Chapter Summaries

Over the years, Xuantian helped Dazhu Peak grow, advanced his cultivation, and created the Taiji Seal. He led Qingyun Sect disciples to Heavenly Sound Temple’s Dharma Proclamation Assembly, where his primordial spirit secretly visited the Wordless Jade Bi and obtained the fourth volume of the Heavenly Book.

• Xuantian recruited new disciples for Dazhu Peak, whose rigorous training later influenced the other peaks; twenty years passed as its disciples advanced in cultivation.
• Xuantian demonstrated the Taiji Seal to Dazhu Peak, and Tian Buyi broke through to the sixth level of Shangqing.
• Tian Buyi announced Heavenly Sound Temple’s Dharma Proclamation Assembly, and Xuantian led more than forty disciples to Mount Sumeru.
• At Little Heavenly Sound Temple, Xuantian’s primordial spirit left the assembly and traveled to the Wordless Jade Bi in the mountain’s Back Mountain.
• The Wordless Jade Bi erupted with visions and Buddhist light as Xuantian obtained its fourth volume of the Heavenly Book, then returned to his body while Heavenly Sound Temple’s monks found no trace of the disturbance.

After five years of seclusion, Xuantian revised Qingyun’s cultivation stages, created the Boundless Divine Palm, and shared his ideas about the path to union with the Dao. Years later, Zhang Xiaofan joined Dazhu Peak, where Su Ru punished the disciples after Du Bishu tried to evade training.

• Xuantian emerged from seclusion, explained his revised cultivation stages and ideas about union with the Dao, and shared a copy of the Boundless Divine Palm with Qingyun’s leaders.
• Xu Weibear and Su Ru became pregnant; Su Ru gave birth to Tian Ling'er, and Xu Weibear later gave birth to Xiao Yao, whom Xuantian raised and taught.
• After a village massacre, Tian Buyi brought Zhang Xiaofan to Dazhu Peak and accepted him as his seventh disciple, assigning Song Daren to teach him.
• Du Bishu tried to volunteer to guide Zhang Xiaofan to avoid Su Ru’s training, but Song Daren took Zhang Xiaofan instead, leaving Du Bishu and twelve other disciples to face Su Ru.
• Du Bishu launched a surprise attack when the disciples were ordered to train, but Su Ru defeated all thirteen and ordered them to complete another hour.

Zhang Xiaofan settled into daily life on Dazhu Peak while Xuantian and Tian Buyi traveled to Heyang City, where they met Zhou Yixian and his granddaughter. At a tea stall, a storyteller began recounting the Wang Family’s string of drownings and haunting, leaving the strange case unresolved.

• Su Ru warned the Dazhu Peak disciples to improve their cultivation before the Seven Peaks Martial Arts Tournament, then ended their training.
• At dinner, Du Bishu tried to bet with Zhang Xiaofan, and Tian Ling'er noticed Su Ru’s handiwork on Du Bishu’s face.
• Du Bishu persuaded He Dazhi to take him to town under the pretense of buying food to nourish Zhang Xiaofan, while Xuantian and Tian Buyi went to Heyang City to seek weapon materials.
• Xuantian recognized Zhou Yixian at a tea stall and introduced himself and Tian Buyi, while Zhou Yixian introduced his granddaughter, Zhou Xiaohuan.
• A storyteller described how Master Wang Fucai’s three sons had drowned in separate accidents and how ghostly figures and infant cries haunted the Wang residence.

Xuantian investigated the Wang Family’s haunting and discovered that a child drowned in a sealed well decades earlier after Wang Fucai’s mother covered it up. As the spirit began to emerge, Wang Fucai confessed the past, but the chapter left the well’s supernatural threat unresolved.

