Chapter Summaries

Adam accepted Sha Qianmo, Tanfan Shangxian, and Wugou Shangxian as Guest Elders of the Flower Wandering Sect, then returned to studying the Tai Shang Eighty-One Transformations. Sha Qianmo received Adam’s reply and grew eager to visit Mirage Tower again, while the Demonic Beasts feared their Demon Lord intended to join an Immortal sect.

• Adam wondered why Wugou Shangxian wanted to become a Guest Elder, since he already owned the wealthy Lotus City and had little need for Mirage Tower’s discounts.
• Adam sent replies to the three Shangxians and resumed comprehending the Tai Shang Eighty-One Transformations.
• Sha Qianmo received Adam’s letter outside Seven Killings Hall and became intrigued by Adam’s ability to send it through space.
• Sha Qianmo grew eager to return to Mirage Tower and test himself against Adam, while his Demonic Beasts panicked at the prospect of their Demon Lord joining the Flower Wandering Sect.
• Sha Qianmo silenced the Demonic Beasts as they begged him to reconsider.

Sha Qianmo listened as Shan Chunqiu invented a grand strategy to explain why he had become a Guest Elder of the Flower Wandering Sect. The Demonic Beasts believed the explanation and pledged to help him unify the Six Realms, while Sha Qianmo set off for the Mirage Tower with a subtle expression.

• Shan Chunqiu rebuked the Demonic Beasts and claimed Sha Qianmo had painstaking intentions behind his dealings with the Flower Wandering Sect.
• Shan Chunqiu condemned the Demonic Beasts for aiding the Flower Wandering Sect and argued that Sha Qianmo was using Li Hen's own methods against him.
• Shan Chunqiu claimed Li Hen had agreed to make Sha Qianmo a Guest Elder because he feared the Demon Lord more than the immortal and divine factions.
• Shan Chunqiu declared that Sha Qianmo had bound the Flower Wandering Sect to The Chariot to help unify the Six Realms, and the Demonic Beasts bowed and pledged their support.
• Sha Qianmo set off for the Mirage Tower as the Demonic Beasts cheered.

Adam introduced Sha Qianmo as a future Guest Elder of the Flower Wandering Sect, prompting Wugou Shangxian to challenge whether immortals and demons could coexist. The debate left Wugou confronting his own doubts about righteousness as he weighed the killing required to escape his Life-Death Tribulation.

• Sha Qianmo decided to conceal his identity until he obtained the fragrance formulas, but Adam introduced him to the gathered immortals as the Lord of the Demonic Beasts and a future Guest Elder.
• Wugou Shangxian questioned why Immortal Li Hen would recruit Sha Qianmo while he remained a demon, and Adam clarified that the sect was recruiting rather than taking him in.
• Adam argued that good and evil could not coexist, then asked whether immortals were necessarily good and demons necessarily evil.
• Sha Qianmo laughed at Wugou's confusion, and Wugou realized Adam might not consider himself good or Sha Qianmo evil.
• Wugou recalled discovering that he had a Life-Death Tribulation and that the records prescribed killing the other person to break it, leaving him uncertain about sacrificing an innocent person for his own future.

Adam dismissed the threat of consequences over the Flower Wandering Sect’s neutrality and appointed three Guest Elders to fill vacant roles temporarily. Wugou Shangxian agreed to keep the Life-Death Tribulation secret, and Adam began assigning the elders their duties.

• Adam reasoned that the Flower Wandering Sect could remain neutral or side with the demonic realms, so pressure from the immortal and divine realms would not bind it.
• Wugou Shangxian, Tanfan Shangxian, and Sha Qianmo each promised to keep the matter secret.
• Adam explained the Guest Elders’ temporary positions and responsibilities, which they would relinquish when suitable disciples were found.
• Tanfan Shangxian accepted the role of Clear Breeze Master, responsible for inspection, law enforcement, and intelligence.
• Adam assigned Wugou Shangxian the role of Jade Dust Master, overseeing disciple training and evaluations.

