Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi, Xuan Lengyan, and Qiu Wa celebrated the Moon Begging Festival and came upon a lantern-riddle stall where a burly man mistreated Qiu Wa. An old man named Tan challenged Xu Yi to solve three riddles in a row, with the twelve women at the stall as the stakes.

• Xu Yi teased Xuan Lengyan into relaxing, and she explained the Moon Begging Festival's traditions.
• Xuan Lengyan took Xu Yi and Qiu Wa to a riverside lantern festival, where they found crowds solving lantern riddles.
• Qiu Wa called out a bearded man for treating the women at his stall as prizes, and Xu Yi restrained the man when he threatened her.
• Xu Yi released the bearded man after briefly choking him, then faced the arrival of the old man in a brocade robe, Tan.
• Tan challenged Xu Yi to solve three lantern riddles in a row to claim the twelve women, or face the same treatment he had given Tan's man.

Xu Yi solved two riddles at a gathering hosted by the Brocade Society, with the second answer fulfilling the old man’s promise to free the maids. The answer embarrassed Xuan Lengyan, while the crowd celebrated Xu Yi’s ingenuity.

• Xu Yi agreed to solve a riddle after the old man in brocade robe challenged him to choose three maids to take away.
• Xu Yi formed the character “Xiong” from the water beside the bridge and solved the first riddle, impressing the crowd.
• The old man in brocade robe presented the unsolved riddle “Chonger” and promised to free the maids if Xu Yi answered it.
• Xu Yi pointed to a pleasure boat, then formed the characters “Fengyue” as the answer.
• Xuan Lengyan realized what the answer meant and blushed, while the old man in brocade robe and the crowd praised Xu Yi.

Xu Yi freed a group of captive female cultivators and then accepted a lantern-riddle challenge from Fan Tower’s Zhao. He composed a celebrated poem incorporating the numbers one through ten, won the White Jade Capital lantern, and was recognized as Young Master Yiling.

• Tan offered Xu Yi the women’s contracts, and Xu Yi burned them and declared the women free to leave.
• Xuan Lengyan teased Xu Yi for letting the women go, and he traded playful messages with his master.
• Qiu Wa asked for fireworks, and Tan offered Xu Yi the Brocade Society’s lantern.
• Zhao of Fan Tower challenged Xu Yi to solve a riddle in exchange for the White Jade Capital lantern or to write for Fan Tower if he failed.
• Xu Yi composed a sorrowful poem that incorporated the numbers one through ten, impressing the crowd and winning the lantern from Zhao.
• Zhao revealed that Xu Yi was Young Master Yiling, and the crowd erupted over his literary talent.

Xu Yi pursued the attacker who drained Qiu Wa’s vitality into a room where he confronted the Black-Browed Imperial Son and his Qiongbei Cat. He killed the cat and fed its Wood Spirit Demon Core to Qiu Wa, leaving the Black-Browed Imperial Son furious and the room in stunned silence.

• Xuan Lengyan took Xu Yi and Qiu Wa through the White Jade Capital lantern’s illusion, where a shadow struck Qiu Wa and fled into a riverside tower.
• Xu Yi chased the shadow into a room occupied by Su Xingchun, Tao Jingsheng, and the Black-Browed Imperial Son, whose Qiongbei Cat had attacked Qiu Wa.
• Xu Yi learned Qiu Wa had lost vitality, then confronted the Black-Browed Imperial Son after he demanded the Wood Spirit Demon from Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi trapped and killed the Qiongbei Cat, cut out its green Wood Spirit Demon Core, and fed it to Qiu Wa before storing her in his Sumeru Ring.
• The Black-Browed Imperial Son restrained himself from attacking in Central City as the room fell silent.

Xu Yi attacked Su Xingchun after she threatened Qiu Wa, and she unleashed a dangerous talisman that nearly tore open a black vortex over Central City. Executive Zheng and Executive Cao intervened, but Su Xingchun accused Xu Yi before they could determine what happened; Uncle Xuan Jiu arrived as the dispute continued.

