Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi and Xia Zimo survived the Heavenly Thunder Pearl blast, but Xia Zimo was gravely wounded while shielding him with her wings. After Xu Yi killed Xiao Fuchen and the Head Butler, he escaped the arriving Sky Patrol Knights and used the Python Bile Pearl to revive Xia Zimo, who woke in his arms.

• Xia Zimo shielded Xu Yi from the King Scorpion Needles with her enormous wings and took dozens of needles in her back.
• Xiao Fuchen dove toward Xia Zimo, but Xu Yi tore apart his vulture, struck him down, and killed the Head Butler with Cloud Burst Arrows.
• Xu Yi gave Xia Zimo pills, killed Xiao Fuchen when he could not provide an antidote, and found the Python Bile Pearl among his belongings.
• Xu Yi fled with Xia Zimo into the forest before the Sky Patrol Knights arrived, then carved a shelter with the Head Butler's saber.
• Xu Yi gave Xia Zimo the Python Bile Pearl, and she gradually woke and coughed up blue-black filth.

As Xia Zimo lay poisoned in Xu Yi’s arms, she revealed that she was the half-human, half-monster daughter of Xia Xingguang and explained why she had sought him out. By dawn, the Python Bile Pearl had suppressed the poison, and Xia Zimo’s condition began to improve.

• Xia Zimo confessed that she had lied to Xu Yi and described the strange changes that had overtaken her.
• Xia Zimo recounted how a letter from Xia Xingguang revealed her parents, her birth, and the seal that broke on her twenty-fifth birthday.
• Xia Zimo explained that she had traveled to find Xu Yi, deliberately gotten hurt to stay near him, and renamed Tianmao as Zimo Xuan to leave a mark on his world.
• Xia Zimo told Xu Yi she had been happy to die in his arms, then fell asleep while Xu Yi kept watch.
• The Python Bile Pearl helped suppress the Nine Nether Liquid, and the King Scorpion Needles fell from Xia Zimo as her breathing steadied.

Xia Zimo left Xu Yi after he could not accept their love, then learned from Auspicious Duck that her mother might be in the Western Ox Continent. As Old Wen tracked her demonic aura, Xu Yi returned to Futuo Mountain and found Yan Zi training at the forge.

• Xia Zimo left Xu Yi in the snowstorm, and he stayed behind, unable to overcome his feelings about loving a demon.
• Auspicious Duck told Xia Zimo that the Western Ox Continent was the Demon Race's holy land and that her mother might be there.
• Xia Zimo fled with Auspicious Duck when Old Wen arrived and searched the area with a Demon Searching Disk.
• Old Wen examined their tracks and decided to follow Xia Zimo from a distance before choosing what to do.
• Xu Yi returned to Futuo Mountain and found Yan Zi forging a short blade; he urged her to rest, but she said she was beginning to improve.

Xu Yi summoned the wraith of a Wen family retainer and obtained the first three levels of the Undefeated Golden Body after promising to help the man’s unborn son. After half a month of cultivation, Xu Yi reached the Late Qi Sea Realm.

• Xu Yi used the Yin Extremity Bead and the Wen family young master’s blood to summon a wraith in Willow Spring Street.
• Xu Yi learned that the wraith was a Wen family retainer who wanted him to visit his pregnant wife and pass the Undefeated Golden Body method to their son if she bore one.
• Xu Yi swore to fulfill the wraith’s request, and the wraith taught him the first three levels before entering the Yin Extremity Bead.
• Xu Yi returned to Futuo Mountain and secluded himself to study and practice the cultivation method.
• After half a month, Xu Yi broke through to the Late Qi Sea Realm.

Xu Yi mastered the third turn of the Undefeated Golden Body and reached the Late Qi Sea Realm, allowing him to use the Hidden Edge Style. His first full-power strike destroyed the Green Flat and sent the banquet guests fleeing into his cave abode.

• Xu Yi spent fifteen days refining weapons and consuming ninety-eight Top-grade Essence Restoration Pills to master the second and third turns of the Undefeated Golden Body.
• Xu Yi reached the Late Qi Sea Realm and tested his resilience by entering his own wall of qi.
• Xu Yi practiced the Hidden Edge Style on the Green Flat and found that six circles produced the strongest combined strike.
• Xu Yi unleashed twelve vortices that merged into a Qi Dragon and smashed through the Stealth Array before collapsing the Green Flat.
• The banquet guests rushed into Xu Yi's cave abode, and Young Master Zhu ordered everyone to leave.

Young Master Zhu discovered that Xu Yi lived across from him and went to apologize, hoping to settle their feud. When Xu Yi revealed that he had killed Xiao Fuchen, Zhu feared Xu would silence him and found himself trapped at the cave entrance.

