Chapter Summaries

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Beichen is granted the post of Judicial Divine God by Emperor Chen Gou and Great Unity Savior from Suffering Supreme Venerable.
• Yang Jian, the True Lord Erlang, appears in Li Beichen's consciousness, confirming his succession and granting him the Heaven-Piercing Divine Eye ability.
• Li Beichen's investiture ceremony takes place, attended by various Immortal Lords and department heads of the Heavenly Court.
• Li Beichen meets and interacts with several Immortal Lords, including Dharma Origin, Shangqing Yuanyi, and Taibai Star Lord.
• Li Beichen visits the Heavenly Immortal Realm to meet True Lord Erlang.

Character Developments

• Li Beichen gains the Heaven-Piercing Divine Eye ability, solidifying his position and power.
• Li Beichen's status and authority increase significantly, making him one of the strongest Immortal Lords.
• Immortal Lords' perceptions of Li Beichen change, recognizing him as a "river-crossing dragon" rather than a mere rising star.

Significant Themes

• Power and authority: Li Beichen's new position and abilities grant him significant influence within the Heavenly Court.
• Succession and legacy: Li Beichen's succession of Erlang Shen's mantle is confirmed, connecting him to an ancient and powerful lineage.
• Relationships and alliances: Li Beichen navigates his interactions with various Immortal Lords, forming connections and understanding their motivations.

Character Interactions

• Li Beichen interacts with several Immortal Lords, including Dharma Origin (friendly), Shangqing Yuanyi (cautious), and Taibai Star Lord (cordial).
• Li Beichen meets True Lord Erlang in the Heavenly Immortal Realm, expressing gratitude and paying respect to his mentor.
• Li Beichen's subordinates, the Grasshead Divine Generals and the Six Lords of Mount Mei, follow his orders and prepare for his arrival at the Supreme Subtle Enclosure.

Key plot points and events

• Li Beichen arrives at Guan River Estuary and meets Erlang Shen (Yang Jian), who says it is time to reveal more of the past.
• Yang Jian explains that remnants of defeated beings from many ancient calamities joined forces to attack the Ancient Heavenly Court. Their uprising devastated the Court and other great powers; the Jade Emperor sacrificed himself to end the crisis.
• The current calamity is still dangerous. The nine Golden Crows are only a prelude, and the Heavenly Court fears that intervening too forcefully could trigger the return of still-dormant ancient beings.
• Yang Jian reveals that Sun Wukong—the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, whom he calls the Victorious Fighting Buddha—entered the calamity voluntarily. Wukong’s legacy gave Li Beichen his Battle Victory Intent and helped him gain major breakthroughs. Li is the heir chosen jointly by Yang Jian and Wukong.
• Asked what he will do, Li says he seeks strength and freedom, will repay kindness and oppose those who harm him, and will help others when he is able without abandoning his principles.
• Yang Jian teaches Li the cultivation path ahead: Immortal Lord, Taiyi Golden Immortal, Great Luo Golden Immortal, Three Corpses Severance, Quasi-Saint, and ultimately Sage. Because the calamity is accelerating, Li must progress faster.
• Yang Jian uses himself and two incarnations to send Li’s soul into a vast Dao Palace filled with scriptures and teachings. Li must comprehend them all to leave; his body remains asleep in the Peach Forest.

Character developments

• Li Beichen demonstrates humility, resolve, and continuity of purpose. He accepts the burden of accelerated cultivation and recognizes the Dao Palace as an advanced version of Yang Jian’s earlier teaching space.
• Yang Jian shifts from mentor to trusted confidant, revealing both the catastrophe’s history and his personal bond with Wukong. His concern for the monkey and his descendants shows a warmer, more vulnerable side.
• Sun Wukong emerges as a self-sacrificing figure whose choice to enter the calamity shaped Li’s inheritance and present path.

Significant themes

• The persistence of calamity: Defeated beings and unresolved conflicts can survive across ages, making each crisis part of a larger cycle.
• Legacy and chosen responsibility: Li’s strength comes partly from those who sacrificed themselves, and he must decide how to use what they entrusted to him.
• Principles amid catastrophe: Li values freedom and self-reliance while remaining willing to help others when he can.
• Cultivation through understanding: Advancement now depends on comprehending the Dao, not merely accumulating power; Li must endure solitude and study to keep pace with the crisis.

Character interactions

• Yang Jian recounts the ancient history and tests Li’s intentions; Li responds candidly rather than making grand promises.
• Their relationship deepens through respectful, personal exchanges: Li addresses Yang Jian as Master, serves him tea, and asks for guidance.
• Yang Jian’s memories of Wukong connect the mentor and student, making clear that Li is carrying forward the hopes of both men.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Beichen enters a space containing a boundless treasury of the Dao, where he reads and comprehends countless scriptures, strengthening his foundation.
• He then faces a jade wall with questions about the Dao, which he answers flawlessly, leading to the wall's destruction.
• Yang Jian offers Li Beichen the inheritances of the Thirty-Six Transformations of Heavenly Gang, Seventy-Two Transformations of Earthly Fiends, Somersault Cloud, and Shrinking Ground to an Inch, along with their respective inheritance seeds.

Character Developments

• Li Beichen's Dao foundation becomes complete after comprehending the vast treasury of the Dao.
• He gains four great divine abilities' inheritances, significantly enhancing his power.

Significant Themes

• The importance of a solid foundation in cultivation.
• The value of personal experience and comprehension in understanding the Dao.
• The role of divine abilities in enhancing one's power.

Character Interactions

• Li Beichen interacts with Yang Jian, who serves as his master and guide, providing him with invaluable resources and knowledge.
• Li Beichen acknowledges and respects his past masters, demonstrating his gratitude for their aid.