Adam assigned Sha Qianmo the Fragrant Bloom Master position and arranged for Shan Chunqiu to handle its administrative work. He then urged the Twenty-Four Flower Messengers to learn from the documents, while outlining the Mirage Tower’s overwhelming power and a contingency for war.

• Wugou Shangxian accepted the decision, and Sha Qianmo favored becoming Fragrant Bloom Master despite the role’s public duties.
• Adam told Immortal Ji Yue that the Twenty-Four Flower Messengers could manage public contact while Sha Qianmo completed the work behind the scenes.
• Shan Chunqiu interpreted Sha Qianmo’s official documents as valuable intelligence, summoned Kuang Yetian, Lan Yuhui, and the others, and eagerly took charge of the arrangements.
• Adam praised Shan Chunqiu’s work and distributed the documents among the Twenty-Four Flower Messengers, telling them to study his decisions.
• Adam explained that the Flower Wandering Sect’s Four Elders needed strength and that the Fragrant Bloom Master’s administrative role was closest to the Sect Leader’s.
• Adam described the Mirage Tower’s wartime power and revealed his contingency to eliminate non-cultivators of Flower Wandering before using the tower as a weapon.

Adam refused Sha Qianmo’s request to learn Flower Wandering, explaining that its Jade Flower visualization bound cultivators to the sect and enforced its precepts. Sha Qianmo was left with no path to make his own divine incense except to keep asking Immortal Li Hen.

• Adam copied Shan Chunqiu’s completed paperwork and intelligence records for the Bamboo Rhythm Division before the Twenty-Four Flower Messengers dispersed.
• Sha Qianmo, calling himself Celestial Fragrance Immortal, asked Adam to teach him Flower Wandering so he could develop his own divine incense.
• After trying to deduce the technique from summoned disciples and nearly injuring himself, Sha Qianmo realized he could not obtain their unique Jade Flower visualization.
• Sha Qianmo proposed joining the Flower Wandering Sect as an undercover agent in Seven Killings Hall, but Adam explained that cultivating the technique made him a disciple bound by its precepts.
• Adam warned Sha Qianmo that breaking a precept would be recorded and punished, and that the Mirage Tower would seize any fugitive disciple who resisted retrieval.

Sha Qianmo agreed to impose Flower Wandering Sect rules on Seven Killings so he could become a Guest Elder and cultivate Flower Wandering without abandoning his sect. Before teaching him, Adam agreed to fight him and led him beneath the Mirage Tower, where Sha Qianmo began to suspect the passage was impossibly long.

• Sha Qianmo proposed becoming a Guest Elder, and Adam warned that Seven Killings' actions could still implicate him in the Flower Wandering Sect's restrictions.
• Sha Qianmo said he would forbid Seven Killings from bullying the weak or attacking Flower Wandering Sect members, with violators expelled and left to the sect's disposal.
• Adam agreed to teach Sha Qianmo Flower Wandering, and Sha Qianmo challenged him to a serious battle before receiving the technique.
• Adam led Sha Qianmo by suspended elevator to a passage beneath the Mirage Tower and revealed that Sha Qianmo could now learn about what lay below it.
• Sha Qianmo walked into the dim corridor and wondered where it led after realizing its length seemed to extend far beyond the Mirage Tower's deck.

Sha Qianmo followed Adam into a vast sealed space and fought him, discovering the Flower Wandering Sect's unusual sound- and fragrance-based combat methods. The battle continued with Sha Qianmo eager to face Adam again and newly impressed by Flower Wandering's depth.

