Chapter Summaries

Li Ye bound a Silver Birch Spirit Pine Cone, which combined with the Snowy Phoenix-tailed Ducks’ Divine Sense to grow into a pine tree bearing many cones. After the squirrels repaired his house, he went to sleep inside, only to wake to a huge black bear knocking at his door.

• Li Ye discovered that the Snowy Phoenix-tailed Ducks could create a realistic Great Cold spirit domain with their Divine Sense and saw the Silver Birch Spirit Pine Cone grow into a tree.
• The ducks asked Li Ye to feed pine cones to the exhausted Little Iron Pot Tai Suis, but he refused until they recovered.
• The squirrels valued the pine cones at twelve hundred Spirit Stones, and Li Ye hired them to repair his house.
• As night fell, Li Ye recognized that winter’s power was affecting his emotions and went indoors to shelter from the cold and darkness.
• Li Ye ate, fell asleep in the warm house, and awoke to find a towering black bear knocking on his door.

Li Ye fought a demonic-qi-tainted bear in the Suike Realm and learned that Shen Xue had sent him there to find a fragment of the Earth Book. When the fragment flew into his hand, spring returned to the courtyard, leaving the local humans and bear astonished.

• Li Ye used the Snowy Phoenix-tailed Ducks’ phoenix-fire ability to burn the demonic qi from the Black Bear, then made it repair his courtyard wall.
• The bear told Li Ye that its family had been instructed to bring visitors from beyond the heavens to humans, and that winter never ended in the Suike Realm.
• A group of locals arrived, and their young leader explained that Shen Xue had taught them farming and told them to give visitors a piece of their Solar Term Heavenly Tablet.
• Li Ye recognized the tablet fragment as a page of the Earth Book and called it into his hand.
• The Earth Book Fragment’s power melted the courtyard’s snow and ice, bringing spring growth to the land around Li Ye.

Li Ye used the Earth Book fragment to briefly bring spring to the courtyard, then cleansed a Swelling Rice Lotus of White Demonic Energy with Phoenix Fire. He traveled with Fu You toward the village and discovered that he could see Nirvana White Demons, leaving him to wonder whether the Phoenix feather in his hand was connected to the children who could also see them.

• Li Ye ended his brief use of the Earth Book fragment and told the young man that bringing spring to the world would require long-term planning.
• Li Ye used Phoenix Fire to burn the White Demonic Energy from the Swelling Rice Lotus, then obtained a Phoenix Fire seed by plucking a tail feather from a Snowy Phoenix-tailed Duck.
• Fu You led Li Ye and the village cultivators through the snow toward their village while Li Ye learned how weak their cultivation inheritance was and how White Demonic Energy had tainted their spiritual energy.
• Li Ye saw strange humanoid figures in the snow, prompting Fu You to cut his arm and create a blood circle that hid the group from the approaching Nirvana White Demons.
• Fu You explained that children with strong cultivation talent could see the Nirvana White Demons, and Li Ye wondered whether the Phoenix feather let him see them too.

Li Ye reached the village, awakened a Phoenix Snow Parasol Tree through Tie Niu, and used Phoenix Fire and the Earth Book to cleanse the fields of demonic energy. He returned to his courtyard before dawn, where the rising sun abruptly fell and the corrupted landscape vanished, leaving pure spiritual qi behind.

• Li Ye examined the village children, recognized Tie Niu's connection to the phoenix, and taught him to awaken the power beneath the earth.
• Tie Niu's Divine Sense stirred the phoenix's lingering spirit, causing the Phoenix Snow Parasol Tree to rise and shelter the village from the cold.
• Li Ye found Clear and Turbid Yellow Spirit tending the Swelling Rice Lotus fields and used Phoenix Fire and the Earth Book to burn away demonic energy.
• As dawn approached, Li Ye returned to his courtyard while white shadows gathered in the mountains and demonic qi seeped from the snow.
• The sun rose and suddenly fell, after which the corrupted snow forest disappeared and pure spiritual qi filled the courtyard.

Li Ye learned from Senior Brother that the fallen sun was the Golden Core of a person chosen by the Suike Realm to end its endless winter, and that the person might be helped with the World-Nurturing Elixir Method. As Shen Xue and Mo Qi agreed to support Li Ye, the Suike Realm’s connection to the Divine Snow Grotto-Heaven suddenly broke, leaving Li Ye trapped inside.

