Chapter Summaries

Yin sensed that the Great Bright Immortal Palace’s lost inherited treasure had resurfaced and set out with Elder Lu toward Sky Rift Gorge. There, Zhou Yang broke free of the Wood Imp’s torment to rescue Jiang Fengxian, but the Silver Poison had already clouded her consciousness.

• Yin sensed the presence of his sect’s lost inherited treasure and told Elder Lu he needed to retrieve it.
• Elder Lu agreed to accompany Yin, and the two Nascent Soul cultivators headed for Sky Rift Gorge.
• The Wood Imp tortured Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian, then used Silver Poison prepared from the venomous flood dragon on them.
• Zhou Yang sensed the poison, resisted its effects, and burned the man-eating flower before freeing Jiang Fengxian.
• Zhou Yang found Jiang Fengxian’s consciousness already growing muddled as the Silver Poison took hold.

Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian were captured by Wood Imp after resisting its attack and preparing to destroy their Golden Cores. Two powerful cultivators arrived, and Elder Lu intercepted Wood Imp as it fled with them, leaving their fate in his hands.

• Jiang Fengxian briefly regained her senses, transformed with her Heavenly Phoenix bloodline, and urged Zhou Yang to escape while she held off Wood Imp.
• Wood Imp used its Green Treasure Cauldron to suppress Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian’s mana, bind them with vines, and capture them.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian stopped their planned Golden Core self-destruction after sensing powerful figures approaching.
• Wood Imp recognized the danger posed by the approaching cultivators and fled with its captives toward a region of spatial rifts.
• Elder Lu appeared in Wood Imp’s path and rebuked it, while Wood Imp pleaded for its life and offered to return Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian.

Elder Lu and Mister Yin confronted the Wood Imp, which held Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian captive, and recovered the Eye of Light by killing it. After keeping the pair inside the Green Treasure Cauldron for three days, Elder Lu released them, and Zhou Yang shielded Jiang Fengxian when he saw the two cultivators waiting outside.

• Elder Lu rejected the Wood Imp's threat and demanded that it hand over the treasure he sought, while Mister Yin arrived and demanded its Storage Rings.
• Mister Yin identified the Eye of Light as his sect's inheritance treasure and gave the Wood Imp a final chance to surrender it.
• Mister Yin activated the Eye of Light, burning the Wood Imp to ash and recovering the artifact.
• Mister Yin thanked Elder Lu for his help, and Elder Lu took the Green Treasure Cauldron but waited three days before releasing its captives.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian emerged from the cauldron, and Zhou Yang instinctively pulled Jiang Fengxian behind him when he saw Elder Lu and Mister Yin.

Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian emerged from the Green Treasure Cauldron after three days and learned that their rescuer was Lu Xuanji, the famed Nascent Soul Ninth Layer Great Elder of the Xuan Yang Immortal Sect. After returning their belongings, Lu Xuanji offered them each three additional treasures, leaving them with an unexpected gift from a powerful senior.

• Zhou Yang thanked the old man surnamed Lu for saving him and Jiang Fengxian, then learned that he was Lu Xuanji, the renowned True Person Xuanji.
• Lu Xuanji teased Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian about their time inside the Green Treasure Cauldron before asking how the Wood Imp had captured them.
• Lu Xuanji gave Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian the Storage Rings recovered from the Wood Imp, and they reclaimed their own belongings without taking anything extra.
• Zhou Yang noticed that the Eye of Light was missing but avoided mentioning it, while Lu Xuanji recognized the value of Zhou Yang's treasures and Jiang Fengxian's mixed heritage.
• Lu Xuanji offered Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian permission to each choose three more items from the remaining treasures.

Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian chose treasures from the Wood Imp’s relics, and Zhou Yang found the complete Great Evolution Sword Art and a new secret technique. After Lu Xuanji explained the dangers of Sacred Infant Valley, Zhou Yang learned that Lu Xuanji needed his help with a matter after they left the Kunxu Realm and agreed to repay the seniors’ kindness.

