Chapter Summaries

Miss Yan settled Desolate Ancestor’s leadership over the group escorting her to Donghua Immortal Sect, while the seniors competed to win her favor with disguises and offerings. They traveled through the Purple Domain and arrived at Passage Number Three of Donghua Immortal Sect.

• Miss Yan told Desolate Ancestor, Old Demon Su, and the Qi brothers to follow Young Master’s order and respect Desolate Ancestor as their leader.
• Desolate Ancestor proposed that Old Demon Su use his Qi Concealing Pills to hide their identities, but Qi Jingfeng offered Transformation Pills instead.
• Old Demon Su presented Miss Yan with his Dragon Carriage, which she admired because it suited Young Master’s tastes, and she asked him to keep it for her.
• Desolate Ancestor led the group as they took the Transformation Pills, formed an array, and vanished across the Purple Domain.
• Qi Miao identified their destination as Passage Number Three of Donghua Immortal Sect and offered to arrange a greeting.

Yan Zi arrived at a tense negotiation between the Donghua Immortal Sect, the Saint Clan, and the Taiqing Upper Sect over the Saint Clan’s withdrawal from guarding Passage Number Three. After Du Kui insulted Yan Zi, the Four Old Demons restrained him, and the Ninth Elder questioned who they were.

• The Ninth Elder demanded that the Donghua Immortal Sect accept the Saint Clan’s withdrawal from guarding Passage Number Three, while Du Kui declared that the Taiqing Upper Sect would support the Saint Clan.
• Hong Jiantong insisted that the Great Elder of the Guardian Sect had to sign any agreement, and the Ninth Elder refused to wait.
• Yan Zi entered the meeting hall with the Three Dragon Guests and the Four Old Demons, explaining that Young Master had sent her ahead to receive friends.
• Du Kui insulted Yan Zi and urged Hong Jiantong to decide, prompting the Four Old Demons to seize and immobilize him.
• Yan Zi ordered the Four Old Demons to release Du Kui, and the Ninth Elder asked who the four powerful men were.

Kong Jiu, Du Kui, and Qi Hong launched a surprise attack on the Donghua Immortal Sect, but Hong Jiantong exposed that they were acting without the Taiqing Upper Sect’s Sect Master. Kong Jiu then called the assault a joke and claimed the Saint Clan and the Eight Great Immortal Sects remained united, leaving Du Kui alarmed and confused.

• The Ninth Elder, Elder Qi, and Du Kui rejected Hong Jiantong’s questions and prepared to attack the Donghua Immortal Sect.
• Du Kui killed Elder Qin and opened portals that brought in large forces of cultivators and armored soldiers.
• Hong Jiantong withdrew into the corridor and challenged the attackers’ demand for a Heart Oath, then realized Du Kui and Qi Hong were acting without Sect Master Du’s approval.
• Hong Jiantong warned that an attack could start a war between the Saint Clan and the Eight Great Immortal Sects.
• Kong Jiu suddenly called the assault a joke and professed unity, while Du Kui protested that the plan had been serious.

The Holy Clan’s blackmail scheme against the Taiqing Upper Sect collapsed, and Yan Zi ordered the four fiends to attack the Ninth Elder’s forces. After the fiends swiftly killed two Holy Clan powerhouses, they scattered, leaving the Ninth Elder baffled by their identities.

• The Ninth Elder captured Du Kui and revealed that the Holy Clan had used him in a political scheme against the Taiqing Upper Sect.
• The Ninth Elder asked Hong Jiantong about Yan Zi’s connection to Wang Qianqiu, and the Desolate Ancestor and Qi Jingfeng urged Yan Zi to act.
• Yan Zi told the four fiends to capture the Holy Clan’s men, and they attacked the Ninth Elder’s forces.
• The four fiends tore apart two Holy Clan powerhouses and Qi Jingfeng destroyed their Profound Wave attack.
• The Ninth Elder demanded to know whether the brocade-robed Qi Jingfeng was Wang Qianqiu, while the four fiends split up and fled in different directions.

