Chapter Summaries

After Xun Bingjun exposed Wang Rongrong’s maneuvering, Wang Rongrong and his allies decided to promote Xu Yi as a candidate for Deputy Hall Master. The Heavenly King agreed to consider Xu Yi, and Xu Yi secured Gu Beiting and Old Sui’s transfer to Wuji Hall if he won; the selection’s arrangements remained unknown.

• Xu Yi suggested that Wang Rongrong nominate a Golden Witch cultivator, and Old Sui realized he himself met the Heavenly King’s requirements.
• Wang Rongrong persuaded Xu Yi to become a candidate, believing the move would benefit him whether Xu Yi won or lost.
• Wang Rongrong went to the Heavenly King’s Mansion and returned with confirmation that the Heavenly King would include Xu Yi among the candidates.
• Xu Yi agreed to pursue the position on the condition that Gu Beiting and Old Sui would transfer to Wuji Hall if he won.
• Xu Yi asked Wang Rongrong how the Heavenly King had arranged the grand selection.

Xu Yi accepted a challenge to obtain a painting by Ning Wuyou and reviewed plans for his fortified estate on Empty Island. After returning to the Vast Sea Northern Court, he agreed to pursue a promotion and criticized the Court’s corruption.

• Wang Rongrong explained that Xu Yi had three months to obtain a painting by Ning Wuyou to win the Heavenly King's test, and Xu Yi accepted the assignment.
• Shopkeeper Tong showed Xu Yi the defensive formations and planned buildings for Empty Island, then revised the design to include a protected garden for Xu Yi’s spirit herbs.
• Xu Yi approved the estate plan, paid the deposit, and left as Shopkeeper Tong brought a crew to begin construction.
• He Beiyi offered Xu Yi a Middle Traveler position, and Xu Yi agreed to seek the promotion despite having to clear the required hurdles himself.
• Xu Yi condemned the Southern Heavenly Court for corruption and for putting personal gain ahead of collective strength.

Xu Yi secured He Beiyi’s help in obtaining the Middle Traveler post, then considered how to strengthen his position and cultivation. He learned the Māyā Seal might help temper his Divine Diagram and prepare him to break through to the Domain Root Realm.

• Xu Yi gave He Beiyi five hundred Profound Yellow Essences to help secure the Middle Traveler post.
• Xu Yi entered a cultivation chamber and tried to awaken the Five-Colored Bead, but it remained unresponsive.
• Old Desolate urged Xu Yi to build a reputation as a powerful cultivator and explained that reaching the Domain Root Realm required Profound Yellow Essence, a high-level divine ability, and extreme pressure.
• Xu Yi asked about a divine ability for tempering his Divine Diagram, and Old Desolate recalled that the Māyā Seal could serve that purpose.
• Old Desolate explained that Xu Yi’s two life wheels and two Dao Fruits made him suited to cultivating the Māyā Seal.

Xu Yi failed to break through to the Divine Diagram Fifth Realm, but an insight led him to reconsider how to cultivate the Sui clan’s Origin Fire. After inspecting his completed home on Empty Island, he learned A Li had found traces of Qiu Wa and prepared to set out after her.

• Xu Yi practiced the Māyā Seal for nearly two months, compressing his Divine Diagram but failing to break through, then stopped and slept for three days.
• Xu Yi tempered the Sui clan’s Origin Fire and suddenly found inspiration, spending another dozen days in seclusion.
• Xu Yi returned to Empty Island, approved Shopkeeper Tong’s work, and placed the Ancient Elixirs in the Spiritual Plant Garden.
• Xu Yi contacted A Li, who said she had sensed Qiu Wa in the Southern Territory more than ten days earlier.
• Xu Yi arranged for a Starry Sky Boat, and the outer-court official Zhou Jie arrived with one.

Xu Yi found Qiu Wa imprisoned in Phantom Spirit Sect’s Spiritual Plant Garden, where she and a Green-robed Girl were being drained for spiritual liquid. He recognized Qiu Wa and reached out to her, but she still feared him and offered herself in place of Sister Mu.

