Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng was whipped for provoking the women around him, then learned Saint Ye had devised a method for tempering his Life-Death Body with Meng Yutong’s help. Meanwhile, Meng Yutong exchanged the White Mystic Brush for gifts from Zhong Zusheng, unaware he had obtained the genuine brush.

• Meng Yutong and Jiang Caiyan whipped Lin Heng and Dugu Feng after Lin Heng bragged about attracting women and made an obscene remark about secretly eating clam.
• Saint Ye visited the injured Lin Heng and told him that Meng Yutong could help him cultivate life-and-death comprehension through a new method.
• Meng Yutong angrily read the Body-Vessel Method, then learned that a woman had come to Fairy Cloud Peak asking to see Lin Heng and that Literary Path visitors had arrived.
• Zhong Zusheng offered Meng Yutong chests of treasures in exchange for the White Mystic Brush, and she accepted his gifts before handing it over.
• Zhong Zusheng confirmed that the brush resonated with the literary vein and celebrated obtaining the genuine White Mystic Brush.

Duan Shuyun traded a counterfeit Literary Path brush to Lin Jinren for a haul of treasures, only for Meng Yutong to seize most of the gifts. Lin Heng learned that the Wei Family’s teleportation exit was in the Lark Mountains and prepared to join Murong Ziyan’s planned raid, then checked on his sectmates and heard Zhao Wanqing worry that Star Pavilion Market might target the Zhao Family.

• Duan Shuyun accepted Lin Jinren’s gifts and handed him a replicated brush, which he believed was genuine.
• Meng Yutong swept away more than ten boxes of the gifts, leaving Duan Shuyun with none of the treasures.
• Murong Ziyan told Lin Heng she had found the Wei Family’s teleportation exit in the Lark Mountains and proposed an operation for the next morning.
• Lin Heng gathered allies for the raid, discovered that Yun Yao and the others had locked Leng Qingqiu in the Little Black Room, and chose not to interfere.
• Zhao Wanqing told Lin Heng that the Medical World Hall families had apologized and paid compensation, but she feared Star Pavilion Market might retaliate against the Zhao Family.

Lin Heng took Jiang Caiyan and his allies to the Lark Mountains to find the Wei Family and uncover its connection to Fang Qingxin. They found the family’s mountain manor abandoned, but a hidden mechanism activated and trapped them inside.

• Lin Heng convinced Jiang Caiyan to stay by promising that Murong Ziyan had located the Wei Family and that they would learn more by morning.
• Lin Heng left for the Lark Mountains with Jiang Caiyan, Martial Man, and others, while Black Robe secretly followed with several disciples.
• Murong Ziyan showed Lin Heng’s group the Wei Family’s hidden mountain manor and arranged a three-sided assault with her Garrison Command soldiers.
• Lin Heng’s group entered the manor and found it empty, while reports revealed that the study and other buildings had been burned two days earlier.
• The ground shook and inscription-covered walls shifted into place, forming a huge trapping array around Lin Heng and the others.

Lin Heng and the others discovered that the mountain mansion’s living formation was controlled by an underground mechanism, then confronted the spirit claiming to be Wei Hui. As the formation began draining their vital essence, Murong Ziyan realized they were in immediate danger.

• Lin Heng stopped Murong Ziyan from touching the runes and, with Plowman, identified the barrier as a formation fused with mechanisms and artifact-refining methods.
• Lin Heng tried digging for a way through, but Plowman found an opening that revealed an underground dome of gears, bells, and a central crystal.
• The copper bells rang and the Bagua diagram reversed, so Plowman shielded the group and helped them retreat from underground.
• A scarlet-eyed phantom appeared, claimed to be Wei Hui, and revealed that attacking the barrier or formation core would trigger a soul-locking restriction.
• Wei Hui threatened Murong Ziyan and the others, claiming he had prepared a trap with the earth-vein formation and the Eternal Mulberry.
• The mansion and surrounding land began to rotate, and Murong Ziyan spat blood after sensing that an unseen force was draining their vital essence.

Lin Heng discovered that time was accelerating inside the mountain manor, worsening the soul-locking Formation. He sent the Jade Origin Vine underground to counter its force, restoring the soldiers while the group waited for the Wei Family.