• Young Master Zhu bribed the chief steward of Futuo Mountain to inspect the guest register and learned Xu Yi lived across from him.
• Young Master Zhu went to Xu Yi's cave to smooth over their past conflict, while Xu Yi pretended his destructive strike had been an accident.
• Young Master Zhu offered to punish his younger brother and Xiao Fuchen, but Xu Yi revealed that Xiao Fuchen was already dead and showed his Sumeru Ring.
• Young Master Zhu panicked and tried to move, but Xu Yi blocked the cave entrance and asked whether he planned to report him.

Xu Yi forced Young Master Zhu to provide a confession and a token proving his affair with the Third Prince's Consort, then asked him to obtain blood from someone in the Jiang Household. Xu Yi visited Zimo Xuan, saw how well the shop was doing, and reviewed its accounts.

• Xu Yi caught Young Master Zhu trying to send a Voice Transmission, broke the pearl, and made him plead for his life.
• Young Master Zhu gave Xu Yi a jade token and a blood-written confession to prove his affair with the Third Prince's Consort, then agreed to obtain blood from someone in the Jiang Household.
• Xu Yi sent Young Master Zhu away and rode to the city, where he visited Zimo Xuan and spoke with Shopkeeper Shen about its thriving business.
• Yan Zi showed Xu Yi around the shop and brought him the ledgers.
• Xu Yi reviewed the accounts and found that Zimo Xuan had earned over three and a half million gold in net profit, most of which he had spent.

Xu Yi learned that Yuan Qinghua had organized a pill-only auction for Zimo Xuan and decided to make it a major event by adding rare treasures. After entrusting the publicity to the shopkeepers, Xu Yi returned to Futuo Mountain to cultivate, still short of the pills he urgently needed.

• Yuan Qinghua told Xu Yi that Blood Artifacts were selling quickly and explained the plan for Zimo Xuan to hold an auction accepting pills as payment.
• Xu Yi judged the planned auction too small and brought out six Cloud Burst Arrows, a High-grade Blood Artifact, and a Dragon Beard to draw attention.
• Shopkeeper Luo, Shopkeeper Shen, and Yuan Qinghua recognized the treasures and eagerly agreed to use them to make the auction grand.
• Xu Yi recorded the treasures with an Imprint Pearl, returned them to his Sumeru Ring, and told the shopkeepers he would deliver them on auction day.
• Xu Yi returned to his cave abode with Yan Zi and summoned his remaining possessions in the cultivation room.

Xu Yi prepared for Zimo Xuan’s auction, discovered the crimson talisman hidden in the Xiao family letter, and inspected the treasures gathered for sale. The chapter ended with an old man insisting that his broken formation was a treasure after Shopkeeper Luo dismissed him.

• Xu Yi examined the crimson talisman concealed in the letter and saw it react to the Wailing Stick before he put it away.
• Yan Zi proudly showed Xu Yi the low-grade Blood Artifact she had forged, and Xu Yi later made three more Blood Artifacts himself.
• Yuan Qinghua told Xu Yi that more than five hundred bidders had secured plaques and that Zimo Xuan had collected over a hundred treasures.
• Xu Yi found thirteen Heaven Thunder Pearls in the auction storehouse, and Yuan Qinghua offered to sell them to him at thirty percent above market price.
• Xu Yi asked about formations, but Yuan Qinghua said none had been submitted for auction.
• Shopkeeper Luo ordered attendants to remove an old man who claimed his broken formation was a treasure, and Xu Yi questioned Luo’s treatment of him.

Xu Yi met with the old man in hemp clothes, who offered to sell him a Lesser Flame Formation and revealed that it relied on spiritual energy and spirit stones. When Xu Yi showed him a red card made of mid-grade Talisman Paper, the old man asked whether he came from the outside world, and Xu Yi confirmed that he did.

• Xu Yi brought the old man in hemp clothes to a private room and invited him to explain his offer.
• The old man in hemp clothes showed Xu Yi three flags and called them a Lesser Flame Formation, asking for a million gold.
• The old man described killing formations and said the flags could not be tested because Dayue had too little spiritual energy and few spirit stones.
• Xu Yi bargained with the old man, who revealed that the formation was worth at least ten low-grade spirit stones.
• Xu Yi showed the old man a red card, which he identified as mid-grade Talisman Paper, and confirmed that Xu Yi came from the outside world.

Xu Yi met Liu Qi, an exile from his homeland who had spent thirty years seeking a way back and believed an opportunity lay in the far west. After Liu Qi warned that this world placed a limit on cultivation and lifespan, Xu Yi agreed to join his search for the road home.

