Chapter Summaries

Xu Qing rescued the Gu Family by bringing them under the Ancient Immortal Sect’s protection, then joined Ye Wuhen in ambushing and defeating the Demon Race pursuers. After the group reached the sect, Xu Qing used the Red Flame Jiao Horn to condense his Dao heart and began cultivating the Azure Sea Dao Heart Sutra.

• Xu Qing welcomed the Gu Family as outer disciples of the Ancient Immortal Sect, and Li Qingfeng led them away by flying boat while Xu Qing and Ye Wuhen stayed behind to set an ambush.
• Xu Qing and Ye Wuhen activated an array around Gu Family Village and fought the Demon Race attackers, killing the young jiao leader and the other demons.
• The old turtle self-destructed, destroying Gu Family Village, but Xu Qing escaped with Ye Wuhen and rejoined Li Qingfeng and the Gu Family.
• Xu Qing brought the Gu Family to the former grounds of the Ancient Immortal Sect, where Duan Tianhe, Kuruo Elder, and the others helped them begin rebuilding.
• Xu Qing used the Red Flame Jiao Horn to cultivate the Azure Sea Dao Heart Sutra and successfully condensed his Dao heart.

Xu Qing advanced the Azure Sea Dao Heart Sutra and Yin Yang Phantom Void Art into the supreme-grade Mystic Phantom Dao Heart Sutra, triggering a heavenly phenomenon that marked him as an outstanding talent of the Star Sea Realm. He received a Divine General Spiritual Eye gift, a spear from Du Gu Jiu Meng, and the Gu Family’s formation diagram, then met a mysterious azure-robed visitor.

• Xu Qing spent 10,000 Luck Value to deduce the Azure Sea Dao Heart Sutra and Yin Yang Phantom Void Art into the Tribulation Immortal supreme-grade Mystic Phantom Dao Heart Sutra.
• Xu Qing’s cultivation caused auspicious clouds, immortal phantoms, and an enormous eye to appear above the Ancient Immortal Sect, and Du Gu Jiu Meng and the elders identified him as the source.
• The Divine General Spiritual Eye bestowed a beam of light on Xu Qing, improving his vision, while Du Gu Jiu Meng presented him with a formidable black greatspear.
• Gu Changyun gave Xu Qing the Gu Family’s Heavenly Dipper Earthly Fiend Formation Diagram, and Xu Qing gave him pills to help the Gu Family’s wounded Tribulation Immortal ancestor.
• Gu Changyun asked Xu Qing to guide a talented Gu Family youth, and Xu Qing agreed to offer instruction.
• A mysterious azure-robed man arrived and congratulated Xu Qing on condensing his Dao Heart, prompting Xu Qing to ask who he was.

Xu Qing traveled to He Lu Sect to seek Ming Dong Xianzi’s help with the Ancient Immortal Sect’s Mountain Protecting Grand Formation. She agreed to consider his request after testing his talent, and Xu Qing began the formation challenge on her stone platform.

• Qing Yangzi visited the rebuilding Ancient Immortal Sect and gave Xu Qing his token to seek help from He Lu Sect’s Ming Dong Xianzi.
• Xu Qing organized the sect’s preparations, delegated duties, and set out alone to gather the formation’s rare materials and meet Ming Dong Xianzi.
• After traveling for half a month, Xu Qing reached He Lu Sect and presented Qing Yangzi’s jade pendant to its guards.
• Ming Dong Xianzi heard Xu Qing’s request and said she would help if he passed her test.
• Xu Qing stepped onto the formation platform and began studying its runes and attempting to complete the formation.

Xu Qing earned Ming Dong Xianzi’s agreement to help rebuild the Ancient Immortal Sect’s Mountain Protecting Grand Formation, and she sent her disciple Feng Dian with him to gather the materials. After three days of fruitless market visits and unnecessary purchases, Xu Qing finally confronted Feng Dian for wasting his time and money.