Plot points and events

• Yang Jian explains that every major faction is seeking ways to delay or resolve the coming Immeasurable Calamity. He says Celestial Venerable Great Unity Savior from Suffering has invited him to discuss it and offers to bring Li Beichen along.
• Yang Jian gives Li Beichen the Primordial Hundred Spirits Mirror, which contains traces of powerful beings from ancient times. He advises Li to use such beings as models for the Thirty-Six Transformations of Heavenly Gang.
• Li enters the Eastern Emperor Bell’s inner world, where he can spend centuries cultivating in moments outside. He studies the Thirty-Six Transformations and crosses its threshold after eight hundred years.
• Searching the mirror for a suitable transformation, Li focuses on Great Shaman Hou Yi, famed for shooting down the Nine-Headed Golden Crows. Since those fallen suns have returned and are now attacking the First Heaven, Li hopes Hou Yi’s abilities could help counter the crisis.
• Li spends a century refining Hou Yi’s ancient essence blood. Though immensely potent, it has lost its source will, allowing Li to break it down. In the process, he also absorbs a trace of the Great Dao of Strength.
• Li completes the Hou Yi Transformation, gaining a profound grasp of the Dao of Archery and a major increase in physical strength—though he remains at the Golden Immortal level. He then combines it with Law of Heaven and Earth, growing to enormous size and summoning an illusory Sun-Shooting Bow.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Jian acts as both mentor and benefactor: he shares the wider stakes of the calamity, invites Li to a crucial meeting, and provides him with a rare cultivation resource.
• Li Beichen shows discipline, ambition, and strategic thinking. Rather than merely mastering a new transformation, he identifies its potential to address the Nine Suns crisis and studies its underlying physical cultivation as well.
• Li’s cultivation advances substantially, but he remains aware of his limits: the transformation can improve his combat power only within his own realm, not raise him to Great Luo Golden Immortal.

Significant themes

• Preparation for catastrophe: Powerful beings across the world are trying to prevent or delay an approaching calamity.
• Cultivation through inheritance and insight: Li turns ancient remnants into practical strength, while recognizing that great abilities require painstaking study.
• Power and limitation: The Hou Yi Transformation grants exceptional abilities, but cannot erase the gap between major cultivation realms.
• The past shaping the present: Hou Yi’s ancient deeds may offer a means to confront the resurrected Golden Crows now threatening the heavens.

Key interactions

• Yang Jian explains the calamity and guides Li’s next steps, while Li respectfully accepts his instruction and gift.
• Li consults the mirror’s records, compares several ancient figures, and chooses Hou Yi as the best match for his immediate goal.
• Li’s final combination of Hou Yi’s transformation and Law of Heaven and Earth begins to turn his ancient inheritance into a weapon against the Nine Suns.

Key plot points and events

• Inside the Eastern Emperor Bell, Li Beichen spends a thousand years mastering the Hou Yi Transformation, one of the Thirty-Six Transformations of Heavenly Gang, and refining Great Shaman Hou Yi’s blood essence. His Dao-level archery lets him conjure the power of the Sun-Chasing Bow and Sun-Shooting Arrow even without the actual treasures.
• Returning to the Peach Forest, Li Beichen finds that only a moment has passed outside. He tells Yang Jian that he used a treasure containing a thousand years of time to cultivate. Yang Jian warns him to keep such a treasure secret and suggests it may help resolve the Nine Suns Burning Heaven Calamity.
• Yang Jian takes Li Beichen to the sanctuary of Celestial Venerable Great Unity Savior from Suffering. There, the Celestial Venerable proposes creating a refuge beneath Mount Buzhou for the people of the Ninth Heaven of the Human Immortal Realm, threatened by the advancing calamity. Yang Jian agrees to support the plan by physically lifting Mount Buzhou so a new heaven can be opened beneath it.
• The Celestial Venerable explains the alternative proposed by Emperor Chen Gou: Yin-Spirit Unification, which would pour the population’s yang energy into the Blood Moon. Though Chen Gou believes it could delay the calamity, it would sacrifice the Ninth Heaven’s people.
• Li Beichen recognizes that his earlier discoveries in the Jade Pool experiments may expose a fatal flaw in this plan. The World-Saving Necro-Scripture produces Necro-Spirit Essence that poisons the living but empowers the undead—the opposite of the intended effect. Yang Jian and the Celestial Venerable reproduce the process and confirm Li Beichen’s concern. They suspect Shangqing Yuanyi, who implemented Chen Gou’s proposal, may have misled him.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Beichen demonstrates exceptional progress and growing judgment: beyond mastering a powerful transformation, he connects evidence from his past investigations to the larger political and cosmic crisis. He respectfully challenges two Quasi-Saints when he sees that a proposed solution may worsen the danger.
• Yang Jian shows confidence in his disciple, cautions him about secrecy, and readily accepts the immense burden of holding up Mount Buzhou. His composure reinforces his extraordinary strength and sense of duty.
• Celestial Venerable Great Unity Savior from Suffering acts from compassion for the threatened population and seeks a way to save them without draining other realms’ resources. He listens to Li Beichen’s warning and investigates it rather than dismissing it.
• Emperor Chen Gou is described as calculating and focused on the greater good, willing to sacrifice one population to protect the wider worlds. The chapter leaves open whether he knows that his plan may have been sabotaged.

Significant themes

• Compassion versus utilitarian calculation: The chapter contrasts the Celestial Venerable’s effort to protect individuals with Chen Gou’s willingness to sacrifice them for the greater good.
• Power joined to responsibility: Yang Jian’s strength is presented not merely as martial prowess, but as a willingness to bear a world’s burden.
• Knowledge and scrutiny: Li Beichen’s careful attention to the results of past experiments reveals how a seemingly sound plan can conceal a disastrous flaw.
• Calamity, sacrifice, and uncertainty: The threatened refuge and the dangerous Yin-Spirit Unification plan show that every proposed solution carries enormous stakes—and that hidden motives may shape the crisis.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Heavenly Court convenes to discuss the Yin-Spirit Unification plan to deal with the nine suns burning the sky.
• Shangqing Yuanyi, the head of the Plague Department, presents his plan in detail, claiming it will save the living beings of the Human Immortal Realm rather than sacrifice them.
• He demonstrates the plan using a vast amount of data and deductions, convincing many Immortal Lords.
• Li Beichen, the Judicial Heavenly God, steps forward to challenge Shangqing Yuanyi's plan.

Character Developments

• Shangqing Yuanyi: Reveals his true cultivation level of Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal and his ambition to become a quasi-sage. He presents his plan with great eloquence and detail, aiming to convince the Heavenly Court and Immortal Lords.
• Li Beichen: Shows his determination to expose Shangqing Yuanyi's scheme. He steps forward to challenge the plan, hinting at his connection to the Western Imperial Palace.

