai for trying to steal her treasure.

Su He learned that the Sealed Emperor Palace's divine powers might belong to a hidden benefactor, while Azure Thunder and Xuan Zhen discussed Ya Ya's possible path to the imperial Dao. Old Daoist Ge fled his would-be master, only to learn that the Slovenly Old Daoist was Xuan Quan of Return Gazing Mountain.

• Azure Thunder sent Su Hua Nian through a passage to the Extremely Northern Ice Field so she could travel toward Fallen Phoenix Valley and adapt to its cold.
• Su He questioned Azure Thunder about his passages, then learned that the cloth and chains he had recovered were remnants of the Sealed Emperor Palace's divine powers; Azure Thunder suspected the powers belonged to someone behind the palace.
• The Toad returned to Long Maple City and worried that the Old Daoist Priest who had entered the City Lord's Mansion might threaten Ya Ya, while Ya Ya revealed that Turtle Grandfather and Grandma Priestess knew about the situation.
• Xuan Zhen told Azure Thunder that Ya Ya would have to fight for herself if she were to become a Great Emperor, and they agreed that the Sealed Emperor Palace's secrets should be left to their elders to investigate.
• Old Daoist Ge tried to escape the Slovenly Old Daoist, but the old man caught up with him at a tea house and revealed that he was Xuan Quan of Return Gazing Mountain, the martial uncle of Prince Jing.

Old Daoist Ge learned that his disciple Su He was a Dragon Turtle and refused to become Daoist Xuan Quan’s disciple, but Xuan Quan took him away anyway. Meanwhile, Su He sent Su Hua Nian a bronze mirror and entered a deep sleep after taking an overwhelming formation inheritance from Feng Chao Fei’s Phoenix Mountain.

• Daoist Xuan Quan recognized Su He’s name and showed Old Daoist Ge a Jade Slip detailing Su He’s exploits and the power of the Dragon Turtle Clan.
• Old Daoist Ge decided he had no need for a master because Su He could provide cultivation techniques, resources, and support, but Daoist Xuan Quan grabbed him and flew west with him.
• Su He sent Su Hua Nian a bronze mirror that could guide her to him, then returned to the Chaos Suppression Land and swallowed the Bright Moon and Horizon Phoenix Tree Seeds.
• Su He stole Swift Feather Bamboo Rice from Feng Chao Fei’s Phoenix Mountain, received an enormous formation inheritance, and fell into a deep sleep to study it.
• Feng Chao Fei celebrated that Su He had taken the Swiftness Chapter and said he should sleep for ten years, while Su He wondered what she was plotting.

Su Hua Nian encountered Ran Hou on the Extremely Northern Ice Field and revealed that she had independently created the same invisibility method as his Illusory Snow Sect’s inheritance. Zong Sunye awakened as the mountain god of Eastern Cloud Mountain, reunited with Si Ze, and told her there was a person—or corpse—buried beneath the mountain.

• Su Hua Nian followed Su He’s shifting bronze mirror across the ice field and defeated the Gui Zang Valley cultivators who confronted her and Ran Hou.
• Ran Hou offered Su Hua Nian his sect’s invisibility method, but she demonstrated that she had created the same technique herself and denied being his Grandmaster.
• Zong Sunye fully awakened as Eastern Cloud Mountain, realized the mountain and its living things were part of his essence, and traveled toward Azure Origin.
• Zong Sunye startled Si Ze at his grave, and she blasted his grave before realizing he was alive and embracing him through tears.
• Zong Sunye told Si Ze that he suspected his mountain-god task involved an unknown person or corpse buried beneath Eastern Cloud Mountain, though he could not approach it.

Su Hua Nian discovered a hidden Black Tortoise statue in the Illusory Snow Sect’s forbidden ground and summoned Su He to investigate it. When Su He arrived, he recognized the ape-like statue and wondered whether his Monkey Bro had legends in this world.

• Zong Sunye worried about the terrifying being sealed beneath Eastern Cloud Mountain while Si Ze scolded him for suggesting a new name.
• Su He studied Feng Chao Fei’s formation inheritance, stabilized his Inner World, and formed a Spirit Gathering Formation within it.
• Su Hua Nian killed two Gui Zang Valley cultivators who attacked her and Ran Hou, then entered the Illusory Snow Sect’s forbidden ground and found a Black Tortoise statue.
• Su Hua Nian summoned Su He, who crossed the Chaos Land and reached the Illusory Snow Sect two months later with his dragon horns newly branched.
• Su He entered the forbidden ground without the required talisman or full moon, saw the ape-like statue, and wondered whether his Monkey Bro had legends there.

