Chapter Summaries

After returning from the mountains, Qin Shi Huang held the Fengshan ceremony at Mount Tai and spoke of meeting Ye Qin again. A thousand years later, Ye Qin began to break through at the mountain, and the resulting cloud phenomenon revealed a silent Qin procession that Qi Xueqing suspected was a mirage of the First Emperor's ceremony.

• Qin Shi Huang ordered his people to return, announced the Fengshan ceremony would take place at Mount Tai in a month, and ordered them to keep the encounter with the Demon Immortal secret.
• Qin Shi Huang performed the Fengshan ceremony at Mount Tai and told the unseen Ye Qin that he hoped they would meet again and discuss immortality.
• A thousand years later, Ye Qin returned to Mount Tai, heard a tour guide tell a legend about Qin Shi Huang performing the ceremony twice, and began absorbing Spiritual Energy as he neared a breakthrough.
• Ye Qin's Spiritual Energy stirred the clouds above Mount Tai, refreshing the tourists below and drawing their attention to a strange procession appearing on the mountain paths.
• Qi Xueqing recognized the procession's Qin clothing and banners and wondered whether it was a mirage of Qin Shi Huang performing the Fengshan ceremony.

A mirage on Mount Tai showed Qin Shi Huang performing a grand Fengshan ceremony, where he revealed a snake statue and carved the words “Demon Immortal” before the scene vanished. After the spectacle became a national sensation, Qi Xueqing discovered that Qin Shi Huang may have held a second, unrecorded ceremony on Mount Tai and began investigating its secrets.

• Tourists on Mount Tai watched a mirage of Qin Shi Huang’s procession and Fengshan ceremony, while Qi Xueqing recorded the scene in his notebook.
• Qin Shi Huang unveiled a lifelike snake statue and carved “Demon Immortal” on a stele, which shattered as the mirage disappeared.
• Experts described the event as a recorded image of an ancient scene, and online discussions focused on the snake statue and the words Qin Shi Huang had carved.
• Qi Xueqing searched historical records and realized that the mirage showed a second Fengshan ceremony absent from official accounts.
• Qi Xueqing updated his “Historical Mists” series about Qin Shi Huang as supernatural stories about Mount Tai spread online.

Ye Qin traveled through historical Fragmented Epochs segments, meeting Kong Qiu and gaining Spiritual Energy as he explored the eastern province. At Penglai, he encountered eight travelers in an ancient time segment and calmed the sea, then enlarged his treasures so they could cross it.

• After the Mount Tai mirage drew crowds, Ye Qin left and entered a Fragmented Epochs segment at Baotu Spring, where he soaked in its Spiritual Energy-rich water as a manager glimpsed his shadow.
• At the Confucius Temple, Ye Qin traveled two thousand years into the past and spoke with Kong Qiu, who later described him to Yan Hui as a friend he would never meet again.
• Over the following year, Ye Qin visited historic sites across the eastern province, destroyed two Sentience of the Masses guardians, and sensed an increasingly clear presence watching him.
• At Penglai, Ye Qin entered an ancient time segment and found eight travelers unable to cross a turbulent sea.
• Ye Qin calmed the sea with golden light, then threw his Miniature Cauldron, Bronze Ancient Sword, prayer beads, and other treasures into the water and enlarged them into vessels for the group.

After Ye Qin helped eight practitioners cross the sea from Penglai, he returned to reality and underwent a violent transformation in the ocean. A huge waterspout and tsunami threatened the Whale Fall and coastal villages, but a mysterious roar stopped the waves, leaving the old fisherman convinced the Dragon King had shown his power.

• Ye Qin used the Miniature Cauldron, Bronze Ancient Sword, Jade Wine Gourd Pendant, and prayer beads to carry the eight people safely across the stormy sea from Penglai, then promised to grant them immortality if they continued cultivating.
• After returning to reality, Ye Qin felt burning agitation and itching, plunged into the sea, and drew in Spiritual Energy as his body grew and a huge whirlpool formed around him.
• Schools of fish fled the waters around Penglai while the Whale Fall encountered dark clouds, violent waves, and a waterspout that broke its mast and left its crew unable to send a distress call.
• Green light surrounded the Whale Fall, and its crew glimpsed a green shadow rising into the sky just before the waterspout overwhelmed them.
• A towering wave surged toward the coast, but an ancient-sounding roar halted it and sent the water rushing back out to sea, while the waterspout vanished.
• The old fisherman fell to his knees and proclaimed that the Dragon King had shown his divine power.

