Chapter Summaries

Yan Zi won the Earth Soul Talisman but uncovered the Zhong Family’s attempt to trap her and faced unwanted advances from Young Master Zhong. As she tried to escape, Jing Nan appeared and reached for her.

• Xu Yi warned Yan Zi that the wine was unsafe, and she poured it out instead of drinking it.
• Yan Zi demanded that Steward Zhong produce the Earth Soul Talisman, prompting the crowd to press him for proof.
• A mild-mannered man presented the talisman, but Xu Yi warned Yan Zi not to touch it, so she took the case from her steward instead.
• Young Master Zhong revealed his identity and offered Yan Zi powerful treasures in exchange for her favor, but she directed him to speak with her young master at the Number One Under Heaven Sect.
• Zhao Wuliang warned that the Zhong Family was difficult to handle and urged Yan Zi to leave, but Jing Nan arrived, mocked Young Master Zhong, and reached to pull Yan Zi into his arms.

Yan Zi and the Number One Under Heaven Sect clashed with the Zhong family after Young Master Zhong tried to seize Yan Zi, and Zhao Wuliang used a powerful talisman to fight their way out. The arrival of a Yang Venerate mighty figure shifted the confrontation, and a white-haired Daoist appeared to welcome him.

• Yan Zi dodged Young Master Zhong, while Zhao Wuliang revealed that she was the Number One Under Heaven Sect's Vice Sect Master and defended their claim to the Earth Soul Talisman.
• Zhao Wuliang ordered the group to retreat, but Young Master Zhong used a golden compass to seal the martial arena in a cage of light.
• Zhao Wuliang unleashed a Level 1 Grade 3 Flame Burst Talisman, killing Steward Zhong and nearly overwhelming Young Master Zhong and Jing Nan before three Yin Venerate experts rescued them.
• Mother Zhong demanded that the newcomers kill Zhao Wuliang's group, but an unseen voice struck her with a powerful blow.
• A Yang Venerate mighty figure arrived with six others, and a white-haired Daoist appeared to greet him respectfully.

Old Tyrant arrived to punish the Zhong family for insulting Yan Zi, the Vice Sect Master of the Number One Under Heaven Sect. After he killed Jing Nan and Father Jing, two Yang Venerate authorities appeared and Zhong Hui appealed to them for justice.

• Old Tyrant and six peak Yin Venerate companions bowed to Yan Zi, who instructed him to handle the matter and protect the sect's face.
• Zhong Hui forced Young Master Zhong and Jing Nan to kneel before Yan Zi and begged her to spare his household, but she left their fate to Old Tyrant.
• Old Tyrant killed Jing Nan and Father Jing when Father Jing tried to fight him.
• Zhong Hui knelt before Old Tyrant, but Prefect Chen and Elder Geng arrived and dispelled his killing intent.
• Zhong Hui and his family appealed to Prefect Chen and Elder Geng to uphold justice against Old Tyrant.

Xu Yi arrived in Huai East Prefecture and stopped the confrontation between the Number One Under Heaven Sect and Prefect Su Miaoyuan’s forces. He revealed his position as a Minor Wind Observer, leaving Su Miaoyuan to quietly address the unauthorized deployment of the Auspicious Talisman Army.

• Old Tyrant stood against Vice Prefect Chen and Elder Geng while the Auspicious Talisman Army surrounded the city.
• Su Miaoyuan ordered the army to activate its Dragon Armor Talisman Array, but it remained still under an unseen force’s control.
• Xu Yi appeared, greeted Yan Zi, and received bows from the Number One Under Heaven Sect members.
• Xu Yi questioned Su Miaoyuan about whether he had reported the army’s deployment to the Wind Observer Envoy.
• Xu Yi showed Su Miaoyuan his seal, identifying himself as a Minor Wind Observer, and agreed to speak elsewhere.

Xu Yi met with Su Miaoyuan, learned why the Sacred Court’s trip to Luanyu Immortal Island was considered dangerous and thankless, and accepted an offer to use Tribulation Mountain for Yan Zi. After Xu Yi rewarded the Seven Fiends of the Dense Clouds, Old Tyrant urged them to commit themselves to the Number One Under Heaven Sect.