• Xu Yi and A Li followed the Starry Sky Boat to the Southern Territory, where A Li sensed Qiu Wa nearby.
• Xu Yi captured two Phantom Spirit Sect youths and learned that demon plants in the Spiritual Plant Garden were being drained to provide spiritual liquid for Lord Long.
• Xu Yi entered the garden using a token and seized two demon plants: the Green-robed Girl and a Ginseng Baby.
• Xu Yi recognized the haggard Ginseng Baby as Qiu Wa and broke down, blaming Auspicious Duck for her suffering.
• Xu Yi introduced himself as Bearded Uncle, but Qiu Wa hid behind Sister Mu before offering her own spiritual liquid to spare her.

Xu Yi rescued Qiu Wa and Mu Jin from Phantom Spirit Sect’s Spirit-Locking Array and took them to reclaim their stolen plant spirits. After he killed the sect’s guards and Elder An, the stunned sect leaders and visiting directors faced the intruder’s approach.

• Mu Jin explained that Phantom Spirit Sect had taken most of Qiu Wa’s plant spirit and trapped them, and Xu Yi sealed their acupoints and gave them spirit liquid.
• Xu Yi shattered the array, stabilized Qiu Wa, and promised Mu Jin he would help reclaim her plant spirit.
• Xu Yi brought Mu Jin, Qiu Wa, A Li, and Old Desolate to Phantom Spirit Sect and began setting up an array at its mountain gate.
• Xu Yi blew the Golden Armored General’s squad into the mountainside, crippling them, and the Left Gate General warned Jia Ren that an intruder had attacked.
• Elder An went to confront Xu Yi, but the Left Gate General returned to report that the intruder had killed him.

Xu Yi attacked Phantom Spirit Sect over the harm done to Qiu Wa, killing its elders and crippling Director Long. When the Second Old Ancestor arrived boasting of his breakthrough, Xu Yi unleashed his suppressed aura and made him collapse in terror.

• Jia Ren and Director Long led the others to the mountain gate, where they found Xu Yi setting up an array.
• Elder Fang and seven others attacked Xu Yi, who killed them with a breath and sent their life wheels to Huang Mei.
• Xu Yi seized Director Long, destroyed his Dragon Vertebrae Acupoint, and forced an Origin Seal Bead into his mouth.
• Jia Ren summoned the Second Old Ancestor, who arrived after breaking through to the Divine Diagram Second Realm.
• Xu Yi released his aura, crushed the Second Old Ancestor's leg bones, and made him fall to his knees in terror.

Xu Yi destroyed the Phantom Spirit Sect while searching for Qiu Wa and Mu Jin’s plant spirits, then tracked Jia Canghai to the South Sea Association on Spirit Tortoise Island. After recovering the spirits, he killed Jia Canghai in front of the gathering and faced Feng Teng’s wrath.

• Xu Yi annihilated the Phantom Spirit Sect’s stronghold, gathered its resources, and learned from Huang Mei that Jia Canghai had taken Qiu Wa and Mu Jin’s plant spirits to the South Sea Association.
• Xu Yi returned A Li to Yuqing Pavilion, left Qiu Wa and Mu Jin on Empty Island, and went to Spirit Tortoise Island.
• Xu Yi entered the South Sea Association and saw Jia Canghai offer two bottles of plant spirits to Feng Teng.
• Xu Yi took Jia Canghai’s Sumeru Ring and killed him with a Five Aggregates Palm Thunder after asking how long he had cultivated.
• Huang Mei confirmed that the bottles held Qiu Wa and Mu Jin’s plant spirits, and Feng Teng confronted Xu Yi for causing trouble at the gathering.

Xu Yi challenged Feng Teng over his vendetta and Qiu Wa’s suffering, then killed him after defeating his men and Xu Jixing with Palm Thunder. As Xu Yi flew away, Wu Yazhi attacked him from the sky, but Xu Yi shattered his handprint and faced the renowned expert head-on.