Yan Zi and the Four Great Old Demons subdued the Holy Clan’s invading force, leaving Hong Jiantong to decide their fate. Sect Master Du arrived, and after hearing of Du Kui’s betrayal, ordered his son executed.

• The Four Great Old Demons surrounded the Holy Clan with their domains, and Yan Zi ordered them to take the invaders alive.
• Desolate Ancestor captured the Holy Clan with his Desolate Worm, then struck the Ninth Elder for speaking without Yan Zi’s permission.
• Yan Zi left the prisoners’ fate to Hong Jiantong, who chose to keep them alive as leverage against the Holy Clan.
• Sect Master Du arrived with more than thirty Taiqing Upper Sect core elders, and Hong Jiantong demanded an explanation for Du Kui’s betrayal.
• Sect Master Du freed Du Kui from the green net, heard his pleas, and ordered him killed; four men tore him apart with balls of light.

Sect Leader Du executed the Taiqing traitors and joined Sect Leader Hong in Donghua Immortal Sect, while Xu Yi explored a region of chaotic temporal force and encountered powerful Chaos Demons. After overhearing six cultivators discuss selling a nearby opportunity, Xu Yi stopped them and offered to buy the information.

• Sect Leader Du and his enforcement elders refined Du Kui, Qi Hong, and the other Taiqing traitors, then thanked Sect Leader Hong and asked about the four powerful allies.
• Sect Leader Hong invited Sect Leader Du and the others into Donghua Immortal Sect, while Yan Zi escorted the Three Dragon Guests inside.
• Xu Yi traveled south into a region of chaotic temporal force and killed two Chaos Demons with his Hun Tian Sword.
• Xu Yi encountered six cultivators beset by two stronger Chaos Demons, which abandoned them and pursued him instead.
• The six cultivators agreed to sell their knowledge of a nearby opportunity to the Holy Clan, but Xu Yi overheard them and blocked their way, offering to buy it.

Xu Yi captured six cultivators who tried to flee and forced them to reveal a golden-lit cave in the Purple Domain. As they prepared to lead him there, Wang Lun offered to teach Xu Yi a technique for sensing Chaos Demons, prompting one of the cultivators to accuse him of hiding the truth about his family’s heirloom.

• Xu Yi showed the six cultivators the cores of two Chaos Demons and captured them after Wang Lun tricked the group into fleeing.
• Xu Yi ordered the red-robed elder to explain the opportunity, and the elder showed him footage of a golden-lit cave filled with demonic howls.
• Xu Yi told the six cultivators to guide him to the cave and promised to let them go afterward.
• Wang Lun offered to teach Xu Yi a technique for sensing Chaos Demons in exchange for his freedom.
• The green-robed middle-aged man accused Wang Lun of claiming his Huihui Pearl was spent, and Wang Lun defended his actions.

Xu Yi forced Wang Lun to reveal the Opportunity Seeking Formation, then tested it and used it to detect an approaching Chaos Demon. Wang Lun declined Xu Yi’s offer to join him and left, while Xu Yi continued deeper into the Purple Domain with four unwilling companions toward a golden-lit cave.

• Xu Yi killed the green-robed middle-aged man and demanded that Wang Lun explain his secret art.
• Wang Lun revealed that he had created an Opportunity Seeking Formation that used Spirit Cores to detect nearby Chaos Demons and identify their tiers.
• Xu Yi learned the formation, detected a first-tier Chaos Demon with a white Spirit Core, and killed it with Sword Qi.
• Wang Lun explained why he had previously fought two third-tier Chaos Demons, then declined Xu Yi’s offer to continue exploring and departed.
• Xu Yi rejected the four companions’ secrets and led them onward; they avoided further demons and approached a cave radiating golden light.

