Chapter Summaries

Lan Chang'an attended Gutian Immortal City's auction, where Fairy Ni Yue invited him to meet the Profound Sound Pavilion and gave him a treasured score and VIP token. The auction revealed that a mysterious Bamboo Hat Merchant was a powerful consignor, and Ni Yue stopped Lan Chang'an as he prepared to leave, saying she had something to discuss.

• Lan Chang'an attended the auction with Granny Yun and the Yun siblings, and Fairy Ni Yue's arrival captivated the hall.
• Miao Jing invited Lan Chang'an to Profound Sound Pavilion's pavilion, where Ni Yue thanked him for rescuing Jiang Ruotong and presented him with a VIP token and the Rainbow Feather Garment Score.
• Lan Chang'an examined Ni Yue and sensed that she was likely fated to die within ten years, then remained with the pavilion's group to watch the auction.
• The Bamboo Hat Merchant intimidated True Person Yun He into yielding the Cloud Peak Strange Stone and later won the Crystal Condensation Pill by trading a Thousand Mechanisms Cult Puppet inheritance.
• After the auction, Ni Yue stopped Lan Chang'an as he was leaving and said she had a matter to discuss with him.

Lan Chang'an avoided an ambush linked to Fang Zhen, strengthened his puppet forces, and advanced to the middle stage of the Golden Core. His breakthrough awakened a profound sensation drawing his attention toward the Great Qing Central Region.

• Fairy Ni Yue invited Lan Chang'an to visit Profound Sound Pavilion's future mountain gate, and he agreed to consider it.
• Lan Chang'an studied the Thousand Mechanisms Cult puppet inheritance while the Magpie Chamber of Commerce's Grand Elder and his escorts were ambushed and killed by a Black-Robed Bamboo-Hatted Person and a Disheveled Giant.
• Lan Chang'an used the Fourth Life's divine sense to observe the ambush, suspected Fang Zhen was involved, and secretly diverted the Yun Clan party around the danger near Heyuan Oasis.
• Granny Yun divined that the party had survived a calamity and learned that Fang Zhen's forces had been lying in wait; she decided to have Yun Ling become Lan Chang'an's disciple or goddaughter.
• Lan Chang'an refined a black hawk Puppet Avatar, then spent four years in seclusion and advanced to the middle stage of the Golden Core at age 237.
• After his breakthrough, Lan Chang'an felt a profound sensation from his Evergreen True Core and looked toward the Great Qing Central Region.

After sensing another cultivator of the Evergreen Art, Lan Chang'an consolidated his mid-stage Golden Core realm and planned to improve his divination while seeking a stronger spiritual vein. He accepted Yun Ling as his maidservant, then traveled to Profound Sound Pavilion’s new mountain gate, where he met Jiang Ruotong and Dongfang Xi and was led to meet Ni Yue.

• Lan Chang'an sensed a distant Evergreen Art cultivator, failed to divine their identity, and resolved to treat them as a potential powerful enemy.
• Lan Chang'an found that Landscape Manor’s spiritual vein could not support his mid-stage Immortal Golden Core cultivation, while his Evergreen Mana restored the Mystic Heaven Gourd Vine’s vitality twice as quickly as before.
• Miao Jing delivered Ni Yue’s invitation to visit Profound Sound Pavilion’s new mountain gate, and Lan Chang'an’s divination about Ni Yue’s fate changed after he decided to go.
• Granny Yun asked Lan Chang'an to take Yun Ling as a concubine maidservant, and Yun Ling declared that she was willing to serve him, so Lan Chang'an accepted her as his maidservant until Core Formation.
• Lan Chang'an left Yun Ling in charge of Landscape Manor and traveled to Fangcao Oasis, where Jiang Ruotong and Dongfang Xi welcomed him and Jiang Ruotong escorted him to meet Ni Yue.

Lan Chang'an stayed at Fangcao Oasis after Fairy Ni Yue invited him to Profound Sound Pavilion’s mountain-opening celebration, but a coordinated assault exposed Dongfang Xi as a poison master and traitor. As the oasis’s defenses faltered and its cultivators were poisoned, Lan Chang'an confronted Dongfang Xi.