Ye Qin completed his transformation into a jiao, reached the Third Realm of the Primordial Spirit, and left the depleted stretch of sea to seek more Spiritual Energy. After his emergence caused strange ocean events and the Whale Fall’s rescue, a Shinzhao Nation warship detected an unidentified marine creature approaching at high speed.

• The waves receded and fish rained onto the beach, leading fishermen to credit the Dragon King with protecting them and compensating them for their lost catch.
• The search-and-rescue team entered a thick fog, detected the Whale Fall nearby, and saw strange green lights and heard an unknown roar before finding the ship and its unconscious crew.
• Ye Qin understood that Sea Transformation was part of his cultivation path, broke through his final shackle, and transformed into a jiao over thirty meters long.
• The search-and-rescue team returned the Whale Fall’s crew to shore, where their account of a green light and a huge shadow sparked public speculation about the Dragon King.
• Ye Qin suppressed the heavenly tribulation, reached the Third Realm of the Primordial Spirit, and decided to seek water Spiritual Energy elsewhere.
• Yamano Hiroichi ordered his warship to investigate a fast-approaching unidentified object that its systems identified as likely a marine creature.

Ye Qin, a jiao, attacked the Shinzhao Nation fleet after it detected him and fired torpedoes, while the Daxia navy responded to the fleet’s distress signal. After revealing his dragon form, Ye Qin summoned a colossal sword over the ships, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Fan Haiqing learned that the enormous waterspout had vanished without making landfall and led Daxia warships to investigate.
• Yamano Hiroichi’s crew detected Ye Qin underwater, lost their submersible camera after seeing a giant green eye, and attempted to capture the creature.
• Ye Qin evaded the Shinzhao Nation’s torpedoes and repeatedly rammed its warship, damaging the hull and forcing Yamano Hiroichi to order a retreat.
• Fan Haiqing’s fleet received the Shinzhao Nation’s distress signal and headed toward the troubled waters, where Fan Haiqing glimpsed a gigantic shadow.
• Ye Qin rose before the Shinzhao Nation crew in his dragon form, and Yamano Hiroichi ordered the crew to fire missiles as Ye Qin summoned a colossal sword from the waterway of Shangqing Temple.

Ye Qin destroyed a Shinzhao Nation frigate with a giant sword, but the Daxia navy found only wreckage and could not identify the attacker. As rumors of a deep-sea giant or Dragon King spread, Shinzhao Nation blamed Daxia without proof and prepared a new investigation.

• Ye Qin struck the Shinzhao Nation frigate with a giant sword, destroying the vessel and killing everyone aboard.
• Fan Haiqing and the Daxia navy reached the wreck site, found no survivors, and ordered a search for the ship's black box.
• Fan Haiqing and Wei Yifan investigated the wreck and found sharp cuts and blurry footage of an unknown shadow, while the damaged black box yielded no information.
• Wei Yifan told Fan Haiqing that nearby ships and coastal residents had also reported a black shadow, a strange roar, a waterspout, and fish raining from the sky.
• Ito Hirobumi accused Daxia of conspiring against Shinzhao Nation, but his investigators found no evidence of an attack by humans.
• Rumors of a deep-sea giant and Dragon King spread online, and Shinzhao Nation joined a Western country in planning an investigation of the waters.

Qi Xueqing visited Penglai, researched the legend of the Eight Immortals, and published a new Historical Mists feature. Meanwhile, Ye Qin left the sea to explore divination among humans, and his prediction at Dragon King Temple saved Li Hongwen from a fatal bus accident, leaving Li Hongwen convinced that another mysterious power existed.

