Chapter Summaries

Li Xiuchang studied the Xuanwu’s shell patterns and the Water Dao, earning the Xuanwu Blood Essence after receiving a pattern through the Xuanwu’s attention across time. After the group comprehended the Four Symbols Space, they reached the area of unique additional rewards, where Li Xiuchang chose to pursue the Dragon Blood Tree Seed first.

• Li Xiuchang split his attention between comprehending the Water Dao and studying the Xuanwu’s shell patterns, then received a difficult pattern after the Xuanwu noticed him across time.
• Li Xiuchang won the Xuanwu Blood Essence, completing the four Sacred Beast blood essences in his Blood Pill, while his teammates also received rewards.
• The Golden Falcon and Jing Jing swallowed their Blood Pills and strengthened their bloodlines, while Li Xiuchang discussed the Xuanwu’s special treatment with Steady Steady and Goldenhorn.
• Li Xiuchang and his teammates entered the Four Symbols Space, where he comprehended his accumulated insights and greatly improved his Wood Dao.
• The group reached the statues holding the unique additional rewards, and Li Xiuchang chose to attempt the trial for the Dragon Blood Tree Seed.

Li Xiuchang completed the Azure Dragon and White Tiger extra trials, earning a Dragon Blood Tree Seed and an Immortal-grade metal he named White Tiger Black Gold. He then devised a way to enter the Vermilion Bird’s fire and seize its Fire Seed, but the attempt had not yet begun.

• Li Xiuchang planted and nurtured the Dragon Blood Tree in the illusion, then received a true Immortal Plant seed from the Azure Dragon Statue.
• Li Xiuchang refined the unfamiliar Sixth Tier liquid metal into a defensive cloak in the illusion and received an Immortal-grade material from the White Tiger Statue, naming it White Tiger Black Gold.
• Li Xiuchang tested his belongings against the Vermilion Bird’s flames and discovered that Hundred Refinements Immortal Iron could withstand them briefly.
• Li Xiuchang added points to the Hundred Refinements Immortal Iron and forged it into a temporary iron barrel to protect himself inside the flames.
• Li Xiuchang used the Equalizer Dao to imitate the Fire Dao, briefly weakening the Vermilion Bird Fire enough for him to withstand it.

Li Xiuchang claimed the Fire Seed and Xuanwu Turtle Shell Imprint, completing all four rewards from the Sacred Beast Secret Realm before returning to the Immortal Shade Realm. On the journey back, his Equalizer Dao advanced through his clone’s study of the Confucian Path, allowing him to break through to the middle stage of Dao Integration.

• Li Xiuchang retrieved a Fire Seed from the Vermilion Bird Fire using an iron barrel and the Equalizer Dao.
• Li Xiuchang realized the Xuanwu tortoiseshell was a puzzle made of fragments, then used his Length Cheat to break it open and retrieve the Xuanwu Turtle Shell Imprint.
• Li Xiuchang and his four companions left the secret realm, and Chen Changsheng’s clone escorted Yuan Bao away from the maze to keep the secret realm’s location hidden.
• Silver Falcon King gave Li Xiuchang a silver feather as a token of friendship, and Li Xiuchang parted ways with the Demon Beasts after returning to the Immortal Shade Realm.
• Li Xiuchang merged his clone’s Confucian Path insights into the Equalizer Dao and broke through to the middle stage of Dao Integration.
• Li Xiuchang planned to have Yang Hao study a Wordless Stele and considered how to comprehend the Confucian Path in all twelve steles.

Li Xiuchang returned to the Immortal Dust Sect with a report of powerful human cultivators hiding in the deep sea and several treasures from his journey. He shared his gains with his senior brothers and sisters, who began studying the Black Tortoise shell rubbing for its potential to advance Gui Wuyan’s Divination Arts.

• Li Xiuchang named Pelican Big Mouth and learned that Big Mouth had twice encountered groups of powerful human cultivators hiding on remote islands in the deep sea.
• Li Xiuchang returned to the Immortal Dust Sect, learned that Chu Ya and Ye Yuqiu were engaged, and gathered with his senior brothers and sisters in Eastern Geng District Number Thirteen.
• Li Xiuchang gave Zhang Wanzhi a large piece of White Tiger Black Gold and entrusted Xia Siyun with the Vermilion Bird Fire Seed to study and cultivate.
• Li Xiuchang gave Mo Tu an enhanced Dragon Blood Tree Seed, and Mo Tu vowed to find a way to plant it despite its difficulty.
• Li Xiuchang revealed a rubbing of the Black Tortoise’s shell armor, and Gui Wuyan realized its patterns might help him advance his Divination Arts, so Li Xiuchang left it with him to study.

