Chapter Summaries

Gao Xian ambushed and killed Wang Yuan and two other Origin Demon Sect Nascent Soul cultivators, then joined Qingqing and the Taixuan Divine Image against the sect’s remaining forces. He killed Yin Zimei and pursued the four Nascent Soul True Lords who fled, while Yuan Wuxian’s battle elsewhere remained unresolved.

• Gao Xian killed Wang Yuan and captured two fleeing Nascent Soul True Lords with the Blood God Banner.
• Gao Xian discovered that the Myriad Tribulations God-Extinguishing Token’s soul restrictions survived their deaths and resolved to attack the remaining Origin Demon Sect cultivators.
• Gao Xian sent Qingqing to intercept one group of five Nascent Soul cultivators while the Taixuan Divine Image blocked the other group with the Blood God Banner.
• Yin Zimei tried to summon reinforcements, but Chang Tiejun’s warning that Red Lotus was a traitor was cut off before she learned what had happened.
• Gao Xian killed Yin Zimei with the Heavenly Baleful Blood-Dissolving Divine Blade and a surprise sword strike, causing the other four Nascent Soul True Lords to flee.

Gao Xian and Qingqing slaughtered thirteen Origin Demon Sect Nascent Soul True Lords before he flew toward Lu Xuanji’s battle with three Spirit Transformation Dao Lords. As Lu Xuanji neared defeat inside the Myriad Calamities God-Annihilating Grand Formation, Yue Wanfeng returned with Dao Lord Zhenhong, who attacked the formation with the Universal Thunder Lord Demon-Slaying Evil-Warding Token.

• Gao Xian and Qingqing fought together and killed thirteen demonic-path Nascent Soul True Lords, gathering their essence blood and souls into the Blood God Banner.
• Gao Xian heard Lu Xuanji’s invocation break through the formation and flew toward the golden light after sending Qingqing into the Spirit-Nurturing Ring.
• Lu Xuanji continued resisting Yuan Wuxian, Yuan Tianyi, and Dao Lord Wanshou inside the formation, relying on Xuanming’s power and her Divine Artifact.
• Yuan Wuxian and Yuan Tianyi discussed the risk of Yue Wanfeng returning while they slowly wore down Lu Xuanji.
• Yue Wanfeng arrived with Dao Lord Zhenhong, who unleashed the Universal Thunder Lord Demon-Slaying Evil-Warding Token at the formation.

Gao Xian watched Dao Lord Zhenhong and Yuan Wuxian clash with powerful Divine Artifacts while Yuan Tianyi and Wanshou kept Lu Xuanji trapped in the formation. As the battle reached a stalemate, Gao Xian realized the Origin Demon Sect was unguarded and saw a chance to raid it.

• Gao Xian sensed a thunder attack from at least three thousand li away and watched Yuan Wuxian’s Red Dragon Divine Artifact absorb the strike before both forces shattered.
• Dao Lord Zhenhong sent a second thunder attack, which Yuan Wuxian again countered with the Red Dragon, while Lu Xuanji recognized Zhenhong and hoped he could break the formation.
• Yuan Tianyi urged Yuan Wuxian to withdraw, but Yuan Wuxian insisted on fighting Zhenhong for up to an hour and ordered Yuan Tianyi and Wanshou to keep suppressing Lu Xuanji.
• Yuan Tianyi and Wanshou brought out their Divine Artifacts and intensified their assault on Lu Xuanji as Zhenhong and Yuan Wuxian remained locked in battle.
• Gao Xian spotted the fighting through gaps in the formation and realized that the Origin Demon Sect was empty, making a raid on its home base his best opportunity.

Gao Xian entered the Origin Demon Sect through the teleportation array and killed Wu Xing'an after escaping his spatial prison. He planned to kill Huang Sanli next and plunder the sect's treasury.

• Wu Xing'an received word that thirteen Nascent Soul True Lords had died and watched the teleportation array for the return of Yuan Wuxian or Red Lotus.
• Gao Xian used Red Lotus's Origin Demon Token to teleport into Cloud Void Hall, where Wu Xing'an trapped him inside the Lesser Cloud Void Array.
• Gao Xian used the Taiji Mystic Light Formless Heavenly Robe to pass through the array and reach the main hall.
• Wu Xing'an attacked Gao Xian with the Blood Sun Heaven-Burning Art, but Gao Xian activated the Heavenly Blessing Earthly Longevity Divine Talisman against him.
• Gao Xian killed Wu Xing'an with the Heavenly Baleful Blood-Dissolving Divine Blade and collected his treasures, then planned to kill Huang Sanli and raid the Origin Demon Sect's treasury.