• Xu Yi challenged Feng Teng, and the two went to the practice grounds as a crowd gathered to watch.
• Feng Teng refused to fight and tried to leave, but Xu Yi attacked and quickly defeated Feng Teng’s men with Palm Thunder.
• Xu Jixing intervened to save Feng Teng, but Xu Yi overwhelmed him with Five Aggregates Palm Thunder and refined Feng Teng to death with lightning arts.
• Xu Yi collected resources and Feng Teng’s life wheel, then flew away as the crowd watched in stunned silence.
• Wu Yazhi struck Xu Yi with a mountain-sized handprint, but Xu Yi countered with a Golden Buddha Handprint and shattered it.

Xu Yi killed Wu Yazhi after rejecting his offer to become his disciple, then confronted four Domain Realm experts who descended to face him. He challenged Zhao Wuji and revealed that Zhao had slaughtered Gong'an City, where Xu Yi's junior fellow disciple had been city lord.

• Wu Yazhi killed Xu Jixing, then offered Xu Yi discipleship in exchange for his life.
• Xu Yi fought Wu Yazhi with Palm Thunder and a fiery technique, killed him, and took his life wheel and resources.
• Four First Realm of Domain experts descended, and the crowd identified them as Wuji Elder, Sea of Stars Old Ancestor, Dragon King Huang Feng, and Bei Xuan Heavenly Venerate.
• Xu Yi accused Wuji Elder's disciples of evil deeds and challenged him to fight.
• Zhao Wuji threatened Xu Yi and boasted that he had refined Gong'an City to death thirteen years earlier.
• Xu Yi revealed that the city's lord had been his junior fellow disciple and vowed to avenge him.

Xu Yi defeated Zhao Wuji after surviving his Spirit Awakening Art with Flame Born from Void and killing him with Five Aggregates Palm Thunder. As Xu Yi collected Zhao Wuji’s belongings, a speaker challenged Venerable Immortal Kongxu in the name of the Northern Heavenly Court.

• Zhao Wuji forced Xu Yi to fight after Fang Xinghai urged him to act, then attacked with spirit swords.
• Xu Yi used his magnetic thunder domain to withstand Zhao Wuji’s barrage as the crowd gathered and cheered.
• Zhao Wuji unleashed the Spirit Awakening Art, and Xu Yi concealed himself with Flame Born from Void, creating thirteen blazing phantoms.
• Zhao Wuji trapped the phantoms in his domain root, but Xu Yi melted through it, struck Zhao Wuji with Five Aggregates Palm Thunder, and killed him.
• Xu Yi took Zhao Wuji’s life wheel and resources while Fang Xinghai, Guo Huangfeng, and Chen Beixuan stood stunned.
• An unidentified speaker praised Venerable Immortal Kongxu’s cultivation and declared a willingness to defend the Northern Heavenly Court.

Xu Yi faced the Four Ancestors of the South Sea and defeated three of them with an enhanced version of the Sui clan’s Origin Fire, shocking the venue. After Huang Mei recognized the power as the work of a top-tier Golden Witch, the chapter revealed how Xu Yi developed the technique and ended with his new insight about refining Origin Fire.

• The crowd learned that Xu Yi was the famed Empty Guest when Purple Blood Old Demon arrived and challenged the Four Ancestors of the South Sea’s attempt to gang up on him.
• Fang Xinghai, Guo Huangfeng, and Chen Beixuan attacked Xu Yi together, sealing his spiritual power with their three domain roots.
• Xu Yi used dozens of clusters of high-energy heat to knock away the domain roots and set the three attackers ablaze with the Sui clan’s Origin Fire.
• Purple Blood Old Demon extinguished the flames, leaving Fang Xinghai and the others badly burned as the venue hailed Xu Yi’s strength.
• Huang Mei realized Xu Yi had used an enhanced Origin Fire technique, which Xu Yi had developed after failing to advance his Divine Map and struggling to refine more Origin Fire.
• Xu Yi recalled that the amount of Origin Fire he had refined from the Sui clan’s Origin Token remained surprisingly small, and a sudden insight made him realize his approach had been mistaken.