• Xuantian and Tian Buyi examined the coffins of Wang Fucai’s three drowned sons and dispelled the infants’ lingering resentment.
• Xuantian recognized signs of a buried well in the Wang Family’s rear courtyard and warned that Wang Fucai’s unborn child was in danger.
• Xuantian traced gathering black threads to the pavilion and identified the hidden dry well beneath it.
• The pavilion split open, revealing the well, and Yin Li and Yuanjue’s talismans and spell failed to contain the powerful spirit.
• After Wang Fucai’s newborn son cried, Xuantian and Tian Buyi prepared to leave, prompting Wang Fucai to kneel and beg the spirit for mercy.
• Wang Fucai confessed that his mother, Zhao, had left his half-brother Wang Fugui to drown in the well after Wang Fucai accidentally pushed him in.

Xuantian and Tian Buyi resolved the Wang Family haunting, then traveled to the Demon-Suppressing Ancient Cave and obtained jade from the Beast God to forge magical treasures. Back at Dazhu Peak, they learned Du Bishu had reached the fourth level of the Yuqing Realm, and he began explaining how he discovered his breakthrough.

• Wang Fugui's spirit revealed that Nanny Wang had killed the children and poured her resentment into the newborn, while Xuantian purified and trapped her spirit.
• Xuantian agreed to take Wang Fugui as his fourth disciple and teach him and Granny Wang to cultivate their souls.
• Xuantian and Tian Buyi visited the Beast God, who gave them two pieces of jade for magical treasures and received information about Zhou Yixian.
• Tian Buyi forged the Ling Character Sword, and Xuantian forged the Dream Flute before they returned to Qingyun Mountain.
• Tian Ling'er and Zhang Xiaofan saw Du Bishu moving utensils with Object Manipulation, and Tian Buyi later asked him when he had broken through.
• Du Bishu explained that he had accidentally moved his cup with Mind Power the previous night.

Du Bishu returned to Dazhu Peak with a dice-shaped magic treasure, while Zhang Xiaofan earned a place in the expanded Seven Peaks Martial Arts Tournament. As the tournament began, Daoxuan revealed plans for the top disciples to investigate Kongsang Mountain, and Xuantian identified Zhang Xiaofan’s fire poker as the ancient Soul Eater.

• Du Bishu left Dazhu Peak to travel after accidentally serving everyone an oversalted meal, then returned a year and a half later with three dice as his magic treasure.
• Song Daren, Xiao Yao, and Tian Ling'er visited Xiaozhu Peak to announce that each peak could enter nine disciples in the Seven Peaks Martial Arts Tournament.
• Song Daren, He Dazhi, Xiao Yao, Tian Ling'er, and Zhang Xiaofan secured Dazhu Peak tournament places, with Zhang Xiaofan qualifying despite being only at the fourth level of the Yuqing Realm.
• Daoxuan announced that the tournament’s first-place winner would receive the Six Harmony Mirror and told the peak leaders that the top four would investigate Kongsang Mountain with disciples from other sects.
• Xuantian proposed sending the top sixteen contestants to gain experience and investigate injustices, and Daoxuan agreed to consider the plan.
• Xuantian identified Zhang Xiaofan’s fire poker as Soul Eater and explained how Zhang Xiaofan had acquired and blood-refined it.

Zhang Xiaofan and the Dazhu Peak disciples excelled in the Seven Peaks Martial Arts Tournament, sending three disciples into the top eight. The next round’s draw matched Zhang Xiaofan against Chang Jian, while Song Daren conceded to Wen Min without fighting.

• Zhang Xiaofan defeated Liu Yun in the opening match after his blood strengthened the Fire Poker, and He Dazhi later won with his Landscape Brush as all nine Dazhu Peak disciples advanced from the first round.
• Zhang Xiaofan defeated Su Lin by outlasting him, and Dazhu Peak placed five disciples in the top sixteen despite four others being eliminated.
• Song Daren, Xiao Yao, and Zhang Xiaofan advanced to the top eight, while Tian Ling'er and He Dazhi were eliminated; Lu Xueqi defeated Tian Ling'er, and Xiao Yao overcame Peng Chang.
• The draw paired Song Daren with Wen Min, Lu Xueqi with Xiao Yao, Qi Hao with Zeng Shushu, and Zhang Xiaofan with Chang Jian.
• Song Daren immediately conceded his match to Wen Min, then left with her to watch the other fights, upsetting Tian Buyi.