After Wu Xing'an and other Nascent Soul True Lords died, Huang Sanli sealed Origin Demon Hall with the Ten Thousand Demons Ten Absolutes Grand Array, only for Gao Xian to break in. Gao Xian fought Huang Sanli, who wielded the array’s power and a Gold Demon secret art, then killed him with the White Emperor Universe Transformation Sword.

• Huang Sanli learned that thirteen Nascent Soul True Lords had died and worried about Yuan Wuxian and the Origin Demon Sect’s survival.
• Wu Xing'an's soul lamp went out, so Huang Sanli activated the grand array and sealed Origin Demon Hall.
• Gao Xian forced his way into the sealed hall, and Huang Sanli recognized him as the intruder who had likely killed Wu Xing'an.
• Huang Sanli used the array and a Gold Demon secret art to break Gao Xian's Blood God Banner and seize his Heavenly Baleful Blood-Dissolving Divine Blade.
• Gao Xian split off a white-clad figure and cut off Huang Sanli's head with the White Emperor Universe Transformation Sword.

Gao Xian used his Taiyuan Divine Image and swordsmanship to expose Huang Sanli’s hiding place, then killed him despite his shifting Dharma bodies. He entered the Origin Demon Sect’s treasure vault and found its contents promising.

• Huang Sanli transformed his Dharma body into a White Bone Heavenly Puppet and attacked Red Lotus while Gao Xian’s sword cultivator image watched.
• Gao Xian fought Huang Sanli’s puppet with the Blood God Banner as his Taiyuan Divine Image traced Huang Sanli through the formation.
• Huang Sanli raised the formation’s defenses and attacked the sword image, but Gao Xian’s Wuji Sword pierced through and split him in two.
• Huang Sanli tried to transform and flee, but Gao Xian struck him with the Purple Firmament Tianshu Demon-Subduing Golden Whip and killed him.
• Gao Xian collected Huang Sanli’s spirit crystal and Ten Thousand Demons Ten Absolutes Token, then passed through the treasure vault’s formations with the Wuji Sword.

Gao Xian emptied the Origin Demon Sect’s treasure vault and found three sealed divine objects, including the Blood River True Scripture. As Yuan Wuxian returned to the sect after fleeing the battle, Gao Xian realized she was about to reach him.

• Gao Xian collected the vault’s spirit stones and treasures, then forcibly broke the restriction around the Blood River True Scripture, Golden Demon Heavenly Dipper Bone, and Karma Fire Red Lotus.
• Yuan Wuxian sensed the theft, discovered Wang Yuan and the others were dead, and struck Lu Xuanji with the Myriad Tribulations God-Extinguishing Token before teleporting away.
• Yuan Tianyi and Wanshou fled, leaving Lu Xuanji’s Primordial Spirit behind as Yuan Wuxian departed for the sect.
• Gao Xian considered attacking the Origin Demon Sect but struggled to find a way through its Ten Thousand Demons Ten Absolutes Grand Array.
• Gao Xian sensed the sealed doors opening and realized Yuan Wuxian had returned.

Gao Xian escaped Yuan Wuxian after raiding the Origin Demon Sect, then returned to his allies and examined the treasures he had stolen. He discovered that a golden spirit crystal was a shattered Heavenly Demon Relic containing the Lesser Formless Heavenly Demon Scripture, but he did not know how to use it.

• Yuan Wuxian caught Red Lotus in the Origin Demon Sect’s main hall, but Gao Xian vanished before she could capture him.
• Yuan Wuxian used the Origin Ancestor Duality Mirror and Myriad Tribulations God-Extinguishing Token to investigate and faintly sensed Red Lotus far to the west.
• Gao Xian withdrew the Taixuan Divine Image’s yin spirit, sent its physical body toward Origin Province, and returned to Yue Shenxiu and the other Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Gao Xian and the others met Dao Lord Zhenhong, who said Lu Xuanji had returned to tend her wounds and would wait for Zhenye to inspect the Netherworld Spirit Realm.
• Gao Xian returned to Azure Cloud Cottage and examined the three divine artifacts he had taken from the treasury, finding that none suited him for immediate use.
• Gao Xian recognized the golden spirit crystal from Huang Sanli as a shattered Heavenly Demon Relic that recorded the Lesser Formless Heavenly Demon Scripture.