• Murong Ziyan warned Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan to focus on escaping the soul-locking Formation, but the Plowman said it would weaken on its own if they did not trigger its restrictions.
• The Jade Origin Vine told Lin Heng that time was accelerating and that it sensed a wood attribute of the same origin beneath the manor.
• Lin Heng tested Timeflow, vanished briefly, and realized the time distortion had interrupted the forbidden art before it could consume his lifespan.
• Lin Heng sent the Jade Origin Vine into the ground, and its vines erupted through the manor, countering the Formation's force and helping the soldiers regain their senses.
• Lin Heng told Jiang Caiyan and the Plowman to cultivate while they waited for the Wei Family to come to them.

Lin Heng reasoned that the Wei family’s living formation drained people’s essence energy to power itself, meaning the family would eventually return to the manor. As Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan waited inside, Martial Man went to summon help, while the white-clad young man ordered Chen Changqin to prepare to rescue Lin Heng and earn his trust.

• Lin Heng, Plowman, and Jiang Caiyan debated why the Wei family had trapped them in a time-accelerating living formation, and Plowman deduced that the formation absorbed essence energy from its victims.
• Lin Heng concluded that the formation needed an outside force to intervene and that the Wei family would return to the manor; he then had the Jade Origin Vine make a resting place for Jiang Caiyan.
• Outside the manor, Martial Man and the others failed to break through its bronze barrier, so Martial Man left to seek help from the Green Pavilion Sect.
• Nearby, the white-clad young man told Chen Changqin to prepare to rescue Lin Heng and gain his trust, but Chen Changqin questioned why he should save him.

Bai Yi explained that he was using Lin Heng to purge the Medical Path while planning to claim the rewards, as rescuers failed to break the barrier trapping Lin Heng. A continent-wide upheaval then severed the Western Continent from the Eastern Continent, and Jiang Jingyi turned her attention to defending the remaining regions as the Heavenly Action Continent prepared to descend.

• Bai Yi told Chen Changqin that he intended to use Lin Heng to remove corrupt forces from the Medical Path and take the benefits afterward.
• Dugu Zixuan, Meng Yutong, Xiao Lan, and Leng Qingyun failed to break the barrier around the mountain manor where Lin Heng was trapped.
• Yun Yao remained locked away after Zhao Wanqing secretly freed Leng Qingqiu, while Leng Qingyun was released to help because she was a formation master.
• Seven pillars of light and a bronze seal appeared as the earth trembled, and a vast heavenly wall severed the Western Continent from the Eastern Continent.
• Jiang Jingyi halted the disturbance and told Jiang Yan that the Heavenly Action Continent was preparing to descend, while the Eastern and Northern Continents needed protection from the Beast Clan.
• Jiang Jingyi said the Western Continent had the Dugu Clan and that she might travel there in disguise to investigate the Ten Directions Hall's Hall Master.

Jiang Jingyi explained that the Heavenly Action Continent’s Earth-Vein Power and spatial barrier were part of her plan, then prepared to return to Dingyang before traveling west. At Great Mountain, the Dugu Clan’s elders decided to enter the conflict and sent Dugu Qingyang to support Dugu Zixuan in the Western Continent.

• Jiang Jingyi told Jiang Yan that she had guided the Heavenly Action Continent into opening Rebirth Other Shore and had arranged teleportation arrays in the Southern and Northern Continents.
• Jiang Jingyi planned to return to Dingyang and later go west, worrying that Murong Ziyan would be exposed to danger while investigating the Wei Family.
• The Dugu Clan’s elders observed the Earth Vein’s shift and recognized the Female Emperor’s involvement in the upheaval.
• Old Ghost argued that Lin Heng, born to the Dugu Clan, should bear its surname and might possess Dragon Emperor Fortune.
• The Dugu Clan decided to emerge, and Dugu Qingyang agreed to go support Dugu Zixuan in the Western Continent.

Lin Heng cultivated with Humanity Fruits inside the time-accelerated mountain manor and began forming a Time Sword Domain. The Nine Heavens Sword’s Spirit, Xiao Muyu, revealed her origins in the late Fifth Epoch and explained that the special realm connected different epochs; the chapter ended with her challenging Lin Heng to try to subdue her.

