Chapter Summaries

Li Ye proposed selling Buddhism a special paper born from Chaos, while Four Seasons Sect’s recruitment announcement drew cultivators from across the Dao Flourishing Realm. Fu Yue, Fu Ye, and Jian He traveled toward the assessment at Ruoquan Island, where their journey ended with Fu Ye revealing his Phoenix form.

• Li Ye described his Chaos-born paper to Ci Zhu, who agreed to await an invitation to its auction.
• Four Seasons Sect announced that Li Ye would accept disciples, prompting cultivators from across the realm to head for the sect.
• Fu Yue and Fu Ye met Jian He, and the three followed the crowds through Four Seasons Sect’s crowded Spatial Formations toward the assessment site.
• Jian He used a branch-of-Jianmu cup as a flying Magic Tool, but it plunged into the sea and began absorbing seawater.
• Fu Ye transformed into a Phoenix and carried Fu Yue, Jian He, and the cup toward Ruoquan Island, startling the cultivators around them.

Fu Yue and Hu Mei’s reunion triggered a mysterious flower that Li Ye identified as the legacy of an ancient bond between a phoenix and a Qingqiu Fox. After learning the flower could give rise to both phoenixes and foxes, Li Ye wondered what the strange power behind it meant.

• Fu Ye, Fu Yue, and Jian He arrived at Flying Peak, where Hu Mei guided them into a Peach Garden.
• Fu Yue embraced Hu Mei, and their phoenix fire and fox power stirred into a storm that unsettled Fu Ye and Jian He.
• Li Ye arrived, calmed the storm, and blessed Jian He with celestial immortal energy.
• Li Ye summoned his wutong tree, and the gathered peach blossoms and Phoenix Fire formed a Phoenix Fox Wutong Flower.
• Hu Tong recalled a legend about her great-grandmother and a phoenix senior, while the flower’s panel revealed that it could produce new phoenixes and Qingqiu Foxes.

Li Ye agreed to help Hu Tong restore the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s dwindling azure ochre by using the blue Glazed Bead on their Zhu Yu spirit herb. While examining the herb, he discovered that it drew spiritual energy from a Heavenly Vein beneath the Southern Domain, leaving him to wonder why the Heavenly Dao had revealed it to him.

• Hu Tong explained that the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s azure ochre was running low and offered Li Ye sixty percent of future production if he helped restore it.
• Hu Tong brought Li Ye Zhu Yu, a spirit herb whose blue radiance once replenished the clan’s azure ochre, and asked him to help revive it with the Glazed Bead.
• Li Ye sent Fu Ye and the others to join the disciple examinations after Fu Ye fretted over Fu Yue’s closeness with Hu Mei.
• Li Ye used the Spirit Observation Marvelous Method to inspect Zhu Yu, but found that he could not inscribe a spirit pattern on it.
• The Glazed Bead reacted, revealing that Zhu Yu drew on a Heavenly Vein in the Southern Domain, near the territory of the Demon Race.

Li Ye learned that the Heavenly Dao might be guiding him to stabilize the Heavenly Vein, then bound Zhu Yu to an Abysmal Wish Silkworm that drew out its spiritual power. Hu Taotao offered Qingqiu Fox Clan support in exchange for access to the plant, and the chapter ended with Mo Qi realizing the sect might need to change its long-standing approach to the Southern Domain.

• Li Ye consulted True Person Mo Qi about the Zhu Yu plant and learned she believed the Heavenly Dao wanted him to stabilize the Heavenly Vein.
• True Person Mo Qi said the Heavenly Dao's actions suggested the Southern Domain might not lack spiritual power, prompting the sect to reconsider its plans.
• Hu Taotao offered Li Ye help from her clan's juniors, access to Zhu Yu, and entry to Qingqiu territory in exchange for his help.
• Li Ye revealed that he had bound Zhu Yu to an Abysmal Wish Silkworm, which spun silk infused with the plant's spiritual power.
• Hu Taotao absorbed the silk's spiritual power as the Zhu Yu grew brighter, and Mo Qi realized the sect's methods might need a drastic revision.

Li Ye recruited Hu Taotao’s talented Qingqiu Fox juniors to help with his work after Hu Feng and Hu Hu demonstrated their dyeing and embroidery skills by making a spirit-summoning dharma robe. The foxes began working at Flying Peak, while Hu Taotao planned to test the robe’s appeal at a trade fair on Ruoquan Island.