Gao Xian used the Heavenly Demon Relic Fragment to upgrade the Taiji Mystic Light Formless Heavenly Robe into the Taiji Mystic Light Formless Divine Robe, then planned to seek the Dao Examination and the Great Five Elements Divine Light. By autumn, he had joined the preparations to clear the Netherworld Spirit Realm and was searching for a fifth-rank demon with a Golden-Blood Dragon Scale.

• Gao Xian rejected cultivating the Lesser Formless Heavenly Demon Scripture or using the Golden Demon Heavenly Dipper Bone because of the dangers they posed to his soul and safety.
• Gao Xian used the Heavenly Demon Relic Fragment to raise the Taiji Mystic Light Formless Heavenly Robe to the Taiji Mystic Light Formless Divine Robe, whose advancement required enormous amounts of Humanity Aura.
• Gao Xian decided to seek fame in Mysterious Brightness City, take the Dao Examination, and pursue the Great Five Elements Divine Light, while hoping to obtain a Golden-Blood Dragon Scale from Yue Wanfeng.
• Gao Xian spent three months studying the upgraded robe and found that it greatly improved his defenses, spell power, and ability to strike unseen with the Wuji Sword.
• Yue Wanfeng summoned Gao Xian, Yue Shenxiu, and others to the Netherworld Spirit Realm, where the Wanfeng Sect and Longevity Church prepared to clear out demons and dismantle Yuan Wuxian's formations.
• Gao Xian set out to find a fifth-rank demon carrying a Golden-Blood Dragon Scale, confident that his upgraded robe would let him kill one.

Yue Wanfeng questioned Gao Xian about the mysterious Red Lotus, then revealed that the Innate Five Qi Origin-Return Token could unlock the Great Five Elements Sect’s Five Qi Grotto-Heaven. Gao Xian entered the Netherworld Spirit Realm with Yue Shenxiu and Qingqing to hunt dragon-shaped demons, where the pair soon encountered one.

• Yue Wanfeng asked Gao Xian whether he knew Red Lotus, but Gao Xian denied it and concealed his connection to the incarnation.
• Yue Wanfeng told Gao Xian that the Innate Five Qi Origin-Return Token could open the Five Qi Grotto-Heaven and reminded him not to kill Yuan Bin.
• Gao Xian met Yue Shenxiu and Qingqing at the Netherworld Spirit Realm entrance and led them inside to hunt dragon-shaped demons.
• Gao Xian split from Yue Shenxiu and Qingqing on the ninth level, using the Cosmos Yin-Yang Creation Cauldron to keep in contact with them.
• On the seventh day, Yue Shenxiu and Qingqing encountered their first enormous dragon-shaped demon creature.

Gao Xian, Yue Shenxiu, and Qingqing encountered a powerful dragon-shaped demon in the Netherworld Spirit Realm, and Gao Xian exploited its crude control of mana to kill it. Afterward, Gao Xian discovered that his Wuji Heaven Aspect Sword Scripture had advanced to the Master realm.

• Yue Shenxiu and Qingqing spotted a fifth-rank dragon-shaped demon and summoned Gao Xian while concealing their auras.
• Gao Xian attacked the demon with an invisible sword light and pierced through its body, while Yue Shenxiu used a divine talisman to inflame its rage.
• The demon charged Yue Shenxiu, but she evaded it with an illusion as Qingqing and she retreated from its overwhelming roar.
• Gao Xian struck the demon's Primordial Spirit at its weak point, causing its own mana to erupt and destroy it.
• Gao Xian checked the Wind and Moon Mirror and found that his Wuji Heaven Aspect Sword Scripture had reached the Master realm.

After Gao Xian’s swordsmanship reached the grandmaster realm, he killed a fifth-tier dragon-shaped demon creature with one strike and learned that its scale was a valuable spiritual material that had to be surrendered. In seclusion, he studied the Great Five Elements God-Slaying Sword Scripture, discovered it was designed to unite his five divine swords, and realized he was missing a crucial component.