• A squirrel told Li Ye that spirit beasts and plants, including Golden Core and Nascent Soul beings, had entered the polluted world and been corrupted by demonic qi.
• Senior Brother explained that the fallen sun was a Golden Core formed with the Heavenly Dao’s remaining power, and that its owner’s Dao Heart had begun to collapse.
• Senior Brother suggested teaching the world’s chosen person the World-Nurturing Elixir Method so they could control their Golden Core and help Li Ye resolve the calamity.
• Shen Xue learned from Mo Qi that Jiang Guichen had been born from Pure Yang Immortal Qi and the spirit of the Ruo Tree, and had pursued Hell Dao to resolve the calamity tied to his birth.
• Mo Qi agreed to meet Li Ye’s requests, but Shen Xue noticed that the spatial talisman had become murky and the snowy forest coordinate had vanished, severing the Suike Realm’s connection while Li Ye remained inside.

Li Ye used the Snowy Phoenix-tailed Ducks’ Divine Sense and the Spirit Observation Marvelous Secret to carve their Spirit Runes into pine trees, creating a formation that protected his courtyard from White Demonic Energy. With spirit beasts and plants gathered inside, he lifted the courtyard into the air and set off deeper into Eternal Winter.

• Senior Brother explained that the Heavenly Dao sensed A Thread of Life and revealed that his own past made him want to help the savior.
• Li Ye gathered the ducks’ Divine Sense, sent the squirrels to invite willing spirit beasts and plants, and began engraving Spirit Runes into the pine trees.
• As White Demonic Energy invaded, spirit beasts and plants fought it or entered hibernation, buying Li Ye time to finish the formation.
• Li Ye completed a phoenix-feather formation that concealed the courtyard from the demonic energy and the world itself.
• Li Ye commanded the pine tree to lift the protected courtyard, carrying its inhabitants deeper into Eternal Winter.

Li Ye traveled east after the sun vanished, using talismans and phoenix spirits to restrain chaos and protect people. He found the child of Fortune in a deserted village and learned the youth wanted to be planted in a Demon Suppression Tree to escape his grief, but Li Ye revealed that the villagers’ Soul Essences were still trapped there.

• After sunrise and moonset vanished, Li Ye sent out warm talismans and phoenixes to calm the people and punish those causing trouble.
• Li Ye warned True Person Qing Hua to restrain her cultivators and protect the world’s people, then continued east toward the place where the sun had fallen.
• Li Ye reached a deserted village filled with blood-written spells and found a youthful child of Fortune waiting with a brightly feathered chicken.
• The youth asked Li Ye to plant him in a Demon Suppression Tree so he could escape his suffering and let his Golden Core continue following the laws of sunrise and sunset.
• Li Ye discovered the youth’s dead childhood sweetheart and explained that the Soul Essences of the dead villagers remained trapped in the village.

Li Ye helped the Child of Fortune destroy the collapsing world’s Heavenly Dao with Calamity Fire, while the Heavenly Dao willingly accepted its end. Li Ye saved the youth and began sheltering the surviving beings as he prepared a path to the Dao Flourishing Realm.

• Li Ye told Senior Brother that the world could no longer be saved and planned to erase its Heavenly Dao, and Senior Brother agreed to support him if necessary.
• Li Ye used the Glazed Bead to awaken the youth and his childhood sweetheart’s phoenix bloodlines, then asked the youth to carry Calamity Fire into the Heavenly Dao.
• The youth reached the Heavenly Dao and persuaded it to accept its destruction, while the Calamity Fire consumed it and the Five-Colored Stone sealed away the White Demonic Energy phoenix.
• The youth let the Calamity Fire burn him, but Li Ye’s Heartfelt Melody retrieved him with a small Five-Colored Stone; the Glazed Bead then shattered, and a black-and-white fish leaped into the fire.
• Li Ye transformed into Jianmu, sheltered surviving beings within spiritual-power bubbles, and began drawing a spatial formation to the Dao Flourishing Realm while resisting demonic and deathly auras.

Li Ye used the Calamity Fire to end Suike Realm’s endless winter, then watched the world settle into a new landscape and obtained a Phoenix Wutong seed and Heavenly Heart Jade. After Perfected Person Shen Xue and True Person Mo Qi arrived, Shen Xue praised his actions and promised him a future chance to investigate the source of the White Demonic Qi.

