Chapter Summaries

Master Tongtian brought Su Miao to his cavern home and showed her his collections and swordsmanship. After Su Miao asked to learn, Tongtian crafted her a small wooden sword and watched her try it out.

• Master Tongtian carried Su Miao into his cavern and showed her his unusual collection of stones, bones, and other treasures.
• Su Miao admired the glowing grass and rabbit-shaped Moon Soul Stone, and Tongtian gave her the stone to keep.
• Master Tongtian performed a controlled display of Azure Sword Aura, then asked Su Miao if she wanted to learn swordsmanship.
• Tongtian forged Su Miao a small wooden sword from Jade Stone and Golden Thunder Bamboo.
• Su Miao swung the sword and told Tongtian that it listened to her, and he promised to teach her more.

Tongtian entertained Su Miao by shaping Sword Qi into playful creatures and carrying her through the cave on a Sword Cloud. Laozi arrived, approved of letting her learn through play, then lured her and Tongtian away with the promise of something to eat.

• Tongtian created Sword Qi fish, butterflies, and snakes to delight Su Miao.
• Tongtian lifted Su Miao on a Sword Cloud and flew her through the cave as they laughed and played.
• Laozi arrived and watched them, deciding that Su Miao's Heart of a Newborn Child should be guided through play rather than forced instruction.
• Su Miao noticed Laozi, and Tongtian stopped the Sword Cloud and greeted his eldest brother.
• Laozi invited Su Miao to taste something, and she eagerly followed him while Tongtian hurried after them.

Laozi gave Su Miao gentle nourishing pills, and she began to look forward to his visits and lessons. As the Three Pure Ones taught her in their different ways, they discovered that guiding their young disciple also deepened their understanding of their own Great Daos.

• Laozi offered Su Miao a Glazed Pill made from precious, gentle ingredients, and she happily ate it.
• Laozi gave Su Miao two more pills and told her to take only one each day, then occasionally rewarded her with pills for completing small tasks.
• Yuanshi taught Su Miao Dao Patterns, the Rules of heaven and earth, and practical ways to control and nurture her power.
• Tongtian taught Su Miao through games, sword practice, and lessons about the minerals and spiritual objects of the Prehistoric World.
• Laozi let Su Miao observe his alchemy and herb tending, teaching her through simple questions and patient explanations.
• The Three Pure Ones developed different approaches to teaching Su Miao, and the experience loosened their stagnant realms and gave them new insights into their Great Daos.

After nearly ten thousand years of training by the Three Pure Ones, Su Miao reached the peak of the Mystic Immortal realm with a strong foundation, nearing the Golden Immortal realm. The chapter ended with Yuanshi letting her sleep in his arms, while Laozi prepared pills for her future breakthrough.

• Su Miao completed her cultivation and Yuanshi praised her progress, then lectured her about entering the Golden Immortal realm.
• Su Miao grew drowsy during Yuanshi's lecture, fell asleep against his arm, and Yuanshi covered her with a warm blanket.
• Tongtian reflected on Su Miao's swordsmanship and other skills, taking pride in the progress she had made under his guidance.
• Laozi prepared Spirit-Nourishing Pills and began planning for Su Miao's attempt to attain the Golden Immortal Fruit.
• The Three Pure Ones' teachings had shaped Su Miao's etiquette, courage, and serenity into a distinctive path of her own.

Tongtian took Su Miao to play with Cloud Patterned Deer fawns and roast Spirit Fowl, but Yuanshi caught them and scolded Tongtian while assigning Su Miao Scripture of Purity to copy. Su Miao escaped to Laozi, then made Clear Lotus Cakes to reconcile with Tongtian, leaving Yuanshi worried that she was becoming like him.

• Tongtian took Su Miao to a valley, where he caught a Cloud Patterned Deer fawn for her to pet and prepared roasted Spirit Fowl.
• Yuanshi arrived, scolded Tongtian for disturbing the Spiritual Beasts, and ordered Su Miao to copy the Scripture of Purity ten times.
• Su Miao apologized, then hurried away to Supreme Purity Peak, leaving Tongtian to endure Yuanshi's lecture.
• Laozi settled Su Miao's mind by having her observe his chess game and gave her calming honey pills.
• Su Miao returned to Tongtian with Clear Lotus Cakes, and the two made up as Yuanshi watched and worried that she was becoming like Tongtian.

Yuanshi brought Su Miao to Supreme Purity Peak to temper the liveliness she had picked up from Tongtian, but her simple insight into the relationship between cultivators and Spiritual Treasures deepened the Three Pure Ones’ understanding. The Three Pure Ones decided to enter seclusion to absorb what they had learned, after settling one matter first.

