Chapter Summaries

Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable trapped Qi WuHuo in an illusion where he lived a full life with his parents, testing whether he could overcome his deepest regret. Qi WuHuo broke the illusion and returned to his life, while the chapter ended with him meeting a new neighbor called Qingyu.

• Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable created the Jade Void Illusory Realm, where Qi WuHuo lived as a scholar’s son and refused Tantai Xuan’s offer to join the Daoist Sect.
• Qi WuHuo stayed with his parents for decades, caring for them until they died peacefully, then had their names carved on their shared tombstone.
• Qi WuHuo wrote “Supreme Xuanwei” and “Establish,” breaking the illusion and erasing one of his Eight Great Tribulations as he returned to his original form beneath He Lian Mountain.
• Yuqing Primordial Celestial Venerable left after lamenting that Qi WuHuo could not become his disciple, while Qi WuHuo felt that a hollow place in his heart had healed.
• Qi WuHuo visited Su Shengyuan and sensed his disappointment, then met his new neighbor, who introduced himself as Qingyu.

Qi WuHuo met his mysterious new neighbor, Daoist Qingyu, who diagnosed the flaws in his cultivation and gave him a treatise and medicinal bath supplies. As Qi WuHuo began refining his body and qi together, Qingyu revealed to Empress Houtu that he planned to teach him every discipline he could, strengthening him before he went down the mountain.

• Qi WuHuo brought food to Daoist Qingyu, who tested his cultivation, exposed the flaws in his foundation, and gave him a treatise and three medicinal bath portions.
• Qi WuHuo's cultivation became clearer and more efficient, and he sensed Human Dao Destiny flowing to him after Prince Qin received a higher rank.
• Qi WuHuo studied Qingyu's treatise and decided to use the Nine Revolutions Refine Yuan method to cultivate his body and qi together.
• Qi WuHuo combined the medicinal bath with his Qi Refining Method, drawing vast Primordial Prenatal Qi into his damaged foundation and beginning to repair and transform his body.
• Empress Houtu questioned Qingyu about teaching Supreme One's disciple, and Qingyu declared he would teach Qi WuHuo a broad range of skills until his foundations were firm enough to go down the mountain.

Qi WuHuo combined several cultivation teachings and created a method for refining Primordial Prenatal Qi, then discovered he could no longer control his strength. The story left him being taken to Daoist Qingyu’s courtyard while Weaver Star Lord confronted Old Yellow Ox and Altair Star Lord over Yun Qin’s absence.

• Qi WuHuo used his whole body as a furnace and blended the Supreme One and Spirit Treasure methods with Daoist Qingyu’s teachings to cultivate Primordial Prenatal Qi.
• Qi Yuntun and Little Medicine Spirit panicked as flames engulfed Qi WuHuo, while Daoist Qingyu watched him complete his cultivation.
• Qi WuHuo accidentally smashed through his door and damaged his house because he could not control his newly strengthened body.
• Daoist Qingyu restored the house and pulled Qi WuHuo into his courtyard, while Qi WuHuo worried that he had taken the wrong path.
• At the Ox Mansion, Weaver Star Lord faced Old Yellow Ox and Altair Star Lord, furious that Yun Qin had been away for days.

Weaver Star Lord searched for Yun Qin while the Northern Emperor and Tian Peng discussed the extraordinary burden placed on Qi WuHuo because he was a direct disciple of the Supreme One. In the Human World, Daoist Qingyu began an intense training regimen for Qi WuHuo, and Yun Qin returned to the Ox Lodge, where her father and Uncle Niu stared past her in terror.

• Weaver Star Lord questioned Niuxu Star Lord and Old Yellow Ox about Yun Qin, then went to the Northern Emperor's Palace to confirm her daughter was safe.
• The Northern Emperor and Tian Peng discussed Qi WuHuo's potential promotion and the two hundredfold difficulty he would face because of his Supreme One lineage.
• Daoist Qingyu taught Qi WuHuo to circulate Qi continuously while moving, then made him train with a staff that was the pillar used to hold up the sky in the Second Kalpa.
• Daoist Qingyu assigned Taiyuan to teach Qi WuHuo ancient languages, history, writing, and etiquette while he continued his physical training.
• Houtu Empress Earthly Deity revealed that Taiyuan was the mother of Queen Mother of the West and King Father of the East.
• Yun Qin returned to the Ox Lodge and greeted her father and Uncle Niu, who stared past her in terror.

