Chapter Summaries

Zijun brought the Green-Clad Page to meet Old Man Qiu, a Dragon Slayer who had long known the boy was a dragon but had never harmed him. Old Man Qiu began explaining how he came to Dragon Lake Mountain and why he questioned the Dragon Slayer Lineage.

• The Green-Clad Page told Zijun that Old Ghost Qiu had taught him the phrase “local tyrant and wicked gentry,” and Zijun corrected his understanding.
• The Green-Clad Page led Zijun to Old Man Qiu’s courtyard and announced that he had found a master and planned to roam the martial world.
• Old Man Qiu welcomed Zijun and the Green-Clad Page, then expressed relief that the boy’s fortunes had changed.
• The Green-Clad Page accused Old Man Qiu of waiting to slay him after he transformed into a dragon, but Old Man Qiu denied ever intending to kill him.
• Zijun pointed out that Old Man Qiu could have captured the boy earlier if he had wanted to slay him, easing the Green-Clad Page’s anger.
• Old Man Qiu began recounting how, after years of questioning why the Dragon Slayer Lineage killed dragons, he fled to the place then known as Nameless Mountain.

Old Ghost Qiu recounted how the Luo Demon Sect and other sword cultivators had nearly killed him, then urged Zijun to take Little Loach away as Dragon Lake Mountain faced coming chaos. Zijun agreed to leave with the boy, who received the new name Ziming as they prepared to descend the mountain.

• Old Ghost Qiu told Little Loach and Zijun about the sword cultivators who had wounded him a thousand years earlier and how a True Dragon had saved him.
• Zijun asked Old Ghost Qiu about the Luo Demon Sect, and Little Loach revealed that Zijun dealt in flat peaches, alarming Old Ghost Qiu.
• Zijun offered Old Ghost Qiu pills and said Little Loach would stay with him, but Little Loach begged to travel with his master instead.
• Old Ghost Qiu warned that Dragon Lake Mountain would soon fall into chaos and told Zijun to take the southern mountain road, while pointing him west toward the Luo Demon Sect.
• Old Ghost Qiu stayed behind, and Zijun agreed to take Little Loach, renamed him Ziming, and prepared to leave.

Zijun and Ziming left Old Ghost Qiu and encountered the Golden Bear Spirit on Dragon Lake Mountain before setting out for Rebirth City. Elsewhere in the Underworld, a woman in a red dragon robe learned that someone had descended into the Primordial World and waited for her lord’s return.

• Ziming asked about his name, then kowtowed to Old Ghost Qiu and promised to visit again as he left with Zijun.
• Zijun defeated the Golden Bear Spirit, who turned out to be Ziming’s old rival, and spared him because he knew Ziming.
• Ziming told Zijun about the strange town of Rebirth City, and Zijun asked him to lead the way there.
• In the Underworld, the Green-Faced Freak reported to the woman in the red dragon robe that someone had descended upon the Primordial World.
• The woman dismissed the Green-Faced Freak and spoke of waiting for her lord to return.

Jiuhu summoned Yuanshi Tianzun to report a ten-thousand-year Flat Peach in the Southern Region, and Zijun taught Ziming about the Chaos Sword Qi Manual as they traveled to Rebirth City. At the city gate, Ziming knocked the helmet off a sleeping Black Armored Guard, who awoke and demanded to know who had disturbed him.

• Jiuhu told Yuanshi Tianzun that a top-grade, ten-thousand-year Flat Peach had appeared in the Southern Region, and Yuanshi Tianzun warned him against becoming entangled in karma.
• Ziming used sword qi to cut through grass and trees with a branch, and Zijun explained that he needed to master the swordless realm rather than focus on displaying power.
• Ziming admitted his mistake, and Zijun reassured him that correcting errors was part of learning the Chaos Sword Qi Manual.
• Zijun and Ziming reached Rebirth City's overgrown gate, where they read a warning that entering the city meant leaving life and death to fate.
• Ziming pushed the sleeping Black Armored Guard and knocked his helmet to the ground, frightening himself before the man emerged from the armor and challenged them.

Zijun and Ziming investigated the sinister events in Rebirth City and entered Wangfu Shrine, where they encountered a ghostly figure and heard a chant summoning immortals into an array. Ziming feared they had run into the legendary ghost immortal.

• Ziming argued with Hu Hansan, who warned Zijun and Ziming that Rebirth City was haunted and its residents had suffered brutal deaths.
• Hu Hansan recounted how a headless female corpse appeared in Wangfu Shrine, after which several families were slaughtered and Wang Changqing alone survived among his household.
• Zijun and Ziming decided to investigate Wangfu Shrine, despite Ziming's suspicion that Hu Hansan's story contained rumors or deception.
• At the shrine, Ziming spotted a mountain of bones and a red figure eating, so Zijun gave him a blue-black flag but refused to let him keep it before reaching the True Immortal Realm.
• Zijun crossed the shrine's threshold, making the red figure flee deeper inside, and an eerie voice chanted about entering an array to become an immortal.
• Ziming recognized the voice as possibly belonging to the legendary ghost immortal and panicked.