Li Xiuchang shared his discoveries from the Sacred Beast Secret Realm, prompting his senior brothers and sisters to investigate cultivators connected to the Shadow World. After returning, he explored his growing Length Value and the Four Symbols Pill, whose effects revealed that his bloodline could withstand consuming enormous amounts of sacred-beast essence.

• Li Xiuchang failed to share the pattern Xuanwu had given him, then told his senior brothers and sisters that Big Mouth had seen human cultivators gathering at sea.
• Big Mouth accidentally swallowed the group, then described the cultivators it had encountered; Gui Wuyan divined that they were connected to the Shadow World and had already left their hiding place.
• Chen Changsheng borrowed Big Mouth and set out to investigate the two islands, while the other senior brothers and sisters stayed to study their new treasures.
• Li Xiuchang reviewed his improved arts, counted 12,248 inches of Length Value, and considered how he might use it to strengthen his second Dantian space.
• Li Xiuchang ate the Four Symbols Pill and found that it greatly improved his comprehension of metal, wood, water, and fire; after eating dozens of pounds without ill effects, he concluded that his bloodline was exceptionally powerful.

After consuming Four Symbols Pills, Li Xiuchang awakened an extraordinary ability to comprehend the Great Dao and prepared to take Yang Hao to the Demon Suppressing Realm. There, Yang Hao’s affinity with the Confucian Path—and possibly his connection to the Confucian Sage—became increasingly clear when a Wordless Stele responded to him.

• Li Xiuchang ate Four Symbols Pills until his affinity with the Metal, Wood, Water, and Fire Daos reached its limit, awakening the Acquired Dao Comprehension Sacred Body.
• Li Xiuchang fed Golden Horn a large supply of Blood Pills, then visited Chu Ya and checked Yang Hao’s progress at Danxiang Tower.
• Yang Hao showed Li Xiuchang a Gentleman Sword technique whose upright, unrestrained intent seemed connected to the Confucian Path, so Li Xiuchang decided to take him to the Demon Suppressing Realm.
• Li Xiuchang traveled with Yang Hao through Chen Changsheng’s repaired Teleportation Array, and Yang Hao said the Demon Suppressing Realm felt like home.
• At the Twelve Steles, Yang Hao looked at a Wordless Stele and stirred the sealed Confucian Path origin within it, then demonstrated a sword technique resembling the Gentleman Sword.
• Li Xiuchang concluded that Yang Hao had an extraordinary affinity with the Confucian Path and suspected he might be the reincarnation of the Confucian Sage.

Li Xiuchang left Yang Hao to study the Confucian Path, while Yang Hao rapidly advanced and mastered the origin in a Wordless Stele. After upgrading the Rainbow Soul Banner, Li Xiuchang learned what White Tiger Black Gold did and considered using it on the Equalizing Spear.

• Li Xiuchang left Yang Hao in the Demon Suppressing Realm with Longevity Pills and his Second Nascent Soul Clone to protect him as he studied the Confucian Path.
• Chen Changsheng returned from searching two abandoned islands and sent Big Mouth to look for the cautious group that had once lived there.
• Li Xiuchang comprehended the Metal Dao to the Dao Integration level, advanced his artifact-refining skill to the Eighth Tier, and upgraded the Rainbow Soul Banner into a quasi-immortal artifact.
• Yang Hao comprehended the Confucian Path in a Wordless Stele, reached the Sixth Tier of Body Cultivation, and gained control over a small fragment of its origin; Li Xiuchang had him continue studying while strengthening the Equalizer Dao.
• Zhang Wanzhi explained that White Tiger Black Gold could raise a metal material by one tier, and Li Xiuchang considered adding some while upgrading the Equalizing Spear.

Li Xiuchang reforged the Equalizing Spear with White Tiger Black Gold, greatly increasing its power, and broke through to the Late Dao Integration Stage after comprehending a Wordless Stele. He expanded his second Dantian space and began preparing to merge the Confucian Path origin into his Equalizer Dao.

• Li Xiuchang confirmed that White Tiger Black Gold could be infused into finished spirit treasures, and Xia Siyun showed him how to cultivate the Fire Seed with powerful flames.
• Li Xiuchang demonstrated minor mastery of the Fire Dao, learned Xia Siyun's fire-controlling spell formula, and planned to feed the Fire Seed his Immortal Burning Grass Flame.
• Li Xiuchang gave pieces of White Tiger Black Gold to his senior brothers and sisters and learned that Mo Tu had been stumped by the Dragon Blood Tree Seed.
• Li Xiuchang reforged the Equalizing Spear with White Tiger Black Gold, bringing it to the limit of a High-grade Spirit Treasure and greatly increasing its power.
• Li Xiuchang broke through to the Late Dao Integration Stage after his Second Nascent Soul Clone comprehended a Wordless Stele, then expanded the second Dantian space to prepare it for the Confucian Path origin.
• Li Xiuchang sent his Second Nascent Soul Clone into the enlarged second Dantian space and began merging the Confucian Path origin into the Equalizer Dao.