• Yuanshi increasingly visited Laozi and brought Su Miao to Supreme Purity Peak, where she watched Laozi tend plants and listened to him discuss the Dao.
• Tongtian and Yuanshi argued over whether a cultivator’s own strength or Spiritual Treasures mattered more, and Laozi asked Su Miao for her view.
• Su Miao said that hands and treasures complemented each other because cultivators needed hands to find and wield treasures, leaving Tongtian amused and Yuanshi contemplative.
• Laozi affirmed Su Miao’s reasoning, and Yuanshi realized she had a natural clarity that eased his fear she would be led astray by Tongtian.
• The Three Pure Ones recognized that teaching Su Miao had loosened their stagnant realms, decided to enter seclusion, and resolved to settle one matter before doing so.

The Three Pure Ones formally proclaimed Su Miao (Miao Heng) their shared personal disciple and daughter, making her status known throughout the Prehistoric World. As they prepared for seclusion, Yuanshi summoned her and gathered a large pile of Jade Slips, leaving his intentions unclear.

• Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Laozi agreed to establish Su Miao's status before entering seclusion.
• Yuanshi wrote a proclamation naming Su Miao (Miao Heng) their shared personal disciple and jointly acknowledged daughter, and the Three Pure Ones sent it throughout the Prehistoric World.
• Living beings across the Prehistoric World heard the proclamation, and many clans ordered their members to treat Su Miao with courtesy.
• Yuanshi gave Su Miao the Spirit Jade Slip, and she thanked her three masters for protecting and recognizing her.
• The Three Pure Ones discussed entering seclusion, but Yuanshi summoned Su Miao after three days and showed her a large, carefully arranged pile of Jade Slips.

Yuanshi assigned Su Miao an enormous collection of scriptures and strict rules for her seclusion, while Laozi and Tongtian gave her pills, a Spirit Gathering Array, and protective trinkets. The Three Pure Ones fortified Kunlun Mountain’s Protection Array and entered seclusion, leaving Su Miao alone to decide how to spend her time.

• Yuanshi gave Su Miao stacks of Jade Slips to study and warned her never to leave Kunlun Mountain’s great array.
• Laozi gave Su Miao Spirit Warming Soul Nourishing Pills and placed a Spirit Gathering Array around her Small Palace.
• Tongtian gave Su Miao Formation Disks and Jade Talismans containing his Sword Qi, encouraging her to relax during seclusion.
• The Three Pure Ones joined their powers to strengthen Kunlun Mountain’s Protection Array to its utmost limit.
• The Three Pure Ones entered seclusion on their respective peaks, leaving Su Miao alone as she considered whether to study the Jade Slips or try Tongtian’s Formation Disk.

Su Miao found her solitary routine on Kunlun Mountain dull, so she expanded and redecorated her palace to make it feel like home. She also prepared rooms for the Three Pure Ones and turned her attention toward exploring Kunlun Mountain.

• Su Miao followed Yuanshi’s curriculum, practicing scriptures, cultivation techniques, and meditation while missing her masters and father.
• After finishing her coursework, Su Miao decided her sparsely furnished palace needed to feel more like a home.
• Su Miao expanded the palace and added study and recreation areas, new furniture, and playful decorations using materials from her Chaos Bead.
• Su Miao created three meditation rooms for Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian, marking each room with a symbol representing its master.
• Satisfied with her renovated home, Su Miao looked toward Kunlun Mountain’s wilderness and considered exploring it.

Su Miao explored Kunlun Mountain, harvesting plants and minerals carefully while repaying the land with Spirit Rain. Over decades and centuries, she expanded her collection, experimented with new plant varieties, and studied Spiritual Beasts, growing increasingly carefree and confident in her mountain domain.

• Su Miao explored a valley, gathered ripe Spirit Fruits and Star Orchids, and nourished the plants and surrounding land with Spirit Rain.
• Su Miao used the Guiding Incantation to take a piece of Tai Bai Fine Gold ore, then restored the mountain wall with Spirit Rain.
• Over decades and centuries, Su Miao collected plants and minerals across Kunlun Mountain and built a botanical garden and mineral collection on Mount Fangzhang inside her Chaos Bead.
• Su Miao began grafting and crossbreeding Spirit Planting, producing odd varieties that caused continuous burping or gave off a sour, dizzying smell.
• Su Miao recorded her experiments in Miao Heng's Experimental Notes and studied Spiritual Beasts by trading pills and Spirit Fruits for harmless samples.
• Su Miao grew comfortable exploring and experimenting freely, feeling increasingly like the ruler of Kunlun Mountain.