• Xu Yi and Su Miaoyuan discussed Luanyu Immortal Island and the dangers facing the Sacred Court’s delegation to the Tong Family patriarch’s birthday celebration.
• Su Miaoyuan offered Yan Zi access to Tribulation Mountain, and Xu Yi accepted before preparing her for tribulation.
• Xu Yi met Zhao Wuliang and rewarded the Seven Fiends of the Dense Clouds, giving Old Tyrant a Level 1 Grade 4 Flame Burst Talisman.
• Old Tyrant told the Seven Fiends that Xu Yi had great prospects and urged them to serve the Number One Under Heaven Sect in both body and heart.
• Old Tyrant rebuked Second Brother for speaking carelessly about Vice Sect Master Yan, and the Seven Fiends grew more determined to join the sect.

Xu Yi helped Yan Zi endure the thunder tribulation, and she successfully became a Yin Venerable. After arranging for her to stay with Su Miaoyuan, Xu Yi learned that his accepted task had been taken by a powerful figure, so he accepted other tasks to meet the requirements for direct selection and contacted Lord Lu.

• Xu Yi guided Yan Zi through her tribulation, diverting part of the Thunder True Intent toward himself while supporting her with spirit medicines.
• Yan Zi’s human soul and earth soul merged, making her a Yin Venerable, and she celebrated her breakthrough with Xu Yi.
• Yan Zi insisted on staying with Xu Yi, so he arranged for her to stay with Su Miaoyuan until he could return for her.
• Xu Yi discovered that a powerful figure had taken his task and that he had received five merit points and access to the task list as compensation.
• Xu Yi accepted more than a dozen remaining tasks to meet the direct-selection requirements, then contacted Lord Lu.

Xu Yi learned that Luanyu Immortal Island had summoned major forces to hunt demon cores, then completed a month of dangerous missions for Donghua Immortal Sect. After returning to find Yan Zi had recreated his old home, he offered Elder Bai a Black Origin Bead and a Golden Soul Fruit to help restore him and repay his guidance.

• Xu Yi questioned Lord Lu about the conflict between two groups of demons in the Sea of Forgetfulness and learned that Luanyu Immortal Island was recruiting help to hunt demon cores.
• Xu Yi escaped the Five-Pointed Star Formation, killed the yellow-browed Daoist and his followers, and continued to his next assignment.
• Xu Yi spent a month eliminating seven evil forces and protecting six mining sites before returning to Donghua Immortal Sect exhausted.
• Xu Yi woke after sleeping for three days and found that Yan Zi had built three houses modeled on their home in Great Yue.
• Xu Yi visited Elder Bai and offered him a Black Origin Bead and a Golden Soul Fruit.

Xu Yi gave Elder Bai two rare treasures and helped him test the Three-Five-Seven Sword, then spent five months studying and recovering without finding a cure for his petrified meridians. When Tu Ling asked about the competition, Xu Yi declined to enter and removed the Heart-Devouring Worm from Tu Ling.

• Elder Bai accepted Xu Yi’s Black Origin Bead and Golden Soul Fruit, explaining their value and celebrating that they could extend his life.
• Xu Yi demonstrated his progress with the first solution of the Three-Five-Seven Sword in Elder Bai’s sealed cultivation chamber, astonishing Elder Bai with how quickly he had made the technique practical.
• Elder Bai praised Xu Yi’s Boundless Sea as a gift that let him master techniques rapidly, then continued studying the sword with him.
• Five months later, Xu Yi woke from a long rest after intensive experiments with Elder Bai and an unsuccessful search for a way to cure his petrified meridians.
• Tu Ling asked whether Xu Yi would enter the annual competition, and Xu Yi told him to submit the names without including him.
• Xu Yi removed the Heart-Devouring Worm from Tu Ling, who thanked him and resolved to avoid getting involved in his affairs.

Immortal Lord He explained that he had secured Xu Yi an exemption from the trial to become an Outer Sect Disciple, while Xu Yi quietly recovered. The promotion competition began amid outrage over Xu Yi’s unprecedented chance to compete for the Inner Sect, and the chapter ended as Feng Lingdu’s opening remarks gave way to the contest.

