Chapter Summaries

Shen Xiu and Ye Qingcheng activated the Eternal Youth Realm’s Entrap the Dragon in a Jar Grand Array, enclosing the Floating Blood Sea and turning living beings into dragons under Shen Xiu’s control. The jar formed with an unnoticed gap at the Purple-haired Man’s position, while Xianxian and the others watched the transformation smoke spread.

• Shen Xiu and Ye Qingcheng began the grand array, and its porcelain-like walls rose across the land to enclose the Floating Blood Sea.
• The Purple-haired Man remained trapped in Gu Qian You’s formation, leaving a gap in the Heaven and Earth Jar; Nian Youyou watched with delight.
• Gu Qian You recognized that the formation was part of a conspiracy and ordered Corpse Mister to send his strongest zombie out to scout.
• Yellow smoke entered the experts’ bodies, transforming them into lifeless yellow dragons that flew toward the former Floating Blood Sea.
• Tian Xiao and Yin Luo Ri transformed into enormous yellow dragons, while Wine Old Man identified the phenomenon as feng shui sorcery that masked Heaven’s secrets and defied Heaven to transform.

Shen Xiu’s grand array transformed those caught in its yellow mist into Yellow Dragons that merged into a colossal dragon, while Nian Youyou escaped the mist by turning into yellow sand. After NanGong Sheng was defeated by the Witch Clan, the enormous Yellow Dragon seized the Earth Book and fled.

• Gu Qian You refused to wake His Majesty as the Entrap the Dragon in a Jar Grand Array filled the Heaven and Earth Jar with yellow mist.
• Nian Youyou was struck by the mist, transformed into yellow sand, and escaped the Heaven and Earth Jar with the Ancestor God Beast.
• Great Yan Heavenly Dynasty experts, including Xing Tai Dou, entered the mist, transformed into Yellow Dragons, and merged into an ever-larger dragon.
• NanGong Sheng fought the two Witch Clan members with the Earth Book but was defeated, and the Earth Book fell between them.
• A fifty-thousand-zhang Yellow Dragon entered the Black Hole, grabbed the Earth Book, and fled as the Witch Clan members shouted after it.

NanGong Sheng fled the Witch Clan pursuer after his soul was shattered by Ji Soul, then collapsed near the Heaven and Earth Jar. Zhong Shan learned that a flaw in Shen Xiu’s formation was draining the Yellow Dragon’s strength and led his group toward the formation’s perimeter.

• The thousand-zhang Witch Clan member dragged the Yellow Dragon back while another Witch Clan member pursued NanGong Sheng, who had fled with the Earth Book.
• NanGong Sheng used arrays and a Secret Method to evade his pursuer, but his shattered soul weakened until he passed out near the Heaven and Earth Jar.
• Zhong Shan awoke, heard about the supermassive feng shui formation, and learned from Mud Bodhisattva that its rift was causing the Yellow Dragon to weaken.
• Master Shen Xiu discovered that the formation’s vital energy was leaking, and he and Ye Qingcheng searched for the flaw.
• Gu Qian You activated the formation one last time, and Zhong Shan led everyone toward the outer perimeter as the Purple-haired Man noticed the formation weakening.

Zhong Shan escaped the Entrap the Dragon in a Jar Grand Array with his companions and secretly hid the badly wounded NanGong Sheng from the Witch Clan. The formation eventually collapsed and was rebuilt with all sixty-four positions, leaving the Purple-haired Man face-to-face with the Realm Master and Master Shen Xiu.

• The Purple-haired Man celebrated as the formation weakened, while Nian Youyou saw Zhong Shan emerge and fled in tears, remembering their past together.
• Zhong Shan declined to attack the Purple-haired Man and led his group out of the formation, where a falling fireball revealed the gravely wounded NanGong Sheng.
• Zhong Shan sealed NanGong Sheng’s soul with the Black Jade Talisman, hid him in a buried coffin, and used a Shadow Clone to lure away the pursuing Witch Clan member.
• The thousand-zhang Witch seized the Earth Book after the Yellow Dragon weakened, and he and the other Witch Clan member decided to return to the Great Chiliocosm World.
• The Yellow Dragon exploded, and Master Shen Xiu reunited with Ye Qingcheng as the formation’s sixty-fourth position connected and completed the array.
• The Purple-haired Man celebrated the completed formation, then froze when he saw the Realm Master and Master Shen Xiu.

