Chapter Summaries

Yu Zheng and the military remained puzzled by the villagers’ capture of Poison Bee’s group, while Ye Qin used the Siberian Tiger and other animals to capture Zhao Jianhua and order him to steal artifacts from the British Museum. After Zhao Jianhua tried to evade the task, Ye Qin’s Yellow Talismans and nightmares forced him to repent, and a Great Immortal Weasel arrived to oversee him.

• Yu Zheng, Jiang Hao, and Fan Zhixuan questioned the villagers’ account of capturing Poison Bee’s group but set aside their suspicions to escort the prisoners to the capital.
• Zhao Jianhua entered Longyuan Mountain seeking Zuo Ci’s Tomb, and Ye Qin altered the formation so the Siberian Tiger could capture him and bring him to the tomb.
• Ye Qin ordered Zhao Jianhua to steal selected artifacts from the British Museum and gave him Yellow Talismans that would detect the objects he wanted.
• Zhao Jianhua threw away the talismans and ignored the order, but they followed him and Ye Qin’s nightmares tormented him until he agreed to complete the task.
• A Great Immortal Weasel appeared, and Zhao Jianhua respectfully offered it roast chicken while asking what instructions Ye Qin had sent.

Zhao Jianhua traveled to the British Museum with Great Immortal Weasel and used Ye Qin’s talismans to steal the Jade Wine Gourd Pendant. The museum discovered the theft but could not identify the thief, while Zhao Jianhua and Great Immortal Weasel escaped with the relic.

• Great Immortal Weasel accompanied Zhao Jianhua to Y Country, and the two concealed the weasel in Zhao Jianhua’s backpack during the flight.
• Zhao Jianhua and Great Immortal Weasel reached the British Museum, surveyed the Oriental Gallery, and waited until night to act.
• Zhao Jianhua used Ye Qin’s talismans to evade the guards and alarms, while Great Immortal Weasel obscured the cameras and distracted patrolling guards.
• Zhao Jianhua removed the Jade Wine Gourd Pendant from its display case and escaped the gallery with Great Immortal Weasel.
• Lawrence discovered the missing pendant and reviewed the surveillance footage, which showed Great Immortal Weasel obscuring a camera but did not reveal the thief.
• Harvitt ordered an investigation and the museum announced it was closed for maintenance, while the pendant remained missing.

After Zhao Jianhua stole the Jade Wine Gourd Pendant from the British Museum, the museum blamed Great Xia over a mysterious Yellow Talisman found nearby, intensifying international debate. Experts in Great Xia recognized the talisman’s handwriting from the Qiguang Temple incident and wondered whether it had helped the thief.

• Harvitt and Lawrence found a used Yellow Talisman outside the British Museum but could not decipher it, and Harvitt kept the discovery confidential.
• Zhao Jianhua returned to Great Xia with the Jade Wine Gourd Pendant as news of the theft leaked and reporters pressed Harvitt about the museum’s security.
• Harvitt published a statement tagging the Great Xia Official and suggesting the Yellow Talisman linked Great Xia to the theft, while the Great Xia Official rejected the accusation and refused to help.
• Netizens in Great Xia debated the talisman, and Professor Song recognized its handwriting as matching a talisman seen at Qiguang Temple.
• Researchers and former witnesses recalled the Qiguang Temple talisman’s apparent power to summon lightning and wondered whether the British Museum talisman had enabled the theft.

Zhao Jianhua returned the Jade Wine Gourd Pendant to Ye Qin, who entered a Tang dynasty fragment of time and met the exiled Li Bai. Ye Qin saved Li Bai from assassins, and after the supernatural encounter could not be recorded, Li Bai wrote a poem inspired by the celestial temple.

• An overseas relic smuggler learned about the British Museum theft and ordered his men to investigate the talisman and watch the museum.
• Zhao Jianhua brought the Jade Wine Gourd Pendant to Zuo Ci's Tomb, where Ye Qin accepted it and told him to remain in the mountains.
• Ye Qin used the pendant to enter a historical fragment and met Li Bai on the night before his exile to Yelang.
• Li Bai encountered Ye Qin in a mysterious Daoist temple, and they spoke about his exile, ambitions, and life in officialdom.
• A dozen assassins cornered Li Bai, but Ye Qin manifested the temple and killed them with lightning; a hidden witness escaped to tell the Wu King.
• The Wu King and Jiang Han failed to record the supernatural incident and abandoned their plans against Li Bai, who returned to the post station and wrote a poem about the perilous tower and immortals above.

