Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi secured all five elemental seeds through the peace negotiations, then accepted honors from both the church and the Ancestral Court while postponing his breakthrough. After returning to the church and reorganizing the Night Army, he decided to strengthen his cultivation before seeking Lian Yunshang at White Horse Temple.

• Plum Blossom Seven reported that the peace negotiations had succeeded and revealed that he had given Xu Yi his own seed to secure the agreement.
• Xu Yi celebrated obtaining the seeds of all five elements, but followed Huangmei's advice to temper his nature before attempting to enter the Upper Corpse realm.
• Dao Master Xu gave Xu Yi a celestial mountain as a cave dwelling, and Demon Lord Xie appointed him a special envoy of the Demon Lord.
• Xu Yi attended gatherings with Golden Hall Elders, then returned to the church to accept a ceremony honoring his service.
• Plum Blossom Seven redesigned the Night Army's rules and collected records on its commanders while he was at the church.
• Xu Yi considered visiting Lian Yunshang but chose to improve his cultivation first, after hearing reports about White Horse Temple.

Huang Mei advised Xu Yi to look back on his experiences to cultivate his innate nature and comprehend Heaven’s will. The story then shifted to Cheng Yan’s quiet family life in Tongli Alley, where officials arrived looking for a man named Cheng.

• Huang Mei reminded Xu Yi that the plaque taken from Pang Tianze was an admission ticket to an Immortal Gathering and said the event was still two or three years away.
• Cheng Yan watched two old masters play chess while Boss Du and Song San quarreled nearby.
• Two ruffians demanded an inflated latrine fee from Cheng Yan’s wife, and Cheng Yan paid them to leave.
• Song San tried to involve Cheng Yan in a betting dispute, but a mounted party arrived and drew Song San away.
• Jiang Xian introduced Song San to Lord Gao, who said Elder Xia was seeking a man surnamed Cheng who had moved into the area.

Cheng Yan’s identity drew the attention of powerful officials after he resisted an arrest, and several prefects converged to claim ties to him. The chapter ended with Zhou Ji and Sun Jieyou disputing whether Cheng Yan belonged to either prefecture.

• Jiang Xian ordered Boss Du and his men arrested, but Cheng Yan knocked down the men who tried to seize him.
• Elder Xia arrived in a panic, demanding that Lord Gao find Cheng Yan because he had connections to the Dao Venerable Yamen.
• Boss Du called out to Cheng Yan, and Third Brother Song identified him by name and reported that he had moved there three years earlier.
• Sun Jieyou arrived in a jade carriage, followed by Zhou Ji and his core elders.
• Sun Jieyou said he had come to collect a former clerk, but Zhou Ji claimed Cheng Yan was a citizen of Fenyang Prefecture and told Sun Jieyou to leave.

Xu Yi reunited with Cheng Yan, then moved him and his family to a hidden retreat before returning to the Ancestral Court. Longing for home, Xu Yi went to the Imperial Observatory to seek a way back, but Song Yuan said it was impossible without the star coordinates.

• Zhou Ji named Cheng Yan as the man two prefectural lords were fighting over, and the crowd realized Cheng Yan had attracted their attention.
• Dao Venerable Huang Keshi and Xu Yi arrived, and Xu Yi dismissed the crowd and left with Cheng Yan.
• Xu Yi spent a night with Cheng Yan, then moved Cheng Yan and his family to an isolated retreat the next day.
• Back at his mountain gate, Xu Yi discussed seeking a moment that could move his heart with Huang Mei, then decided to visit his old home.
• Xu Yi went to the Imperial Observatory and asked Song Yuan to help him return home, but Song Yuan said he could not calculate the route without the star coordinates.

Xu Yi visited the Northern Continent to reconnect with Elder Yu Zhi Qiu and revisit the ruined Southern Campus, then contacted his old friends. Tie Dagang answered but could not meet because he was preparing for a trial to join the Donghua Sect.

