Chapter Summaries

Chen Xuan killed six Cauldron Great Ghosts who had been sent to exhaust his Jin Jade Paste, then returned to Hua Liuli as she prepared to use the Azure Talisman Stone. When Hua Liuli unexpectedly crushed it, Chen Xuan suspected a hidden power had hooked her Immortal Qi and urged her to try again.

• Chen Xuan killed the Crow Saint with the Human Emperor Banner and challenged the encircling Great Ghosts.
• Chen Xuan tracked down and killed the fleeing Scarlet Hawk Falcon, while the Azure Feather Luan Bird fled and the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird pursued her.
• Chen Xuan killed four more Cauldron Great Ghosts as the rest scattered, then returned to Hua Liuli when she called for him.
• Hua Liuli crushed the Azure Talisman Stone while preparing to use the Green Pouch Art, and Chen Xuan restrained her and searched for signs of interference.
• Chen Xuan asked whether Hua Liuli's Heaven's Mandate had been hooked by a hidden True Lord or another power, then placed another Azure Talisman Stone before her and urged her to use it again.

Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli uncovered that a hidden Earth Virtue power had concealed Hua Liuli’s destiny and obstructed her access to the Two Realms True Scripture. After Hua Liuli activated her destiny despite the danger, Chen Xuan pierced the Green Pouch feng shui barrier and entered the Two Realms Master’s destiny, where an ancient bronze scroll began to unfold.

• Hua Liuli realized Chen Xuan could no longer see her destiny, and they concluded that a hidden Earth Virtue expert had interfered to keep him from obtaining the Two Realms True Scripture.
• Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli suspected that remnants of the Green Pouch Daoist Temple were behind the strange events in Guyao Mountain.
• Hua Liuli, furious at being manipulated, prepared her treasures and activated the Two Realms Master's destiny despite the hidden expert's opposition.
• Chen Xuan used the second level of Heartfast Power to see through the Green Pouch feng shui secret art and follow Hua Liuli's destiny.
• The ground of Guyao Mountain opened like two enormous eyes, and Chen Xuan's Divine Soul Body vanished into the Two Realms Master's destiny as a bronze scroll depicting the Classic of Mountains and Seas unfurled.

Chen Xuan memorized the Two Realms True Scripture inside Hua Liuli’s Destiny, but the old monster from the Green Pouch Daoist Temple found his way in and attacked. Chen Xuan overwhelmed him, and the old man began explaining how he had survived for a thousand years.

• Chen Xuan entered Hua Liuli’s Destiny and memorized the Two Realms True Scripture while she watched.
• The old monster from the Green Pouch Daoist Temple entered Destiny Space using a secret feng shui route and confronted Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli.
• Hua Liuli sent the beings within her Destiny to attack, while Chen Xuan charged the old monster with the Mountain Ghost jade hairpin and Eight Gates Spirit Locking Art.
• Chen Xuan’s attacks badly injured the old monster and drove him back, despite the old man’s Hidden in the Mortal World status.
• Chen Xuan demanded to know what the old monster was planning, and the old man said the Mountain Ghost Lady had helped him survive a thousand years earlier.

Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli confronted Zhang Dongxuan, who revealed that Hua Liuli was the Green Pouch Daoist Temple’s ancient immortal and explained why he had tried to separate her from Chen Xuan. After Chen Xuan beat the truth out of him, Zhang Dongxuan admitted that Green Hill Mountain’s foxes had used a page of the Classic of Mountains and Seas to infiltrate Guyao Mountain and hunt Mountain Lord and the others.

• Hua Liuli identified Zhang Dongxuan as a former elite disciple of the Green Pouch Daoist Temple, and he claimed he had interfered to keep her and Chen Xuan on their proper paths.
• Zhang Dongxuan warned Chen Xuan against taking on more Heaven’s Chosen karma and insisted Hua Liuli belonged to the Green Pouch Daoist Temple, not to any immortal-pill faction.
• Zhang Dongxuan revealed that the previous Two Realms Master had become the Green Pouch Daoist Temple’s fifth ranked immortal and declared that Hua Liuli was its current Mystic Maiden and ancient immortal.
• Zhang Dongxuan attacked Chen Xuan, but Chen Xuan defeated him and demanded to know whether he had meddled in Mountain Lord’s affairs.
• Zhang Dongxuan confessed that Green Hill Mountain’s foxes had used the Classic of Mountains and Seas · Green Hill to infiltrate Guyao Mountain and hunt Little Earth Dog and the others, while Profound Truth True Lord’s remains were on the Guyao page.
• Hua Liuli told Chen Xuan to take Zhang Dongxuan outside and beat him to death.

Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli uncovered the hidden Green Pouch Daoist Temple remnant territory in Guyao Mountain and discovered that its fox spirits were preparing to capture them. As the foxes prepared an ambush, Nan Mian watched from afar and warned his followers not to say Chen Xuan’s name directly.

• Chen Xuan subdued Zhang Dongxuan with the Human Emperor Banner, and Zhang explained that the Green Pouch Daoist Temple’s secret method had let him sense Hua Liuli’s choices without seeing her memories.
• Zhang Dongxuan warned Chen Xuan that Small Dragon Palace might target him for drawing too many tribulations, but Chen Xuan decided to keep cultivating and asked Hua Liuli to find a route to Mountain Lord.
• Hua Liuli used the Azure Talisman Stone to reveal a feng shui secret route into Guyao Mountain’s hidden living realm, where Chen Xuan spotted fox spirits plotting to capture him.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird revealed that it had brought its clan into Guyao Mountain, while Nan Mian decided not to confront Chen Xuan and ordered his followers to wait.
• Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli prepared to exchange spells as the fox spirits’ ambush awaited them at the end of the secret route.

Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli entered Guyao Mountain through a secret geomantic passage and were ambushed by Green Hill Foxes, but they killed the pursuing fox demons. After questioning a wounded fox, Chen Xuan learned that Mountain Lord was alive in Mountain Ghost Lady's Divine Maiden Shrine and was preparing to ascend to godhood.

• Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli detected four Cauldron Furnace Realm fox demons waiting to ambush them, so Hua Liuli altered the passage's landing point and they emerged elsewhere in the forest.
• The foxes searched for Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli, but Chen Xuan used Yin Qi decoys to split their pursuers and ambushed the group, killing Old Fox Granny with the True Martial Seven Section Sword.
• Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli defeated two more old foxes, while Hua Liuli relied on her physical strength and Chen Xuan used the Human Emperor Banner and Awakening of Insects Immortal Sword.
• Chen Xuan wounded and captured the last old female Azure Fox, who revealed that Mountain Lord was in Mountain Ghost Lady's Divine Maiden Shrine and that Mountain Lord's little mad dog had eaten White Fox God.
• After learning that Mountain Lord planned to borrow White Fox God to ascend to godhood, Chen Xuan killed the old female Azure Fox.

Chen Xuan reached Guyao Mountain, where Green Hill Fox and the surviving demons struggled over the ruins of Divine Maiden Shrine and the missing Mountain God. After cultivating the Flame Emperor True Scripture, he began to form a Cauldron, but Ao Guang issued a divine decree commanding him to accept gifts from the gods, and Chen Xuan refused.

• Chen Xuan killed the old Green Hill Fox demon with Awakening of Insects Sword and the Human Emperor Banner, then escaped with Hua Liuli toward Guyao Mountain while Hu Qing fled to summon God Fox Zhao.
• Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli learned that Green Hill Fox had entered Guyao Mountain to seek Profound Truth True Lord’s legacy and encountered God Fox Zhao, Bai Gan Gan, and the tuskless White Elephant at the mountain.
• God Fox Zhao ordered Hu Qing to capture Two Realms Master, while Hua Liuli returned to the Two Realms Blessed Land and Chen Xuan stayed behind to cultivate in seclusion.
• Chen Xuan completed the Cauldron Chapter of the Flame Emperor True Scripture, triggering a heavenly tribulation that drew the attention of God Fox Zhao and the powerful ghosts at Guyao Mountain.
• Ao Guang issued a golden divine edict ordering gods across four provinces to bring Chen Xuan gifts and witness his ceremony; Chen Xuan’s body began reviving as he prepared to form a Cauldron.
• Chen Xuan refused Ao Guang’s decree and told the Dragon God to go back.

Chen Xuan rejected Ao Guang’s attempt to force his advancement into a cauldron furnace and resumed cultivating the Two Realms True Scripture. He refined Two Realms Qi and returned to his cavern dwelling, where he found a new warning at the entrance.

• Ao Guang invoked the Small Dragon Palace’s decree and threatened Chen Xuan, while the nearby gods and divine wanderers reacted to the order in different ways.
• Chen Xuan refused to advance, challenged Ao Guang, and began cultivating the Ying Dragon True Scripture until Ao Guang’s thunderclouds dispersed.
• The Golden Crow God reconsidered sending its Golden Crow blood and worried that Chen Xuan would become too powerful if he advanced further.
• Chen Xuan cultivated the Two Realms True Scripture and refined Two Realms Qi, which let him sense mountain veins and travel along them.
• Chen Xuan returned to his cavern dwelling and found the words “Do not enter” written at its entrance.