• Zhou Yang chose Geng Metal and the Blood Boil Technique from the Wood Imp’s relics, and discovered the complete Great Evolution Sword Art.
• Jiang Fengxian selected the Wood Imp’s bluish-black crystal, a Fifth-tier demon core, and Five-colored Cloud Mist Grass, while remaining angry with Zhou Yang.
• Lu Xuanji told Zhou Yang that Sacred Infant Valley was protected by a powerful Nascent Soul guardian and a trial whose requirements changed each time it opened.
• Zhou Yang told Lu Xuanji that he and Jiang Fengxian intended to seek the Sacred Infant Fruits and thanked him for explaining the valley’s dangers.
• Lu Xuanji revealed that he would need Zhou Yang’s help after they left the Kunxu Realm, and Zhou Yang agreed to serve him in repayment for the seniors’ kindness.

After leaving Lu Xuanji, Zhou Yang tried to settle Jiang Fengxian’s expectations about their relationship while remaining committed to Xiao Ying. Jiang Fengxian pressed him to choose whom he loved more, and his honest answer left her stunned.

• Lu Xuanji gave Zhou Yang a powerful Xuan Yang Purple Firmament Divine Lightning jade talisman and explained the cultivator surnamed Yin’s connection to the Eye of Light and Wood Imp’s death.
• Zhou Yang decided not to ask Lu Xuanji to examine Qin Yue'er and hurried away with Jiang Fengxian.
• Jiang Fengxian confronted Zhou Yang about taking responsibility for their relationship, and he promised to treat her like a Dao companion without giving her that title.
• Zhou Yang said he would not abandon Xiao Ying, whom he had promised to care for, and argued that he and Jiang Fengxian could still pursue the Great Dao together.
• When Jiang Fengxian asked which woman he liked more, Zhou Yang said he did not know and refused to lie about his feelings, leaving her stunned.

After crossing Sky Rift Gorge, Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian faced dangerous demonic beasts on the Cold Wind Plains before encountering Bei Gong Baifeng fighting a Variant Ice Toad. Jiang Fengxian offered to help only if Bei Gong Baifeng shared the toad’s Moon Toad True Blood.

• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian crossed Sky Rift Gorge and entered the Cold Wind Plains, where a flock of Two-headed Ice Wind Vultures forced them to flee beneath the ice.
• A Tier 5 Ice Demon ambushed Zhou Yang, who injured it with a punch, but it escaped; later, he killed two Tier 4 Ice Demons and found cold-radiating crystal nuclei in their brains.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian followed distant battle fluctuations to an icy lake, where Bei Gong Baifeng was fighting a gigantic Variant Ice Toad.
• Bei Gong Baifeng introduced herself as an elder of Snow Toad Palace and offered them the Ice Crystal Snow Lotus in exchange for help subduing the toad.
• Jiang Fengxian refused the offered lotus and demanded a share of the Variant Ice Toad’s Moon Toad True Blood instead.

Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian joined Bei Gong Baifeng in fighting the Moon Shadow Ice Toad, but its moon-blade attack froze them and let Bei Gong kill it and extract its Moon Toad True Blood. Zhou Yang then burst from the lake alive and stole both the true blood and Bei Gong's Jade Toad treasure.

• Jiang Fengxian negotiated for a share of the Moon Toad True Blood, and Bei Gong Baifeng agreed to give the group any surplus after the fight.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian joined Bei Gong in attacking the Moon Shadow Ice Toad, which unleashed three moon blades that froze Zhou and Jiang and sent them sinking into the lake.
• Bei Gong absorbed the moon blade with her Jade Toad treasure, then killed the weakened Moon Shadow Ice Toad and extracted its Moon Toad True Blood.
• Bei Gong revealed that she had planned to use Zhou and Jiang to bear the toad's attack and intended to keep the treasure and their belongings for herself.
• Zhou Yang emerged from beneath the lake, seized the Jade Toad and Moon Toad True Blood, and thanked Bei Gong for extracting them.

Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian confronted Bei Gong Baifeng after surviving her attempt to use the Moon Shadow Ice Toad against them. They defeated and killed her, recovering the Moon Toad True Blood and white Jade Toad, though the chapter left their next steps unstated.