After traversing the Fragmented Epochs, Ye Qin gained further cultivation insights as his companions benefited from the moonlight. At Nanchuan University, Hu Xiaocao sensed a memory connected to Ye Qin during a lecture on Li Bai, while members of an overseas antiquities-smuggling organization began tracking her to kidnap her.

• Ye Qin absorbed moonlight after returning from the Fragmented Epochs, strengthening his spirit and cultivation as the surrounding animals also benefited.
• At Nanchuan University, Professor Fan Ming lectured on Li Bai and discussed the legend that his poem about a mountain temple referred to a Daoist temple in the heavens.
• Hu Xiaocao sensed purple qi and a memory of the mountain god while listening to the poem, then impressed Fan Ming and Qi Xueqing with her insights about Li Bai and immortals crossing history.
• Qi Xueqing found Hu Xiaocao's notebook after she left, while Yang Wen and his men spotted her and prepared to kidnap her on orders from their overseas antiquities-smuggling organization.

Hu Xiaocao was surrounded by men seeking Longyuan Mountain, and her Spiritual Energy erupted to defeat them without touching them. After the men died and the police found no clear cause, Sun Zhenbang recognized Hu Xiaocao and concluded that the attackers had targeted her for the mountain’s secrets and that she had likely used supernatural power.

• Hu Xiaocao realized Yang Wen and his men had come for Longyuan Mountain when they tried to abduct her beside the artificial lake.
• Hu Xiaocao formed a hand seal and spoke an ancient incantation, then used invisible force to knock the men down as Qi Xueqing arrived.
• The police took statements from Hu Xiaocao and Qi Xueqing, while an autopsy found the men’s blood vessels had ruptured without visible external injuries.
• Investigators discovered the men were connected to an overseas cultural relic smuggling ring and summoned Sun Zhenbang after learning the victim was Hu Xiaocao.
• Sun Zhenbang watched the surveillance footage and concluded the group had targeted Hu Xiaocao for Longyuan Mountain, and that she had likely used supernatural power granted by the mountain god.

Sun Zhenbang’s investigation uncovered the overseas group’s Asian base, while Ye Qin guided Hu Xiaocao into cultivation and sent his newly strengthened animals to attack the stronghold. As Zhao Guoan’s armed police team crossed into the Myanmar Region to raid the group’s auction house, Ye Qin began forging an artifact.

• Sun Zhenbang’s team traced the overseas cultural relics organization to its Asian base, and the higher-ups assigned an armed police unit to plan a joint operation.
• Qi Xueqing published a Historical Fog post connecting Li Bai’s poem “Spending the Night at a Mountain Temple” to a legend about an immortal, drawing widespread online attention.
• Ye Qin helped the animals on Longyuan Mountain break through in cultivation, and Hu Xiaocao returned to the village and asked him about the fluctuating Primordial Violet Qi inside her.
• Ye Qin guided Hu Xiaocao through her first cultivation, then learned about the overseas group’s latest attempt and sent the Siberian Tiger and dozens of other animals to investigate its Asian base.
• Ye Qin began melting the Miniature Cauldron to forge an artifact, while an outdoor-adventure team encountered the animals traveling toward the Myanmar Region.
• Zhao Guoan briefed his armed police team on a planned raid of the overseas group’s auction house, and the vehicles crossed into the Myanmar Region.

A supernatural pack of animals attacked the Myanmar Region auction house, overwhelming its mercenaries as the criminal stronghold’s defenses collapsed. Zhao Guoan and Sun Haonan arrived with special police officers, and the chapter ended as they smelled blood near the eerily silent compound.