• Immortal Lord He told Xu Yi he had arranged an exemption from the probationary-disciple trial, and Xu Yi thanked him before ending the call.
• Immortal Lord He believed Liu Zhenlin’s praise of Xu Yi’s loyalty would help him win Xu Yi over and ease his own troubles.
• Xu Yi spent more than ten days recovering as news of his direct selection and exemption stirred anger among the Outer Sect Disciples.
• Xu Yi told Yan Zi to stay home and cultivate, then went alone to the promotion competition at the Discussion Palace.
• Feng Lingdu opened the competition before the gathered disciples and elders, and the winds and clouds shifted as the contest was about to begin.

Xu Yi insisted on exercising Wang Qianqiu’s right of direct selection despite the elders’ opposition, and Elder Bie was chosen to test him. Elder Bai backed Wang Qianqiu, but Qiu Ming challenged him to defeat the Outer Sect Disciples before facing Elder Bie.

• Elder Bie and several elders and Immortal Lords opposed Wang Qianqiu entering the Inner Sect through direct selection.
• Immortal Lord He defended the ancient privilege, and Head Feng ruled that Wang Qianqiu was eligible to pursue it.
• The elders agreed that Elder Bie would test Wang Qianqiu, who had to remain capable of acting after three moves to pass.
• Xu Yi accepted the challenge and mocked the Outer Sect Disciples, drawing scorn from the crowd.
• Elder Bai appeared, praised Wang Qianqiu as the sect’s greatest talent in thousands of years, and defended his chance to compete.
• Qiu Ming objected to Wang Qianqiu facing Elder Bie immediately and demanded that he defeat the Outer Sect Disciples first.

Xu Yi accepted the challenge to fight the Outer Sect Disciples and defeated five of them with his red-plum technique, astonishing the witnesses. The remaining disciples then entered the arena and formed the Heavenly Primordial Formation as Xu Yi’s blossoms appeared again.

• Xu Yi challenged Qiu Ming and offered to face all the Outer Sect Disciples at once, while Dongfang Tuo warned him against the risk.
• Feng Lingdu ordered the Outer Sect Disciples to fight Xu Yi, and Talisman Soldiers set up talisman papers around the arena.
• A bearded Outer Sect Disciple attacked Xu Yi, then four others joined him and formed the Five Absolute Formation.
• Xu Yi’s red plum petals shattered the formation’s attack and incapacitated all five disciples, stunning the watching Elders and Immortal Lords.
• The remaining Outer Sect Disciples rushed into the arena, and Qiu Ming led them in forming the Heavenly Primordial Formation.
• Xu Yi summoned the red plum blossoms again as the formation gathered power and began devouring spiritual energy.

Xu Yi used his Three-Five-Seven Sword to defeat the Outer Sect Disciples, then revealed that he had mastered the Three Thousand Swords and defeated Elder Bie. His victory broke a barrier between cultivators of different realms and left the elders recognizing his extraordinary talent.

• Xu Yi’s seven hundred red plum blossoms overwhelmed the Heavenly Primordial Formation, knocking down all but Dongfang Tuo among the Outer Sect Disciples.
• Feng Lingdu praised Xu Yi and argued that he should be admitted to the inner sect without taking the direct selection test, while Elder Bie insisted the rules should stand.
• Xu Yi volunteered to face Elder Bie, and Immortal Lord He encouraged Elder Bie to accept the challenge.
• Elder Bai warned Xu Yi that seven hundred swords might not overcome a point origin expert, but Xu Yi attacked anyway.
• Xu Yi unleashed three thousand swords, bypassed Elder Bie’s spiritual-energy control, and defeated him with a barrage of fire-element spiritual swords.
• Several Immortal Lords treated Elder Bie as Elder Bai pressed Xu Yi to explain how he had mastered the Three Thousand Swords.

Xu Yi revealed that he had reached the True Essence Fifth Turn after defeating Elder Bie, sparking a dispute over whether he could become an Inner Sect Disciple. Feng Lingdu upheld Xu Yi’s qualification, but the Nine Dragon Bell interrupted the competition and summoned the elders to Luofu Palace.