• Su Xingchun warned Tao Jingsheng that Xu Yi's rapid growth made him a greater threat than Xuan Lengyan.
• Xu Yi ignored Su Xingchun's attacks and battered her shield, then threw Xuan Lengyan out of danger when Su Xingchun used a powerful black talisman.
• Executive Zheng and Executive Cao appeared and extinguished the vortex, then demanded an explanation from Su Xingchun.
• Su Xingchun accused Xu Yi of attacking her and flaunting his Black Quality Badge, while Xuan Lengyan defended her disciple and warned him about the executives.
• Su Xingchun insinuated that Xuan Lengyan and Xu Yi were lovers, and Uncle Xuan Jiu arrived and greeted the executives.

Xuan Lengyan learned the Xuan family had obtained an image of her bathing with Xu Yi and was told to end their connection, though Uncle Xuan Jiu let her return for one last look. Meanwhile, Xu Yi confronted Su Xingchun and the city executives over their unequal enforcement of Central City's laws as the Black-Browed Imperial Son challenged the Immortal Hall's treatment of him.

• Uncle Xuan Jiu showed Xuan Lengyan an image of her bathing with Xu Yi and warned her that the Xuan family required them to stop meeting.
• Xuan Lengyan persuaded Uncle Xuan Jiu to let her return and watch Xu Yi leave from afar.
• Su Xingchun mocked Xu Yi, but he insulted her back before her white-haired Third Uncle blocked his way.
• Executive Zheng told Xu Yi to contact the Golden Core Society, while Su Xingchun's Third Uncle warned her not to escalate the conflict.
• Xu Yi challenged the executives for questioning him instead of holding Su Xingchun accountable under Central City's laws, and Executive Cao threatened him.
• Executive Zheng let Xu Yi go, but the Black-Browed Imperial Son objected to the Immortal Hall's treatment of its guest.

Xu Yi was drawn into a confrontation with the Black-Browed Imperial Son and Su Xingchun until a mysterious fisherman intervened, effortlessly devoured the black-robed attacker with a carp, and fed Xu Yi a fish that purged his bodily impurities. The powerful onlookers were left stunned by the fisherman's strength and Xu Yi's transformation.

• Su Xingchun challenged Xu Yi to fight the Black-Browed Imperial Son, and Xu Yi insisted she join them.
• A fisherman arrived, recited Xu Yi's poem, and asked whether Xu Yi had written it.
• When the black-robed man attacked the fisherman, the fisherman caught the spiritual-energy strike on his hook and had a carp swallow the attacker whole.
• The fisherman gave the cooked carp to Xu Yi, who ate it and began expelling pill impurities as his body underwent a rare cleansing.
• Executive Zheng, Executive Cao, the white-haired young man, and the other nobles were shocked by Xu Yi's transformation and the fisherman's power.

Xu Yi reunited with Xuan Lengyan and composed a poem for her before returning to the fisherman. The fisherman praised Xu Yi’s work and revealed a painting tied to ARuan’s unfinished legacy.

• Xu Yi thanked the fisherman, who asked him to write a poem without giving him a prompt.
• Xu Yi spotted Xuan Lengyan approaching and rushed out, while the fisherman pinned two pursuing squads in the sky.
• Xu Yi found Xuan Lengyan in the crowd and recited a poem that moved her to tears; she warned him not to betray his master before leaving.
• Xu Yi returned to the hall, where the fisherman praised several lines of the poem and said someone worthy had appeared after three hundred years.
• The fisherman unfurled a painting of a young man and a Green-clad woman beneath a weeping willow, saying ARuan’s posthumous work would no longer be left a regret.

The fisherman brought the figures in the painting to life, but the young man vanished before the woman could touch him. Xu Yi wrote a poem that moved the fisherman to tears, and the fisherman left Xu Yi with a strange hair wrapped around his finger.