Ye Qingcheng and the surviving experts withdrew after the Yellow Dragon collapsed and the Witch Clan escaped with the Earth Book. Zhong Shan revived NanGong Sheng and tried to recruit him to Great Zheng for a thousand years, but NanGong Sheng demanded the Black Jade Talisman in return.

• Ye Qingcheng ordered the Eternal Youth Realm forces to disperse the formation and withdraw as the Yellow Dragon collapsed and the experts began waking.
• Tian Xiao gathered the Tian Family disciples and led them home, while Xing Tai Dou returned to the Great Yan Heavenly Dynasty and Yin Luo Ri departed alone.
• Zhong Shan removed the Black Jade Talisman from NanGong Sheng's forehead, reviving him, and asked why he had become a Mystic Immortal so early.
• NanGong Sheng explained that he had exhausted the formations available to study and needed the Great Chiliocosm World to continue growing stronger.
• Zhong Shan offered NanGong Sheng a thousand years of service in Great Zheng, citing his weakened state and inability to leave the Small Chiliocosm World.
• NanGong Sheng agreed to join if Zhong Shan gave him the Black Jade Talisman, and Zhong Shan identified the talisman by name.

Zhong Shan persuaded NanGong Sheng to join Great Zheng for a thousand years by giving him the Black Jade Talisman, then appointed him Director of the newly established Yi Tian Bureau. After returning to the underworld capital, Zhong Shan oversaw the dynasty’s ongoing war and chose not to intervene when the Household went to war with the Great Yan Heavenly Dynasty.

• Zhong Shan gave NanGong Sheng the Black Jade Talisman as an advance on a thousand years of service, and NanGong Sheng agreed to join Great Zheng.
• Zhong Shan explained to Gu Qian You that the talisman had belonged to Ying and that he valued NanGong Sheng more than the treasure.
• After returning to Chang Capital, Zhong Shan heard from Lin Xiao that two Emperor Dynasties had attacked Great Zheng, and he ordered Lin Xiao to reward the troops and continue the campaign with Yan Chongzhi.
• Zhong Shan established the Yi Tian Bureau to oversee formations and chess games, appointed NanGong Sheng as its Director, and asked him about the Witch Clan’s staff and the Apricot Yellow Flag.
• NanGong Sheng explained that the Apricot Yellow Flag was an imitation artifact from the Five Direction Flags Formation and could reach its full power only with the other four flags.
• Six months later, Zhong Shan declined to join the Household’s war against the Great Yan Heavenly Dynasty and chose to focus on strengthening Great Zheng.

Zhong Shan assessed the growing turmoil across the Divine Continent, welcomed the Dragon-Tiger Pill Saint into Great Zheng, and entered the Hundred Lifetimes Cave Heaven to undergo reincarnation. As he endured repeated lives centered on his lost first wife, Wei Kui Er, a heavenly demon emerged to torment him.

• Zhong Shan warned his strategists that Ying and Great Qin possessed immense strength and ordered his commanders to cultivate in the Hundred Lifetimes Cave Heaven.
• The Dragon-Tiger Pill Saint arrived after the Azure Flame Emperor Dynasty fell, and Zhong Shan welcomed him to Great Zheng’s Tai Dan Institute.
• Emperor Xuan Sha completed his ninety-fourth reincarnation and returned to secluded cultivation.
• Zhong Shan entered the Hundred Lifetimes Cave Heaven and endured reincarnation worlds, repeatedly losing Wei Kui Er in tragic lives.
• During Zhong Shan’s ninety-fourth reincarnation, black qi engulfed the valley, and Mud Bodhisattva identified a heavenly demon from the Heavenly Demon Pool tormenting him.

Zhong Shan endured the Heavenly Demon’s assault through the ninety-fourth and ninety-fifth lifetimes, where he repeatedly lost Wei Kui Er and was urged to abandon his love. He refused, realizing that giving her up would mean losing himself, and walked toward the exit of the Hundred Lifetimes Cave Heaven as the phantom woman pursued him.

• Mud Bodhisattva warned Bao Er, Bei Qing Si, Tian Ling'er, and Emperor Xuan Sha that the Heavenly Demon’s influence was intensified around Zhong Shan, but they could not disturb him while he neared the hundredth reincarnation.
• In his ninety-fourth lifetime, Zhong Shan became a revered Buddhist monk, fell in love with Wei Kui Er, and leaped from a cliff holding her corpse after the crowd beat her to death.
• In his ninety-fifth lifetime, Zhong Shan relived his memories and watched the golden-robed man kill Wei Kui Er and seize her blue silhouette.
• The phantom woman urged Zhong Shan to give up Wei Kui Er in exchange for power and freedom from pain, but he said that giving her up would mean losing his heart and himself.
• Zhong Shan accepted Wei Kui Er as both an inner demon and a weakness, then walked toward the Hundred Lifetimes Cave Heaven’s exit while the phantom woman chased after him.

