Chapter Summaries

Xiang Yuan killed the experts guarding the City Lord's Manor and discovered that three Spirit Transformation-stage powerhouses were inside. In the manor, Ana Heiyan awakened Xu Jixian's ancient god bloodline and planned to bear his child, but Bai Shumo, Elder Shui, and Elder Jin arrived, leaving Xiang Yuan to wonder whether the Xu Family would gain an heir.

• Xiang Yuan defeated and killed the experts guarding the City Lord's Manor, then secretly entered the manor after sensing two Spirit Transformation-stage arrivals.
• Ana Heiyan used a blood formation and eight maids to awaken Xu Jixian's ancient god bloodline, intending to conceive a child with him.
• Bai Shumo and Elder Shui arrived and learned that Ana Heiyan was trying to produce a descendant of the ancient god clan.
• Ana Heiyan brought in Elder Jin, and the two sides faced off after Bai Shumo refused to let her leave for ten months.
• Xiang Yuan watched from hiding and wondered what Bai Shumo meant by saying Ana Heiyan could leave after ten months.

Xiang Yuan searched for a way into the blood formation while Lingxiu defeated and killed Ling'en, then entered Cloud Battle City and joined the conflict at the City Lord's Manor. The chapter left Xiang Yuan exposed to Ana Heiyan and Elder Shui after Bai Shumo killed Elder Jin and Ana Heiyan trapped him with a demonic illusion.

• Xiang Yuan inferred that Xu Jixian had an extraordinary bloodline, tried to dig into the formation to rescue him, and instead tunneled beneath it to sabotage the manor.
• Lingxiu defeated Ling'en in their battle, rejected his plea for mercy, and destroyed his body and Primordial Spirit.
• Lingxiu dispelled the blood curtain over Cloud Battle City, sent the red-eyed Xiao He away, and cautiously entered the city despite its poisonous miasma.
• Elder Jin's poison and Soul-Capturing Bell pressured Bai Shumo and Elder Shui until Bai Shumo killed him with a single sword strike.
• Ana Heiyan trapped Bai Shumo with silver ornaments and attacked his mind with the Demon King Hall's Heavenly Demon Desire Chaos art.
• Xiang Yuan emerged atop Elder Jin's rampaging centipede, startling Ana Heiyan and Elder Shui as they realized another expert was present.

Ana Heiyan trapped Xiang Yuan and Elder Shui in an illusion, where Elder Shui succumbed to memories of his deceased junior sister and was killed. Xiang Yuan broke through the illusion by transforming into a demon and attacked Ana Heiyan, while Lingxiu wondered about Xiang Yuan’s mysterious karmic connection.

• Ana Heiyan recognized Xiang Yuan, then used her fragrant illusion to ensnare him and Elder Shui.
• Elder Shui embraced the illusion of his deceased junior sister, and Ana Heiyan pierced his brow before the sacrificial formation drained his body and his Primordial Spirit dispersed.
• Xiang Yuan resisted the illusion’s seductive visions with Chan’er’s photo album, then awakened his demonic power and revealed the Self-Transforming Heavenly Demon Grand Method.
• Xiang Yuan crushed and swallowed a Heavenly Devil Relic, transformed further, and attacked Ana Heiyan with the Storm Mist Blade and his tail-wielded blade.
• Ana Heiyan used her hair ornament to halt Xiang Yuan’s charge, while Bai Shumo prepared to strike and Lingxiu questioned Xiang Yuan’s connection to the little monk.

Xiang Yuan defeated Ana Heiyan and fell into the exposed blood pool while trying to save Xu Jixian. Xu Jixian survived, Xiao He rushed back toward Cloud Battle City, and Lingxiu remained at the abyss to chant over the resentful spirits.

• Xiang Yuan replenished his Primordial Spirit with blood vitality and overwhelmed Ana Heiyan, while Bai Shumo struck once and then fled after Lingxiu appeared.
• Xiang Yuan used the Division of Black and White, the Two Gods of Good and Evil, to kill Ana Heiyan and expose the blood pool beneath the City Lord's Manor.
• The collapsing manor sent Xu Jixian into the abyss, but Doubi used Xiang Yuan's tail to fling him out before Xiang Yuan fell into the pool and began absorbing its power.
• Lingxiu mistook Xiang Yuan's fall for his death and started chanting at the abyss, while Xu Jixian landed near Xiao He in a distant forest.
• Xiao He learned that Ana Heiyan was dead and that Xu Jixian had awakened his Ancient God Clan bloodline, then hurried toward Cloud Battle City with him.
• Xiao He found Lingxiu at the City Lord's Manor and divined that the monk intended to steal his destined person, Xiang Yuan.