• Time accelerated inside the mountain manor, giving Lin Heng and the others far more time to cultivate than passed outside.
• Lin Heng used three Humanity Fruits to refine his cultivation while forming a Time Sword Domain with the Nine Heavens Sword.
• The Nine Heavens Sword’s Spirit appeared and warned Lin Heng that he had fallen into someone else’s scheme.
• Xiao Muyu said she came from the late Fifth Epoch and described being swept through time into a special realm connected to the Fourth Epoch.
• Lin Heng questioned her explanation, and Xiao Muyu clarified that the realm was accessible across epochs but followed the Fifth Epoch’s timeline.
• Xiao Muyu slapped Lin Heng, then warned him not to disrupt his unstable sword domain and said she would be waiting for him.

Lin Heng learned from Xiao Muyu that fortune-bearers from different epochs were competing to gather the Immortal Realm’s fortune, while extraterrestrial cultivators began invading the Northern Continent. The chapter ended with Green Pavilion Sect’s leaders preparing to ally with neighboring sects, as Meng Yutong remained distracted.

• Xiao Muyu warned Lin Heng that hidden forces could use him as a pawn and explained that the Fourth Epoch’s dynasty had sought to gather the Immortal Realm’s fortune.
• Lin Heng concluded that the Struggle for Fortune pitted different epochs against each other and that forces such as Yi Pavilion and the Extraterrestrial Cultivators were trying to destabilize the dynasty.
• Nearly a month later, extraterrestrial cultivators landed at Wangdi and occupied half of the Northern Continent’s western region.
• Shi Yuanzhou told Green Pavilion Sect’s leaders that the eastern and western continents had been cut off by a spatial barrier and proposed forming an alliance with Purple Void Sect and Clear Moon Long Song.
• The Green Pavilion Sect leaders agreed to prepare for an alliance, while Meng Yutong sat distracted and did not seem to follow the discussion.

After Lark Mountains collapsed and released a dangerous Black Mist, Saint Ye proposed using a cultivator’s soul to investigate the trapped formation and check on Lin Heng and the others. He chose Leng Qingqiu for the task, and her spiritual body emerged as the investigation began.

• Meng Yutong and Ling Fei discussed Lin Heng’s imprisonment and the Extraterrestrial Cultivators’ invasion before Duan Shuyun reported that Lark Mountains had collapsed.
• Meng Yutong, Ling Fei, and Duan Shuyun returned to Blue Sparrow Mountains and found Dugu Zixuan, Martial Man, and the others gathered outside Lark Mountains.
• Dugu Zixuan explained that the manor had sunk, the surrounding land had withered, and Black Mist had erupted from the crater; Saint Ye said the mist consumed life essence and energy.
• Saint Ye proposed a soul-powered method to inspect the trapping formation, but rejected Martial Man and Dugu Zixuan as candidates.
• Saint Ye selected Leng Qingqiu, and she sent an emerald-yellow spiritual body out of her own body.

Lin Heng discovered that the Black Mist had weakened the Jade Origin Vine, restored it with his essence blood, and found Jiang Caiyan awake after a year of cultivation. He overpowered her as she challenged him, but Qingyun suddenly appeared behind him.

• The Plowman told Lin Heng that the Black Mist had weakened the Jade Origin Vine, which revealed it had fought a Silent Parasol underground.
• Lin Heng recalled the Jade Origin Vine into his body and fed it several mouthfuls of his essence blood.
• Lin Heng learned Jiang Caiyan was in the room on the left, where she had cultivated for a year and reached Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Jiang Caiyan confronted Lin Heng with her Twin Blades, but his overwhelming spiritual pressure pinned her down.
• Lin Heng began undoing Jiang Caiyan's sash, and Qingyun suddenly appeared behind him.

Leng Qingqiu escaped as a spirit body and warned Lin Heng that Extraterrestrial Cultivators had invaded the Northern Continent and threatened the Western Continent. Lin Heng led his group out of the underground passage, but they emerged into a starry-sky illusion realm where Fang Qingxin ambushed them before Chen Changqin appeared.