• Hu Feng explained that his rainbow dye used Weichuan water, Void Ink Silk, and sunset glow, and Li Ye asked him to help create dyed silk and embroidered spirit dharma robes.
• Hu Hu volunteered her embroidery skills, and she and Hu Feng successfully made a colorful, intricately embroidered dharma robe from Li Ye’s silkworm silk.
• Hu Taotao encouraged her other juniors to present their skills, and Li Ye assigned the Qingqiu Foxes work at Flying Peak, giving them identity jade pendants and lodging near Ruo Spring.
• The Qingqiu Foxes left excited by Li Ye and eager to prove themselves, while Hu Taotao privately hoped he would look after them after her lifespan ended.
• Hu Taotao proposed holding a trade fair on Ruoquan Island to see whether cultivators would be interested in the completed dharma robe, and Mo Qi agreed.

Li Ye learned that the Four Seasons Sect had granted him authority to shape worlds connected to the sect and received a rare Dao Pattern that let his Sun-Moon Rings deduce possible futures. He tested the ability on his cave abode and discovered that, centuries later, the Spirit Vine might gather its inhabitants’ power, destroy the abode, and become a great demon while searching for him.

• Perfected Person Su Yu told Li Ye that five Cloud Radiance Dynasty claimants were coming to seek the Four Seasons Sect’s support in their struggle for the imperial throne.
• Su Yu explained the sect’s Method of Proving the Dao for Li Ye and said Spring Radiance Daoist had authorized him to handle worlds connected to the sect as he pleased, so long as he did not act recklessly.
• Su Yu gave Li Ye a rare Dao Pattern called New Things Under the Sun and Moon, which let his natal Magic Treasure deduce possible outcomes and causes.
• Li Ye merged the Dao Pattern into the Sun-Moon Rings, awakening their sentience and learning that they could not accurately deduce matters within the Four Seasons Sect’s territory.
• Li Ye asked the Sun-Moon Rings to deduce his cave abode, and they predicted that the Spirit Vine would eventually gather its inhabitants’ power, destroy the abode, and become a great demon while searching for him.

Li Ye dismissed the Cloud Radiance Dynasty's princes and princesses after they failed to explain why they had come, then the emperor ordered Yun Xiao killed and his head sent to Li Ye as an apology. The surviving siblings were warned that offending Li Ye would bring death upon their households.

• Li Ye exhausted his spiritual power while attempting a deduction, then prepared to receive the approaching princes and princesses.
• Hu Luo guided four Cloud Radiance royals to Li Ye, but they remained silent and showed little courtesy.
• Li Ye rebuked the royals, accepted their gifts, and dismissed them when they would not state their purpose.
• Yun Xiao complained to the Cloud Radiance Emperor, who ordered his son beheaded and his head sent to Li Ye.
• The emperor's attendants prepared Yun Xiao's head as a gift and set out to deliver his warning to the remaining royals.

Li Ye investigated the Cloud Radiance Dynasty’s hidden power structure and asked Minister of Agriculture He An about the people’s living conditions. After learning that the dynasty kept people from starving but failed to let them prosper, Li Ye decided to change the dynasty while protecting ordinary people from the conflict.

• Li Ye burned the Cloud Radiance Emperor’s gift—the dead prince’s head—and Senior Brother revealed that a long-lived Golden Core cultivator’s descendants had secretly influenced the Cloud Radiance succession.
• Li Ye chose to handle the matter himself and suspected that the Cloud Radiance Dynasty did not genuinely serve its people.
• Qingqiu Fox brought He An to Li Ye while Wangshu’s supernatural snow froze the princes and princesses waiting outside.
• He An told Li Ye that the people did not starve but could not grow wealthy, then asked how to resolve the dynasty’s problems.
• Li Ye proposed changing dynasties with He An’s help, provided the struggle did not disturb the peace of the Cloud Radiance Realm or harm ordinary people.

Li Ye rejected the Cloud Radiance princes, gave He An methods to build a force of land-bound Golden Cores, and protected his experiments from imperial interference. He then watched a Ruo Tree fruit ripen into the first sun over Ruoquan Island, waking the island’s cultivators in the middle of the night.