• Xu Qing spent half a month deciphering and completing an illusion array, persuading Ming Dong Xianzi to help with the Ancient Immortal Sect’s formation once he gathered its materials.
• Ming Dong Xianzi revealed that the supposed fairy Xu Qing had met was her disciple Feng Dian, who had impersonated her and falsely claimed to solve the array.
• Ming Dong Xianzi caught Feng Dian in her deception and assigned her to accompany Xu Qing on a trip to find the formation materials as an experiential task.
• Feng Dian took Xu Qing through five markets and three cultivator outposts over three days, finding none of the needed materials while spending Xu Qing’s money on other items.
• When Feng Dian tried to lead him to another market, Xu Qing accused her of wasting his time and money and told her to focus on finding the materials.

Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi entered the dangerous Nether Ghost Market to find formation materials, where Xu Qing dealt with trouble caused by her theft and later clashed with an old man over Starry Sky Cold Jade. After killing the old man, Xu Qing returned to negotiate for the jade.

• Feng Dian Xianzi led Xu Qing to the Nether Ghost Market, though she had only learned about it from a book.
• Feng Dian Xianzi stole a storage bag from a Ghost Cultivator, and Xu Qing apologized, offered compensation, defeated the man, and then let him go.
• Xu Qing explained Feng Dian Xianzi’s mistakes and his reasons for trying to settle the dispute peacefully.
• Xu Qing found Starry Sky Cold Jade, but an elderly man in black robes claimed it and attacked him despite Xu Qing yielding.
• Xu Qing vanished with the old man and returned alone about thirty breaths later, revealing that he had killed him.
• Xu Qing asked the stall owner to sell him the Starry Sky Cold Jade, and the owner identified the dead man as Dong Xuan, part of the notorious Lousy Master-and-Disciple Pair.

Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi visited Qing You Pavilion, where Qing Youzi offered to help supply the materials for Xu Qing’s Mountain Protecting Grand Formation. Unable to afford them, Xu Qing considered Qing Youzi’s offer to provide the materials in exchange for escorting a shipment, and asked what made the mission so valuable and dangerous.

• Xu Qing bought Starry Sky Cold Jade and continued searching the Nether Ghost Market with Feng Dian Xianzi.
• Qing Youzi, the Nether Ghost Head’s disciple and market manager, invited them to Qing You Pavilion and showed Xu Qing several needed formation materials.
• Qing Youzi settled a dispute over Thousand Year Fire Spirit Grass by auctioning a thirteen-hundred-year plant and selling a thousand-year one to the other bidder.
• Xu Qing discovered that Qing Youzi possessed three more materials he needed but could not afford them with his remaining Origin Stones.
• Qing Youzi offered Xu Qing the materials for free if he escorted a shipment through a dangerous hidden passage, and Xu Qing asked what the shipment contained.

Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi escorted Qing You Pavilion’s materials through a dangerous hidden passage toward Bao Dan Sect, evading demon beasts and discovering signs that someone had intervened. After they emerged into a forest and were attacked by mysterious figures, Feng Dian Xianzi unleashed a destructive red crystal, and Xu Qing escaped with her into the Immortal Spirit Space.

• Xu Qing agreed to escort Qing You Pavilion’s shipment to Bao Dan Sect in exchange for a deposit of materials and help finding more, and Qing Youzi gave him a map of the hidden passage.
• Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi departed early, slipped into the passage, and avoided a Nether Wolf Demon and other demon beasts with Xu Qing’s clones and concealment.
• Xu Qing noticed that his clone had died unexpectedly, making him suspect that an outsider was active in the passage.
• At the passage’s stone gate, Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi used a jade stone to open the way and emerged into a quiet mountain forest.
• Mysterious black figures attacked Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi, and Feng Dian Xianzi released a destructive red crystal that swept through the forest.
• Xu Qing pulled Feng Dian Xianzi into the Immortal Spirit Space as the red light engulfed them, while screams sounded from the forest.

Xu Qing disguised his group as the Ancient Immortal Merchant Guild to evade those watching Qing You Pavilion, then dealt with the Black Water Gang without revealing his real purpose. After Chen Wu Ba confirmed they had left, he returned his attention to keeping Qing You Pavilion trapped near Amber Prison Mountain.

