Chapter Summaries

Su Miao returned safely to Kunlun and reunited with the Spiritual Beasts before tending to her Spirit Planting inside the Chaos Bead. The Ginseng Fruit sapling flourished, while the Gourd Vine showed no visible recovery, though its buried roots began absorbing nutrients after she looked away.

• Su Miao returned to Kunlun with the Three Pure Ones and was welcomed by the Spiritual Beasts.
• Su Miao used Nine Heavens Breathing Soil to nourish the Ginseng Fruit sapling and improve the Chaos Bead’s Spirit Field.
• Su Miao planted the withered Gourd Vine and treated it with Breathing Soil, Three Lights Divine Water, and the Innate Yi Wood Green Ganoderma Origin Leaf, but saw no change.
• After Su Miao turned away, the Gourd Vine’s roots slowly began absorbing nutrients beneath the soil.
• Su Miao went to prepare Enlightenment Tea to welcome her Three Masters home.

The Three Pure Ones and Su Miao entered seclusion on Kunlun Mountain to consolidate their cultivation and absorb what they had gained from listening to the Dao. After years of meditation, Tongtian emerged and set off to travel the Prehistoric World, leaving a message for his brothers and disciple.

• Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Su Miao agreed to enter seclusion and stabilize their cultivation.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian returned to their peaks, while Su Miao went to her Small Palace to meditate.
• After years of seclusion, Tongtian emerged with improved cultivation and a sharper Sword Dao.
• Tongtian sensed that Laozi and Yuanshi remained in deep meditation and that Su Miao was still consolidating her cultivation.
• Tongtian left a Spiritual Sense imprint saying he was descending the mountain to travel, then flew into the Prehistoric World.

Tongtian returned toward Kunlun Mountain after roaming the world, but stopped to rescue a Treasure Seeking Rat from several Cultivators. Grateful, the rat bowed to Tongtian, who began to consider the little creature’s unusual spirituality.

• Tongtian traveled freely, honing his Sword Dao and gathering treasures before deciding to return to Kunlun Mountain.
• Tongtian heard Cultivators threatening a Treasure Seeking Rat and saw them chase it for the Moonlight Grass it carried.
• Tongtian struck the Cultivators with Sword Qi, then ordered them to leave, and they fled in fear.
• The Treasure Seeking Rat placed the Moonlight Grass on a stone and bowed toward Tongtian to thank him.
• Tongtian appeared before the rat, praised its gratitude, and considered its extraordinary spirituality.

Tongtian brought the Treasure Seeking Rat back to Kunlun Mountain as a companion for Su Miao and named it Duobao. When Yuanshi emerged from seclusion and saw Duobao, his displeasure suggested the little creature carried a serious karmic entanglement.

• Tongtian offered the Treasure Seeking Rat a home and a chance to accompany Su Miao, and it agreed to follow him.
• Tongtian returned the Moonlight Grass to the rat, named it Duobao, and carried it back to Kunlun Mountain.
• Tongtian arrived at Kunlun Mountain as Yuanshi emerged from seclusion, and Duobao grew frightened by Yuanshi's aura.
• Duobao offered Yuanshi Warm Jade Essence and Starlight Ore, but Yuanshi became visibly displeased.
• Yuanshi asked Tongtian whether he knew what Duobao was and what karmic entanglement it carried.

Yuanshi confronted Tongtian for bringing Duobao to Kunlun and wanting it to accompany Su Miao, while Tongtian defended the creature’s character and challenged Yuanshi’s prejudice. The brothers’ argument escalated into a tense standoff, with Duobao cowering between them.

• Yuanshi objected to Tongtian bringing Duobao to Kunlun, warning that its poor roots and uncertain nature could bring trouble and influence Su Miao badly.
• Tongtian defended Duobao, citing its loyalty to the Spiritual Grass and gratitude after being rescued, and argued that good character mattered more than roots.
• Yuanshi insisted that Duobao could not be compared with Miao Heng, whom he described as favored by the Heavenly Dao, and called the comparison an insult.
• Tongtian erupted in anger, releasing sword qi that slashed the nearby grass and trees while Duobao curled into a frightened ball.

Yuanshi swept Su Miao, Tongtian, and the Treasure Seeking Rat into a side hall and confined them there while he lectured on order and karmic origins. The three were left to listen for a thousand years before they could leave.