• Mercenaries unloaded cultural relics at the auction house ahead of a major auction, while Brother Zhou warned that security had to remain tight.
• A fox and other animals killed or incapacitated guards, and a weasel used a Yellow Talisman to knock out the watchtower snipers.
• Viper noticed guards disappearing, ordered tighter patrols, and then faced a supernatural animal assault as fog and demonic wind engulfed the compound.
• The Siberian Tiger led the animals in attacking the mercenaries; Viper was injured, communications failed, and the animals used extraordinary techniques to defeat their opponents.
• Zhao Guoan and Sun Haonan led special police officers toward the auction house, found its watchtower silent, and Zhao Guoan recognized the smell of blood.

Armed police found the auction house’s criminals dead and uncovered clues suggesting the Siberian Tiger and its animal companions had attacked them, while Sun Zhenbang suspected the mountain god was behind the slaughter. Back in the mountains, Ye Qin finished refining the Miniature Cauldron, then sensed an expanding underground disturbance and realized an earthquake was beginning.

• Zhao Guoan and Sun Haonan searched the slaughtered auction house, where dying Viper blamed a monster and the officers found strange wounds, animal tracks, and fur.
• Zhao Guoan reported that another mysterious force had wiped out the auction house, and Sun Haonan connected the scene to online reports of a strange animal group near the Myanmar Region.
• Sun Zhenbang heard the report and suspected the mountain god’s subordinates had killed the smugglers in retaliation for their earlier actions.
• The Siberian Tiger and its companions returned toward Fog City Province, drawing renewed attention online and prompting the military to debate the unexplained attack.
• Ye Qin completed the Miniature Cauldron, but he and the nearby animals sensed a growing disturbance underground, which Ye Qin identified as an earthquake.

Ye Qin used the Miniature Cauldron to shield Longyuan Mountain and nearby villages from a major earthquake, then prepared the animals on his mountain to help the injured by refining medicinal pills. He sent them down the mountain to distribute the pills and earn merit, while the CIA planned to exploit the disaster by sending agents toward Longyuan Mountain.

• Ye Qin sensed a powerful earthquake approaching and used the Miniature Cauldron to protect Longyuan Mountain and nearby villages.
• The earthquake struck Fog City, Yunling, and other areas, while the shield kept Longyuan Mountain and Longyuan Village largely safe.
• People across Great Xia sent aid to the disaster areas, while the CIA ordered agents to investigate around Longyuan Mountain during the chaos.
• Ye Qin decided the animals should help the injured and taught them to refine medicinal pills so they could earn merit.
• The animals made crude but mildly beneficial pills, and Ye Qin sent them down the mountain to distribute them to injured people.

As animals from Longyuan Mountain brought healing pills to earthquake survivors, Sun Zhenbang helped distribute them across the disaster zones. When officials predicted a devastating aftershock in Fog City, Ye Qin began preparing a formation on Longyuan Mountain to suppress it.

• Sun Zhenbang led rescue efforts in Fog City and, with Xie Yixuan, discovered animals offering black pills to survivors.
• Sun Zhenbang recognized the animals as helpers from Longyuan Mountain, swallowed a pill to prove it was safe, and organized its distribution to the injured.
• The animals’ deliveries spread across the disaster areas, while a spy reported the strange aid to his headquarters.
• The Earthquake Bureau detected an eighty-percent chance of a magnitude-five aftershock in Fog City and ordered an evacuation.
• Ye Qin planned to use Longyuan Mountain as the formation eye and a cauldron as the suppressing object, then drew Yellow Talismans and sent the animals to place them around the mountain.

Ye Qin activated a vast talisman formation on Longyuan Mountain, using the Miniature Cauldron and the mountain’s power to suppress the force beneath the earth and prevent the predicted aftershock. After the disaster eased, Sun Zhenbang connected the mountain’s golden light to the vanished aftershock, while reports about Longyuan Mountain spread and drew public skepticism.