• Supervisor Song tried to resist Xu Yi’s demand for the Imperial Observatory’s records, but Gong Zhongcheng warned him that Xu Yi had been offered charge of the Imperial Court’s affairs.
• Xu Yi traveled to the Northern Continent and told Elder Yu Zhi Qiu that the old man could travel freely again.
• Elder Yu Zhi Qiu gave Xu Yi the Golden Core Society’s research and asked him to preserve its history if he spread alchemy.
• Xu Yi visited the abandoned Southern Campus and frightened off a Roaring Beast with his roar.
• Xu Yi contacted Tie Dagang, who said he was busy preparing for a trial and had not been able to reach Duan Tiandai, Jiang Fei, or Meng Wanzhou.

Xu Yi returned to Great Yue after arranging a journey to a distant world and went to find Yuan Qinghua, only to discover that her family had become extraordinarily powerful. He waited near Yuan Mansion during its birthday celebration and learned that the Yuan family’s rise was tied to the Immortal Saint.

• Xu Yi realized that retracing his past had stirred feelings he feared he was losing, then left the Northern Continent and returned to the Western Continent.
• Song Yuan told Xu Yi that the spatial node and travel supplies were ready, but warned him not to use his power in the fragile world he planned to visit.
• Xu Yi arrived in Great Yue and found Yuan Mansion celebrating the Old Ancestor’s birthday with gifts from powerful rulers, including a page of Immortal Saint’s True Writing.
• Xu Yi waited in a tavern across from Yuan Mansion, asked the proprietor about Yuan Qinghua and the family’s prosperity, and revealed that he had once been Yuan Qinghua’s master.
• The proprietor told Xu Yi that the Yuan family had risen to prominence nearly sixty years earlier because of the Immortal Saint.

Xu Yi learned how the Yuan family had risen to power after his departure, then followed shopkeeper Old Qian when the Yuan family abducted Old Qian’s daughter. Old Qian stormed the family’s celebration and cut through its guards with his kitchen knife.

• Xu Yi paid a shopkeeper to explain the Yuan family’s influence and learned that only sixty years had passed since he left the Great Yue, now called the Great Song.
• Old Qian’s wife rushed in and told him that Yuan family men had abducted their daughter, JunJun, outside her school.
• Old Qian grabbed a kitchen knife and charged toward the Yuan family’s gates while Xu Yi steadied him and put his wife to sleep.
• Old Qian broke into the Yuan family’s celebration and severed Chen Feng’s wrist with his kitchen knife.
• Old Qian’s knife shattered weapons and armor as he fought through the guards, then he killed the Head Butler with a slash to the neck.

Old Qian stormed into Yuan Mansion demanding the return of his granddaughter JunJun, while the Yuan brothers and guests mistook the unfolding chaos for a display of strange power. Tang Sanshao admitted he could not fathom Old Qian’s saber technique, leaving the gathered cultivators baffled by its strength.

• Old Qian charged into Yuan Mansion, crying for JunJun and injuring several guards as he searched for the Yuan family.
• Yuan Jingyan worried that the Yuan family had become arrogant and urged Yuan Jingyi to keep supporting the poor and building their virtue.
• Tang Sanshao stepped forward to deal with Old Qian, but could not judge the depth of his cultivation and was reluctant to fight.
• Old Qian spotted Yuan Jingyan and Yuan Jingyi, fell to his knees, and begged them to return JunJun in exchange for his life.
• When Yuan Jingyi ordered guards to remove Old Qian, his fallen cleaver struck them from afar and sent them crashing into the lotus pond.
• Tang Sanshao praised Old Qian’s unfathomable saber skill, and the Soul Sensing Realm cultivators could not explain how the cleaver had shattered the guards’ golden armor.

Xu Yi reunited with Yuan Qinghua at the Yuan family's birthday gathering, where the crowd recognized Xu Yi as the Immortal Sage. When black-clad attackers tried to assassinate Yuan Qinghua, Xu Yi stepped in front of him and destroyed them with his will.

