Chapter Summaries

Xiao Mo traveled to Anxiang City to meet Shang Jiuli and learn about Xiao Qing’s campaign against the sects that had once attacked the North Sea. Shang Jiuli warned that Xiao Qing might be bait intended to lure Miss Bai out, and Xiao Mo set out to find her.

• Xiao Mo arrived at Anxiang City and asked to see Shang Jiuli.
• Shang Jiuli recognized Xiao Mo’s name, left her work, and led him to a wine stall to talk privately.
• Shang Jiuli told Xiao Mo that Xiao Qing had taken two cities while protecting civilians, then destroyed the Red Lotus Sect, the Yellow Sand Sect, and the Water-Lin Sect.
• Shang Jiuli explained that Xiao Qing had begun fighting the Black Mountain Sect and that the Tianlan Sect’s ancestor was heading there to kill her.
• Shang Jiuli suspected someone was using Xiao Qing as bait to lure Miss Bai out, and Xiao Mo asked where Xiao Qing was so he could go to her.

Xiao Qing led the North Sea demons in a final assault on Black Mountain Sect, while Daoist Tianqiong revealed he had engineered the conflict to capture Bai Ruxue and extend his life. The sect’s protective array shattered, and Daoist Tianqiong set out to lure Bai Ruxue to Black Mountain Sect by threatening her little sister.

• Xiao Qing and her generals prepared to destroy Black Mountain Sect before reinforcements arrived, driven by revenge for the North Sea demons who had been slaughtered.
• Xiao Qing led hundreds of thousands of demons against Black Mountain Sect, and their assault shattered its Mountain Protecting Array.
• Daoist Tianqiong told Tong Chen that he had badly injured Red Lotus Sect’s Sect Master and others so the North Sea demons would attack them, giving Tianlan Sect a chance to seize their lands and treasures.
• Daoist Tianqiong revealed that he wanted Bai Ruxue’s dragon blood, heart, and core to extend his life by five hundred years.
• Daoist Tianqiong explained that Bai Ruxue could sense her little sister’s danger and believed she would come to Black Mountain Sect.

Xiao Qing and the North Sea demons defeated Sun Han and the Black Mountain Sect, but Daoist Tianqiong arrived with Tianlan Sect reinforcements and trapped them in a vast birdcage. In the Barren Land, Bai Ruxue woke from her drugged sleep, sensed Xiao Qing was in danger, and flew off to help her.

• Xiao Qing defeated Sun Han with her dragon breath, destroying his body and soul as the Black Mountain Sect cultivators fled.
• Daoist Tianqiong struck Xia Wu down with thunder and arrived with Tianlan Sect reinforcements, forcing Xiao Qing and the other dragons to retreat.
• Daoist Tianqiong expanded a birdcage over the Black Mountain Sect and threatened to kill the North Sea demons trapped inside.
• Bai Ruxue woke and asked Li Sisi about Xiao Qing and Xiao Mo, then realized Xiao Qing was in danger.
• Bai Ruxue transformed into a dragon and flew away despite Li Sisi's warnings that she was badly injured.

Xiao Qing fought Daoist Tianqiong at Black Mountain Sect and realized he was prolonging the battle to lure her sister into a trap. After he captured her, her sister arrived as a colossal white dragon and clashed with his Manifestation of Law.

• Xiao Qing attacked Daoist Tianqiong, who wounded her but kept fighting without delivering a killing blow.
• Xiao Qing realized Daoist Tianqiong was waiting for her sister and launched a desperate attack with her Manifestation of Law.
• Daoist Tianqiong's Manifestation of Law overwhelmed Xiao Qing, and he trapped her in a rune-covered net as she tried to end her own life.
• Daoist Tianqiong threatened Xiao Qing with his sword to force her sister to appear.
• Xiao Qing's sister arrived at Black Mountain Sect as a colossal white dragon and struck Daoist Tianqiong's sword with her claw.

Bai Ruxue rescued Xiao Qing and fought Daoist Tianqiong, but the Exquisite Pagoda trapped her as she tried to escape. Just as the pagoda was about to swallow her, a blue-robed scholar appeared and retrieved the Immortal Slayer Sword.

• Bai Ruxue shattered the cage holding Xiao Qing and ordered the North Sea Demon Race to flee, while Tianlan Sect and Black Mountain Sect surrounded the flood dragons.
• Bai Ruxue fought Daoist Tianqiong and managed to crack his Manifestation of Law before fleeing with Xiao Qing.
• Daoist Tianqiong summoned the Exquisite Pagoda, which slowed Bai Ruxue and bound her with rune chains as Xiao Qing rushed to help.
• Bai Ruxue used the Immortal Slayer Sword to strike the pagoda, but the clash sent the sword flying into a distant mountain.
• A blue-robed scholar appeared atop the split mountain, pulled the Immortal Slayer Sword free, and continued on his way.