Li Xiuchang helped Yang Hao merge the Confucian Path’s origin into the Equalizer Dao, making Yang Hao its first cultivator after Li Xiuchang. After deciding to pause further mergers until the Equalizer Dao grew stronger, Li Xiuchang returned Yang Hao to Danxiang Tower and prepared to advance his own cultivation and strengthen the Fire Seed.

• Li Xiuchang merged a fragment of the Confucian Path’s origin into the Equalizer Dao, nearly doubling its origin and preparing it to absorb Yang Hao’s fragment.
• Yang Hao followed his instincts to break apart the Confucian Path’s origin, while Li Xiuchang stabilized the fusion and comprehended its unfamiliar insights until the Equalizer Dao absorbed it all.
• Li Xiuchang told Yang Hao that he had become the second Equalizer Dao cultivator, and Yang Hao broke through successfully.
• Li Xiuchang decided to pause further Confucian Path mergers and told Yang Hao to stop comprehending the Confucian Path until he was ready to face the heavenly tribulation.
• Li Xiuchang returned Yang Hao to Danxiang Tower, left Su Qingchun at the steles, and sent his Second Nascent Soul Clone back to comprehend the remaining Equalizer Dao insights.
• Li Xiuchang prepared his main body to upgrade the Fire Seed with Immortal Burning Grass flames.

Li Xiuchang strengthened the Fire Seed by feeding it Immortal Burning Grass Flame and discovered that its own flame could fuel its growth, though it soon became difficult to control. Meanwhile, a planned wave of powerful ascenders invaded the Immortal Dust Sect, where the elders slaughtered the attackers but kept the protective array raised against further threats.

• Li Xiuchang fed the Fire Seed Immortal Burning Grass Flame, added length to it, and ignited a severed portion to test its power.
• Li Xiuchang repeatedly added length to the Fire Seed and fed its own flame back into it until the flame surpassed the Immortal Burning Grass Flame and nearly overwhelmed him.
• Li Xiuchang made several flame bullets and learned from Wang Long that powerful ascenders were appearing throughout the Immortal Shade Realm.
• Li Xiuchang told his senior brothers and sisters about the ascenders, and Chen Changsheng confirmed that his clone had encountered them.
• Wang Long reported that the ascenders had entered the Northern Region and attacked the Immortal Dust Sect, whose protective array and defenders kept them outside.
• The Immortal Dust Sect's elders killed the invading ascenders, while the sect kept its protective array raised in case more attackers arrived.

After Ancestor Tianxiang admitted that her Love Slaves had attacked the Immortal Dust Sect to rescue her, Li Xiuchang and the others decided to send her to the Pure Land Realm. Before they could leave, the Immortal Shade abruptly expanded and Chen Changsheng learned that the pelican had been captured by mysterious cultivators beneath the sea, leaving the group facing several urgent crises at once.

• Li Xiuchang suspected Ancestor Tianxiang had directed the ascenders to attack, and Chen Changsheng summoned her for questioning.
• Ancestor Tianxiang admitted the attackers were her Love Slaves, while Mo Tu explained how the love threads worked and Chen Changsheng refused to kill her because Chu Ya was trying to sever them.
• The group ruled out sending Tianxiang to the Dark Heaven Realm or the Demon Suppressing Realm and agreed to take her to the Pure Land Realm.
• The Immortal Shade suddenly expanded and swallowed Nine Peaks Temple, prompting Li Xiuchang and the others to question whether Tianxiang was involved; she denied causing it.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that the pelican had vanished after entering a naturally formed seabed array, and that his clone had been forced to disperse after mysterious cultivators attacked it.
• The group decided they would need to rescue the pelican and confront the hidden cultivators while also handling Tianxiang and investigating the Immortal Shade's expansion.

Li Xiuchang divined that Yang Hao faced an impending danger, protected him with a spiritual treasure, and then joined Mo Tu in escorting Tianxiang toward the Pure Land Realm. Their journey ended abruptly when a large force surrounded them in the Dark Heaven Realm.

