Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi kept his Minor Wind Observer post, then used the Black Origin Bead he had gained to repay He Binji and Mu Guangming for their help. Mu Guangming planned to use his bead to enter the Eight Great Immortal Sects’ trials, despite Xu Yi warning him of the risks.

• Xu Yi asked Lord Lu to remove him from his post so he could cultivate in seclusion, but Lord Lu persuaded him to stay and offered him an alliance.
• Xu Yi told Lord Lu that he had promised the Wind Observer Envoy of Huaixi to acknowledge Miss Wen as a relative, and Lord Lu accepted the arrangement.
• Xu Yi deposited a Black Origin Bead in a private locker for He Binji and sent him the retrieval details to repay his help in the Mystic Desolation Hall.
• Xu Yi met Mu Guangming in a sealed room and gave him a Black Origin Bead in return for the Heavenly God Chart fragment.
• Mu Guangming said he intended to use the bead to enter the Eight Great Immortal Sects’ trials, and Xu Yi warned that trial disciples were treated as cannon fodder.

Mu Guangming joined an immortal sect and told Xu Yi about a high-level auction in Holy Radiance City. After the Auspicious Duck asked about the treasure from the Heavenly God Hall, Xu Yi explained how he obtained it and agreed to hear the duck’s offer for a deal.

• Mu Guangming told Xu Yi he had arranged for the Chaotic Star Sea’s safety and planned to hand over his treasure to the immortal sect.
• Mu Guangming told Xu Yi that a high-level auction would take place in Holy Radiance City in three days, and Xu Yi set out to replenish his stores.
• Xu Yi met the old ghost at the merchant association and spoke to the Auspicious Duck through a communication ball.
• Xu Yi told the Auspicious Duck that an image inside the Heavenly Demon Jade Wall had shown him how to obtain the treasure, while hiding Liao Chen’s appearance.
• The Auspicious Duck concluded that the image had disrupted the heavenly secrets and said the treasure would bring him disaster if he pursued it.
• The Auspicious Duck asked Xu Yi to make a deal to repay his favor, and Xu Yi agreed to hear his proposal.

Xu Yi traded with Auspicious Duck for a method to take the Sage Fruit and a Fire element cultivation technique, then learned that Xia Zimo was alive but not in this world. He used the Sage Fruit to restore his Qi Sea and discovered that it had also purged impurities from his body.

• Xu Yi received instructions for taking the Sage Fruit and the Illusory Traces Fire Shadow Escape technique from Auspicious Duck in exchange for White Origin Beads, Green Origin Beads, and a Black Origin Bead.
• Auspicious Duck told Xu Yi that Xia Zimo was alive but was not in this world, and Xu Yi angrily smashed the transmission bead after provoking the duck about its past.
• Xu Yi left Golden Lion City and returned to Huangdang Sand Dune to take the Sage Fruit.
• Xu Yi guided the fruit's energies through his body until his Qi Sea reappeared, filling with the crimson sea of malice.
• Black, oily impurities seeped from Xu Yi's pores, and he realized the Sage Fruit had healed injuries throughout his body as well as his qi bridge.

Xu Yi restored his Qi Sea and began transforming his Sea of Malice into True Essence, stirring up a great celestial phenomenon over Huangdang Sand Dune. A group of Carrion Cultivators and the Seven Fiends of the Dense Clouds converged on him, with the Seven Fiends leading the charge toward his location.

• After consuming the Sage Fruit, Xu Yi healed his hidden injuries and restored his Qi Sea.
• Xu Yi's True Soul Figure absorbed the True Fire Malice in his Qi Sea, and his True Spirit Circle began producing True Essence.
• As Xu Yi's True Essence thickened and began to liquefy, dark clouds gathered overhead with the force of a Minor Cloud Tribulation.
• Dozens of Carrion Cultivators gathered nearby, hoping Xu Yi had failed his tribulation so they could seize his resources.
• The Seven Fiends of the Dense Clouds arrived, killed a purple-robed cultivator who challenged them, and scattered the Carrion Cultivators when they revealed a Yang Venerate among them.
• The long-nosed, deep-eyed old man ordered the Seven Fiends to form up and rushed toward Xu Yi.

After reaching True Essence Fifth Turn, Xu Yi restrained a band of Carrion Cultivators who mistook his bath for a bluff. He took their Sumeru Rings and spared them, leaving them prostrate and begging for their lives.

• Xu Yi completed True Essence Fifth Turn and wondered at the strange clouds that had gathered over him.
• Xu Yi bathed at Huangdang Sand Dune while the seven Carrion Cultivators arrived and decided he was pretending to have undergone a tribulation.
• Xu Yi used his divine sense to immobilize the seven, breaking through their protective formation and leaving even their Yang Venerate leader helpless.
• Xu Yi took the seven men's Sumeru Rings and released them.
• The seven prostrated themselves before Xu Yi and begged him to spare their lives.

