Chapter Summaries

On the final day of the Yinglong Guard assessment, Xia Manggan and his companions left Single Horn Peak after two months of cultivation and demon hunting. Back at the Red Dragon Mountain Range, the survivors returned from the Yushan Great Wilderness Marsh as Xia Manggan planned to sell captured treasures and strengthen his Second Primordial Spirit.

• Luo Qing reported that she and Ah Huang had cleared Demon Lotus Mountain and killed twelve Wanxiang Great Demons, while Dragon Whale remained missing.
• Xia Manggan comforted Ah Huang over his cultivation bottleneck and promised to ask his Master about studying the Black-White Diagram.
• Xia Manggan, Jiu Lian, and Luo Qing prepared to leave Single Horn Peak on the final day of the assessment.
• Xia Manggan reflected on his lack of interest in Dao companions and resolved to pursue the peak of cultivation.
• Xia Manggan retrieved the Heaven Rank treasures his Second Primordial Spirit had refined and planned to sell them for Essence Liquid.
• The surviving Wanxiang Daoists teleported back to the Red Dragon Mountain Range, where they discussed how difficult the assessment had been.

Xia Manggan and eight other young Wanxiang Daoists passed the Yushan Great Wilderness Marsh trial and entered the Yinglong Guard. At the Dao Treasury Palace, Xia Manggan used his imperial-clan privileges to inspect a discounted exchange for the Eye of the Candle Dragon and began looking at evasion techniques.

• Daoist Yulan found that only nine of the twenty-three survivors had obtained Wanxiang Great Demon heads and passed the trial.
• Daoist Yulan gave Xia Manggan a golden token containing ten thousand Merit and explained his Xia Mang Clan privileges.
• At the Dao Treasury Palace, the recruits discovered that many powerful Qi Refining techniques and divine abilities were restricted to Yinglong Inner Guard members.
• Xia Manggan found that his imperial-clan privileges let him exchange for the first level of the Eye of the Candle Dragon for one thousand Merit.
• Xia Manggan kept the Eye of the Candle Dragon manual and went to inspect the Fire Rainbow Evasion Technique and another golden manual.

Xia Manggan exchanged Merit points for the first two levels of the Fire Rainbow Evasion Technique, the first level of the Eye of the Candle Dragon, and a Qianyuan Divine Thunder Thunderbolt Bead. He left the Dao Treasury Palace with Jiu Lian and Luo Qing, planning to return to Anchan City before going back to the Academy to cultivate.

• Xia Manggan calculated that he lacked the Merit points to exchange for all three levels of the Fire Rainbow Evasion Technique he could currently cultivate, so he chose its first two levels and the first level of the Eye of the Candle Dragon.
• Xia Manggan inspected rare treasures on the Dao Treasury Palace's third floor and exchanged for a Qianyuan Divine Thunder Thunderbolt Bead.
• Jiu Lian cautioned Luo Qing not to ask Xia Manggan which secret arts he had exchanged for, and Xia Manggan only revealed that he had chosen an evasive technique and an eye-cultivating divine ability.
• Jiu Lian said that she and Luo Qing had accepted ten-year Yinglong Guard missions, while Xia Manggan declined a mission so he could focus on cultivation.
• Xia Manggan, Jiu Lian, and Luo Qing left for Anchan City aboard Jiu Lian's Puppet Sailing Ship, planning to exchange their recent gains for Essence Liquid before Xia Manggan returned to the Academy.

Xia Manggan visited Heavenly Treasure Mountain to sell the spoils he had collected in the Yushan Great Wilderness Marsh and claim a discount, while the Beishan father and son continued searching for a Second Primordial Spirit Vessel. He left Fairy Qinglan astonished by revealing that the pile of magic treasures he brought was only a fraction of his haul.

• Fairy Qinglan told Beishan Yin and Beishan Hu that Heavenly Treasure Mountain had no Second Primordial Spirit Vessel to sell and that no one had found Daoist Xuanpin.
• Fairy Qinglan went to greet Xia Manggan, and Jiu Lian asked him to forgive Beishan Hu for revealing his departure from the Academy.
• Xia Manggan told Beishan Yin that he had come to sell his spoils and use the forty-percent discount from his Heavenly Treasure Mountain token.
• Xia Manggan poured more than a hundred thousand magic treasures, over a thousand Earth Rank treasures, and a thousand sets of Dao Soldier Armor onto the hall floor.
• Xia Manggan said the displayed items were only scraps and that he would show Fairy Qinglan the rest after she calculated their value.