Yun Qin returned home unaware that she was the Northern Emperor's Son, but her mother Weaver learned she had given the treasured Northern Emperor Mirror to Qi WuHuo. Weaver decided to wait seven days to calm herself before meeting him and judging his character.

• Yun Qin came home and joked with her parents about the absent Northern Emperor's Son, not realizing she was the person they feared had skipped the ceremony.
• Weaver learned that Yun Qin had gone missing during the ceremony and warned her not to repeat it, while Yun Zhiyi defended their daughter.
• Weaver asked to meet Yun Qin's friend, Qi WuHuo, and requested the Northern Emperor Mirror so she could see him through it.
• Yun Qin admitted she had given the mirror to Qi WuHuo, despite knowing it belonged to her mother, and Weaver ordered her into seclusion.
• Weaver took Yun Qin's contact mirror and resolved to retrieve the Northern Emperor Mirror, but decided to spend seven days calming her mind before meeting Qi WuHuo.

Qi WuHuo completed intensive training under Daoist Qingyu, learning to refine qi instinctively, but sensed that his long stay had blurred his sense of time. After hearing of a Demon King preparing to become a Great Sage and resolving to investigate in Jinzhou, he tried to leave the mountain, only for Daoist Qingyu to demand that he defeat him first.

• Qi WuHuo discussed his understanding of ancient scripts and divine abilities with Holy Mother Taiyuan, who explained the demanding foundations expected of powerful cultivators.
• Daoist Qingyu trained Qi WuHuo to refine qi naturally, and Qi WuHuo eventually made the practice instinctive.
• Qi WuHuo spoke with Prince Qin, learned that a Demon King planned to prove himself a Great Sage, and asked for records about him and for Su Shengyuan to be invited back to public service.
• Qi WuHuo decided to go to He Lian Mountain to keep his promise, then travel to Jinzhou to investigate the Demon Saint.
• Daoist Qingyu confronted Qi WuHuo and said he could leave the mountain only if he defeated him.

Qi WuHuo challenged Daoist Qingyu and was soundly defeated, then learned that his grasp of the divine abilities he hoped to teach was incomplete. Daoist Qingyu intensified his lessons, and after two more days a visitor arrived in the town below He Lian Mountain.

• Daoist Qingyu demanded that Qi WuHuo fight him, and Qi WuHuo put aside his staff and attacked with the Blood River Sword.
• Daoist Qingyu broke Qi WuHuo’s sword techniques, formations, and divine abilities by using only the fundamentals, while Holy Mother Taiyuan explained why Qi WuHuo could not win.
• Under the pressure of the fight, Qi WuHuo instinctively used the Heaven-Overturning Seal, but Daoist Qingyu shattered it with a tree branch and sent Qi WuHuo crashing into a wall.
• Daoist Qingyu questioned Qi WuHuo about the divine abilities he intended to teach, exposed gaps in his understanding, and told him he lacked the qualifications to teach them.
• Qi WuHuo returned to study and challenge Daoist Qingyu, who added zither practice to his lessons to temper Qi WuHuo’s mind.
• After two more days of training, Daoist Qingyu sensed a visitor arriving in the town below He Lian Mountain.

Qi WuHuo stayed on He Lian Mountain to strengthen his cultivation, then met the Weaver Girl after they played music together and discussed the Dao. The Weaver Girl revealed she was heading to town to find someone, and Qi WuHuo introduced himself as the person she sought.

• Great Celestial Venerable Yuqing and Houtu Empress Earthly Deity sensed the Weaver Girl approaching but chose not to interfere with Qi WuHuo's tribulation.
• Qi WuHuo refused to leave He Lian Mountain until he could defeat Daoist Qingyu, then visited Elder Tao and the local deities to explain that he was not ready to teach.
• The Black Bear nearly collapsed when he tried to lift Qi WuHuo's bronze staff, and Qi WuHuo warned him to finish replanting the Spirit Grass before his transformation would end.
• Qi WuHuo played Destroy Buddha, Execute Emperor, and the Weaver Girl joined him on the flute; afterward, they discussed music and the Dao with the mountain spirits and local deities.
• The Weaver Girl decided to visit the town below He Lian Mountain to find someone, and Qi WuHuo revealed his name when she asked who he was.