• Xu Qing found eleven ambushed corpses, concluded that Qing You Pavilion had been betrayed, and created a merchant-guild caravan using his avatars and Xiao Hei.
• The group encountered Chen Wu Yuan of the Black Water Gang, and Feng Dian Xianzi wounded him after he rejected Xu Qing’s offered source stones.
• Chen Wu Ba arrived, learned the true account from Chen Wu Yuan, warned his gang not to jeopardize their mission, and later told Xu Qing’s group to leave Black Water Gang territory by morning.
• Xu Qing recognized that Chen Wu Ba was monitoring them, then decided to depart immediately so their behavior would fit a cautious merchant guild’s cover.
• A hidden observer reported that Xu Qing’s group had left, and Chen Wu Ba said the Black Water Gang was watching Qing You Pavilion’s repeated failed escape attempts from Amber Prison Mountain.

Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi became trapped in Wang Kong City as the Hidden Sect clashed with the Heaven Suppression Sect. At dawn, Xu Qing hid a wounded woman in his room, but powerful pursuers soon arrived to search the inn.

• Chen Wu Ba saw the Black Water Gang's chance to grow through Qing You Pavilion's crisis, while Xu Qing's group reached Wang Kong City.
• At the Cloud Arriving Inn, Xu Qing learned that Hidden Sect disciples had killed Heaven Suppression Sect members and heard Feng Dian Xianzi explain the sect's history and its conflict with the Heaven Suppression Sect.
• Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi shared a dream in which a Hidden Sect disciple accused the Heaven Suppression Sect of colluding with the Demon Race, then witnessed fighting erupt in the city's eastern district.
• Xu Qing's group tried to leave Wang Kong City but found it sealed by Heaven Suppression Sect disciples, so they returned to the inn and waited while gathering information about the sects' longstanding feud.
• At dawn, a wounded woman appeared from the wall in Xu Qing's room and asked him not to alert anyone; when pursuers arrived to search, Xu Qing asked whether she trusted him to save her.

Xu Qing hid Yu Fang in his Immortal Spirit Space and misdirected a searcher looking for someone from the Hidden Sect. Yu Fang thanked him and tried to recruit him by describing the sect’s ideals and a power that could break cultivation limits, but Xu Qing refused and kept the jade slip she gave him.

• Xu Qing concealed Yu Fang in his Immortal Spirit Space, then let a cultivator search his room and suggested that a Hidden Sect member might have infiltrated the search party.
• Xu Qing met Yu Fang inside the Immortal Spirit Space, introduced himself, and accepted her red Message Talisman while refusing to hear about her troubles.
• Yu Fang praised Xu Qing’s fortune and invited him to join the Hidden Sect, but Xu Qing said he had no interest in changing the world.
• Yu Fang explained that the Hidden Sect sought to correct injustice and offered access to a power that could break cultivation limits.
• Xu Qing rejected the offer, saying he preferred to pursue higher cultivation through his own efforts, and Yu Fang handed him a jade slip.

Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi left Wang Kong City after its defenses loosened, and Xu Qing released Yu Fang outside the city. They traveled to Azure Cloud Town and began searching for a way into besieged Bao Dan Sect, where Xu Qing suspected hidden forces were supporting the siege.

• Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi slipped through Wang Kong City's gate after passing the Heaven Suppression Sect's inspection.
• A hundred li outside the city, Xu Qing released Yu Fang, and she thanked him and flew away.
• Feng Dian Xianzi warned Xu Qing that saving a Hidden Sect cultivator could bring trouble from the Heaven Suppression Sect, but he said he had prepared for the risk.
• Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi took a remote route around Thousand Mountains Gorge and overcame attacks on their way to Azure Cloud Town.
• In Azure Cloud Town, Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi discussed how to enter Bao Dan Sect's territory despite its siege by Blood Moon Sect and Heavenly Demon Sect.
• Xu Qing suspected other forces were secretly backing the siege because they coveted Bao Dan Sect's divine pill.

Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi planned how to get their item into Bao Dan Sect while avoiding Blood Moon Sect and Heavenly Demon Sect. After Xu Qing's clone scouted a Blood Moon Sect camp and discovered it had left a Spiritual Imprint on him, the pair prepared to meet Bao Dan Sect disciples and seek help; Xu Qing went to a tavern to meet someone.