During the Three Pure Ones’ long seclusion, Su Miao entertained herself by shearing fur and feathers from Kunlun Mountain’s Spiritual Beasts, borrowing shell plates, and catching fish to grill. The increasingly disgruntled beasts gathered and hoped Master Tongtian would emerge from seclusion and stop her.

• Su Miao began trimming Cloud Rabbits’ fur and Immortal Cranes’ tail feathers, rewarding them with Spirit Fruits or Spirit Rain.
• Su Miao borrowed shell plates from Mystic Tortoises, leaving the Spiritual Beasts with comically altered appearances.
• Su Miao used the Sea Calming Bead to slow fish in a stream, caught several, and grilled them for a meal.
• The Spiritual Beasts developed mixed feelings toward Su Miao, appreciating her gifts while fearing what she might take next.
• After Su Miao borrowed bright tail feathers from a Seven-Colored Pheasant, the Crane Leader, Tortoise Elder, and Cloud Rabbit King gathered and appealed to Shangqing to uphold justice.

After emerging from a thousand years of seclusion, Tongtian learned that Su Miao had been tormenting Kunlun Mountain’s Spiritual Beasts, but he laughed at their complaints and took her side. He hurried off to visit Su Miao, eager to see what she had been doing.

• Tongtian emerged from seclusion on Upper Purity Peak, pleased that his cultivation and Dao Heart had improved.
• A crowd of Spiritual Beasts gathered to show Tongtian their clipped feathers, damaged shells, and strange hairstyles, and complain about Su Miao.
• Tongtian laughed at the Spiritual Beasts’ misfortune and praised Su Miao’s creativity instead of reprimanding her.
• The dejected Spiritual Beasts departed, and Tongtian set off as an invisible Sword Light toward Su Miao’s Small Palace.

After emerging from seclusion, Tongtian reunited with Su Miao and began teaching her the basics of formations while they enjoyed life together on Mount Fangzhang. Their peaceful days were interrupted when Tongtian received an invitation from Zhen Yuanzi.

• Tongtian returned to the palace, found Su Miao stir-frying Enlightenment Tea, and warmly reunited with her.
• Su Miao showed Tongtian the room she had prepared for him, and he settled into her daily routine.
• Tongtian taught Su Miao simple formations, and she offered clever ideas and eagerly experimented with them.
• Su Miao's experiments nearly ruined Enlightenment Tea and flooded her flower bed, but Tongtian happily accepted her failed tea batches.
• Tongtian received an archaic Jade Slip invitation from Zhen Yuanzi.

Su Miao grafted Jade Nectar Fruit onto Greenwood Thorn, creating a sweeter, easier-to-absorb fruit that earned Heavenly Dao Merit. After Tongtian encouraged her experiments, she turned back to roasting tea and produced a remarkable fragrance that caught his attention.

• Su Miao grafted a Jade Nectar Fruit seed onto Greenwood Thorn and patiently waited for the graft to bear fruit.
• Su Miao tasted the new fruit, found it sweet and gentle to absorb, and brought it to Tongtian.
• Golden Light of Merit descended, rewarding Su Miao and the fruit for benefiting low-level Cultivators and other living beings.
• Tongtian praised Su Miao's innovation and began helping her collect Spirit Planting seeds and cuttings.
• Su Miao focused on her Tea Roasting Enterprise and finally produced an extraordinary tea fragrance that made Tongtian open his eyes.

Su Miao successfully roasted Enlightenment Tea, and the tea brought down Merit that strengthened her and transformed the leaves. After Laozi and Yuanshi emerged from seclusion, Su Miao welcomed them with thoughtful gifts, leaving the Three Pure Ones to recognize that she was forging a unique path to the Great Dao.

• Su Miao finished roasting the Enlightenment Tea, and Tongtian caught her as exhaustion nearly made her fall.
• Su Miao brewed and tasted the tea, whose tranquil Dao resonance brought down Golden Light of Merit that replenished her and transformed the stored leaves into Merit Tea Leaves.
• Laozi and Yuanshi emerged from seclusion, and Tongtian proudly showed them Su Miao and her achievement.
• Su Miao showed Laozi and Yuanshi the rooms she had prepared for them, and both were moved by her thoughtfulness.
• Su Miao presented the Three Pure Ones with improved New Variety Spirit Fruit and Merit-infused Enlightenment Tea, and Laozi and Yuanshi recognized her unprecedented path.

