Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi provoked a confrontation between the Purple Mansion Lords and the lower-ranking members of Donghua Immortal Sect to stop Chong Xuzi from sending him to the Law Enforcement Hall by force. The Purple Mansion Lords erupted in outrage after Xu Yi challenged their contemptuous view of the other ranks.

• A purple-robed young man rebuked Xu Yi for addressing Chen Liao and Xie Wu by name, but Xu Yi defended himself by pointing out that the sect's laws did not specify how to address Purple Mansion Lords.
• Chong Xuzi ordered Elder Cao to take Xu Yi to the Law Enforcement Hall, and Xu Yi asked whether the lives of lower-ranking disciples mattered less than the dignity of Purple Mansion Lords.
• Chong Xuzi tried to silence Xu Yi and sent divine intent toward him, but a lightning mark in Xu Yi's spiritual platform shattered it.
• A Purple Mansion Lord called the Outer Sect Disciples and probationary disciples ants, stirring outrage among those present.
• Xu Yi seized on the insult, accused Chong Xuzi and the Purple Mansion Lords of protecting their own interests, and challenged them to treat him as an equal opponent.
• The Purple Mansion Lords exploded in outrage as Xu Yi's plan forced the conflict between the sect's ranks into the open.

Xu Yi forced the Purple Abode Lords into a fight to honor his dead brother Dongfang Tuo, then revealed his overwhelming combat strength when they attacked. The chapter left him unharmed after withstanding three Lords’ assaults while the crowd marveled at his power.

• Xu Yi ignored the Purple Abode Lords’ furious demands, and Su Mang struck him while Chong Xuzi watched.
• Xu Yi challenged the Lords to fight and demanded that, if they lost, they kneel and beg forgiveness at Dongfang Tuo’s grave.
• Su Phoenix accepted Xu Yi’s terms, and three Purple Abode Lords attacked him at once.
• Xu Yi shattered Su Mang’s Heavenly Demon Armor and battered him with Sword Qi, while Xie Wu realized Xu Yi had previously concealed his strength.
• Xu Yi endured the other two Lords’ attacks without injury, and the assembled crowd praised his power.

Xu Yi overwhelmed the Purple Palace Lords with his defenses and Seven Thousand Swords until Su Phoenix released a Chaos Demon that sealed him inside a ball of flesh. Trapped and unable to break free, Xu Yi compressed his body to keep the demon’s tentacles from piercing him.

• Chong Xuzi urged Su Phoenix to stop the battle, but Su Phoenix refused as the fight continued.
• Xu Yi incapacitated a third Purple Palace Lord and kept the others on the defensive with his relentless Sword Qi.
• Su Phoenix summoned a headless red Chaos Demon from his Spirit Beast Bag, and it bound Xu Yi with tentacles before sealing him inside a red ball.
• Chong Xuzi realized Su Phoenix had raised and controlled a Chaos Demon embryo, and the Purple Palace Lords used the reprieve to replenish their strength.
• Xu Yi failed to escape or burn through the sealed flesh, so he compressed his body to protect himself from the demon’s penetrating tentacles.

Xu Yi remained trapped by Su Phoenix’s demon pet while the Purple Mansion Lords demanded punishment, and Chong Xuzi tried to contain the conflict. The demon pet suddenly burst apart, leaving Su Phoenix gravely injured and revealing a huge monster whose next move was unclear.

• Su Phoenix loosened his demon pet’s grip on Xu Yi and offered to spare him if he served the Purple Mansion Lords for seven years.
• The Purple Mansion Lords condemned Xu Yi, while the onlookers defended him and pointed out that he had spared the Lords during their fight.
• Xu Yi rejected Su Phoenix’s offer, and Chong Xuzi decided to subdue him and send him to the Nether Prison.
• The demon pet abruptly exploded and transformed into a colossal, black-furred monster, severing its connection with Su Phoenix and causing him to spit golden blood.
• The monster sprang forward at tremendous speed as the ground collapsed beneath it.