• Adam revealed that the passage behind Sha Qianmo had vanished, leaving them in an enormous space where they could fight unnoticed.
• Sha Qianmo attacked with the Crimson Night Sword, but Adam blocked it with the Wand of Darkness and struck him using an illusion that distorted his sense of distance.
• Adam explained that the close-range illusion came from a Flower Wandering Sect disciple's own technique, which caused only a tiny misjudgment to create an opening.
• Sha Qianmo switched to a long-range flame attack, but Adam's Fragrant Numbing Finger left him numb and made his flames part rather than hit Adam.
• Sha Qianmo remained excited to fight Adam again and recognized how many different techniques Flower Wandering could produce.

Adam and Sha Qianmo sparred while Adam used different musical pieces to shape the fight, and Adam made progress in his cultivation during the battle. Sha Qianmo ended the spar and asked Adam to teach him Flower Wandering instead.

• Adam played the Rainbow Skirt Song, but Sha Qianmo charged at Immortal Li Hen before he could finish.
• Adam layered the Emerald Sea Tide Song with other instruments, and Sha Qianmo broke through its sound before clashing with him.
• Adam shifted the music to Spring River Flower Moon Night, disrupting Sha Qianmo's sword and letting Immortal Li Hen attack.
• Adam played General's Order, and Sha Qianmo fought him until he protested that the spar was getting too rough.
• Adam stopped the music and said he had made a breakthrough, and Sha Qianmo ended the spar and asked him to teach Flower Wandering.

Adam investigated after Wugou Shangxian tried to kill Yun Ya, but Wugou admitted he had acted of his own will and gave no reason. Yun Ya was left hurt and confused, while Adam suspected she was Wugou’s Life-Death Tribulation.

• Sha Qianmo left after deciding his fighting style was incompatible with Adam’s, and Adam resumed cultivating Flower Wandering and the Tai Shang Eighty-One Transformations.
• A disciple told Adam that Wugou Shangxian had tried to kill Yun Ya, but Mirage Tower’s formation had stopped him.
• Adam arrived, dismissed the onlookers, and questioned Wugou Shangxian after loosening the formation’s suppression enough for him to speak.
• Wugou said he had no outside reason and had wanted to kill Yun Ya himself.
• Yun Ya asked why Wugou had attacked her, while Adam wondered whether she was Wugou’s Life-Death Tribulation.

Adam discovered that Yun Ya’s neglected cultivation had corrupted her Jade Flower and purified it, then investigated the Life-Death Tribulation binding her to Wugou Shangxian. He separated them to record their accounts and threatened to use an Innocence Pill, while the others began piecing together the tribulation’s deadly rules.

• Adam examined Yun Ya’s Jade Flower, found it had turned gray, and learned she had not practiced visualization since the Flower Wandering Sect’s founding ceremony.
• Adam purified Yun Ya’s Jade Flower and ordered her to enter seclusion after the matter was resolved, while scolding her for neglecting her cultivation.
• Adam separated Yun Ya and Wugou Shangxian and told them to write accounts of everything that had happened between them.
• Adam produced an Innocence Pill to pressure Yun Ya and Wugou Shangxian into telling the truth, prompting Wugou Shangxian to write furiously.
• Immortal Ji Yue and Tanfan Shangxian discussed records stating that Life-Death Tribulations ended in madness or demonic transformation unless one of the bound pair killed the other.
• Immortal Ji Yue reasoned that Wugou Shangxian’s attempt to kill Yun Ya could not save him, and noted that his writing had stalled as he struggled to continue.

Adam exposed Wugou Shangxian’s plan to die in order to break Yun Ya’s Life-Death Tribulation, then explained that the tribulation could be resolved if both people stopped fearing it and loved each other without fixating on its consequences. The chapter ended with Immortal Ji Yue realizing that the same misunderstanding and emotional turmoil might have threatened her as well.