• Li Ye borrowed Fu Ye’s memories of the long winter through the Heartfelt Melody while the Calamity Fire melted the world’s ice and snow.
• Li Ye gathered Chaos Soil from the clash of fire and floodwaters, and a phoenix phantom appeared, thanked him, and left a Phoenix Wutong seed.
• Heavenly light calmed the chaos and reshaped Suike Realm into a spirit-rich wilderness, while Li Ye obtained Heavenly Heart Jade and a new Glazed Bead.
• Perfected Person Shen Xue and True Person Mo Qi arrived; Mo Qi asked to see Jiang Guichen, and Li Ye brought her into his Heart Soil Purple Mansion.
• Shen Xue told Li Ye she had found the source of the White Demonic Qi and offered him a future place to investigate it through an incarnation of the Auspicious Fruit, then sent him home to rest.

Li Ye returned to his cave abode, used the Heavenly Heart Jade to bring winter to the spirit grounds, and examined the treasures from his journey. After Chaos Soil created unpredictable spirit trees and Spirit Plant Hall invited him to study spiritual patterns, Mo Qi Zhenren said she would raise all three of Su Xing’s sons.

• Li Ye returned to his cave abode and activated the Heavenly Heart Jade, blanketing the grounds in snow and giving its plants and creatures a season of rest.
• Li Ye planted seeds in Chaos Soil, which produced Chaos Spirit Peach Trees with disordered Five Elements attributes and newly recombined spirituality.
• Spirit Vine delivered Spirit Plant Hall’s invitation for Li Ye to enter Spirit Flourishing Pavilion and study spiritual patterns.
• Li Ye met Mo Qi Zhenren, who thanked him and promised to raise all three of Su Xing’s sons.

Li Ye visited Spirit Flourishing Hall, learned about its five-colored spirit water and the Heaven-Bearing willow patriarch, and passed an initial spirit-rune test. He was given three days to study before an assessment, and asked to use the Glass Snow Lotus seed that had once wished to fly.

• Li Ye entered Spirit Flourishing Hall and met Senior Brother Spirit Vine above the five-colored spirit water, which could nurture bodies of spirit plants and spirit beasts without spirituality.
• Senior Brother Spirit Vine led Li Ye to the Heaven-Bearing willow patriarch, who asked him to inspect a branch and draw the Golden Sand Spirit Wings rune.
• The patriarch granted Li Ye entry to Spirit Flourishing Hall and assigned him books to study before a test in three days.
• Senior Brother Spirit Vine explained that the assessment required engraving the flight rune onto one of three spirit plants or spirit beasts, and Li Ye asked to use his own spirit plant seed instead.
• Li Ye revealed the Glass Snow Lotus seed and said he could finally fulfill its wish to be carried into flight.

Li Ye entered Spirit Flourishing Hall’s assessment and used spirit patterns to awaken a Glass Snow Lotus seed into a powerful lotus spirit. When the spirit awakened an Azure Bird and Li Ye bonded with it, a Heavenly Tribulation began forming over the trial grounds.

• Li Ye prepared for the assessment by studying spirit patterns and asking Su Xing for guidance, then joined forty-eight other Golden Core True Persons.
• Li Ye entered his minor heaven and found that his altered assessment involved a Glass Snow Lotus seed and an Azure Bird.
• Li Ye engraved the Glass Snow Lotus seed, causing it to sprout into a Foundation Establishment Realm lotus spirit with wings resembling his own.
• The lotus spirit infused the Azure Bird with spirit energy, and Li Ye used Vital Essence to bond with the newly sentient Glass Bird.
• The sky split open above the trial grounds as a Heavenly Tribulation began to brew, astonishing the Nascent Soul cultivators.

Li Ye passed the Spirit Flourishing Hall assessment after the lotus spirit and Azure Bird left through a Heavenly Tribulation, and he received a manual tied to the rare Flying Light Azure Lotus. He watched another senior sister demonstrate a winged Coiled Horn Rock Sheep and a Starfall Epiphyllum whose beautiful bloom struck ascending figures with deadly starlight.