Xu Yi investigated the roars coming from a cave and discovered that a Feng Su, a powerful primordial strange beast, guarded it. The beast devoured the red-robed elder and the others, while Xu Yi wondered what lay inside the cave and how the Feng Su could be there.

• Xu Yi sensed a fourth-tier heavenly demon southeast of the group and cautiously advanced toward the cave, realizing the demon was inside it.
• Xu Yi told the red-robed elder and the others to retreat, but they stayed because they feared crossing the forest without him.
• A colossal black shadow burst from the cave and unleashed a gale that dragged the group toward it.
• Xu Yi attacked the shadow with Seven Thousand Swords, but it dodged and devoured the red-robed elder and the others.
• Xu Yi recognized the beast as a Feng Su and wondered whether it shared the cave with a Chaos Demon and whether both had the same master.

Xu Yi forced his way through the Chaos Demons by persuading Feng Su to carry him into the fog, where he discovered the Yuan Shu Stele. He saw Chaos Demons vanish in its light and realized that human cultivators’ souls were gathering toward it.

• Xu Yi failed to find a safe route through the fog and decided to enlist Feng Su’s help.
• Xu Yi provoked Feng Su into attacking, then used his Sword Robe to injure the beast’s mouth and threatened to damage the cave.
• Xu Yi offered Feng Su spirit liquid, climbed onto his back, and persuaded him to carry him into the fog.
• Feng Su cleared a path through the Chaos Demons, and Xu Yi reached the enormous Yuan Shu Stele.
• Xu Yi watched Chaos Demons disappear in the stele’s light and recognized the faint shadows drawn toward it as human cultivators’ souls.

Xu Yi studied the Ancient Stele and discovered that the Purple Shadow was guarding it. When their fight began, the Purple Shadow surrounded Xu Yi with a technique called Eight Directions Prison Lock.

• Xu Yi examined the Ancient Stele’s moving specks of light and realized they came from the souls carried by the Chaos Demons.
• Xu Yi struck at the stele with Sword Qi, but the Purple Shadow intercepted him and revealed that the Green Demon King had told him about Xu Yi.
• The Purple Shadow tried to draw the Chaos Demons into the fight, but Xu Yi recognized that the stele’s pull kept them from attacking him.
• Xu Yi sent his Hun Tian Sword Formation toward the Ancient Stele, forcing the Purple Shadow to divide his purple qi to stop each attack.
• The Purple Shadow praised Xu Yi’s Core Essence, then burst into purple qi and trapped him with Eight Directions Prison Lock.

Xu Yi fought Purple Shadow, survived a near-fatal attack, and forced him to answer questions by threatening the Yuan Shu Stele. Purple Shadow revealed that he had caused the stele to exist, while Xu Yi’s final question about its mysteries remained unanswered.

• Purple Shadow pierced Xu Yi with a spear of purple qi, but Xu Yi used Magnetic Origin Beads to blast him back and healed his wounds with spiritual water.
• Purple Shadow offered to let Xu Yi leave, but Xu Yi refused and demanded answers, threatening to send Sword Qi into the Yuan Shu Stele.
• Xu Yi revealed that he had glimpsed Purple Shadow’s true form and insisted the stele might be his hope of escaping this world.
• Purple Shadow agreed to answer three questions, warning Xu Yi that he would have to judge their truth himself.
• Purple Shadow said the Yuan Shu Stele existed because of him, and Xu Yi asked why its light spots stopped evolving at the seventh number of the Mysteries.

Xu Yi discovered Purple Shadow's plan and fought his way through Purple Shadow and the fourth-tier Heavenly Demons to reach the Yuan Shu Stele. He redirected the streams of light on the stele, restarting its giant dragon pattern, while Purple Shadow desperately tried to stop him.