• Chen Changsheng assigned Mo Tu and Li Xiuchang to escort Tianxiang, sent Zhang Wanzhi and the Lu Yang couple to sea, and planned to observe the Immortal Shade himself.
• Li Xiuchang's divination revealed danger for Yang Hao and the people near the outskirts of the Immortal Dust Sect, so he gave Yang Hao the Equalizing Spear for protection.
• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu transported Tianxiang through the Dark Heaven Realm toward the Pure Land Realm.
• Mo Tu sensed an ambush and stored Tianxiang in his Beast Taming Bag as countless figures surrounded them.
• Mo Tu planted his soul banner and unleashed resentful spirits while Li Xiuchang prepared to fight the weaker enemies.

Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu fought through Tianxiang’s Love Slaves in the Dark Heaven Realm while trying to reach the Teleportation Array to the Pure Land Realm. Chen Changsheng’s clone helped them escape, but after they teleported away, they would be unable to return until he rebuilt the array.

• Mo Tu put Tianxiang into his Beast Taming Bag, and he and Li Xiuchang fought to break through the Love Slaves’ ambush and trapping formation.
• Li Xiuchang broke the formation while defeating Dao Integration, Tribulation Crossing, and Mahayana attackers, and Senior Brother Mo intercepted the immortal experts.
• Li Xiuchang used his Manifest Dharma Form to shatter the formation, and he and Mo Tu charged toward the Teleportation Array as the Love Slaves pressed their attack.
• Chen Changsheng’s clone trapped the Love Slaves in a stronger formation and told Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu to teleport to the Pure Land Realm before he destroyed the array.
• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu agreed to remain in the Pure Land Realm until Chen Changsheng rebuilt the Teleportation Array, leaving Mo Tu unable to return in time to support their other Senior Brothers.

Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu brought Tianxiang to the Pure Land Realm, where Hui Ren imprisoned her, but a powerful diviner helped her Love Slaves find the isolated realm and take civilians hostage. Meanwhile, Zhang Wanzhi and his companions followed clues from a hidden seabed refuge to a trail of mortal graves, and the chapter left the Pure Land Realm facing a hostage crisis with Mo Tu refusing to surrender Tianxiang.

• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu arrived in the Pure Land Realm after Chen Changsheng destroyed the Teleportation Array, and Hui Ren imprisoned Tianxiang in a golden alms bowl.
• Zhang Wanzhi, Lu Yang, Xia Siyun, and Chen Changsheng's clone searched a hidden refuge beneath the seabed, found clues left by its occupants, and tracked a strand of hair to a mortal's grave.
• Zhang Wanzhi used the dead man's bones to follow a bloodline connection, leading the group to more graves as they pursued the mysterious people's relatives.
• Dozens of powerful ascenders entered the Pure Land Realm, and Li Xiuchang realized they were likely Tianxiang's Love Slaves, guided by a powerful diviner.
• The Love Slaves seized civilians as hostages, and Mo Tu and the Pure Land Realm's monks fought to rescue them while Mo Tu killed many attackers.
• After the Love Slaves took tens of millions of mortals hostage and demanded Tianxiang, Hui Ren considered yielding, but Mo Tu refused to release her.

Mo Tu and Li Xiuchang held firm against the Love Slaves’ hostage demands while waiting for a way to end the standoff. Meanwhile, Chen Changsheng investigated the Immortal Shade and discovered a spatial rift pouring out a devastating beast tide, then approached it to see whether it led to the Shadow World.

• Mo Tu advised Hui Ren to refuse the Love Slaves’ demand and avoid provoking them, making clear that killing hostages would lead to Tianxiang’s death and the Love Slaves’ deaths.
• Li Xiuchang said Chen Changsheng had contacted Ye Yuqiu to urge Chu Ya to sever the love threads, while both sides settled into a ceasefire.
• Chen Changsheng changed the Teleportation Array’s destination and sent a clone into the Immortal Shade to investigate its rapid expansion.
• Chen Changsheng’s clone encountered a vast beast tide, concealed himself, and traced it toward the Immortal Shade’s core.
• Chen Changsheng found formations nourishing a huge spatial rift from which demonic beasts poured into the Immortal Shade.
• Chen Changsheng cautiously moved toward the rift, wondering whether it led to the Shadow World and could help him rescue Wang Jingxing.

Chen Changsheng destroyed the formation feeding a spatial rift, stopping the beast tide’s passage into Immortal Shade, but lost his chance to enter the Shadow World. As the crisis spread, Mo Tu decided to kill Tianxiang, yet Li Xiuchang, Hui Ren, and Mo Tu all found themselves unable to strike her.