Xia Manggan sold a large collection of treasures, including the Heavenly Saint Sect Master Scepter, to Heavenly Treasure Mountain for 6.88 million jin of essence liquid. He chose a cheaper treasure containing Nine Heavens Polar Light so he could preserve enough essence liquid for cultivation.

• Fairy Qinglan appraised Xia Manggan’s first batch of magic treasures and offered 180,000 jin of essence liquid.
• Xia Manggan presented demon remains and more treasures, including the Heavenly Saint Sect Master Scepter, startling Fairy Qinglan and Beishan Yin.
• Immortal Linfeng valued the new treasures at 6.7 million jin of essence liquid, bringing Xia Manggan’s total proceeds to 6.88 million jin.
• Xia Manggan considered buying the Nine Heavens Polar Light Mirror but worried the 4.27 million jin price would leave too little essence liquid for cultivation.
• Immortal Linfeng offered the Xuanguan Ruler for 2.7 million jin, and Xia Manggan decided to buy it.

Xia Manggan returned to Black-White Academy and planned to spend the next several years cultivating, while Jiu Lian and Yu Wei resumed their exchanges with him and Ji Ning. Meanwhile, the Xia Emperor asked Lu Dongbin to help expand the upcoming Immortal Fate Assembly beyond the Crimson Bright Domain, aiming to gather young elites from the Daoist Sect, the Buddhist Sect, and the entire Three Realms.

• Xia Manggan returned to Black-White Academy with Jiu Lian and Luo Qing and planned to focus on cultivation and Dao discussions there.
• Jiu Lian invited Yu Wei to Green Lotus Peak after finding her discussing the Sword Dao with Ji Ning.
• The Xia Emperor visited Lu Dongbin at Yuanyang Cave and discussed growing unrest across the Three Realms.
• The Xia Emperor told Lu Dongbin that Dao Ancestor Chiming would attend the joint Immortal Fate Assembly in Great Xia World and choose a disciple.
• The Xia Emperor revealed that he wanted Lu Dongbin to help extend the assembly to young elites from the Daoist Sect, the Buddhist Sect, and the entire Three Realms.

Xia Manggan used 4.2 million jin of Essence Liquid to advance his true body to the Perfected Wanxiang Stage and his Second Primordial Spirit to the Early Void Return Stage. He planned how each body would cultivate and sent the disguised Second Primordial Spirit out as a hidden trump card; more than two years later, Anchan City's sect outposts prepared to accept disciples again.

• Xia Manggan sealed himself inside a secluded chamber and used Essence Liquid to advance his true body to the Perfected Wanxiang Stage.
• Xia Manggan's Second Primordial Spirit formed a Golden Lotus Primordial Spirit and stabilized at the Early Void Return Stage.
• Xia Manggan tested the Second Primordial Spirit's powerful Divine Sense and planned which techniques each body would cultivate.
• Xia Manggan disguised his Second Primordial Spirit in gray robes and sent it out, keeping its Earth Immortal-level cultivation secret.
• More than two years passed, and Anchan City's sect outposts prepared to accept disciples on the first day of the twelfth lunar month.

Xia Manggan faced Immortal Diancai in a Dao discussion spar, using a Star Wheel Puppet against Diancai’s Thousand Sword Puppet. Diancai’s Five Elements sword formation drove Xia Manggan’s lotus defense to its limit as the battle continued.

• Daoist Wu Xiu admitted two Purple Mansion cultivators to the Black-White Academy and sent them to settle on an unclaimed mountain peak.
• Daoist Wu Xiu arrived at the Dao Discussion Hall, where the gathered cultivators awaited Xia Manggan’s spar with Immortal Diancai.
• Xia Manggan and Immortal Diancai began their match, deploying a Star Wheel Puppet and a Thousand Sword Puppet respectively.
• Xia Manggan formed a vast lotus of Starry Wheel Rings, whose Water, Fire, Yin-Yang, and spatial transformations drew aside Diancai’s sword attacks.
• Immortal Diancai transformed his sword formation into five mountain phantoms and then Five Elements sword threads, forcing Xia Manggan to roar and brace his defense.