• Wugou Shangxian and Yun Ya finished writing their accounts, and Adam noted that their story resembled Hua Qiangu’s.
• Tanfan Shangxian praised Wugou Shangxian’s plan to fake Yun Ya’s death and die under the Flower Wandering Sect’s judgment, but Immortal Ji Yue condemned him for endangering Mirage Tower’s reputation.
• Adam confronted Yun Ya with passages from her account that exposed her feelings for Wugou Shangxian, and she admitted she had been wrong to hide the truth.
• Immortal Ji Yue asked how Wugou Shangxian and Yun Ya could resolve their Life-Death Tribulation, and Adam said it was broken when both stopped agonizing over it and loved each other openly.
• Immortal Ji Yue’s smile froze when Adam warned that the tribulation’s misunderstandings could shatter someone’s Dao heart and drive them to become a demon.

Adam resolved the Life-Death Tribulation between Wugou Shangxian and Yun Ya by telling them to acknowledge their love, then imposed punishments for the incident. He sent Yun Ya into seclusion and ordered Wugou Shangxian to copy changing portraits of her daily before returning to his own seclusion.

• Adam explained that the Life-Death Tribulation would end if Wugou Shangxian and Yun Ya cast aside their reservations and loved each other.
• Wugou Shangxian offered to take responsibility for drawing his sword, but Adam told him to claim they had been rehearsing a performance and accidentally triggered the restriction.
• Adam ordered Yun Ya to cultivate in seclusion until she reached the Supreme Perfected realm.
• Adam gave Wugou Shangxian a scroll that changed daily to show a portrait of Yun Ya and ordered him to copy it once each day until she left seclusion.
• Adam dismissed everyone and said he would return to seclusion, asking them not to seek him unless the Flower Wandering Sect or the Six Realms faced a threat.

After leaving seclusion, Adam learned that Shan Chunqiu had grown powerful, gathered Wild Exotic Breeds, and seized nine divine artifacts. Adam steered the Mirage Tower toward the battle, where the Flower Wandering Sect and its allies were fighting Shan Chunqiu's forces.

• Tanfan Shangxian brought Adam out of seclusion and took him to the Mirage Tower in the South Sea, where Adam met Ru Zun Sheng Xiaomo.
• Sheng Xiaomo explained that Shan Chunqiu had discovered Sha Qianmo never meant to betray him, then returned with greatly increased strength and the ability to command Wild Exotic Breeds.
• Shan Chunqiu seized Gui Yan and led exotic beasts in attacks on the major sects, taking nine of the ten divine artifacts.
• Adam learned the Bu Yuan Cauldron was secretly being carried by Immortal Ji Yue and spotted the battle several million li away.
• Adam accelerated the Mirage Tower toward the battlefield, prompting Tanfan Shangxian to warn Immortal Ji Yue that the ship was charging at them.

The Mirage Tower charged through the battlefield, crushing the demons, ghosts, and monsters while transporting the Immortal and divine forces and their allies safely onto its deck. Adam then realized Shan Chunqiu and many others were missing, leaving their whereabouts unknown.

• Immortal Li Hen told everyone not to panic as the Mirage Tower barreled toward the battlefield, but nearly everyone fled.
• A giant turtle charged the Mirage Tower and was crushed beneath it, while Adam examined a small turtle he had captured.
• Perfected Being Yuyang expected to die but was transported onto the Mirage Tower's deck, where he learned it could distinguish friend from foe.
• The Mirage Tower gathered the Immortal and divine forces and some Demonic Beasts aligned with the Flower Wandering Sect, while crushing the other enemies.
• The Mirage Tower plunged into the sea and stopped; Adam noted that Shan Chunqiu and many expected people were missing.

Adam learned that Shan Chunqiu had gained immense power by swallowing Hua Qiangu and was fighting Bai Zihua, Sha Qianmo, and Wugou beyond the heavens. He sent Mirage Tower surging into the sky to join the battle, leaving the giant bird in its path.