• Zhou Yang revealed that Qianyang True Fire had saved him from the Moon Shadow Ice Toad’s Taiyin chill and accused Bei Gong Baifeng of plotting to kill them.
• Jiang Fengxian emerged from the icy lake and urged Zhou Yang to kill Bei Gong Baifeng for her treachery.
• Bei Gong Baifeng attacked Zhou Yang, but his supreme-yang true fire dispersed her ice technique, and he struck back with a golden flame dragon and the Heaven Shaking Bronze Gong.
• Jiang Fengxian attacked Bei Gong Baifeng with sound waves while Zhou Yang used the Soul Capturing Pearl to distract her.
• Bei Gong Baifeng’s spirit snake blocked Jiang Fengxian’s flying sword, but Jiang Fengxian’s yellow ruler shattered her defenses and killed her.

After Jiang Fengxian killed Bei Gong Baifeng, she and Zhou Yang gathered the Ice Crystal Snow Lotus and discovered rare treasures, including Cold Jade True Marrow and Moon Toad True Blood. Jiang Fengxian revealed a formula for Taiyin Spiritual Liquid, and Zhou Yang secured portions for himself and his Dao companion, though her smile left him uneasy.

• Jiang Fengxian killed Bei Gong Baifeng, and Zhou Yang searched the corpse and erased the traces before they harvested the Ice Crystal Snow Lotus.
• While digging beneath the lakebed, Zhou Yang found a Moon Shadow Ice Toad nest containing Ten Thousand Year Cold Jade and five drops of Cold Jade True Marrow.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian left the frozen lake, settled in a cave, and began dividing their treasures.
• Jiang Fengxian explained that an ancient formula could use Moon Toad True Blood and Cold Jade True Marrow to create Taiyin Spiritual Liquid with powerful benefits.
• Zhou Yang asked Jiang Fengxian to reserve two portions of the liquid for him, and she accepted while inviting him to bring his Dao companion to take it.
• Jiang Fengxian smiled at Zhou Yang, who grew uneasy and wondered whether she had sinister plans.

Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian divided their spoils from Bei Gong Baifeng, and Zhou Yang gave Jiang Fengxian a life-saving jade talisman while pledging himself to her. They then reached Sacred Infant Valley, where a Ninth-layer Golden Core elder mocked them for seeking the Sacred Infant Fruit.

• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian divided the Moon Toad True Blood, Cold Jade True Marrow, Ice Crystal Snow Lotus, and Bei Gong Baifeng's treasures, including the Taiyin Soul Severing Blade and a jade talisman.
• Jiang Fengxian urged Zhou Yang to keep the jade talisman, but he pressed it into her hand as a token of love and swore he would never betray her or let her suffer.
• Jiang Fengxian accepted Zhou Yang's promise, and they reconciled as they finished dividing Bei Gong Baifeng's remaining possessions.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian traveled to Sacred Infant Valley in the Cold Wind Plains and found its formation mist had not yet dispersed.
• A Ninth-layer Golden Core elder spotted Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian outside the valley and mocked them for coming to compete for the Sacred Infant Fruit.

Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian avoided provoking Venerable Black Vulture, then heard Du Yunsheng’s account of the Ninth-layer Golden Core cultivator’s crimes and agreed to help bring him down in Sacred Infant Valley. After Du left, they privately weighed his claims and decided the alliance suited their interests regardless.

• Zhou Yang sensed hostile watchers around Sacred Infant Valley, stopped Jiang Fengxian from answering Venerable Black Vulture’s taunts, and moved them to a snowy peak where he set up a Tier 5 formation.
• Zhou Yang refined the Taiyin Soul Severing Blade while he and Jiang Fengxian stayed inside their formation for half a month.
• Du Yunsheng visited Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian, explained that Venerable Black Vulture targeted young geniuses after a past humiliation, and described how he had injured and robbed a cultivator who answered his insults.
• Du Yunsheng asked Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian to help avenge his missing friend and punish Venerable Black Vulture, and they agreed after he recounted the old man’s alleged crimes.
• After Du Yunsheng left, Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian admitted they were unsure whether his stories were true but decided to let him lead an alliance against Venerable Black Vulture.

As Sacred Infant Valley opened, Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian entered and were randomly teleported to separate trials. Zhou Yang found himself trapped in an icy cavern and set out to face whatever lay ahead, while Jiang Fengxian and the other cultivators fought powerful opponents elsewhere.