• Yuan Jingyan calmed Old Qian by promising to reunite him with his granddaughter JunJun, then invited the guests into Penglai Hall.
• Xu Yi arrived and insulted Yuan Jingyi, who attacked him before Yuan Jingyan slapped him and apologized to Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi asked Yuan Jingyan to tell his father that he had come to wish him a happy birthday.
• Yuan Qinghua recognized Xu Yi after fifty-eight years apart, and the crowd knelt when they learned Xu Yi was the Immortal Sage.
• Black-clad assassins fired willpower attacks at Yuan Qinghua, but Xu Yi shielded him and made the attackers' bodies explode.

At Yuan Mansion, an ancient formation drained blood from the people of the Divine Capital and summoned the Canggu Evil Dragon. Xu Yi rose to confront the dragon, sending it flying with a single blow as the city watched.

• Yuan Qinghua and the guests of honor rallied to defend Xu Yi when tens of thousands of black-clad figures attacked Yuan Mansion.
• The attackers’ corpses vaporized, forming a vortex that drew blood from everyone across the Divine Capital.
• An elderly man identified the formation as the Canggu Evil Dragon Formation, and Xu Yi urged Yuan Qinghua to retreat while he held it off.
• A crimson Evil Dragon emerged from a fissure in the sky and battled Xu Yi above the city.
• Xu Yi struck the Evil Dragon and sent it flying, prompting the Divine Capital’s inhabitants to erupt in celebration.

Yuan Jingyan confronted Yuan Jingxu and Yuan Qinghua after witnessing the Evil Dragon apparently kill Xu Yi. Yuan Jingxu admitted to arranging the formation and explained that he had betrayed Xu Yi to pursue his ambition of escaping with the Yuan family, leaving Yuan Jingyan despairing over his lack of gratitude.

• Yuan Jingyan watched Xu Yi battle the Evil Dragon until the dragon vanished and reappeared, while Xu Yi disappeared and the dragon flew away.
• Yuan Jingyan forced his way into the Yuan family’s private chamber and accused Yuan Jingxu of using the Canggu Evil Dragon Formation to kill Xu Yi.
• Yuan Jingyan accused Yuan Qinghua and Yuan Jingxu of orchestrating mass killings and gathering blood energy to prepare the formation over many years.
• Yuan Jingxu admitted that he had killed Xu Yi, fearing the Immortal Saint would oppose the Yuan family’s rise and wanting to lead the family out of their confinement.
• Yuan Jingxu said he would take what he wanted rather than beg Xu Yi for help, and Yuan Jingyan asked whether he had any gratitude.

Yuan Jingxu defended his ambition to replace the Immortal Sage and revealed why he believed he had killed him and could escape the world. Yuan Jingyan was left alone in the secret chamber, while the Yuan family turned the disaster into a public display of power.

• Yuan Jingxu told Yuan Jingyan that the Immortal Sage’s return had awakened his desire to escape the world, and he dismissed family and worldly obligations as irrelevant to his pursuit of immortality.
• Yuan Jingyan condemned Yuan Jingxu for plotting against the Immortal Sage and draining a million people’s blood and vitality, then asked Yuan Qinghua whether he had known about the plot.
• Yuan Jingyan suspected Yuan Qinghua had cooperated with Yuan Jingxu because Guangshan Hall had abducted young girls, and he questioned how Yuan Jingxu could be sure the Immortal Sage was dead.
• Yuan Jingxu explained that energy had appeared in the demon dragon when the Immortal Sage died and showed Yuan Jingyan a black bead he believed could help him leave the world.
• Yuan Jingyan came to his senses and found that Yuan Qinghua and Yuan Jingxu had vanished from the secret chamber.
• A rumor that Yuan Jingxu had summoned the Canggu Evil Dragon spread during Yuan Qinghua’s Saint's Birthday celebration, signaling that the Yuan family no longer needed the Immortal Sage’s protection.

Xu Yi confronted Yuan Qinghua, who confessed that Yuan Jingxu’s formation had killed Xu Yi and destroyed him as well. Yuan Qinghua died, and as guests urged Yuan Jingxu to take the throne, Xu Yi’s fate remained unclear.