Xu Yi shattered Su Phoenix’s dantian, struck back against Chong Xuzi, and escaped the Donghua Immortal Sect’s world. After hiding in a river to recover, he emerged and prepared a meal by the water.

• Xu Yi battered the Purple Mansion Lords, then used a black banner to disrupt Chong Xuzi and shattered Su Phoenix’s dantian.
• Chong Xuzi attacked Xu Yi with the Azure Seal, but Xu Yi struck him and fled while reminding the crowd of the wager about Dongfang Tuo’s grave.
• Chong Xuzi ordered the External Affairs Hall to block message talismans and pursued Xu Yi, but learned that someone had escaped the sect’s world.
• Xu Yi used the Starry Sky Breath Locking Technique and Fierce Rhinoceros’s boundary token to escape, then sank into a riverbed and slept.
• After waking and recovering, Xu Yi left the river and used his divine sense to gather fish and firewood for a meal.

After escaping the Donghua Immortal Sect, Xu Yi reflected on his clash with Chong Xuzi and decided to travel to Holy Radiance City for spirit stones to cultivate the Heavenly Origin Seed. At a refining workshop, a fortune-teller caught his attention and asked him to write a character for a reading.

• Xu Yi recalled how Chong Xuzi's Divine Treasure had nearly split his demonic body and considered why the Donghua Immortal Sect might still accept him as an ally.
• Xu Yi decided to seek mid-grade or better Five Elements Spirit Stones in Holy Radiance City to support his cultivation of the Heavenly Origin Seed.
• Xu Yi arrived in Holy Radiance City and went to the Yi Yin refining workshop to refine talismans for trade.
• A middle-aged Daoist offering Iron Mouth Divination stopped Xu Yi and persuaded him to write a character for a fortune reading.
• Xu Yi wrote the character "One," and the Daoist asked whether he had chosen it in earnest.

Xu Yi met Zhu Dongming, the Donghua Immortal Sect's leader, after a failed fortune-telling revealed that heaven itself resisted divining Xu Yi's origins. Zhu confronted Xu Yi over his past and concealed identity, but Xu Yi explained his loyalty to the sect, and Zhu left without deciding what to do with him.

• Xu Yi wrote the character "one," and Zhu Dongming's divining compass was struck by lightning as he tried to read Xu Yi's fate.
• Xu Yi recognized the fortune-teller as the Donghua Immortal Sect's leader and invited him to a refining chamber.
• Zhu revealed that he had come to capture Xu Yi, while Xu Yi defended his actions in the conflict involving Su Phoenix and the Chief Seat.
• Xu Yi reassured Zhu that he held no resentment toward the sect and remained loyal to it.
• Zhu confronted Xu Yi about being the real Xu Yi rather than Wang Qianqiu, and Xu Yi acknowledged that Zhu had uncovered his identity.
• Xu Yi argued that his identity did not change the sect's kindness or his loyalty, and Zhu stood up, saying he had nothing left to say.

Xu Yi persuaded Sect Leader Zhu to share his knowledge of cultivation and the world, hoping to prepare for his mission in the Demon Domain. Zhu explained the stages beyond Yang Venerable and the limits of what he knew, then began clarifying the Demon Race’s ranks.

• Xu Yi stopped Sect Leader Zhu from leaving and asked him to broaden his knowledge instead of giving him cultivation resources.
• Sect Leader Zhu agreed to answer Xu Yi’s questions after requiring him to remember that he was Wang Qianqiu within the Donghua Immortal Sect.
• Sect Leader Zhu explained how cultivators formed the True Core, advanced through its stages, and could eventually develop a spiritual root.
• Sect Leader Zhu said the strongest cultivators he knew had reached True Core Great Perfection, while the fate of stronger cultivators remained unknown.
• Xu Yi asked about the Demon Race’s strength, and Sect Leader Zhu explained that demons of the third through sixth orders were Great Demons with white demon cores, classified by combat strength.