Su Miao explained to the Three Pure Ones that she planned to cultivate steadily while earning merit through Spirit Planting and research, hoping to eventually form a Merit Golden Wheel. Her masters praised her resolve and agreed to take her to Wuzhuang Temple to see Zhen Yuanzi’s ripe Ginseng Fruit.

• Su Miao told Yuanshi and Laozi that she had cultivated the Merit Tea Leaves and Spirit Fruit through her own efforts, and they praised her steady Dao Heart.
• Su Miao revealed that she planned to build up Heavenly Merit through Spirit Planting and research while cultivating without relying on shortcuts.
• The Three Pure Ones praised Su Miao’s long-term plan to form a Merit Golden Wheel, and Laozi advised her to follow her heart and benefit the Prehistoric World without forcing the accumulation of merit.
• Tongtian showed Yuanshi and Laozi Zhen Yuanzi’s invitation to Wuzhuang Temple, where the Ginseng Fruit had ripened.
• Yuanshi and Laozi agreed to visit Wuzhuang Temple and bring Su Miao along, and she eagerly anticipated seeing and tasting the Ginseng Fruit.

Yuanshi prepared Su Miao for a formal visit to Wuzhuang Temple, where the Three Pure Ones brought her to meet Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun. The chapter ended as the hosts noticed Su Miao in Tongtian’s arms.

• Yuanshi dressed Su Miao in refined robes and reminded her to observe proper etiquette during the visit.
• Laozi presented alchemical pills as a congratulatory gift, and the Three Pure Ones set out with Su Miao for Wuzhuang Temple.
• Tongtian described Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun along the journey, while Yuanshi instructed Su Miao to stay close and speak with restraint.
• After several months of travel, the Three Pure Ones arrived at Wuzhuang Temple in the western region.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun came out to welcome the Three Pure Ones and immediately looked at Su Miao.

Su Miao met Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun for the first time, impressing them with her poise and the spirit fruits she had cultivated. After exchanging gifts, Zhen Yuanzi invited her and the Three Pure Ones inside to enjoy the Ginseng Fruit.

• Tongtian introduced Su Miao, also known as Miao Heng, as the Three Pure Ones’ personal disciple and acknowledged daughter.
• Su Miao greeted Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun respectfully and answered Hongyun’s questions about her age and cultivation.
• Su Miao presented each guest with a box of spirit fruits she had cultivated, and Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun praised their gentle spiritual energy and traces of merit.
• Zhen Yuanzi gave Su Miao an Earthen Life Origin Crystal and an Innate Aetherwood Azure Ganoderma Origin Leaf, while Hongyun gave her a protective red cloud hairpin.
• Zhen Yuanzi invited the Three Pure Ones and Su Miao inside, saying the Ginseng Fruit was ready.

At Wuzhuang Temple, Su Miao tasted a Ginseng Fruit and secretly planted its pit in Mount Fangzhang, hoping to grow more. Zhen Yuanzi and the others noticed but took no offense, and Yuanshi redirected the gathering toward Su Miao’s tea leaves.

• Zhen Yuanzi welcomed the Three Pure Ones and Su Miao to the Ginseng Fruit Tree and served them Ginseng Fruits.
• Su Miao ate a Ginseng Fruit and felt its vitality nourish her body and strengthen her Dao Foundation.
• Su Miao secretly sent the fruit pit into Mount Fangzhang and planted it in Spiritual Soil with Three Lights Divine Water.
• Zhen Yuanzi, Hongyun, Tongtian, and Yuanshi noticed Su Miao’s actions, but Zhen Yuanzi found them amusing and did not mind.
• After Hongyun teased Su Miao about planting fruit trees, Yuanshi changed the subject and asked her to offer her tea leaves to Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun.

Su Miao served Enlightenment Tea she had pan-fried, impressing Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun with its calming power and aid to enlightenment. After praising her skill and delighting the Three Pure Ones, Zhen Yuanzi proposed that the guests discuss the Dao, and Su Miao prepared to listen.

• Su Miao brewed her pan-fried Enlightenment Tea, releasing a gentle Dao rhythm that caught the Great Experts’ attention.
• Zhen Yuanzi recognized the tea as Enlightenment Tea, and Tongtian proudly explained that Su Miao had pan-fried it herself.
• Hongyun drank a cup and found that it calmed his mind and clarified his understanding of the Great Dao.
• Zhen Yuanzi praised Su Miao’s skill, while Hongyun delighted in the tea and decided to tell his friends about her.
• Zhen Yuanzi proposed a discussion of the Dao, and Su Miao sat upright to listen.