Xu Yi subdued seven bandits, sent them to strengthen the Number One Under Heaven Sect, and traveled to Holy Radiance City to secure a place in Ask Immortal Pavilion’s auction. After he offered a Black Origin Bead, the pavilion’s leaders suspected he was a point origin expert.

• Xu Yi took nearly two million spirit stones from seven bandits, spared them, and made them swear on Soul Restriction Talismans to serve him for thirty years.
• Xu Yi sent the seven to the Number One Under Heaven Sect, checked on Yan Zi with Zhao Wuliang, and traveled to Holy Radiance City.
• Xu Yi presented his official token at the city gate, obtained a map and directory, and found Ask Immortal Pavilion.
• Xu Yi offered a Black Origin Bead and received an auction invitation and a high-grade membership jade token after learning how bidding for the Black Light Treasures would work.
• The Scarlet Robe Middle-aged Man reported Xu Yi to the White-haired Daoist priest, who concluded that Xu Yi was likely a point origin expert.

Xu Yi mastered the Illusionary Traces Fire Shadow Art while waiting for the auction, then attended the Ask Immortal Pavilion’s secretive auction. The auction opened with a Black Origin Bead, which Xu Yi realized was meant to give its sellers funds for later bidding.

• The White-haired Daoist priest concluded that Xu Yi was a Rogue Cultivator and instructed the Red Robe Middle-aged Man to cultivate a connection with him.
• Xu Yi spent two days practicing the Illusionary Traces Fire Shadow Art until he mastered it, exhausting himself before the auction began.
• The Red Robe Middle-aged Man welcomed Xu Yi, introduced his adopted son, and invited him to dinner after the auction.
• The Green Robe Youth arranged privacy-protecting artifacts and a bidding token for Xu Yi before guiding him to the auction venue on a Floating Island.
• The Red Robe Middle-aged Man began the auction by presenting a Black Origin Bead, and Xu Yi understood that its early sale would fund later bids by its owners.

Xu Yi watched the Black Origin Beads sell for far more than he expected and realized powerful sects were competing for them, so he abandoned his plan to sell his remaining beads. A peerless-grade Transformation Pill then went up for auction, but its limits became clear when a bidder asked whether it could disguise a first-revolution Yang Venerate as a fifth-revolution one.

• The Black Origin Bead bidding passed twenty million spirit stones, and Xu Yi recognized Wang Yao and other sect members among the bidders.
• The auctioneer said the Heaven God Hall had been destroyed and that no more Black Light Treasures would be available, and the eight beads sold for up to thirty million spirit stones each.
• Xu Yi grew curious about the beads’ value and decided not to sell his remaining Black Origin Beads.
• The auctioneer presented a peerless-grade Transformation Pill, and Xu Yi understood that its long-lasting disguise made it valuable despite its limited purpose.
• A bidder asked whether the pill could disguise a first-revolution Yang Venerate as a fifth-revolution one, and the hall laughed as the pill’s inability to alter one’s True Spirit Circle became clear.

Xu Yi saw the supreme-grade Transformation Pill as a way to keep impersonating Wang Qianqiu despite his rise to True Essence Fifth Turn, and bought it at auction. He later bid on a Magnetic Origin Bead but withdrew when its price soared, and watched it sell for eighteen million five hundred thousand.

• Xu Yi realized the supreme-grade Transformation Pill could let him resume Wang Qianqiu's True Essence Third Turn appearance and conceal his sudden increase in cultivation.
• Xu Yi outbid the other buyers and secured the Transformation Pill for sixteen million.
• Xu Yi watched other rare treasures sell for high prices, including an ancient sword formation manual that fetched thirty-five million.
• Xu Yi joined the bidding for a Magnetic Origin Bead, hoping to obtain a powerful means of escape.
• Xu Yi withdrew after the Magnetic Origin Bead's price passed fifteen million, and another buyer won it for eighteen million five hundred thousand.

Xu Yi watched the auction reveal the damaged eighth-rank Dark Obsidian Dagger, whose wind-and-thunder power could destroy powerful defenses. The hall erupted as the dagger’s extraordinary sharpness was demonstrated, and Xu Yi became eager to claim it.

• Xu Yi ignored the earlier attack treasures because none met his requirements for a weapon capable of deterring a Yang Venerate expert.
• The Red Robe Middle-aged Man presented the Dark Obsidian Dagger, and the crowd recognized its two Law Patterns as proof it had once been an eighth-rank magical artifact.
• The Red Robe Middle-aged Man explained that the dagger’s spiritual bridge had collapsed, then demonstrated that its wind-and-thunder power could destroy a fourth-rank battle armor.
• The Red Robe Middle-aged Man tested the dagger against a Five-Eyed Dragon Turtle shell, and the dagger cracked it before shattering it with another strike.
• Xu Yi and the other cultivators surged with excitement at the sight of the dagger’s power.

