Chapter Summaries

Fairy Yaoji fought and killed the Three-Headed Flood Dragon, but its desperate attack left her gravely injured and nearly out of Immortal Power. As she fled to find a safe place to recover, she lost the strength to fly and fell from the sky.

• Yaoji attacked the rampaging Three-Headed Flood Dragon with her immortal sword and drove it to flee.
• The Three-Headed Flood Dragon used a forbidden secret art to raise its strength to the Early Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal level and wounded Yaoji with its tail.
• Yaoji poured her power into the Phoenix Hairpin and killed the Three-Headed Flood Dragon.
• Yaoji fled while suppressing the demonic power damaging her meridians, but her injuries worsened and she fell from the sky.

After being gravely wounded and losing consciousness, Yao Ji woke in the home of Yang Tianyou, the mortal who had rescued her. Unable to return to the Heavenly Court or safely travel while injured, she agreed to recover at his home in secret.

• Yao Ji woke in an unfamiliar hut and discovered that her body was badly injured and still afflicted by demonic power.
• Yang Tianyou explained that he had found her unconscious and bloodied by the roadside and brought her home.
• Yao Ji thanked Yang Tianyou, accepted his medicinal soup, and learned that he would let her rest until she recovered.
• Yao Ji decided not to seek help from her elder brother because she feared his reaction to her secret trip to the mortal world.
• After Yang Tianyou assured her he slept in another room, Yao Ji agreed to stay and promised to repay him.

Yao Ji recovered from her injuries while Yang Tianyou cared for her, and the two fell in love despite the Heavenly Rules. Yao Ji chose to stay with him and marry him, while Zhunti and Jieyin watched their plan succeed from Mount Sumeru.

• Yang Tianyou cared for Yao Ji as she slowly recovered, and they grew close through their daily conversations.
• Yao Ji realized she could not bear to leave Yang Tianyou, even though she knew her feelings violated the Heavenly Rules.
• When Yao Ji told Yang Tianyou her injuries had healed, she assured him she would stay and asked him to marry her.
• Yao Ji and Yang Tianyou held a simple wedding in their thatched hut, with no guests or grand ceremony.
• Zhunti and Jieyin watched the wedding from Mount Sumeru and agreed to wait for the consequences of their plan.

Venerable Lord Yuanshi discovered that Yao Ji had secretly married a mortal and borne three children, and waited for Haotian to find out so he could use the breach of Heavenly Rules against him. Haotian and Yaochi found Yao Ji through the Haotian Mirror, leaving Haotian furious and Yaochi stunned.

• Venerable Lord Yuanshi saw Yao Ji living with a mortal and their three children, then decided to wait for Haotian to discover her violation of Heavenly Rules.
• Haotian asked Yaochi where Yao Ji had gone and worried that she had secretly descended to the mortal world.
• Haotian searched the Heavenly Court with his Divine Thought and discovered that Yao Ji had gone down to the mortal world.
• Haotian used the Haotian Mirror to locate Yao Ji and saw her with a mortal man and three children.
• Haotian erupted with pressure in anger, while Yaochi stared at the scene in disbelief.

Haotian and Yaochi tried to secretly bring Yao Ji and her mortal family to the Heavenly Court, but Venerable Lord Yuanshi exposed the plan and forced Haotian to promise to punish his sister. Haotian was left furious, convinced Yuanshi had engineered the situation.

• Yaochi stopped Haotian from going to the mortal realm himself and urged him to send someone discreetly.
• Haotian summoned Taibai Jinxing, showed him Yao Ji with her husband and three children, and ordered him to bring the family back in secret.
• After Taibai Jinxing left, Venerable Lord Yuanshi sent Immortal Official Nanji to confront Haotian over Yao Ji's violation of the Heavenly Rules.
• Yuanshi's edict accused Haotian of shielding Yao Ji and threatened his authority, so Haotian vowed to have her arrested and punished.
• After Nanji departed, Haotian erupted in anger and accused Yuanshi of having a hand in Yao Ji's situation.

Haotian ordered Yang Tianyou and Yao Ji’s three children executed, Yao Ji arrested, and the affair announced across the Three Realms to hold the Human Race accountable. Taibai Jinxing realized the decree was meant to force the Human Race to respond and waited for reinforcements instead of continuing ahead.

