Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi used a gray hair Mystical Treasure to kill Su Xingchun and destroy her malformed Divine Infant. After copying faded writing from the cave abode’s western wall, he found another cave abode with the same writing and began filling gaps in his fragment.

• Xu Yi’s deception led Su Xingchun to suspect Cai Xiongqi and Xiang Shui, who attacked her and were killed.
• Su Xingchun grabbed Xu Yi’s light web, but his gray arrow pierced her defenses and severed her head.
• Xu Yi trapped Su Xingchun’s malformed Divine Infant with Six Star Flowing Fire, then used the gray arrow to destroy it as the Soul-Summoning Banner gathered its remains.
• Xu Yi collected the battlefield spoils and copied nearly two hundred faded characters from the cave abode’s western wall.
• Xu Yi traveled west and found another cave abode, where he copied the same writing and reduced the gaps in his fragment by nearly a third.

Xu Yi cultivated the Minor Cloud Crane Art and triggered the formation of a Divine Infant. After his soul and Spirit Soul nearly failed to unite, a strand of yellow light from the hair on his finger stabilized the process, and he successfully formed an unusual, fierce-looking Divine Infant.

• Xu Yi assembled the complete Minor Cloud Crane Art from inscriptions in more than a dozen cave abodes and found that it cultivated soul and spirit alongside Qi.
• Xu Yi secluded himself and mastered all nine levels of the art in less than an hour, producing Cloud Crane Pure Qi.
• Xu Yi’s Cloud Crane Pure Qi entered his Mystic Palace, where a featureless human figure formed and golden beams joined his Mystic Palace and spiritual altar into the Heavenly Bridge.
• Xu Yi guided his soul across the Heavenly Bridge, where his soul and Spirit Soul joined around his spiritual root and formed a Tai Chi symbol.
• Xu Yi realized that his soul’s passage through time and space made it incompatible with his Spirit Soul, and the Tai Chi symbol began to collapse.
• The hair around Xu Yi’s finger released yellow light that stabilized the Tai Chi symbol, allowing Xu Yi to form a muscular, bald Divine Infant with a yellow headband and a fearsome Killing Intent.

Xu Yi formed a Divine Infant, gained mastery over his own spiritual power, and continued searching the Guangcheng Immortal Mansion. He rescued the badly wounded Zeng Qingfeng from a green-robed cultivator and revived her with pills.

• Xu Yi completed the formation of his Divine Infant and gained the ability to control his apertures and reshape his body, though he mourned the loss of the fisherman's hair.
• Xu Yi left the cave dwelling and continued west, using his improved Light Smoke Steps to search broken cave dwellings for treasure.
• Zeng Qingfeng called to Xu Yi for help while a green-robed cultivator pursued her, and Xu Yi recognized her as his close friend.
• Xu Yi shattered the green-robed cultivator's attack with his Infant Essence and drove him away by displaying six spots of light.
• Xu Yi caught Zeng Qingfeng as she fell and fed her two pills, restoring her vitality.

Xu Yi punished Zeng Qingfeng for his betrayal, then followed Qin Kong's group to a strange cave abode and discovered Bai Jizi's transformation ability. The chapter left Xu Yi and Bai Jizi facing each other after Xu Yi captured him and Bai Jizi recognized Xu Yi as a true World Child.

• Xu Yi saved Zeng Qingfeng and learned that Qin Kong's group had found a large cave abode west of them.
• Xu Yi used an Ape Horse Pill to turn Zeng Qingfeng's guilt into a knot in his heart, then left him to face the consequences.
• Xu Yi hid near the cave abode and watched the group fight over a crescent-shovel weapon that shattered and released a glowing speck.
• Xu Yi noticed Bai Jizi was missing from the group and pursued him as two people chased him across the sky.
• Xu Yi saw Bai Jizi transform into a sapling, knocked him back into human form, and forced him to swallow an Origin Seal Bead.
• Bai Jizi recognized that Xu Yi had advanced to Spirit Transformation and praised him as a true World Child.

Xu Yi captured Bai Jizi after Bai Jizi ambushed him and learned that Bai Jizi had used an Azure Wood Bead to neutralize his Origin Seal Bead. Bai Jizi was left stunned when Xu Yi revealed he had another Origin Seal Bead.

• Bai Jizi calmly accepted Xu Yi’s restriction and explained that his transformation had made him appear like a dead tree.
• Bai Jizi showed Xu Yi a glowing green grain, then attacked him with five colored orbs when Xu Yi examined it.
• Xu Yi’s Origin Seal Bead failed, but he endured Bai Jizi’s barrage and pursued him after Bai Jizi fled.
• Xu Yi trapped Bai Jizi with the Nine Star Flowing Fire Technique and threatened him with a Chiwu Worm.
• Bai Jizi revealed that his Azure Wood Bead had polluted and blocked Xu Yi’s water-element Origin Seal Bead.
• Xu Yi produced another Origin Seal Bead, leaving Bai Jizi astonished.