• Yuan Qinghua confessed before Xu Yi’s portrait that he regretted his choices and said Yuan Jingxu’s formation had killed Xu Yi and ruined him.
• Xu Yi revealed himself and challenged Yuan Qinghua, who knelt and begged for forgiveness, invoking Yan Zi.
• A Green-robed Girl identical to Yan Zi entered, mistook Xu Yi for someone resembling the portrait, and announced that Yuan Qinghua was dead.
• The Green-robed Girl stole Yuan Qinghua’s pendant and noticed that the new portrait-page was missing.
• At Yuan Qinghua’s birthday gathering, guests praised Yuan Jingxu’s defeat of outsiders and urged him to seize the throne and pursue a way beyond the realm.

Xu Yi defeated Yuan Jingxu but remained shaken by Yuan Qinghua’s betrayal and death, questioning whether he had helped cause his old friend’s downfall. After Huang Mei urged him to temper his Dao Heart, Xu Yi left the cliff and paid a final visit to Brother Li’s grave.

• Xu Yi subdued the evil dragon, dispersed Yuan Jingxu’s blood qi, and killed him as the words “Yuan Jingyan, Administrator” appeared in his blood.
• Xu Yi sat on a cliff grieving Yuan Qinghua, and Huang Mei argued that Xu Yi could not be blamed for every consequence of the help he had given him.
• Xu Yi admitted that Yuan Qinghua had once been principled and wondered whether he had ruined him, while Huang Mei pointed to the good his actions had brought others.
• Huang Mei warned Xu Yi that destroying the world could bring a heart tribulation, then left him to face his wavering Dao Heart alone.
• After sitting in silence for three days, Xu Yi tended Brother Li’s grave, said he would not return, and bowed before leaving.

Xu Yi returned to Guang'an Prefecture and honored Uncle Mu by folding and releasing paper boats while renewing his determination to find Qiu Wa. After helping a boy named Jia Junpeng get dragged home for dinner, Xu Yi continued upriver, where swordfighters Du San and Chen Er were said to be battling as Guang'an entered a new era of martial arts.

• Xu Yi revisited Furong Town, bought the bun shop’s entire stock, and prayed for Uncle Mu while resolving to find Qiu Wa.
• Jia Junpeng joined Xu Yi in folding paper boats, and the two worked together until a young woman in red arrived to take Jia Junpeng home for dinner.
• The young woman, Jiang Yingyue, used her whip and horse to carry Jia Junpeng away despite his protests.
• Xu Yi finished folding the boats, ate at the bun shop, and continued upriver.
• Onlookers watched Du San and Chen Er clash with their swords and credited the Immortal Sage’s legacy with Guang'an Prefecture’s growing martial arts prosperity.

During a martial arts gathering aboard a painted boat, Jia Junpeng defended literature and diverted the young martial artists’ anger away from Jiang Yingyue. He left Zhu San and the Young man of the Pang family struggling to answer his arguments.

• Du San conceded his sword bout to Second Young Master Chen, while Jia Junpeng dismissed the martial arts displays as too dangerous for him.
• Jiang Yingyue returned after storming off and stopped Zhu San from slapping Jia Junpeng with her whip.
• Zhu San mocked Jiang Yingyue for caring for Jia Junpeng, drawing the crowd’s attention and prompting the Young man of the Pang family to challenge her association with him.
• Jia Junpeng stepped forward to protect Jiang Yingyue and argued that scholarship could rival martial arts, citing the Immortal Sage’s rise through poetry.
• Zhu San urged the Young man of the Pang family to throw Jia Junpeng overboard, but Jia Junpeng’s retort left both men flustered.

Jia Junpeng faced a poetry challenge from Young Master Pang, who chose yearning as the topic to stir rumors about Jia and Jiang Yingyue. With Xu Yi’s help, Jia recited a poem that triggered a supernatural spectacle, leaving the crowd convinced of his power and Young Master Pang eager to apologize.

