Chapter Summaries

Chen Xuan and his companions learned that the ragged old man might be the mad Profound Truth True Lord, whose disciples said he had devoured Cloud Brocade True Lord and the Green Pouch Daoist Temple's survivors. They followed the golden light to an underground lake, where Profound Truth sat holding Cloud Brocade, while several Great Figures gathered outside Guyao Mountain.

• Young Zhang Dongxuan recognized the old man as Profound Truth True Lord and said he had eaten Cloud Brocade True Lord and the Green Pouch Daoist Temple's followers.
• Zhang Dongxuan explained that Mountain Ghost Lady had anchored Profound Truth's physical shell with a page of the Classic of Mountains and Seas · Guyao to prevent a Great Terror.
• Chen Xuan noticed that the golden light intensified Earth Virtue immortal qi and continued down the underground river despite Zhang Dongxuan's warning.
• The old man charged ahead to uncover the truth, and Chen Xuan, Hua Liuli, and White Fox God followed him past the corpses.
• Chen Xuan found Profound Truth True Lord seated on a golden lake, holding the white-haired Cloud Brocade True Lord, as Great Figures gathered outside Guyao Mountain.

Chen Xuan took the Classic of Mountains and Seas · Guyao fragment, ending the thousand-year scene of Profound Truth True Lord and Cloud Brocade True Lord. As Cloud Brocade vanished and revealed her final farewell to Green Pouch, the True Lord of Green Hill arrived at Guyao Mountain.

• Chen Xuan suppressed the Earth Virtue power stirred by Profound Truth True Lord's remains, while Hua Liuli benefited and White Fox God suffered.
• Chen Xuan saw that Cloud Brocade True Lord had pierced Profound Truth's chest, and Zhang Dongxuan accused his master of devouring her Immortal Qi and Dao Cultivation.
• The old monster warned Chen Xuan that Mountain Ghost Lady might withdraw her protection if he took the Classic of Mountains and Seas · Guyao, but Chen Xuan chose to reach for it.
• The True Lord of Green Hill entered Guyao Mountain and gravely wounded Chi Dragon God as she passed.
• The Classic of Mountains and Seas · Guyao flew into Chen Xuan's eyes, and Cloud Brocade True Lord's corpse crumbled as her spirit appeared, bid farewell to Green Pouch, and vanished.
• Chen Xuan sensed a True Lord's arrival, and the True Lord of Green Hill moved Guyao Mountain aside and appeared.

Bai Cao, the White Grass True Lord of Green Hill, arrived at Guyao Mountain and confronted Chen Xuan and the old monster, whom she identified as Profound Truth True Lord. Her attack was stopped by a mysterious power rising from the mountain, which revealed itself as a majestic figure in imperial robes.

• Bai Cao lifted Guyao Mountain into the air, and White Fox God tried to break free from Chen Xuan.
• Bai Cao recognized Chen Xuan as Heartfast and ordered him aside, while the Classic of Mountains and Seas fragment reacted to her presence.
• Earth Virtue spread from Profound Truth True Lord's remains, turning the pool and surrounding landscape into jade.
• The old monster denied being Profound Truth True Lord, but Chen Xuan insisted that he was and explained why he had been drawn to Guyao Mountain.
• Bai Cao called the old monster Profound Truth and struck the group with her fox tail to test whether he would revive.
• A mysterious force blocked Bai Cao's attack, and a huge imperial-robed figure rose above Guyao Mountain and declared that he would speak fairly.

Emperor Jiang’s remnant intervened to save Profound Truth True Lord and bargain for Green Pouch Daoist Temple’s revival, while Chen Xuan realized Profound Truth had become an immortal. After the negotiations ended, Emperor Jiang met Chen Xuan at Divine Maiden Shrine to deliver a message from Mountain Ghost Lady.