Su He discovered a True Martial Divine Tablet and evidence that his Previous Life had left treasures and clues in the forbidden ground, then arranged protection for Illusory Snow Sect before parting from Su Hua Nian. After she left for Fallen Phoenix Valley, Su Hua Nian confronted Ji Feixue, who revealed she had waited seventy-three thousand years for Su He.

• Su He found the True Martial Divine Tablet hidden inside a statue, and it entered his Sea of Consciousness as the forbidden ground’s pull vanished.
• Su He recognized his own handwriting on the Great Sage statue’s staff and suspected that his Previous Life had left the tablet and other clues behind.
• Ran Hou asked Su He to announce that he had taken Illusory Snow Sect’s treasure and to lend the sect protection; Su He agreed to seek a marker from Thousand Machines Sect.
• Su Hua Nian and Su He left Illusory Snow Sect, and she said she would travel alone to Fallen Phoenix Valley while he went to Thousand Machines Sect.
• After Su He slept for seven days, Su Hua Nian left and contacted Ji Feixue, who revealed that Su He had been at the Open Heaven Third Level when they met and that she had waited for him for seventy-three thousand years.

Su Hua Nian learned that Ji Feixue had waited tens of thousands of years for Su He and agreed to retrieve a dragon scale for her from Three Primes Palace. Su He returned to his Suppression Land, where Ji Feixue asked to stay with him, and he resumed studying the Black Tortoise Dao.

• Ji Feixue told Su Hua Nian that she had endured the long wait by sending her memories and emotions to clones, then asked Su Hua Nian to retrieve a dragon scale from Three Primes Palace.
• Su Hua Nian accepted Ji Feixue's request and set off for Fallen Phoenix Valley after Ji Feixue warned her not to risk herself for the scale.
• Ji Feixue entered Su He's Suppression Land, while Thousand Machines Sect agreed to protect Illusory Snow Sect and compensate it for Gui Zang Valley's damage.
• Su He returned to his Suppression Land and found Ji Feixue waiting there; she asked to stay with him, and he suspected she had beaten him in his previous life.
• Ji Feixue teased Su He about helping him cultivate a human body, but he clarified that he meant learning whether the Black Tortoise had one.

Luan Emperor weighed the Sealed Emperor Palace’s damaged inheritance and its tensions with the Profound Wilderness Realm while the Third Prince and Ma Zhao quietly pursued their own plans involving the Dragon Turtle. Su He learned that Phoenix True Fire could destroy a Profound Realm, then Ya Ya led Long Maple City’s forces against Deep Pool City and cut through its cultivators.

• Luan Emperor showed the Third Prince the old battle that had brought him to the throne, then Qinghe Princess slipped away with meat pies secretly brought back from the Profound Wilderness Realm.
• The Third Prince gave Ma Zhao Talisman Scripts that could restrain Demonic Race and divine beasts, while Ma Zhao planned to use them to gather Zhu Yan blood and advance.
• Ji Feixue explained to Su He that divine abilities were embodied expressions of the Great Dao, and that Phoenix True Fire could burn through a Profound Realm.
• Su He changed into a Peacock Body and ignited Phoenix True Fire in Thousand Rivers, but Ji Feixue suppressed it before it could damage the realm.
• Ya Ya led Long Maple City’s forces into battle against Deep Pool City and charged ahead on Tusks, killing a Demon Transformation Cultivator with her spear.
• A small doll riding a panda struck the fallen cultivator repeatedly with an axe until its attacks broke through his defenses and killed him.

Su He tested a formation-based maze in Thousand Rivers, learned from Shen Chen Dao Ren, and heard that his missing master might have been pursued by Senior Xuan Quan. After the Small Difficulty Hexagram condensed, Su He offered it to the Dragon Turtle Clan and saw a Cannon Mount begin to form atop Mount Tai'e.