• Haotian rejected Yaochi’s plea and decreed that Yang Tianyou and the three children be executed while Yao Ji was taken back to the Heavenly Court for judgment.
• Haotian announced the affair to the Three Realms and blamed the Human Race, intending to force it to intervene.
• Yaochi recognized Haotian’s plan and agreed to carry it out despite the loss of their remaining dignity.
• Taibai Jinxing received Haotian’s decree ordering him to execute Yang Tianyou and the children and arrest Yao Ji.
• Taibai Jinxing inferred the purpose behind the decree and stopped in the clouds to wait for the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.

Wu and the Human Race leaders decided Yang Tianyou had to die publicly as the scapegoat, while secretly preserving his soul and taking in his three children. Meanwhile, Yuanshi planned to enforce the Heavenly Rules against Yao Ji, and Jieyin and Zhunti watched as tensions between Haotian and Yuanshi intensified.

• Wu asked the Human Race leaders how to handle Yang Tianyou and Yao Ji, and Fuxi reported that his deductions showed no clear evidence of a scheme.
• Fuxi and Sui Ren Shi argued that Yang Tianyou had to bear the blame to preserve Yao Ji and the Human Race's dignity.
• Wu ordered Yang Tianyou's soul secretly preserved and sent into Reincarnation, and the three children brought to Huoyun Cave for the Human Race to raise.
• Fuxi left Huoyun Cave to carry out Wu's orders.
• Yuanshi realized Haotian's public announcement had disrupted his plan to recruit one of the children, and vowed that Yao Ji would face strict punishment.
• Jieyin and Zhunti concluded their plan to set the Human Race against the Heavenly Court had failed, but Haotian and Yuanshi's conflict had become irreconcilable.

Taibai Jinxing arrived to take Yao Ji back to the Heavenly Court and revealed that the Jade Emperor had ordered Yang Tianyou and their children executed. Yao Ji fought to protect her family, while Yang Tianyou stood against a Heavenly General to buy his wife and children time to escape.

• Taibai Jinxing entered Yang Tianyou's courtyard and ordered Yao Ji to return to the Heavenly Court after revealing her identity as the Jade Emperor's younger sister.
• Yao Ji agreed to go with Taibai Jinxing but pleaded for Yang Tianyou and their three children to be spared.
• Taibai Jinxing read the Jade Emperor's edict ordering Yang Tianyou and the children executed, driving Yao Ji to threaten the Heavenly delegation.
• Yao Ji attacked Taibai Jinxing as a Heavenly General advanced on Yang Tianyou and the children, and she urged Tianyou to flee with them.
• Yang Tianyou sent Yang Jiao to take Yang Jian and Yang Chan east, then charged at the Heavenly General with a firewood ax.

Taibai Jinxing used Haotian’s Imperial Edict to imprison Princess Yao Ji and killed Yang Tianyou, then led the Heavenly troops after their three children. Fuxi secretly preserved Yang Tianyou’s soul and followed the pursuit, intending to save the children.

• Princess Yao Ji tried to save Yang Tianyou as a Heavenly General attacked him, but the General held back because he feared her revenge.
• Taibai Jinxing struck Yang Tianyou with Immortal Light, then used the Imperial Edict’s Quasi-Saint power to seal Princess Yao Ji and prevent her from intervening.
• Yang Tianyou died after telling Princess Yao Ji he had no regrets about marrying her.
• Taibai Jinxing ordered the Heavenly General to receive one hundred strikes of the Heavenly Lightning Whip, then led the other troops to pursue the couple’s three children.
• Fuxi revealed that he had preserved Yang Tianyou’s soul and followed Taibai Jinxing to save the children.

Fuxi arrived as Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan faced execution by the Heavenly Court, and declared that he would take the children to Huoyun Cave. He defied the Jade Emperor’s decree, leaving Taibai Jinxing to withdraw with the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.

• Yang Jiao tried to hold off the Heavenly General so Yang Jian and Yang Chan could escape.
• Fuxi stopped the Heavenly General from striking Yang Jiao and announced that he had come to take the children to Huoyun Cave.
• Taibai Jinxing argued that the Jade Emperor had ordered the children executed for violating the Heavenly Rules.
• Fuxi challenged the Heavenly Court’s authority over the Human Race and accused it of killing Yang Tianyou without investigating the circumstances.
• Fuxi unleashed his overwhelming aura and declared himself an enemy of the Heavenly Court if necessary.
• Taibai Jinxing said he could not stop Fuxi and ordered the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to leave.

After Fuxi told Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan that their father was dead and he could not rescue their mother, he brought them to Huoyun Cave to begin their cultivation. The three siblings each gained a powerful Human Race master, with Ancestor Wu personally accepting Yang Jian as his disciple.