• Emperor Jiang appeared on Guyao Mountain and warned White Grass True Lord that attacking Profound Truth would cost several True Lords their lives.
• White Grass True Lord revealed that Emperor Jiang had sacrificed his Dao Cultivation to keep Profound Truth alive and learned that he had died after descending from Shangyang Grotto-heaven.
• Emperor Jiang negotiated for Green Hill to spare Profound Truth and allow Green Pouch Daoist Temple to reopen, offering access to its inheritance and a chance for Chen Xuan to comprehend Classic of Mountains and Seas · Guyao.
• White Grass True Lord accepted the bargain and left Guyao Mountain, while Emperor Jiang’s manifestation disappeared.
• The old monster fled with Profound Truth True Lord’s corpse, leaving Chen Xuan, Zhang Dongxuan, and Hua Liuli to face the task of reopening Green Pouch Daoist Temple.
• Chen Xuan concluded that Profound Truth had become an immortal, then met Emperor Jiang beneath Divine Maiden Shrine and heard that Mountain Ghost Lady regretted the karma of Heartfast upon him.

Chen Xuan learned that Mountain Ghost Lady had watched over him since he awakened at Small River Village and had entered death seclusion after closing the Immortal Gate. With Emperor Jiang dead and three True Lords fallen, Chen Xuan prepared to sweep through Guyao Mountain and leave the Southern Wilderness as a new era began.

• Emperor Jiang told Chen Xuan that Mountain Ghost Lady felt guilty toward him, had left him the Classic of Mountains and Seas · Guyao, and could no longer protect him because she was entering death seclusion.
• Emperor Jiang vanished within Guyao Mountain, and Chu mourned his death as Jiang Qing Huang returned to the frontline.
• White Grass True Lord told Ao Longjun that Profound Truth True Lord was barely alive and discussed Chen Xuan as Heartfast’s ninth incarnation.
• Hua Liuli captured the old monster, who carried Profound Truth True Lord’s corpse and made absurd appointments for the Green Pouch Daoist Temple.
• Mountain Lord Little Earth Dog revealed that Mountain Ghost Lady had studied Chen Xuan while he was gravely ill at Small River Village, and Chen Xuan realized she had seen him awaken as Heartfast.
• Chen Xuan urged Mountain Lord to sweep through Guyao Mountain, while bloodied beings in the sky considered sending the True Lords of Qingqiu and Small Dragon Palace to investigate.

After the deaths of several True Lords plunged the factions of Yaoguang Province into panic, Chen Xuan prepared to leave Guyao Mountain and pursue new cultivation paths. He then attacked the Green Hill Foxes who refused to leave, beginning a swift purge of the mountain.

• Nan Mian sensed danger in Guyao Mountain and ordered the Little Azure Heaven spirit to take him back to the Little Azure Heaven Dojo after Spirit Yang True Lord failed to appear.
• Several demonic True Lords vanished after entering Yaoguang Province, while rumors spread that a human True Lord had also disappeared and that Profound Truth True Lord was still alive.
• Chen Xuan spent nine days studying the Classic of Mountains and Seas · Guyao and the Cauldron Furnace path, then chose to cultivate the Fire Virtue Phoenix True Scripture and other Mountain Sea True Scriptures.
• Hua Liuli outlined her plans to reopen the Green Pouch Daoist Temple, and Chen Xuan agreed to leave its management to her while asking that Martial Glutton Qin Yu's remains be buried with dignity.
• Chen Xuan approached Mountain Lord and the Green Hill Foxes after they refused to leave Guyao Mountain, then struck Hu Qing with the Great Stele Breaking Hand Seal and drove him into the ground.

Chen Xuan arrived at Guyao Mountain, severely injured Hu Qing, and demanded that God Fox Zhao release the Southern Wilderness captives and surrender White Fox God in exchange for Green Hill’s secrets. When God Fox Zhao refused and attacked, Chen Xuan and his allies fought the Green Hill Foxes, leaving Chen Xuan facing God Fox Zhao’s powerful Qingqiu Secret.

• Chen Xuan struck Hu Qing into the ground with the Great Stele Breaking Hand Seal and ordered God Fox Zhao to free the Southern Wilderness captives and leave Guyao Mountain.
• Chen Xuan summoned the Human Emperor Banner, demanded Green Hill’s Nine-Tailed True Scripture and clan secrets for White Fox God, and whipped her when she interrupted.
• God Fox Zhao refused Chen Xuan’s terms and threatened him, while White Fox God warned the foxes that White Grass True Lord had agreed to a ceasefire.
• Chen Xuan donned the Morning Dew Treasure Armor and attacked God Fox Zhao with Hua Liuli, Mountain Lord, and the Southern Wilderness demons joining the battle.
• God Fox Zhao countered Chen Xuan’s sword strikes with his perfected Fox Control Treasure Art and then unleashed the Listed Immortal Secret, Qingqiu Secret.
• Chen Xuan halted before God Fox Zhao’s wind-thread web and met the attack with repeated sword lights and the five-colored radiance of his Five Viscera Soldier Martial Immortal Body.