• Qi Xueqing visited Penglai, heard an old fisherman recount the Eight Immortals legend, and concluded that they might have been ordinary people who crossed the sea with help.
• Qi Xueqing published a Historical Mists feature about the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, which attracted attention amid discussion of the Dragon King incident.
• Ye Qin reached saturation absorbing the sea's spiritual energy and decided to go ashore, use divination to experience mortal life, and study the Sentience of the Masses.
• Li Hongwen entered the Dragon King Temple for a divination, and the mysterious attendant predicted a bloody disaster and told him to change his two-o'clock departure to four o'clock.
• Li Hongwen changed his ticket to six o'clock after the earlier buses sold out, then learned that the two-o'clock bus had crashed and caused fatal injuries.
• Li Hongwen realized the temple attendant's warning had saved his life and added Dragon King Temple to the mysteries he had encountered.

Ye Qin left Dragon King Temple and entered a time fragment, where he met the young Wu Cheng'en and described a dream of a future Earth threatened by the Heavenly Sect. Back in the present, Qi Xueqing learned that newly discovered pages of Wu Cheng'en’s lost Annals of Yu’s Cauldron recorded the same story.

• Ye Qin left Dragon King Temple, whose administrators and worshippers turned his mysterious disappearance into a local legend.
• Ye Qin entered a time fragment at Sheyang and met a young man who called himself Layman Sheyang.
• Ye Qin dreamed as the Source Bone in a cosmic world, learned that the Heavenly Sect might dismantle or relocate Earth to build a Signal Tower, and awoke beside Layman Sheyang.
• Ye Qin recounted the dream to Layman Sheyang, who discarded his earlier draft and began writing a new story before Ye Qin vanished.
• Qi Xueqing returned to meet his mentor, Wei Zhong, and learned that damaged pages of Wu Cheng'en’s Annals of Yu’s Cauldron had been discovered.
• Wei Zhong and the researchers restored the pages, which recounted a visitor’s dream about Earth and a pagoda built for cultivators to communicate.

The discovery of a fragment from Wu Cheng'en's Annals of Yu's Cauldron sparked debate about its tale of Earth and a cosmic communication pagoda, while Ye Qin returned to Longyuan Mountain after gaining the ability to fly. As the village chief's son's wedding began beneath the mountain, dark clouds suddenly covered the sky and unsettled the guests.

• Qi Xueqing shared the fragment online, and readers speculated about the mysterious guest and lamented that the story had no ending.
• Wei Zhong told his old classmate Li Yu'an about the fragment, prompting Li Yu'an and his space-station colleagues to discuss its strange ideas about the universe.
• Ye Qin left Sheyang Lake after his journey through the Fragmented Epochs had helped him comprehend flight, and dark clouds gathered as he departed.
• The village chief hosted his son's wedding banquet at the foot of Longyuan Mountain, where villagers celebrated beneath the Mountain God's unseen presence.
• Dark clouds abruptly covered the sky during the wedding, alarming the village chief and guests and worrying the new bride.

Ye Qin returned to Longyuan Mountain as a four-clawed Jiaolong and guided the animals through a year of cultivation. When Hu Xiaocao called from overseas for help after an international cultural-relic smuggling organization discovered and hunted her, the village chief organized a rescue party, and the Siberian Tiger equipped them with talismans and magical artifacts.

• The villagers witnessed the Mountain God pass overhead during the village chief’s son’s wedding feast and offered incense in reverence.
• Ye Qin returned to Longyuan Mountain in his new Jiaolong form, where the animals welcomed him and reported their diligent cultivation.
• Ye Qin stayed on the mountain to stabilize his Primordial Spirit and guide the animals as their cultivation advanced over the following year.
• Hu Xiaocao called the village chief from overseas and explained that the smuggling organization she had tracked had discovered her and was hunting her.
• The village chief gathered the villagers, and they selected fifteen people to go rescue Hu Xiaocao and destroy the organization.
• The Siberian Tiger met the departing villagers with dozens of animals and supplied them with talismans and magical artifacts.

The villagers of Longyuan Village secretly traveled overseas to rescue Hu Xiaocao, using talismans and magical artifacts to help her defeat the mercenaries hunting her. After reuniting, Hu Xiaocao and the villagers prepared to attack the castle where an armed organization was storing stolen cultural relics, and Hu Xiaocao began the assault at night.