• Ye Qin activated the formation, and its combined power drove the disturbance beneath the earth into the depths as golden light enveloped Longyuan Mountain.
• The earthquake bureau found that the predicted aftershock signal had vanished, and the crisis passed without further tremors.
• Sun Zhenbang visited Longyuan Village and learned that the village had remained unharmed and that golden light had appeared over the mountain at the predicted time of the aftershock.
• Sun Zhenbang told the village chief that the aftershock had disappeared, and they credited the mountain god with protecting the village and saving others.
• Reports about Longyuan Mountain’s protection of the village and the vanished aftershock spread online, where people argued over whether the claims were true.
• An informed poster urged readers to look up Longyuan Mountain and questioned why it had later been sealed off.

After the earthquake, officials failed to explain the miraculous pills and strange events tied to Longyuan Mountain, while Ye Qin’s animals returned to refining pills and Ye Qin faced another cultivation bottleneck. Longyuan Village prepared an especially grand Mountain God Festival, drawing believers and curious visitors as the celebration approached.

• A testing center found that the pills contained only ordinary herbs and could not be replicated, while the mayor and military leaders connected the animals, the vanished aftershocks, and the untouched Longyuan Village to Longyuan Mountain.
• Ye Qin praised the animals for rescuing people, sensed that they had gained merit, and guided them as they refined increasingly potent pills.
• After the surrounding cities recovered, Ye Qin realized that his cultivation had stagnated for more than a year and that he had reached another bottleneck.
• Longyuan Village elders planned an especially large Mountain God Festival to thank Ye Qin for protecting them from the earthquake, and the villagers prepared the altar, feast, and celebrations.
• Sun Zhenbang and Zhao Jianhua hurried to attend the festival, while Captain Zhou and Bai Yanfei could not travel from Yunling; several familiar visitors nevertheless arrived.

Longyuan Village held a grand Mountain God Ceremony attended by Sun Zhenbang, Daoist Qingwei, and monks from Qiguang Temple, whose places of worship had also escaped the earthquake. The ceremony took an astonishing turn when the Mountain God's animals arrived with offerings, and Daoist Qingwei and the monks were stunned by the Yellow Talismans they carried.

• Villagers welcomed Sun Zhenbang, Daoist Qingwei, and monks from Qiguang Temple, who came to thank the Mountain God for protecting them during the earthquake.
• Zheng Huasen, a CIA spy, watched the gathering from hiding as the village chief struck the bronze gong and began the ceremony before a serpent statue.
• The villagers offered sacrifices and incense, whose smoke drifted toward Longyuan Mountain, before a tiger and other animals descended from the mountain.
• The animals formed orderly ranks and, at the Siberian Tiger's direction, presented herbs, enormous ginseng roots, and Yellow Talismans at the altar.
• Daoist Qingwei and the monks from Qiguang Temple froze in shock when they saw the Yellow Talismans.

During the Mountain God Ceremony, Longyuan Village’s people and the mountain animals celebrated together while Daoist Qingwei learned that the Yellow Talismans matched ones from Qiguang Temple. After Ye Qin filled Longyuan Mountain and the village with mist, the village chief woke to find his soul outside his body and followed a sacred skeleton into the fog.

• The monks from Qiguang Temple identified the Yellow Talisman as the work of the same master who had left talismans at their temple, and Daoist Qingwei borrowed it to study.
• The animals offered incense and joined the villagers’ banquet, where the villagers mistook Zhao Jianhua for an intruder until a weasel vouched for him.
• The Siberian Tiger outdrank the villagers, while a drunken Zhao Jianhua told the gathering about the British Museum robbery and Sun Zhenbang suspected his story was true.
• After the animals returned to the mountain, Ye Qin spread mist over Longyuan Mountain and the village, promising the villagers a stroke of fortune.
• The village chief awoke in the fog, saw his own sleeping body, and followed a glowing skeleton that summoned him to receive divine blessings.

After Ye Qin preached the Dao on Longyuan Mountain, the villagers and animals gained insight, and Ye Qin left for Mount Tai to seek new opportunities. There, his Bronze Ancient Sword emerged in the real world just as it flew to stop a drug dealer’s speeding vehicle from hitting a sedan.