The Seven Peaks Martial Arts Tournament narrowed to four finalists, and Zhang Xiaofan faced Lu Xueqi in the fifth round. Lu Xueqi’s Divine Sword Controlling Lightning True Formula spiraled out of control, leaving her struck by her own lightning as the leaders prepared to intervene.

• Xiao Yao lost to Lu Xueqi, Zeng Shushu lost to Qi Hao, and Zhang Xiaofan defeated Chang Jian after breaking through to the fifth level of the Yuqing Realm.
• The final four were Qi Hao, Lu Xueqi, Wen Min, and Zhang Xiaofan, and the next day Qi Hao faced Wen Min while Lu Xueqi faced Zhang Xiaofan.
• Lu Xueqi’s opening attack with the Tianya Divine Sword was blocked by Zhang Xiaofan and Soul Eater.
• Lu Xueqi invoked the Divine Sword Controlling Lightning True Formula and intensified the storm when Zhang Xiaofan resisted her lightning.
• Lu Xueqi lost control of the lightning, was struck by it, and staggered as Daoxuan, Master Shui Yue, and Tian Buyi prepared to save their disciples.

After the Seven Peaks Martial Arts Tournament, Qi Hao received the Six Harmony Mirror and led the Qingyun disciples toward Kongsang Mountain. Xuantian crossed into the Netherworld, refined Other Shore Flowers, and returned to find Zhang Xiaofan facing a joint hearing over his use of Heavenly Sound Temple’s Great Brahma Prajna.

• Daoxuan declared Qi Hao the tournament winner, awarded him the Six Harmony Mirror, and ordered the top sixteen disciples to investigate the Demonic Cult at Kongsang Mountain.
• After a month of training, Qi Hao led the group to Heyang City, where Zhang Xiaofan met Bi Yao and argued with her over a plucked flower.
• Xuantian encountered You Ji outside Shanhai Pavilion, then crossed Weak Water into the Ghost Realm and explored the Netherworld.
• Xuantian refined Other Shore Flowers into a pill, transformed his Primordial Spirit, and returned to Qingyun.
• Xuantian arrived at Tongtian Peak as the three sects questioned Zhang Xiaofan about using Great Brahma Prajna.

Xuantian turned back the Demonic Cult’s attack on Qingyun, killing Poison God and Yuyangzi before the invaders retreated. Ten years later, he had entered a realm beyond Taiqing and welcomed Zhou Yixian, Zhou Xiaohuan, and Beast God to Qingyun.

• Xuantian explained how Zhang Xiaofan could have learned Buddhist, Daoist, and demonic arts, then Daoxuan and the allied righteous factions joined forces to defend Qingyun from the Demonic Cult.
• Xuantian unleashed the Vast Righteous Emptiness Sword, killed Poison God and Yuyangzi, and drove the remaining demonic forces into retreat as Ghost King sacrificed himself to help his followers escape.
• After the war, Puhong revealed the truth about Great Brahma Prajna and Caomiao Village, leaving Zhang Xiaofan and Lin Jingyu devastated.
• Xuantian entered seclusion for ten years, while a new generation of Qingyun disciples reached the Shangqing level and he advanced beyond Taiqing into union with the Dao.
• Xuantian created Vast Righteous Cave and Dream God Cave, and Zhou Yixian entered Vast Righteous Cave while Xuantian greeted Beast God and Zhou Xiaohuan.

Xuantian ended the beast calamity, watched Xiao Yao ascend to another world, and continued his cultivation across centuries. In the new world, Xiao Yao discovered the newborn Baitian, whose birth stirred the continent and marked him as extraordinary.