Sect Leader Zhu discussed the world beyond Xu Yi’s realm and urged him to seek strength while remaining part of the Donghua Immortal Sect. After Xu Yi entered seclusion, Sect Leader Zhu reunited with Chong Xuzi, who pressed him about what the Heavenly Star Disk had revealed.

• Sect Leader Zhu explained that Xu Yi’s Dragon Elephant Aspect was a divine art, and Xu Yi gave him the technique to read.
• Sect Leader Zhu described the Main World, the Four Continents, and the Saint Clan’s possible method for reaching a higher realm.
• Sect Leader Zhu advised Xu Yi to keep seeking opportunities, promised to look after his maidservant, and then left as Xu Yi went into seclusion.
• Sect Leader Zhu joined Chong Xuzi in a jade carriage, where Chong Xuzi asked what the Heavenly Star Disk had revealed and whether Sect Leader Zhu had kept it.
• Sect Leader Zhu said the Heavenly Star Disk had helped reveal Xu Yi’s extraordinary nature, then offered to tell Chong Xuzi a secret from their master.

Chong Xuzi learned that the Heavenly Star Disk had shattered while Sect Leader Zhu tried to divine Xu Yi’s fate, then realized Zhu might have tricked him and pursued him in anger. At a banquet in Phoenix Tower, the leaders of three major factions gathered to meet Commander Long.

• Sect Leader Zhu told Chong Xuzi that mystic lightning had shattered the Heavenly Star Disk when he used it to measure Xu Yi’s fate, and Chong Xuzi accepted that Xu Yi’s fate could not be read.
• Chong Xuzi questioned how Xu Yi had crossed into their world, while Sect Leader Zhu advised leaving the matter alone and departed to deal with the Demon Race’s internal strife.
• Chong Xuzi realized the timeline Zhu gave for his connection to the disk was wrong, accused Zhu of breaking it and deceiving him, and chased after him.
• Gao Ziyang arrived at Phoenix Tower for a banquet he could not refuse and found Qi Pingnian and Hong Quan already there.
• Gao Ziyang, Qi Pingnian, and Hong Quan greeted Commander Long when he entered the hall with a purple-robed middle-aged man.

Commander Long forced Gao Ziyang to surrender Ask Immortal Pavilion as the Inner Court consolidated merchant associations under Le Sheng Tang. Gao accepted rather than be killed, and the chapter ended with him humiliated at the feast while paperwork was due within two days.

• Commander Long announced that Ask Immortal Pavilion, Tianyu Tower, and the Mountain Sea Alliance would become branches of Le Sheng Tang, with the Inner Court controlling their accounts and revenue.
• Gao Ziyang rejected the consolidation and tried to leave, but Commander Long threatened that Ask Immortal Pavilion would soon have a new owner.
• Qi Pingnian and Hong Quan backed the consolidation, while Mr. Meng seized Gao Ziyang and beat him on Commander Long's orders.
• Commander Long gave Gao Ziyang the choice to submit or be executed for rebellion, and Gao yielded to save his life.
• Commander Long ordered Gao and the others to finish the paperwork within two days, then took the seat of honor as Gao sat beneath him in humiliation.

Xu Yi arrived at Phoenix Tower and found Gao Ziyang trapped in a tense confrontation with Commander Long and Mr. Meng. When Mr. Meng attacked him, Xu Yi beat him unconscious, leaving Commander Long furious and Gao Ziyang fearing the consequences.

• Xu Yi used his Ask Immortal Pavilion status to find Gao Ziyang at Phoenix Tower, then entered despite its restrictions and sat down to eat.
• Gao Ziyang introduced Xu Yi as the Ask Immortal Pavilion's top guest and explained that the pavilion might join Le Sheng Tang.
• Mr. Meng insulted Xu Yi and lunged to seize him, but Xu Yi struck him repeatedly and shattered his bones and joints.
• Commander Long rose in fury, while Gao Ziyang urged Xu Yi to apologize because his opponents were from the Inner Court.