• Ye Qin’s sermon on Longyuan Mountain helped the villagers and animals gain insight, and the mountain’s Spiritual Energy nourished its plants and creatures.
• Sun Zhenbang and the village chief discussed their shared experience of hearing the mountain god preach, while Hu Xiaocao had comprehended the most.
• Ye Qin bid farewell to the animals, left Longyuan Mountain, and traveled to Mount Tai to search for a Fragmented Epochs opportunity.
• Ye Qin discovered that the Bronze Ancient Sword had fully materialized and could be controlled and used outside the water channel.
• A drug gang fled from Gao Liwen and the TZ City police in a modified off-road vehicle, endangering motorists and damaging a police car.
• As the off-road vehicle charged toward a sedan, Ye Qin’s flying sword streaked across the sky and confronted it.

Ye Qin used the Bronze Ancient Sword to destroy a drug dealers’ vehicle, then found a temporal fragment near the Pine of the Fifth Rank on Mount Tai. He entered the fragment and witnessed a Daoist temple appear in the mountains as Meng Tian’s Qin soldiers marched toward Tai County to hunt fangshi.

• Ye Qin’s sword split the drug dealers’ vehicle in two, killing those inside and leaving a deep trench across the road.
• Gao Liwen’s team classified the damage as caused by a sharp weapon, while online rumors claimed Mount Tai had protected the people; Gao ordered more officers to watch the mountain.
• Ye Qin discovered that the Bronze Ancient Sword weakened with use, then searched Mount Tai for an opportunity.
• At the Pine of the Fifth Rank, Ye Qin sensed a temporal fragment and entered it, where a Daoist temple appeared and the mountain animals briefly froze in fear.
• Meng Tian led Qin soldiers toward Tai County to eliminate fangshi and noticed that the mountain was unnaturally silent.

Meng Tian encountered an immense beast tide gathered around a mysterious Daoist temple, where he discovered that a powerful green serpent was the Demon Immortal commanding the beasts. He returned to Xianyang to tell Qin Shi Huang, who drew his sword and pointed it at him.

• Meng Tian followed a gathering of animals to a strange temple, where the beasts bowed before it and a vast tide surrounded his troops.
• A voice from the temple invited Meng Tian inside, and he discovered that the Demon Immortal was a green serpent.
• Meng Tian returned safely through the beasts and redirected his army from Tai County to Xianyang to report what he had seen.
• Meng Tian told Qin Shi Huang he had encountered a Demon Immortal, and Qin Shi Huang drew his sword and pointed it at him.

Qin Shi Huang traveled with Meng Tian to Mount Tai to investigate the reported Demon Immortal, and an invisible barrier separated him from his guards inside the strange building. After meeting Ye Qin, Qin Shi Huang accepted that the Demon Immortal was real and asked him to grant immortality.

• Qin Shi Huang nearly killed Meng Tian for speaking of a Demon Immortal, but agreed to visit it after Meng Tian swore his report was true.
• Qin Shi Huang traveled with Meng Tian to Mount Tai, where they found the beast tide gone and a strange building still standing.
• Qin Shi Huang entered the building alone when an invisible barrier prevented Meng Tian and the guards from following or reaching him.
• Qin Shi Huang explored the building and found Ye Qin, a green snake who confirmed that he was a Demon Immortal.
• Qin Shi Huang told Ye Qin about his failed searches for immortality and asked him to bestow it upon him.

Ye Qin showed Qin Shi Huang the rise and fall of dynasties, convincing him that no empire could last forever and introducing him to the path of Dao Cultivation. Qin Shi Huang left the meeting changed, with a new pact with the Demon Immortal to pursue eternal life.

• Qin Shi Huang explained that he wanted immortality so he could preserve Great Qin and fulfill his ambitions, and Ye Qin told him he still did not understand.
• Ye Qin brought Qin Shi Huang's spirit to witness the river of history, where Qin Shi Huang saw Great Qin fall and later dynasties rise and perish.
• Ye Qin blurred Qin Shi Huang's memories of the future and explained that no dynasty could endure forever, while a Dao Cultivator might reach the other shore through personal transformation.
• Qin Shi Huang's guards grew anxious outside the gate and argued with Meng Tian about whether to storm the mountain as the quarter-hour deadline passed.
• Qin Shi Huang emerged, said he had met the Demon Immortal and benefited greatly, then reminded Ye Qin of their Eternal Life Pact.