• Leng Qingqiu confronted Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan, then told them that Extraterrestrial Cultivators had devastated the Northern Continent and were advancing toward the Western Continent.
• Lin Heng told Leng Qingqiu to warn the Green Pavilion Sect elders against pursuing alliances, especially with Clear Moon Long Song, and revealed that the group could escape through an underground passage.
• Lin Heng led Murong Ziyan, Plowman, Jiang Caiyan, and the soldiers through the passage, explaining that the Jade Origin Vine had devoured a Silent Parasol that drained their vital essence.
• After the group emerged at night, Murong Ziyan discovered that her star-projection map could not locate them, revealing that the sky was an illusion.
• Fang Qingxin taunted Jiang Caiyan and attacked, but Chen Changqin struck Fang Qingxin with a sound wave from his jade flute.

Lin Heng and his companions escaped Fang Qingxin’s illusion realm, and Jiang Caiyan killed her while searching her memories for information about her mother. They learned the location of the Wei Family’s main base, then met Chen Changqin in the Lark Mountains and set off to talk as they walked.

• Chen Changqin restrained Fang Qingxin, and Lin Heng used three streams of Dragon Qi to shatter the illusion realm and lead his companions out.
• Lin Heng stopped Chen Changqin from killing Fang Qingxin and handed her over to Jiang Caiyan, who confronted and wounded her.
• Jiang Caiyan used the Nine Nether Soul-Extraction Art to search Fang Qingxin’s memories, learned nothing about her mother, and killed her, but discovered the Wei Family’s main base.
• Murong Ziyan recognized Chen Changqin as the musician who had declined an imperial palace invitation and asked why he was near Lark Mountain.
• Chen Changqin said he had come looking for Lin Heng after hearing he was surrounded in the Lark Mountains, and the group agreed to talk as they walked.

Lin Heng and his companions reached the Wei Family’s hidden stronghold, where Murong Ziyan easily cut down its death warriors. They met Wei Shouchen, who confessed to killing his brothers and asked them to eliminate his father and ancestor.

• Chen Changqin told Lin Heng and Murong Ziyan he needed the Divine Souls of the dead to save his slumbering wife, and they warned him to beware of evil arts.
• Jiang Caiyan led the group through a swamp to a hidden mountain town that was absent from the map.
• Wei Family death warriors ambushed the group, but Murong Ziyan killed them with a single sword strike.
• At the Wei Family residence, Wei Shouchen revealed that he had lured them there using Fang Qingxin as a decoy.
• Wei Shouchen confessed to killing his eldest and second brothers and asked Lin Heng’s group to kill his father and ancestor.

Wei Shouchen revealed the Wei Family’s ties to Yi Pavilion and offered to help Lin Heng and Murong Ziyan in exchange for control of the family. His answers clarified the hunt for Jiang Caiyan and the missing Longevity Dao Fruit, while the Wei Family Ancestor emerged from seclusion and Jiang Jingyi crossed into the Northern Continent.

• Wei Shouchen said the Wei Family was connected to the Red Demon Society, now called Yi Pavilion, and offered to betray his father and ancestor for the chance to take over the family.
• Lin Heng asked Wei Shouchen about Yu Xian, and Wei Shouchen said she had sought a Longevity Dao Fruit in exchange for using her blood as material; he added that his brothers and Fang Qingxin wanted Jiang Caiyan’s blood to cultivate the fruit anew.
• Wei Shouchen said he did not know where the Eternal Mulberry had been moved, explained that someone had stolen the last Longevity Dao Fruit forty years earlier, and warned that the Wei Family Ancestor had emerged from seclusion before vanishing.
• Lin Heng and Murong Ziyan questioned whether Wei Shouchen could be trusted, then learned soldiers had found an underground treasury and let them loot it.
• Murong Ziyan worried about returning to the Eastern Continent and asked after Supreme Lord, unaware that Jiang Jingyi had already crossed into the Northern Continent through a teleportation array.

Jiang Jingyi crossed the Misty Waves River toward the Northern Continent while seeking news of Murong Ziyan and considering the wider conflict. Lin Heng returned to Green Pavilion Sect, learned that Star Pavilion Market had attacked and been driven back, and was pulled into Yun Yao’s playful demands for compensation.