• The 749 Bureau expedited tourist visas for fifteen villagers, and the Fog City government sent Xiao Zhang to welcome them at the airport.
• Hu Xiaocao used spiritually empowered leaves to kill several mercenaries, but one fired a signal flare and drew the rest of the group to surround her.
• The village chief and the villagers arrived, killed the pursuing mercenaries with Mountain God talismans, and reunited with Hu Xiaocao.
• Hu Xiaocao told the villagers that an armed organization held stolen cultural relics in a castle and planned to ship them out the next day.
• The villagers revealed that the mountain animals had given them talismans and magical artifacts, and they decided to attack the castle that night.
• Hu Xiaocao approached the castle and killed a guard before he could raise the alarm.

Hu Xiaocao and the Longyuan villagers destroyed the overseas Peterson Group, which had sought Zuo Ci’s Tomb and Great Xia Daoist relics to cure its dying boss. The village chief returned to Longyuan Mountain with the recovered cultural relics and presented them to Ye Qin, leaving the other villagers overseas for the time being.

• Hu Xiaocao killed the guards around the castle, while the villagers used talismans and magical artifacts to defeat Peterson’s mercenaries.
• The Big Boss recognized the Great Xia artifacts, demanded that his men seize them, and then died kneeling toward the East; Hu Xiaocao explained that he had pursued Zuo Ci’s Tomb hoping to cure his illness.
• Hu Xiaocao and the villagers chose to take the recovered cultural relics to the Mountain God, and the village chief smuggled them back while the others remained overseas.
• The destruction of Peterson shocked local officials and spread through the media, while the village chief returned to Longyuan Village and told the villagers the force had been eliminated.
• The village chief followed the Siberian Tiger into Longyuan Mountain, met Ye Qin, and offered him the recovered cultural relics.

Ye Qin sent a group of cultivated animals from Longyuan Mountain to the British Museum to retrieve the missing half of a strange black jade pendant. The animals raided the museum and escaped with its artifacts, leaving its guards overwhelmed and the British Museum stripped bare.

• Ye Qin discovered that the black fish-shaped jade pendant contained an unusual fragment of time, learned its missing half was in the British Museum, and ordered the animals to retrieve it.
• Ye Qin selected and equipped a team led by the Siberian Tiger, and Old Turtle carried the animals across the sea to Y Country.
• The animals used mist and their supernatural abilities to break into the British Museum and seize its artifacts, while the guards sounded the alarm and called for help.
• The Siberian Tiger and the other animals fought off the guards with spells and evaded bullets, then fled the museum after the tiger sensed a threat.
• The mayor ordered military support as the animals escaped, leaving the British Museum's exhibition halls empty and its person in charge devastated.

After raiding the British Museum, the animals fled through Y Country while Colonel Wilson and the armed forces pursued them. The animals escaped the military’s roadblock and continued toward the sea, with Wilson realizing that was their destination.

• Colonel Wilson led troops after the animals when they learned the route of their escape from the British Museum.
• The animals raced through Milan Avenue, where a monkey took a drunk man’s bottle and threw it away after drinking from it.
• Wilson’s forces blocked the avenue, but the Siberian Tiger and the other animals ran along the walls and escaped the roadblock.
• The animals’ coordinated roars disrupted the soldiers’ aim, and the Siberian Tiger tore through a capture net and knocked tranquilizers and tear gas back at the pursuers.
• Wilson called for reinforcements, but the animals kept leaping across buildings and streets as armed helicopters and soldiers pursued them.
• Wilson heard the sea nearby and realized the animals were fleeing toward it.

The animals escaped Colonel Wilson’s attack at sea after the villagers of Longyuan Village arrived and used their magical artifacts to stop a missile. They reached safety on Old Turtle’s back, while Colonel Wilson returned empty-handed and Y Country’s leaders suspected another nation was behind the incident.

• Colonel Wilson sent armed helicopters to attack the animals at sea, and the Siberian Tiger knocked one helicopter into the water.
• The animals sheltered behind Old Turtle’s shell, which blocked the helicopters’ gunfire and kept them unharmed.
• Colonel Wilson ordered AGQ-2 missiles launched, but the villagers of Longyuan Village arrived and combined their magical artifacts to intercept them.
• The villagers and animals escaped beneath the lingering white light, then traveled together on Old Turtle’s back as the military searched in vain.
• Colonel Wilson reported his failure to his superiors, who ordered an investigation and considered M Country a likely culprit.