• Laozi stopped Yuanshi and Tongtian’s argument, but Su Miao emerged from her palace and noticed the Treasure Seeking Rat.
• Yuanshi swept Tongtian, Su Miao, and the frightened Treasure Seeking Rat into the Side Hall on Jade Purity Peak.
• Yuanshi manifested his Dharma Form and lectured them on the order of all beings and their predetermined origins.
• Yuanshi ordered Su Miao, Tongtian, and the Treasure Seeking Rat to remain in the hall and listen for a thousand years.

Tongtian, Su Miao, and the Treasure Seeking Rat Duobao endured Yuanshi’s thousand-year confinement and his ceaseless Dao Sound. When Yuanshi’s Dharma Form vanished, the confinement ended, and all three had changed through the experience.

• Tongtian blamed Duobao for Yuanshi’s anger, while Su Miao wondered why both Masters had been locked away.
• Su Miao realized Yuanshi’s Dao Sound described the Rules governing heaven and earth, and aligned her mana with its rhythm.
• Duobao absorbed the Dao Sound, shed impurities, and began cultivating after comprehending a rudimentary Qi Refining method.
• Over a thousand years, Su Miao strengthened her Dao Foundation, Duobao awakened his intelligence and crossed into cultivation, and Tongtian’s Sword Qi settled.
• Yuanshi’s Dharma Form dissipated, ending the force confining the Side Hall.

Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian received East King Duke’s invitation to attend a Penglai banquet and support his plan to govern the male immortals and establish an Immortal Court. Laozi refused on Kunlun’s behalf, leaving East King Duke’s ambitions to unfold without the Three Pure Ones’ backing.

• Yuanshi sent Duobao into Tongtian’s sealed cave abode and made clear that Tongtian had to deal with the Treasure Seeking Rat himself.
• Laozi showed Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Su Miao East King Duke’s invitation, which invoked his appointment by the Dao Ancestor and called for a supreme Immortal Court.
• Tongtian mocked East King Duke’s ambitions, while Yuanshi condemned him as an opportunist disrupting the Heavenly Dao.
• Laozi said East King Duke’s plans had nothing to do with Kunlun and ordered a refusal, stating that Kunlun cultivated in seclusion and would not attend.

Yuanshi transformed an Immortal Crane into White Crane Boy to handle Kunlun’s outside affairs, and the boy politely turned away an envoy from East King Duke. West Queen Mother later sent an invitation and Flat Peaches for Su Miao; Kunlun declined the visit for now, and Su Miao eagerly claimed the peaches.

• Yuanshi transformed an Immortal Crane into White Crane Boy and appointed him to handle Kunlun’s external affairs.
• White Crane Boy told East King Duke’s envoy that the Three Pure Ones declined to involve Kunlun in outside affairs, and the envoy left without pressing the matter.
• An Azure Bird delivered West Queen Mother’s invitation to visit Yaochi and a basket of Flat Peaches, specifically asking after Su Miao.
• Yuanshi accepted the peaches but declined the invitation for Su Miao, explaining that she was young and focused on cultivation.
• The Azure Bird accepted Kunlun’s response and departed, while Su Miao thanked Yuanshi and guarded the peaches from Tongtian.

Su Miao tried to keep the Three Pure Ones’ ongoing cold war from affecting her as they traveled to Purple Sky Palace for the second sermon. She chose to sit beside Laozi and ended the chapter hiding in his arms while Tongtian glared at her.

• Yuanshi warned Su Miao to eat only one Flat Peach every seven days, then asked about her lessons while Tongtian called Duobao over.
• Su Miao reflected on Yuanshi and Tongtian’s silent cold war and found peace in Laozi’s company.
• The Three Pure Ones departed for Purple Sky Palace, and Su Miao clung to Laozi’s robe as the tension between Yuanshi and Tongtian persisted.
• At Purple Sky Palace, Su Miao placed her cushion between Laozi and Yuanshi, prompting Tongtian to accuse her of abandoning him.
• Su Miao hid in Laozi’s arms under Tongtian’s resentful gaze, while Yuanshi’s displeasure eased and his cold aura softened.

Su Miao shrank to escape Tongtian and hid in Laozi’s sleeve, where she fell asleep while waiting for Dao Ancestor Hongjun. Hongjun arrived and began his sermon, but Su Miao slept through it in the safety of Laozi’s protection.