Xia Manggan defeated Immortal Diancai in the sparring match, prompting Diancai to leave the Academy and temper himself before attempting his tribulation. A proclamation then announced a special Immortal Fate Assembly in ten years, where prodigies from the Three Realms could compete for a chance to become Dao Ancestor Chiming’s personal disciple.

• Xia Manggan’s lotus technique shattered Immortal Diancai’s Five-Elements Sword Light, and the presiding Puppet declared Xia Manggan the winner.
• Immortal Diancai recovered from the defeat, protected Xia Manggan while he entered Dao comprehension, and decided to leave the Great World to temper himself.
• A black proclamation appeared over Anchan City, announcing that the Immortal Fate Assembly would begin in ten years at the Imperial City of the Royal Capital.
• The proclamation revealed that Myriad Manifestations prodigies from the Three Realms could gather and that the finest might become a Dao Ancestor’s personal disciple.
• Heavenly Immortal Tuoshan realized that Dao Ancestor Chiming’s announcement would draw powerful contestants from other realms, and he regretted that the Beishan Clan had so little time to prepare.

The Great Xia Emperor announced an Immortal Fate Assembly ten years away, drawing the attention of powerful factions throughout the Three Realms and prompting them to prepare their strongest Myriad Manifestations disciples. Xia Manggan learned that the gathering would be vastly larger than past assemblies, and the chapter left him eager to compete while uncertain whether he had a home to return to.

• Suspended Proclamations announced across the Great Xia Dynasty that Dao Ancestor Chiming and other supreme powers would attend the Immortal Fate Assembly, and the Emperor ordered major factions to send their finest young disciples.
• Powerful factions across the Three Realms hurried to train and equip their chosen disciples for the assembly.
• At Black-White Academy, the Immortals discussed who should participate, while Immortal Diancai headed north toward Yan Mountain and Immortal Hanshan ordered the Academy's disciples recalled.
• Heavenly Immortal Tuoshan told Black-White Academy to select representatives and advised Xia Manggan to return to his clan for further guidance.
• Xia Manggan revealed that he had reached the Dao Domain Realm and considered the coming assembly, but decided to follow his own cultivation plan until his father sent for him.

Xia Manggan assessed how to prepare for the enlarged Immortal Fate Assembly and decided to leave the Academy to improve through battle if no one came from the Royal Capital. He successfully refined the Soul Devouring Lotus by splitting his Second Primordial Spirit’s soul, then left the wounded spirit to recover for a month.

• Xia Manggan concluded that he needed to strengthen his Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Map and divine abilities before the Immortal Fate Assembly, whose contestants would be stronger than those in the original novel.
• Xia Manggan decided that staying at the Academy would bring limited progress and planned to leave if no one from the Royal Capital came to receive him within a month.
• Xia Manggan used the Soul Extinguishing Technique to split his Second Primordial Spirit’s soul, enduring severe pain as he separated half of it.
• Xia Manggan refined the separated soul into the Soul Devouring Lotus, a rotating black-and-white lotus shaped by Yin-Yang and the Great Dao of Life and Death.
• Xia Manggan stored the Soul Devouring Lotus in his true body’s sea of consciousness and left the Second Primordial Spirit to recover for a month.

Xia Manggan and Jiu Lian left the Black-White Academy and arrived at the Dongyan Clan stronghold in Shangshui Commandery, where he displayed his strength to the clan’s young elites. A man in blue watched Xia Manggan through a Water Mirror and marveled at how much he resembled someone.

• Xia Manggan said goodbye to Mu Zishuo, Luo Qing, and Beishan Hu, then departed Di Ta Peak with Jiu Lian.
• Xia Manggan and Jiu Lian arrived near the Northern Abyss Ocean, where Jiu Lian explained that the Dongyan Clan had deployed a tenth of its Xuanming Guard.
• Immortal Beiqu met them and carried them to the Dongyan Mountain Range, where he objected to Jiu Lian bringing Xia Manggan to meet Ancestor Dongyan.
• Immortal Beiqu left Xia Manggan at Tianyu Peak among ten Wanxiang Daoists, who challenged him; Xia Manggan subdued them all with his black-and-white lotus and Taiyu Pagoda.
• A man in blue watched the confrontation in a Water Mirror and remarked that Xia Manggan looked remarkably like someone.