Significant Themes

• The struggle between good and evil, as Shangqing Yuanyi's plan appears to save lives but hides malicious intent.
• The power of data and evidence in convincing others, as Shangqing Yuanyi uses meticulous deductions to support his plan.
• The consequences of one's actions, as the fate of billions of living beings hangs in the balance.

Character Interactions

• Li Beichen and Shangqing Yuanyi: Tension builds between them as Li Beichen challenges Shangqing Yuanyi's plan, hinting at his knowledge of the Western Imperial Palace.
• Emperor Chen Gou and Great Unity Savior from Suffering: They observe the proceedings without interfering, allowing the Immortal Lords to discuss and debate the plan.
• Yang Jian: He supports Li Beichen's actions but remains mostly silent, observing the situation with a calm and unreadable expression.

Plot points and events

• Li Beichen confronts Shangqing Yuanyi over the Yin-Spirit Unification project. Shangqing admits that he involved the Western Imperial Palace—later known as Jade Pool—but frames his actions as necessary sacrifices for the Heavenly Court.
• Li reveals stronger evidence: record 301,800, which Shangqing presented earlier, conflicts with Jade Pool’s later research. The World-Saving Necro-Scripture produced Necro-Spirit Essence, whose properties contradict the outcome predicted by Shangqing’s data.
• Shangqing questions the evidence’s source and authenticity. Li explains that he was born in the Nine Provinces, inherited Jade Pool’s secret records, and demonstrates the Western Imperial Palace’s lost Twelve Yuanchen Immortal Sword Formation. The proof convinces the assembly that Shangqing falsified his research.
• Emperor Chen Gou presses Shangqing to explain the fraud. Shangqing responds with a threat: if he dies, the Zhou Heaven Star Array will fail, allowing the Nether World to invade and the nine suns to devastate the Human Immortal Realm.
• Shangqing releases his suppressed power, revealing that he is a Great Luo Golden Immortal. Yang Jian identifies him as Ju Liusun, an ancient Golden Immortal who once belonged to the School of Elucidation before joining the West.
• Ju Liusun accuses Yang Jian of thwarting his chance to advance and warns that a Nether World ally, Bright Venerable, may attack. Yang Jian dismisses him as a pawn.
• Emperor Chen Gou uses the Vast Heaven Mirror to immobilize and imprison Ju Liusun, ending the confrontation.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Beichen shifts from accusation to decisive proof, exposing the contradiction in Shangqing’s data and establishing his own connection to Jade Pool through his Nine Provinces origins.
• Shangqing Yuanyi/Ju Liusun first presents himself as a remorseful servant acting for the greater good, then reveals his desperation and hidden strength when cornered. His threat and outburst expose his ambition and resentment.
• Emperor Chen Gou is revealed to have helped set the trap, forcing Shangqing to display the data that Li needed. He remains composed and ultimately captures him.
• Yang Jian is exposed as the architect behind the confrontation and Li Beichen’s connection to the case. He recognizes Ju Liusun and rejects his appeal to their former ties.
• The Immortal Lords move from uncertainty to alarm as Li’s evidence lands, then prepare for battle when Shangqing threatens the Heavenly Court’s defenses.

Significant themes

• Truth versus manipulation: Shangqing uses a carefully constructed confession to disguise wrongdoing, but evidence exposes his deception.
• Power and accountability: Exceptional ability and past service do not excuse betrayal of trust.
• Ambition and resentment: Ju Liusun’s grievance over being denied advancement helps explain his choices, but does not absolve them.
• Hidden identities and strategic planning: The confrontation reveals that both Shangqing’s identity and the Heavenly Court’s investigation were concealed until the decisive moment.

Key plot points and events

• Celestial Venerable Great Unity Savior from Suffering announces a plan to shelter the people endangered by the Nine Suns Burning Heaven Calamity by creating a new heaven beneath Mount Buzhou.
• Yang Jian uses his immense Law of Heaven and Earth form to lift Mount Buzhou, while the Celestial Venerable gathers primordial energies and countless small worlds to form Azure Flower Heaven. Yang Jian lowers the mountain onto it, anchoring the unstable realm and making it safe for its inhabitants.
• The Celestial Venerable warns that Azure Flower Heaven can last only ten thousand years. He has used his severed good and evil selves as its foundation; if the calamity is not resolved in time, the heaven and both selves will perish, costing him his Quasi-Saint rank.
• Yang Jian tells his disciple Li Beichen that the returned Nine-Headed Black-and-Red Three-Legged Birds are now weakened to the Taiyi Golden Immortal level. To defeat them reliably, Li must recover Hou Yi’s Sun-Chasing Bow and Sun-Shooting Arrows, hidden in the Golden Crows’ tombs. Meanwhile, Li’s archery can help hold the birds off while people evacuate.
• In High Heaven Hall, Emperor Chen Gou continues torturing Ju Liusun with the Vast Heaven Mirror, extracting his memories. He discovers that Ju’s Yin-Spirit Unification plan was a bid for power: Ju intended to lull the Blood Moon, refine it, and use a transformed Myriad Soul Banner to become a Quasi-Saint. In exchange, he would sacrifice the Human Immortal Realm’s inhabitants to advance the Nether World’s plans.
• Chen Gou’s main concern is the Nether World’s secret weapon: the Twelve Capitals Heavenly Array. Ju boasts that it could shatter the weakened Heavenly Court’s Zhou Heaven Star Array.

Character developments and interactions

• The Celestial Venerable demonstrates extraordinary compassion, risking his cultivation to protect countless lives. His sacrifice gives the survivors time, but sets a strict ten-thousand-year deadline.
• Yang Jian displays overwhelming physical power by bearing Mount Buzhou and the weight of the nine heavens. His graying temples reveal the toll of the crisis, though he reassures Li Beichen and gives him a practical mission.
• Li Beichen is awed by his master’s strength and the Celestial Venerable’s sacrifice. He recognizes his own limitations but accepts responsibility for helping defeat the Golden Crows and protect the people.
• Chen Gou remains cold and focused while interrogating Ju Liusun, showing little reaction to his curses. The discovery of the Twelve Capitals Heavenly Array briefly alarms him.
• Ju Liusun, broken but not dead, reveals the conspiracy and taunts Chen Gou, presenting the array as a threat to the Heavenly Court.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and compassion: The Celestial Venerable spends his own power and future to shelter ordinary beings.
• The cost of leadership: Even the most powerful figures suffer under the calamity, while the survival of entire realms rests on difficult choices.
• Power and selfish ambition: Ju Liusun’s scheme turns countless lives into tools for his own ascent and the Nether World’s advance.
• Hope under a deadline: Azure Flower Heaven offers refuge, but only temporarily; the heroes must end the calamity within ten thousand years.
• Inherited legacy: Hou Yi’s weapons and Yang Jian’s guidance give Li Beichen a path to confront a threat beyond his current strength.