Xiao Mo arrived in time to save Bai Ruxue from Daoist Tianqiong and accused the cultivator of plotting against the North Sea dragons for personal gain. As Xiao Mo and Bai Ruxue fought their way toward escape, he spent all his Human Race Merit to cleanse her Killing Intent, but Daoist Tianqiong noted that her damaged foundation still left her vulnerable.

• Xiao Mo stopped Daoist Tianqiong's Exquisite Pagoda, rescued Bai Ruxue, and explained that Xiao Qing had been used as bait to lure her out.
• Xiao Mo accused Daoist Tianqiong of manipulating the sects and North Sea dragons to seize their treasures, then fought him alongside Bai Ruxue.
• Xiao Mo broke the cage around Black Mountain Sect and opened escape routes so Xiao Qing and the other dragons could flee.
• Daoist Tianqiong intercepted Xiao Mo and Bai Ruxue, but Xiao Mo pierced him with an arrow from the Sun Shooting Bow while slowing time with a Confucian classic.
• As Daoist Tianqiong brought down a blazing sun, Xiao Mo transferred all his Human Race Merit to Bai Ruxue and cleansed her Killing Intent.
• Daoist Tianqiong revealed that Bai Ruxue's damaged foundation would still require half a year to recover.

Xiao Mo helped Bai Ruxue break free of Daoist Tianqiong so she could undergo her Ascension Realm tribulation, while he fought to keep her safe. As her tribulation began, Dragon Clan fortune drew powerful cultivators toward the site, and the battle at the border of the Yao Race World continued.

• Xiao Mo urged Bai Ruxue to attempt her tribulation, then shattered Daoist Tianqiong's illusory sun with the three Ink Dragons.
• Bai Ruxue transformed and flew skyward, but Daoist Tianqiong tried to stop her; Xiao Mo used his verses and Dharma Body to free her and block him.
• Xiao Mo and Daoist Tianqiong clashed with their swords as Bai Ruxue's first bolt of tribulation lightning struck.
• At the Yao Race World border, Kong Sheng and Old Cripple sensed Dragon Clan fortune gathering and resumed their battle.
• The Little White Fox watched from a concealed Formation, while Upper Three Realms cultivators raced toward the place where Bai Ruxue was undergoing her tribulation.

Bai Ruxue endured the first eight bolts of her tribulation, then faced the ninth bolt’s ancient sage manifestations as Xiao Mo fought Daoist Tianqiong. With Bai Ruxue on the verge of death, Xiao Mo offered his Sage’s heart to protect her through the tribulation.

• Bai Ruxue survived the first eight lightning bolts despite her grievous injuries, drawing strength from the sight of Xiao Mo battling Daoist Tianqiong.
• The ninth bolt summoned manifestations of ancient Human Race sages, who bound Bai Ruxue and attacked her as cultivators gathered to witness the tribulation.
• Xiao Mo rushed to Bai Ruxue and blocked a Sword Immortal manifestation’s strike with the Immortal Slayer Sword.
• Xiao Mo burned through his blood essence, drew an ink-colored heart from his chest, and declared that he would protect Bai Ruxue through her tribulation with the heart of a Sage.

Xiao Mo helped Bai Ruxue break the seal on dragon fortune, and she survived her tribulation and became a true dragon. As Xiao Mo lay dying, he revealed that he had known about her past and asked her never to look for him again.

• Xiao Mo used the heart of a sage to free Bai Ruxue and shatter the ten-thousand-year seal on dragon fortune.
• The Dragon Slaying Sword attacked Xiao Mo, but Bai Ruxue's dragon form shielded him from its strike.
• Bai Ruxue completed her transformation into a true dragon, and the dragon race's fortune was released.
• Bai Ruxue caught the falling Xiao Mo and held him as he comforted her and praised her new form.
• Xiao Mo told Bai Ruxue that he knew about the scale she had given him and asked her to live well and never come looking for him again.

Xiao Mo was erased by tribulation lightning as Bai Ruxue held him, and his death sent ripples of grief and alarm across Myriad Laws Under Heaven. He Yeye returned from conquering Mangyue Kingdom, while Shang Qi arrived at Bai Mo Peak to find a phantom dragon overhead and Ink Lake flooding the land.