Immortal Beiqu’s ancestor witnessed Xia Manggan’s overwhelming strength and revealed that the Xia Emperor was preparing the Immortal Fate Assembly for his youngest son. Jiu Lian learned Xia Manggan’s identity and was urged to consider whether she truly loved him, while Xia Manggan went to meet the ancestor.

• Immortal Beiqu’s ancestor explained that the Dongyan Clan’s preparations for the Immortal Fate Assembly were mainly meant to obey the Xia Emperor and protect its young cultivators.
• The ancestor showed Immortal Beiqu a Water Mirror image of Xia Manggan suppressing Dongyan Qingfeng and the clan’s other elite Wanxiang Daoists, and sent Immortal Beiqu to bring him over.
• The ancestor questioned Jiu Lian about her feelings for Xia Manggan, revealed that Xia Manggan was the Xia Emperor’s son, and urged her to keep his identity secret while reflecting on her feelings.
• Immortal Beiqu reached Tianyu Peak and politely escorted Xia Manggan to meet the ancestor, while the clan’s young cultivators recovered from his suppression.
• Dongyan Qingfeng watched Xia Manggan leave and realized that his confidence about the Immortal Fate Assembly had been misplaced.

Xia Manggan entered the Ten Thousand Lotus Cave to face its illusion arrays and earn the chance to comprehend the Green Lotus Secret Canon. After passing trials of worldly desires, he confronted the anger and hatred tied to his previous life, and regained clarity as he charged at Hong Yi.

• Xia Manggan met Ancestor Dongyan and agreed to undergo the Dongyan Clan’s trial for the Green Lotus Secret Canon.
• Ancestor Dongyan sent Xia Manggan into the Ten Thousand Lotus Cave, where he passed illusions of lust, food, power, wealth, and love without losing his composure.
• Ancestor Dongyan watched in surprise as Xia Manggan reached the illusion of anger and manifested the Wheel of Life and Death and Three Heads and Six Arms.
• Xia Manggan relived the destruction of the Great Gan Ancestral Temple and argued with Hong Yi over Hong Xuanji, Meng Bingyun, and the Great Gan Dynasty.
• Xia Manggan charged at Hong Yi, and the Dharma body of the Great Sun Tathagata Buddha began to condense in his sea of consciousness as clarity returned to his eyes.

Xia Manggan entered the third illusion at Ten Thousand Lotus Cave and endured its sensory emptiness, while Jiu Lian clarified her feelings for him and rejected Chen Jin. The chapter left Jiu Lian resolved to wait for her feelings to deepen and Chen Jin determined to compete for the Marquis of Shangshui position.

• Ancestor Dongyan accelerated time around Xia Manggan as he entered the third trial, the defilement of Ignorance.
• Xia Manggan endured the loss of his senses and his connection to the Dao, finding calm in the isolation as time passed.
• A Withered Monk on Western Mount Ling opened his eyes and murmured about finding ease in the Dao of Bodhi.
• Chen Jin visited Jiu Lian and offered to host a banquet for Xia Manggan, but Jiu Lian told him she liked Xia Manggan and rejected him.
• Chen Jin accused Jiu Lian of pursuing Xia Manggan for his status, then vowed to fight for the position of the next Marquis of Shangshui.
• Jiu Lian reflected that Xia Manggan's talent and standing attracted her, and decided she was willing to wait for her feelings to grow.

Xia Manggan emerged from Ten Thousand Lotus Cave after enduring its three illusion arrays and gained the chance to comprehend the Buddhist secret art Golden Lotus Descends to the World. He left with Jiu Lian for the Northern Abyss Ocean, while Ancestor Dongyan approved of their bond.

• Jiu Lian visited Forbidden Valley again, and Ancestor Dongyan told her Xia Manggan would leave seclusion that day and urged her to live as she wished.
• Ancestor Dongyan reflected on Xia Manggan enduring the third illusion array for nine years and judged his Dao heart extraordinary.
• Xia Manggan emerged from the illusion array with improved cultivation, deeper Dao comprehension, and a stronger Dao heart.
• Ancestor Dongyan manifested the golden lotus left by a Buddhist Sect Bodhisattva, and Xia Manggan comprehended the Golden Lotus Descends to the World secret art.
• Xia Manggan left Ten Thousand Lotus Cave and promised Ancestor Dongyan that he would help Jiu Lian live happily.
• Jiu Lian invited Xia Manggan to join her in taking Yinglong Guard missions in the Northern Abyss Ocean, and he agreed.