Plot points and events

• Ju Liusun taunts Emperor Chen Gou, arguing that the Nether World’s Twelve Capitals Heavenly Array—combined with the Nine Suns Scorch Heaven Array—could overwhelm the Heavenly Court. Chen Gou remains calm and hints that the situation is about to turn, then silences Ju with the Vast Heaven Mirror.
• The Heavenly Court appoints Li Beichen imperial commissioner for the Human Immortal Realm, giving him sweeping authority to organize the evacuation of its nine heavens to Azure Flower Heaven. Because he became an Immortal Lord during the calamity, he can act without triggering the return of sleeping ancient beings.
• Li Beichen realizes evacuation is only a fallback: to end the threat, he must find the Sun-Chasing Bow and Sun-Shooting Arrows in the Nether World. Since his true body must oversee the migration, he needs someone else to search for them.
• He returns alone to the Human Immortal Realm and rapidly mobilizes Heavenly Court officials and generals. He orders them to notify every world within three days, prepare teleportation arrays within seven, and begin transporting inhabitants and supplies. Refusal after three warnings permits execution; officials must report progress daily.
• The Heavenly Court’s normally distant administration mobilizes across all nine heavens, and the enormous relocation effort begins.
• Li Beichen visits his friend Zhang Shou and reveals his plan to recover the legendary bow and arrows used by Hou Yi to kill the nine suns. Zhang understands the idea but questions whether the treasures still function—and whether anyone can wield them.

Character developments

• Emperor Chen Gou remains composed under Ju Liusun’s threats, suggesting he has a plan without revealing it.
• Li Beichen accepts the immense responsibility of protecting billions, shifting from concern for his former small world to leadership over the entire Human Immortal Realm. He acts decisively and prepares to pursue a way to end the calamity, not merely flee it.
• Zhang Shou is shown as a formidable, knowledgeable ally, but also a practical skeptic who tests the feasibility of Li Beichen’s plan.

Character interactions

• Ju Liusun tries to provoke Chen Gou with predictions of the Heavenly Court’s defeat; Chen Gou’s calm response unsettles him.
• Li Beichen commands the Heavenly Court’s officials with absolute authority, and they respond immediately and obediently.
• Li Beichen approaches Zhang Shou as a trusted friend and potential partner. Zhang recognizes the logic behind the treasure hunt but presses Li about the skills and power needed to use the weapons.

Significant themes

• Duty and sacrifice: Li Beichen must shoulder a crisis that more powerful figures cannot directly address.
• Leadership and coercive authority: The evacuation demands rapid, unified action, enforced through strict orders and severe penalties.
• Hope versus catastrophe: Mass relocation offers survival, while finding the legendary weapons could end the threat at its source.
• Limits imposed by fate: The calamity’s rules restrain the Heavenly Court’s strongest members, leaving Li Beichen uniquely free to act.

Key plot points and events

• Li Beichen reveals that he has mastered the Hou Yi Transformation, one of the Thirty-Six Transformations of Heavenly Gang. Zhang Shou connects this to the search for the legendary Sun-Chasing Bow and Sun-Shooting Arrow.
• Because Li Beichen must oversee the evacuation of the Human Immortal Realm, he asks Zhang Shou to retrieve the treasures from the Nether World. Zhang agrees, noting that his Immortal Lord aura may help him pass unnoticed.
• In the Nether World, nine Bright Venerables finish refining the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ lingering Dao traces into array banners. With the array diagram, they plan to unleash the Twelve Capitals Heavenly Array in a single devastating strike to break the Zhou Heaven Star Array and let the Blood Moon’s influence reach the living world.
• Zhang Shou secretly enters the Nether World and uses a damaged fragment of the River Diagram and Luo Scripture to locate the buried bow and arrow. He reaches the ancient seal laid by Di Jun and begins divining its weaknesses.
• Li Beichen secretly sends his Yama Dharma Body, accompanied by three resurrected but weakened half-step Immortal Lords, to support Zhang at a crucial moment.
• Across the First Heaven, the Heavenly Court urgently evacuates the population, supplies, and movable cities from the nine heavens. Li Beichen prioritizes saving lives over preserving worlds, while keeping the Zhou Heaven Star Array powered for as long as possible.
• As the Nether World’s attack begins to gather force, Li Beichen orders all troops to prepare for battle and migration teams to retreat toward the Second Heaven. The First Heaven’s defenders—including Heavenly Court forces and powerful young cultivators—prepare to face the Nine Suns if the barrier falls.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Shou accepts a perilous mission out of trust and responsibility. His experience in the Nether World, quiet confidence, and use of the River Diagram and Luo Scripture make him the key seeker of the bow and arrow.
• Li Beichen demonstrates strategic resolve: he delegates the Nether World mission, conceals his Yama Dharma Body as a reserve asset, and directs an enormous evacuation while preparing to defend the frontier.
• The Bright Venerables shift from long-term scheming to imminent action, united by hatred of the living world and the hope of escaping the Nether World.
• The young cultivators and elite allies choose to remain at the front, treating the approaching calamity as both a duty and a chance to break through toward the Human Path Ultimate Realm.
• Zhang and Li Beichen’s exchange is marked by mutual respect: Zhang accepts the dangerous assignment, while Li warns that Li’s own defense of the migration may be even more dangerous.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and responsibility: The Heavenly Court abandons worlds if necessary to save their inhabitants, while defenders knowingly stand between the threat and billions of people.
• Preparation amid catastrophe: Evacuation, concealed reserves, and layered defenses show that survival depends on planning as much as strength.
• Danger as a path to growth: Young cultivators willingly face mortal danger in hopes of advancing beyond their limits.
• A gathering storm: The chapter builds toward simultaneous crises—the Nether World’s attack on the star array and Zhang Shou’s dangerous attempt to recover weapons that may help resist it.