• Fairy Ni Yue welcomed Lan Chang'an to Fangcao Oasis, invited him to stay for two months, and arranged for Li Han to show him to a guest residence beside Dongfang Xi.
• During the following seven days, Lan Chang'an met Profound Sound Pavilion’s three True Core fairies and observed Fairy Bai’s interest in Dongfang Xi.
• A sandstorm brought an attack on the oasis, and Fang Zhen struck its grand array with a flaming mountain while Lan Chang'an sensed something was amiss about Dongfang Xi.
• Dongfang Xi poisoned Fairy Bai and revealed himself as a member of the Deadly Poison Master, while Fang Zhen’s forces attacked the oasis and Echaluo broke through the formation.
• Fairy Ni Yue fought Echaluo, but Dongfang Xi activated poison hidden in perfume and the oasis’s plants, incapacitating most of the female cultivators.
• Dongfang Xi realized Lan Chang'an was still standing, and Lan Chang'an spoke to him from behind.

Lan Chang'an captured and killed Dongfang Xi, then revealed his plan to trap Fang Zhen and the invading cultivators inside Profound Sound Pavilion’s sealed formation. After concealing his true strength, Lan Chang'an unveiled his Late Core Formation cultivation and overpowered Fang Zhen, leaving the invaders trapped and fighting to retreat.

• Lan Chang'an captured Dongfang Xi, crippled him, searched his soul for details of the conspiracy with Fang Zhen, and killed him.
• Fang Zhen led his forces into Fangcao Oasis, while Lan Chang'an persuaded Fairy Ni Yue to repair the formation and trap the invaders.
• Echaluo and three Pseudo-Core True Persons attacked Lan Chang'an, but his poison killed the three and his Treasure Ruler broke Echaluo’s leg.
• Lan Chang'an rescued Fairy Ni Yue and Jiang Ruotong, revealed his Late Core Formation cultivation, and killed three more Pseudo-Core True Persons while badly injuring Fang Xiao.
• Lan Chang'an defeated Fang Zhen’s giant magical hand and sealed the invaders’ escape; Fang Zhen then asked him to spare their lives in exchange for generous thanks.

Lan Chang'an defeated Fang Zhen, returned to Fangcao Oasis, and helped Profound Sound Pavilion recover from the attack. After Fairy Ni Yue thanked him with a dance, music, and wine, the chapter ended with the two embracing in a dreamlike haze.

• Lan Chang'an crushed Fang Zhen's companions as Fang Zhen broke through the Oasis formation and fled, abandoning Fang Xiao and Echaluo.
• Lan Chang'an caught up with Fang Zhen in the desert, defeated him, and revealed a fabricated connection to the Green Dragon Society before Fang Zhen died.
• Lan Chang'an returned to the Oasis, gave Fairy Ni Yue antidote for the unconscious cultivators, and asked her to keep his actions secret.
• An assassin attacked the wounded Echaluo in the desert, stabbing him with a poisoned Shuriken and leaving him unconscious.
• Lan Chang'an recovered and inventoried the spoils of war while the Profound Sound Pavilion cultivators awakened and restored order.
• Fairy Ni Yue visited Lan Chang'an to thank him, then played music and danced; the two shared wine and drew close in a dreamlike scene.

After defeating Fang Zhen, Lan Chang'an shared a soul-deep divine dream with Fairy Ni Yue and treated the gravely injured Jiang Ruotong. He agreed to remain at Fangcao Oasis for a time while considering how the distant Cultivation War had changed.

• Fairy Ni Yue revealed that she had used the Millennium Divine Dream ability to share a spiritual communion with Lan Chang'an, and their relationship grew closer.
• Lan Chang'an learned that Jiang Ruotong’s injuries threatened her cultivation potential and promised to treat her after recovering his mana.
• Lan Chang'an told Fairy Ni Yue that he had killed Fang Zhen, then assessed his strength and the risks of the battle.
• Two days later, Lan Chang'an treated Jiang Ruotong with medicine and Evergreen Mana, and she woke from her coma.
• Fairy Ni Yue asked Lan Chang'an to stay at Fangcao Oasis, and he agreed to remain there temporarily.