Xu Yi used a startling bid to win the Dark Obsidian Dagger, then offered sixty million spirit stones for the Utmost Pure Spirit Lotus because he needed it to break through the second Origin Lock. The auctioneer began the lotus auction, and the bidding was left unresolved.

• Xu Yi bid thirty million for the Dark Obsidian Dagger, silencing the venue and winning it without competition.
• The auction continued, and an Exotic Beast Egg sold for eighty million spirit stones before the Red Robe Middle-aged Man declared the auction closed.
• A cloaked figure presented an Utmost Pure Spirit Lotus, and the Red Robe Middle-aged Man agreed to auction it despite the association's usual procedures.
• Xu Yi bid sixty million for the Utmost Pure Spirit Lotus, determined to obtain it for his attempt to break through the second Origin Lock.
• Xu Yi reflected that the Nine Revolutions Saint Creation Art was the foundation of his cultivation and that he intended to pursue the True Core stage.

Xu Yi bid sixty million spirit stones on the Utmost Pure Spirit Lotus, hoping to purify the blood and vitality he needed to break through his second Origin Lock, but a True Core Divine Venerate stole it during the auction. Xu Yi completed his other purchases and left the hall still resentful about the auction’s failure to protect his prize.

• Xu Yi planned to use the Blood-Eating Method to accumulate essence for his second Origin Lock breakthrough and rely on the Utmost Pure Spirit Lotus to cleanse its impurities.
• Xu Yi bid sixty million spirit stones for the Utmost Pure Spirit Lotus, and the auction hall fell silent as the bidding ended.
• A True Core Divine Venerate overwhelmed the hall, seized the lotus, and fled after Xu Yi’s True Spirit Circle broke the suppressive force.
• Xu Yi left the auction and bought a top-grade Transformation Pill and a Dark Obsidian Dagger, storing the remaining eight million spirit stones in his Sumeru Ring.
• The Green Robe Youth apologized to Xu Yi and explained that his foster father, the Red Robe Middle-aged Man, was dealing with the auction’s crisis.

Xu Yi became a guest advisor to Ask Immortal Pavilion, bought spirit stones and talisman-making supplies, and spent seven days refining talismans while nourishing the Dark Obsidian Dagger. He prepared to contact Liu Zhenlin as he planned to enter the Donghua Immortal Sect disguised as Wang Qianqiu.

• Xu Yi accepted the Green Robe Youth's offer to become a guest advisor and used his new purchasing privileges to buy thirty mid-grade Fire Spirit Stones and ten mid-grade Wind Spirit Stones.
• Xu Yi changed his appearance, bought talisman materials from another merchant association, and rented a private refining chamber.
• Xu Yi spent seven days refining several hundred sheets of fire-element talisman paper, twelve Flame Burst Talismans, and ten Raging Wind Talismans while nourishing the Dark Obsidian Dagger.
• Xu Yi concealed the Dark Obsidian Dagger in a specially made sheath and put it away in his Sumeru Ring.
• Xu Yi put away Dongfang Tuo's voice-transmission orb and activated Liu Zhenlin's, intending to contact him before entering the Donghua Immortal Sect disguised as Wang Qianqiu.

Xu Yi contacted Liu Zhenlin and asked him to send Cao and Zhao to help him leave Holy Radiance City safely. After arranging their meeting, Xu Yi took a top-grade Transformation Pill and disguised himself as Wang Qianqiu.

• Xu Yi contacted Liu Zhenlin, explained that he was hiding in Holy Radiance City, and asked him to send Cao and Zhao.
• Liu Zhenlin offered to bring a force himself, but agreed to send Cao and Zhao after Xu Yi urged him to avoid drawing attention.
• Liu Zhenlin told Xu Yi to raise the Donghua Immortal Sect's banner if he ran into trouble.
• Xu Yi swallowed a top-grade Transformation Pill and gained precise control over his appearance.
• Xu Yi transformed himself into Wang Qianqiu and headed west through the city.

Xu Yi entered the Donghua Immortal Sect’s hidden spatial fragment with the two purple-clad men and discovered how its entrance was concealed. They showed him a map and explained the sect’s island layout and the status of its trial disciples.

• Xu Yi met the round-faced man in purple and the square-faced man in purple, and they agreed to accompany him to the Donghua Immortal Sect.
• The three traveled by teleportation array, used signal talismans to enter a spatial fragment, and emerged above a vast sea.
• Xu Yi used the Starry Sky Breath Locking Technique to locate the fragment’s entrance and realized it gave him a possible escape route.
• The square-faced man in purple explained that the fragment contained thousands of islands arranged in rings, with richer spiritual qi toward the center.
• The round-faced man in purple and the square-faced man in purple described the sect’s ranks and explained that trial disciples lived on Azure Dragon Island, Yellow Scale Island, or Purple Phoenix Island according to their standing.