• Liu Qi told Xu Yi that he had been transported here from the Golden Talisman Sect and had struggled to survive while searching for a way home.
• Xu Yi pretended to remember a spiritually abundant homeland and demonstrated his Late Qi Sea Realm cultivation, convincing Liu Qi that they were countrymen.
• Liu Qi explained that his salvaged maps pointed to a possible opportunity in the Heavenly Buddha Kingdom, nearly a million miles away, and offered Xu Yi his Lesser Flame Formation if he joined him.
• Xu Yi refused at first but questioned Liu Qi about cultivation and learned that Soul Sensing Realm was the highest realm attainable in this world.
• Liu Qi warned Xu Yi that his talent and lifespan would be wasted if he stayed, and Xu Yi agreed to search for the road home with him.

Xu Yi agreed to let the old man in hemp clothes stay while he trained before attempting a return to their homeland, and learned the Spirit Guiding Art. At the auction, his Cloud Burst Arrows and green Jade Slip sold for high prices, while the Dragon Beard’s bidding began at a staggering fifty top-grade pills and left the crowd silent.

• Xu Yi accepted the Lesser Flame Formation from the old man in hemp clothes and agreed to cover the cost of their future journey through the Space Gate.
• The old man taught Xu Yi the Spirit Guiding Art, which drew spiritual energy from spirit stones, and agreed to stay as his guest.
• Xu Yi arrived at the auction and learned that the six Cloud Burst Arrows had sold for ten top-grade pills, with the final arrow fetching three.
• The green Jade Slip sold for seventeen top-grade pills, exceeding Xu Yi’s expectations.
• Shopkeeper Luo opened bidding on the Dragon Beard at fifty top-grade pills, but the crowd remained silent, and Xu Yi questioned its value.

Yao Junchi forcibly took the Dragon Beard and disrupted Zimo Xuan’s auction, prompting Xu Yi to promise a new auction and review the shop’s proceeds. After learning how many Supreme-grade Pills the event had earned, Xu Yi asked whether he could keep them all, shocking his partners.

• Yao Junchi seized the Dragon Beard and left after his pressure forced Xu Yi’s chair to collapse.
• Shopkeeper Shen identified the intruder as Yao Junchi, a Mid Soul Sensing Stage powerhouse, while Xu Yi resented his brute-force seizure.
• Xu Yi sent Yuan Qinghua to promise the crowd another auction in two months, and Yuan Qinghua calmed the dissatisfied bidders.
• Yuan Qinghua and Shopkeeper Luo reported the auction’s sales and commissions, while Shopkeeper Shen tallied Zimo Xuan’s expenses.
• Xu Yi confirmed the proceeds totaled 516 Supreme-grade Pills, including 251 for the shop, then asked if he could keep them all.
• Yuan Qinghua, Shopkeeper Luo, and Shopkeeper Shen protested that keeping the pills would damage Zimo Xuan’s reputation, and Xu Yi asked them to hear him out.

Xu Yi tried to borrow enough money to keep the auction’s top-grade pills, but Delong Money House initially offered only three million gold. After learning Xu Yi’s identity, the Second Shopkeeper approved the full eight-million-gold loan.

• Xu Yi admitted he could not pay the eight million gold needed to keep the pills, and Shopkeeper Shen suggested borrowing from Delong Money House.
• Shopkeeper Luo estimated that Zimo Xuan could borrow at most three million gold because it had operated for less than a month.
• Xu Yi and Yuan Qinghua met Delong Money House’s Second Shopkeeper and requested an eight-million-gold loan.
• When the Second Shopkeeper offered only three million gold, Xu Yi presented the wicked Daoist’s Yin Corpse as collateral.
• After a Green Bird delivered information identifying Xu Yi, the Second Shopkeeper approved the full eight-million-gold loan.

Xu Yi secured an eight-million-gold loan from Delong Money House by promising future assistance and writing a couplet, while his growing literary fame brought attention to Zimo Xuan. He then asked Liu Qi to test the Lesser Flame Formation with a defective mid-grade Spirit Stone.

• The Second Shopkeeper offered Xu Yi an eight-million-gold loan in exchange for a promise of future help and a couplet for the Donghua Immortal Temple, and Xu Yi agreed.
• Xu Yi wrote a couplet praising upright conduct, and the Second Shopkeeper processed the loan and promised to keep Xu Yi's identity confidential.
• At Zimo Xuan, Shopkeeper Shen rushed upstairs after Yuan Qinghua quieted the commotion, convinced Xu Yi's writing would make the shop famous.
• Xu Yi found Liu Qi sweeping snow in the courtyard and showed him a defective mid-grade Spirit Stone.
• Liu Qi confirmed the Spirit Stone could activate the Lesser Flame Formation, and Xu Yi proposed testing it.

Xu Yi brought Liu Qi to Futuo Mountain to test the Lesser Flame Formation, but Liu Qi betrayed him and trapped him in its fire to steal his treasures. Xu Yi endured the heat inside an iron essence sphere and, as Liu Qi waited for him to die, thought of a possible way out.