After emerging from his ninety-fifth reincarnation, Zhong Shan visited Wei Kui Er’s grave and found peace in his enduring love for her. He returned to Hundred Lifetimes Cave Heaven, where he questioned the phantom woman about her identity and learned she was known as the Source of All Evil.

• Zhong Shan left Hundred Lifetimes Cave Heaven as the sky-filling resentment vanished, while the unseen phantom woman followed him.
• Zhong Shan visited Wei Kui Er’s grave, restored it, and placed flowers and a gravestone there, finding calm in his love for her.
• Zhong Shan introduced Bao Er, Tian Ling'er, and Bei Qing Si to Wei Kui Er’s grave and apologized for worrying them.
• Zhong Shan returned to Hundred Lifetimes Cave Heaven, where his transformed spirit made him immune to its reincarnation illusion.
• The phantom woman told Zhong Shan that her original form was the white jade statue, that she had formed when Hundred Lifetimes Cave Heaven appeared, and that she remembered being called the Source of All Evil.

After naming the Hundred Lifetimes Cave Heaven’s phantom Huan Ji, Zhong Shan advanced to the second level of the Emperor Realm and learned that the Tian Family had destroyed the Great Yan Heavenly Dynasty. Wei Taizhong then brought news that Ying Lan was imprisoned in the Tian Family’s Quiet Wave Pool, and Zhong Shan resolved to rescue her.

• Zhong Shan named the phantom woman Huan Ji and promised to keep the Hundred Lifetimes Cave Heaven as her dwelling, asking her to temper the minds of future visitors.
• Zhong Shan emerged from solitary cultivation at the second level of the Emperor Realm, and five years later learned that the Tian Family had destroyed the Great Yan Heavenly Dynasty and Xing Tai Dou had fled to the Eternal Youth Realm.
• Wei Taizhong arrived with the Nine Dragons Token and begged Zhong Shan to save Ying Lan, whom the Tian Family had imprisoned.
• Wei Taizhong showed Zhong Shan a Memory Crystal depicting a Tian Family member collecting Ying Lan’s ghost soul and explained that she had been taken to the Quiet Wave Pool.
• Despite Yan Chongzhi’s warnings about the Tian Family’s power, Zhong Shan insisted on going to rescue Ying Lan and summoned NanGong Sheng, Wine Old Man, and Yin Luo Ri.

Zhong Shan learned about the Tian Family’s powerful five veins and its mysterious Quiet Wave Pool, where an ancestor had once saved the family from three heavenly dynasties. He decided to travel to Ten Thousand Feet Hell to find his relative, while Xuan Yuan opened his silver eyes in the living world.

• Wine Old Man explained that the Tian Family controlled five veins, including the Luck Vein, and that each likely had a Tian Ji Realm expert.
• Wine Old Man said a Tian Family ancestor had emerged from Quiet Wave Pool to defeat the three great heavenly dynasties of the Yin World during a past calamity.
• NanGong Sheng warned Zhong Shan that the world restricted even powerful outsiders and that Gu Shentong had once been its strongest.
• Zhong Shan chose Yin Luo Ri, Corpse Mister, and Wei Taizhong to accompany him to Ten Thousand Feet Hell, while NanGong Sheng and Wine Old Man stayed behind.
• Three days later, Zhong Shan and his companions set out for Ten Thousand Feet Hell.
• In the living world, Xuan Yuan opened his silver eyes and released a streak of Lethal Qi.

Zhong Shan and his companions reached the outskirts of Ten Thousand Feet Hell and learned that a volatile trading scheme was destabilizing the Star Dou Emperor Dynasty. Recognizing it as the Heavenfall Plan he had once taught Xiao Wang, Zhong Shan left the manager advice before leading his group into Ten Thousand Feet Hell.

