Chapter Summaries

Li Ye gave the Four Seasons Sect a demonic cultivation Spirit Rune, prompting its leaders to approve a research project and record their commitment under the Heavenly Age Ginkgo. After receiving permission to study Nine Songs and several rewards, Li Ye agreed to help Wangshu settle her followers and create a body for her, and she secretly passed him the Wangshu chapter.

• Li Ye handed the Sect Leader a jade slip containing the Spirit Rune, and the elders discussed how it might help ordinary people cultivate and inspire research into Dao and demon conversion.
• Spring Radiance Daoist proposed studying demonic arts with disciples reincarnated from Hungry Bone, and the Sect Leader approved the project with strict conditions; all three elders and Li Ye left their imprints beneath the Heavenly Age Ginkgo leaf.
• Li Ye secured permission to study Nine Songs and expressed interest in Eastern Emperor Taiyi, Great Minister of Fate, or Xiang Jun; Daoist Winter Storage gave him six winter-related Spirit Runes, the Cloud Screen Sky Jade Pine, and a Divine Ability before departing.
• Spring Radiance Daoist transferred authority to mobilize Hungry Bone to Li Ye and urged him to watch Hell Dao, then the Sect Leader granted him broad authority to handle visitors before both elders left.
• Wangshu asked Li Ye to establish a home for the Wangshu Jade Rabbit clan and secretly prepare a body for her, revealing that she planned to reincarnate and take root in his territory.
• Wangshu blessed Li Ye with a moon-shaped mark and passed the Wangshu chapter of Nine Songs to him.

Li Ye finalized cooperation between the Four Seasons Sect and Bitter Journey Academy, then gave Wei Qingye three hundred Hell Dao Trial Palace slots. While cooking a rare spirit fish with Wei Qingye at the seabed, Li Ye unexpectedly broke through to Golden Core Late Stage.

• Li Ye concealed his thoughts about Wangshu's divine ability, agreed to cooperate with the dean, and carefully reviewed the sect contract afterward.
• Li Ye summoned Wei Qingye, agreed to provide Sky Vein Sword Mountain with three hundred Trial Palace slots, and invited him to relax at the seabed.
• The Sweet Potato Dragon presented Li Ye with a Sea Yellow Tail Fish, which shed its flesh for them before leaping away.
• Li Ye and Wei Qingye prepared a feast, and Li Ye's bottleneck loosened as he cooked.
• Li Ye broke through to Golden Core Late Stage, leaving Wei Qingye stunned; Wei Qingye ate the sashimi and winced at its vinegar.

Li Ye and Wei Qingye sparred, then prepared to hunt Demonic Beasts in Hell Dao after Li Ye gave Wei Qingye a moonlight charm that stored lifespan and vitality. At the Third Palace, they encountered a Scholars of Cognition formation and a trapped foreign-domain cultivator, and Li Ye began breaking through the formation with the Rain Prayer Technique.

• Li Ye used Jianmu's spatial divine ability against Wei Qingye, who answered with Blood Sacrifice Sword but could not break through.
• Li Ye gave Wei Qingye a jade pendant that let him summon stored lifespan and vitality wherever moonlight reached, then they headed to Hell Dao.
• Li Ye's Heavenly Being Immortal Light purified the surroundings at the Third Palace, alerting Chen Mo, who asked him and Wei Qingye to deal with a Yaksha.
• Chen Mo and Wei Qingye explained that the palace's formation belonged to the foreign-domain Scholars of Cognition and that one of their cultivators remained trapped inside.
• Li Ye used the Rain Prayer Technique to summon a downpour and began permeating the formation, while Chen Mo realized Li Ye had reached Late Golden Core.

Li Ye captured the Lord Envoy of the Scholars of Cognition and showed him how Hungry Bone used a Pure Land Heavenly Human’s blessings to nourish the world. After Wei Qingye left to deal with the Lord Envoy, Li Ye gathered Embers of Dead Silence from the remaining monsters and found the yellow puppy the Lord Envoy had created.

• The Lord Envoy killed a yaksha and reshaped its bones into a yellow puppy, ordering it to hide in Hell Dao.
• Li Ye confronted the Lord Envoy, revealed Hungry Bone bound to a Pure Land Heavenly Human, and demonstrated its blessing-filled nectar.
• The Lord Envoy begged Li Ye to teach him and accepted the roots of a Demon Suppression Tree without resisting.
• Li Ye left the Lord Envoy under control and sent Wei Qingye away while he stayed to handle the remaining creatures.
• Li Ye slaughtered the remaining monsters with Jianmu leaves, collected their Embers of Dead Silence, and found the trembling yellow puppy.

Li Ye purified and bound a Yaksha Bone Spirit Hound, which led him and his companions into the Earthwish Grotto-Heaven, the Earth Wish Spirit Fox Clan’s hidden home. There they learned about the clan and its Cognition Society base, while the Precious Lotus Lantern stirred a strange reaction in the fox Di Xia.