• The fisherman summoned the young man and woman from the painting, but the young man dissolved before he could turn to face her, leaving the woman sorrowful.
• At the fisherman's command, Xu Yi attacked the Black-Browed Imperial Son, who was transformed into a pig and cut apart; Xu Yi took his resources and threw the meat into the river.
• Xu Yi wrote a poem about a lost love, and the fisherman placed its words inside the painting.
• The fisherman wept three tears, rejoiced that he could still feel, and threaded the tears onto a hair to wear around his neck.
• The fisherman gave Xu Yi a hair that softened and wound around his finger, then left; Xu Yi slapped Su Xingchun three times and warned her about her foul mouth.

Xu Yi used the fisherman’s lingering authority to secure a meeting with Executive Zheng and asked him for cultivation guidance. After testing Xu Yi’s mutated spiritual root, Executive Zheng saw that it could not withstand a Lightning Tribulation Expert’s attack and asked how Xu Yi had cultivated it.

• Xu Yi warned Su Xingchun and Tao Jingsheng before leaving the tower, and the crowd dispersed rather than challenge him.
• Xu Yi met Executive Zheng at his cave abode after pretending the fisherman had sent him to find the lightning-tribulation survivor.
• Xu Yi offered Executive Zheng two Black Origin Beads and an Azure Fire Furnace in exchange for cultivation guidance, and Executive Zheng accepted the gifts.
• Executive Zheng asked Xu Yi to demonstrate his strength and struck him with red light, leaving Xu Yi’s spiritual root unable to move and making him spit purple blood.
• Executive Zheng asked Xu Yi how he had cultivated his bizarre mutated spiritual root.

Xu Yi learned from Executive Zheng how cultivators advanced through Calamity Tribulation and heard a warning against entering Guangcheng Immortal Mansion before growing stronger. After returning to Central City, he learned the mansion would open within three months and was warned by Uncle Xuan Jiu to abandon his hopes concerning Xuan Lengyan.

• Executive Zheng explained Spirit Soul formation, the Wind Tribulation, and the Lightning Tribulation, then advised Xu Yi not to enter Guangcheng Immortal Mansion yet.
• Xu Yi let Executive Zheng examine the fisherman's strand of hair, which pierced through Executive Zheng's palm when he tried to catch it.
• Xu Yi returned to Central City, found Qiu Wa and the Ice Fire Rabbit still unconscious, and rented an alchemy chamber.
• The head of the Guanglong Trading Company told Xu Yi that Guangcheng Immortal Mansion would open within three months and that he was arranging a teleportation point.
• Uncle Xuan Jiu answered Xu Yi's call and warned him that Xuan Lengyan was in seclusion and would become a Great Elder, urging Xu Yi not to pursue unrealistic hopes.

Xu Yi learned that the strand of hair from the fisherman contained immense Pure Yang Power, and Executive Zheng proposed an alliance in exchange for information. Executive Zheng warned him about his enemies’ preparations and offered rare intelligence on Guangcheng Immortal Mansion, but Xu Yi questioned where it came from.

• Xu Yi rebuked Uncle Xuan Jiu for speaking disrespectfully and ended their conversation, while Uncle Xuan Jiu ordered an investigation into what happened at Cold Moon Tower.
• Xu Yi met Executive Zheng, who tested the fisherman’s strand of hair and identified it as a trace of a true Pure Yang Body’s power.
• Executive Zheng explained that Pure Yang Power had nearly destroyed his body and said the hair convinced him Xu Yi was worth betting on.
• Executive Zheng proposed working with Xu Yi and warned him that Su Xingchun, Tao Jingsheng, and the Black-Browed Emperor Lord were preparing against him.
• Executive Zheng offered valuable information about Guangcheng Immortal Mansion, and Xu Yi asked how anyone could have gathered intelligence about a place that had never opened.