Lan Chang'an settled into Profound Sound Pavilion, where Fairy Ni Yue advanced to Late Core Formation and grew intimate with him. He left for the Liang Kingdom Cultivation World to investigate the war and learned that True Lord Lingyu had changed its course by driving back the Demonic Path invasion of Jing Kingdom.

• Senior Sister Shu returned to Profound Sound Pavilion, and Fairy Ni Yue explained that she did not regret sharing the Millennium Divine Dream with Lan Chang'an.
• Lan Chang'an brought Yun Ling to Fangcao Oasis, while Elder Duan and Granny Yun worried that Fang Zhen had disappeared; a year later, they learned Fang Zhen was dead.
• Fairy Ni Yue secretly advanced to Late Core Formation, defeated two mid-stage Core Formation cultivators, and became intimate with Lan Chang'an before he announced his plan to leave.
• Lan Chang'an departed Fangcao Oasis with the Mystic Water Turtle and Earth Rock Rat, then sent his puppet avatar to remove Zhou Qingxuan's gu worm Restriction and request war intelligence.
• Zhou Qingxuan reported that True Lord Lingyu had returned to Jing Kingdom, killed two Nascent Soul Early Stage combatants, heavily injured the Beast King Valley sect master, and helped drive back the Demonic Path forces.
• Lan Chang'an questioned why Liang Shaotian was commanding Jing Kingdom's forces instead of the Heavenly Net Sect's Nascent Soul True Lord.

Lan Chang'an gathered intelligence about the Dao Defense Alliance’s war and weighed how a possible ceasefire could free the Peacock Saintess to hunt him. As he strengthened his divination and considered future plans, his Third-Order Longevity Fruit finally matured.

• Zhou Qingxuan explained Heavenly Net Sect’s defeats, the shifting command in Jing Kingdom, and the war’s broader stalemate to Lan Chang'an.
• Lan Chang'an questioned Xing Peng, who described Beast King Valley’s divided stance on peace talks, its sealed Fourth-Order Beast King, and Golden Cloud Valley’s recent fortunes under Zhang Tieshan.
• Lan Chang'an returned to Fengyuan Kingdom and learned that information from the Yellow Sand organization could help him track the war; Fairy Ni Yue asked about the conflict and Liu Qingyan.
• Lan Chang'an increased his divination and prepared for the possibility that a ceasefire would let the Peacock Saintess pursue him again.
• After sacrificing twenty years of lifespan over two and a half years, Lan Chang'an brought his divination close to third-order high grade, and his Third-Order Longevity Fruit matured.

Lan Chang'an strengthened the Profound Sound Pavilion and developed a Nascent Soul-level trump card while advancing his divination arts. He learned that Beast King Valley and the Dao Defense Alliance had agreed to a thirty-year ceasefire, leaving him worried about the war’s consequences.

• Lan Chang'an refined Fen Die as his second Puppet Avatar and swallowed two Third-Order Longevity Pills, raising his lifespan to 1,185 years.
• Lan Chang'an gathered materials from Fairy Ni Yue and reinforced the Profound Sound Pavilion’s sect-guarding array, then continued repairing his Quasi-Fourth-Order Illusion Formation.
• Lan Chang'an assessed the power of his decades-nourished Nail-Head Arrows and concluded that, combined with his Fourth Life and Golden Core strength, they could threaten a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Fairy Qiu achieved True Core after taking the Crystal Condensation Pill Lan Chang'an had traded to the Profound Sound Pavilion.
• Lan Chang'an advanced his divination to third-rank high-grade and sensed the fate sheltering Fengyuan Kingdom before divining a bleak outcome for the Demonic Path invasion war.
• Lan Chang'an learned through the Yellow Sand Organization that Beast King Valley and the Dao Defense Alliance had agreed to a thirty-year ceasefire.

Lan Chang'an prepared for the Peacock Saintess’s arrival while she entered Fengyuan Kingdom with True Person Black Crow and Elder Shi to track him down. After Black Owl and Fen Die killed Black Crow in Gutian Immortal City, the Saintess mistook his death for Lan Chang'an’s attack and rushed toward the city, where its defenders challenged her.