• Ya Ya fought through the snow-covered battlefield while the Little Barbarian King sat atop a slain Demon Transformation cultivator and watched her.
• Shen Chen Dao Ren tried Su He's Divine Temple Escape game, accidentally revealed its clothing flaw, then repeatedly cleared the corrected formations to teach Su He new techniques.
• Three Aspects Monk reported that Senior Drunkard might have pursued Su He's missing master to recruit him, and Su He asked Ji Feixue to confirm the rumor with Senior Xuan Quan.
• Shen Chen Dao Ren asked Su He to deliver two puppets to Thousand Machines Sect, but Su He warned that they might explode, so Shen Chen abandoned the request.
• Su He condensed the Small Difficulty Hexagram and offered it to the Dragon Turtle Clan, whose elders discussed the Kan Hexagram and Luo's delayed emergence from his shell.
• Su He returned to the Chaos Suppression Land, where a Cannon Mount began to appear atop Mount Tai'e as the Heaven Opening Brush circled it.

Su He watched Su Hua Nian enter a perilous ritual in Fallen Phoenix Valley while Ji Feixue protected the valley and restrained him from intervening. At Long Maple City, Ya Ya sensed her mother was in danger, called Azure Thunder for help, and fought back against the cultivators attacking her.

• Ji Feixue explained that Su He needed to gather laws before advancing further, so he settled down to study formations and absorb Dao rhythm.
• Su Hua Nian cut away her cultivation in Fallen Phoenix Valley as part of a Witchcraft Ritual, and Ji Feixue prevented Su He from interrupting her.
• Ji Feixue claimed Fallen Phoenix Valley, drove out the scholars inside, and sealed its entrance with a formation.
• On the fifth day of battle outside Long Maple City, Ya Ya sensed danger to her mother and asked Toad for a flying boat.
• Ya Ya called for Turtle Grandfather to save her mother, and Azure Thunder revealed himself as the mountain and tore open space to leave.
• When the enemy cultivators kept attacking, Ya Ya transformed into a Dragon Turtle and shattered a Demon Transformation cultivator's Heavenly Star Hammer with her Mountain God Seal.

Su He reunited with Ya Ya in Long Maple City and watched her lead the campaign to take Deep Pool City while Su Hua Nian remained in secluded cultivation. After confirming that Ya Ya had recovered, Su He returned with Ji Feixue to the Chaos Suppression Land, where Ji Feixue joked that her family had driven her out of Cloud Dream Marsh.

• Azure Thunder brought the blue bird to Ya Ya, who learned that Su Hua Nian was safe in secluded cultivation and that Su He was guarding her with Ji Feixue.
• Su He opened a passage to Long Maple City, comforted Ya Ya, and promised to ask Ji Feixue to forge her a suitable hammer.
• Ya Ya rode out with her allies to conquer Deep Pool City, while Xuan Zhen stopped Su He from interfering and identified the campaign as Ya Ya's own path.
• Su He watched Ya Ya govern the captured city for eight days as she calmed its people and managed the surrendered Heavenly Star Sect disciples.
• Su He and Ji Feixue returned to the Chaos Suppression Land, where Ji Feixue claimed that the Cloud Dream Dragon King had driven her from Cloud Dream Marsh and revealed that she had sent Su He's threat to him.

Su He completed the Swift Feathers formation, then went to the planet where Ancient Lo was secluded and discovered him trapped in a deep sleep inside an egg. By telling Ancient Lo about his wives and Ya Ya, Su He roused him, and Ancient Lo called for Azure Thunder to help suppress and kill the Spirit Clan.

• Su He activated his Swift Feathers formation, absorbed its power, and tested his new speed by flying to the Illusory Snow Sect and back in less than a day.
• Su He asked Ji Feixue to open a passage to Azure Thunder, who told him to reach Ancient Lo inside the planet and try to wake him.
• Ji Feixue enhanced Su He's Mirror of Insight, and Su He used it to inspect Azure Thunder before digging through the planet toward its core.
• Su He found Ancient Lo asleep inside a giant egg, placed Azure Thunder's soul-calling lamp on it, and tried to keep him awake by talking.
• Su He told Ancient Lo about Ji Feixue, Su Hua Nian, and Ya Ya, provoking Ancient Lo to awaken and call for Azure Thunder to suppress and kill the Spirit Clan.

Ancient Lo awakened and joined Azure Thunder, Candle, and Ancient Locust in destroying the Spirit Race’s world after its attempt to possess him. The Spirit Emperor tried to escape and called for help from the Sealed Emperor Palace, but Ancient Lo confronted Su Wang and Annan Gong outside the world.