• Xiao Mo told Bai Ruxue to keep walking forward, then dissolved into spiritual energy when tribulation lightning struck him.
• Shang Jiuli, Luo Yang, the divine being in the highest celestial domain, and Xu Yuerou each sensed Xiao Mo's death.
• He Yeye killed Mangyue Kingdom's ruler, ordered the city breached, and entrusted Xi Jun with the army before using her necklace to return to Myriad Laws Under Heaven.
• Shang Qi went to Bai Mo Peak and saw an illusory dragon above the summit as Ink Lake overflowed across the mountain forests.

Bai Ruxue fought the cultivators after Xiao Mo’s death, killed Daoist Tianqiong, and collapsed from her injuries. Feng Qianqiu moved to kill her, but He Yeye intervened and declared that Bai Ruxue was under her protection.

• Feng Qianqiu ordered the cultivators to kill Bai Ruxue, and she transformed into a white dragon and attacked them.
• Bai Ruxue broke Feng Qianqiu’s formations and Daoist Tianqiong’s Exquisite Pagoda, then trapped Daoist Tianqiong with the summoned souls of ancient dragons.
• Feng Qianqiu’s Peach wood sword pierced Bai Ruxue, but she unleashed her full strength and annihilated Daoist Tianqiong.
• Bai Ruxue returned to human form and collapsed beside the place where Xiao Mo had died, still holding his silver-white scale.
• Feng Qianqiu’s sword strike toward Bai Ruxue was stopped by He Yeye, who appeared and declared that Bai Ruxue was under her protection.

He Yeye protected Bai Ruxue and told her that Xiao Mo had asked her to save Bai Ruxue before he died. In Heaven, a divine being gathered Xiao Mo’s scattered soul and sent it toward reincarnation, vowing to kill him when Heaven and Earth reunited.

• He Yeye drove off Feng Qianqiu and the other cultivators, then explained that she had saved Bai Ruxue to fulfill Xiao Mo’s request.
• Bai Ruxue said she had no reason to live without Xiao Mo, and He Yeye urged her to keep living for his sake.
• A divine being gathered Xiao Mo’s scattered soul fragments from a river in Heaven and sent his soul toward reincarnation.
• The divine being marked Xiao Mo’s soul so it could sense his whereabouts and vowed to kill him when it awoke after Heaven and Earth reunited.

Xiao Mo entered the River of Time and witnessed Bai Ruxue lead the Four Seas’ demons in destroying the Tianlan Sect. After explaining why she would not wage war on all of Myriad Laws Under Heaven, Bai Ruxue declared that any human cultivator who crossed into the Four Seas would die.

• Xiao Mo entered the Book of a Hundred Lives to see what happened after his death in Bai Ruxue’s life.
• Xiao Mo arrived at Tianlan Sect and found its grounds under attack by sea demons, including Xiao Qing.
• Bai Ruxue killed the Tianlan Sect’s sect master and told Kong Sheng that the sect was paying for its past attack on the North Sea.
• Bai Ruxue explained that she spared Myriad Laws Under Heaven because of its innocent people and the danger of wider conflict, then ordered her army back to the North Sea.
• Bai Ruxue declared that any human cultivator who crossed into the Four Seas would die.

After Bai Ruxue conquered the Four Seas and destroyed Tianlan Sect, Kong Sheng learned that Xiao Mo would be erased from history while his teachings would become a Confucian classic. Thirteen years after Xiao Mo’s death, Bai Ruxue entrusted the Four Seas to Xiao Qing and left to search for his scattered soul.

• Qi Daoming told Kong Sheng that the Human Alliance had decided to erase Xiao Mo from the history books but make Zhi Xing He Quan a Confucian classic without naming its creator.
• Kong Sheng said Bai Ruxue no longer cared what humanity thought of Xiao Mo or the world.
• Bai Ruxue returned to the North Sea, conquered the other seas, and became Lord of the Four Seas.
• Bai Ruxue ordered the Four Seas to search for a way to reassemble Xiao Mo’s Remnant soul while she strengthened her forces.
• Bai Ruxue handed the Four Seas to Xiao Qing and left to search for Xiao Mo, saying her whole life belonged to him.

Luo Yang left Baixi City to travel to the Yao Race World, while Bai Ruxue enlisted Shang Jiuli to paint the places Xiao Mo had visited in hopes of gathering his scattered soul. After a year, Bai Ruxue continued her search, and Shang Jiuli realized she remained trapped in memories of the past.

• Luo Yang reunited with Shang Jiuli and told her he was traveling to the Yao Race World to seek Xiaoyue and see Demon Suppressing City and the savage lands.
• Bai Ruxue asked Shang Jiuli to paint a long scroll of places Xiao Mo had visited, and they spent a year retracing his path.
• Shang Jiuli completed the five-li-long painting depicting Xiao Mo's two lifetimes and gave it to Bai Ruxue.
• Shang Jiuli warned Bai Ruxue that her search might be futile, but Bai Ruxue said she would not move on if that meant giving up on finding Xiao Mo.
• After Bai Ruxue left, Shang Jiuli sat alone in Xiao Mo's courtyard and admitted that she was the one still trapped in the past.