Xu Yi studied records about Guangcheng Immortal Mansion and prepared for the journey there, then joined Qin Kong’s expedition aboard the Wulan Ship. The group reached a dark, deathly sea, where a fast-moving cloud approached as a companion warned of danger beneath the waves.

• Executive Zheng gave Xu Yi historical records about Guangcheng Immortal Mansion, a storage bracelet, and advice to lay the precious hair over his Spiritual Root, asking him to pay what he thought fair.
• Xu Yi returned to Guanglong Hall, studied Executive Zheng’s records and the contents of Black-Browed Imperial Son’s Starry Sky Ring, and practiced with the precious hair on his Spiritual Root.
• After the gray-haired old man summoned him, Xu Yi left Yan Zi and traveled with him to meet Qin Kong, master of Kongkong Pavilion.
• Qin Kong assembled a twenty-person expedition and used the Wulan Ship to transport them to a dark sea.
• As the Wulan Ship descended toward the waves, a companion warned Qin Kong of danger below, and a fast-moving dark cloud appeared overhead.

Xu Yi helped Qin Kong navigate the Wulan Ship through the Sea of Resentment after discovering that its strange sky made ordinary navigation unreliable. The ship headed south, but something stirred beneath the water, and Qin Kong’s companions released dozens of people from their Starry Sky Rings.

• Bai Jizi identified the black waters as the Sea of Resentment, and the group cautiously continued aboard the Wulan Ship.
• Xu Yi noticed that the sun and moon were visible together, warning Qin Kong that ordinary methods could not guide them through the distorted space.
• Xu Yi used Bai Jizi’s Kongkong Birds to determine that south was the safest direction, and two birds were struck by lightning after triggering the spatial restriction.
• Qin Kong turned the Wulan Ship south, but ripples appeared in the water, prompting Wu Xiu Jia, Wu Xiu Yi, Wu Xiu Bing, and Wu Xiu Ding to release dozens of people from their Starry Sky Rings.

Xu Yi warned Qin Kong that the sea would turn stormy, and Qin Kong’s crew cast Tong Xinwu overboard when the waves began to rise. Skeletal monsters attacked Tong Xinwu as the storm stirred, and his Divine Infant emerged while the monsters tore apart his body.

• After Qin Kong’s blood sacrifice calmed the sea, Xu Yi warned that a storm would return within thirty breaths.
• Tong Xinwu accused Xu Yi of causing trouble, but Qin Kong demanded to know how to prevent the storm.
• When Wu Xiu Jia reported that twenty-one breaths had passed and the waves began to churn, Qin Kong ordered the others to attack Tong Xinwu.
• The crew forced Tong Xinwu off the Wulan Ship and sealed its protective barrier as skeletal monsters emerged from the sea.
• Tong Xinwu’s attacks failed against the skeletal monsters, which tore at his body until his Divine Infant floated out.

Xu Yi stopped Tong Xinwu’s shattered Divine Infant from feeding the skeletal fiends, then challenged the Wulan Ship’s passengers to stop waiting for luck and fight. He offered to leave the ship and battle the fiends, leaving Qin Kong and the others to decide whether to open the barrier.

• Xu Yi used the Soul-Summoning Banner to absorb the starlight from Tong Xinwu’s shattered Divine Infant.
• Zhang Ji accused Xu Yi of ambushing Tong Xinwu, but Xu Yi pointed out that Zhang Ji had also helped drive Tong Xinwu off the ship.
• Xu Yi challenged Qin Kong’s right to blame him and warned that throwing passengers overboard would destroy morale; Bai Jizi and the others supported keeping him aboard.
• Zhang Ji urged everyone to wait for the skeletal fiends to retreat, but Xu Yi argued that the fiends could exhaust the ship’s barrier or attract more enemies.
• Xu Yi urged the cultivators to remember their past courage and volunteered to fight if Qin Kong opened the barrier.