• Jiang Jingyi learned that Murong Ziyan was believed to have died in a Wei Family trap and ordered her subordinates to keep searching.
• Jiang Jingyi crossed the Misty Waves River toward the Northern Continent and wondered whether the people of Great Mountain had gone to Green Pavilion Sect.
• Lin Heng returned to Green Pavilion Sect with Plowman while Chen Changqin went to Vegetation Town.
• Yun Yao and Jiang Caiyan brought Lin Heng to the Disciple Palace, where Zhao Wanqing joyfully checked whether he was injured.
• Yun Yao told Lin Heng that Star Pavilion Market and two small sects had attacked Green Pavilion Sect, then the Grand Elder and others had pursued them after defeating them.
• Yun Yao admitted Zhao Wanqing had helped her escape the Little Black Room and teamed up with Jiang Caiyan and Zhao Wanqing to stop Lin Heng from leaving.

Yun Yao captured Lin Heng and took him to her newly built residence, while Jiang Caiyan discussed her worries about returning to the Northern Continent with Zhao Wanqing. In Yun Yao’s private bath, she interrogated Lin Heng about his Dao companions and pressed him to name who else he wanted.

• Yun Yao invited Jiang Caiyan and Zhao Wanqing to join her and Lin Heng, but Jiang Caiyan declined, and Zhao Wanqing stayed with her.
• Jiang Caiyan told Zhao Wanqing she was worried about her grandmother in the invaded Northern Continent and considered sneaking away; Zhao Wanqing urged her to talk with Lin Heng instead.
• Jiang Caiyan and Zhao Wanqing went to the hot spring, while Yun Yao brought Lin Heng to her renovated residence and private bath.
• Yun Yao asked Lin Heng to list all his Dao companions, and he named the six-person master-and-disciple group, Jiang Caiyan, Zhao Wanqing, and Yun Yao.
• Yun Yao demanded to know which other women Lin Heng wanted as Dao companions, and he hesitated under her threat.

Lin Heng told Yun Yao about the women he had feelings for and his engagement to Su Qiubai, while Green Pavilion Sect’s allies destroyed Star Pavilion Market and captured two of its leaders. The women returned to Fairy Cloud Peak, where they realized Jiang Caiyan had appeared despite believing she was trapped with Lin Heng.

• Lin Heng admitted to Yun Yao that he had been attracted to Murong Yi and Mu Li, then revealed his engagement to Su Qiubai of the Star God Temple.
• Dugu Zixuan, Meng Yutong, Shen Yeting, Dugu Feng, Shi Yuanzhou, and their allies destroyed Star Pavilion Market, killed Southern Lord Xing Tian, captured Northern Lord Jingjing and Western Lord Black Tea, and failed to find Host Wu Yan.
• The group prepared to return with the captured leaders as observers discussed the upheaval caused by Star Pavilion Market’s destruction.
• Shen Yeting and Meng Yutong discussed Green Pavilion Sect’s victory and their concerns about Lin Heng before setting out for Fairy Cloud Peak and Lark Mountain.
• The women returned to Fairy Cloud Peak and discovered Jiang Caiyan chatting with Zhao Wanqing, despite thinking she had been trapped with Lin Heng at the mountain manor.

Jiang Caiyan and Zhao Wanqing returned to Fairy Cloud Peak and revealed that Yun Yao had been let out of the Little Black Room, prompting Duan Shuyun, Mu Liuxi, and Leng Qingqiu to confront her. Yun Yao was caught hiding in a cabinet and taken back to the Little Black Room, while Lin Heng learned that Master and the others had not yet returned.

• Jiang Caiyan and Zhao Wanqing told the others they had returned the previous afternoon, and Zhao Wanqing admitted she had let Yun Yao out of the Little Black Room.
• Duan Shuyun, Mu Liuxi, and Leng Qingqiu went to Yun Yao's residence, while Leng Qingyun stayed behind to avoid being caught up in their anger.
• Yun Yao panicked when the three approached and hid inside a cabinet as Lin Heng tried to cover for her.
• Duan Shuyun and Mu Liuxi forced open the cabinet, seized Yun Yao, and carried her back to the Little Black Room despite her protests.
• Leng Qingqiu told Lin Heng that Master and the others would likely return that night or the next morning.