Qi WuHuo returned the Northern Emperor Mirror to the Weaver Girl after learning its history, but she gave it back to him because she judged him worthy of its trust. He returned it again, left Yun Qin a way to contact him and a poem for the Northern Emperor's Son, and the Weaver Girl later declared him worthy of being a Dao companion.

• The Weaver Girl reclaimed the Northern Emperor Mirror from Qi WuHuo and explained that it had belonged to the first Human Emperor and was precious to the Northern Emperor's Son and her husband.
• After confirming Qi WuHuo had not deceived Yun Qin, the Weaver Girl gave him the mirror on the couple's behalf and left to preserve the friendship between him and her daughter.
• Qi WuHuo caught up with the Weaver Girl, returned the mirror, and explained that he had created another way for Prince Qin to contact him.
• Qi WuHuo asked the Weaver Girl to give Yun Qin snacks and left a poem for the Northern Emperor's Son on the mirror before departing.
• The Weaver Girl returned the mirror and snacks to Yun Qin, told her to remain in confinement, and reassured Yun Zhiyi that Qi WuHuo had no romantic feelings for Yun Qin.
• The Weaver Girl told Yun Zhiyi that Qi WuHuo was worthy of being a Dao companion, while Yun Qin studied the contact spell and its strange tricks.

Qi WuHuo struggled to unite his martial arts, spells, and divine abilities while Prince Qin revealed the Emperor’s decision to appease the Demon Race after atrocities in Jinzhou. As Qi WuHuo prepared to descend the mountain and confront the Great Sage, Yun Qin showed him a technique that finally sparked a breakthrough.

• Daoist Qingyu praised Xuanwei’s flawless Daoist heart and lamented that he was not his disciple.
• Qi WuHuo broke down his divine abilities and tried to combine them into a single system, but Daoist Qingyu said his understanding remained incomplete.
• Prince Qin told Qi WuHuo that the Emperor planned to send gifts and a royal envoy to congratulate the Great Sage, while a human cultivator who had defended the people was falsely blamed and executed.
• Prince Qin volunteered to serve as envoy so Qi WuHuo could learn the Great Sage’s location, and Qi WuHuo agreed to go to Jinzhou.
• Daoist Qingyu forced Qi WuHuo to fight through his grief and anger, then challenged him to defeat him before he could leave the mountain; Qi WuHuo lost.
• Yun Qin showed Qi WuHuo her [Snare] technique, and its patterns joined with his studies and battle experience to bring him a sudden breakthrough.

Qi WuHuo understood that change, rather than fixed forms, had to guide the unification of his divine powers, then spent days honing that new foundation against Daoist Qingyu. After Qi WuHuo won their final exchange, Daoist Qingyu approved his progress and let him descend the mountain.

• Yun Qin demonstrated her cloud-and-mist trick, helping Qi WuHuo realize that its core was change rather than any fixed sword formation.
• Yun Qin decided to learn sword techniques and went to ask the Weaver Star Lord for instruction.
• Qi WuHuo integrated his divine powers and challenged Daoist Qingyu again, refusing to use Yun Qin's sword formation because he wanted to win with his own methods.
• Qi WuHuo continued fighting and reflecting until he combined his techniques fluidly and met Daoist Qingyu in a decisive exchange.
• Qi WuHuo and Daoist Qingyu reached a mutual stalemate, and Daoist Qingyu cleared the way and told Qi WuHuo he could descend the mountain.

Qi WuHuo left Qingyu True Person’s abode and chose to remain on He Lian Mountain, where he taught the Dao to gods, spirits, and mortals. After seven days of instruction and insight, he formed his own Daoist lineage and became a True Person.

• Qi WuHuo bowed to Qingyu True Person, who disappeared along with Holy Mother Taiyuan and the courtyard, leaving Qi WuHuo and Qi Yuntun in the wilderness.
• Qi WuHuo returned to sleep instead of descending the mountain or pursuing alchemy and teaching, while Su Shengyuan received Prince Qin’s invitation to go to the Capital City.
• Su Shengyuan asked Qi WuHuo to accompany him, but Qi WuHuo refused; Su Shengyuan departed with Su Yue'er and the Capital City attendants.
• Qi WuHuo began teaching the Dao on He Lian Mountain, explaining cultivation methods, Primordial Prenatal Qi, techniques, the Flowing School, stillness, and motion over six days.
• On the seventh day, Qi WuHuo demonstrated how cultivation grew through the image of a plant, then formed a Daoist lineage through qi and declared himself a True Person.