• Ancient Lo’s egg suppressed the four Spirit Race cultivators, and Su He fled the planet as Azure Thunder and the other Dragon Turtles set out to attack the Spirit Race.
• Su He stayed behind while Azure Thunder, Candle, and Ancient Locust sealed the Spirit Race World and began destroying it and its inhabitants.
• The Spirit Emperor unleashed curses and possessed forces against the Dragon Turtles, while Candle fought off the curses and Azure Thunder broke the Spirit Race’s control over a Soaring Serpent.
• The Spirit Emperor used the Soaring Serpent to open an escape tunnel, but Ancient Lo arrived in his Soaring Serpent form and blocked the escape.
• The Spirit Emperor called on the Sealed Emperor Palace for help, and Su Wang and Annan Gong appeared as Ancient Lo accused them of involvement.

Ji Feixue and allies from the Profound Wilderness Realm attacked the Sealed Emperor Great World under the pretext of defending the Dragon Turtles, while their real aim was to test the Sealed Emperor Palace and plunder it. Su He raided the palace, confronted Qinghe Princess, and headed toward the treasure vault as the battle continued around him.

• Ji Feixue took Su He to join a group of Profound Wilderness Realm powers who entered the Sealed Emperor Great World and attacked the Sealed Emperor Palace.
• The gathered powers fought their way toward the palace while Xuan Zhen Daoren and Gu Jing Monk held the Sealed Emperor Palace's leaders in check above the world.
• Su He used Ji Feixue's silk scarf to loot the palace, taking everything he found as he searched for its treasures.
• Su He captured Qinghe Princess and asked where the treasure vault was; after a voice from above insisted it was within the rules of the game, Su He released her and flew toward the vault in his Peacock True Form.
• Yin Yuan blocked the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace while the Crown Prince realized that his youngest sister had been captured and that Luan Emperor had yielded to Su He.

Su He fought through the Sealed Emperor Palace and entered the Luan Emperor’s inner treasury, where he discovered a living starry sky and learned it had once been tamed by Bai Ling. The Toad looted the treasures while Su He tested the mysterious being, which responded by sending down gourds.

• Fu Xiang protected the Imperial Garden, honored the Locust Ancestral Master, and joined the Master in fighting the Sealed Emperor Palace’s forces.
• Su He defeated a Bi Fang military formation by comprehending and disrupting its linked yin-yang pairs, then fled from the pursuing Third Prince.
• Su He knocked down a treasury eunuch, restrained two stone lions with his silk scarf, and broke through the inner treasury’s World Boundary Membrane with his Boundary Pearl.
• Su He collected the treasury’s peach trees and spirit stones, while the Toad began gathering its many treasures.
• Su He discovered that the treasury’s stars were a living being and persuaded it to send down gourds; Bai Ling’s divination showed that she had previously subdued it and kept it as a pet.

Su He plundered the Sealed Emperor Palace’s inner treasury, taunted the Third Prince, and used his avatar’s destruction to open a Netherworld Passage. The ghostly creatures surged toward the Imperial Ancestral Temple, where two Primordial Venerables emerged to fight the Old Beggar.

• Su He captured the Little Black Cloud with Ya Ya’s fishing rod and swept treasures into the Toad’s pocket and his Silk Scarf.
• When the Third Prince arrived, Su He opened the treasury barrier, scattered treasures across the imperial palace, and escaped behind a Domain Avatar while his true body entered the Third Prince’s Manor.
• Su He found one flood dragon imprisoned in a lake and another dead in the kitchen, then provoked the Third Prince by suggesting that his sister’s legs could be cured with a blood sibling’s limbs.
• Su He rebuked the Luan Emperor for shielding Azure River and then destroyed his avatar to open a Netherworld Passage inside the Sealed Emperor Palace.
• Ghostly creatures rushed toward the Imperial Ancestral Temple, where the Old Beggar entered and confronted two identical Primordial Venerables.

Su He and Frog Grandpa fought Third Prince inside Sealed Emperor Palace, with Little Black Cloud’s power helping them withstand his attacks. Su He discovered that the True Martial Divine Tablet let him wield a thread of Black Tortoise Authority, and he stripped Third Prince of one iron chain.