Key plot points and events

• In the Nether World, nine Bright Venerables and three avatars invoke the Twelve Capitals Heavenly Array. Its axe-light strikes the Zhou Heaven Star Array, already weakened and strained by the nine suns, and shatters it.
• The nine black-and-red Three-Legged Birds break free, while yin soldiers, Ghost Immortals, and undead pour toward the living realms. The evacuation of Three Thousand Worlds Prefecture is still underway.
• Li Beichen assumes the Hou Yi True Form and draws the nine suns’ attention. He orders the Star Pass forces to protect the evacuation and hold back the undead, then lures the suns into the distant Star Sea.
• For three days and nights, Li Beichen evades their attacks, buying time for most of the Human Immortal Realm’s inhabitants to reach the Second Heaven. The chase devastates the remote Star Sea, and Li Beichen is left gravely injured.
• Meanwhile, the Bright Venerables send four Immortal Lord-level fighters to stop Zhang Shou from breaking Emperor Jun’s Restriction, which seals the Sun-Chasing Bow. Four more powerful opponents approach, but Li Beichen’s Yama Dharma Body and its companions intervene against Zhang Shou’s attackers. Zhang Shou seizes the opening and joins the fight, intending to resume breaking the seal afterward.

Character developments

• Li Beichen displays extraordinary courage and endurance, using his Hou Yi transformation not to defeat the nine suns but to draw them away from the endangered realms. Despite his failing body, he keeps flying and fighting.
• Zhang Shou shows both resolve and pragmatism: when outnumbered and at risk of being trapped, he prepares to withdraw, then quickly adapts when unexpected allies arrive.
• The Yama Dharma Body acts decisively to protect Zhang Shou, revealing its unusual ability to command or turn Nether World undead against their own forces.
• The Bright Venerables become alarmed by Li Beichen’s Hou Yi inheritance and urgently seek the Sun-Chasing Bow, recognizing Zhang Shou as another potential threat to their plans.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and responsibility: Li Beichen risks his life to give others time to escape, while the people who remain behind make their own choice to defend their homes.
• Cooperation amid catastrophe: The Star Pass defenders, Heavenly Court forces, and unexpected allies work together against threats too great for any one group.
• The limits of power and the force of resolve: Li Beichen cannot defeat the nine suns, but his determination lets him hold them off far longer than seems possible.
• Fate versus agency: Zhang Shou briefly wonders whether fate bars him from obtaining the bow, but responds to the situation with action rather than surrender.

Character interactions

• The Bright Venerables coordinate the destruction of the star array and later discuss Li Beichen and Zhang Shou as obstacles to their victory.
• Li Beichen entrusts the Star Pass commanders with protecting refugees and stopping the invading undead before taking the nine suns away himself.
• Zhang Shou is surrounded by four Nether World Immortal Lords, then unexpectedly aided by the Yama Dharma Body and its three companions, allowing him to counterattack alongside them.

Plot points and events

• Li Beichen stays behind at Northern Dipper Star Pass until the last civilians and border troops escape, then withdraws to the Second Heaven. His arrows hold off the nine black-and-red Three-Legged Birds long enough for him to get away.
• The Nether forces destroy the Star Pass array and drive the nine birds toward the Heavenly Gate. Li Beichen orders the gate sealed and, as its foundations begin to overheat, has it cooled with Cold Jade and cold crystals. He then directs a mass evacuation from the Second Heaven upward.
• The Heavenly Gate falls after the refugees escape. Over the following weeks, each successive gate holds for only a few days as the invasion advances. Li Beichen ultimately leads the living beings of the First Heaven to the Ninth Heaven.
• The Nether World’s Bright Venerables gain enough fortune from the First Heaven’s fall to send one of their own into the living world. They choose Zhou, who takes the First Heaven as his domain and promises the others will soon follow.
• In the Nether World, Zhang Shou and Li Beichen’s Yama Dharma Body subdue and seal four Nether Immortal Lords inside the River Diagram and Luo Scripture. The Dharma Body leaves without revealing its origins, while Zhang Shou resumes breaking Emperor Jun’s Restriction.
• Li Beichen sees Zhou emerge and recognizes him as King You of Zhou, now a peak Taiyi Golden Immortal who cultivates the Yama Son of Heaven Scripture. Over the next month, six more Bright Venerables emerge and take control of the Second through Seventh Heavens.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Beichen proves resolute and self-sacrificing: he refuses to retreat until everyone else is safe, then shifts quickly from defense to evacuation. He recognizes Zhou as a future, potentially unavoidable rival over the Yama Son of Heaven Scripture.
• Zhang Shou remains disciplined despite the worsening crisis, refusing to rush the Restriction-breaking process. He questions the Yama Dharma Body about whose plan it serves, but receives no answer.
• The Yama Dharma Body acts as Li Beichen’s secret ally, suppressing the Nether Immortal Lords and concealing the operation from the Bright Venerables. Its unexplained identity and purpose remain unresolved.
• The Bright Venerables negotiate among themselves, selecting Zhou to emerge first. Their confidence grows as the invasion succeeds, though they intend to take the heavens in sequence.
• Heavenly Court officials and Immortal Lords witness Zhou’s return and recognize him as a figure from an ancient catastrophe, revealing the scale of the threat now facing them.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and responsibility: Li Beichen risks himself to protect civilians and troops, treating evacuation as his foremost duty.
• Escalation and survival: Each gate buys only brief time; the living are forced into a desperate retreat toward safer heavens.
• Power, fortune, and legitimacy: The Bright Venerables can enter the living world only after accumulating sufficient fortune, making conquest both military and metaphysical.
• Hidden identities and ominous inheritance: Zhou’s transformation from King You of Zhou into a Yama cultivator foreshadows a future conflict tied to the lineage of the Yama Son of Heaven Scripture.