Xu Yi used the Four-Colored Seal to refine all the Sui clan's Origin Fire in his token, strengthening his flames and Witch Power before killing Purple Blood Old Demon and three other opponents. As a huge crowd gathered, Lu Bianyue appeared and praised Xu Yi as the Number One Person in Three Thousand Years.

• Xu Yi repeatedly reset the Sui clan's Origin Token with the Four-Colored Seal, refined all its Origin Fire, and advanced his mastery of the Primordial Fire Art.
• Purple Blood Old Demon attacked Xu Yi and saved Fang Xinghai and two others, then urged them to join forces against him.
• Xu Yi used the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Aspect and the Spirit Calming Technique to immobilize Purple Blood Old Demon, then burned him to ash with Empty Fire.
• Xu Yi burned Fang Xinghai and the other two with the Sui clan's Origin Fire, collected their Fate Wheels and resources, and ignored Huang Mei's demands for the Fate Wheels.
• Lu Bianyue appeared before the silent crowd and praised Xu Yi as the Number One Person in Three Thousand Years.

Xu Yi fought Lu Bianyue under overwhelming domain pressure and broke through to the Fifth Realm of Divine Diagram, forging a Domain Root. After comprehending the will of Heaven, Xu Yi left Clear Moon Mountain, while Lu Bianyue revealed that he had acted on the Yellow-clothed woman's orders to force Xu Yi’s breakthrough.

• Lu Bianyue challenged Xu Yi and demanded that he resign and spend thirty years at the Cliff of Reflection if he lost.
• Xu Yi resisted Lu Bianyue’s Domain Root with the Sui clan’s Origin Fire, but the domain’s pressure shattered his Five Aggregates Palm Thunder and began crushing him.
• Xu Yi’s Divine Diagrams shattered under the pressure, and he broke through to the Fifth Realm of Divine Diagram, forging a Domain Root.
• Lu Bianyue withdrew his Domain Root, ended the fight, and flew away as Xu Yi focused on comprehending the will of Heaven.
• After more than half an hour, Xu Yi harmonized his mind and intent, then left despite the crowd’s calls and invitations.
• Lu Bianyue told the Yellow-clothed woman that he had not known Xu Yi was her old acquaintance and realized she had ordered him to push Xu Yi into a breakthrough.

Xu Yi restored Qiu Wa and Mu Jin’s wood spirits, then reunited with Qiu Wa and arranged for Mu Jin to return home safely. The chapter left Xu Yi preparing to take Qiu Wa back to her old home after she said she missed Grandpa.

• Xu Yi summoned Master Cao, who restored the wood spirits in Qiu Wa and Mu Jin with a Spirit Summoning Great Formation.
• Mu Jin thanked Xu Yi and asked to return to her family in the Carefree Blue Sea, and Xu Yi offered to have her escorted.
• Qiu Wa woke up, reunited with Xu Yi, and learned he had collected toys and snacks for her over the years.
• After spending three days with Qiu Wa, Mu Jin departed with Jiang Fang and a squad of guards, leaving Qiu Wa a recorded message in a Ruyi Pearl.
• Qiu Wa told Xu Yi that she missed Grandpa, so Xu Yi offered to take her back to her old home and contacted Jiang Fang about the Star Path Bureau.

Xu Yi returned to the Great Yue Realm with Qiu Wa and brought her to her grandfather’s old home in Furong Town. There, members of the Immortal Destiny Sect recognized him as the Supreme Saint Master, while Qiu Wa rejoiced in the familiar courtyard.

• Xu Yi used the Third Star Dao Battalion’s Myriad Stars Astrolabe to locate the Great Yue Realm and traveled there with Qiu Wa through an official starry sky passage.
• Xu Yi and Qiu Wa arrived in Yunzhou City, then traveled to Furong Town, where Qiu Wa recognized the old town and cried for her grandfather.
• Qiu Wa found familiar belongings in the courtyard of her grandfather’s former home and excitedly called for Bearded Uncle.
• Four Immortal Destiny Sect disciples entered the courtyard and ordered Xu Yi to leave, but Qiu Wa insisted it was her home.
• The Long-haired Big Man recognized Xu Yi as the Supreme Saint Master, and he and the other disciples hurried away to report his return.