• Purple Shadow revealed that he had summoned two fourth-tier Heavenly Demons and intended to kill Xu Yi to keep his secret safe.
• Xu Yi struggled against the two Heavenly Demons, whose strength and defenses overwhelmed him, as Feng Su joined their attack.
• Xu Yi used the Soul-Summoning Banner to expose and repel Purple Shadow's true spirit-core form, then transformed into a demonic body and tore Feng Su in half.
• Xu Yi used Feng Su's body as a weapon to knock the two Heavenly Demons aside and charged toward the Yuan Shu Stele.
• Xu Yi's Sword Qi redirected the stele's streams of light and set its giant dragon pattern moving again, prompting Purple Shadow to order another attack.

Xu Yi’s demonstration of the Great Evolution Numerology activated the Yuan Shu Stele, unleashing a cataclysm that awakened powerful beings throughout the Northern Sacred Court. He returned to Donghua amid the upheaval and set out to face the opportunity the cataclysm offered, while Qiu Wa and A Li remained sealed away.

• Xu Yi pushed the Great Evolution Numerology to its limit, and the Yuan Shu Stele drew in Chaos Demons before erupting with four beams of spacetime power.
• Purple Shadow discovered that more than forty fourth-tier Chaos Demons he had raised had vanished and declared that he was finally going home.
• The stele’s power swept through the Purple Domain and Northern Sacred Court, drawing in demons and awakening a swarm in the Black Sky Mountain Range and an ancient corpse at Qi Mang Mountain.
• Xu Yi returned to the passage to Donghua, where Yan Zi and the four Old Devils were waiting for him.
• Xu Yi told Yan Zi he would return to Donghua and warned that the cataclysm was an opportunity the whole world could not ignore.
• Yan Zi explained that the cataclysm had thrown Donghua into chaos and that Headmaster Hong had sealed the island where Qiu Wa and A Li were staying until Xu Yi returned.

Xu Yi returned to Donghua during a world-shaking upheaval and organized the entire sect to pursue the opportunity at its source. After binding the sect members with Heart Oaths, he went to Green Island, where Qiu Wa and A Li hurried to meet him.

• Xu Yi punished the four Desolate Ancestors with a spell, warned them against disobedience, and returned through the passageway with Yan Zi.
• Xu Yi arrived at Training Ground One, silenced the gathered Donghua members, and announced that everyone under the sect banner could go investigate the heavenly opportunity if they obeyed his orders.
• Xu Yi required the sect members to take Heart Oaths, and Elder Bai urged the elders to swear as well so Donghua would remain united.
• Xu Yi swore to help as many fellow sect members as he could obtain an immortal opportunity, and Master Hong and the others took their oaths.
• Xu Yi sent the elders to oversee their groups and went to Green Island, where Qiu Wa and A Li rushed to him.

Xu Yi returned to Donghua as a huge force attacked the sect, and he led its people toward the Purple Domain. After the Small World was breached, Xu Yi guarded the retreat and entered the hall last as the pursuing force closed in.

• Qiu Wa and A Li reunited with Xu Yi, and Qiu Wa warmly met Yan Zi for the first time.
• Hong Jiantong reported that more than ten thousand cultivators were bombarding Donghua’s spatial node with Spirit Cannons.
• Xu Yi ordered Donghua’s people to withdraw with their supplies, and the Three Dragon Guests warned that Gate No. 7 could no longer hold.
• Xu Yi led more than two thousand people toward the star-map hall and instructed them to form the Seven Stars Bright Duel Formation in the Purple Domain.
• After the Small World was breached, Xu Yi steadied the retreating crowd and guarded the rear until everyone entered the hall.
• Xu Yi spotted the attacking force approaching from the west, suspected Donghua had an informant, and entered the hall last.

Xu Yi led Donghua Immortal Sect through the crowded Purple Domain toward the Yuan Shu Stele, where overwhelming numbers of cultivators and demons blocked the way. After a swarm of supposedly extinct Absolute Ridge Desolate Worms swept past, Xu Yi agreed to head toward a Northern Sacred Court gathering point six thousand li away.