Key plot points and events

• Li Beichen stays in the Ninth Heaven while Zhang Shou searches the Nether World for the weapons needed to oppose the nine corrupted suns. The other heroes remain with him, hoping the coming battle will push them toward a breakthrough.
• After thirty-six days, Zhang Shou breaks Di Jun’s restrictions on a tomb and finds the Sun-Chasing Bow intact but sealed, along with nine Sun-Shooting Arrows broken into pieces. He takes the treasures and secretly crosses the Nether-occupied heavens.
• Zhang Shou evades seven Taiyi Golden Immortal Bright Venerables by concealing his presence with the River Diagram and Luo Scripture and by exploiting his Nether World cultivation. With guidance from his Daoist partner, he tracks events and approaches the Ninth Heaven.
• Daji—the revived nine-tailed fox and former demon consort—appears as the Bright Venerable assigned to the Eighth Heaven. She attacks the Ninth Heaven’s gate, but it withstands her assault; the nine black-and-red Three-Legged Birds must melt it open.
• While the gate is under attack, Li Beichen and the assembled cultivators exchange encouragement. A Three Purities disciple recognizes Li as a junior martial uncle through his master Yang Jian; Li politely declines elaborate formality and wishes the group success.
• Seven days later, the birds break through the molten gate. Li enlarges himself with Law of Heaven and Earth and strikes one with a bow-like burst of light, but the bird is only scorched, not seriously hurt.
• As Nether World forces pour into the Ninth Heaven, Zhang Shou reveals himself and sends the treasures to Li. Daji tries to intercept them, but Zhang Shou’s ten seals disrupt her attack. The weapons reach Li safely, and Zhang Shou returns to his allies.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Beichen remains composed under mounting danger and places his trust in Zhang Shou. He treats the gathered cultivators as peers despite their sectarian ties and encourages them to turn the crisis into spiritual advancement.
• Zhang Shou demonstrates patience, ingenuity, and courage, using ancient treasures and his Nether World status to evade powerful enemies. He risks exposing himself to get the weapons to Li.
• Daji is introduced as a formidable, confident Bright Venerable. Her attempt to block the delivery fails when Zhang Shou confronts her directly.
• The Three Purities disciples, Kunpeng Scion, and Bliss Dharma Realm monks choose to stand with Li, facing the imminent battle together. Their camaraderie briefly softens the tension.
• Zhang Shou and Li’s cooperation is central: Zhang retrieves the weapons, while Li holds the line until they arrive.

Significant themes

• Hope amid overwhelming odds: The intact bow and broken arrows offer only a slim chance, but the heroes seize it.
• Resolve and transformation through crisis: The younger cultivators see the coming ordeal as a chance to reach the Human Path Ultimate Realm.
• Cooperation across traditions: Allies from different lineages set aside formal rank and stand together against a common threat.
• Ingenuity against superior force: Zhang Shou survives by concealment and strategy, while direct strength alone cannot overcome the heavenly gate or the suns.
• Calamity as both destruction and opportunity: The invasion threatens the Nine Heavens even as it creates a decisive test for the defenders.

Key plot points and events

• Li Beichen receives the Sun-Chasing Bow and nine Sun-Shooting Arrows, but discovers the bow is sealed and the arrows are broken. The Bright Venerables mock his apparent inability to use them.
• As nine black-and-red Three-Legged Birds attack, Zhang Shou asks for the broken arrows and begins restoring them with his seals. Li charges the birds with the bow, realizing their powerful flames can burn away the Emperor Jun Restriction sealing it.
• The bow awakens under the flames. Zhang fuses the Heaven-Flipping Seal with a broken arrow, restoring it as a Sun-Shooting Arrow, and sends it to Li.
• Li assumes the Hou Yi True Form, fully awakens and enlarges the bow, then aims at the leading bird. Sensing the weapon’s lethal threat, Daji and the other Bright Venerables retreat—but can no longer control the birds, which attack Li out of hatred for their ancient enemy Hou Yi.
• Li fires the first arrow. It collides with the bird’s black-and-red attack in a cataclysmic blast. Zhang sends him a second restored arrow, and Li immediately fires again as the chapter ends.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Beichen moves from excitement and disappointment to resourceful resolve: he identifies the birds’ flames as the means to break the bow’s seal and faces the attack head-on.
• Zhang Shou proves crucial, using insight from the River Diagram and Luo Scripture—and the Heaven-Flipping and Earth-Covering Seals—to restore the arrows and support Li at key moments.
• Daji and the Bright Venerables shift from contemptuous confidence to alarm and retreat once Li awakens the bow. Their control over the birds fails when the creatures’ old hatred takes over.
• The World of the Living’s fighters, including the Three Purities Disciples, Kunpeng Scion, and Bliss Dharma Realm forces, continue battling the dead spirits while dodging the birds’ devastating flames.

Significant themes

• Ingenuity against overwhelming power: Li turns the enemy’s own flames against the bow’s seal, while Zhang uses divine arts to repair what others consider impossible.
• Courage and resolve: Li commits to battle despite the bow’s initial failure and the danger of the birds’ flames.
• History and vengeance: The birds’ ancient enmity toward Hou Yi resurfaces when Li takes on the same form and weapons.
• Underestimated potential: The Bright Venerables’ mockery gives way to fear as the supposedly ruined relics reveal their true power.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• Using the Hou Yi True Form, Li Beichen fires arrows that seem to follow causality, while Zhang Shou restores the spent Sun-Shooting Arrows with the Human King Seal. Together, they bring down eight of the nine Black-and-Red Three-Legged Birds—powerful Taiyi Golden Immortal–level weapons created by the Nether World.
• The birds’ fall devastates the Ninth Heaven. Though the Nether World’s leaders order Daji and the Shura King to protect the remaining suns, they refuse to risk facing Li’s arrows. The birds’ hatred-driven instincts instead send them attacking one by one, where Li shoots them down.
• Li deliberately wounds the final bird rather than killing it. He invites the Three Purities Disciples, Kunpeng Scion, and Bliss Dharma monks to finish it together, giving them a life-or-death trial that may help them break into the Human Dao Supreme Realm.
• The Nether World’s Bright Venerables abandon their attempt to seize the Ninth Heaven and enact their planned ascension rites in the first eight heavens. King You of Zhou enfeoffs lords and kings to establish his imperial domain; Daji, Xiangliu, and the others create their own domains. All eight ascend from Taiyi to Great Luo, though their new power is restricted to their respective territories.
• Their larger plan—to link nine domains into a formation and reach the power of a Quasi-Saint—fails because the final Bright Venerable cannot claim the Ninth Heaven. The Upper Realm’s Immortal Lords recognize that Li’s defense has prevented a much greater threat.
• Li and Zhang Shou privately reveal that the arrows’ power was nearly exhausted. Their apparent ability to shoot again was a bluff that helped force the Nether World to retreat.
• The last Bright Venerable, still trapped in the Nether World, realizes the others have left him behind. He had given up other chances in expectation of ruling the Ninth Heaven, but remains a Taiyi Golden Immortal while his former peers attain Great Luo.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Beichen proves both an overwhelming archer and a careful strategist. Knowing the arrows were weakening, he adapts his final shot and turns the last bird into a trial for the younger cultivators rather than risking a failed kill.
• Zhang Shou supports Li by restoring the arrows, but the effort exhausts the treasure’s power. The two communicate discreetly and maintain a united, confident front to conceal their limits.
• The Nether World’s commanders reveal their self-preservation and mistrust: Daji, the Shura King, and the others refuse to risk themselves defending the birds. After ascending, they offer the stranded Bright Venerable hollow reassurances instead of risking their new domains for him.
• The final Bright Venerable shifts from hopeful expectation to resentment and isolation, yet fears breaking with the other leaders.
• The gathered prodigies accept Li’s challenge as their chance to complete their cultivation through a genuine battle on the edge of death.