• Lan Chang'an completed his fourth Third-Order Mid-Grade Puppet and divined that the Peacock Saintess was approaching Fengyuan Kingdom, while preparing to flee or fight depending on her support.
• The Peacock Saintess, True Person Black Crow, and Elder Shi crossed into Fengyuan Kingdom after the Heavenly Master warned them not to bring a Nascent Soul True Lord onto its territory.
• The group tracked Lan Chang'an through the Outer Sect Alliance, and Elder Shi burned his remaining lifespan to divine that their mission had no better than even odds of success.
• True Person Black Crow used a Soul-Bewitching Technique on two Profound Sound Pavilion musicians to extract information, then pursued a pink-clad woman through Gutian Immortal City.
• Black Owl and Fen Die ambushed and killed True Person Black Crow, then destroyed the bodies and erased the traces of their fight.
• The Peacock Saintess sensed Black Crow’s death, assumed Lan Chang'an had killed him, and flew toward Gutian Immortal City, whose array activated as its cultivators challenged her.

Lan Chang'an used his divination, the Heavenly Master's covert support, and a carefully staged confrontation to force the Peacock Saintess into a trade and let her leave Profound Sound Pavilion alive. Two months later, she encountered Liang Shaotian, two Nascent Soul True Lords, and several late Golden Core cultivators waiting to capture her, realizing Lan Chang'an had arranged the true ambush along her route home.

• The Peacock Saintess attacked Gutian Immortal City, where the Puppet-Armed City Lord and the city’s grand array wounded her and drove her away while Lan Chang'an watched through his Puppet Avatars.
• Lan Chang'an explained that the Heavenly Master’s influence had made his divinations against the Peacock Saintess unusually accurate, then predicted she would attack Fangcao Oasis ten days later.
• The Peacock Saintess entered Profound Sound Pavilion’s mountain gate and met Lan Chang'an and Fairy Ni Yue; Lan Chang'an revealed that she carried a weakened Fourth-Order Beast King.
• Lan Chang'an traded the Peacock Feather Crown for the Peacock Saintess’s Fourth-Order Spirit Wood Branch, and she left with the crown while keeping her Spirit-Controlling Ring.
• Two months later, the Peacock Saintess encountered Liang Shaotian at the border and was surrounded by Old Ancestor Tianluo, True Lord Liuyang, and several late Golden Core cultivators.

Lan Chang'an used intelligence passed through Liang Shaotian to help the Dao Defense Alliance capture the Peacock Saintess and kill her Fourth-Order Beast King. While pursuing the Five-Colored Peacock, Liang Shaotian encountered Lan Chang'an in his Yan Donglai guise, who killed the bird with a single arrow and took its body; the Alliance later celebrated its victory and kept the Saintess as a hostage.

• Lan Chang'an watched two Nascent Soul True Lords and the Dao Defense Alliance's cultivators attack the Peacock Saintess and Fourth-Order Beast King after Liang Shaotian acted on his secret intelligence.
• The Peacock Saintess used fourth-rank spirit talismans to break the encirclement, then split from the Beast King and Five-Colored Peacock to divide the pursuit.
• Lan Chang'an's Nail-Head Arrow killed the Five-Colored Peacock in one strike, and he recovered its body before revealing himself to Liang Shaotian as Senior Yan.
• Liang Shaotian assured Senior Yan that he had kept his identity and the intelligence source secret, while Lan Chang'an implied that Fengyuan Kingdom's Heavenly Master had orchestrated the scheme.
• True Lord Liuyang captured the Peacock Saintess, and the Dao Defense Alliance's forces killed the Fourth-Order Beast King before returning to the Profound Yin Sect.
• Old Ancestor Tianluo blamed the Heavenly Master for the scheme, while True Lord Liuyang kept the Peacock Saintess as a hostage and refused Tianluo's request to question her.

Lan Chang'an avenged Zhao Siyao, strengthened his ties with the Fengyuan Heavenly Master, and cultivated peacefully in Profound Sound Pavilion for fifteen years. The chapter ended when the long-dormant Mystic Heaven Gourd Vine changed: its shriveled embryonic fruit broke off and fell.