After the group escaped Cloud Battle City, Xiang Yuan reunited with Chan'er and then met Lingxiu, who revealed that he was a fellow transmigrator and gave Xiang Yuan a Buddhist scripture. The chapter ended with the Bodhi One Leaf Sutra entering Xiang Yuan's mind.

• Xiang Yuan emerged from the blood pool, and Xiao He explained that mosquitoes had helped expose their plans and that Ana Heiyan's death had forced them to abandon Fengxian County.
• Five days later, a veiled woman arrived in Cloud Battle City, blamed Bai Shumo for ruining her plans, and decided to investigate Xu Jixian in Western Chu.
• At Xu Jixian's funeral feast, Xiao He told Xiang Yuan that Yulin Academy would close and that the group would separate, while Xu Jixian was sent to the capital for study.
• Xiang Yuan visited Chan'er in Mute Village, made up with her, and asked to move in, but she rejected the idea and threw him out.
• On the road, Xiang Yuan met Lingxiu, learned that the monk was Liu Xiu from Northern Qi and a disciple of Abbot Huixing, and received the Bodhi One Leaf Sutra from him.

Xiang Yuan discovered that Lingxiu had forced the Bodhi One Leaf Sutra and its cultivation into him, while changes across the Three Realms revealed that the Heavenly Court was preparing a Journey to the West. He passed the Buddhist insight on to Lay Practitioner Bai Yue, then went to check on Ji Muqing in seclusion.

• Lingxiu transmitted the Bodhi One Leaf Sutra and his cultivation to Xiang Yuan, whose Formless Seal Method clashed with the Buddhist art, and left believing he had passed on his former life's inheritance.
• Xiang Yuan received a promotion to Northern True Warrior and learned that the Heavenly Court had altered history, introducing Journey to the West locations and the Six Great Sages into the mortal world.
• Xiang Yuan found that Baize's memories had changed with the world, while he and Lay Practitioner Bai Yue still remembered that the new mountains, rivers, and demons had not existed before.
• Xiang Yuan passed Lay Practitioner Bai Yue the insight to cultivate herself and awaken her enlightened heart, prompting her to gain a new Buddhist realization and enter seclusion to cultivate.
• After three days, Xiang Yuan left the Purple Bamboo Grove and headed for Ji Muqing's quiet chamber to check whether her memories had changed.

After digesting his Southern Border gains, Xiang Yuan found Chan'er missing and summoned Xiao Lingyue, whose worry over Chan'er grew when she learned Xiang Yuan had told her about their betrothal. Xiao Lingyue left demanding that he bring Chan'er back, while Xiang Yuan headed into the Southern Border mountains and drew the attention of two armed pursuers.

• Xiang Yuan finished digesting his Southern Border insights and went to the Upper Zhou Ruins, where he discovered Chan'er was gone and could not reach her by jade tablet.
• After persistent calls, Xiang Yuan brought Xiao Lingyue to his courtyard, where they shared medicine, embraced, and kissed before arguing over his teasing and their engagement.
• Xiang Yuan told Xiao Lingyue that Xiao He had left Fengxian County to travel, and she worried that her brother would be vulnerable on his own.
• Xiang Yuan revealed that Chan'er was also missing and unreachable, prompting Xiao Lingyue to imagine that Chan'er had left because she learned of the engagement.
• Xiao Lingyue blamed Xiang Yuan for telling Chan'er about the betrothal and demanded that he bring her back, then left when he refused to deny their engagement.
• In the Southern Border, Xiang Yuan rode the wind into the mountains near Earth Dragon Fort while two black-robed sword-wielders followed him, suspecting he was a Tomb-Keeping Sect disciple near a great tomb.

Xiang Yuan raided Spiritual Light Old Devil’s treasure cache, gaining martial arts, a magic treasure, and information about Earth Dragon Fort’s blood pool. After leaving, he defeated two Stellar Palace assassins and discovered a letter inviting him to meet Earth Dragon Fort’s Second Master at a teahouse.