Zijun confronted a grotesque creature in Rebirth City's ancestral hall and identified it as a Resentful Obsession Monster, not a Ghost Immortal. The monster began recounting how it had once served the people as a weasel land immortal, then hinted that something had ruined its rise to half-immortality.

• Zijun called for the hidden presence in the ancestral hall while Ziming clutched the Pangu Banner in fear.
• The creature recognized the Pangu Banner, then emerged in a grotesque form that made Ziming vomit.
• Zijun identified the creature as a Resentful Obsession Monster formed from resentful spirits.
• The monster denied causing Rebirth City's current situation and asked whether Zijun had come out of curiosity or to subdue demons.
• The monster said it had once been a weasel land immortal whose shrine offerings helped it nearly become a half-immortal five hundred years earlier.
• The monster blamed its downfall on an unnamed being or force, but had not yet explained what happened.

Zijun and Ziming traveled to Gu Mountain, where Zijun discovered a Bone of the Chaotic Ancestral Dragon buried beneath it. They left the Purple-Robed Ghost Daoist to another pursuer, but the Daoist achieved immortality and was immediately confronted by a Black-Robed Daoist.

• The Resentful Obsession Monster swore an oath that a Ghost Immortal had imprisoned him in Rebirth City and forced him to bear the Ghost Immortal’s karma.
• Zijun and Ziming climbed the muddy road to Gu Mountain, where Zijun noticed the strange creatures watching them.
• Zijun sensed a Bone of the Chaotic Ancestral Dragon beneath Gu Mountain and noticed someone hiding nearby, so he led Ziming away from the cave.
• The Purple-Robed Ghost Daoist found two scarlet pills in the furnace dregs, swallowed them, and underwent a thunder tribulation that shattered Gu Mountain.
• The Purple-Robed Ghost Daoist declared that he had become an immortal, but a Black-Robed Daoist arrived and attacked him with a huge black palm.

Zijun and Ziming watched a Black-Robed Daoist capture the Ghost Immortal Demon Daoist, then freed the Resentful Obsession Monster and broke the formation trapping Rebirth City. As they continued their journey, the Yellow-Clad Youth told them that Fallen Immortal Mountain might hold the rare treasure Zijun sought.

• Zijun recognized the Black-Robed Daoist as a peak Earth Immortal, who subdued the Ghost Immortal Demon Daoist and carried him away.
• Zijun retrieved a Chaos Dragon Bone from Gu Mountain and told Ziming he could have it after reaching the Human Immortal Realm.
• Zijun and Ziming met the freed Yellow-Clad Youth, who thanked them for ending his suffering.
• At Rebirth City, Ziming discovered Hu Hansan had died protecting the city; Zijun destroyed the formation and honored his sacrifice.
• The Yellow-Clad Youth stopped Zijun and Ziming to tell them that Fallen Immortal Mountain might contain a treasure.

Zijun and Ziming learned about Fallen Immortal Mountain’s strange treasures and a powerful creature guarding its entrance, then traveled there. At the mountain, rival factions fought over a dagger called Demon God Ya while Ziming watched from an inn.

• A yellow-robed youth told Ziming that Fallen Immortal Mountain produced unusual treasures and recounted how a Profound Immortal-level evil creature had stopped Lu Xian from entering.
• Zijun suspected the mountain’s transformations might be connected to a Godhead Fragment and took Ziming through a spatial passage to Fallen Immortal Mountain.
• At the mountain’s entrance, Fu Fei and Hou Yan discussed the mortals they had sent inside to search for treasure.
• Tie Erzhu emerged with the Demon God Ya dagger, but an arrow struck his wrist before he could hand it to Fu Fei.
• Zheng Ze arrived with four elders from the Luo Demon Sect, and Fu Fei’s elders confronted them as the two factions disputed the dagger.
• From an inn, Ziming watched the commotion and asked Zijun why ordinary people were the ones emerging from Fallen Immortal Mountain.

Zijun discovered that the awakened being inside Fallen Immortal Mountain was charging toward its exit and warned the cultivators, who ignored him as the elders launched a battle above the mountain. He protected Ziming from the battle’s pressure and urged a slovenly man to flee, but the man stayed, curious about Zijun.

