Chapter Summaries

Hao Shuai captured a Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey, named it Xiao Hui, and retrieved the Soul-Capturing Rod from the pool. He then returned to the bamboo grove, where Zhang Xiaofan was still asleep, and began taking off his shirt.

• Hao Shuai recognized the monkey as a Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey and won its submission with a Blood Bodhi and Blood Orchid.
• Hao Shuai named the monkey Xiao Hui, but left it outside the pool after it warned him the pool was dangerous.
• Hao Shuai resisted the Soul-Capturing Rod’s murderous aura and put the rod into his storage space.
• Hao Shuai checked the pool, then shared a wild fruit with Xiao Hui and flew back toward Zhang Xiaofan.
• Hao Shuai found Zhang Xiaofan still asleep in the bamboo grove, set Xiao Hui aside, and began taking off Zhang Xiaofan’s shirt.

Hao Shuai returned to Great Bamboo Peak with Zhang Xiaofan after improving his aptitude, then encouraged him as they discussed his past and cultivation. Zhang Xiaofan unexpectedly confided that Puzhi had taught him Great Brahma Prajna, leaving Hao Shuai stunned by how much he trusted him.

• Hao Shuai told Zhang Xiaofan that his newfound energy came from a long, restorative sleep, then brought him back to Great Bamboo Peak.
• Hao Shuai endured Du Bishu's cooking and followed Zhang Xiaofan to his courtyard after dinner.
• Zhang Xiaofan asked Hao Shuai about the Grass Temple Village massacre, and Hao Shuai resolved to help him pursue Tian Ling'er.
• Zhang Xiaofan admitted that he had practiced both Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao and Great Brahma Prajna and suspected the two methods conflicted.
• Zhang Xiaofan revealed that Puzhi had been his master and taught him Great Brahma Prajna, then asked Hao Shuai to assess the cultivation formulas.

Hao Shuai reassured Zhang Xiaofan about cultivating both techniques, then returned to Tongtian Peak and promised the Water Kirin he would find it a mate. After Dao Xuan approved his request to gain experience, Hao Shuai left Qingyun Mountain with Chang Jian.

• Hao Shuai told Zhang Xiaofan that mastering the difficult introductory stage of both techniques would let his cultivation progress improve.
• Hao Shuai said farewell to Zhang Xiaofan and returned to Tongtian Peak with Chang Jian.
• The Water Kirin eagerly licked Hao Shuai after he promised to find it a female kirin, and Hao Shuai considered bringing the female Fire Kirin from another world.
• Hao Shuai asked Dao Xuan for permission to go down the mountain, and Dao Xuan agreed after Hao Shuai declined special treatment.
• Hao Shuai ordered Chang Jian to take him to the foot of Qingyun Mountain so he could begin his journey.

Hao Shuai explored Heyang City and settled into Shanhaiyuan Inn while trying to find a way to locate Kong Sang Mountain. As he ate, Zhou Yixian appeared and warned him that he was in grave danger, leaving Hao Shuai stunned by the fortune-teller’s arrival.

• Hao Shuai visited the graves of Grass Temple Village’s victims, flew to Heyang City, and spent the day exploring.
• Hao Shuai booked an annex at Shanhaiyuan Inn and decided to ask a caravan escort agency for directions to Kong Sang Mountain.
• Hao Shuai ordered local dishes, including Stewed Mei Fish, and planned to catch Mei Fish for Dongfang Bai and the others.
• Zhou Yixian approached Hao Shuai with a warning about his apparent misfortune, and Hao Shuai recognized him as the mysterious fortune-teller from Zhu Xian.

Hao Shuai met Zhou Yixian and little Xiaohuan in Heyang City, teased Zhou Yixian, then treated them to a meal. He hired Zhou Yixian to draw a detailed map of the Divine Land, and Zhou Yixian agreed to finish it in three days.

• Hao Shuai recognized Zhou Yixian and punched him to test whether he was hiding his strength, giving him a bloody nose.
• Hao Shuai comforted little Xiaohuan with candied hawthorns and invited her and Zhou Yixian to share his meal.
• After they finished eating, Hao Shuai asked Zhou Yixian to draw a detailed map of the Divine Land.
• Hao Shuai offered Zhou Yixian a thousand taels of gold, and Zhou Yixian promised to complete the map in three days.

After obtaining a detailed map from Zhou Yixian, Hao Shuai traveled to Kong Sang Mountain and entered the Ten Thousand Bat Ancient Cave. He reached the Abyss of the Dead but found no sign of the Blood Refining Hall, whose magical treasures he hoped to seize.