• Li Ye bound the Yaksha Bone Spirit Hound and attached a salvation spirit plant, allowing its Yaksha power to be gradually purified.
• The yellow dog led Li Ye, Chen Mo, and Wei Qingye through a hidden fox den into the Earthwish Grotto-Heaven.
• A red fox tried to kill the yellow dog, but Wei Qingye captured it and Chen Mo removed the clan chief’s seal from its Divine Sense.
• The red fox, named Di Xia, revealed that the grotto-heaven was the Earth Wish Spirit Fox Clan’s home and that the Outer Domain Cognition Society had a base there.
• Li Ye summoned a Beaver holding the Precious Lotus Lantern, and Di Xia froze as lotus patterns and the shadow of an axe appeared in its eyes.

Li Ye and his companions infiltrated the Earthwish Fox Clan’s ginseng fields, where they discovered foxes being sacrificed to power an imitation Xuanhua Mountain-Opening Axe. After Blue Fox revealed the clan’s history and attacked Li Ye, the axe admitted it wanted the Heavenly Dao to destroy it.

• Li Ye, Wei Qingye, and Chen Mo disguised themselves as foxes and followed Di Xia through the Earthwish Fox Clan’s settlement.
• A group of fox dandies recognized Di Xia and treated Li Ye as a pure-blood descendant, then led them to the Earthfiend Ginseng fields and Lotus Pond.
• At the Lotus Pond, Li Ye saw foxes burning as lanterns around an ancient axe, and Blue Fox attacked him before demonic qi bound Blue Fox in place.
• Li Ye identified Blue Fox as Di Xia’s brother and learned that the clan sacrificed pure-blood foxes and used Earthfiend Ginseng to control the imitation Xuanhua Mountain-Opening Axe.
• Blue Fox explained how the axe had brought the clan into the Dao Flourishing Realm and how its power and the sacrifices had led to the clan’s decline.
• Li Ye asked whether the Xuanhua Mountain-Opening Axe wanted the Heavenly Dao to destroy it, and the axe confirmed that it did.

Li Ye, Chen Mo, and Wei Qingye prepared to purify the demonic qi binding the Xuanhua Mountain-Opening Axe and free the Lotus Lantern without destroying the grotto-heaven. As their purification began, more than a dozen Nascent Soul-level black mists rushed toward them.

• The Xuanhua Mountain-Opening Axe explained that the Scholars of Cognition had cultivated it from myths, while the Lotus Lantern had emerged as its prisoner and could be freed by destroying the Axe.
• Li Ye realized that destroying the Axe would destroy the grotto-heaven too, so he proposed removing its demonic qi instead; Chen Mo agreed to build an array, and Wei Qingye volunteered to control demonic qi with Li Ye's help.
• Li Ye bound the Earthfiend Ginseng, Chen Mo completed the array, and Wei Qingye let Li Ye channel demonic qi through his body until he reached the power of a false Nascent Soul.
• Di Ci told Di Xia that the fox-clan dandies were merely dogs raised by the true noble scions.
• Li Ye used the ginseng's spiritual qi and the Beavers' scriptures to purify the demonic qi around the Axe and the lotus pool.
• More than a dozen black mists bearing Nascent Soul-level pressure rushed toward the array after the fox clan finally reacted.

Li Ye changed his plan for the Xuanhua Mountain-Opening Axe, using the Precious Lotus Lantern to balance spiritual and demonic power as the Earthwish Grotto-Heaven’s lotus pond transformed. The fox clan sacrificed itself to fuel the change, while a mysterious figure shot a golden-blooded arrow at Li Ye.

• Wei Qingye assassinated a Nascent Soul fox cultivator while Li Ye and Chen Mo maintained the formation against the fox clan.
• Li Ye accepted the axe’s remaining demonic qi and formed it into a small, heavy hand axe.
• The Beavers used the Precious Lotus Lantern to control the axe, and Chen Mo released a star treasure to help suppress the fox cultivators.
• Li Ye realized the lantern did not distinguish between Dao and demon, then used its power to balance both forces and split the axe into weapons for the Beavers.
• The Earthwish Grotto-Heaven’s lotus pond transformed as golden lotuses began to bloom, and the fox clan sacrificed its members to feed the gathering power.
• A mysterious figure beside the Black Fox King aimed a golden-blooded arrow at Li Ye and released it.

Li Ye survived the destruction of his Divine Soul incarnation, but the Golden Crow arrow prematurely birthed a demonized second sun on the Ruo Tree and injured his true body. After the Lotus Lantern restored him and his companions, Li Ye used the Xuanhua Mountain-Opening Axe to split Earthwish Grotto-Heaven open, and the waters of Weichuan surged through.

• A Golden Crow arrow shattered Li Ye's incarnation, prompting Wei Qingye and Chen Mo to unleash their powerful treasures and slay the fox clan's Nascent Souls and the hidden Scholars of Cognition cultivator.
• The Lotus Lantern bloomed, healed Wei Qingye and Chen Mo, and gathered Li Ye's scattered Divine Sense to form a lotus incarnation.
• Li Ye explained that the arrow had affected his true body and caused a demonized second sun to be born prematurely on the Ruo Tree.
• Li Ye grasped the Imitation Lotus Lantern, which formed a body and lotus-petal garments for him, and he promised to repay Wei Qingye and Chen Mo for their help.
• The Xuanhua Mountain-Opening Axe advised Li Ye to connect Earthwish Grotto-Heaven to the Dao Flourishing Realm, even though its treasures would scatter.
• With Wei Qingye and Chen Mo's approval, Li Ye cleaved open the grotto-heaven barrier, and the waters of Weichuan surged inside.