• Hu Luo told the princes that Li Ye detested them and ordered them to leave, while He An suggested winning over the Sixth Prince and received Li Ye’s approval to make contact.
• Li Ye used the Sun-Moon Rings to calculate He An’s cultivation experiment, which could create Golden Cores and Nascent Souls bound to the land.
• Li Ye wrote to the Cloud Radiance emperor, praising He An’s experiments and forbidding interference, then ended his incarnation.
• Li Ye observed a Ruo Tree Sun Fruit named Li Ri ripen, break free, and shine across Ruoquan Island at night.
• The sudden sunlight woke cultivators across the island, and Li Ye worried that someone might try to shoot down the new sun.

Li Ye’s newborn sun awakened the cultivators on Ruoquan Island, and Wei Qingye’s strange Heavenly Vein symptoms preceded a massive fall of Heavenly Veins across the Eastern Yang Sea. As Li Ye learned that Hell Dao was emerging, a gray mountain containing a tempting Buddhist pure land appeared at Falling Star Sea.

• Li Ye apologized for his newborn sun waking the island’s cultivators and promised them gifts, while Wei Qingye arrived and explained that Li Ye’s Sword Spirit Jade let him cross the island’s barrier.
• Li Ye saw cracks in Wei Qingye’s body revealing the Heavenly Vein within him, just as a pale blue meteor fell and Heavenly Veins began raining across the Eastern Yang Sea.
• The Four Seasons Sect closed routes into and out of the sea and warned cultivators about the suspected Heavenly Vein fall, while Wangshu’s moonlight protected Ruoquan Island and the surrounding waters.
• Sky Vein Shards repeatedly struck Wei Qingye as he fled and caught them, while Senior Brother told Li Ye that Hell Dao was coming out.
• Li Ye viewed Falling Star Sea through the sect’s apparatus and saw a gloomy gray mountain containing a beautiful pure land that strongly tempted him to enter.

The Four Seasons Sect began dismantling the Hell Dao and turning its layers into trial grounds after Spring Radiance Daoist confronted the monk behind the Pure Land. Li Ye helped establish the first gate, then his divine soul disappeared while his Ruo Tree body remained behind.

• Spring Radiance Daoist confronted the monk, who argued that the Pure Land Heavenly Humans could mend flaws in the Heavenly Dao and asked whether the Four Seasons Sect held the Treasure left after heaven was opened.
• Spring Radiance Daoist confirmed that her sect possessed the Treasure and defended the great sects’ efforts to repair heaven and earth.
• The Nascent Soul True Persons separated the Hell Dao’s first layer and formed it into a trial gate, while Li Ye called Zhao He and Yang Ke to bring the Beavers to build facilities around it.
• Su Xing Zhenren entrusted management of the first Hell Gate to Li Ye’s group and ordered them to hand ninety percent of its proceeds to the sect.
• Wei Qingye’s master urged him to ask Li Ye for early access to the trial ground, but Wei Qingye found Li Ye’s courtyard empty and sensed that Li Ye’s divine soul had vanished.

Li Ye was trapped by a monk who drained his blessings to grow Heavenly Human Fortune Rice, while his allies tried to locate and rescue him. Just as Li Ye searched for a way to mark his location, one of his Glazed Beads shattered and released strange red-black demonic qi containing a trace of Immortal Light.

• Li Ye met the monk, who explained that he planned to use Heavenly Humans' blessings to build a grotto-heaven and spread prosperity among the people.
• The monk chanted scripture and drained Li Ye's blessings, causing Heavenly Human Fortune Rice to grow while Li Ye's cultivation increased.
• Wei Qingye contacted Li Ye through a Sword Spirit Jade imprint and said Spring Radiance was channeling the Four Seasons Sect's fortune to help locate him.
• The Sword Spirit Jade imprint shattered, injuring Wei Qingye, while Spring Radiance healed him and Jianmu discussed preparations in case Li Ye was harmed.
• One of Li Ye's Glazed Beads exploded, releasing red-black demonic qi that devoured the growing rice and resisted the monk's attempt to suppress it.

Li Ye awakened the Dao Heart Sowing Demon inheritance and sent its ravenous demonic qi through the Sword Spirit Jade toward his true body, where the deities helped guide and strengthen it. The demonic qi formed a Demonic Seed beside his Golden Core, and Li Ye discovered a new attribute on his original panel.