• Chen Changsheng found that his clone could not cross the rift into the Shadow World, then chose to destroy the formation sustaining it rather than risk entering or let the beast tide continue.
• Tianxiang’s Love Slave, a muscular monk, delayed Chen Changsheng, but Chen Changsheng killed him and destroyed the formation’s final eye.
• The spatial rift rapidly contracted and healed, while Chen Changsheng’s true body saw Immortal Shade’s expansion slow and told Ye Yuqiu that Tianxiang had caused the crisis.
• Mo Tu ordered Tianxiang’s immediate execution, but Li Xiuchang could not bring himself to attack her, and Hui Ren’s Buddhist staff stopped just short of her head.
• Mo Tu admitted that he could not kill Tianxiang either and asked Hui Ren whether the Pure Land Temple had any nuns.

Li Xiuchang and his allies struggled to find someone capable of killing Tianxiang, so Chen Changsheng completed a Teleportation Array in the Immortal Dust Sect. Tianxiang’s Love Slaves immediately attacked the sect to rescue her, leaving Li Xiuchang torn over whether to destroy the array and risk his fellow disciples’ lives.

• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu tried several ways to kill Tianxiang, but her Charm Techniques defeated every attempt, so they waited for Chen Changsheng to build a Teleportation Array.
• Chen Changsheng agreed to build an array in the Eastern Geng District first, and Li Xiuchang considered candidates to kill Tianxiang, including the Old Eunuchs of the Zhan Yue Immortal Dynasty.
• Three of Chen Changsheng’s clones rapidly built the array while Chu Ya neared the final stage of severing his Love Silks.
• The array was completed, but the Immortal Dust Sect’s warning smoke signaled an invasion, and Li Xiuchang learned that Tianxiang’s Love Slaves were attacking to rescue her.
• With the sect’s defenses stretched thin and the Love Slaves’ assault intensifying, Li Xiuchang considered destroying the array but hesitated when Chen Changsheng asked whether he was willing to let the sect and its disciples suffer for Tianxiang.

Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu set out to confront the attackers while the Immortal Dust Sect’s outer formation fell. Yang Hao used Li Xiuchang’s Equalizing Spear to kill demons attacking the Market, prompting Li Xiuchang to choose him as Tianxiang’s assassin.

• Mo Tu decided Tianxiang had to be killed, and Li Xiuchang learned that demons sealed by Mo Tu had joined the Love Slaves’ attack.
• Mo Tu gave Li Xiuchang a Beast Taming Bag containing Tianxiang, and they flew toward the sect’s outskirts.
• The Immortal Dust Sect’s outer great array shattered, and invaders poured into the outer region as merchants retreated.
• Yang Hao shot down an Old Devil of the Blood Demonic Path with the Equalizing Spear, then slipped away to attack another demon.
• Li Xiuchang saw Yang Hao’s success and decided to have him try to kill Tianxiang.

Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu confronted the demons who had broken free of their seals while Yang Hao secretly killed several others. Mo Tu revealed himself as the Last Demonic Lord and destroyed four demons, while Li Xiuchang brought Yang Hao to an abandoned house and released Tianxiang.

• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu emerged from Immortal Dust Sect’s formation and found crowds gathered outside as demons threatened them.
• Li Xiuchang gave Mo Tu Immortal Concealment Talismans, then went to find Yang Hao while Mo Tu confronted the demons.
• Yang Hao secretly killed four or five demons as Li Xiuchang flew toward him.
• Mo Tu revealed his identity to the four demons and crushed Soul Devouring Demon King before destroying the other three when they triggered the Ascension Rule.
• Li Xiuchang found Yang Hao, took him into an abandoned house, and released Tianxiang.

Chu Ya severed his love silk with Tianxiang and began breaking through, while Li Xiuchang and Yang Hao killed Tianxiang with Mo Tu’s help. Her death ended the Love Slaves’ attack on the Immortal Dust Sect, and Gui Wuyan noticed the diviner’s exceptional skill.

• Song Yu informed Chu Ya that the Immortal Dust Sect’s defenses had fallen and its Grand Elders were in danger, causing Chu Ya to sever his love silk with Tianxiang and begin advancing toward the Spirit Transformation Stage.
• Li Xiuchang ordered Yang Hao to kill the weakened Tianxiang, but the silver-haired diviner arrived, extinguished the Immortal Flame, and tried to carry her away.
• Mo Tu returned and struck down Tianxiang and the diviner, then gave Li Xiuchang a freezing sphere for Yang Hao to fire at Tianxiang.
• Yang Hao’s shot froze Tianxiang, whose body shattered into dust, and the Love Slaves attacking the Immortal Dust Sect stopped fighting and dispersed.
• The silver-haired diviner regained his senses, apologized, and left, while Gui Wuyan calculated the events and admired the diviner’s skill.