Xu Yi entered Azure Dragon Island under his Wang Qianqiu identity and learned that his new cave abode had an exceptionally rare spirit spring. The spectacle rising above Peak Seventy-Four drew attention, and his companions hurried ahead as they realized others might come.

• The round-faced and square-faced men in purple reminded Xu Yi that his special merit let him move directly onto Azure Dragon Island, and he promised to reward their help if he made progress.
• Xu Yi crossed the island’s light gate with the two men and marveled at Azure Dragon Island’s abundant spiritual energy and beautiful peaks.
• Liu San, a trusted servant of Lord Liu, greeted Xu Yi and explained that his newly built cave abode was on Peak Seventy-Four.
• Liu San revealed that he had opened a pure green spirit spring for Xu Yi, which the two men in purple said was exceptionally rare and valuable.
• Xu Yi and the others saw green Qi gathering above Peak Seventy-Four, and the two men in purple rushed forward after Liu San warned that the display had attracted attention.

Xu Yi followed Liu San to Peak Seventy-Four, where trial disciples were competing for the newly appeared Azure Extreme Spirit Spring. Liu San claimed the peak for Liu Zhenlin, but Tu Ling arrived and his powerful standing left Liu San unsure how to proceed.

• Xu Yi sensed the crowded Peak Seventy-Four but decided not to reveal himself and followed Liu San there.
• The two purple-clad men tried to claim the peak for Xu Yi, but other disciples mocked them and declared the spring belonged to Tu Ling.
• Liu San rebuked the gathered disciples and invoked Liu Zhenlin's claim to the peak.
• Tu Ling appeared, dismissed Liu San as a lackey, and received the gathered disciples' greetings.
• Liu San recognized Tu Ling as Elder Duan's nominal disciple and worried that challenging him could bring disgrace upon Liu Zhenlin.

Xu Yi arrived at Peak Seventy-Four, where Tu Ling claimed the spring and his followers provoked Xu Yi into a challenge. After the name Wang Qianqiu revealed his fearsome reputation, the crowd fled, and Xu Yi let Song Tianfang go before ordering Liu San to continue the construction.

• Tu Ling claimed the spring on Peak Seventy-Four and invited the crowd to drink, while Xu Yi prepared to leave.
• Tu Ling’s followers insulted Xu Yi, and Song Tianfang issued him a Challenge Letter that Xu Yi was required to accept as a trial disciple.
• Xu Yi’s name appeared on the letter as Wang Qianqiu, and Song Tianfang and the other trial disciples recognized him from the battle between the three sects.
• Tu Ling and the trial disciples fled, while Xu Yi returned the Challenge Letter and told Song Tianfang not to take the challenge seriously.
• Xu Yi instructed Liu San to oversee the cave dwelling’s construction and promised to reward the workers.

Xu Yi settled into his newly built residence on Peak Seventy-Four and hosted Liu Zhenlin the next morning. Liu Zhenlin then began telling him about a change of circumstances involving Immortal Lord He.

• Xu Yi rewarded Liu San and the workers, then sent gifts to Liu Zhenlin and Qiu Lu through Liu San.
• Xu Yi promised the round-faced and red-faced men he would remove their affliction within three years, and they left after exchanging voice-transmission pearls with him.
• Alone that night, Xu Yi played Xia Zimo's silver flute and considered bringing Yan Zi to live with him, but decided it was too dangerous.
• Xu Yi prepared breakfast and welcomed Liu Zhenlin, who thanked him for his gifts and praised his handling of Tu Ling.
• Xu Yi refused Liu Zhenlin's offer to arrange servants, explaining that he preferred seclusion and did not want people around him.
• Liu Zhenlin raised the subject of Immortal Lord He and began explaining a regrettable turn of events.

Liu Zhenlin showed Xu Yi the sect’s rules and brought him to the Reward Hall to exchange for treasures. Xu Yi accessed the hall’s exchange device, but its offerings left him speechless because his status as a trial disciple was too low.

• Liu Zhenlin gave Xu Yi two booklets detailing the Donghua Immortal Sect’s rules, leaders, and internal affairs, and Xu Yi appreciated the thoughtful gift.
• Liu Zhenlin proposed showing Xu Yi the Reward Hall, and Xu Yi eagerly agreed to look for treasures.
• Xu Yi and Liu Zhenlin traveled to Shang Gong Island, where Liu explained the roles of the Reward Hall and Merit Discussion Hall.
• Liu Zhenlin led Xu Yi into a sealed stone chamber, where Xu Yi used his identity token to open the exchange display.
• Xu Yi saw that his trial disciple status severely limited the treasures available to him.