• Xiang Yuan entered Spiritual Light Old Devil’s hidden cache after evading two black-clad men waiting outside.
• Xiang Yuan drank the cache’s pills and poisons, took the Rouge Sword, collected cultivation manuals, and studied the Three-Headed Six-Armed Dharma Form.
• Xiang Yuan found an Enlightenment Cushion and a letter explaining that Earth Dragon Fort’s blood pool could be purified with the Yellow Springs Mother Tree secret art.
• The two Stellar Palace martial brothers ambushed Xiang Yuan as he left the cache, but he evaded their attack and identified them.
• Xiang Yuan repelled the assassins with his blade, killed them, buried their bodies, and found a letter inviting him to meet Earth Dragon Fort’s Second Master at a teahouse.

Xiang Yuan impersonated a Stellar Palace assassin to help Sang Shouyi fight for territory in Earth Dragon Fort, then cultivated to the completion of the Innate Realm. After rival bosses were murdered and Xiang Yuan left town, Yu Wuling and Chan'er were revealed to have entered the Southern Border, where the Holy Maiden Jinse confronted Chan'er.

• Xiang Yuan met Sang Shouyi in a teahouse, accepted a contract targeting Yu Wuling, and learned that Earth Dragon Fort's factions were fighting over territory left vulnerable by the Five Poisons Cult's turmoil.
• Xiang Yuan attacked Yu Wuling's thugs and helped Sang Shouyi reclaim and expand his territory, then spent five days fighting while cultivating during the day.
• Xiang Yuan used the enlightenment cushion to advance to the completion of the Innate Realm before Sang Shouyi told him that several rival bosses had been murdered and Yu Wuling had been ambushed.
• Sang Shouyi warned Xiang Yuan that the City Lord might suspect him, so Xiang Yuan collected his remaining payment and left Earth Dragon Fort.
• Xiang Yuan opened Jambu Gate to visit another world, while Yu Wuling and Chan'er were revealed to be in the Southern Border and Jinse entered Chan'er's room, recalling their past.

Xiang Yuan entered the devastated Wasteland Realm and joined the Underground City Pioneers to learn about the world and search for a relic. After reaching the East District, he discovered that the scarred Pioneer squad leader was a woman and learned that the city lord’s wife was humiliating her.

• Xiang Yuan found that the Wasteland Realm suppressed cultivators’ abilities and disguised himself to approach survivors in the ruins.
• Xiang Yuan joined the Pioneers after their squad defeated a band of raiders, and Zhou Zhong explained the blood rain, the Underground City, and red-crystal-powered genetic enhancement.
• Xiang Yuan descended with the Pioneers to the East District and saw the poverty and sickness surrounding their base.
• Xiang Yuan watched the squad leader deliver red crystals at the Central District wall and imagined a tragic romance after overhearing that the city lord’s wife had sent her supplies.
• Zhou Zhong told Xiang Yuan that the squad leader was a woman and that the city lord’s wife was humiliating her again.

Xiang Yuan learned of Guan Yan’s past and the underground city’s formation before undergoing genetic enhancement, where he achieved a perfect Origin Awakening level like the City Lord. The City Lord ordered him brought in secretly, leaving Xiang Yuan’s new power and the formation’s relic tied to the city’s growing intrigue.

• Zhou Zhong told Xiang Yuan how Guan Yan’s family was blamed for the formation’s explosion twenty years earlier, leaving her injured and devoted to repairing it, and described her feud with Guan Ling.
• Xiang Yuan used hypnosis to ask Guan Yan about the formation and learned that a relic inherited by the Guan Clan lay at its central formation eye.
• Guan Yan brought Xiang Yuan to the central district for genetic enhancement, where he recognized the red energy as incomplete demonic qi and suspected it came from a buried great demon.
• Xiang Yuan’s enhancement left him physically unchanged but registered him as a perfect Origin Awakening case like the City Lord, prompting the researchers to alert the City Lord.
• The City Lord reacted with disbelief and ordered Xiang Yuan brought to him through a secret passage without anyone else knowing.

Guan Yan fled the laboratory with Xiang Yuan, but Pei Jin captured them and brought them to the City Lord’s manor, where Guan Ling confronted her cousin. Xiang Yuan insulted Guan Ling, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Guan Yan rescued Xiang Yuan from the laboratory and led him through the Central District’s sewers, explaining that the City Lord would target him for his perfect Origin Awakening.
• City guards ambushed Guan Yan and Xiang Yuan in the sewers, but Guan Yan defeated two vice-captains before escaping with Xiang Yuan.
• Pei Jin caught up with them, tore off Guan Yan’s mechanical arm, and used energy-absorbing bracelets to suppress both her and Xiang Yuan.
• Pei Jin escorted Guan Yan and Xiang Yuan through a secret passage to the City Lord’s manor and confined them in an office.
• Guan Ling entered the office, mocked Guan Yan’s appearance, and removed her eye patch; Xiang Yuan called her ugly and said she looked like a ghost.