Chen Xuan defeated God Fox Zhao in a fierce battle, captured the Green Hill Foxes, and took control of the conflict in Guyao Mountain. He then boarded the Two Realms Jade Boat to hunt down the remaining outsiders, beginning with familiar Yunmeng Province rogues.

• Chen Xuan broke God Fox Zhao’s Green Hill secret art and wounded him, while Guyao Mountain’s power neutralized the Deity Ascension Ground borrowed from the True Lord bloodline.
• Chen Xuan defeated God Fox Zhao in close combat, shattered his burning True Lord bloodline, and seized his True Lord identity token before God Fox Zhao could summon the Green Hill True Lord.
• Hua Liuli captured God Fox Zhao and the surrendering Green Hill Foxes, while Chen Xuan’s forces killed Hu Qing and other foxes who tried to escape.
• Mountain Lord and the other mountain lords freed imprisoned ghosts and monsters, who pledged their loyalty to Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan led Hua Liuli and their forces aboard the Two Realms Jade Boat to clear Guyao Mountain of outsiders, then attacked a group of Yunmeng Province rogue cultivators with True Martial Sword Qi.

Chen Xuan swept Guyao Mountain, killing Wan Jiansheng and capturing surviving enemies while securing Hua Liuli’s support. As the Two Realms Jade Boat neared the exit, Chen Xuan awakened Guyao Mountain with the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and the Chi Dragon God stirred in the black abyss.

• Chen Xuan destroyed Martial Glutton Qin Yu’s remnant faction with True Martial Sword Qi, then pursued and killed Wan Jiansheng after defeating his sword arts.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng led young Peng Birds to join Chen Xuan, while the Azure Feather Luan Bird regretted having insulted him.
• Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli swept Guyao Mountain, captured two surrendered enemies, and traded seized spiritual essence for Five Elements pills.
• Hua Liuli offered Chen Xuan a share of the Two Realms Market business, and he declined while accepting free use of its teleportation formation.
• As the Two Realms Jade Boat neared Guyao Mountain’s exit, Chen Xuan raised the Classic of Mountains and Seas, causing the secret realm to shake.
• The Chi Dragon God opened its pale-gold eyes in the black abyss and said that Guyao Mountain was coming out.

Chen Xuan absorbed Guyao Mountain into the Fragment of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, then returned to Tiger Mountain and prepared to confront the Golden Crow God while continuing his cultivation. He reconnected with Jiang Qing Huang as Chu Kingdom’s war worsened and began cultivating the Phoenix True Scripture.

• Chen Xuan used the Fragment of the Classic of Mountains and Seas to store the Guyao Mountain secret realm, astonishing Hua Liuli and the others aboard the Two Realms Jade Boat.
• Chen Xuan and Hua Liuli traveled to Tiger Mountain, where Chen Xuan said he would wait for the Golden Crow God and Hua Liuli departed for Yunmeng Province with the Two Zhangs of the Green Pouch Daoist Temple.
• Chen Xuan planned to cultivate in the Southern Wilderness, using the Golden Crow God’s blood to help locate it if necessary, and said he would attack its Deity Ascension Ground if it did not come to him.
• At Fallen Moon City, Jiang Qing Huang learned that Chu Kingdom would abandon the city as its war against Zhi Kingdom worsened after the death of a True Lord.
• Chen Xuan reestablished contact with Jiang Qing Huang and arranged to meet, then began cultivating the Phoenix True Scripture with a Fire Virtue pill.

Chen Xuan cultivated the Phoenix True Scripture and found that it could not be fused into his existing Five-Element immortal body, so he devised a separate Mountain Sea version. When Jiang Qing Huang and a delegation of Chu Qi Refiners arrived at Tiger Mountain to discuss cooperation, Chen Xuan met them with suspicion.