• Zijun sensed a red-haired, green-faced being awaken among treasures inside Fallen Immortal Mountain, and the system said the Godhead had cultivated into a spirit and taken form.
• Zijun warned the cultivators that the being was coming, but most dismissed him; the elders of Qinghuai Academy and the Luo Demon Sect prepared to seize Demon God Ya and began fighting with summoned powers.
• Zijun weakened his Spatial Barrier briefly, causing Ziming to feel the battle’s pressure and collapse, then strengthened it again to protect him.
• Zijun warned the slovenly man to leave because the monster had awakened, but the man stayed, ate Ziming’s Spirit Fruit, and asked Zijun to ask his name.
• Someone shouted for everyone to run.

Zijun defeated the Mystic Immortal creature rampaging at Fallen Immortal Mountain and learned it was a puppet of a Godhead Fragment. He claimed the fragment, which would take a hundred years to absorb and merge with, and left the mountain with Ziming to cultivate.

• A red-haired, green-faced creature burst from Fallen Immortal Mountain and slaughtered cultivators, while the sloppy man and the Holy Dragon combatants fled.
• Zijun learned from Ziming that a Mystic Immortal was the highest realm in this world and stepped forward to confront the creature.
• Zijun pinned the creature down with his power, then destroyed it with a sword strike after the system revealed it was a puppet and not the source of the Godhead Fragment.
• The awakened Godhead appeared as a white-robed youth resembling Zijun, transformed into a rhombus-shaped fragment, and flew toward him.
• The system explained that the fragment was the Godhead's core and would take a hundred years to absorb; Zijun took it and left Fallen Immortal Mountain with Ziming.

Ziming left Longyan Lotus Cave and went to Lianshan Town, where a fortune-teller recognized his extraordinary fate and fled in shock. A little girl who had seen Ziming flying arrived home and excitedly told Gu Sui she had seen an immortal.

• Ziming descended Longyan Mountain and flew over the rice fields toward Lianshan Town.
• A little girl saw Ziming flying, chased after him through the fields, and hurried to town when she realized where he had gone.
• Ziming entered Lianshan Town, where cultivators’ powers were sealed by the town’s great formation.
• A fortune-teller read Ziming’s face, then fled after calculating his name and declared that he had seen an immortal.
• The little girl returned home and told Gu Sui that she had seen an immortal, and Gu Sui dismissed her claim as a dream.

Ziming discovered that entering Lianshan Town sealed away his cultivation, while Straw Hat Girl brought Gu Sui to Mr. Kong’s private school. The chapter ended with Gu Sui arriving late as Mr. Kong taught his students.

• Gu Sui dismissed Straw Hat Girl’s claim that she had seen an Immortal, then invited her to sneak a listen to Mr. Kong’s lesson.
• Straw Hat Girl explained that her younger brother Chen Di caught fish and shrimp to help their mother, and Gu Sui asked to join them next time.
• Ziming entered Lianshan Town and found that his cultivation vanished inside its boundaries but returned as soon as he stepped out.
• Ziming explored the town and learned that the Yihong Pavilion was the dual cultivation place Old Ghost Qiu had mentioned.
• Gu Sui and Straw Hat Girl watched Ziming pass, and Straw Hat Girl insisted she had seen him fly like a fish.
• Gu Sui arrived late at Mr. Kong’s schoolhouse and apologized.

Gu Sui accepted Mr. Kong’s punishment while Chen Niu listened to his lesson outside the schoolroom. Elsewhere, Ziming bought a dragon-bloodline goldfish for one tael and came across a Jade Treasure House raw-stone stall, leaving a furious stranger intent on meeting him.

• Gu Sui accepted Mr. Kong’s order to copy the Book of Meng one hundred times, while children gathered outside to listen to his lesson.
• Chen Niu tried writing the character for “goodness,” and Mr. Kong noticed her work from inside the schoolroom.
• Ziming bought a golden carp with dragon aura from a fisherman for one tael of silver and stored it in his Space Ring.
• A bamboo-hatted man recognized the fish as the object he had searched for over five years and decided to meet Ziming.
• Ziming visited a Jade Treasure House raw-stone stall, where the shopkeeper explained the fair pricing and the chance to find fine jade.

Ziming visited Liu Sandao’s jade stall, where he discovered that the shopkeeper’s ordinary-looking stones were actually top-grade spirit stones. After a thunderous warning from the Divine Array, Ziming was left puzzled by the outsiders’ reaction and by the shopkeeper’s defense of his business.

• Ziming bought a raw stone and tried to lift it, but failed and asked Liu Sandao to cut it for him.
• Liu Sandao summoned Yan Shan and Yan Miao, the Vajra Buddhas of Qingguang Temple, to saw the stone in exchange for two pieces of jade.
• Ziming recognized the jade as top-grade spirit stones and asked whether all of Liu Sandao’s stock was the same quality.
• When Ziming formed a scheme to profit from the stones, the Divine Array rumbled with thunder, startling him and prompting knowing looks from the other outsiders.
• Yan Shan offered Ziming a warning against greed, and Liu Sandao defended himself by saying the townspeople called him Philanthropist Liu.