After genetically enhanced animals raided the British Museum and escaped Y Country’s military, governments around the world investigated the incident. A Daxia emergency meeting connected the animals to strange events at Longyuan Mountain, but ended without determining their origin.

• Wilson told Y Country officials that the animals and a mysterious white light that blocked a missile might involve a new weapon, prompting the army and navy to investigate.
• M Country and Shinzhao Nation questioned the reports and began trying to identify who had created the animals.
• Tang Zhengguo showed Daxia’s military leaders footage of the animals evading Y Country’s forces and explained that they had fled into the ocean after surviving a missile attack.
• Professor Li said the genetic technology might be possible in theory but could not be mass-produced or achieved by Daxia in the short term.
• Chen Zhijun linked the incident to unusual animals and other strange occurrences at Longyuan Mountain, though the military leaders judged the cases very different.
• Tang Zhengguo ordered Daxia to investigate the animals’ origin and pursue the technology as news of the British Museum raid spread internationally.

The British Museum robbery stirred international controversy while the 749 Bureau suspected that Longyuan Mountain was connected to the animal attacks and overseas smuggling operations. The villagers welcomed their returning team, and as the animals brought cultural relics back to the mountain, Ye Qin emerged from seclusion beneath the churning thunderclouds.

• The local government blamed genetically mutated animals for attacking the British Museum, and netizens across Great Xia debated the robbery.
• Wang Xuehao told Xu Tiancheng and the 749 Bureau staff that the animals had evaded missiles, prompting Xu Tiancheng to connect the attacks to Longyuan Mountain and its villagers’ overseas trip.
• Chen Zhijun heard the bureau’s suspicions but doubted that the villagers could have caused the international incidents.
• Hu Xiaocao returned to school and quietly listened as her classmates discussed the British Museum robbery.
• The villagers welcomed the animals home, and Iron Pillar recounted their dangerous operation while the village chief urged everyone to keep training.
• The animals returned to Longyuan Mountain with cultural relics as the thunderclouds churned and Ye Qin emerged from seclusion.

Ye Qin entered a Fragmented Epochs fragment through the reunited black-and-white jade pendants and met Long Ling, White Bones in her previous life, while she fled assassins as the last princess of the Dragon Dynasty. After Ye Qin killed her pursuers, he discovered she was fatally poisoned and carried her away to make her enemies die with her.

• Ye Qin joined the two fish-shaped jade pendants, which opened a Fragmented Epochs fragment depicting an ancient Longyuan Mountain.
• Ye Qin recognized Long Ling as White Bones in her previous life, and Long Ling mistook his shrunken form for a Jiaolong.
• Long Ling told Ye Qin she was fleeing an assassination attempt, and Ye Qin killed the black-clad pursuers with his Lightning Dragon.
• Long Ling revealed she was the last princess of the Dragon Dynasty, overthrown by the Great Hao Emperor, and explained that assassins had hunted her repeatedly.
• Ye Qin discovered that poison from an earlier arrow had fatally damaged Long Ling's organs and could not be cured.
• Ye Qin lifted Long Ling into the air and said he would take her to kill people so her enemies would die with her.

Ye Qin and Long Ling confronted the Great Hao Emperor and his ministers, and Ye Qin destroyed the imperial city with Heavenly Punishment. After Long Ling's vengeance was complete, her poison continued to kill her, and she recognized the connection between Ye Qin and the white bones from her future age as he carried her toward Longyuan Mountain.

• The Great Hao Emperor ordered a nationwide search for Long Ling, but a storm and violent lightning interrupted his birthday banquet.
• Ye Qin appeared as a massive dragon with Long Ling beside him, and he declared that the emperor and his ministers deserved execution.
• Long Ling condemned the emperor and his officials for killing her clan, and Ye Qin's Heavenly Punishment sword destroyed them and the imperial city.
• Ye Qin told the dying Long Ling that she had never been alone, then revealed his white-bone origin and showed her their connection across time.
• Long Ling understood that she had known Ye Qin in a later age and said she would accompany him in another form before he carried her toward Longyuan Mountain.