• Gao Xian’s sudden insight raised his swordsmanship to the grandmaster realm, allowing him to destroy the dragon-shaped demon creature with one strike.
• Gao Xian examined the creature’s black scale with Yue Shenxiu and Qingqing, and Yue Shenxiu identified it as an exceptional fifth-tier spiritual material worth over five hundred Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Gao Xian prepared Northern Dipper Fate-Reversing Talismans for Yue Shenxiu and Qingqing, then led them out of the Netherworld Spirit Realm to rest while Yue Shenxiu warned the other Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Gao Xian entered Yunxiao Tower to comprehend his swordsmanship and absorbed the divine-sense inheritance of the Great Five Elements God-Slaying Sword Scripture.
• Gao Xian realized the scripture was meant to fuse his five divine swords into a supreme weapon, but he still lacked one crucial thing.

Lu Xuanji visited Zhenye to seek the Daoist Lord’s help against Yuan Tianyi, but accepted that the church would not act and instead secured the Heaven Puppet Sect’s Dao Examination slots for her own candidates. Back at her sect, she learned Gao Xian had waited three days to meet her about their promised trade for the Golden-Blood Dragon Scale.

• Lu Xuanji asked Zhenye when she could meet the Daoist Lord and complained that Yuan Tianyi had colluded with demonic cultivators to plot against her.
• Zhenye explained that killing Yuan Tianyi could destabilize the Heaven Puppet Sect and advised Lu Xuanji not to seek the Daoist Lord’s intervention.
• Lu Xuanji persuaded Zhenye to give her the Heaven Puppet Sect’s Dao Examination slots as compensation.
• Zhenye told Lu Xuanji that Gao Xian and Gao Qinghe would represent the Wanfeng Sect in the Dao Examination, and Lu Xuanji worried Gao Xian could take first place.
• After Lu Xuanji returned to the sect, Yuan Bin told her Gao Xian had waited outside for three days to meet her.
• Lu Xuanji realized Gao Xian had come about the Golden-Blood Dragon Scale and was surprised that he had dared to honor their trade agreement.

Gao Xian exchanged a Golden-Blood Dragon Scale for the Innate Five Qi Origin-Return Token, and Lu Xuanji offered him pills to reconcile their past grievances. She then proposed a bargain: once he attained Spirit Transformation, he would help her eliminate Yuan Tianyi and Wanshou, and she would help him obtain the Great Five Elements Primordial Heaven Wheel.

• Gao Xian presented Lu Xuanji with a Golden-Blood Dragon Scale in exchange for the Innate Five Qi Origin-Return Token.
• Lu Xuanji gave Gao Xian ten Heavenly Origin Five Qi Pills and apologized for their past conflict, and Gao Xian accepted the gift.
• Lu Xuanji and Gao Xian spoke about her lost path to advancement, and she asked whether he sought the Great Five Elements Divine Light in Bai Yujing.
• Lu Xuanji revealed that she knew the location of the sixth-tier Great Five Elements Primordial Heaven Wheel.
• Lu Xuanji offered to help Gao Xian obtain the divine artifact if he helped her kill Yuan Tianyi and Wanshou after attaining Spirit Transformation.

After returning to Wanfeng Sect, Gao Xian refined the Innate Five Qi Origin-Return Token and began uniting five divine swords, while Lu Xuanji’s pills drove his cultivation rapidly forward. Ten years later, with the Dao examination approaching, Gao Xian left for Mysterious Brightness City with Qingqing.

• Gao Xian returned to Azure Cloud Cottage, gave Qiniang the Primal Unity One-Qi Pearl, and began refining the Innate Five Qi Origin-Return Token.
• Gao Xian used Taishi Hall to test Lu Xuanji’s Heavenly Origin Five Qi Pills and found an effective method for refining their medicinal power.
• Gao Xian fitted the White Emperor Universe Transformation Sword and four other divine swords into the Origin-Return Sword Token, beginning a fusion he expected to take many years.
• Over ten years, Gao Xian advanced to the seventh level of Nascent Soul and brought his Great Five Elements Technique to the consummate master realm, while the Taixuan Divine Image reached the ninth level of Nascent Soul.
• As the Dao examination approached, Gao Xian entrusted Qiniang to Yue Shenxiu, bid farewell to Yue Wanfeng, and traveled with Qingqing to Mysterious Brightness City.

Gao Xian and Qingqing arrived in Mysterious Brightness City for the Dao Examination, hired Zhang Hai as their guide, and learned about a major auction at the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion. After reaching Spirit Sound Academy, Gao Xian unexpectedly reunited with Fellow Daoist Qingle, whom he had not seen for two hundred years.