• Su He knocked out the flood dragon at Third Prince’s Manor and took the rune between its brows, prompting Third Prince to pursue him with his spear.
• Su He fled toward Sealed Emperor Palace, where Little Black Cloud emerged from Ji Feixue’s silk scarf and turned the surrounding water black.
• Little Black Cloud wrapped Third Prince in black water and struck him with lightning, while Su He used Mountain God Seals to suppress his spear and attack him.
• Little Black Cloud spread black mist over the island and fed Su He and Frog Grandpa liquid from its gourds, allowing them to see and sense within the mist.
• Third Prince summoned iron chains and used them to shatter space, forcing Su He to evade his attacks in peacock form.
• Su He sensed the True Martial Divine Tablet’s power, commanded one chain to fall, and stripped it from Third Prince’s hand.

Su He severed the Third Prince’s Sealed Emperor power and fought the palace’s forces as an ancient Old Ancestor awakened and Ji Feixue confronted him. Grand Ancestor Tai appeared to protect Su He, then four Dragon Turtles challenged Luan Emperor after he shielded the Sealed Empress, leaving the palace on the brink of battle.

• Su He broke the Third Prince’s iron chains, severing the roots of his Sealed Emperor divine powers and weakening him.
• The Sealed Empress attacked Su He, but Ji Feixue removed her arm, and Su He battled the Third Prince while an ancient eye called Chong tried to subdue him.
• Ji Feixue fought Chong in the sky and dragged his enormous eye down, while the Old Beggar struck the Sealed Empress for violating the rules.
• Grand Ancestor Tai appeared, shattered Chong’s projected form with one claw, praised Su He, and vanished as the Third Prince fled.
• Four Dragon Turtles arrived and attacked the Sealed Empress, but Luan Emperor blocked them; Azure Thunder then targeted Qinghe Princess, and Luan Emperor’s Three-legged Cauldron collided with the Mountain God Seal, damaging much of the palace.

The Dragon Turtle Clan and their allies overwhelmed Sealed Emperor Palace, capturing its Primal Venerable fighters while Su He gathered treasures amid the battle. Xuan Zhen Daoren ended the raid as the party escaped the Sealed Emperor Great World, leaving the conflict with Sealed Emperor Palace unresolved.

• Ancient Lo and three Dragon Turtles attacked the Sealed Empress, while Azure Thunder, Divine Mechanism, and Xu Zhu broke her military formation and left her badly wounded.
• Azure Thunder and Master Fu separately imprisoned the two Primal Venerable Clan Members, and Master Fu warned Jixia Academy to stop studying the formation at Fallen Phoenix Valley.
• Su He and Toad collected scattered treasures as Ji Feixue helped him choose Heavenly Book Iron for Su Meimei and agreed to protect Long Moon Estate with a formation.
• Three Aspects Monk fought the First Prince while Su He watched the battle and learned that San Xiang was weakened inside the Sealed Emperor Great World.
• Xuan Zhen Daoren declared the raid over, Ji Feixue carried Su He out, and Muscular Monk pulled San Xiang away from the First Prince before Xuan Zhen Daoren took the group away on the shrunken island.

After the passage to the Sealed Emperor Great World was sealed, the gathered powers shared intelligence and considered Su He’s discovery that the Sealed Emperor Clan’s divine abilities could be taken away. They suspected Luan Emperor had shed those restrictions and left the gathering eager to strike back.

• The gathered cultivators sealed the tunnel with a Buddhist seal, Dragon Turtle Mountain God Seals, and a formation made from their techniques, then celebrated their gains from the Sealed Emperor Great World.
• Ji Feixue secretly helped Three Aspects Monk escape Master Ci Fang, who had brought a corpse clone to Ancient Quiet Abode and tried to arrange Three Aspects’s marriage to Qian Qian Zi; Ci Fang sent the Eighteen Arhats after the runaway.
• At a moonlit meal in Ancient Quiet Abode, Abbot Ci Shan asked the gathered powers to share what they had learned, and Xuan Zhen Daoren said Luan Emperor was likely an impostor because he had lost their chess game.
• Ji Feixue clarified that Luan Emperor had been real but that his Dao cultivation was wrong, prompting Azure Thunder and the Master to reveal two sealed members of the Primal Venerable Clan for Jixia Academy to study.
• Su He told the gathered powers that the Third Prince’s chains had weakened him when Su He took their aura, and that Bai Ling could likely strip away Sealed Emperor divine abilities as well.
• The gathered powers concluded that Luan Emperor might have removed his own restrictions and left eager to launch a counterattack.