• Xu Yi’s Three Thousand Swords overwhelmed Elder Bie, who recovered and claimed Xu Yi could not reach the point origin realm because he was at the True Essence Fifth Turn.
• Xu Yi confirmed Elder Bie’s claim by dropping his concealment, and Elder Bie accused him of cheating to enter the grand competition through direct selection.
• Feng Lingdu ordered Elder Bie to leave and declared that the rules did not bar Xu Yi from passing direct selection or becoming a point origin disciple.
• The Nine Dragon Bell rang for the first time in three hundred years, so Feng Lingdu postponed the remaining matches for three days and led the elders to Luofu Palace.
• Elder Bai told Xu Yi to wait for him at the Cultivation Technique Building, while Dongfang Tuo congratulated Xu Yi and said he would now address him as Senior.

Xu Yi entered the Inner Sect and learned that he would travel to the Sea of Forgetfulness to seek a chance to form a point core while helping investigate the disappearance of powerful cultivators near Luanyu Immortal Island. After a month of seclusion, he prepared to depart, leaving Yan Zi behind with the sect’s protection and the supplies she had packed for him.

• Xu Yi received his Inner Sect identity and returned to Azure Dragon Island, where Tu Ling and the probationary disciples congratulated him before he rewarded them and sent them away.
• Elder Bai told Xu Yi that the Sect Leader praised his talent but believed he would ultimately perish without forming a point core, and explained that the sect lacked enough fire-type Heavenly Origin Seeds to help him.
• Elder Bai gave Xu Yi the Sect Leader’s Sumeru Ring, containing point-core formation materials and a method, and told him that the Sea of Forgetfulness might offer an opportunity.
• Elder Bai explained that Divine Venerate Tong and other powerful cultivators had vanished near Luanyu Immortal Island, prompting the sects to send Inner Sect Immortal Lords to map the dangerous sea and investigate a suspected forbidden formation.
• Xu Yi asked about demons, and Elder Bai gave him a booklet describing the Demon Essence Fifth Turn before Xu Yi returned to Cave Abode Seventy-Four to cultivate.
• After a month in seclusion, Xu Yi told Yan Zi to remain at the cave abode while he sought an opportunity, and accepted the Sumeru Ring she had filled with robes, provisions, and household supplies.

Xu Yi prepared to travel to the Sea of Forgetfulness, but after his message to Mu Guangming was cut off by trouble at the Fahua Gathering, he rushed toward Holy Radiance City to help. Meanwhile, the gathering on Yaoyue Peak unfolded in grand splendor as Mu Guangming faced a crisis.

• Xu Yi declined Yan Zi's offer to keep sewing for him, then agreed to take the newly lively Su Xiao Ruo on his journey while Yan Zi stayed behind to practice.
• Xu Yi delivered several hundred rare talismans to the Ask Immortal Pavilion, received spirit stones from the White-haired Daoist priest, and set out for a teleportation array.
• Xu Yi recalled that Mu Guangming might know about the Sea of Forgetfulness and sent him a message, but Mu Guangming's angry warning was cut off when the communication bead broke.
• Xu Yi returned to the Ask Immortal Pavilion, asked the White-haired Daoist priest about the Fahua Gathering, and headed for the teleportation array.
• The Fahua Gathering filled Yaoyue Peak with starry Lengjia Flowers and five thousand chanting altars, while Mu Guangming felt as if his heart had been smashed to pieces.

Mu Guangming struggled to adapt to life as a probationary disciple of the Purple Extreme Pavilion and reunited with Xu Yi while tending Lengjia Flowers. Xu Yi sought advice about the Sea of Forgetfulness, but their meeting was interrupted by Lord Hu, who demanded a bribe.

• Mu Guangming reflected on how joining the Purple Extreme Pavilion had reduced him to menial work and continued tending the Lengjia Flowers.
• Xu Yi found Mu Guangming and reassured him that he was also getting by as a subordinate in the Donghua Immortal Sect.
• Xu Yi asked Mu Guangming for guidance about exploring the Sea of Forgetfulness, and Mu Guangming gave him a letter for Old Demon Tan.
• Lord Hu confronted Mu Guangming over the letter and demanded to inspect Xu Yi's Sumeru Ring.
• Xu Yi offered Lord Hu several mid-grade Spirit Stones, and Lord Hu eagerly reached for them.