Xu Yi defended Ask Immortal Pavilion from the Inner Court’s attempt to take it over and demanded that someone with authority come to negotiate. Kong Zhang arrived, killed Commander Long, and had a spirit cat consume his soul.

• Xu Yi struck Commander Long and stopped him from taking medicine, then asked Gao Ziyang why the Inner Court was claiming Ask Immortal Pavilion.
• Xu Yi refused to let the Sacred Court seize the pavilion and challenged Commander Long to summon someone who could make the decision.
• Lord Cong arrived with the Dragon Team, but Xu Yi killed a man who insulted him, prompting Lord Cong to summon a higher authority.
• Gao Ziyang warned Xu Yi that Kong Zhang and his companions had recently emerged from the Purple Domain and urged him to flee.
• Kong Zhang beat Commander Long to death and released a black spirit cat, which swallowed Commander Long’s soul.

Xu Yi attacked Kong Zhang at Tingyu Pavilion to stop the Inner Court from taking over Ask Immortal Pavilion, then forced Kong Zhang to agree to negotiate. He left the hall after destroying Kong Zhang’s Yin Spirit Cat and badly injuring the gathered Purple Abode Lords.

• Kong Zhang confronted Xu Yi and ordered two attendants to make him kneel after Xu Yi warned the Inner Court not to seize Ask Immortal Pavilion.
• Xu Yi unleashed Seven Thousand Swords, wounded Kong Zhang and the gathered Purple Abode Lords, and was recognized as Wang Qianqiu by Xie Wu.
• Kong Zhang sent his Yin Spirit Cat to attack Xu Yi, but Xu Yi used the Soul-Summoning Banner to consume it.
• Kong Zhang pleaded to negotiate, and Xu Yi stopped attacking after Kong Zhang agreed to write down his promise.
• The attack destroyed Tingyu Pavilion and ruined Xie Wu’s Heavenly Demon Armor.

Xu Yi defeated the gathered Purple Mansion Lords, secured Ask Immortal Pavilion’s safety, and waited for the Third Holy Son, whom he suspected of once ordering his assassination. The Third Holy Son arrived at Yanliu River, newly focused on Xu Yi and the possibility that he had obtained the final opportunity in Heavenly God Hall.

• Kong Zhang wrote a pledge after Xu Yi overpowered the opposing cultivators, then left while plotting to set Xu Yi against the Third Holy Son.
• Gao Ziyang thanked Xu Yi for protecting Ask Immortal Pavilion, and Xu Yi clarified that he had no intention of taking it over.
• Xu Yi asked Gao Ziyang to gather large quantities of mid-grade Five Elements Spirit Stones and gave him a Sumeru Ring to cover the cost.
• Xu Yi carved an invitation for the Third Holy Son onto a building and went to Yanliu River to wait for him.
• The Third Holy Son arrived and wondered whether Xu Yi was the person who had obtained the final opportunity in Heavenly God Hall.

Xu Yi lured the Third Holy Son to Yanliu River and defeated him in a spectacular clash, discovering that his opponent had reached True Core. Xu Yi fled afterward, wary that the wounded Third Holy Son could still turn the fight around.

• The Third Holy Son realized Xu Yi had forced him into a public confrontation by challenging him to meet at Yanliu River.
• Xu Yi answered the Third Holy Son’s questions with cryptic remarks before attacking and unleashing a devastating strike.
• The Third Holy Son revealed he had reached True Core, but he still lost and rose from the river badly wounded.
• Cultivators watching from the city recognized that Xu Yi had defeated a True Core cultivator without forming an origin core.
• Xu Yi fled using Raging Wind Talismans, afraid the Third Holy Son might recover and reverse the fight.