Four hundred years after Xiao Mo's death, Bai Ruxue found the Return to Origin Technique and went to the Netherworld Cold Spring to summon his soul. The scroll shattered, suggesting Xiao Mo had entered reincarnation, and Fuchen revealed that an ancient god of reincarnation might have intervened.

• Bai Ruxue found the Return to Origin Technique in a forbidden land and spent three years mastering it.
• Fuchen led Bai Ruxue to the Netherworld Cold Spring, where she waited for an Earth Nether Fish using a wisp of her divided soul as bait.
• As Xiao Mo's time in the River of Time ended, he touched Bai Ruxue's hair, and she suddenly sensed his presence.
• Bai Ruxue caught an Earth Nether Fish and cast Shang Jiuli's scroll toward it, but the scroll shattered and the fish escaped.
• Fuchen explained that a shattered summoning medium meant Xiao Mo's soul might have entered reincarnation and revealed the forbidden land was called the God Tomb.
• Fuchen said an ancient god who controlled reincarnation and life and death might have noticed Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo received rewards for completing Bai Ruxue’s second life and resumed practicing swordsmanship while the Book of a Hundred Lives prepared his fourth life. Jiang Qingyi watched him train at the Dao Seeking Altar and confronted him about who taught him his swordsmanship.

• The Book of a Hundred Lives awarded Xiao Mo the Heart of a Sage, a Merit Pill, and a Demon-Subduing Daoist Charm, then began preparing his fourth life.
• Xiao Mo inspected the Heart of a Sage within himself, swallowed the two pills, and practiced the Grass Character Sword Art.
• After four days in the Imperial Preceptor’s Residence, Jiang Qingyi went to the Dao Seeking Altar to see what path Xiao Mo was cultivating.
• Jiang Qingyi secretly watched Xiao Mo practice and recognized something familiar in his sword technique.
• Xiao Mo cut a wooden post in two with Sword Qi, and Jiang Qingyi appeared before him and demanded to know who taught him.

Jiang Qingyi taught Xiao Mo how to refine his sword technique and agreed to keep his practice at the Dao Seeking Altar secret. Before they parted, she asked him to call her “Master.”

• Xiao Mo told Jiang Qingyi a fabricated story about how he found the sword technique, and she questioned him about it.
• Jiang Qingyi copied Xiao Mo’s sword moves, improved their transitions, and guided him as he practiced.
• Xiao Mo asked Jiang Qingyi to keep his sword practice from the ministers, and she agreed that court affairs were not her concern.
• Jiang Qingyi asked to see Xiao Mo’s sword manual and offered to exchange one of the same grade and teach him when she had time.
• Jiang Qingyi suggested that teaching Xiao Mo made them master and disciple, then told him to call her “Master.”

Xiao Mo practiced swordsmanship, copied the Grass Character Sword Art, and left the palace in disguise to visit Jade Spring Lake. Yan Ruxue also agreed to visit the flowers there, setting the two on course to meet.

• Jiang Qingyi asked Xiao Mo to call her Master, then blushed and hurried away after he did.
• Xiao Mo bathed, copied the Grass Character Sword Art from memory, and learned it was the fourteenth day of June and the beginning of autumn.
• Xiao Mo ordered Wei Xun to prepare plain clothes and a carriage so he could leave the palace for a walk.
• Xiao Mo heard that Autumn Arrives flowers were blooming at Jade Spring Lake and decided to go see them.
• Xiao Chun told Yan Ruxue the flowers had bloomed, and Yan Ruxue agreed to visit Jade Spring Lake before entering the palace.

Xiao Mo met Yan Ruxue again at Jade Spring Lake after helping her retrieve a kite, and the two shared tea and talked about books and poetry. As they grew more comfortable with each other, Yan Ruxue recited the lines, “Take your hand in mine, and grow old together.”

• Xiao Mo arrived at Jade Spring Lake with Wei Xun and two guards, then spotted Yan Ruxue and Xiao Chun whose kite had become stuck in a tree.
• Xiao Mo had a guard retrieve the kite and returned it to Yan Ruxue, who invited him to share tea.
• Yan Ruxue brewed tea for Xiao Mo, and they discussed reading, manners, and poetry.
• Yan Ruxue told Xiao Mo that she liked two lines from “Guan Ju” and then recited, “Take your hand in mine, and grow old together.”