• The Jianmu-like Heavenly Tribulation carried the Azure Bird and lotus spirit away toward the Northern Domain, and the lotus spirit promised to bring back gifts.
• The Nascent Souls awarded Li Ye first place and gave him the Azure Lotus Flying Light Heart Method, promising him a Flying Light Azure Lotus seed after he completed a task.
• Li Ye asked how Chaos Soil could preserve a spirit plant's intelligence while allowing controlled mutations, and a Nascent Soul explained that the Flying Light Azure Lotus could do so.
• The first senior sister presented a Coiled Horn Rock Sheep with spirit-patterned wings on its hooves, and a Nascent Soul praised the idea while warning that breeding the sheep could damage mountain ecosystems.
• The senior sister's Starfall Epiphyllum bloomed, suppressing movement and spatial arts as its starlight struck the ascending Golden Core figures into ash, and Li Ye retreated behind the Nascent Souls.

Li Ye and nine other True Persons passed Spirit Flourishing Hall’s assessment and were sent to reclaim land in the chaos. When Li Ye laid down a stone slab, his Tribulation Fire Spirit erupted and burned away the surrounding Chaos Mist, revealing many objects and heaps of Calamity Ash.

• Li Ye watched the Nascent Soul ancestors reject most Golden Core creations for harmful drawbacks, while he and nine others passed the assessment.
• The ten entered Spirit Flourishing Hall and learned from Steward Wei that they would mine Heaven's Question Stone to build residences in the chaos beyond the hall.
• After mining for three months, the True Persons each received enough stone to reclaim ten mu of land and traveled to the edge of the chaos.
• Senior Sister Ye laid the first stone slab in the chaos, opening a narrow path, and Li Ye volunteered to lay the next one to advance his cultivation.
• Chaos energy pierced Li Ye's defenses, and his enraged Tribulation Fire Spirit burst out and set the Chaos Mist ablaze.
• The fire cleared roughly a mile of Chaos Mist, dropping gleaming objects and heaps of Calamity Ash as the cultivators stared in shock.

Li Ye used Calamity Fire to uncover treasures in the Chaos and arranged an exchange with Spirit Flourishing Hall’s veteran Golden Core cultivators for access to their spirit patterns. After receiving a reincarnation spirit pattern and a Spirit Vein Willow fusion method, he agreed to visit the Su Family, where Su Bing'er revealed that Su Huan’s Nascent Soul had merged with the Earth Vein Spirit Willow and asked Li Ye to intervene.

• Li Ye uncovered more than a thousand Chaos treasures with Calamity Fire and invited the veteran Golden Core cultivators to exchange spirit patterns for them.
• Li Ye played the Heartfelt Melody for the seniors, who approved of his state of mind and agreed to trade their spirit patterns.
• True Person Yuan Xia exchanged a Life-Generating Spirit Pattern for an Azure Light and warned Li Ye about the karmic debt involved in using it.
• Su Bing'er gave Li Ye a Spirit Merging Method for fusing a Spirit Vein Willow with a spirit vein in exchange for Chaos Spirit Water.
• Su Bing'er told Li Ye to visit the Su Family when Su Huan emerged in a month, then revealed that Su Huan’s Nascent Soul had merged with the Earth Vein Spirit Willow and asked Li Ye to act.

Li Ye learned that his Five Elements Ascending Spirit Art was approaching Five Elements Ascension Transformation and entered Chaos to follow his instincts. As he ran through the mist, his power began transforming, and his senior brothers and sisters were engulfed by the Chaos stirred in his wake.

• Li Ye received spirit-pattern diagrams that could evolve spirit beasts into the Four Sacred Beasts, and he vowed to raise them despite the immense cost in fortune.
• Senior Sister Ye and Li Ye’s other senior brothers and sisters told him that his cultivation was nearing Five Elements Ascension Transformation, a rare process requiring opportunity, merit, and blessed fortune.
• Li Ye decided to enter Chaos, and his senior brothers and sisters warned him to be careful and keep his Four Seasons Sect jade pendant with him.
• Li Ye walked through Chaos with the Tribulation Fire Spirit and felt his power changing as luminous feathers appeared in his footprints.
• Senior Sister Ye caught one of Li Ye’s feathers, then a Chaos storm swept over the cultivators as Li Ye raced through the mist, seemingly beginning his transformation.

Li Ye underwent Heavenly Human Transformation while racing through the Chaos Mist, then found and took an Azure Lotus treasure from a lake of Chaos Heavenly Light Immortal Water. The Chaos Mist pursued him back to the Four Seasons Sect, where Steward Wei stopped it and Li Ye sensed the power of the Bronze Divine Tree in him.