• Yun Ya warned Adam that Shan Chunqiu had obtained nine divine artifacts and was fighting beyond the heavens.
• Kuang Yetian revealed that Shan Chunqiu had swallowed a little girl whose birth had drawn demons, and that the act had made him stronger.
• Adam realized that the girl was Hua Qiangu and ordered the group to take Shan Chunqiu down.
• Immortal Li Hen raised and launched Mirage Tower toward the fight while Adam told Immortal Ji Yue and Tanfan Shangxian to resume normal operations.
• Adam eyed the giant bird and said it could be cooked with the earlier turtle into Longevity Soup.

As Shan Chunqiu and a giant bird battled Sha Qianmo, Bai Zihua, and Wugou Shangxian above the Ninth Heaven, Adam arrived aboard the Mirage Tower and confronted Shan Chunqiu. Adam began testing a new technique with the Myriad Transformations Immortal Melody, leaving Shan Chunqiu preparing to strike at him.

• The Mirage Tower rose through the storms above the Ninth Heaven, restoring the distorted space around it with its rosy light.
• Shan Chunqiu charged toward the Mirage Tower while the giant bird held off Sha Qianmo, Bai Zihua, and Wugou Shangxian.
• Adam casually struck Shan Chunqiu despite his Di Xian Umbrella and judged that his remarkable vitality had let him withstand earlier opponents.
• Shan Chunqiu slashed at the Mirage Tower, and Adam summoned an ancient zither to test his cultivation.
• Adam played the Myriad Transformations Immortal Melody, making the Great Dao's fluctuations visible and leaving Bai Zihua shaken as Shan Chunqiu gathered power for another attack.

Adam defeated Shan Chunqiu with his Myriad Transformations Immortal Melody and revealed the greater divine ability behind it. After the battle, the group reunited at Mirage Tower, where Adam planned to examine his gains, including a reincarnated shard of the Flame Water Jade.

• Adam used his Myriad Transformations Immortal Melody to dissolve Shan Chunqiu, his giant bird, the Di Xian Umbrella, and the Sword of Compassion into showers of light.
• Adam stopped playing, allowing the three onlookers to approach Mirage Tower after they had stayed back in fear of his music.
• Yun Ya rushed into Wugou Shangxian's arms, then checked his injuries while he obediently followed her instructions.
• Adam told Bai Zihua that Shan Chunqiu had been too easy to defeat and said he had not even gotten warmed up.
• Adam invited everyone to the feast prepared at Mirage Tower and prepared to sort through his gains, including a reincarnated shard of the Flame Water Jade.

Adam gathered the Ten Sacred Artifacts and prepared to leave the Flower Wandering Sect and the Six Realms to continue his studies. He entrusted the sect to its elders and successors, then left Nan Xian Yue with guidance and a hidden lesson for the future.

• Adam brought Nan Xian Yue into the Flower Wandering Sect as a disciple and praised his potential before the four elders.
• Adam announced that he was leaving and appointed Immortal Ji Yue to oversee the sect, with Ji Yue and Celestial Fragrance alternating as Sect Leader until Yun Ya could succeed.
• Adam warned that Nan Xian Yue might reach Shangxian before Yun Ya, and Nan Xian Yue unexpectedly broke through from Breaking Illusion to Knowing the Subtle.
• Adam touched Nan Xian Yue's brow and left something in his mind, telling him to keep cultivating and hinting they might meet again.
• Adam said farewell to the elders and departed.

Adam returned to Tushita Palace hoping to find Lord Lao and learn which Journey to the West world he had entered. After inspecting a gourd full of golden elixirs and forming a Golden Core, he was startled by Lord Lao’s sudden explanation that it was not the Golden Core he thought it was.

• Adam entered Tushita Palace after assuming Lord Lao had left the gates open for him.
• Adam examined the palace’s many treasures and put a large red gourd into his pocket space, nearly tearing it apart.
• Adam opened the gourd and discovered countless golden elixirs whose Dao resonance revealed their true form to him.
• Adam unconsciously absorbed the resonance and formed a Golden Core, then wondered how he could have done so just by looking at the pills.
• Lord Lao appeared behind Adam and told him that his Golden Core was not that Golden Core.