Xu Yi spared Bai Jizi from revealing the oath-bound Mysterious Transformation Art and asked him to guide the way deeper into Guangcheng Immortal Mansion. Bai Jizi explained his ties to the Fufeng Clan’s knowledge and led Xu Yi toward the mansion’s core, where they encountered endless clouds.

• Xu Yi released Bai Jizi from the restriction, healed him, and reaffirmed his promise to restore his freedom once his goal was achieved.
• Bai Jizi said a Blood Oath prevented him from teaching Xu Yi the Mysterious Transformation Art, and Xu Yi agreed not to press him for it.
• Bai Jizi explained that the Fufeng Clan of the ancient lands knew Guangcheng Immortal Mansion’s greatest secrets and had sent nearly all its members inside.
• Xu Yi asked Bai Jizi to lead him beyond the outer dwellings, and Bai Jizi guided him south while explaining that the mansion occupied the ancient Kongtong Mountain.
• Bai Jizi and Xu Yi climbed above a hundred zhang into endless clouds, and Xu Yi asked Bai Jizi what his plan was.

Xu Yi and Bai Jizi discovered that spirit essences could briefly steady the fog, while Qin Kong’s newly unified group searched for more. Their pursuit of Bai Jizi ended when they found a mysterious stone gate embedded in a cliff.

• Bai Jizi and Xu Yi used spirit essences to steady the fog, but their light faded, and they realized they had not moved from their starting point.
• Bai Jizi concluded they needed many spirit essences or a powerful expert to enter, and Xu Yi hinted that he had another plan.
• Qin Kong’s group collected spirit essences under a points system, bound by Blood Oaths, after uniting following internal fighting and losses.
• Qin Kong led his group in pursuit of Bai Jizi, hoping to recruit him, but Bai Jizi vanished near a cliff.
• Zhang Ji found a huge stone gate with a rusted copper ring embedded in the western cliff.

Xu Yi revealed himself in the cavern and defeated Qin Kong’s group with a devastating attack, then stopped them from leaving after they recovered. He used Wu Xiu Jia’s agony to warn Qin Kong, and pointed Bai Jizi toward him while making clear that Qin Kong held the spirit essences in his Starry Sky Ring.

• Qin Kong and the others followed a spirit essence into a cavern, where they found a treasure vault and fought a cloaked figure.
• The cloaked figure collapsed the passage and unleashed a series of explosions that incapacitated the cultivators and revealed him as Xu Yi, who had advanced in cultivation.
• Bai Jizi helped Xu Yi free the group from the rubble, and Xu Yi carried the survivors to the beach without killing them.
• Qin Kong tried to take his group away, but Xu Yi said he and Bai Jizi had gathered everyone there for a reason and would not let them leave.
• Wu Xiu Jia challenged Xu Yi, who trapped his Divine Infant and tortured him until he could barely move.
• Xu Yi called Wu Xiu Jia loyal to the core and told Bai Jizi to deal with Qin Kong, knowing Qin Kong had the spirit essences in his Starry Sky Ring.

Xu Yi and Bai Jizi debated how to gather more spirit crystals, then rescued Zeng Qingfeng from two pursuers. Xu Yi welcomed Zeng and agreed to follow his lead to a rumored treasure site.

• Qin Kong surrendered nine spirit crystals, and Xu Yi returned his other belongings and spared his life.
• Bai Jizi and the group discussed ways to obtain more spirit crystals, and Wu Xiu Jia suggested charging their enemies directly.
• Xu Yi ordered Qin Kong and the others to rescue Zeng Qingfeng, and they drove off his two pursuers and brought him back.
• Xu Yi greeted Zeng warmly and asked him for news, while Zeng feared Xu Yi still held a grudge against him.
• Zeng Qingfeng claimed to know a place that might hold treasure, and Xu Yi agreed to set out with him at once.

Xu Yi led his group to a dangerous palace and revealed that he intended to hunt whoever had set it up. After Zeng Qingfeng disclosed the palace’s history, Xu Yi drew its interior for Zhang Ji to identify, but the palace vanished when they returned.