• Zhou Yixian emerged from the Vast Righteous Cave, and Xuantian explained how Taiqing cultivators could unite their minds with heaven and earth.
• Fifty years later, Xuantian and Xu Weibear lived quietly in Caomiao Village while Qingyun's next generation rose to prominence.
• A vast beast tide attacked the Great Wall, and Xuantian contained the gathered baleful energy while Zhang Xiaofan wielded the Zhu Xian Sword to defend the cultivators.
• Xuantian transformed the malice's soul essence into the Sword of the Human World, ending the beast calamity and restoring clarity to the beasts.
• Centuries later, Xiao Yao ascended through a rift, and Xuantian secretly sent a protective mark with her into the new world.
• In Longevity Valley, a blood-red light accompanied Baitian's birth, and his grandfather decided the family had to flee after finding the words “Defeat” and “Heaven” written on the baby's palms.

Xuantian and Xu Weibear joined Tianyong City and spent decades adapting to its cultivation system as Xuantian became an elder of teachings. When Zi Yin brought the orphan Han Yunxi and the baleful Fenji Sword to the sect, Xuantian and the other elders joined forces to seal the sword and its corruption within the boy.

• After Zhang Xiaofan reached Dao Integration, Xuantian began teaching the Astral Resonance Art to Tianyong City's new outer disciples.
• Xuantian and Xu Weibear spent decades in Tianyong City, where Xuantian studied the Voidbright Illusory Sword and Ling Duan rose to prominence among the disciples.
• Zi Yin brought an unconscious Han Yunxi to the Sword Garret and explained that Wumeng Spirit Valley had been destroyed and that the Fenji Sword's baleful energy had afflicted the boy.
• Hansu, Zi Yin, Xuantian, Yun Xu, Liu Xu, and Xu Weibear agreed to save Han Yunxi by sealing the Fenji Sword and the sword spirit's baleful energy.
• Yun Xu, Liu Xu, and Xu Weibear sealed the Fenji Sword with the Four Extremes Sword Pillars while Zi Yin, Hansu, and Xuantian completed the Void-Spirit Illusory Sword Seal inside Han Yunxi.

Perfected Zi Yin kept Han Yunxi in Tianyong City as his disciple and renamed him Baili Tusu, while Xuantian advanced his cultivation in seclusion. Years later, Tianyong City began another recruitment trial, assigning new candidates to spend a night in Emerald Valley.

• Perfected Zi Yin learned that Han Yunxi could not be separated from the Fenji Sword and decided to keep him in Tianyong City as his disciple.
• Perfected Zi Yin named Han Yunxi Baili Tusu and welcomed him into his tutelage.
• Xuantian advanced from Void Refinement to Dao Integration during seclusion, and Xu Weibear reached early Dao Integration.
• Tianyong City recruited new disciples, and Ouyang Shaogong and Feng Qingxue stood out among those who passed the initial trials.
• Ling Duan announced that the candidates would face a demon-slaying trial in Emerald Valley, where they had to survive the night and leave by the hour of the Rabbit.

Ling Duan forced Baili Tusu to accept responsibility for protecting new disciples, while Ouyang Shaogong became close to Baili Tusu and gained Xuantian’s trust. After revealing Ouyang Shaogong’s past and his plan to revive Xunfang, the chapter ended with a masked intruder attempting to steal the Fenji Sword before Hongyu drove him away.

• Ling Duan confronted Baili Tusu in the Back Mountain and provoked him into agreeing to protect the new disciples during their trial in Emerald Valley.
• After the new disciples passed the trial, Xuantian taught them the Astral Resonance Art, and most, including Feng Qingxue and Ouyang Shaogong, became inner disciples three months later.
• Ling Duan assigned Ouyang Shaogong sweeping duties at the Sword Garret, where Baili Tusu began teaching him swordsmanship and Xuantian asked him to teach the qin.
• Feng Qingxue searched Tianyong City for Han Yunxi but doubted that the youth Zhaolin showed her was the person she sought.
• Ouyang Shaogong asked to leave the mountain for the anniversary of Xunfang’s death, and Xuantian allowed him and Baili Tusu to go fetch writing materials before midnight.
• A masked intruder entered the Sword Garret and tried to take the Fenji Sword, but Hongyu attacked him and forced him to flee.