Significant themes

• Strategy and restraint: Li wins not only through force but by recognizing when to wound, when to withdraw, and when deception can preserve an advantage.
• Power tied to place and institutions: The Nether World leaders reach Great Luo through domains, enfeoffment, and territorial authority, but their power remains limited to those grounds.
• Ambition and betrayal: The leaders’ shared plan gives way to self-interest, leaving the last Bright Venerable excluded from the reward he expected.
• Growth through danger: The final bird’s fight is framed as the crucible the young cultivators need for advancement.
• The danger of incomplete victory: The Ninth Heaven is held, but the first eight are now ruled by newly ascended Great Luo powers, leaving the larger conflict unresolved.

Key plot points and events

• In the Ninth Heaven, Li Beichen’s clones help clear out the remaining undead and Netherworld forces while the Three Purities Disciples, two monks of the Bliss Dharma Realm, and Kunpeng Scion battle the dying black-and-red Three-Legged Bird.
• Under the pressure of the fight, all six prodigies break through to the Human Path Ultimate Realm. The Three Purities Disciples combine their power with Three Purities Unite into One Qi, creating a strike with a trace of undying immortal light. Together, they and their allies finally destroy the bird and its summoned remnant soul.
• With Li Beichen and Zhang Shou guarding them, the six undergo heavenly tribulations and advance to the Immortal Lord realm. Their tribulation lightning purifies the Ninth Heaven, restores Spirit Essence, and allows life to begin growing again amid the ruins.
• Because undead and yin soldiers continue pouring through the breached gate—and the Netherworld may summon further powerful creatures—the group agrees to guard the Ninth Heaven in rotating pairs. The two Buddhist monks take the first watch.
• Li Beichen returns to the Heavenly Court and reports that most people from the nine heavens of the Human Immortal Realm have been relocated to Azure Flower Heaven and that all the Nine-Headed Black-and-Red Three-Legged Birds have been slain.
• Emperor Chen Gou and the Celestial Venerable recognize Li Beichen’s service, awarding him honors and permission to select three treasures from the Heavenly Court Treasury.

Character developments

• The six prodigies move from exceptional Golden Immortals to Immortal Lords, completing a major stage of their cultivation through shared danger and coordinated effort.
• Li Beichen’s influence and strength have grown: once unable to challenge the Bright Venerables, he has repeatedly disrupted their schemes and now helps build resistance to the Netherworld.
• Zhang Shou continues as Li Beichen’s trusted partner, helping protect the new Immortal Lords and conceal their tribulations.
• The Buddhist monks choose to use their guard duty to guide the dead and spread Buddhist teachings, reflecting their commitment to spiritual salvation.
• Li Beichen accepts the Heavenly Court’s praise with composure, though the chance to choose three ancient treasures stirs his interest.

Significant themes

• Growth through adversity: The prodigies reach breakthroughs by fighting at the edge of death.
• Cooperation and shared strength: The group’s combined efforts defeat the bird, while collective protection enables the six to complete their ascension.
• Renewal after destruction: The tribulation lightning both purifies the ruined Ninth Heaven and helps life return.
• Resistance to overwhelming evil: The new Immortal Lords strengthen the forces opposing the Netherworld, even as the wider calamity continues.
• Service and recognition: Li Beichen’s protection of living beings earns formal honors, but the reward comes amid an ongoing crisis.

Character interactions

• Li Beichen and Zhang Shou coordinate the battle’s aftermath, guard the breakthroughs, and help arrange the Ninth Heaven’s defense.
• The six newly ascended Immortal Lords respectfully ask them to protect their tribulations, then join them in planning the rotating watches.
• The Bliss Dharma Realm monks volunteer for the first watch, while Li Beichen departs to brief the Heavenly Court.
• In High Heaven Hall, Emperor Chen Gou and the Celestial Venerable praise Li Beichen; fellow Immortal Lords congratulate him, and close allies greet him warmly.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Beichen is tasked with coordinating the defense of the Ninth Heaven.
• He is led to the Heavenly Court's treasury by Taibai Star Lord.
• Li Beichen selects treasures related to the Dao of time and innate restrictions refinement.

Character Developments

• Li Beichen demonstrates his strategic thinking and leadership by coordinating the defense of the Ninth Heaven.
• He shows his wisdom and discernment in choosing treasures from the Heavenly Court's treasury.

Significant Themes

• The importance of coordination and unity in facing challenges.
• The value of wisdom and discernment in making critical decisions.
• The pursuit of power and cultivation to protect one's beliefs and loved ones.

Character Interactions

• Li Beichen interacts with Taibai Star Lord, who guides him through the Heavenly Court's treasury.
• Li Beichen's treasures, such as the Eastern Emperor Bell and the Sun-Chasing Bow, interact with the treasures in the Heavenly Court's treasury, revealing their potential compatibility.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Beichen finds the complete tenth Sun-Shooting Arrow in the Heavenly Court's treasure vault.
• He also discovers the Three Lights Divine Water within a Mutton Fat Jade Vase.
• Upon returning to the Supreme Subtle Enclosure, Li Beichen enters secluded cultivation to refine his new treasures.

Character Developments

• Li Beichen's cultivation and treasure collection continue to grow, enhancing his power and status.
• Taibai Star Lord shows respect and understanding toward Li Beichen's privacy regarding the treasures he obtained.