Xiang Yuan survived Wang Genji’s execution attempt and revealed overwhelming power, killing the City Lord, Guan Ling, and Pei Jin. He left Guan Yan alive and flew toward the forces gathered outside the residence, asking whether they deserved to die before unleashing another attack.

• Guan Ling mocked Guan Yan and tried to force her into marrying Xiang Yuan, but Xiang Yuan refused and traded insults with her and Wang Genji.
• Wang Genji questioned Xiang Yuan about passing the enhancement procedure, then shot him and prepared to kill Guan Yan.
• Xiang Yuan survived the bullet, destroyed his energy-suppressing handcuffs, shattered Pei Jin’s energy sword, and killed Pei Jin and Guan Ling.
• Xiang Yuan killed Wang Genji, helped Guan Yan recover her eyepatch, and told her he was Li Xianyuan from the East Eighth District.
• Xiang Yuan asked Guan Yan whether the city guards and noble fighters outside deserved to die, then leaped into the air and unleashed a crimson blast.

Xiang Yuan defeated Wang Genji and uncovered the truth behind the underground city's formation, then discovered that the black sword sheath held a ruined Crimson Universe and could pass its entrance to a sword. The sheath transferred that power to the Rouge Sword, leaving Xiang Yuan with a newly empowered weapon.

• Xiang Yuan blasted the City Lord's Manor guards, gave Guan Yan a mechanical arm, and repeatedly killed Wang Genji as he revived.
• Wang Genji fled underground, drew energy from a black jade coffin, mutated, and challenged Xiang Yuan, who vaporized him completely.
• Xiang Yuan found a relic bead and black sword sheath in the coffin, claimed the relic bead, and told Guan Yan that her family had helped fabricate the grand formation's history.
• Guan Yan broke down over the revelation, and Xiang Yuan reassured her that they could still change the world's future.
• Xiang Yuan demonized himself and learned that the dying sword sheath needed to transfer its Crimson Universe entrance to a blade; after rejecting his other swords, it accepted the Rouge Sword.

Xiang Yuan obtained Jingyun’s jade belt and used it to bring the Wasteland Realm under the Heavenly God Realm’s laws, beginning the realm’s spiritual revival. He restored Guan Yan’s body and helped the underground city reach the surface, then set out to borrow Guanyin Bodhisattva’s purification vase to heal the land further.

• Xiang Yuan returned to the Heavenly God Realm and was punished by Jingyun for the thoughts she saw in his mind before he persuaded her to lend him her jade belt.
• Xiang Yuan used Jingyun’s jade belt to make the Wasteland Realm’s laws of heaven and earth submit, clearing the clouds and allowing sunlight to reach the realm for the first time in three hundred years.
• Xiang Yuan used his divine power to restore Guan Yan’s body, remove the red energy within her, and give her an innate-stage physique; she saw her renewed appearance and wept with relief.
• Xiang Yuan opened an ascension passage and established the Heavenly God Realm’s laws in the Wasteland Realm, allowing spiritual energy to revive and its natives to cultivate without blood-red crystals.
• Xiang Yuan lifted the underground city’s four civilian districts to the surface, then used the True Martial Black Eagle Banner to clear demonic energy and dust from the air.
• Xiang Yuan decided to find Guanyin Bodhisattva and borrow her purification vase to improve the Wasteland Realm further.

Xiang Yuan restored the Wasteland Realm with the Willow Branch Purifying Vase, appointed Guan Yan as Marshal Guan, and then answered Chan’er’s urgent summons. He arrived as Jinse attacked Chan’er and, after Jinse tried to claim him and destroy Chan’er’s token of love, stabbed her with the Storm Mist Blade.

• Xiang Yuan borrowed the Willow Branch Purifying Vase from Lay Practitioner Bai Yue and used its sweet dew to cleanse and revive the Wasteland Realm.
• Xiang Yuan granted Guan Yan cultivation methods and the divine office of Marshal Guan, ordering her to settle her mortal affairs before ascending to serve under him.
• Jinse cornered Chan’er, searched her memories, discovered Jambu Gate and Xiang Yuan, and forced Chan’er to summon him.
• Xiang Yuan emerged from Jambu Gate and attacked Jinse, but she restrained him and taunted Chan’er by claiming she would take him as her husband.
• Jinse tore open Xiang Yuan’s robe and bit the tooth mark Chan’er had left, prompting Xiang Yuan to break free and stab Jinse through the chest and abdomen with the Storm Mist Blade.