• Li Ye learned that the shattered Glazed Bead had awakened demonic qi and discovered he could control it, while the qi devoured the Heavenly Human Fortune Rice.
• The Glazed Bead reformed on Li Ye’s wrist, and the Dao Heart Sowing Demon inheritance flooded into his mind.
• The monk trapped Li Ye and deliberately spread the demonic qi, while Li Ye marked its path and sent it toward his true body through the Sword Spirit Jade.
• Spring Radiance Daoist soothed Wei Qingye as the demonic qi contaminated his sword, and Wangshu guided the qi toward the Ruo Tree.
• Jianmu, Eastern Lord, and other deities fed their divine powers into the demonic qi, which flowed through the Ruo Tree into Li Ye’s Jianmu.
• The demonic qi formed a Demonic Seed that rotated beside Li Ye’s Golden Core, and Li Ye saw a new attribute appear on his original panel.

Li Ye drew the Demonic Seed’s qi back into his true body while Jiang Guichen used his Nascent Soul breakthrough to put the beings and powers in Hell Dao to sleep. The Demonic Seed developed its own spirituality and attacked Li Ye’s Golden Core, leaving him facing the test of whether he could subdue it.

• Li Ye discovered that his panel had gained a [Dao/Demon] option, which could strengthen him by consuming the desires of humans or by gathering Embers of Dead Silence through killing.
• Jiang Guichen discussed Li Ye’s growing Demonic Seed with his incarnations, then merged them into himself and spread a sleep-inducing power throughout Hell Dao.
• Li Ye opened a spatial gateway for Spring Radiance Daoist, his master and Master's Wife, and his senior brothers; the elders tried but failed to reach the deeper region of Hell Dao.
• Li Ye began drawing the demonic qi into his true body and discovered that divine power within the Demonic Seed had nourished Jianmu, hastening its second growth.
• The Demonic Seed gained rudimentary spirituality, used Li Ye’s divine abilities to attack his Golden Core, and forced him to confront Dao Heart Sowing Demon’s trial.

Li Ye bound willing spirit beasts and spirit plants to help bear the Demonic Seed’s demonic qi, then experimented with demonized abilities and discovered that Earthfiend Ginseng and the Harmonious Spirit Lotus could convert between spiritual and demonic qi. They helped Wei Qingye adapt to demonic qi as Jiang Guichen’s Lightning Tribulation neared its end.

• Li Ye invited the spirit beasts and spirit plants in his cave abode to share the Demonic Seed’s burden or accept demonic transformation, and Earthfiend Ginseng, Earth Turtle, Bitter Spirit Gourd, and others volunteered.
• Li Ye used the Eight Trigrams Sky-Void Plate and Weichuan’s waters to bind the volunteers to Jianmu, easing the Demonic Seed’s unruly qi and purifying the volunteers’ spiritual power.
• Li Ye demonized the Verdant Warmth Formula to relieve the torment of Demonic Breath Turtle and Bitter Demonic Gourd, then examined the transformed Earthfiend Ginseng and Harmonious Spirit Lotus.
• Li Ye discovered that Earthfiend Ginseng and the Harmonious Spirit Lotus converted spiritual qi and demonic qi, and sent them to help Wei Qingye adapt to demonic qi.
• Wei Qingye channeled demonic qi through the spirit plants and quickly grew accustomed to it, while Jiang Guichen’s Lightning Tribulation neared its end over the Eastern Yang Sea.

Jiang Guichen avoided taking the Eastern Yang Sea’s divine seat by sending two Auspicious Fruit-filled clay figures in his place, but the celebration was interrupted when Li Ye’s Jianmu avatar began resurrecting beings from Hell Dao. The Sect Leader gave Li Ye the rare Resurrection technique to learn as the chapter ended.

• Jiang Guichen refused the Eastern Yang Sea’s divine seat, created two clay figures with Auspicious Fruit as their hearts, and had Su Xing Zhenren rescue him.
• The Eastern Yang Sea transformed the clay figures into two new gods, while another Senior Brother on Ruoquan Island was relieved he had escaped that fate.
• Hell’s Transformation Diagram produced a pitch-black Jianmu avatar that began growing fruits and releasing ink-black living beings into the sea.
• Li Ye realized his demonized Life-Breath Spirit Transformation Scroll had prompted Jianmu to act and told the Sect Leader that it seemed to be resurrecting beings from Hell Dao.
• The Sect Leader gave Li Ye the patriarch’s transmission jade slip containing the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Technique, Resurrection, and warned him to learn it.