• Fuxi told the three siblings that Yang Tianyou was dead and that their mother could not be rescued by him, but they could grow strong enough to bring her back themselves.
• Fuxi buried Yang Tianyou, and the siblings vowed to care for one another, avenge their father, and rescue their mother.
• Fuxi brought Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan to Huoyun Cave, where the Human Race's ancestors welcomed them.
• Zi Yi Shi accepted Yang Chan as her disciple, and Shennong accepted Yang Jiao to teach him the Dao of protection.
• Ancestor Wu accepted Yang Jian as his disciple, explaining that his hatred and resolve required the guidance of the purest and most extreme power.

Yuanshi sent Guang Chengzi and Immortal Official Nanji to pressure Haotian into imposing a severe punishment on Yao Ji. Haotian reluctantly let them attend the trial, and ordered Yao Ji brought into the Lingxiao Treasure Hall.

• Yuanshi ordered Guang Chengzi and Immortal Official Nanji to attend Yao Ji's trial and demand that the Heavenly Rules be enforced without leniency.
• Haotian told Yaochi he planned to confine Yao Ji in the Heavenly Prison for ten thousand years after Taibai Jinxing returned with her.
• Guang Chengzi and Immortal Official Nanji arrived at the Heavenly Court, invoked Yuanshi and the Dao Ancestor, and insisted on overseeing the trial.
• Haotian ordered the two visitors to leave, but they refused and warned that Yuanshi would intervene if Haotian showed favoritism toward his sister.
• Haotian suppressed his anger and allowed Guang Chengzi and Immortal Official Nanji to stay for the trial.
• After Taibai Jinxing brought Yao Ji back, Haotian ordered the Heavenly Soldiers to bring her into the hall.

Haotian sentenced Yao Ji to be suppressed beneath Peach Mountain after Guang Chengzi and Immortal Official Nanji demanded a harsher punishment. After they left, Haotian told Yaochi he would seek the Human Race’s help in rescuing Yao Ji.

• Yao Ji admitted her crime and said she would accept any punishment, including eternal suppression and torture.
• Guang Chengzi and Immortal Official Nanji urged Haotian to torture Yao Ji repeatedly to uphold the Heavenly Rules.
• Haotian stopped Guang Chengzi and Immortal Official Nanji from pressing their demands, then ordered Yao Ji suppressed beneath Peach Mountain forever.
• Taibai Jinxing escorted Yao Ji from the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, while Guang Chengzi and Immortal Official Nanji departed.
• Haotian told Yaochi he would go to Huoyun Cave to discuss rescuing Yao Ji with the Human Race.

Haotian sought the Human Race ancestors’ help to rescue Yao Ji from her imprisonment beneath Peach Mountain. Wu proposed that her children rescue her, while Haotian arranged for Nuwa and Houtu to protect them from Yuanshi’s retaliation.

• Haotian told Wu, Fuxi, Shennong, Xuanyuan, and the other Human Race ancestors how Yuanshi’s disciples had pressured him into imprisoning Yao Ji beneath Peach Mountain.
• Fuxi said the Human Race could not intervene directly in a Heavenly Court affair, and Wu suggested Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan rescue their mother by splitting open Peach Mountain.
• Haotian agreed with Wu’s plan but feared Yuanshi would punish Yao Ji and her children, so he asked Fuxi to seek Nuwa’s support.
• Haotian asked Wu whether Hong Yun could accompany him to meet Zhou Ming and request that Houtu guard the Heavenly Court while the children rescued Yao Ji.
• Wu said Hong Yun was away at Pangu Hall and offered to accompany Haotian to meet Zhou Ming instead; Haotian agreed to depart immediately.

Haotian secured Houtu’s promise to support him when Yang Jian and his siblings tried to rescue their mother. After tens of thousands of years of cultivation, Yang Jian reached the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, and Wu told him to wait for Yang Jiao and Yang Chan so the three could act together.

• Haotian told Houtu about Yao Ji and asked her to support the Heavenly Court during the rescue; Houtu agreed to send either herself or a Dao Body.
• Haotian thanked Wu for his help and returned to the Heavenly Court, while Wu went back to Huoyun Cave.
• After tens of thousands of years of seclusion, Yang Jian broke through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and emerged to greet Wu.
• Yang Jian asked if he was strong enough to save his mother, and Wu confirmed that he could split open Peach Mountain.
• Wu told Yang Jian to wait for Yang Jiao and Yang Chan, explaining that the three siblings would rescue their mother together.