Chen Xuan completed the Two Realms True Scripture but Small Dragon Palace withheld his Cauldron Heavenly Tribulation, so he studied the Shangyang Secrets while walking through Guyao Mountain. When he finally chose to ascend, Ao Guang’s edict unleashed the Five Elements tribulation, and Chen Xuan endured it to prove the Five Viscera Soldier Martial Immortal Body.

• Bai Gan Gan realized Earth Virtue was no longer forbidden in Guyao Mountain, while God Fox Zhao warned that Green Hill had walked into a deadly trap by entering the mountain.
• Chen Xuan completed the Two Realms Dao Repository and Cauldron Scripture, but Small Dragon Palace withheld his Cauldron Heavenly Tribulation, so he postponed his advancement and studied the Shangyang Secrets.
• Chen Xuan traveled slowly through Guyao Mountain as the fox demons feared his approach, while the Small Underworld promoted the Mystic Cat and summoned her to Guyao Mountain.
• Chen Xuan met Hua Liuli and told her that he would take up the Green Pouch Daoist Temple’s karma, then chose to ascend into godhood at the Chi Dragon stone pillar.
• Ao Guang’s edict summoned the Five Elements Heavenly Tribulation, but Chen Xuan and his five Dao repositories tore through the thunder dragons as the power of heaven and earth poured into him.
• Chen Xuan shattered Ao Guang’s watching dragon eye and endured the tribulation, proving the Five Viscera Soldier Martial Immortal Body.

Chen Xuan survived the Five Elements Heavenly Tribulation, reached the Cauldron Furnace Realm, and formed the Five Viscera Soldier Martial Immortal Body through the Shangyang Secrets. After defying Dragon God Ao Guang and collecting the gods’ gifts, he prepared to reclaim resources from Nan Mian, while the Small Underworld advanced toward the same target.

• Chen Xuan’s Root Bone aptitude surpassed the Nine-Five Posture as he integrated the five Heavenly Fate Dao Repositories into his Five Viscera Soldier Martial Immortal Body.
• Chen Xuan shattered Dragon God Ao Guang’s remaining phantom eye, rebuffed his threats, and accepted four precious spirit items sent by the directional gods.
• Chen Xuan told Hua Liuli he would take back what belonged to him and set his sights on the resources connected to Martial Glutton Qin Yu’s corpse and Nan Mian.
• Nan Mian sensed danger as the Small Underworld entered Guyao Mountain and headed toward him.
• Chen Xuan gave Hua Liuli Martial Glutton Qin Yu’s Alchemy Furnace, and she used the Green Pouch Art to search for a feng shui route to him.

Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli reached the volcanic crater where Martial Glutton Qin Yu’s body was nearing godhood, and Nan Mian revealed that Chen Xuan was an ancient Heartfast who only killed and never saved. Chen Xuan accepted Nan Mian’s challenge to claim Qin Yu’s body, then met Qin Yu in battle as the Small Underworld watched.

• Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli arrived at the crater, where Nan Mian and Little Azure Heaven’s mad Daoists were waiting beside Martial Glutton Qin Yu’s body.
• Hua Liuli confronted Nan Mian, and Chen Xuan demanded that he hand over Qin Yu’s body.
• Nan Mian offered to reveal Heartfast’s origin if Chen Xuan defeated Qin Yu, and Chen Xuan accepted.
• Mystic Cat, Ox-Head Underworld Messenger, and Horse-Face arrived from the Small Underworld as Nan Mian warned that ancient Heartfast only killed and never saved.
• Chen Xuan entered the volcano and shattered the manifestations surrounding Qin Yu’s body with his five-element power.
• Qin Yu awakened and charged Chen Xuan, who met him head-on and knocked him into the magma.

Chen Xuan fought Martial Glutton inside the volcano and overcame the dead warrior’s remaining martial will and Xingtian Secrets. Martial Glutton fell, and the Small Underworld’s jade book began recording Chen Xuan’s victory as Southern Crown recognized the Underworld’s method.

• Chen Xuan overwhelmed Martial Glutton’s opening attack with his Five Viscera Soldier Martial Immortal Body, while spectators discussed the Shangyang Secrets and the battle’s stakes.
• Martial Glutton unleashed the Xingtian Secrets, and he and Chen Xuan exchanged hundreds of fierce blows that shook the volcano.
• Chen Xuan identified Martial Glutton’s true body, broke the Xingtian Secrets with True Martial Sword Intent, and pursued the wounded warrior as the volcano collapsed.
• Chen Xuan countered Martial Glutton’s Great Stele Breaking Hand Seal and shattered his other techniques before punching through his chest and severing his neck.
• The Black Cat’s jade book recorded Martial Glutton’s fall, and Southern Crown praised the Small Underworld’s method.