• Zhong Shan, Corpse Mister, Yin Luo Ri, and Wei Taizhong traveled for six months and arrived at the outskirts of Ten Thousand Feet Hell.
• In a nearby city, Zhong Shan learned that the Star Dou Emperor Dynasty was waging a stalemated war against the Tian Family while wildly fluctuating commodity prices drove residents into ruin and enriched the government.
• Wei Taizhong recognized the scheme as one Zhong Shan had used before, and Zhong Shan identified it as the Heavenfall Plan, likely taught by Xiao Wang to Tian Xiao.
• Zhong Shan chose not to investigate the war, rested with his companions for a day, and prepared to enter Ten Thousand Feet Hell.
• Before departing, Zhong Shan advised the restaurant manager to buy Sumeru Stone when its price fell and nobody wanted it.

Zhong Shan and his party traveled through Ten Thousand Feet Hell to the Yellow Springs Road, where Corpse Mister explained how ghosts could use it to reincarnate and how immortals could cross between realms. At the place where Ying Lan had been captured, Zhong Shan encountered Xuan Yuan meditating near the Yellow Springs Road.

• Zhong Shan and his party entered Ten Thousand Feet Hell, where Corpse Mister explained the Yellow Springs Road and the Reverse Yellow Springs Road.
• Yin Luo Ri destroyed a mind-awakened Ghost King that attacked the group, and Zhong Shan chose to visit the place where Ying Lan had been captured before seeking the Tian Family.
• Five days later, Zhong Shan and his party reached the Yellow Springs Sea and saw countless ghost creatures struggling against its deadly current.
• Wei Taizhong pointed out the area where the Tian Family had captured Ying Lan, but Zhong Shan found no message or trace left by her.
• Yin Luo Ri spotted a man meditating on a mountain platform, and Zhong Shan recognized him as Xuan Yuan.
• Xuan Yuan opened his silver eyes and looked at Zhong Shan with surprise.

Zhong Shan met Xuan Yuan in the underworld and told him that the Tian Household might have captured the ghost of someone he loved. When six immortals led by Ao Lie confronted Xuan Yuan at Yellow Springs Road, Xuan Yuan revealed his Creation Body and prepared to fight them.

• Zhong Shan met Xuan Yuan and learned that Xuan Yuan had killed a Human Immortal trying to reach the living world through Yellow Springs Road.
• Zhong Shan told Xuan Yuan that the Tian Household's Quiet Wave Pool might hold the ghost of the woman Xuan Yuan had been searching for, and Xuan Yuan vowed to investigate after dealing with the immortals.
• Yin Luo Ri sensed six people heading toward Yellow Springs Road, so Zhong Shan and his companions turned back to see whether Xuan Yuan could stop them.
• Ao Lie demanded passage back into the Small Chiliocosm World to retrieve something, but Xuan Yuan refused and defeated one green-robed immortal's attack with a phantom.
• Xuan Yuan summoned Creation God Palace's Holy Light Screen and revealed his Creation Body, while Ao Lie and the other immortals vowed to kill him and take his blood.

Xuan Yuan fought the Six Earth Immortals, who transformed into azure dragons after he withstood their attacks in human form. As the dragons gained the advantage, Xuan Yuan began to use a mysterious power, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Six Earth Immortals formed an azure world around Xuan Yuan, but he broke it with the Wings of Chongtian and fought back with the First Dust Whisk.
• Xuan Yuan battled the Six Earth Immortals inside a Black Hole for a day and night, while Zhong Shan and the others retreated from the devastating aftershocks.
• The Six Earth Immortals argued over their mission and then transformed into six enormous azure dragons to attack Xuan Yuan together.
• Xuan Yuan fought the dragons for nearly two days, but emerged with blood at his mouth as the unharmed dragons prepared to finish him.
• Xuan Yuan moved two fingers toward the spot between his brows, and three simultaneous shouts of “Open!” came from his voice.

Xuan Yuan used his Creation Body to split into three and fought the Six Earth Immortals for ten days, forcing them to acknowledge his strength. The dragons then activated a Reincarnation Jade Talisman that trapped one Xuan Yuan in a devastating tunnel, while Zhong Shan prepared to intervene.

• Xuan Yuan revealed his Creation Body and divided into three identical bodies without diminishing his strength.
• The three Xuan Yuans battled the six Azure Dragons for ten days, leaving both sides battered before Xuan Yuan demanded they leave the Small Chiliocosm World.
• The eldest Azure Dragon produced a Reincarnation Jade Talisman and activated a Reincarnation Tunnel beneath Xuan Yuan.
• Five Azure Dragons blocked two Xuan Yuans while the tunnel’s immense suction pulled the third toward it.
• Zhong Shan opened his Reincarnation Eye and stamped a destructive aura into the earth as the Green-Clad Man laughed at Xuan Yuan’s predicament.