After tens of thousands of years in seclusion, Yang Jiao and Yang Chan reunited with Yang Jian, and Wu sent the siblings to save their mother at Peach Mountain. Da Yu gave Yang Jian the Mountain-Splitting Axe, while Wu secretly alerted someone to proceed with the plan.

• Yang Jiao and Yang Chan emerged from seclusion as Golden Immortals and reunited with Yang Jian, who had reached the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Wu told the siblings they were ready to go save their mother, and they eagerly prepared to leave for Peach Mountain.
• Da Yu gave Yang Jian the Mountain-Splitting Axe, a Postnatal Merit Spiritual Treasure especially suited to splitting mountains.
• The three siblings thanked Da Yu and the ancestors, then flew from Huoyun Cave toward Peach Mountain.
• Wu sent a message through a Communication Jade Talisman saying they had set out and the plan should proceed.

Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan reached Peach Mountain to rescue their mother, Yao Ji, but Heavenly Court guards tried to stop them. The siblings defeated the guards without killing them, and the survivors fled to report to Haotian.

• Haotian sensed that the siblings had arrived at Peach Mountain and sent a brief message to Huoyun Cave.
• Yang Chan sensed Yao Ji inside the mountain, and Yang Jian prepared to split it open with his axe.
• A squad of Heavenly Soldiers and Generals blocked the siblings and invoked Haotian’s decree against Yao Ji.
• Yang Jiao identified the siblings and their mother, while Yang Jian declared them enemies of the Heavenly Court and ordered the guards to move aside.
• Yang Jiao stopped Yang Jian from killing the guards, and the siblings charged into the battle formation, overpowering them while holding back.
• Yang Jian blasted the leading Heavenly General away with one palm, and the defeated guards fled toward the Heavenly Court to report to Haotian.

Yang Jian and his siblings broke Peach Mountain’s restraint and freed their mother, Yao Ji. They set off for Huoyun Cave, while Haotian learned of her rescue and raged at the Heavenly Court’s failure.

• Yang Jian repeatedly struck Peach Mountain’s restraint with the Mountain-Splitting Axe until it shattered, then split the mountain open.
• Yang Jian, Yang Jiao, and Yang Chan reunited with Yao Ji in the cavern and embraced her in tears.
• Yang Jiao urged the family to flee to Huoyun Cave, and Yang Chan and Yang Jian reassured Yao Ji that the Human Race had approved their plan.
• Yao Ji agreed to leave with her children, and the four flew toward Huoyun Cave.
• A Heavenly General reported Yao Ji’s rescue to Haotian, who learned that her three children had split Peach Mountain and condemned his guards.

Haotian first considered delaying action against Yao Ji and her children until the Heavenly Court learned whether Huoyun Cave supported them, but Guang Chengzi and Immortal Official Nanji pressed him to enforce the Heavenly Rules. Haotian then ordered Taibai Jinxing to lead troops to capture them, leaving the two envoys surprised and satisfied.

• A Heavenly General reported that Yang Jian had reached the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, Yang Jiao was at the peak of the Golden Immortal realm, and Yang Chan was at the early stage, and Haotian dismissed the General for his failure.
• Taibai Jinxing advised Haotian to send an envoy to Huoyun Cave before acting, warning that a military response could provoke the Human Race, and Yaochi supported his caution.
• Haotian agreed to Taibai Jinxing's proposal, but Guang Chengzi and Immortal Official Nanji arrived and demanded that Yao Ji and her rescuers be arrested.
• Taibai Jinxing explained that Yang Jian and his siblings had studied at Huoyun Cave, but Haotian abruptly declared that the Heavenly Rules applied to everyone and ordered their capture.
• Taibai Jinxing accepted Haotian's command to lead Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to the lower realm, while Guang Chengzi and Immortal Official Nanji approved the order.

Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan reunited with Yao Ji and tried to take her to Huoyun Cave, but Taibai Jinxing intercepted them with the Heavenly Court’s army. He captured all three siblings and ordered the soldiers to seize Yao Ji as well.

• Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan escorted Yao Ji toward Huoyun Cave after rescuing her.
• Taibai Jinxing and the Heavenly Court’s army blocked their path and declared that all four were to be captured by the Emperor’s decree.
• Yao Ji offered to return alone if Taibai Jinxing would spare her children, but he refused.
• Yang Jian attacked Taibai Jinxing, who bound his axe and sealed his Magic Power with a strike.
• Yang Jiao and Yang Chan attacked together, but Taibai Jinxing stopped their attacks and bound them with his Fly Whisk.
• Taibai Jinxing ordered the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to seize Yao Ji and escort the family back to the Heavenly Court.