Chen Xuan killed Martial Glutton Qin Yu, but Ten Thousand Worlds Venerable arrived too late to save him and attacked the Great Void’s forbidden beings. After Qin Yu was named a high-grade immortal pill, Chen Xuan turned to Nan Mian to demand the secret of Heartfast.

• Chen Xuan destroyed Martial Glutton Qin Yu’s remaining body, and the Mad Daoists realized Chen Xuan had become powerful enough to defeat him.
• Ten Thousand Worlds Venerable sent a lightning sword through the Great Void to interrupt the Heavenly Fate Immortal Seed Directory, but Mystic Cat Goddess blocked the strike.
• The directory recorded Qin Yu’s death, stated that his soul had entered Nirvana with no chance of resurrection, and identified him as a high-grade immortal pill whose attempt to ascend through the Martial Dao had failed.
• Ten Thousand Worlds Venerable confronted Chen Xuan across the rift, then fought the forbidden deities surrounding him as the rift closed.
• Chen Xuan stared at Nan Mian and demanded to know the secret of Heartfast.

Chen Xuan learned that Heartfast had shattered the Classic of Mountains and Seas, triggering the ancient war that ended the Mountains and Seas Era. He discovered he was the ninth Heartfast and that earlier incarnations had nearly wiped out Mountain Ghost Lady’s descendants, while the Small Underworld ordered Black Cat to keep watch on him.

• Chen Xuan collected Martial Glutton Qin Yu’s corpse after killing him, while Nan Mian said Ten Thousand Worlds Venerable had been drawn to the battle.
• Ox-Head Underworld Messenger and Horse-Face Underworld Messenger suspected Taiyin Chenlong had revealed their arrival to Ten Thousand Worlds Venerable and noted the Small Underworld had watched Heartfast since his return.
• Nan Mian revealed that Heartfast shattered the Classic of Mountains and Seas, helping bring about the war that ended the Mountains and Seas Era.
• Nan Mian said Chen Xuan was the ninth recorded Heartfast and that previous incarnations had destroyed beings tied to Heartfast, including descendants of Mountain Ghost Lady.
• Ox-Head and Horse-Face revealed that a Heartfast had caused an incarnation of Mountain Ghost Lady to disappear and nearly wiped out an ancient Dao lineage in Yunmeng Marsh.
• Ox-Head assigned Black Cat to keep a death watch on Chen Xuan, and she pointed out that the Small Underworld had already been watching him since Willow Town.

Nan Mian told Chen Xuan about the Heartfast and warned him that the Small Underworld’s Heaven’s Chosen, Yin Yang Companion, had already noticed him. Elsewhere, survivors mourned Martial Glutton Qin Yu, while Wang Chan’s lingering soul appeared in a heavenly palace and ordered someone to kill Taixuan again.

• Nan Mian explained that the Heartfast had appeared eight times in ancient history and had slain demons and monsters, then guessed Chen Xuan had planned to use Guyao Mountain’s boundary against Ten Thousand Worlds Venerable.
• Nan Mian revealed that Yin Yang Companion had discovered Chen Xuan after he killed Yellow Millet Dream, prompting the black cat to accuse him of redirecting danger.
• Wan Jiansheng and the surviving followers of Martial Glutton Qin Yu discussed Qin Yu’s death and their desperate situation in barren Guyao Mountain.
• Wan Jiansheng crushed a black jade talisman that Qin Yu had given him, suspecting it came from the organization behind the stolen pill formulas.
• In a heavenly palace, an ancient Daoist learned that Qin Yu’s path had ended and ordered someone to meet Taixuan and kill him again if he remained stubborn.
• Wang Chan’s vanished soul and spirit spoke through a face in a lamp, revealing that someone besides Mountain Ghost Lady had witnessed Yellow Millet Dream’s memories.

Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli left Nan Mian behind as he turned on Little Azure Heaven’s mad Daoists, then returned to Guyao Mountain to meet Mountain Lord Da Hu. As Chen Xuan prepared to retrieve a page of the Classic of Mountains and Seas · Guyao, Yan Yushu demanded permission to descend the mountain and find him.