• Zhou Yixian completed a detailed map for Hao Shuai and accepted a hundred taels of gold instead of the thousand taels offered.
• Hao Shuai left Heyang City on the Flying Nimbus and reached Kong Sang Mountain around noon.
• Hao Shuai found the Ten Thousand Bat Ancient Cave and flew through it while avoiding the sleeping blood-sucking bats.
• Hao Shuai passed the broken stele and followed the left-hand passage into the vast cavern containing the Abyss of the Dead.
• Hao Shuai peered into the abyss and realized he had not encountered any members of the Blood Refining Hall.

Hao Shuai searched the Abyss of the Dead for Blood Dripping Cave, reflecting on the Zhu Xian World's lack of reincarnation as the Nine Elders Immortal Capital Seal protected him from Yin spirits. He found the cave and reached the chamber containing the first volume of the Heavenly Book.

• Hao Shuai descended into the Abyss of the Dead, where the Nine Elders Immortal Capital Seal destroyed the Yin spirits that attacked him.
• Hao Shuai pondered where the dead went in a world without reincarnation as he searched for Blood Dripping Cave by the Sea of Ruthlessness.
• Hao Shuai found the cave entrance beneath an old tree and opened the hidden passage behind a curtain of water.
• Hao Shuai passed through the chamber of the Holy King and Holy Mother statues and continued deeper into the cave.
• Hao Shuai reached a stone chamber marked with the words “Heavenly Book” and found the carved text of the first volume.

Hao Shuai memorized the first volume of the Heavenly Book, took the Hehuan Bell from Blood Dripping Cave, and traveled to Xiao Chi Town. He found demonic qi in the woods near Black Stone Cave, confirming that its occupants were already there.

• Hao Shuai studied and memorized the first volume of the Heavenly Book, then erased its writing from the stone wall.
• Hao Shuai opened the iron box, drove away its ancient corpse poison, and claimed the Hehuan Bell for Wanwan.
• Hao Shuai searched Blood Dripping Cave, found nothing else, and teleported back to the entrance of Kong Sang Mountain.
• Hao Shuai flew to Xiao Chi Town and asked a waiter about strange events and Black Stone Cave.
• Hao Shuai reached the nearby woods after nightfall and saw demonic qi, concluding that the cave's occupants were already there despite his arrival five years early.

Hao Shuai found the Three-tailed Demonic Fox at Little Pine Ridge and offered to heal the Six-tailed Spirit Fox in exchange for the Mysterious Fire Mirror. After she accepted, he explained the Full Moon Well’s true nature and saw the women he loved reflected in it.

• Hao Shuai entered Little Pine Ridge and encountered the Three-tailed Demonic Fox beneath the moonlight.
• The Three-tailed Demonic Fox mistook Hao Shuai for a Fanxiang Valley disciple seeking the Mysterious Fire Mirror and attacked him with demonic beasts.
• Hao Shuai overwhelmed the attackers and offered to heal the Six-tailed Spirit Fox in exchange for the Mysterious Fire Mirror.
• The Three-tailed Demonic Fox accepted and prepared to take Hao Shuai to her big brother.
• Hao Shuai uncovered the Full Moon Well and explained that it showed the person or thing its viewer loved most.
• Hao Shuai looked into the well and saw the faces of Wanwan, Minmin, Dongfang, Yuyan, and Long'er.

Hao Shuai followed the Three-tailed Demonic Fox into Black Stone Cave to find her injured brother, the Six-tailed Spirit Fox. After the Six-tailed Spirit Fox distrusted Hao Shuai and tested him with the Mysterious Fire Mirror, a blazing dragon burst from the treasure.

• The Three-tailed Demonic Fox led Hao Shuai through Black Stone Cave, past its many Demonic Beasts, to an underground cavern filled with lava.
• She reunited with the Six-tailed Spirit Fox and told him she had found someone who could heal him.
• The Six-tailed Spirit Fox grew wary of Hao Shuai, pulled the Three-tailed Demonic Fox behind him, and demanded to know who Hao Shuai was.
• Hao Shuai recognized the Mysterious Fire Mirror when the Six-tailed Spirit Fox revealed it, prompting the fox to accuse him of wanting the treasure.
• The Six-tailed Spirit Fox raised the Mysterious Fire Mirror, and a blazing dragon shot from its flame emblem.

Hao Shuai defeated the Six-tailed Spirit Fox’s fire dragon, took the Mysterious Fire Mirror, and heard the foxes plead for the injured Six-tailed Spirit Fox’s life. He demanded another valuable payment, and the Three-tailed Demonic Fox could think of nothing while Hao Shuai hinted at her.