• Chen Xuan cultivated the Phoenix True Scripture, quickly gaining Phoenix Qi and growing Phoenix wings as the demons guarding Tiger Mountain watched in amazement.
• Chen Xuan’s attempt to fuse the Phoenix True Scripture into his Five-Element immortal body nearly destroyed it, so he decided to develop a separate Mountain Sea immortal body alongside his Heaven’s Mandate one.
• Chen Xuan spent weeks working through the difficulties of cultivating the two paths in parallel.
• Jiang Qing Huang arrived at Tiger Mountain with the Demon Suppression Division and representatives of Chu’s aristocratic clans, while the Golden-Winged Great Peng and Azure Feather Luan Bird intimidated the delegation.
• Chen Xuan came down from the mountain, saw the large delegation behind Jiang Qing Huang, and asked what they were trying to do.

Chen Xuan negotiated an agreement for the Southern Wilderness monsters to pass through Chu and received Torch Dragon True Lord Emperor Jiang’s fire-technique insights from Jiang Qing Huang. After cultivating a new Mountain Sea version of his Five Viscera Soldier Martial Immortal Body and reaching the Second Heaven of the cauldron realm, Chen Xuan sensed the Golden Crow God arriving.

• Chen Xuan and Jiang Qing Huang clashed over the Southern Wilderness monsters’ entry into Chu, then agreed that they could pass through as nominal members of the Demon Suppression Division and could not recklessly harm people.
• Jiang Qing Huang privately thanked Chen Xuan and gave him a jade bead containing half of Emperor Jiang’s lifelong insights into fire techniques, which helped him cultivate the Phoenix True Scripture.
• Xiao Hou mistook a frivolous young man for someone who needed treatment, and the young man responded with a furious punch and a threat.
• Chen Xuan spent nearly two months smelting the Phoenix True Scripture and successfully cultivated the Mountain Sea version of the Five Viscera Soldier Martial Immortal Body.
• Chen Xuan’s breakthrough triggered the Second Heaven cauldron tribulation, and he sensed the Golden Crow God arriving from the south.

Chen Xuan survived a minor Heavenly Tribulation, manifested the Phoenix Immortal Fire Divine Body, and fought the Golden Crow God after discovering signs that several True Lords had met with disaster in the Southern Wilderness. He defeated the Golden Crow God’s spirit excursion, but the attacker behind the True Lords’ apparent downfall remained unknown as Hua Liuli arrived.

• Chen Xuan destroyed the minor Heavenly Tribulation, strengthened his Root Bone aptitude, and manifested the Phoenix Immortal Fire Divine Body as Dragon God Ao Guang withdrew.
• Chen Xuan pursued the Golden Crow God, which had stopped at a lake after sensing a strand of fox fur that it identified as belonging to a True Lord of Green Hill.
• Chen Xuan and the Golden Crow God found signs that White Grass True Lord, a Small Dragon Palace True Lord, and Little Azure Heaven Southern Crown had met with disaster in the Southern Wilderness.
• Mountain God and several powerful ghosts and monsters arrived as Chen Xuan attacked the Golden Crow God and wounded its borrowed temple-body.
• Chen Xuan’s Divine Soul Body shattered the Golden Crow God’s will, and the Golden Crow God later realized it could not deal with Chen Xuan unless he came south.
• Chen Xuan collected the Golden Crow’s body and soul remnants, summoned Hua Liuli with the Two Realms Jade Boat, and told her there had been an accident.

Chen Xuan cultivated several True Scriptures in the Southern Wilderness while Hua Liuli shared news of a Buddha Child’s doomed reincarnation and the war spreading across the provinces. After reaching the threshold for his Third Heaven tribulation, he sensed five Heavenly Fate figures gathering near Yunmeng and heard White Grass True Lord’s cry for help.