Qi WuHuo broke through to the True Person realm and received Empress Houtu’s explanation of the arduous path to immortality. After returning home, he agreed to investigate Old Yellow Ox’s old connections when he went to the Demon Kingdom.

• Qi WuHuo stabilized his new True Person realm in three steps and explained that mastering its qi came down to the fundamentals.
• Empress Houtu tested Qi WuHuo’s knowledge of cultivation, taught him the stages from Transforming Qi toward the Yang Spirit, and offered him the option of an immortal edict.
• Empress Houtu described the dangers of pursuing the Great Dao and urged Qi WuHuo to remember the lessons she had shared.
• Empress Houtu departed after Qi WuHuo accepted her guidance as his gift, and the Mountain Gods and Earthly Deities thanked her.
• Old Yellow Ox asked Qi WuHuo to check on his old brothers in the Demon Kingdom, and Qi WuHuo agreed.
• Old Yellow Ox revealed that he had about a dozen connections in the Demon Kingdom and asked Qi WuHuo to choose one.

Qi WuHuo accepted a home and new title at Square Inch Mountain, then perfected a clothing-transformation art with Yun Qin. As turmoil gathered across the world, he descended the mountain as a True Person, while Prince Qin learned that Qi WuHuo was behind the shifting political situation.

• Old Yellow Ox gave Qi WuHuo tokens for seventeen old ventures and asked him to check on his scattered friends and offer wine and incense if they were gone.
• Yun Qin and Qi WuHuo combined their arts of changing clothes and weaving clouds into a divine art.
• Empress Houtu gave Qi WuHuo a land-deity token and made He Lian Mountain his home, renaming it Square Inch Mountain and establishing a temple there.
• Su Shengyuan learned from Prince Qin that Qi WuHuo had been directing the great changes in the world, while Su Yue'er met Li Qiongyu.
• Qi WuHuo completed the Clothing Transformation Incantation and descended Square Inch Mountain as Buddhist and Daoist cultivators prepared to oppose the Demon Kingdom's plan.

Qi WuHuo raced to intercept the wolf demon’s procession after learning that the Ming Zhen Dao Alliance had fallen into a trap. As the alliance’s cultivators faltered against the demons, Qi WuHuo arrived and halted the fighting with a single command.

• Qi WuHuo concluded that the wolf demon was luring the Ming Zhen Dao Alliance into an ambush and set out to find Prince Qin and infiltrate the procession.
• Prince Qin led human troops to block the alliance’s cultivators while the wolf demon’s formation and the women’s fear of reprisals undermined the attempted rescue.
• The wolf demon fought three True Persons in the sky as the other cultivators withdrew, then ordered his demons to attack them.
• The exhausted cultivators fought desperately as demons wounded and overwhelmed them.
• Qi WuHuo spoke the word “Freeze,” stopping the battle as it raged.

Qi WuHuo defeated the Great Demon King, rescued the human convoy from being sent to the Demon Kingdom, and disguised himself as a demon to follow the Great Demon King into Jinzhou. He arrived there in disguise, intent on confronting the Great Sage.

• Qi WuHuo killed the demons threatening the Buddhist and Daoist cultivators, then knocked the Great Demon King unconscious by turning the wolf demon's own Qi against him.
• Qi WuHuo found Prince Qin's convoy and offered to help the people avoid being taken to the Demon Kingdom without causing trouble when the rolls were checked.
• Qi WuHuo transformed strands of the people's hair into lifelike doubles so they could leave safely under assumed names.
• Qi WuHuo disguised himself as a demon, while the Great Demon King recovered and hurried toward the Demon Kingdom, wary of pursuit.
• Qi WuHuo followed the Great Demon King's route through the Jinzhou rift and returned to Jinzhou, preparing to seek out the Great Sage.