• The Six-tailed Spirit Fox summoned a fire dragon from the Mysterious Fire Mirror and attacked Hao Shuai.
• Hao Shuai froze the cave surroundings, destroyed the fire dragon with an ice dragon, and caused the Six-tailed Spirit Fox to collapse in fox form.
• Hao Shuai took the Mysterious Fire Mirror and considered visiting Fenxiang Valley to copy the Eight Fiends Mysterious Fire Array.
• The Six-tailed Spirit Fox asked Hao Shuai to spare the Three-tailed Demonic Fox, while the Three-tailed Demonic Fox begged him to save her brother.
• Hao Shuai claimed the Mysterious Fire Mirror as his prize and asked what else they could offer; the Three-tailed Demonic Fox said they had nothing else, and he suggestively told her to think again.

Hao Shuai secured the Mysterious Fire Mirror as his spoils and offered to heal the Six-Tailed and rescue his mother in exchange for a hundred years of service from the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox. The Six-Tailed agreed and signed the agreement, leaving Hao Shuai with a binding promise to present when he freed her.

• The Three-Tailed offered herself to save the Six-Tailed, but Hao Shuai revealed he had only been joking about demanding her.
• Hao Shuai claimed the Mysterious Fire Mirror as his spoils of war and asked whether the fox clan had any suitable maids.
• The Six-Tailed told Hao Shuai that he and the Three-Tailed were the only surviving members of their clan, and Hao Shuai revealed that his mother was imprisoned in Fenxiang Valley's Profound Fire Altar.
• Hao Shuai offered to heal the Six-Tailed and rescue his mother if the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox served him as a maid for a hundred years.
• The Six-Tailed accepted the terms and signed the agreement with his name and paw print.

Hao Shuai healed Six-tailed Spirit Fox by absorbing the Nine Cold Condensing Ice Thorn and most of its cultivation. After sending Six-tailed Spirit Fox and Three-tailed Demonic Fox away, he stayed in Black Stone Cave to forge a magical weapon and pursue its unusual creatures.

• Hao Shuai examined Six-tailed Spirit Fox's injuries and chose the fast, painful method of using the Northern Darkness Sky Absorption Skill to remove the Nine Cold Condensing Ice Thorn.
• Hao Shuai absorbed the thorn and Six-tailed Spirit Fox's magical power, while pretending the process had left him weak.
• Six-tailed Spirit Fox recovered from the thorn's influence but lost most of its cultivation, and Three-tailed Demonic Fox thanked Hao Shuai for saving it.
• Hao Shuai told the two foxes to leave so he could cultivate in Black Stone Cave, and they departed together.
• Hao Shuai stayed behind to use the underground magma to forge a magical weapon and eyed the cave's unfamiliar creatures.

Hao Shuai refined the Mysterious Fire Mirror, absorbing Witch Maiden Linglong’s remnant soul and obtaining the Eight Fiends Mysterious Fire Array diagram. After seven days, he finished refining the mirror and decided to bring the girls to the Zhu Xian World to help them cultivate.

• Hao Shuai tried probing the Mysterious Fire Mirror with his Divine Thought, but its heat burned the intruding thought away, so he began refining it directly.
• When ordinary refining stalled at the mirror’s core, Hao Shuai spat blood onto it, letting his magic power penetrate and summon Linglong’s remnant soul.
• Hao Shuai absorbed Linglong’s unresisting remnant soul and gained the diagram of the Eight Fiends Mysterious Fire Array, though he did not obtain the Southern Border Soul-Summoning Art.
• Hao Shuai completed refining the Mysterious Fire Mirror, which flew into his sea of consciousness, and learned from Ren Tingting that the process had taken seven days.
• Hao Shuai decided to bring the girls to the Zhu Xian World to help them reach the Golden Core Realm, then ordered the Heng Ha Generals to catch animals for food.

Hao Shuai broke the Blood Devouring Pearl’s seal, erased Black Heart Old Man’s lingering consciousness, and forged the pearl and other demonic treasures into a new saber. He named it the Demon Blade and returned to the cave after finding no lightning tribulation awaiting it.

• Hao Shuai broke the Buddhist seal on the Blood Devouring Pearl and destroyed the blood shadow formed from Black Heart Old Man’s remnant imprint.
• Hao Shuai used the Mysterious Fire Mirror to melt the Soul-Capturing Rod, Fire Kirin Sword, Sword of Demise, Great Evil King, and other materials.
• Hao Shuai refined the molten materials, shaped them into a goose-wing saber, and set the Blood Devouring Pearl into its blade.
• Hao Shuai infused the saber with his blood and magic power, named it the Demon Blade, and saw the name appear on its hilt.
• Hao Shuai searched the surface for a lightning tribulation, found the sky clear, and returned underground while the Heng Ha Two Generals watched the saber warily.