Xu Yi struck Hu Li for exploiting Mu Guangming, then Yue Ziling arrived and showed Xu Yi deference. Xu Yi entrusted Mu Guangming to Yue Ziling, who ordered Hu Li sent to the Nether Prison.

• Xu Yi slapped Hu Li into a flower bed after Hu demanded Spirit Stones from Mu Guangming.
• Hu Li returned with three probationary disciples and surrounded Xu Yi and Mu Guangming.
• Yue Ziling arrived, greeted Xu Yi respectfully, and ignored the kneeling Purple Extreme Pavilion disciples.
• Xu Yi introduced Mu Guangming as an old friend and asked Yue Ziling to look after him.
• Hu Li begged Mu Guangming for forgiveness, but Mu Guangming stayed silent.
• Yue Ziling ordered Hu Li taken to the Nether Prison.

Hu Li destroyed himself with a Magnetic Core Bead, wrecking the Lengjia flower fields and disrupting the Holy Mother’s birthday celebration. Xu Yi accepted responsibility and went to the gathering, where a newcomer defended the damage as a sign from Heaven.

• Hu Li crushed his Magnetic Core Bead, killing himself and blasting apart the Lengjia flowers Mu Guangming had guarded.
• Liu Ziming arrived and demanded an explanation, but Xu Yi claimed responsibility and flew toward the mountain peak.
• Yue Ziling told Mu Guangming that Xu Yi was Wang Qianqiu, leaving Mu Guangming stunned by his reputation.
• At the birthday gathering, Hostess Jiayi saw the ruined flower fields and demanded an explanation from Liu Ziming.
• A newcomer recited a birthday poem and argued that the destruction of the Lengjia flowers was Heaven’s sign that they were wicked and unnecessary.

Xu Yi used fabricated scholarship and poetry to defend the Lengjia Flower, frustrate Jibian, and challenge Elder Bie at the Fahua Gathering. When Elder Bie called him Wang Qianqiu, the crowd recognized him as the legendary Wang Meihua, leaving the gathering in an uproar.

• Xu Yi claimed the Lengjia Flower’s destruction resulted from the Holy Mother’s benevolence, and the Third Holy Son supported his explanation to protect the Holy Mother’s reputation.
• Jibian condemned Xu Yi, but Xu Yi challenged him to debate Buddhism through poetry, so Jibian bowed and left rather than accept.
• Hostess Jiayi questioned whether Xu Yi had gathered his origin essence, and Elder Bie identified him as a junior of the Donghua Immortal Sect.
• Xu Yi accused Elder Bie of disgracing the Donghua Immortal Sect and provoking trouble at the gathering.
• Elder Bie shouted Wang Qianqiu’s name, and the crowd recognized him as Wang Meihua, the famed cultivator who had entered the inner sect directly from trial disciple status.

At the Fahua Gathering, Xu Yi challenged the seating hierarchy of the Eight Great Immortal Sects on behalf of the Donghua Immortal Sect and demanded that it exchange places with the Imperial Martial Hall. He summoned Wang Yao and Xiong Bei Ming, who had been watching from the Windwatch Tower, and they appeared before the gathering.

• Hostess Jiayi praised Wang Qianqiu and invited him to discuss the Dao, while the Third Holy Son also sought to speak with him.
• Xu Yi rebuked Elder Bie for accepting the Donghua Immortal Sect's seat at the end of the hall, and Elder Bie threatened to report him to the sect.
• Xu Yi argued that the seating reflected the sects' strength, and the other delegations challenged his right to demand a change.
• Xu Yi proposed that the Imperial Martial Hall exchange places with the Donghua Immortal Sect, astonishing the gathering.
• Xu Yi called out Wang Yao and Xiong Bei Ming, who appeared in the hall and explained that they had been waiting for the Fahua Gathering to end.