Xu Yi left Qiu Wa in A Li’s care and brought Zhou Rong out of the Great Yue Realm to temper herself in the Four Continents Realm. He then traveled to Dai Shui City to seek a painting by Ning Wuyou and compete for the Deputy Hall Master position in Wuji Hall.

• Xu Yi visited Uncle Mu’s grave and Xu Family Village with Qiu Wa, then summoned Zhou Rong and offered to take her beyond the realm.
• Xu Yi brought Zhou Rong to the Third Star Dao Battalion and asked Judge Dong to send her to the Four Continents Realm.
• Xu Yi returned to Empty Island, reunited Qiu Wa with A Li, and left A Li to guard the island before departing.
• Xu Yi traveled to Dai Shui City for Ning Wuyou’s Tassel Gathering, hoping to obtain her painting and improve his chances of becoming Deputy Hall Master of Wuji Hall.

Xu Yi attended Ning Wuyou’s Tassel Gathering as Empty Guest, hoping his poetry could win her favor. After the guests presented gifts, Ning Wuyou invited them to demonstrate their talents, leaving Xu Yi waiting for his chance to impress her.

• Xu Yi composed a poem at Wangbei Tower and received an invitation to the Tassel Gathering addressed to Empty Guest.
• Xu Yi arrived at Shaoyin Pavilion and took a seat among the gathering’s powerful Domain cultivators.
• Ning Wuyou welcomed the guests from behind a gauze curtain, and Wu Xiuxian arrived and chose the seat beside Xu Yi.
• The gathering’s traditional performance ended, and guests presented treasures to Ning Wuyou.
• Ning Wuyou accepted the gifts and urged the guests to display their talents instead of asking her to paint without inspiration.

At the Tassel Grand Gathering, Wu Xiuxian tried to undermine Xu Yi and win Ning Wuyou’s favor, but Ning Wuyou rejected his musical overture and asked Xu Yi for calligraphy instead. Wu Xiuxian then challenged Xu Yi to produce hundreds of poems, and Xu Yi questioned why he should comply.

• Wu Xiuxian steered the gathering away from poetry, then displayed the Seven-Colored Sky Lamp and performed the Song of the Proud Wanderer.
• Wu Xiuxian invited Ning Wuyou to play a duet, but she declined and accepted his offer of the lamp.
• The lamp exploded as it drifted past Wu Xiuxian toward Xu Yi, and Wu Xiuxian accused Xu Yi of destroying it.
• Xu Yi asked Ning Wuyou how he should compensate her, and she requested a piece of calligraphy rather than Profound Yellow Essence.
• Wu Xiuxian challenged Xu Yi to produce three to five hundred masterpieces, and Xu Yi said he could write a thousand but asked why he should obey Wu Xiuxian.

Xu Yi impressed the Tassel Gathering by revealing that his Xuanji Diagram could form 7,958 poems, earning Ning Wuyou’s painting and escaping the pavilion with it. Afterward, Ning Wuyou wondered why Xu Yi felt familiar and why she kept wanting to help him despite having no romantic feelings for him.

• Wu Xiuxian challenged Xu Yi to demonstrate his ability to compose a thousand poems within a stick of incense, while the crowd mocked him.
• Xu Yi formed an array of 840 characters, and Ning Wuyou used it to reveal that the Xuanji Diagram contained 7,958 poems.
• Ning Wuyou praised Xu Yi and gave him a painting, and he left Shaoyin Pavilion as onlookers envied him and considered pursuing him.
• Xu Yi teleported several times and checked the Four-Colored Seal Space for planted restrictions before returning to Empty Island.
• Ning Wuyou dismissed the woman in court dress after she questioned her interest in helping Xu Yi, then studied his Xuanji Diagram and wondered why he felt familiar.