Significant Themes

• Fortune and Destiny: Li Beichen's luck in finding powerful treasures suggests a destined path.
• Cultivation and Growth: Li Beichen's continuous refinement of his powers and treasures reflects his dedication to improving his cultivation.
• Trust and Respect: Taibai Star Lord's behavior shows respect for Li Beichen's privacy, highlighting the theme of trust.

Character Interactions

• Li Beichen interacts briefly with Taibai Star Lord, expressing gratitude for his guidance.
• Li Beichen's cultivation process is solitary, with no significant interactions with other characters in this chapter.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Candle Nine Yin’s phantom suddenly appears through its severed divine eye, attempting to prevent Li Beichen from refining it and using it as an anchor for resurrection.
• Li Beichen invokes the Eastern Emperor Bell, whose Great Dao resonance suppresses and destroys Candle Nine Yin’s invading will. The bell also captures a trace of Candle Nine Yin’s pure Nether World qi, revealing that the ancient entity is currently hidden in the Nether World and may be preparing to return during the great tribulation.
• With the connection to Candle Nine Yin severed, Li Beichen safely refines the divine eye’s remaining Temporal Dao power. The Eastern Emperor Bell’s internal world gains an astonishing forty-eight thousand years of cultivable time, far exceeding its original reserves.
• Li Beichen enters the bell’s inner world and prepares to use the time to strengthen himself and refine the innate restrictions of the Sun-Chasing Bow and Sun-Shooting Arrow, aided by the Three Lights Divine Water.
• Rather than immediately refining his weapons, he prioritizes his own cultivation. He begins studying the Seventy-Two Transformations of Earthly Fiends, one of the divine powers inherited from Sun Wukong.
• After three hundred years, he successfully reaches the entry level of the Earthly Fiend transformations. Their power resonates with his already-mastered Thirty-Six Transformations of Heavenly Gang, producing a new and more profound divine power: the 108 Transformations of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Fiends.
• Li Beichen realizes that mastering this combined Transformation Dao could allow him to break through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm. He sets aside the Somersault Cloud and Shrinking Ground to an Inch, choosing to focus entirely on perfecting the 108 transformations.
• He opens Yang Jian’s Primordial Bestiary and begins selecting diverse lifeforms and natural phenomena—not merely for combat strength, but to understand the complete nature of transformation. His attention ultimately settles on the nearly extinct Primordial True Dragon.

Character Development

• Li Beichen demonstrates greater caution and strategic maturity. Though he obtains powerful treasures and a vast reserve of cultivation time, he recognizes that external weapons cannot compensate for insufficient personal cultivation.
• His understanding of divine powers deepens. He realizes that they are manifestations and transformations of the Dao, serving as direct paths toward higher realms.
• He overcomes the conflict between the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend transformations by using the Eastern Emperor Bell to suppress his already ingrained Heavenly Gang instincts.
• Li Beichen’s ambition expands from merely mastering individual techniques to comprehending the complete Transformation Dao, giving him a clear route toward Taiyi Golden Immortality.

Significant Themes

• Personal strength versus external power: Treasures such as the Sun-Chasing Bow and Sun-Shooting Arrow are valuable, but Li Beichen understands that his realm determines how much of their power he can truly unleash.
• Transformation and unity: The Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend techniques represent different aspects of the same Dao—one emphasizing the essence and true form of beings, the other emphasizing limitless adaptability.
• Opportunity and preparation: The forty-eight thousand years within the Eastern Emperor Bell provide Li Beichen with an extraordinary opportunity, but success depends on how wisely he uses that time.
• Survival through adaptability: The Earthly Fiend transformations are presented as an ultimate method of self-preservation, granting countless forms and escape routes.
• Approaching catastrophe: Candle Nine Yin’s presence in the Nether World hints at the return of ancient, overwhelmingly powerful beings during the coming great tribulation.

Character Interactions

• Li Beichen and Candle Nine Yin: Candle Nine Yin attempts to interfere with Li Beichen’s refinement of its divine eye, but Li Beichen counters decisively with the Eastern Emperor Bell, severing their connection and preventing Candle Nine Yin from locating him.
• Li Beichen and the Eastern Emperor Bell: The bell acts not only as a defensive treasure and storage world but also as a cultivation aid. It suppresses conflicting powers, preserves comprehension, and provides the time necessary for Li Beichen’s advancement.
• Li Beichen and Yang Jian: Yang Jian’s teachings and gifted divine powers guide Li Beichen’s cultivation. His earlier warning about combining the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend transformations proves crucial.
• Li Beichen and Sun Wukong: Sun Wukong’s inherited Earthly Fiend transformations become the key to Li Beichen’s attempt to comprehend the broader Transformation Dao.
• Li Beichen and the Primordial Bestiary: The bestiary supplies the forms and life-essences needed for his new cultivation strategy, beginning with the legendary Primordial True Dragon.

Summary

Plot Points and Events

• Li Beichen draws a drop of primordial true dragon essence blood from the [Primordial Bestiary] and refines it, transforming into a primordial true dragon and reaching the half-step Taiyi realm.
• He then refines the essence blood of various powerful creatures, mastering their transformations and reaching Dao Entry in the path of transformation.
• After refining all thirty-six transformations, he immerses himself in the Seventy-Two Transformations of Earthly Fiends, deepening his understanding of transformation.
• Finally, Li Beichen returns to the Guan River Estuary to undergo his heavenly tribulation, with Yang Jian allowing him to do so undisturbed.

Character Developments

• Li Beichen's strength and understanding of transformation grow significantly, reaching the peak of the Immortal Lord realm and the realm of Dao Entry in transformation.
• Yang Jian, though not physically present, shows his support and guidance by allowing Li Beichen to undergo his tribulation undisturbed.

Significant Themes

• The power and rarity of primordial creatures, and the insight into the Great Dao they provide.
• The path of transformation, requiring both the refinement of powerful creatures and understanding of ordinary things.
• The importance of a stable foundation for breaking through to the next realm, and the potential consequences of doing so within the Earth Immortal Realm.

Character Interactions

• Li Beichen interacts with Yang Jian through his voice, showing respect and gratitude towards his master.
• Li Beichen's transformations allow him to connect with various creatures and aspects of nature, deepening his understanding of the world.