Xiang Yuan and Chan'er fought Jinse inside her minor heaven, where Xiang Yuan broke through to Spirit Transformation and unleashed his demonic power. After Jinse sealed them beneath three mountains, Xiang Yuan transformed into a three-headed, six-armed figure and began lifting them, setting up another battle.

• Xiang Yuan shattered Jinse's illusions and freed Chan'er from her spatial imprisonment, then learned that Jinse was the Yellow Springs Holy Maiden at the Nether Communion stage.
• Chan'er brought Xiang Yuan into Jinse's minor heaven, where Jinse attacked them with water-mist incarnations and tried to capture Xiang Yuan as medicine.
• Xiang Yuan reached Spirit Transformation, consumed his Heavenly Devil Relics, and used his demonic power to strike Jinse, but she continued to outmaneuver him.
• Jinse suppressed Xiang Yuan and Chan'er, broke Chan'er's Yellow Springs technique with her Ancient Mirror of Reincarnation, and sealed them beneath three mountains.
• Xiang Yuan transformed into a three-headed, six-armed figure and began lifting the mountains while Chan'er stood behind him.

Xiang Yuan used his perfected three-headed, six-armed form to overpower Jinse inside her sealed small grotto-heaven, then helped Chan'er kill her. Afterward, Xiang Yuan suddenly collapsed unconscious, leaving Chan'er frightened that he might die.

• Xiang Yuan broke Jinse's spatial confinement and countered her Ancient Mirror of Reincarnation with Glimmer, Flowing Shadow, the black sword sheath, and the Rouge Sword.
• Jinse summoned her five reincarnation bodies and the Yellow Springs Mother Tree, but Chan'er used silver moon chains to drive the tree's phantom away while Xiang Yuan battered Jinse and her forms.
• Xiang Yuan repeatedly wounded Jinse and trapped her inside the Crimson Universe, while Jinse's attempts to escape and bewitch him failed.
• Xiang Yuan brought Jinse before Chan'er and told her to overcome her fear; Chan'er struck Jinse, then used the Yellow Springs Mother Tree to pull out and consume her Primordial Spirit.
• Xiang Yuan dispersed his three-headed, six-armed form and collapsed from exhaustion, and Chan'er caught him and tearfully begged him not to die.

After defeating Jinse, Xiang Yuan recovered in the Little Grotto-Heaven and grew closer to Chan'er while she claimed Jinse's treasures and explained her mysterious powers. The couple remained in their secluded paradise as Right Envoy of the Yellow Springs, Zuo Lengxie, appeared outside.

• Xiang Yuan woke beside Chan'er, secretly healed himself, and pretended to remain badly injured so she would care for him.
• Chan'er told Xiang Yuan that Jinse's Primordial Spirit had been destroyed and that her six bodies, Ancient Mirror of Reincarnation, and hidden treasures remained; the two spent the next half month together.
• Chan'er used the Ancient Mirror of Reincarnation to control Jinse's six bodies, then explained that Jinse had used her as a reincarnated vessel and that Chan'er did not know why the Silver Moon Palace had fallen.
• Chan'er demonstrated that she could borrow a future version of herself from two or three years ahead, and Xiang Yuan asked her to use the ability.
• Xiang Yuan refined the blood pool's medicinal power while Chan'er stayed in his arms, and Right Envoy of the Yellow Springs, Zuo Lengxie, appeared outside the Little Grotto-Heaven.

Xiang Yuan and Chan'er reviewed the spoils from Jinse's defeat and prepared to leave their hidden grotto-heaven, while Xiang Yuan worried about revealing his betrothal to Xiao Lingyue. Outside, they encountered Zuo Lengxie, who said the Dao Master had summoned Chan'er and Xiang Yuan back to the Yellow Springs Dao.

• Xiang Yuan assessed his gains from killing Jinse, while Chan'er lounged in his arms and neglected cultivation.
• Xiang Yuan told Chan'er that he and Xiao Lingyue had been betrothed, and Chan'er reacted with jealousy before eventually setting the matter aside.
• After more than ten days in the grotto-heaven, Xiang Yuan and Chan'er prepared to leave and face Xiao Lingyue.
• Xiang Yuan and Chan'er found Zuo Lengxie waiting outside the grotto-heaven and prepared for a possible fight.
• Zuo Lengxie said the Dao Master had sent him to welcome Chan'er back and ordered Xiang Yuan to return with them to the sect.