Ziming uncovered a legendary five-colored divine stone and then found a mysterious jade bowl while browsing stalls in Lianshan Town. As he began inspecting a ginseng disguised as a radish, the man in the bamboo hat decided to approach him.

• Ziming bought a raw stone that revealed a fist-sized five-colored divine stone, and he stored it in his Space Ring.
• Ziming left the stall with the divine stone while the gathered cultivators watched but did not follow because of the town's restrictions.
• Ziming searched local stalls and bought a jade bowl that revealed secret writing when taken outside Lianshan Town.
• The man in the bamboo hat, amazed by Ziming's luck, left the tea stall to meet him.
• At a vegetable stall, the man in the bamboo hat interrupted Ziming as he tried to buy a ten-thousand-year ginseng disguised as a radish.

Ziming lost a ten-thousand-year immortal ginseng and a Sea-Stabilizing Pearl to a mysterious man in a bamboo hat, who tricked him into taking a lightning strike from the Divine Array. Meanwhile, Mr. Kong noticed an auspicious celestial omen, returned to his courtyard, and resumed a game of Go with his Book Boy.

• Ziming tried to buy a ten-thousand-year immortal ginseng, but the middle-aged man in the bamboo hat bought it first and followed him.
• At a seafood stall, the man in the bamboo hat bought a clam shell containing the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl and warned Ziming that a Divine Array protected the area.
• The man in the bamboo hat persuaded Ziming to take the clam shell, and a bolt of pale-blue lightning struck Ziming unconscious.
• The man in the bamboo hat collected the clam shell, carried Ziming away, and wondered whether an auspicious omen meant his long-held wish would come true.
• Mr. Kong left his private school and returned to his bamboo courtyard, where his Book Boy placed a black stone on the Go board and Mr. Kong replied with a white stone.

Mr. Kong taught a young student to consider the other player’s perspective, while Qin struggled to rid himself of the calamity surrounding the unconscious Ziming. After the temples of the Chan and Ren sects suffered supernatural damage, Qin brought Ziming to Mr. Kong at Bamboo Grove Villa.

• Mr. Kong explained to the little gray-clad book boy that winning required considering what the other player was thinking, and the boy thanked him for the lesson.
• After nine disastrous divinations, the middle-aged man in the bamboo hat carried the unconscious Ziming out of Fortune Inn to seek someone who could bear the karma.
• The middle-aged man in the bamboo hat left Ziming at Zhenshan Temple, where the Chan Sect Patriarch’s phantom appeared and threatened him.
• The middle-aged man in the bamboo hat tried leaving Ziming at Qingfeng Temple, but its stone qilin guardian and gate plaque shattered, prompting the old Daoist to curse the outlander.
• Deciding he could only pass the burden to Brother Kong, the middle-aged man in the bamboo hat took Ziming to Bamboo Grove Villa and greeted Mr. Kong as Jianhuazi.

Jianhuazi tried to hand the unconscious Ziming and the karma from his injuries to Kong Xuanji in exchange for a Ten-Thousand-Year Immortal Ginseng. Kong Xuanji realized the danger behind Ziming and refused the arrangement, but Jianhuazi fled with both the ginseng and Ziming.

• Jianhuazi met Kong Xuanji for wine and discussed Kong Xuanji's lingering guilt and heart demon from events a thousand years earlier.
• Jianhuazi offered Kong Xuanji a Ten-Thousand-Year Immortal Ginseng and asked him to care for someone in return.
• Jianhuazi brought Ziming to Kong Xuanji and explained that the Divine Array's Thunder Tribulation had left him half-dead until he transformed into a flood dragon.
• Jianhuazi admitted that Ziming's extraordinary fortune had led him to misjudge the boy and that the person behind him might be as powerful as a sage.
• Kong Xuanji returned the ginseng and Ziming, but Jianhuazi fled the courtyard with both and called out a cryptic divination about fortune and disaster.

Kong Xuanji used a lifespan-consuming divination to learn that he would survive, then instructed Qingzhu to befriend Ziming. Elsewhere, Hu Laoguai entertained village children with a story about Sword Heavenly Saint, while Zijun completed his absorption of the Godhead Fragment and rose with overwhelming power.

• Kong Xuanji divined his fate, spent forty-five million years of lifespan, and learned he was not destined to die.
• Kong Xuanji reassured Qingzhu, urged him to see the world someday, and told him to befriend Ziming.
• Hu Laoguai gathered the village children beneath the cherry tree and resumed his tale of Sword Heavenly Saint.
• Zijun opened his eyes in Fire Flame Lotus Cave after absorbing the Godhead Fragment, and thunder roared as he stood with a terrifying aura.