• Xu Yi led Liu Qi to the cave dwelling in Futuo Mountain and explained the strength of its training room.
• Liu Qi described how Spirit Stones activated formation flags and demonstrated the Lesser Flame Formation, then controlled the flames back toward them.
• The flames suddenly surged at Xu Yi, who enclosed himself in an iron essence sphere as Liu Qi revealed his betrayal and tried to kill him.
• Liu Qi intensified the fire around the sphere, while Xu Yi took top-grade pills to endure the heat.
• After Xu Yi stayed silent for dozens of breaths, Liu Qi grew impatient, and Xu Yi recalled a figure who might help him escape.

Xu Yi escaped Liu Qi’s Lesser Flame Formation with Yan Zi’s help, then captured Liu Qi’s Yin Soul and forced him to reveal the formation formula. After deciding to search for the immortal realm’s entrance in the far west, Xu Yi joined Yan Zi for a birthday feast.

• Yan Zi disrupted Liu Qi’s spellcasting with Thunderclap Pellets and arrows, letting Xu Yi escape the flames and kill Liu Qi with Finger Sword.
• Xu Yi used the Yin Extremity Bead and Soul Transformation Art to trap Liu Qi’s Yin Soul and force him to reveal the Lesser Flame Formation formula.
• Xu Yi tested the formation, then pressed Liu Qi for the location of the immortal realm’s entrance; Liu Qi offered to guide him, but Xu Yi destroyed his Yin Soul.
• Xu Yi concluded the entrance lay somewhere in the far west and decided to search for it himself.
• Yan Zi prepared a feast, and Xu Yi praised her cooking and asked for wine.

Xu Yi followed Second Young Master Zhu into the wilderness and discovered that he was Li Xiuluo in disguise, attempting to kill Young Master Zhu. After Xu Yi stopped the attack, Li Xiuluo revealed that Marquis Wu Cheng had arranged the possession as part of a plot against the Duke Cheng's Mansion.

• Xu Yi left Yan Zi with two top-grade pills and followed Young Master Zhu on a Sky Horse.
• Li Xiuluo, disguised as Second Young Master Zhu, ambushed Young Master Zhu in the wilderness and struck him down.
• Xu Yi arrived, stopped Li Xiuluo's attack, and knocked Young Master Zhu unconscious.
• Xu Yi recognized Li Xiuluo and pressed him about his plans and connection to Marquis Wu Cheng.
• Li Xiuluo explained that Marquis Wu Cheng had stoked Second Young Master Zhu's hatred so Li Xiuluo could possess him and kill Young Master Zhu, taking control of the Duke Cheng's Mansion.

Xu Yi learned that the Ghost Master was tied to Marquis Wu Cheng and that a powerful pursuer was hunting the green-robed woman. Meanwhile, Old Ancestor Wen pursued Xia Zimo across Azure Dragon Mountain and discovered that her strength did not match her advanced appearance and intelligence.

• Xu Yi asked Li Xiuluo to tell the Ghost Master that he could provide Heavenly Thunder Pearls, and Li Xiuluo promised not to oppose him even if ordered to.
• Li Xiuluo killed Young Master Zhu, swallowed his soul, and burned his corpse to protect their identities.
• Li Xiuluo told Xu Yi that someone who seemed at least as powerful as a Soul Sensing Ancestor was chasing a monster resembling Xia Zimo, and Xu Yi rushed away.
• Old Ancestor Wen tracked Xia Zimo, mistook her for an injured great demon at the Forming Stage, and chased her with his Carpet Demon.
• Old Ancestor Wen saw that Xia Zimo had only late Ignorance Stage blood vitality despite her human appearance and intelligence, but he could not identify her kind.

Xia Zimo escaped Old Ancestor Wen's pursuit but was cornered as Purple Fire Heavenly Monarch Yao Junchi arrived. Old Ancestor Wen and Yao Junchi tested each other's strength, leaving the Mysterious Monster's fate unresolved.

• Old Ancestor Wen tracked the low-cultivation, humanlike demon across the mountains and waited for it to reappear on the Demon Searching Disk.
• Xia Zimo rested on a cloud pine, reflected on her demon nature, and listened as Auspicious Duck urged her to contact Xu Yi.
• Auspicious Duck tried to activate Xia Zimo's sound-transmitting orb, but Xia Zimo shattered it and told the duck to flee while she held off their pursuers.
• Yao Junchi arrived and challenged Old Ancestor Wen, and their divine-sense beams collided with enough force to flatten the surrounding trees.
• Old Ancestor Wen concealed his disadvantage against the stronger Yao Junchi to keep him from taking the Mysterious Monster he had pursued for nearly twenty days.