• Li Ye's spiritual energy transformed as he advanced to the middle stage of the golden core realm and gained the ability to fly freely.
• Li Ye found an Azure Lotus growing in a lake of Chaos Heavenly Light Immortal Water, and the lotus asked him to take it and its leaf away.
• Li Ye pulled up the Azure Lotus and its leaf and fled as the lake's destruction stirred the Chaos Mist into pursuing him.
• Senior Sister Ye and the other Four Seasons Sect cultivators guided Li Ye back and prepared a formation while veteran cultivators watched and ate snacks.
• Li Ye returned to the cultivators, who stared at his transformed appearance and praised his celestial bearing.
• Steward Wei waved his sleeve and made the violent Chaos Mist retreat, and Li Ye recognized the power of the Bronze Divine Tree in him.

Li Ye learned that the Azure Lotus would bind nine Lesser Worlds to him, and Steward Wei offered Weichuan’s Origin Water to help nourish them. After exploring the sect’s world map and learning the cost of visiting other worlds, Li Ye poured the Origin Water into his Lesser World and watched it spread into rivers as he observed from the sky.

• Steward Wei explained that the Azure Lotus would nurture nine Lesser Worlds tied to Li Ye, then offered Weichuan’s Origin Water to help sustain them in exchange for Weichuan flowing through his world.
• Li Ye completed his residence with help from his fascinated senior brothers and sisters, then escaped their attention and examined the Flourishing Spirit Compendium.
• Li Ye used the Four Seasons Jade Tablet to explore the World Star Map, learned that entering the Year Scenery Realm required costly authorization, and heard about its special Yearly Rain spirit marking.
• Steward Wei brought Li Ye a jade bottle of Weichuan’s Origin Water, which Li Ye accepted and carried into his Lesser World.
• Li Ye poured the Origin Water over a mountain, and it flowed into a waterfall and branching rivers that spread across the land as he watched from the sky.

Li Ye discovered that Weichuan connected his Lesser World to places tied to his aura, bringing in creatures and resources from his cave abode. He uncovered the Sea Spirit Ground’s hidden transformation and found a dying merfolk girl afflicted with the Moon Soul Terror Curse in a secret pool.

• Li Ye found that Weichuan nourished the Lesser World with spirituality and could connect it directly to his cave abode.
• The Beavers built Magic Tool-grade dams that spread Weichuan’s waters and brought Li Ye’s spirit beasts and plants into the Lesser World.
• Li Ye discovered that the Bamboo Wood Ants had cultivated Myriad Sinking Bamboo bearing the Bitter Journey Academy character for “lamp.”
• Li Ye saw Azure Sea Spirit Reef flow into the Lesser World and realized its corals created passages that connected to the Sea Spirit Ground.
• Li Ye learned that the Azure Sea Coral Spirit Worm had secretly fused with Voidsky power and transformed the Sea Spirit Ground into a Golden Core-level domain.
• Li Ye entered the hidden passage beneath the coral reef and found a near-death merfolk girl afflicted with the Moon Soul Terror Curse.

Li Ye learned that the Moon Soul Terror Curse originated as a spirit pattern bestowed by Wangshu, and that the Merfolk Clan’s conflict with her had begun through misunderstandings. He reversed the spirit pattern that had changed the little merfolk’s body, but the suppressed curse erupted and began killing him.

• The little merfolk showed Li Ye memories proving he had been trapped inside a Sunken Sea Clam and explained that a celestial being had changed his male body into a female one to suppress the Moon Soul Terror Curse.
• The Spirit Vine identified the little merfolk as a son of the Li Creek tribe, and Li Ye asked Steward Wei to introduce him to Senior Qisui.
• Steward Wei revealed that Wangshu had originally bestowed the Moon Soul Terror Curse as a beneficial spirit pattern, explained how it became deadly, and said Wangshu wanted Li Ye to find a way to resolve it.
• Steward Wei gave Li Ye a jade slip containing the spirit pattern used to reverse the little merfolk’s body, and Li Ye realized he could remove it.
• Li Ye restored the little merfolk’s male body, causing the Moon Soul Terror Curse to flare and drain his power and consciousness as moonlight and a spring purified his bloodline.