• Venerable Black Vulture used his Black Wind Dragon Grasping Claws to defeat and rob a cultivator, deepening Zhou Yang’s wariness of him.
• After two months, Sacred Infant Valley’s white mist opened into a passage; spirit beasts and Puppet Beasts sent inside either died or lost contact with their owners.
• Nearly twenty Golden Core Stage Cultivators entered the passage, and Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian followed after the others.
• Zhou Yang was teleported into an icy cavern without Jiang Fengxian, while she and the other cultivators were sent to different environments to battle powerful demon beasts or monsters.
• Zhou Yang tested the cavern’s regenerating ice walls, abandoned the idea of breaking through, and walked along the passage until he encountered his opponent.

Zhou Yang killed a Tier 5 Ice Demon and was teleported to a stone chamber, where he found the Tai Xu Refining Spirit Art. He learned he had to master its first level within half a year to continue competing for the Sacred Infant Fruit and worried that Fengxian might not meet the requirement.

• Zhou Yang used his Qianyang Golden Pagoda to briefly trap the Tier 5 Ice Demon, then struck it with his silver saber and disabled its invisibility.
• Zhou Yang killed the gravely wounded Ice Demon as it fled and was suddenly teleported to a stone chamber.
• Zhou Yang found a jade slip containing the Tai Xu Refining Spirit Art, which could increase a cultivator's divine sense strength.
• Zhou Yang learned he had to master the art's first level within half a year to pass the trial, or risk being trapped in the Kunxu Realm when it closed.
• Zhou Yang considered using his Enlightenment Profound True Fruit to help himself cultivate and worried because Fengxian had already used hers.

After mastering the first layer of the Tai Xu Refining Spirit Art, Zhou Yang left his stone chamber and encountered an apparent Jiang Fengxian, only to discover she was a monster testing him inside an illusion. The illusion vanished, revealing a cavern hall where Venerable Black Vulture, Du Yunsheng, and two others awaited him.

• Zhou Yang studied the Tai Xu Refining Spirit Art, completed a session of Roaming the Great Void, and raised his divine sense by ten percent to finish the first layer ahead of schedule.
• Zhou Yang left his stone chamber and met what appeared to be Jiang Fengxian in a flower-filled valley, where she said she had arrived a few days earlier and could not find a way out.
• Zhou Yang realized the apparent Jiang Fengxian was behaving suspiciously and played along until the disguised monster tried to ambush him.
• Zhou Yang’s Qianyang True Fire exposed the faceless humanoid monster, and he attacked it with his divine sense using the God Annihilation Needle.
• The illusion collapsed, and Zhou Yang found himself in a cavern hall with Venerable Black Vulture, Du Yunsheng, and two other cultivators already seated there.

Zhou Yang entered the cavern hall and discovered that a mysterious black-robed figure tested cultivators seeking the Sacred Infant Fruit through a deadly illusion trial. Jiang Fengxian passed the trial after Zhou Yang warned her, and the pair learned that the hall’s occupants had watched her illusion before they settled in to await the next arrivals.

• Zhou Yang found a seemingly aura-less black-robed figure in the cavern hall and obeyed its command to sit.
• Du Yunsheng explained that the Careful Demon Pass used an illusion to test cultivators’ state of mind, and Zhou Yang watched a failed challenger die as the monster devoured his Golden Core and Primordial Spirit.
• Over the following weeks, only a handful of cultivators passed the trial, and Zhou Yang saw the monster impersonate him to deceive Jiang Fengxian.
• Zhou Yang shouted when the monster tried to embrace Jiang Fengxian, prompting her to notice flaws in its disguise and defeat the test.
• Jiang Fengxian discovered the black-robed figure and learned that the others had watched her illusion; Zhou Yang explained the trial and reassured her that he had been worried.

Nine cultivators began the fourth trial, a race up a mountain where flight was forbidden and crushing gravity and lightning strikes slowed the climbers. Zhou Yang carried Jiang Fengxian halfway up to give her a chance to compete for a Sacred Infant Fruit, and she raced ahead after kissing him.