• Tongtian reached for Su Miao’s hair, so she shrank and hid inside Laozi’s sleeve.
• Su Miao told Tongtian she feared his anger, and Laozi shielded her inside his robe.
• Su Miao settled into Laozi’s sleeve and fell asleep while Tongtian sulked and Yuanshi watched.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared in Purple Sky Palace after the other great experts arrived and the doors were closed.
• Hongjun began preaching the Great Dao as the Three Pure Ones listened and Su Miao slept through the sermon.

Su Miao woke in Laozi’s sleeve during Hongjun’s sermon and secretly listened as he explained the path toward the Quasi-Saint realm. When a listener asked how Hongjun attained sainthood, he promised a full explanation at the Third Sermon and revealed that he had used the Slaying the Three Corpses Method.

• Su Miao woke from a peaceful sleep in Laozi’s sleeve and realized she had missed much of Hongjun’s sermon.
• Laozi sensed Su Miao moving and checked that she was unharmed with his immortal power.
• Su Miao peeked out and saw the great experts, including Yuanshi and Tongtian, immersed in Hongjun’s sermon.
• Su Miao gathered that Hongjun had been explaining how to advance from the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm to the Quasi-Saint realm.
• A great expert asked Hongjun how he had attained the Saint Dao, and Hongjun said he would explain it in detail at the Third Sermon.
• Hongjun briefly revealed that he had attained sainthood through the Slaying the Three Corpses Method, leaving the listeners puzzled.

Hongjun explained the Three Corpses method, claiming that severing the corpses with three Innate Spiritual Treasures could lead to Sainthood through Three Corpses Unity. Su Miao realized that forcibly uniting treasures of different origins could cause catastrophe and suspected Hongjun had deliberately concealed a crucial condition, leaving her wary of his teachings.

• Hongjun said cultivators needed three Innate Spiritual Treasures to house and sever their good thoughts, evil thoughts, and self-obsession.
• Hongjun claimed that severing all Three Corpses could bring a cultivator to the Peak Quasi-Saint realm and that Three Corpses Unity could achieve Hunyuan Daluo.
• The great experts, including the Three Pure Ones, became excited by the clear path to Sainthood.
• Su Miao feared that combining Innate Spiritual Treasures with different origins and Laws could cause their powers to clash and explode.
• Su Miao suspected Hongjun had deliberately omitted the same-source requirement and wondered whether his method was a trap.

Su Miao realized Hongjun had concealed a dangerous requirement of the Three Corpses method and tried to warn Laozi before he severed his Good Corpse. When writing on his arm failed to reach him, she bit him hard enough to interrupt his breakthrough.

• Su Miao recalled Yuanshi's warning that treasures of different origins could not safely be fused and suspected Hongjun had hidden a crucial danger in the method.
• Su Miao sensed Laozi beginning to sever his Good Corpse with the Profound Yellow Tower while Yuanshi and Tongtian also absorbed Hongjun's teachings.
• Su Miao rejected sending a voice transmission and wrote on Laozi's arm that the method had a problem.
• Laozi ignored the faint sensations as his aura surged and the Three Flowers above his head grew clearer.
• Su Miao bit Laozi's arm, jolting him out of his enlightenment and making his aura and the Three Flowers tremble.

Su Miao warned Laozi that the Method to Become Saint through Slaying the Three Corpses had a problem, and he forcibly stopped his imminent breakthrough despite suffering backlash. Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s gaze seemed to reach into Laozi’s sleeve, terrifying Su Miao, before Laozi gently reassured her.

• Su Miao urgently scratched the words “The method has a problem” onto Laozi’s arm, warning him about the Method to Become Saint through Slaying the Three Corpses.
• Trusting Su Miao, Laozi reversed and suppressed his imminent breakthrough, suffering cultivation backlash as his Three Flowers phantom shattered.
• Laozi’s sudden aura fluctuation roused the gathered experts, including Yuanshi and Tongtian, who turned to look at him.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s gaze lingered on Laozi and seemed to pass through his sleeve to where Su Miao was hiding.
• Su Miao froze in terror, and Laozi gently patted her back through his sleeve to reassure her.