Hao Shuai forged the blood-draining Demon Blade and a righteous Divine Sword, then practiced sword control before leaving Black Stone Cave. He brought his companions to the Hehuan Sect’s base at Xiaoyao Stream to use it as their temporary home and training ground.

• Hao Shuai tested the Demon Blade on Demonic Beasts and discovered it drained their blood and returned their energy to him.
• Hao Shuai forged the Divine Sword from gathered weapons and treasures, then practiced sword control with the Heng Ha Two Generals as targets.
• Hao Shuai left Black Stone Cave and flew on his sword from Liubo Mountain to Xiaoyao Stream, where he found the Hehuan Sect’s base.
• Hao Shuai brought Song Que, Dongfang Bai, Wanwan, Yueyao, and the others to the Hehuan Sect’s base and said they would use it to cultivate and practice fighting.
• Hao Shuai changed his appearance and followed the group, with Jingjue Queen bringing up the rear.

Hao Shuai brought his family to the Hehuan Sect’s sacred ground and claimed they wanted to join, but Madam San Miao refused because the sect accepted only women. After Hao Shuai turned the confrontation over to his companions, a battle began, leaving him watching over the women as they faced cultivators for the first time.

• Hao Shuai had the Jingjue Queen attack the Hehuan Sect’s protective formation until Madam San Miao and her disciples came out to confront them.
• Hao Shuai told Madam San Miao that his group had come to join the Hehuan Sect, but she refused because its rules barred male disciples.
• Hao Shuai asked Dongfang Bai and the others to handle the matter after Madam San Miao refused to change the sect’s rules.
• Madam San Miao attacked Hao Shuai with her Entangling Silk, but the Jingjue Queen knocked it back with her bare hand.
• Madam San Miao ordered her disciples to attack, and Hao Shuai had the Heng Ha Two Generals guard the women while they fought in the peach grove.

After defeating and devastating the Hehuan Sect, Hao Shuai made Madam San Miao accept him and his companions as guest elders, then bound the sect members with the Life and Death Talisman. He settled Dongfang Bai and the others at Xiaoyao Stream and began studying the sect’s techniques to create a cultivation method for women.

• Hao Shuai asked Madam San Miao to accept him and his companions into the Hehuan Sect as guest elders, and she agreed under pressure.
• Hao Shuai planted the Life and Death Talisman in the Hehuan Sect members and demonstrated its torment before promising yearly antidotes if they obeyed.
• Madam San Miao arranged for Hao Shuai and his companions to become elders of the Hehuan Sect.
• Hao Shuai settled Dongfang Bai and the others at Xiaoyao Stream on Liubo Mountain and requested the Hehuan Sect’s cultivation manuals.
• Hao Shuai studied the manuals alongside the Heavenly Book and the Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao, planning to create a technique that cultivated yin and yang.

Hao Shuai used the first volume of the Book of Heaven and other cultivation methods to create the Great Sadness Scripture of Yin-Yang Union, a technique for cultivating both body and spirit. After spending over two months in seclusion, he emerged with his Yin Spirit refined and a method that could help his wives strengthen their souls.

• Hao Shuai decided to build a true dual-cultivation method on the Hehuan Sect's technique, drawing on the Book of Heaven, the Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao, and other methods.
• Hao Shuai spent more than two months in seclusion testing and refining his ideas, aided by his regenerative powers, Senzu Beans, and Red Queen.
• Hao Shuai emerged disheveled and smelly, and Lan Xiaodie, Shan Wanjing, and Jianning teased him before he made them scrub his back.
• Hao Shuai told Zhao Min and the other women that he had created the Great Sadness Scripture of Yin-Yang Union and had become absorbed in studying the Book of Heaven.
• Hao Shuai explained that the new method joined partners' energies and spirits, allowing him to guide his wives' soul cultivation through dual cultivation.

Hao Shuai taught his wives the Great Sadness Scripture of Yin-Yang Union and began cultivating it with them. Three years later, he returned to Qingyun Mountain, relieved to be away from the exhausting life of constant cultivation with his wives.

• Hao Shuai learned that the Hehuan Sect had kept its troubles hidden, with Wu Qing exposing spies and the Life and Death Talisman keeping Madam San Miao and the disciples in line.
• Hao Shuai explained why Selena and several other women were not joining the cultivation, then gathered the remaining women in the training room.
• Hao Shuai recited the Great Sadness Scripture of Yin-Yang Union and began cultivating with Wanwan, whose power rose rapidly.
• Hao Shuai continued the dual cultivation sessions with his other wives over the following three years.
• Hao Shuai returned to the foot of Qingyun Sect's mountain and reflected on his difficult three years away from Qingyun Mountain.