• Xu Yi emerged from the Purple Domain and led Donghua Immortal Sect in the Seven Stars Bright Duel Formation toward the Yuan Shu Stele.
• Xu Yi and his companions saw a frail old cultivator riding a Mechanical Bird, but Xu Yi refused Qiu Wa’s request to help him.
• A swarm of Absolute Ridge Desolate Worms swept through the cultivators; Xu Yi, the Four Demonic Heads, and the Three Dragon Guests protected their companions, while the old cultivator disappeared.
• Xu Yi’s group traveled within three thousand li of the Yuan Shu Stele, but found the route blocked by an enormous crowd of cultivators and demons.
• Hong Jiantong deciphered a Northern Sacred Court signal announcing a location six thousand li away, and Xu Yi agreed to go there.

Xu Yi and the Donghua Immortal Sect reached a gathering of the surviving factions on a Floating Island, where they prepared to discuss their response to the calamity. Kong Ming welcomed Xu Yi and remarked on his past ties to the Holy Race, leaving Xu Yi to answer that fate had brought him to a seat among the leaders.

• Xu Yi led the Four Old Demons and the Three Dragon Guests through the fighting to reach a Floating Island where the Eight Great Immortal Sects and other survivors had gathered.
• Ninth Elder arranged floating bridges for Donghua's exhausted disciples and guided Xu Yi and his party into the meeting hall.
• Xu Yi spotted Yinqiu and Qin Qing among the Taiqing Upper Sect, as well as Xiong Bei Ming and the Third Holy Son.
• Kong Ming welcomed Xu Yi to the raised platform and spoke of his origins and the Holy Race's regret at not recruiting him.
• Xu Yi replied that had the Holy Race recruited him, he might have remained a strongman outside the hall instead of sitting with the Holy Lord to discuss the Dao.

Xu Yi attended the Holy Lord’s gathering, where the factions agreed to unite and advance toward the Yuan Shu Stele for the immortal opportunity. After the meeting adjourned and preparations began, Yin Qiu called out to Sect Leader Du.

• Xu Yi took a seat in the hall while Qiu Wa, A Li, and Yan Zi joined him or the gathering in their respective ways.
• Kong Ming urged the factions to unite before the spots of light on the Yuan Shu Stele lit again and the immortal opportunity arrived.
• Yuan Xingdu proposed a temporary alliance led by the Holy Lord and overseen by an eleven-member Elder Council with a four-vote veto.
• The leaders accepted Yuan Xingdu’s plan, adjourned the meeting, and agreed to depart in three hundred breaths.
• Yin Qiu, who had avoided Xu Yi’s gaze, called out to Sect Leader Du beneath the viewing platform.

Xu Yi joined the expedition aboard the Holy Clan’s Mysterious Jade Wheel after failing to bring Yinqiu back from the Taiqing Upper Sect. As the wheel sped through the Purple Domain toward the Ancient Stele, a smaller flying boat followed in its wake to take advantage of the path it cleared.

• Yinqiu resolved to use Xu Yi’s presence to temper her Supreme Forgetfulness, while Sect Leader Du refused Xu Yi’s request to take her back and promised to protect her.
• Xu Yi left the hall with the Donghua Immortal Sect’s group and learned that the Holy Clan had brought out the Mysterious Jade Wheel, a powerful transport vessel from its old records.
• Xu Yi led the Donghua contingent aboard the wheel, and Desolate Ancestor and Qi Jingfeng praised the sect’s discipline under Xu Yi’s leadership.
• Xu Yi joined the sect leaders on the observation deck as spirit stones powered the wheel, which surged through the Purple Domain and crushed cultivators who failed to move aside.
• A smaller flying boat appeared behind the Mysterious Jade Wheel and followed it to benefit from the path it cleared, leaving Yuan Xingdu and the others frustrated.