Li Ye cultivated the Resurrection divine ability by using the Sun-Moon Rings to deduce its mysteries, while the Ink Jianmu continued turning souls in Hell's Transformation Diagram into living beings. As Li Ye began to establish a connection with the Underworld, Wangshu awakened and arrived to protect him, finding him planting his Glazed Bead in gray soil.

• The Sect Leader explained that Li Ye needed to learn Resurrection to help establish a true Yin Realm and told him that Jianmu's cycle of life and death had to begin.
• Li Ye used the Sun-Moon Rings to spend his stored Spirit Stones on deducing how to cultivate Resurrection, while the Sect Leader assigned Chen Mo, You Tian, and Mo Qi's disciples to handle sect affairs.
• Over a year and a half, the Ink Jianmu produced hundreds or thousands of fruits of transformed souls each day, and Goddess Wangshu caught them before they fell into the sea.
• Spring Radiance Daoist noticed death qi spreading from Li Ye's Ruo Tree and recognized that he was approaching the ability to shift between life and death and create an imprint of the Underworld.
• Wangshu awakened, spread her divine power through her temples, and projected herself to guard Li Ye's cultivation.
• Wangshu and Spring Radiance Daoist saw Li Ye surrounded by gray soil, holding the Glazed Bead and burying it in the ground.

Li Ye entered Taodu, the Four Seasons Sect’s hidden Underworld, to advance his Resurrection Grand Supernatural Art, where Elder Dongcang recruited him to revive someone she had chosen. She led him to a Pocket Mountain-River Box containing hundreds of thousands of people, revealing that her request was to resurrect an entire population.

• Li Ye used the Glazed Bead to create a lotus doorway and entered Taodu, the hidden Underworld of the Eastern Domain.
• Elder Dongcang met Li Ye and offered to help him with the Resurrection Grand Supernatural Art if he would revive someone she had chosen.
• Li Ye followed Elder Dongcang through Taodu and learned about its residents and the Taodu Spirit Ear Trees, whose fruit supplied meals to souls.
• Elder Dongcang brought Li Ye to a residence and showed him a Pocket Mountain-River Box containing hundreds of thousands of people she wanted him to revive.

Li Ye used the Life Spring divine ability to return thousands of dead people to life while Daoist Winter Storage shielded him from interference. As he began constructing an ink-wash underworld, the academy head identified his technique as Bitter Journey Academy’s Ink-Wash Life Reflection method, opening the way for closer cooperation with the sect.

• Daoist Winter Storage offered Li Ye rewards for saving up to all 73,632 people and protected his courtyard while he began the revival.
• Li Ye used the Life Spring to carry the dead across the boundary of life and death and restore their bodies in the Yang World.
• Wangshu, Spring Radiance, Yulei, Shentu, and Jianmu watched the revived people arrive and discussed Li Ye’s origins and power.
• Li Ye began forming an ink-wash underworld around the Ruo Tree after returning people directly to life.
• Spring Radiance summoned the academy head, who recognized Li Ye’s technique as Bitter Journey Academy’s Ink-Wash Life Reflection method.
• The academy head proposed deepening cooperation with Li Ye, and Spring Radiance decided to ask him about it after he finished.

Li Ye completed Dao Heart Sowing Demon, creating a Demon Realm that the Jianmu absorbed as it transformed and gained realms of life, death, and demonic cultivation. The Sect Leader and Daoists Spring Radiance and Winter Storage confronted Li Ye with valuable jade slips, eager to learn what wondrous thing he had obtained.

• Li Ye completed the conditions for his divine ability, returned seventy-three thousand six hundred and thirty-two people from the Underworld to the Yang World, and built a vast Underworld linked to Ruoquan Island and other worlds.
• Li Ye planted his Demonic Seed, which sprouted into an embryonic Demon Realm, while the dean swore not to reveal his demonic power and asked Spring Radiance Daoist to strengthen Bitter Journey Academy's cooperation with him.
• Li Ye's Jianmu seized the Demon Realm and advanced, creating separate realms of life, death, and demonic cultivation while producing pure spiritual power and a spirit pattern that let even mortals cultivate demonic techniques.
• The Sect Leader and Daoists Spring Radiance and Winter Storage approached Li Ye after the Four Seasons Sundial reacted to the upheaval, and the Sect Leader offered him violet-gold transmission jade slips in exchange for his discovery.