• Zeng Qingfeng led Xu Yi and the others to a mysterious palace on a cliff, and Xu Yi decided to investigate its trap as a way to hunt its creator.
• Xu Yi warned the group to follow his orders, then confronted Zeng Qingfeng after realizing he had tried to lure them into danger.
• Zeng Qingfeng admitted that the palace had appeared in several places and that people who entered it never returned, so Xu Yi let him sleep instead of punishing him.
• Xu Yi drew the palace’s interior from a glance outside, and Zhang Ji identified its formation as the long-lost Qianji Xuanting Formation.
• After discussing the formation with Zhang Ji, Xu Yi led the group back to the palace, but it had disappeared.

Xu Yi punished his companions for their passivity, then led them to a hidden palace and broke through its deadly traps. He confronted the Ghost-faced Man, who became obsessed with Xu Yi’s ability to see through his plans, and Xu Yi struck first.

• Xu Yi used the Origin Seal Bead to punish the group and forced Bai Jizi to explain their agreement and help with the plan.
• Zeng Qingfeng led the group to the palace by following its movement pattern, and Xu Yi’s party rushed inside ahead of a guarded group of strangers.
• Xu Yi and his companions survived the palace’s traps, while Corpse Beetles sealed the entrance and trapped the gray-robed old man’s group outside.
• The Ghost-faced Man praised Xu Yi for breaking his three moves and accused him of possessing a secret art that pierced the world’s barrier against perception.
• Xu Yi attacked the Ghost-faced Man with a compressed blast of fire energy, shattering his mask and revealing a youthful face.

Xu Yi battled the Ghost-faced Man, who used a Divine Form and his Divine Infant to turn the fight around. Xu Yi’s companions overwhelmed the Ghost-faced Man’s centipede and halted his fleeing Divine Infant, leaving the confrontation poised for its finish.

• Xu Yi’s Nine Star Flowing Fire Technique pressured the Ghost-faced Man until he invoked the Divine Form Art and grew into a giant.
• Xu Yi manifested a Violent Ape, which overpowered the Ghost-faced Man’s giant body in the cramped chamber.
• The Ghost-faced Man sent his Divine Infant to attack the Violent Ape, and Xu Yi answered with his own Divine Infant, which drove the enemy back.
• The Ghost-faced Man summoned a two-headed Yellow Springs Centipede, but a tiny black speck attacked it and killed both heads.
• The black speck pursued the Ghost-faced Man’s Divine Infant and froze it in midair with a light breath.

Xu Yi killed the Ghost-faced Man, collected spirit crystals, and freed Bai Jizi and the others from the palace. After forcing the gray-robed old man’s group to surrender their spirit crystals and Origin Seal Beads, Xu Yi prepared to leave with the others.

• Xu Yi’s Chiwu Worm devoured the Yellow Springs Centipede and helped destroy the Ghost-faced Man’s Divine Infant, while the Soul-Summoning Banner absorbed it.
• Xu Yi collected twenty-three spirit crystals, found the jade token controlling the palace, and opened the sealed gate to free Bai Jizi, Qin Kong, and the others.
• Qin Kong confronted the gray-robed old man’s group for waiting to profit from the others’ fight, and they surrendered seven spirit crystals and swallowed Origin Seal Beads.
• Xu Yi showed Bai Jizi that they had gathered forty spirit crystals, and Bai Jizi agreed they could set out.
• Zhang Ji declared that everyone should follow Xu Yi’s lead and protect his interests, prompting Qin Kong’s anger.

Xu Yi used pain and rewards to establish a hierarchy among his captives, then led them through the mist into the core of Guangcheng Immortal Mansion. As the group searched for a way forward, Xu Yi sensed an unexplained chill and wondered whether something had approached unseen.

• Xu Yi inflicted unbearable pain on the gray-robed elder and the others, then rewarded Zhang Ji by putting five of Long's subordinates under his command.
• Xiong Chun proposed a points system for measuring loyalty and assigning rewards and punishments, and Xu Yi tasked him with creating it.
• Xu Yi led the group through the mist on a rope, and they were pulled through a gate into an immense plaza in the mansion's core.
• The group found the plaza blocked by a restriction as mist rose, and Bai Jizi identified Bell Hall, Sword Pavilion, South Clothing Tower, and North Clothing Tower as their likely destinations.
• Xu Yi felt a chill behind him but saw nothing, and he considered whether a powerful unseen figure could evade his senses.

Xu Yi fled Tao Jingsheng and three Black Eyebrow Empire cultivators into Bell Hall, where they cornered him in an empty stone chamber. As more cultivators entered, the pursuers found themselves sharing the room with twenty people and no treasures.

• Xu Yi confronted Tao Jingsheng, who called on three Black Eyebrow Empire cultivators to kill him.
• Xu Yi escaped their attacks and ran into Bell Hall, with the three pursuers following him.
• The pursuers cornered Xu Yi in a stone chamber and threatened to record his death with a Ruyi Pearl.
• More cultivators entered the chamber until the three pursuers counted twenty people in a room containing only ash and murals.