Chen Jin plotted against Jiu Lian after she left with Xia Manggan, while the pair sailed toward the Northern Abyss Ocean to hunt bounty targets. In the Dark World, the Wujian Sect’s ruler ordered reincarnated Loose Immortals to infiltrate the Great Xia World’s Immortal Fate Assembly and kill its participants.

• Chen Jin learned that Jiu Lian had left with a young man, gathered the bounty missions she accepted, and secretly resolved to have her killed by enemies in the Northern Abyss Ocean.
• Xia Manggan and Jiu Lian sailed across Giant Wave Reef, and Xia Manggan held her when a wave rocked the ship.
• Jiu Lian examined the six bounty missions and identified Ma De as the nearest target; Xia Manggan chose to hunt him first.
• The black-robed ruler of the Wujian Sect announced a plan to send reincarnated Loose Immortals to the Great Xia World’s Immortal Fate Assembly to kill its Wanxiang Daoists.
• The shadowy figures accepted the order and roared their allegiance to the God King.

Xia Manggan and Jiu Lian found and killed Ma De, a wanted cultivator who had imprisoned and abused people in a hidden city beneath the Northern Abyss Ocean. They freed the survivors and left them resources and a powerful puppet for protection, while Xia Manggan reflected on the coming upheaval in the Three Realms.

• Jiu Lian found Ma De’s island hideout empty, but Xia Manggan sensed him concealed beneath the seabed and sent his Soul Devouring Lotus to attack.
• The Soul Devouring Lotus destroyed Ma De’s soul, and the women he had abused took revenge on his corpse before Xia Manggan burned the remains.
• Xia Manggan destroyed Ma De’s ten Puppet Human Demons and discovered thousands of victims’ bodies in the hidden Puppet City.
• Xia Manggan and Jiu Lian entered the city, found the surviving captives, and gave them cultivation resources and a Wanxiang-realm puppet to protect them.
• Jiu Lian hoped the survivors, including Zi Yun, would live peacefully, and Xia Manggan foresaw that they might eventually establish a powerful force called Lotus City.

Xia Manggan and Jiu Lian killed Daoist Blood Infant near Golden Crow Island, where Ah Huang broke through to the Original Spirit Realm. The Golden Crow Immortal sensed Ah Huang’s energy-gathering breakthrough and flew out to confront it.

• Xia Manggan and Jiu Lian caught Daoist Blood Infant after he fled with thirteen Lesser Teleportation Dao Talismans, and Xia Manggan killed him and recovered his treasures.
• Jiu Lian warned Xia Manggan that the Golden Crow Immortal was a dangerous power near Golden Crow Island, while Xia Manggan recalled Bu Yi’s hidden human origins and considered his strength.
• As Xia Manggan and Jiu Lian prepared to leave, Ah Huang broke through to the Original Spirit Realm and devoured nearby creatures to fuel its cultivation.
• The Golden Crow Immortal sensed Ah Huang draining natural energy near his island, left his lecture, and flew out as his six disciples followed to watch.

Xia Manggan confronted the Golden Crow Immortal after Ah Huang’s breakthrough drew the immortal to them. He sent Jiu Lian to his Portable Immortal Mansion and began fighting Bu Yi, ending the chapter as his black-and-white lotus struck the Golden Crow Immortal’s sea of consciousness.

• Jiu Lian warned Xia Manggan that Ah Huang’s breakthrough was attracting attention, and Bu Yi arrived at Golden Crow Island seeking to seize the dragon.
• Bu Yi demanded that Xia Manggan leave Ah Huang behind, but Xia Manggan sent Jiu Lian and her ship into his Portable Immortal Mansion and revealed his Return to Void Second Primordial Spirit.
• Jiu Lian tried to use a Great Teleportation Dao Talisman to summon Ancestor Dongyan, but Xia Manggan stopped her and promised to defeat Bu Yi.
• Bu Yi transformed into his Three-Legged Golden Crow form and attacked Xia Manggan and Ah Huang with True Sun Golden Flame, which Ah Huang swallowed.
• Bu Yi lunged at Xia Manggan and Ah Huang, but a mysterious soul attack slowed him long enough for Xia Manggan’s black-and-white lotus to pierce his sea of consciousness.