Zhong Shan learned the Reincarnation Saint’s method of controlling a Reincarnation Tunnel and helped Xuan Yuan defeat the Azure Dragons. Three days later, Zhong Shan and his companions reached the Tian Family and requested an audience with Tian Ji Zi.

• Zhong Shan comprehended the trajectory of reincarnation and used it to close the tunnel, leaving the trapped Xuan Yuan free.
• Xuan Yuan immobilized the “Big Brother” with his silver pupils and killed him with the First Dust Whisk, prompting Ao Lie and the remaining Azure Dragons to flee.
• Xuan Yuan told Zhong Shan he would remain behind to guard against the dragons, but could briefly leave if Zhong Shan found ghosts from the living world at the Quiet Wave Pool.
• Corpse Mister collected the dead immortal’s corpse, and Zhong Shan’s group set out for the Tian Family.
• Three days later, Zhong Shan presented an invitation card to the Tian Family Disciples and asked to meet Tian Ji Zi; the leading disciple recognized the Great Zheng Emperor Dynasty’s Nineteen-Clawed Qi Luck Golden Dragon.

Zhong Shan visited the Tian Family to ask Tian Ji Zi to release Wei Yinglan from the Quiet Wave Pool, but Tian Ji Zi rejected him with hostility. The arrival of Heavenly Old revealed that the Feng Shui Peak elder shared the name and unusual connections of the Heavenly Old Zhong Shan had met in the Yang World.

• Zhong Shan presented Great Zheng’s invitation and was admitted to the Tian Family’s Heaven Vein Palace, where he met Tian Ji Zi.
• Tian Ji Zi said he had received Zhong Shan because his son, Tian Xiao, had called Zhong Shan one of his two future arms.
• Zhong Shan showed Tian Ji Zi a Memory Crystal of Wei Yinglan being captured and asked for her release from the Quiet Wave Pool.
• Tian Ji Zi recognized Wei Yinglan, called her a calamity, and refused Zhong Shan’s demand for her return or an explanation.
• Female Heavenly Old entered the hall after hearing Zhong Shan had met her before, and she recognized him.

Zhong Shan tried to bargain with Tian Ji Zi for Ying Lan’s release, but Tian Ji Zi refused and drove him and his companions out of the Heaven Vein Palace. Zhong Shan vowed to return soon and enter the Quiet Wave Pool himself, leaving the Female Heavenly Old with an uneasy premonition.

• Zhong Shan explained that the living-world Heavenly Old belonged to the Tian Family’s Feng Shui Vein, and Tian Ji Zi pressed him for information about a precious object.
• Zhong Shan revealed that he had given Heavenly Old the Purple Cotton Kasaya, but Tian Ji Zi still refused to release Ying Lan from the Quiet Wave Pool.
• Zhong Shan challenged Tian Ji Zi’s contempt for others and warned that the Tian Family could be replaced, while Wei Taizhong knelt and pleaded for Ying Lan.
• Tian Ji Zi rejected Wei Taizhong’s plea and ordered Zhong Shan’s group to leave the Heaven Vein Palace.
• Zhong Shan vowed to return soon and enter the Quiet Wave Pool without Tian Ji Zi’s decree, while the Female Heavenly Old watched them go with a fleeting sense of worry.

After Tian Ji Zi refused to return Ying Lan, Zhong Shan planned to assemble underworld experts and pressure the Tian Family. He began recruiting allies by spreading an embellished account of the Floating Blood Sea, aiming to undermine Tian Xiao’s prestige and provoke him into pursuing Shen Xiu.

• Zhong Shan left the Tian Family and told Wei Taizhong that he would use force after courtesy failed, while planning to make the family’s powerful experts too busy to cope.
• Corpse Mister agreed to spend three months preparing the Immortal Corpse Sacrifice to Heavenly Ghost, which could create a heavenly ghost as strong as Yin Supreme.
• Zhong Shan sent Wei Taizhong to tell Xuan Yuan that he had found the Quiet Wave Pool and planned to enter it with him upon his return.
• Five days later, Zhong Shan learned that Sumeru Stone prices had soared and instructed the tavern’s shopkeeper to distribute ten thousand copies of an embellished account of the Floating Blood Sea.
• Zhong Shan explained to Yin Luo Ri that the account was meant to recruit Xing Tai Dou, the Eternal Youth Realm, and Shen Xiu while provoking Tian Xiao into attacking Shen Xiu and losing virtue and prestige.