Xu Yi and the cultivators trapped two Lightning Tribulation Experts by attacking with their Divine Infants, then used the Chiwu Worm to destroy both their Divine Infants. Xu Yi collected the spoils and forced Elder Su of the Black Eyebrow Empire to swallow an Origin Seal Bead.

• The purple-robed young man attacked the chamber’s cultivators, who released their Divine Infants and overwhelmed his and the white-faced old man’s attacks.
• The purple-robed young man and the white-faced old man charged toward Xu Yi but were surrounded by the Divine Infants while Xu Yi watched.
• The purple-robed young man unleashed his Divine Infant, which scattered the attackers before it moved to strike Xu Yi.
• The Chiwu Worm shattered the purple-robed young man’s Divine Infant, and the Soul-Summoning Banner swallowed its remains.
• The Divine Infants tore apart the white-faced old man’s body, and the Chiwu Worm destroyed his fleeing Divine Infant.
• Xu Yi collected more than ten Spirit Essences, gave Elder Su an Origin Seal Bead, and ordered him to swallow it.

After defeating two Lightning Tribulation Experts, Xu Yi sent his followers to search the hall while he used the Minor Cloud Crane Art to open sealed cave abodes and collect their treasures. When intruders attacked him and Bai Jizi, Xu Yi’s followers killed them, and Xu Yi ordered everyone to stay together as they continued searching.

• Xu Yi made Zhang Ji take charge of the silver-bearded old man, then praised the group and ordered them to search the hall in squads.
• Xu Yi took Bai Jizi to a sealed stone chamber and used the Minor Cloud Crane Art to open its restriction.
• Xu Yi collected the chamber’s weapons, treasure boxes, and other goods, though many items had decayed or turned to ashes.
• Xu Yi opened two more chambers, but one was a workshop and the other a supply warehouse filled with ashes.
• Four people followed Xu Yi and Bai Jizi into the warehouse and demanded treasure, so Xu Yi’s nineteen followers killed them and Xu Yi took their materials.
• Xu Yi ordered his followers to stop searching separately and stay close to protect him.

Xu Yi discovered an invisible presence that had been following him and learned to see and communicate with it using Cloud Crane Pure Qi. He named the strange qi creature Hu Hu and left off asking whether it had once been someone's breath.

• Xu Yi realized a hidden presence had caused the familiar chill he felt when handling cave mechanisms.
• Xu Yi used Cloud Crane Pure Qi in his eyes and saw a round ball of qi floating nearby.
• Xu Yi discovered Hu Hu responded to his questions with two different calls that meant yes and no.
• Xu Yi named the creature Hu Hu and asked whether it had found him because it liked his Cloud Crane Pure Qi.
• Hu Hu slipped into Xu Yi's nose and back out, prompting Xu Yi to ask whether it had once been an exhaled breath.

Xu Yi comforted Hu Hu before joining the rush into the newly opened Main Hall. He seized a golden talisman amid the chaos and continued hunting for treasures as cultivators fought throughout the treasury.

• Xu Yi realized Hu Hu recognized Yin Jiao's portrait and comforted the lonely spirit, who stroked Xu Yi's head in return.
• Bai Jizi warned Xu Yi that the Main Hall's restriction was about to open, and Xu Yi left the cave with him and the others.
• The Main Hall doors shattered, and Xu Yi pushed through the fighting cultivators to enter with Bai Jizi.
• Following Bai Jizi's directions, Xu Yi seized the golden talisman from its jade box and blocked the attacks aimed at him.
• Xu Yi challenged the cultivators to attack him together, but they scattered to pursue other treasures, leaving battles to erupt across the hall.

Xu Yi watched Su Beihun seize control of the hall with a True Intent Supernatural Ability and stepped forward to challenge him despite Bai Jizi’s warnings. Su Beihun’s attack pierced Xu Yi’s chest, but Xu Yi remained standing and mocked him.

• Xu Yi ordered Lin Ming to reward whoever surrendered the most treasures and punish whoever surrendered the least as the group competed for treasures.
• A thief used a mysterious technique to steal the Purple Firmament Lard Jade, and Xu Yi recognized the person behind it but stared at them in shock.
• Su Beihun killed cultivators who challenged him and demanded that everyone hand over a treasure or die.
• Bai Jizi explained that Su Beihun wielded a True Intent Supernatural Ability and warned Xu Yi not to provoke him.
• Xu Yi stepped forward to rally the cultivators, but Su Beihun’s red light pierced his chest; Xu Yi survived with the help of spiritual liquid and taunted him.