• Lan Chang'an burned the heads of True Person Black Crow and the Five-Colored Peacock at Zhao Siyao's tomb, and Zhang Tianfeng realized he had come to avenge her.
• Zhang Tianfeng inferred that Lan Chang'an had deliberately let him glimpse the truth, while Lan Chang'an traveled through Liang Kingdom and checked on old acquaintances and the Peacock Saintess's captivity.
• Lan Chang'an returned to Profound Sound Pavilion, and Fairy Ni Yue sent Fairy Qiu to thank Fengyuan Heavenly Master, who returned a rare Mountain Bamboo as a gift.
• Fairy Qiu told Lan Chang'an that the Heavenly Master had listened to her music for an entire night, and Lan Chang'an concluded that the two had established goodwill.
• Lan Chang'an cultivated in Profound Sound Pavilion for fifteen years, until the Mystic Heaven Gourd Vine stirred and its withered embryonic fruit fell off.

Lan Chang'an watched a fallen Mystic Heaven fruit release Innate Turbid Qi, which empowered the Mystic Water Turtle and the Earth Rock Rat and enriched the Five Elements Soil. As both spirit pets transformed and the Earth Rock Rat broke through, Lan Chang'an sensed that two old acquaintances in the Liang Kingdom were nearing the end of their lives.

• The Mystic Water Turtle absorbed some of the Innate Turbid Qi released by the fallen Mystic Heaven fruit, while the rest sank into the Five Elements Soil.
• Lan Chang'an restored the Mystic Heaven Gourd Vine with 120 years of lifespan and realized the enriched soil could help cultivate a Lesser Mystic Heaven Treasure.
• Master Kou alerted the Ethereal Sect that its gourd vine had begun growing again, prompting the sect's leaders and Ethereal Heavenly Monarch to inspect it and discuss the Mystic Heaven Treasure and the coming emergence of the Nine Great Disciples of Tianyi.
• Lan Chang'an gave the Earth Rock Rat a piece of the enriched Five Elements Soil, while the Mystic Water Turtle and Earth Rock Rat underwent changes from their shares of the opportunity.
• Three months later, the Earth Rock Rat advanced to the late third rank and the Mystic Water Turtle's bloodline reached Heaven Grade, as Lan Chang'an sensed that two old acquaintances in the Liang Kingdom were near death.

Lan Chang'an returned to the Liang Kingdom with Fairy Ni Yue to visit old acquaintances, investigate the Mystic Heaven Gourd Vine, and gather materials for a puppet. At Jade Moon Lake, he appeared before the dying Mu Bingyun, fulfilled her final wish, and left Li Congren bowing in solemn respect.

• Lan Chang'an confirmed that the Mystic Water Turtle had stabilized after its bloodline transformation and arranged for Yun Ling to visit her family before he traveled to the Dao Defense Alliance with Fairy Ni Yue.
• Lan Chang'an and Fairy Ni Yue crossed into the Liang Kingdom, where he passed Wuqi Mountain and observed Qi Feng and the Qi clan before heading toward Jade Moon Lake.
• Li Congren arrived at Jade Moon Lake to visit the dying Mu Bingyun, while the declining Mu Family hoped to secure the Xuemei Mountain Li Clan's protection.
• Lan Chang'an appeared invisibly beside Mu Bingyun, held her hand as she called him Uncle Lu, and stayed with her as she died after fulfilling her final wish.
• Lan Chang'an departed Mu Bingyun's bedside and declared that the Mu Family's fortune had ended, while Li Congren bowed deeply toward him.

Lan Chang'an secretly returned to Liang Kingdom, met Li Congren and learned about the state of the Mu Family and the Peacock Saintess, then traveled with Fairy Ni Yue to Wuye Town to reunite with Shi Manrong. The chapter ended with Jiang Yechen challenging Lan Chang'an to withstand him for one hundred breaths before he would allow Lan Chang'an to meet Shi Manrong privately.

• Mu Bingyun died, and Li Congren refused Mu Changxiu's urgent request to help him meet Lan Chang'an.
• Lan Chang'an met Li Congren in Mu Bingyun's former residence, heard news about Liang Kingdom and the Peacock Saintess, and asked him to look after the Mu Family and deliver a pearl to Qi Feng's descendant.
• Lan Chang'an and Fairy Ni Yue left Jade Moon Lake and traveled to Wuye Town, where Shi Manrong recognized Lan Chang'an and invited him to her cave abode.
• Lan Chang'an reunited with Shi Manrong and learned that Shi Xiaochuan was her adopted son and Jiang Yechen's disciple.
• Jiang Yechen challenged Lan Chang'an to fight for one hundred breaths, promising not to prevent a private meeting with Shi Manrong if Lan Chang'an held out.