Laozi realized the Slaying the Three Corpses Method had a dangerous flaw and secretly warned Yuanshi and Tongtian after Su Miao alerted him. The Three Pure Ones restrained their anger during Hongjun’s sermon, but left the method in doubt and their trust in Hongjun damaged.

• Su Miao warned Laozi that the Slaying the Three Corpses Method had a problem, and Laozi concealed his backlash from Hongjun before reassuring her.
• Laozi secretly told Yuanshi and Tongtian that merging treasures of different origins could cause a fatal conflict of Laws.
• Yuanshi deduced that using noncompatible Spiritual Treasures for the method could destroy one's Dao Foundation and suspected Hongjun had concealed the danger deliberately.
• Tongtian nearly challenged Hongjun, but Laozi and Yuanshi restrained him by warning that his outburst could endanger Miao Heng.
• The Three Pure Ones agreed not to attempt the method until they could confirm it was safe and find three Innate Spiritual Treasures of the same source, while their trust in Hongjun fractured.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun assigned the six disciples their ranks after the sermon, while the Three Pure Ones and Su Miao remained wary of the arrangement. With the master-disciple ties established and the third sermon scheduled, the gathering at Purple Sky Palace ended.

• Hongjun named Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian his Personal Disciples and accepted Nuwa as a Nominal Disciple.
• Jieyin pleaded for himself and Zhunti, and Hongjun accepted them as Outer Disciples.
• Su Miao watched from Laozi’s sleeve and suspected the disciple-taking ceremony had followed a prearranged script.
• Hongjun’s gaze briefly lingered on Laozi, prompting the Three Pure Ones and Su Miao to grow more vigilant.
• Hongjun vanished after the disciples bowed to him, and the assembled great powers departed Purple Sky Palace.

As the Three Pure Ones returned to Kunlun Mountain amid unresolved tension, Su Miao tried to ease Tongtian’s anger by offering him homemade milk tea. The drink softened the mood, though Tongtian and Yuanshi still had not reconciled.

• Yuanshi, Laozi, and Tongtian left the Purple Sky Palace and traveled through Chaos in strained silence.
• After they returned to the Prehistoric World, Su Miao emerged from Laozi’s sleeve and approached Tongtian with a bottle of homemade milk tea.
• Tongtian grumbled that the drink would not earn his forgiveness, then drank the whole bottle and admitted that he wanted more.
• Su Miao promised to make Tongtian a whole vat next time, and the tension around the Three Pure Ones eased somewhat.
• As they flew toward Kunlun Mountain, Tongtian asked Su Miao how she had made the drink.

Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian secluded themselves in Jade Purity Main Hall to discuss the danger in Hongjun's Slaying the Three Corpses Method. Su Miao's analogy to incompatible artifact materials revealed a fundamental flaw, leaving the Three Pure Ones to wonder why Hongjun had taught the method.

• Laozi used the Taiji Diagram, Yuanshi used the Pangu Banner, and Tongtian laid Sword Dao Restrictions to seal Jade Purity Main Hall against outside surveillance.
• Laozi told Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Su Miao that Su Miao's warning had stopped him from forcing a breakthrough and that the Slaying the Three Corpses Method might conceal a fatal danger.
• Su Miao compared the method's use of different Innate Spiritual Treasures to carry separated thoughts to combining incompatible materials in artifact refining.
• Yuanshi, Laozi, and Tongtian realized that the treasures' different origins and Laws could make the method fundamentally incompatible.
• The Three Pure Ones recognized the flaw in Hongjun's method and questioned what he intended by teaching it.

Su Miao warned the Three Pure Ones that Hongjun’s corpse-severing method would provoke battles over scarce Spiritual Treasures. Their joint deduction revealed that their status as Hongjun’s personal disciples was secretly draining their Fortune toward Purple Sky Palace, leaving them furious and distrustful of their teacher.

• Su Miao suggested that the need for three compatible Innate Spiritual Treasures to Sever Corpse would drive cultivators into conflict and questioned Hongjun’s intentions.
• Tongtian angrily condemned the method for threatening peace in the Prehistoric World, while Yuanshi and Laozi also grew suspicious.
• Laozi proposed that Hongjun’s purpose might include taking Fortune through the master-disciple bond recognized by the Heavenly Dao.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian jointly deduced that threads were siphoning their Primordial Fortune toward Purple Sky Palace.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian reacted with fury, and Su Miao’s opinion of Hongjun fell further.