Qi WuHuo returned to his drought-stricken hometown in Jin Province and learned that the land’s earth vein had been drained, leaving its people and local Earth God near ruin. He entered the Celestial Court as an official of the Northern Emperor, intending to ask the Rain Master to bring a torrential rain.

• A cultivator in a bamboo hat told the Ming Zhen Dao Alliance that a blue-robed Daoist had protected refugees from betrayal, and Monk Deshen identified him as Qi WuHuo of Square Inch Mountain.
• The Daoist Sect’s banished immortal revealed herself as the Young Sect Master and asked the Immortal Peak True Person to let her escort them, save someone, and borrow water.
• Qi WuHuo reached Jin Province with Prince Qin and saw its drought-stricken people; his summoned rain mostly evaporated before reaching the ground.
• Qi WuHuo returned to his childhood home, found its courtyard ruined, and learned from the Earth God that a fallen Golden Crow and the Demon Race’s formation had damaged and drained Jin Province’s earth vein.
• Qi WuHuo told the Earth God he would seek the Rain Master’s help, then used his Exorcism Institute token to enter the Celestial Court as a Celestial Official.

Qi WuHuo brought rain to drought-stricken Jinzhou, completed Cauldron Relocation, and entered the Demon Kingdom with Prince Qin. When he intervened to save a human child, his disguise was exposed, and he revealed himself as Qi WuHuo of Square Inch Mountain.

• Qi WuHuo borrowed Heavenly Emperor Coins from Great Marshal Tianyou to hire the Rain Masters and water deities to bring rain to Jinzhou, and learned that Taibai had survived.
• Qi WuHuo returned to his hometown, honored his parents, and completed Cauldron Relocation as rain fell over Jinzhou.
• Qi WuHuo told Prince Qin he had brought the rain, then the two entered the Demon Kingdom disguised as demons and passed its checkpoint.
• Qi WuHuo stopped a pig demon from killing a human child, but the wolf demon recognized his disguise and accused him of being a Daoist.
• Prince Qin blamed Qi WuHuo for infiltrating the delegation, and Qi WuHuo killed the wolf demon and forced the Demon Race soldiers to their knees.
• Qi WuHuo took the child by the hand and revealed his identity as Qi WuHuo of Square Inch Mountain.

Qi WuHuo fought his way through a Demon Race garrison and faced Great General Tengshe, then hid in the city while seeking a way to infiltrate the Great Sage ritual. A Fox Clan Demon Immortal discovered him, but Qi WuHuo showed her a waist token that made her recognize him.

• Qi WuHuo and Prince Qin's cavalry attacked the Demon Race garrison, and Qi WuHuo redirected their arrows against the demons before fleeing with the child.
• Great General Tengshe arrived and fought Qi WuHuo, who overcame his Yang God Manifestation and escaped as the Demon Kingdom ordered a search for him.
• Qi WuHuo concealed himself beneath a waterside pavilion, reflected on his fight with Tengshe, and waited for a chance to enter the Great Sage ritual.
• A Fox Clan woman discovered Qi WuHuo, and he immobilized her before a powerful Fox Clan beauty appeared and questioned him.
• Qi WuHuo revealed a waist token bearing a golden ox swallowing the moon, and the Fox Clan Demon Immortal recognized it.

Qi WuHuo used the Golden Ox Swallowing Moon Token to secure the Fox Race's help and a chance to attend the Great Sage Green Lion's breakthrough ritual. The chapter ended with him discovering that the cleaned-up child had a human head, a serpent's body, and an extraordinarily powerful human aura.

• Su You recognized the token and agreed to shelter Qi WuHuo, then recounted how Uncle Niu had once protected and established the Fox Immortals' Zither Music Pavilion.
• Su You learned that Qi WuHuo was sixteen and brought him to meet the Fox Race's aged former beauty, who promised to repay Uncle Niu's debt.
• Qi WuHuo asked to watch the Great Sage Green Lion's breakthrough ritual, and the white-haired woman arranged for him to join the musicians.
• Qi WuHuo sensed that the white-haired woman was nearing the end of her life and wondered whether she faced the Heart Demon Tribulation.
• After Su You took the child to wash and dress, Qi WuHuo heard her crying and rushed over to find her transformed appearance: a human head above a green serpent's tail, with a greatly intensified human aura.