• Gao Xian and Qingqing paid to use the teleportation array and hired Zhang Hai to guide them around the city.
• Zhang Hai led them through Mysterious Brightness City and explained its transportation, customs, and the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion.
• Gao Xian decided to attend the pavilion's upcoming auction and consider buying Qingqing suitable treasures for the Dao Examination.
• Zhang Hai escorted Gao Xian and Qingqing into Spirit Sound Academy, where the Nascent Soul contestants were lodging.
• Gao Xian recognized Fellow Daoist Qingle, and the two greeted each other joyfully after two hundred years apart.

Gao Xian reunited with Qingle in Mysterious Brightness City and learned about the powerful cultivators competing in the Dao Examination. After Qingle visited him the next morning, he invited her to spar, and their meeting turned intimate.

• Gao Xian met Qingle at Spirit Sound Academy, and they agreed she would visit him the next day.
• Qingle's companions discussed Gao Xian's reputation and the formidable rivals entering the Dao Examination, while Tayuan vowed to defeat him if they met.
• Taicheng listed several other contenders for the championship, and Qingle declared she would fight for victory.
• Qingle visited Gao Xian at Orchid Fragrance Studio and told him that many expected him to win the Dao Examination for the Great Five Elements Divine Light.
• Gao Xian took Qingle's hand and suggested they exchange pointers, leaving her blushing.

Gao Xian and Qingle became lovers, and he gave her the Dry Yang Plum Blossom Mirror. After they reunited with Qingqing and arrived at the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion auction, Qingle warned Gao Xian that the Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Blade might be used to bait him into overpaying.

• Gao Xian and Qingle spent more than ten days together after he led her to his bedroom.
• Gao Xian gave Qingle the fourth-rank Dry Yang Plum Blossom Mirror, and they teased each other playfully.
• After Zhang Hai announced the auction was about to begin, Gao Xian introduced Qingle to Qingqing, who accepted Qingle's gift of Qianyuan Heart-Refining Pills.
• Zhang Hai led Gao Xian, Qingle, and Qingqing to the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, where Steward Yuxia escorted them to an A-grade private room.
• Qingle told Gao Xian that the auction's Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Blade might have been prepared for him and warned that the pavilion could drive up its price with bidders.

Gao Xian recognized an opportunity to promote his illustrated books by embedding an accessible dual-cultivation method, then attended the auction and bought several pills. When the Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Blade’s price rose to sixteen thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones, he stopped bidding, surprising Fan Qingyuan, who had tried to draw him into paying more.

• Qingle’s suggestion that low-level cultivators wanted useful secret arts inspired Gao Xian to plan an illustrated book featuring a simple, powerful dual-cultivation method.
• Gao Xian bought three Yellow Court Enlightenment Pills for sixty Top-grade Spirit Stones and gave one each to Qingqing and Qingle.
• Gao Xian considered bidding on the Supreme Pill for Qingle but decided against it as the price climbed and he wanted to preserve their equal relationship.
• The auctioneer presented the Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Blade, and Gao Xian entered the bidding after the price reached eight thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Gao Xian raised his bid to fifteen thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones, but stopped when Room Ninety-Nine countered at sixteen thousand.
• Fan Qingyuan realized Gao Xian had withdrawn despite her attempt to raise the price and wondered why he had not continued bidding.

Gao Xian passed on the Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Blade but bought a Divine Firmament Azure Cloud Immortal Garment for Qingqing at the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion auction. After the auction, he met Fan Qingyuan and hinted at a lucrative business deal, leaving her intrigued.

• Qingle advised Gao Xian to buy the Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Blade to gain Fan Qingyuan's favor and possible help with the Dao Examination, but Gao Xian let the blade go to Room Ninety-Nine.
• Gao Xian won the Divine Firmament Azure Cloud Immortal Garment after outbidding Bai Feihong, then gave it to Qingqing to strengthen her protection and combat ability.
• Gao Xian declined to bid on the Grand Void Dream Dao Robe and the Heavenly Cicada Nine Deaths Pill, judging them too costly and conspicuous.
• After the auction, Gao Xian asked Yuxia to invite Fan Qingyuan and met her in Room Jia One to discuss a major business deal.
• Fan Qingyuan initially assumed Gao Xian wanted the Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Blade, but became intrigued when he said his proposal promised far greater profits.