Lan Chang'an accepted Jiang Yechen’s challenge in Wuye Town and used the Earth Rock Rat to overwhelm him, then ended their spar with a draw to preserve Jiang’s dignity. He reunited privately with Fairy Shi, gave her a longevity pill, and heard her account of the Ancient Ruins, leaving him with more information for their exploration.

• Lan Chang'an accepted Jiang Yechen’s challenge and entered the reinforced Dueling Platform with him while Fairy Shi sealed the array against outside observers.
• Lan Chang'an sent out the Earth Rock Rat, which broke through Jiang Yechen’s attacks, trapped the Flame-Treading Colt, and kept Jiang from reaching Lan Chang'an.
• Lan Chang'an recalled the Earth Rock Rat after one hundred breaths and called the unfinished bout a draw; Jiang Yechen acknowledged his defeat and swore to keep the battle secret.
• Jiang Yechen and Fairy Shi spoke with the Green-Skirted Woman, while Fairy Shi later reunited privately with Lan Chang'an and learned that Ye Fei had died decades earlier.
• Lan Chang'an gave Fairy Shi an Inferior Third-Order Longevity Pill, and she accepted it before explaining how the Liang Kingdom sects had explored the Ancient Ruins.

Lan Chang'an investigated the Listen-to-the-Sea Pavilion ruins, then spent nearly a year gathering materials across Liang Kingdom and Feng Kingdom. After returning to Wuye Town, he prepared to fulfill the promise he had made to Shen Bixin, whose descendant was waiting for him.

• Fairy Shi gave Lan Chang'an records about the Listen-to-the-Sea Pavilion and a map of the Ancient Ruins, leading him to suspect that a distant spatial passage had once connected the Great Abyss and Great Qing.
• Lan Chang'an asked Jiang Yechen to contact Shen Bixin's descendant, promising to fulfill his old agreement in Wuye Town a year later.
• Lan Chang'an revisited the Ancient Ruins, found the Miniature Secret Realm Space had collapsed, and left after confirming he had left no obvious traces.
• Lan Chang'an spent nearly a year buying and trading for materials for a high-grade Third-Order puppet, then attended an auction in Snow-Moon City and saw Xia Wenyue, who had advanced to early Golden Core Realm.
• Lan Chang'an learned that Xia Wenyue's master had become Proud Moon Palace's Nascent Soul palace lord, then returned to Wuye Town, where Shen Bixin's descendant had been waiting for many days.

Lan Chang'an delivered Song Xi the promised Golden Core opportunity, then spent twelve years developing his resources and planning to improve his puppets and cultivate fourth-tier Treasure Talismans. When the Demonic Path War resumed, Fengyuan Heavenly Master suspected Lan Chang'an was tied to the Ten Profound Sects and decided to seek a meeting with him.

• Lan Chang'an gave Song Xi a flawed Crystal Condensation Pill and a Golden Core spiritual item, fulfilling the promise made to Song Xi's mother, while Song Xi arranged for Shen Lian'er to serve Jiang Yechen.
• Lan Chang'an returned to Profound Sound Pavilion with Fairy Ni Yue, took a Third-Order Longevity Pill, and spent the following years preparing materials for puppet-crafting and body refinement.
• Twelve years later, Lan Chang'an failed to create a third-rank high-grade puppet, so he planned to upgrade his existing Puppet Avatars instead; two Treasure Talismans had reached fourth-rank quality.
• Lan Chang'an told Fairy Ni Yue, falsely, that he was a reincarnated cultivator planted by the Ten Profound Sects, while he privately hoped the Demonic Path War would create an opening to seek a Nascent Soul opportunity.
• Two years later, the demonic invasion war broke out and a Nascent Soul battle began; Fengyuan Heavenly Master suspected Lan Chang'an was a hidden piece of the Ten Profound Sects and planned to contact him.