• Hua Liuli told Chen Xuan about the Bodhisattva of Ape Country’s murdered seventh-life Buddha Child, traded him the Golden Crow God’s physical shell, and departed to handle the Green Pouch Daoist Temple and her other affairs.
• Chen Xuan spent four months cultivating several True Scriptures as the Southern Wilderness ghosts and monsters marched to war in Chu, leaving Tiger Mountain nearly deserted.
• Chu Qing Ling and Wang Ling'er recognized Chen Xuan’s name and reflected on how far he had surpassed them since their encounter in a ruined temple.
• Chen Xuan refined and cultivated the Martial Dao True Scripture, reached the threshold of his Third Heaven tribulation, and demanded the first half of the Nine-Tailed True Scripture from White Fox God.
• Chen Xuan sensed Yan Yushu, Flame Emperor Ming Xiao Hou, Mystic Cat Goddess, and Fan Xianzhi converging near Yunmeng, then heard White Grass True Lord’s cry for help as a fox-scented wind spread across the Southern Wilderness.

Chen Xuan obtained the upper half of the Nine-Tailed True Scripture, advanced to Cauldron Three Heavens, and learned that Yunmeng's True Lords suspected Profound Truth True Lord was trapped by the Immortal Palace. When he went to meet Yan Yushu, he vanished into Mind Fasting Heaven, where traces of White Grass True Lord and a wounded dragon remained.

• White Fox God warned Chen Xuan that fusing too many different True Scriptures could mutate and destroy his immortal body, but Chen Xuan still obtained the upper half of Green Hill's Nine-Tailed True Scripture for reference.
• Yan Yushu arrived in Yunmeng Market searching for Lu Zhuan, while Heavenly Fox Woman, Hua Liuli, Heaven's Mandate Dao Fan Xianzhi, and Flame Emperor Xiao Hou encountered her or heard news about the Southern Wilderness Saint.
• Chen Xuan concluded that Sage scriptures should anchor his future cultivation, then advanced to Cauldron Three Heavens beneath a forty-five-bolt heavenly tribulation.
• Chen Xuan fought Dragon God Ao Guang during the tribulation and learned that Yunmeng's True Lords believed Profound Truth True Lord was a deity derived from the Dao Repository in Profound Truth True Lord's corpse and that the Immortal Palace had trapped Ao Longjun.
• Chen Xuan sensed Yan Yushu returning toward the Southern Wilderness and answered her summons, but she vanished before he could find her.
• Chen Xuan stepped outside the Southern Wilderness and found himself in Mind Fasting Heaven, where fragrant wind from White Grass True Lord drifted over shattered dragon scales stained with blood.

Chen Xuan was trapped inside Mind Fasting Heaven, where he fought a green-robed youth over Migu tree leaves and discovered that Heaven's Mandate Dao had entered as well. After reaching a ruined courtyard and a vast hall, he encountered a blood-covered figure and a sinister face that claimed to have caught him.

• Chen Xuan entered Mind Fasting Heaven while Yan Yushu lost contact with him, and Mountain Ghost Lady's palace manifested over the Southern Wilderness.
• Chen Xuan met a green-robed youth beneath a Migu tree, and they fought after the youth tried to claim the tree's leaves by force.
• Chen Xuan defeated the youth and scattered his Divine Soul Body, but several remnant souls escaped into the blood-colored fog.
• Heaven's Mandate Dao entered Mind Fasting Heaven, where the wounded youth summoned an Innate Deity and triggered a battle.
• Chen Xuan reached a ruined courtyard and followed the left-hand path to a vast hall, where a pale face appeared beside him and claimed to have caught him.

Chen Xuan entered Mind Fasting Heaven, learned from Lu Zhuan how the crisis involving the Small Underworld and the True Lords had unfolded, and discovered that his presence accelerated the revival of a stone statue tied to Mirror Immortal. After the statue emerged and the True Lords closed in, Chen Xuan fled with it, but Black White True Lord later revealed that Mirror Immortal had entangled him in a Heaven's Mandate Remnant.