• The black-robed man told Zhou Yang, Jiang Fengxian, and the seven other survivors that only five Sacred Infant Fruits were available, and none withdrew from the fourth trial.
• The black-robed man transported the nine cultivators to a spirit mountain and announced that the first five to reach the palace at its summit could claim the fruits.
• Venerable Black Vulture discovered that the mountain forbade flight and imposed increasingly heavy gravity, and Zhou Yang found that using mana to resist it consumed mana rapidly.
• Zhou Yang carried Jiang Fengxian up the mountain despite her urging him to go alone, and a lightning strike delayed the leading climber.
• Zhou Yang carried Jiang Fengxian halfway up, then set her down and told her to protect herself.
• Jiang Fengxian kissed Zhou Yang, transformed using her Heavenly Phoenix Clan bloodline, and flew toward the summit, telling him to meet her there.

Jiang Fengxian joined Du Yunsheng’s attack on Venerable Black Vulture, and the ensuing Golden Core self-destruction killed Du Yunsheng and left her badly wounded. She revealed that she had obtained Du Yunsheng’s storage ring before a seven-colored flame enveloped her, leaving Zhou Yang to watch over her recovery.

• Jiang Fengxian overtook the climbers ahead of her, while Zhou Yang continued upward after her and prepared to intervene when the cultivator surnamed Dai threatened her.
• Du Yunsheng ambushed the weakened Venerable Black Vulture, and Jiang Fengxian and the cultivator surnamed Dai joined the attack as Zhou Yang hurried toward them.
• Venerable Black Vulture unleashed a Nascent Soul-stage attack with a jade talisman, but Du Yunsheng blocked it with a crimson pearl and revealed his connection to the Crimson Cloud Primordial Monarch.
• Venerable Black Vulture attempted to destroy his Golden Core, and Du Yunsheng struck back as the explosion killed both men and severely injured Jiang Fengxian and the cultivator surnamed Dai.
• Zhou Yang gathered Jiang Fengxian into his arms, and she revealed Du Yunsheng’s storage ring before sitting down and enveloping herself in seven-colored flames.

Jiang Fengxian used the phoenix Nirvana divine ability to recover from her injuries, though it reduced her cultivation, and Zhou Yang realized her actions had rebuffed his attempt to keep her by his side. They resumed climbing toward the Sacred Infant Fruit, where the race for the remaining slots soon turned into a confrontation.

• Zhou Yang recognized Jiang Fengxian's seven-colored flames as the phoenix Nirvana divine ability and suspected she possessed True Phoenix Blood.
• Jiang Fengxian's Nirvana restored her wounds and Phoenix Wings, but her cultivation fell from the Fourth Layer of Golden Core to the Third-layer Golden Core.
• Jiang Fengxian proposed eliminating one of the leading cultivators to secure two Sacred Infant Fruit slots, and Zhou Yang agreed to pursue them while avoiding killing if possible.
• As Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian climbed through the lightning-strike region, the cultivator surnamed Yu asked the leaders to help eliminate them, but they refused.
• With Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian closing to within a hundred zhang, Yu could no longer bear the pressure and attacked them.

After Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian obtained their Sacred Infant Fruits, a black-robed man kept them behind and exposed their hidden origins. He learned about Zhou Yang’s Immortal Artifact and cultivation inheritance, then demanded that Jiang Fengxian explain her awakened True Phoenix Bloodline.

• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian defeated the Sixth-layer Golden Core cultivator who attacked them, and the five remaining contenders reached the palace summit.
• The black-robed man let the five cultivators enter the palace and collect Sacred Infant Fruits, and Zhou Yang stored two fruits for himself and Jiang Fengxian.
• The black-robed man teleported away the other three cultivators and revealed that he was curious about Zhou Yang’s Immortal Artifact and Jiang Fengxian’s True Phoenix Bloodline.
• Zhou Yang admitted that he had inherited the Qianyang Treasure Bead and his cultivation technique from True Immortal Qianyang, then showed the black-robed man the damaged artifact.
• The black-robed man said he had not heard of True Immortal Qianyang and revealed that he had a true body, leading Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian to realize they were facing a Resident True Immortal.
• The black-robed man asked Jiang Fengxian to explain the origin of her True Phoenix Bloodline.