• Nan Mian told Chen Xuan that Heartfast could permanently destroy a Heaven’s Chosen’s inheritance, while the Small Underworld’s envoys revealed secrets about Little Azure Heaven.
• Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli spared Nan Mian and returned to Guyao Mountain, where Nan Mian attacked and slaughtered Little Azure Heaven’s mad Daoists.
• Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli climbed toward the Two Realms Master as news of Martial Glutton’s fall spread beyond the secret realm.
• Yan Yushu asked Lu Zhuan to let her descend the mountain, and he agreed to look for a way despite warning that a True Lord magnate might fall in Yaoguang Province.
• Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli reached the Divine Maiden Shrine, where Chen Xuan asked Mountain Lord Da Hu about retrieving a page of the Classic of Mountains and Seas · Guyao.

Chen Xuan and Mountain Lord discussed an alliance between the Southern Wilderness and Chu, then captured White Fox God and descended beneath Guyao Mountain to search for Profound Truth True Lord and Classic of Mountains and Seas · Guyao. They found neither, while God Fox Zhao received a message from Green Hill Mountain.

• Mountain Lord asked Chen Xuan to have Jiang Qing Huang come discuss an alliance with the Southern Wilderness, and Chen Xuan agreed.
• Mountain Lord revealed that it had captured White Fox God, Bai You'er, and proposed keeping her alive to serve Chen Xuan unless Green Hill Mountain ransomed her.
• Mountain Lord led Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli down an ancient well beneath the Divine Maiden Shrine to search for Profound Truth True Lord and Classic of Mountains and Seas · Guyao.
• Mountain Lord said that neither Profound Truth True Lord nor Classic of Mountains and Seas · Guyao was there.
• God Fox Zhao noticed that his jade talisman had lit up and realized Green Hill Mountain had finally responded.

Chen Xuan led Hua Liuli, Mountain Lord, and White Fox God through a hidden underground river in Guyao Mountain, searching for Profound Truth True Lord. After finding the remains of Green Pouch Daoist Temple cultivators and a fleeting golden scroll, they discovered that an unseen ghost had followed them and marked Mountain Lord with a warning.

• God Fox Zhao told the Green Hill Foxes that Chen Xuan had become a cauldron furnace and killed Martial Glutton Qin Yu, while Great Figures were reacting to the revived Earth Virtue.
• Chen Xuan and his companions entered the River Leading to the Netherworld to search for Profound Truth True Lord, and Chen Xuan captured White Fox God with the Human Emperor Banner after Mountain Lord struck her.
• The group encountered an enormous, ominous presence and found the corpses of Green Pouch Daoist Temple deities, whose bodies and treasures crumbled into jade and ash when touched.
• Chen Xuan spotted a flash of golden light that might have been a page of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, then heard dripping and smelled blood.
• Mountain Lord appeared covered in blood with the words "Don't enter!" carved into its forehead, and Chen Xuan suspected that Profound Truth True Lord's wandering soul had followed them.

Chen Xuan and his companions pursued a golden light through Guyao Mountain’s underground river and confirmed it carried a page of the Classic of Mountains and Seas · Guyao. After Mountain Lord vanished and a warning appeared on Hua Liuli’s sleeve, Zhang Dongxuan revealed that a corpse-like figure had been following Chen Xuan, who struck it with a powerful punch.

• Chen Xuan rejected White Fox God’s warnings about Mountain Ghost Lady and Profound Truth True Lord and continued searching for the golden light.
• Chen Xuan caught sight of a yellowed page of the Classic of Mountains and Seas · Guyao but could not catch it, then discovered Mountain Lord had disappeared.
• Chen Xuan found the words “DO NOT COME IN!” written on Hua Liuli’s sleeve and summoned Zhang Dongxuan to identify the handwriting.
• Zhang Dongxuan said he did not recognize Profound Truth True Lord’s writing, then pointed out that Chen Xuan was carrying his physical shell on his back.
• Chen Xuan turned and struck the corpse-like figure behind him with a five-colored punch, sending it crashing into the mountain wall.

Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli pursued and defeated Zhang Dongxuan’s young physical body in the underground cavern. After the old Zhang Dongxuan’s Divine Soul arrived, a second Divine Soul emerged from the battered body and revealed the identity of its master.

• Chen Xuan exposed the hidden Zhang Dongxuan and chased his fleeing physical body while Hua Liuli sealed off the escape route.
• Chen Xuan broke through Zhang Dongxuan’s Green Pouch Secrets and caught him after Hua Liuli used her Five Peaks Pearl to stop his artifact.
• Chen Xuan battered Zhang Dongxuan’s physical body into the cavern wall and demanded to know where the Mountain Lord was.
• Zhang Dongxuan’s physical body said the Mountain Lord was nearby, and the old Zhang Dongxuan’s Divine Soul arrived, lamenting its injuries.
• A second Divine Soul rose from Zhang Dongxuan’s body, knelt before the old man, and addressed him as True Lord Master.