• Xu Qing told Feng Dian Xianzi they needed intelligence on Bao Dan Sect and the two sects' deployments, plus allies to distract the enemy forces.
• Xu Qing's clone approached a Blood Moon Sect camp disguised as Long Zhenfeng, a clerk from the Ancient Immortal Merchant Guild, and presented a guild token when the cultivators confronted him.
• Yun Yi suspected Xu Qing's clone was a spy, but a middle-aged cultivator let him leave; the clone discovered the cultivator had secretly placed a Spiritual Imprint on him.
• Xu Qing told Feng Dian Xianzi what his clone had seen, and she explained that Bao Dan Sect's Mountain Protecting Grand Formation might help them bypass the enemy forces.
• Xu Qing left Azure Cloud Town for two hours while Feng Dian Xianzi prepared supplies and recalled the formation; the next morning, he went alone to the town's tavern, where he learned the person he awaited had arrived.

Xu Qing obtained Bao Dan Sect’s formation map and arranged support for his mission to enter Hidden Mist Valley. After a Hidden Sect ally drew away the patrols with a sword attack, Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi rushed toward the valley.

• Xu Qing met Qing Ying, received maps of Bao Dan Sect and a signal spell, then confined him in the Immortal Spirit Space until the mission was over.
• Xu Qing showed Feng Dian Xianzi the map and chose Hidden Mist Valley as their route, with Hidden Sect providing reinforcements.
• Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi traveled toward the valley, avoiding patrols and stopping three hundred li from Bao Dan Sect’s mountain gate.
• Xu Qing lit a crimson talisman, prompting a Hidden Sect ally to summon a cloud sword and strike the mountains to distract the patrols.
• Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi used the distraction to charge into Hidden Mist Valley.

Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi entered Bao Dan Sect’s hidden Sect Protecting Grand Array using a secret passage activated by Feng Dian Xianzi’s Protective Bracelet. They found a depleted spirit herb garden and Tribulation Immortal-level Pill Protecting Spirit Beasts guarding a pill furnace, where a disheveled man recognized Feng Dian Xianzi as Ming Dong Xianzi.

• Amid the chaos outside Hidden Mist Valley, Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi found the concealed entrance to Bao Dan Sect’s Sect Protecting Grand Array.
• Feng Dian Xianzi activated her bracelet to reveal the formation, but no one answered Xu Qing’s request to meet a Bao Dan Sect cultivator.
• Feng Dian Xianzi used a secret He Lu Sect rune to open a passage, and Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi entered the formation.
• Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi found a spirit herb garden where most mature medicines had been harvested, then heard a roar from a pill furnace guarded by powerful spirit beasts.
• As Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi approached the furnace, Bao Dan Sect cultivators confronted them, and a disheveled middle-aged man recognized Feng Dian Xianzi as Ming Dong Xianzi.

Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi decided to help Bao Dan Sect after learning that Blood Moon Sect and Heavenly Demon Sect were besieging it over the Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Pill. Ji Lingkong explained the sect’s crisis and revealed the pill’s limited but valuable ability to aid breakthroughs and comprehension.

• Ji Lingkong mistook Feng Dian Xianzi for a messenger from He Lu Sect before Xu Qing explained that they had come to deliver an item from Qing You Pavilion.
• Feng Dian Xianzi insisted on staying to help Bao Dan Sect, and Xu Qing reluctantly agreed to remain with her.
• Xu Qing introduced himself as the Sect Master of Ancient Immortal Sect, surprising Ji Lingkong and the Bao Dan Sect disciples.
• Ji Lingkong led Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi through Bao Dan Sect and described how scarce resources and rival sects had driven it into crisis.
• Ji Lingkong showed them the Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Pill and explained that it could improve Town Immortal Realm cultivators’ breakthrough chances and briefly enhance comprehension.

Xu Qing learned why Bao Dan Sect refused to surrender the Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Pill and joined Ji Lingkong and Feng Dian Xianzi in inspecting the sect’s damaged Great Array. He uncovered flaws in the formation and helped plan repairs to defend against the two attacking sects.

• Ji Lingkong explained that only cultivators with both a powerful foundation and deep alchemy knowledge could safely use the Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Pill, and Bao Dan Sect’s most qualified elder was recovering from severe injuries.
• Ji Lingkong said Bao Dan Sect would protect the pill, endure the joint assault, seek a suitable cultivator to take it, and repair the Great Array.
• Feng Dian Xianzi told Ji Lingkong that Xu Qing was also skilled in formations and should join their inspection.
• Xu Qing, Feng Dian Xianzi, and Ji Lingkong examined the Great Array at its core and found several flaws.
• Xu Qing marked a flaw that needed rearrangement, impressing Ji Lingkong, and said careful repairs should let the array withstand the two sects’ assault.

Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi helped Ji Lingkong repair Bao Dan Sect’s mountain-protecting formation, which withstood repeated attacks from Blood Moon Sect and Heavenly Demon Sect. Afterward, Xu Qing urged Ji Lingkong to consider seeking Hidden Sect’s help, and Ji Lingkong gathered Bao Dan Sect’s leaders to discuss it.

• Xu Qing, Feng Dian Xianzi, and Ji Lingkong repaired the formation as Bao Dan Sect disciples restored its defenses.
• Blood Moon Sect and Heavenly Demon Sect attacked the formation, but it held firm through dozens of strikes.
• Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi thanked Ji Lingkong’s defenders and advised him to seek Hidden Sect’s aid to break the siege.
• Ji Lingkong agreed to discuss cooperation with his fellow sect members and sent Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi to rest at Azure Cloud Peak.
• Xu Qing asked to borrow Pill Dao Classics, and Ji Lingkong ordered a disciple to bring him the inner sect’s Pill Scripture.
• Ji Lingkong summoned several powerful auras to Bao Dan Sect’s Sect Main Hall.

While staying at the Bao Dan Sect, Xu Qing studied the Nine Stars Pill Inquiry Art and used his Attribute Points to master it. He successfully refined Spirit Refining Pills just as a disciple arrived at his door with more pills.

• Chen Ziyang showed Xu Qing and Feng Dian Xianzi to their guest courtyard, where a disciple delivered Pill Scriptures for them to study.
• Xu Qing decided to study pill refining, while Feng Dian Xianzi returned to her courtyard to examine formation diagrams.
• Xu Qing read the Nine Stars Pill Inquiry Art and used 27,000 Free Attribute Points to raise it to the Perfection realm.
• Xu Qing gained the skills of a pill-refining master and quickly refined six Spirit Refining Pills with his Heavenly Furnace Earth Cauldron.
• A Bao Dan Sect disciple knocked and stood outside Xu Qing's door with a jade tray of pills.

Xu Qing asked the Bao Dan Sect for a more advanced pill-refining method and was challenged to prove his skill. He began refining a Heart Questioning Pill, impressing Ji Lingkong with his expert handling of the ingredients.

• Xu Qing returned the Qi Regulating Pills and Azure Cloud Pills unopened and asked to exchange the Nine Stars Pill Inquiry Art for a more advanced method.
• Ji Lingkong and Chen Ziyang brought Xu Qing the secret Yin Yang Heaven Pill Method and asked him to demonstrate his pill-refining ability.
• Xu Qing agreed to refine a Heart Questioning Pill and requested its ingredients.
• Xu Qing used the Star Plucking Hand to process the medicinal ingredients, and Ji Lingkong recognized his technique as exceptional.

Xu Qing refined a perfect batch of Heart Questioning Pills, learned the Yin Yang Heaven Pill Technique, and used it to transform his body and reach a new level of mastery. As he prepared to meet Bao Dan Sect’s Sect Master, the Four Alliances agreed to support Bao Dan Sect at Xu Qing’s request, leaving Yu Fang astonished by Du Gu Jiu Meng’s standing.

• Xu Qing refined ten fine Heart Questioning Pills, impressing Ji Lingkong, Chen Ziyang, and Feng Dian Xianzi, and Ji Lingkong lent him the Yin Yang Heaven Pill Technique.
• Xu Qing grasped the technique’s principles, perfected it with his attribute points, and transformed his body through its yin-yang body-refining method.
• Feng Dian Xianzi asked Xu Qing about resolving Bao Dan Sect’s predicament, but he answered only, “Unspeakable.”
• The next day, Ji Lingkong invited Xu Qing to meet Bao Dan Sect’s Sect Master, while Yu Fang carried Xu Qing’s message to the Four Alliances.
• Du Gu Jiu Meng accepted Yu Fang’s message and summoned the other three sects, whose leaders quickly agreed to support Bao Dan Sect.
• Yu Fang was shocked when a peak Town Immortal Realm expert addressed Du Gu Jiu Meng as Senior and asked when they would depart.