Tianyong City repelled an attempt to steal the Fenji Sword, while Feng Qingxue and Granny Youdu investigated the sword and the masked intruder. After learning that Youdu was searching for Han Yunxi, Baili Tusu asked Xuantian to reveal his past, and Xuantian began explaining the seven baleful swords.

• Hongyu rang Tianyong City's alarm bell after a masked group infiltrated the Sword Garret, and Ling Yue rescued Baili Tusu and Ouyang Shaogong from their accomplices.
• Feng Qingxue sensed her missing brother nearby, but the masked intruder seized her and escaped before the disciples could stop him.
• Hansu told Ling Yue to strengthen Tianyong City's defenses after concluding that the intruder had come for Fenji, while Granny Youdu arrived and tried to inspect the sword.
• Ling Yue exposed Feng Qingxue's connection to Youdu, and Feng Qingxue told Granny Youdu that the masked sword thief might be her brother, Feng Guangmo.
• Baili Tusu overheard Feng Qingxue and Granny Youdu discussing Han Yunxi, then asked Xuantian and Ling Yue whether he was the child Youdu sought.
• Xuantian began telling Baili Tusu about the seven baleful swords and warned that Fenji could control its wielder and drive them to slaughter.

Innate revealed that Baili Tusu had once been Han Yunxi, then helped repel a masked man who stole Fenji from Sword Garret. A month later, the masked man lured Tusu into an illusory realm, where Fenji's baleful power took control of him; Zi Yin stopped him and said Tusu would have to refine the sword.

• Innate told Baili Tusu how Xiuning transferred Fenji's Sword Spirit into Han Yunxi and how Zi Yin brought the child to Tianyong City, where he was renamed Baili Tusu.
• Feng Qingxue asked Baili Tusu whether he was Han Yunxi, but he could not remember her and denied knowing that name.
• A masked man broke into Sword Garret and seized Fenji, but Innate wounded him and recovered the sword; the intruder escaped after revealing powerful celestial strength.
• More than a month later, Ling Yue pursued the masked man while Baili Tusu led a group to investigate a monster attacking Anlu Village.
• The masked man trapped Baili Tusu in an illusory realm and threatened Ouyang Shaogong, driving Tusu to take Fenji and battle a nine-headed serpent while under the sword's influence.
• Baili Tusu grievously injured Ling Yue before Zi Yin arrived and knocked him unconscious; Zi Yin then said Tusu had to refine Fenji because its awakened baleful energy could no longer be contained by the seal.

After returning to Tianyong City, Baili Tusu endured confinement, was released after three years, and fled the sect when suspicion and slander followed him again. Xuantian broke through to the True Immortal realm, recruited Prince Changqin to search for Yuheng, and continued his journey to Qinchuan, where he encountered Fang Lansheng.

• Zi Yin escorted Baili Tusu into the forbidden cave, while Feng Qingxue recognized him as Han Yunxi and vowed to find a way to save him.
• Feng Qingxue returned to Youdu, Ouyang Shaogong left Tianyong City to seek the art of resurrection, and Baili Tusu devoted himself to cultivation in confinement.
• Xuantian survived the Heavenly Tribulation, returned after three years, and helped Ling Yue and Fuqu persuade Han Su to release Baili Tusu.
• After Zhaolin died while in Baili Tusu's company, Baili Tusu fled Tianyong City to investigate the baleful energy within him and its connection to Fenji.
• Xuantian met Prince Changqin, offered him the Other Shore Flower and Meng Po Soup, and promised to grant his wish if he found Yuheng.
• In Qinchuan, Fang Lansheng crashed from his flying washboard after striking Xuantian's invisible barrier and watched Xuantian vanish with astonishment.

