Chapter Summaries

After honoring the dead with Shen Qingdai, Su Han discovered that the three powers in his dantian were fusing into a living force that could create a tiny golden flower. He began exploring how his will could shape this new power.

• Su Han remembered the cultivators killed by the evil creatures, and Shen Qingdai told him about her friend A-Jiu, whose sword hilt she had kept for a future cenotaph.
• Su Han offered Shen Qingdai his homemade Peach Blossom Brew, and they stood together watching the feast.
• After helping clean up the training grounds, Su Han felt the Bodhi Bead glow and sensed gold, silver, and azure powers merging in his Qi Sea.
• Su Han formed a small golden flower from the new power and realized his cultivation had changed beyond simple growth.
• Su Han began testing the fused power and found that its effects shifted with the balance of its three lights and responded to his intent.

Su Han learned that his power had entered the realm of “Heart Is Law,” then left the High Heaven Immortal Sect for Fire Cloud Valley to meet ordinary people. On the road, he stopped in Willow Creek Town and heard an old woman recall how a High Heaven Immortal Sect healer had once treated the town’s epidemic.

• The Sect Master told Su Han that his power had reached the legendary realm of “Heart Is Law,” but still punished him for arriving late to sword practice.
• Su Han told A-Yuan that the greatest people were those who could light a glow in others’ hearts.
• Su Han promised A-Yuan he would return from Fire Cloud Valley in half a month, then set out with supplies from the Sect Master.
• Su Han traveled slowly through the mortal world and reached Willow Creek Town on the evening of his first day.
• An old woman told Su Han that a girl from the High Heaven Immortal Sect had cured the town’s epidemic a few years earlier, and Su Han recognized her as Senior Sister Ji.

Su Han traveled toward Fire Cloud Valley after hearing that villagers there had been driven into the mountains and robbed. He reached Red Earth Town and learned that its residents were wary after recent attacks, then heard an argument over a cart of grain at the Red Earth Inn.

• Su Han stayed in Willow Creek Town, copied the Heavenly Dipper Righteous Qi Technique, and set out south the next morning.
• At Three-Fork Junction, Su Han overheard escort guards say that people had stolen grain and livestock near Fire Cloud Valley, forcing villagers to flee into the mountains.
• Su Han crossed North-Looking Slope, recalled Fire Cloud Valley’s destruction three hundred years earlier, and spent the night in an abandoned Earth God temple outside Red Earth Town.
• Su Han noticed damage and signs of fear in Red Earth Town, but a steamed bun vendor insisted everything was fine.
• At the Red Earth Inn, Su Han heard a dispute over a cart of grain and the official documents required to deliver it.

Su Han investigated grain restrictions and unrest in Red Earth Town before learning from a girl that outsiders had attacked Fire Cloud Valley. He left the chapter asking whether her father’s injured arm had healed.

• Su Han arrived at an inn and heard Innkeeper Chen argue with Brother Sun, who wanted to transport grain to hungry families in Fire Cloud Valley.
• Su Han asked Innkeeper Chen about the valley, but Chen discouraged him from going there.
• Su Han saw notices giving the Town Administrative Office and Fire Cloud Valley Protectorate control over grain distribution.
• Su Han recalled that Mr. Meng lived in Fire Cloud Valley and learned the town’s situation was tied to him.
• A girl from the valley told Su Han that outsiders had attacked her family, stolen their chickens, and injured her father.
• Su Han asked the girl whether her father’s arm had recovered.

Su Han visited Fire Cloud Valley to investigate the trouble between its residents and people from Yellow Stone Town. He learned that Mr. Meng had failed to resolve the land dispute, while a faint echo of an Ancient Restriction left him wondering what had stirred it.

• Su Han reassured Shitou'er that no one would likely cause trouble in the valley for the next couple of days, then returned to the inn and copied the Heavenly Dipper Righteous Qi Technique.
• While copying scripture, Su Han sensed a faint ripple in the night sky and recognized it as the echo of an Ancient Restriction being touched.
• Su Han traveled south into Fire Cloud Valley and watched the wary residents working their fields from a hillside.
• A middle-aged farmer told Su Han that people from Yellow Stone Town claimed the valley land and wanted its residents to leave.
• The farmer explained that Mr. Meng had tried twice to talk with the outsiders but had not settled the dispute.