Xu Yi led the cultivators against the skeletal demons and discovered that their spines were their weak point. He rescued Zeng Qingfeng by crossing the spatial restriction, but a lightning strike left him unconscious before he recovered on the Wulan Ship.

• Xu Yi charged into battle with a mace, inspiring Qin Kong and the other cultivators to fight alongside him.
• After letting skeletal demons seize him, Xu Yi used the Primordial Sword Tooth to break their spines and revealed their weakness to the cultivators.
• The cultivators struck the skeletal demons' spines and quickly turned the battle in their favor.
• When Zeng Qingfeng was dragged toward the sea, Xu Yi flew through the spatial restriction and rescued him by destroying the demons surrounding him.
• Xu Yi dodged the Wulan Ship, was struck by lightning, and collapsed on its deck; Zeng Qingfeng gave him pills, and Xu Yi soon woke.

After surviving the spatial restriction, Xu Yi recovered and sensed that his tribulation was near as the Wulan Ship crossed the Sea of Resentment. The group passed the corpse of the Black Sky Mysterious Snake, reached shore, and set out together toward Immortal Guangcheng’s grounds, where they discovered an ancient battlefield.

• Xu Yi recovered from the lightning strike, while Zeng Qingfeng thanked him for saving his life and Qin Kong praised his courage.
• After three days and nights at sea, the group encountered the colossal corpse of the Black Sky Mysterious Snake, which Bai Jizi identified.
• Bai Jizi spotted a coastline, and the Wulan Ship brought the group safely ashore.
• Qin Kong invited everyone to travel together toward Immortal Guangcheng’s grounds, and they agreed to search the outskirts on foot.
• After traveling several thousand li along the shore, the group stopped before an ancient battlefield strewn with human and Demon Race remains.

The cultivators discovered an ancient battlefield and a hidden cave abode, but disputes over the first claim to its treasures fractured Qin Kong’s group. Just as Cai Xiongqi offered to join Xu Yi, he helped Xiang Shui bind Xu Yi, revealing that they had come for Young Master Yiling.

• Wu Xiu Bing rushed toward the black spear in the ancient battlefield, but Wu Xiu Jia and the other cultivators were repelled by a golden protective array.
• Bai Jizi pointed out a sacrificial inscription on the western sea, and Zhang Ji led the group to a Stone Gate in a cliff.
• Wu Xiu Jia gambled that the spatial restriction had lifted, reached the Stone Gate first, and entered the cave abode ahead of Zhang Ji.
• Zhang Ji challenged Qin Kong over Wu Xiu Jia claiming the cave, and several cultivators left Qin Kong’s group; Cai Xiongqi then offered to follow Xu Yi.
• Xiang Shui trapped Xu Yi in a web of light while Cai Xiongqi revealed they had been commissioned to capture Young Master Yiling.
• Zeng Qingfeng refused to help Xu Yi and fled the cave abode.

Su Xingchun arrived at the cave dwelling to kill Xu Yi, wielding power granted by a Su family ancestral spirit. After she eliminated Wu Xiu Yi, Cai Xiongqi, and Xiang Shui, she held Xu Yi captive and wondered how he planned to escape.

• Qin Kong refused to interfere in the team's personal grudge and began leading his group away, but Su Xingchun arrived and was recognized as Cai Xiongqi and Xiang Shui's ally.
• Su Xingchun demanded that Wu Xiu Yi destroy his Starry Sky Ring, then killed him with a single strike and collected the released resources.
• Qin Kong warned Su Xingchun and fled with Wu Xiu Jia, Wu Xiu Bing, and Wu Xiu Ding, while Bai Jizi and the others also withdrew.
• Su Xingchun questioned Xu Yi and had Xiang Shui use the light net to torment him, prompting Xu Yi to plead for his life and offer information.
• Cai Xiongqi and Xiang Shui attacked Su Xingchun and tried to escape, but she killed them with purple qi.
• Su Xingchun lifted the imprisoned Xu Yi and remarked that she was curious how he planned to escape.