Xu Yi ambushed the Third Holy Son at Yanliu River, stole the Sheep Fat Jade Pure Bottle, and fled to a deserted island. As the Third Holy Son pursued him, Xu Yi endured Soul Fire to erase the bottle’s soul mark and claim the treasure.

• Xu Yi detonated an Extreme Water Bead hidden on a strange fish at Yanliu River, then used the Dragon Elephant Aspect to batter the Third Holy Son and steal the Sheep Fat Jade Pure Bottle.
• Xu Yi fled with Raging Wind Talismans and stopped on a deserted island, where he began refining the bottle with Soul Fire.
• The Third Holy Son tracked Xu Yi through the soul mark he had placed on the bottle and pursued him at full speed.
• Xu Yi continued burning away the bottle’s soul mark, using the tender willow branch’s soothing fragrance to endure the pain.

Xu Yi escaped the Third Holy Son underwater after refining the Sheep Fat Jade Pure Bottle, while a Golden Soul Fruit kept his soul strong enough to withstand the pursuit. After more than two months, the Third Holy Son called in two clan elders to help surround him, and Sect Leader Zhu contacted Xu Yi to urge him to make a concession.

• Xu Yi finished refining the Sheep Fat Jade Pure Bottle and fled underwater as the Third Holy Son pursued him.
• For over a month, Xu Yi kept ahead of the Third Holy Son from Erhai through Liaohai to the East Sea, while his Golden Soul Fruit restored most of his damaged soul.
• After another month of pursuit, the Third Holy Son grew weary and used a message bead to summon two clan elders to help surround Xu Yi.
• Two days later, Sect Leader Zhu contacted Xu Yi through his sect talisman and asked whether he and the Third Holy Son were fighting to the death.
• Xu Yi realized the Third Holy Son had sought help from the Saint Clan, then sealed the talisman before Sect Leader Zhu could finish urging him to concede.

Xu Yi escaped the Third Holy Son and two True Core pursuers by detonating his last Extreme Water Bead, while Chong Xuzi and Sect Leader Zhu arrived to protect him. The Third Holy Son demanded the Sheep Fat Jade Pure Bottle back, but Xu Yi surfaced and challenged his account of their feud.

• Xu Yi abandoned his plan to lure the Third Holy Son into a demon ambush and fled when two True Core Daoists attacked him.
• The Third Holy Son and the Daoists froze the sea around Xu Yi, but Xu Yi detonated his last Extreme Water Bead and blasted them away.
• Xu Yi escaped underwater as the injured pursuers followed above the sea and the Third Holy Son insisted he had to be eliminated.
• Chong Xuzi and Sect Leader Zhu arrived and confronted the Holy Race elders over their attempt to kill Xu Yi.
• The Third Holy Son demanded that Xu Yi return his bottle, and Xu Yi burst from the sea to accuse him of hiding what he had done.

Xu Yi challenged the Third Holy Son to settle their dispute in a fight after accusing him of sending Feng Bing to assassinate him. He proposed a lopsided wager that let the Third Holy Son kill him but counted ruptured internal organs as Xu Yi’s victory, leaving the terms awaiting the Holy Son’s answer.

• Sect Leader Zhu warned Xu Yi that he and Chong Xuzi would not keep coming to his aid if his cultivation stagnated.
• Xu Yi accused the Third Holy Son of sending Feng Bing and borrowing a Core Corpse to attack him, then mocked him for refusing to swear an oath.
• Kong Dongge and Kong Canglan defended the Third Holy Son, while Xu Yi traded barbs with them and challenged the Third Holy Son to fight.
• The Third Holy Son accepted the challenge, confident he could defeat Xu Yi with his full strength.
• Xu Yi rejected a fight to the death and proposed that the Third Holy Son could win by killing him, while Xu Yi would win by causing the Holy Son to suffer ruptured internal organs.