• Chen Xuan punched Lu Zhuan after the tiny Daoist novice startled him, then learned that Lu Zhuan was a reincarnated True Lord and that the black-robed figure was Black White True Lord of the Small Underworld.
• Lu Zhuan explained how Mountain Ghost Lady's actions and Chen Xuan's Heartfast nature had stirred Mind Fasting Heaven, and told him that Mirror Immortal had nearly killed White Grass True Lord.
• Chen Xuan used a Migu Tree Leaf to master Green Pouch Secrets, while his presence accelerated the revival of a human-shaped stone statue beneath a Migu Tree.
• As Salamander Green Robed Youth arrived with a silver-armored figure and other powers approached, Black White True Lord entered the fog and Lu Zhuan sent Chen Xuan fleeing with the statue and Migu Tree.
• Chen Xuan ran for nearly two thousand li with the statue, suspicious of Lu Zhuan's urging, while Lu Zhuan and Black White True Lord later discovered that Chen Xuan had vanished.
• Black White True Lord told Lu Zhuan that Mirror Immortal had entangled Chen Xuan in the Heaven's Mandate Remnant, while Chen Xuan continued running toward the direction of Heaven's Mandate Dao.

Chen Xuan fled the suspicious Lu Zhuan with the reviving stone man, but could neither escape the treasure nor prevent a True Lord from pursuing them. He handed the Divine Spirit Stone Embryo to Fan Xianzhi and the Mending Heaven Dojo, whose deductions revealed that it was an awakening Innate Deity just as danger approached.

• Chen Xuan unleashed his full strength and fled from Lu Zhuan, whose attempt to copy him ended in the destruction of his body and divine soul.
• Chen Xuan tried to escape Mind Fasting Heaven and threw the stone-man treasure away, but it repeatedly returned to his shoulder and murmured a fragment of scripture.
• With a towering pursuer following him, Chen Xuan gave the stone man to Fan Xianzhi and the Mending Heaven Dojo before fleeing again.
• Fan Xianzhi used Heaven's Mandate to discover that the treasure was a Divine Spirit Stone Embryo, an Innate Deity in the midst of revival.
• As Fan Xianzhi hesitated to claim the stone man, Chen Xuan sensed the Heaven's Mandate Remnant approaching and she feared that she was about to die.

Fan Xianzhi and the Mending Heaven Dojo took the Divine Spirit Stone Embryo, only for Ao Longjun to arrive and attack them. Ao Longjun seized Fan Xianzhi and recognized her as Heaven's Mandate Dao, while Chen Xuan suspected his influence had turned her supposed good fortune into disaster.

• Fan Xianzhi resisted taking the Divine Spirit Stone Embryo at first, but agreed when the Grand Elder decided the Mending Heaven Dojo should claim it.
• Ao Longjun arrived amid a storm of lightning and demanded to know why the Divine Spirit Stone Embryo was in their possession.
• Ao Longjun killed the Grand Elder, read his memories, and sent purple lightning along the Grand Elder's soul trace to pursue his true body.
• Mind Fasting Heaven awakened and dispersed Ao Longjun's lightning, while Fan Xianzhi prepared to call on the Mending Heaven True Lord.
• Ao Longjun noticed Fan Xianzhi, seized her with a dragon claw, and identified her as Heaven's Mandate Dao before accusing her of choosing the wrong path.

Chen Xuan learned why Fan Xianzhi had destroyed her Dao as the Heaven's Mandate Remnant faced a coalition of True Lords in Mind Fasting Heaven. While the True Lords battled, Lu Zhuan brought the Divine Spirit Stone Embryo back to Chen Xuan, and it secretly slipped the Heaven's Mandate Remnant's bronze mirror into his clothes.

• Ao Longjun explained that Fan Xianzhi had destroyed her own Dao after countless deductions, and that Mending Heaven True Lord had halted her cultivation because he feared disrupting her plan.
• The Heaven's Mandate Remnant killed Fan Xianzhi, while the Heaven's Mandate Dao escaped; Ao Longjun and White Grass True Lord then joined Spirit Yang True Lord, an Innate Deity, and Little Blackie True Lord to confront the Remnant.
• The Heaven's Mandate Remnant transformed from its bronze mirror and charged the five True Lords, starting a battle that spread across the sky as Chen Xuan fled and watched.
• Lu Zhuan appeared beside Chen Xuan with the Divine Spirit Stone Embryo, which he had stolen during the battle, and placed it on Chen Xuan's shoulder.
• Chen Xuan spotted the Heaven's Mandate Remnant's bronze mirror in the embryo's hand, and the embryo slipped it inside his clothes and covered his mouth.