• Young Master Pang challenged Jia Junpeng to write a poem and chose yearning as the topic, hoping to damage Jia’s and Jiang Yingyue’s reputations.
• As Jia struggled to compose a poem, Xu Yi secretly supplied him with verses, which Jia recited to the gathered crowd.
• When Zhu San mocked the poem, spiritual waves and golden lotuses appeared, followed by a colossal golden dragon that carried the pleasure boat through the clouds and stars.
• After the boat returned to the Nielong River, Young Master Pang and the others apologized to Jia, while Zhu San begged him for forgiveness.
• Jia bowed to thank Xu Yi, and the narration noted that Xu Yi’s actions in the divine capital would affect all of Great Yue and that Yuan Jingyan had reluctantly accepted the task of temporarily administering Great Song at the Immortal Sage’s wish.

Xu Yi returned to the Void Divine Palace to honor the Pink Rabbit, then settled in Xu Family Village and tried to understand the cause and effect clouding his Dao heart. As his Golden Corpse withered and he lost hope of discerning Heaven's will, he gave up trying to solve the mystery and challenged Heaven to take it.

• Yuan Jingyan stabilized the Great Song Royal Court with Xu Yi's final words, while the court verified Jia Junpeng's encounter with the Immortal Sage and made no further inquiries.
• Xu Yi visited the hidden Void Divine Palace, repaired the Pink Rabbit's grave, left red flowers, and bowed farewell after sitting there for a day and night.
• Xu Yi returned to Xu Family Village, rebuilt his old hut, and tended Big Yellow's grave before meeting the elderly village chief, who remembered him from decades earlier.
• Xu Yi settled into village life, telling stories and tending his home as his Dao heart grew clouded and his Golden Corpse slowly withered.
• Xu Yi despaired of grasping cause and effect, stopped trying to understand it, and told Heaven he would find another way if it took his Golden Corpse.

Xu Yi discovered that Zhou Shixian, the son of his old enemy Zhou Daogan, had been tending the Xu family's ancestral graves out of repentance for the Zhou family's past betrayal. After revealing that he had killed Zhou Daogan and Zhou Shirong, Xu Yi spared Zhou Shixian and his family, but Yingying challenged him as they prepared to leave.

• Xu Yi woke to find Zhou Shixian and his family waiting at the path to the Xu ancestral graves and learned that Zhou Shixian was Zhou Daogan's son.
• Zhou Shixian explained that his mother had discovered Zhou Daogan's diary and taught him to repent for the Zhou family's betrayal of the Xu family.
• Zhou Shixian told Xu Yi that he had tended the Xu family's graves for years and offered to accept Xu Yi's revenge.
• Xu Yi revealed that he had killed Zhou Daogan and Zhou Shirong, then shattered the young man's jeweled sword with a glance.
• Xu Yi said he would spare Zhou Shixian's family because Zhou Shixian's mother had been kind, and he sent them on their way.
• Yingying called Xu Yi's talk of cause and effect and fate low and vulgar, and Xu Yi challenged her to say what else she thought.

A girl's words about conscience and good and evil helped Xu Yi abandon his pursuit of karma, restoring his body and access to Heaven's will. After rewarding the girl and visiting his parents' graves, he entered the Northern Continent World to prepare for the Ninety-Nine Heavenly Tribulations, but seven figures arrived as he refined his Heaven Wish Beads.

• The girl told Zhou Shirong and Xu Yi that people should distinguish good from evil by their conscience rather than seek karmic retribution, and Xu Yi realized karma was an illusion.
• Xu Yi's enlightenment restored his golden corpse and reopened his perception of Heaven's will; he raised the girl to the peak of Liquid Condensation and left her a Sumeru Ring.
• Xu Yi bowed at the Xu family ancestral graves and his parents' graves, then departed with Huang Mei toward the Northern Continent World.
• Xu Yi landed on a deserted island, built an Extreme Yin Extreme Yang Formation for his Ninety-Nine Heavenly Tribulations, and prepared vials of Spiritual Liquid.
• Xu Yi refined Heaven Wish Beads to strengthen his fetal light, and seven figures descended onto the island as he neared the end of the refinement.