Xuantian helped Baili Tusu expose the flower thief, then reunited Ouyang Shaogong with Xunfang and set out to search for Yuheng fragments. After arriving in Jiangdu, Xuantian sent Baili Tusu to investigate a rampaging wolf demon at Iron Pillar Temple, and Feng Qingxue, Xiang Ling, and Fang Lansheng followed.

• Xuantian tracked the flower thief to the Sun Family's garden, where Baili Tusu helped capture him; the authorities then destroyed the Cloud-Turning Stronghold.
• Ouyang Shaogong returned to Qinchuan, and Xuantian took his Yuheng fragment before giving him an Other Shore Flower for Jitong.
• After Shaogong refined the flower, Jitong transformed into Xunfang and reunited with him.
• Xuantian and the others traveled to Jiangdu to search for Yuheng fragments, where Yin Qianshang's resemblance to Feng Guangmo troubled Feng Qingxue.
• Ling Yue summoned Xuantian to Iron Pillar Temple because a sealed wolf demon was going berserk, so Xuantian sent Baili Tusu to investigate.
• Feng Qingxue and Xiang Ling followed Baili Tusu, and Fang Lansheng joined them.

Xuantian and his companions pursued Yuheng and prepared to confront Lei Yan, while Baili Tusu gathered with them in Jiangdu as his Fenji baleful energy grew harder to suppress. The chapter ended as Xuantian tried to forge an immortal body for Tusu and an attacker burst through the window with a sword strike aimed at Xuantian.

• Jin Niang reunited with Ouyang Shaogong at Huaman Tower, but her attempt to divine Yuheng's location failed after she examined Xuantian's fragment.
• Jin Niang sent Hei Yao to report to Lei Yan, while Xuantian and Ouyang Shaogong revealed they had anticipated her allegiance and planned for Shaogong to return to the Azure Jade Altar.
• After Lei Yan abducted Fang Ruqin, Ouyang Shaogong went to the Azure Jade Altar, and Xuantian explained that Lei Yan should bear the blame for the massacre at Wumeng Spirit Valley so Shaogong and Xunfang could live freely.
• Baili Tusu and his companions defeated the vine demon at Vine Immortal Cave, where Tusu obtained a Yuheng fragment and absorbed Luo Yunping's inner core; meanwhile, Ling Yue discovered Ling Duan's crimes and led disciples to pursue him.
• Xuantian sent Ling Yue and Yin Qianshang to investigate the Azure Jade Altar, then began combining Baili Tusu's energies to forge an immortal body and suppress Fenji's baleful energy.
• As Baili Tusu endured the painful process, an unknown attacker broke through the window and thrust a sword at Xuantian.

Xuantian and his companions entered Zixian Manor, where Fang Lansheng became trapped in an illusion revealing the tragic history of Jin Lei, He Wenjun, and Ye Chenxiang. After reliving Jin Lei’s revenge and awakening to his past-life bond with He Wenjun, Fang Lansheng encountered Ye Chenxiang’s ghost, who insisted he was Jin Lei.

• Xuantian stopped Ling Duan’s assassination attempt, and Baili Tusu spared him after his cultivation was crippled.
• Xuantian, Baili Tusu, Hongyu, and Feng Qingxue traveled to Zixian Manor to confront the suspected Lei Yan, while Fang Lansheng followed them into the manor using the Azure Jade Compass Pendant.
• The group encountered an illusion showing Jin Lei’s love for He Wenjun, the slaughter of the Bishan Sect, and Jin Lei’s plan to avenge his master by destroying Zixian Manor.
• The Azure Jade Compass Pendant returned Fang Lansheng to his own form, but He Wenjun’s death and Jin Lei’s hatred consumed him until he relived Jin Lei’s revenge and the deaths of He Wenjun and Ye Chenxiang.
• Ye Chenxiang’s ghost attacked Fang Lansheng and accused him of being Jin Lei, while he insisted that he was Fang Lansheng.