Chapter Summaries

Liu Bai confronted Nangong Xianyun, the Saintess of the Boundless Sacred Land, after escaping her pursuers, and complained that she had kept him on the run for three years. She reminded him that she had helped him steal the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment and insisted that he address her by name.

• The Great Elder considered asking the Ancestor to leave seclusion because the Saintess was in danger and Liu Bai was difficult to catch.
• Liu Bai escaped the pursuers and complained that the Boundless Sacred Land had hunted him for three years over one stolen item.
• Liu Bai found Nangong Xianyun sitting beside a stream in a canyon and asked her to return to the Boundless Sacred Land.
• Nangong Xianyun reminded Liu Bai that she had helped him steal the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment and said he should call her by name.

The Great Elder reported that Liu Bai had escaped again, but the Holy Lord took back the Heaven-Shaking Bell and dismissed him. The Holy Lord then wondered about the mysterious person who had abducted his daughter Yun'er, while his Ancestor assured him she was safe and spoke of the Wine Venerable.

• The Great Elder admitted that Liu Bai had escaped despite the pursuit and the Heaven-Shaking Bell.
• The Holy Lord reclaimed the bell and told the Great Elder and his group to withdraw.
• The Great Elder left with the elders to enjoy themselves, relieved that the matter was no longer his responsibility.
• The Holy Lord pondered the identity of the person who had abducted Yun'er and the Golden Immortal concealing his heavenly secrets.
• The Ancestor told the Holy Lord that Yun'er was safe and might have encountered a heaven-sent opportunity.
• The Ancestor recalled the Wine Venerable, a gifted figure who had approached Transcendence.

Nangong Xianyun’s father realized Liu Bai might be connected to Wine Venerable’s reincarnation and ordered a three-day celebration at the Boundless Sacred Land. Meanwhile, Nangong Xianyun insisted on joining Liu Bai on his dangerous journey, and he reluctantly agreed.

• Nangong Xianyun’s father heard the old ancestor’s account of Wine Venerable entering reincarnation and inferred that it might explain his daughter’s situation.
• Nangong Xianyun’s father accepted the possibility of a connection between Liu Bai and his daughter, then ordered the Boundless Sacred Land to celebrate for three days and three nights.
• Nangong Xianyun confronted Liu Bai for wanting to leave after she had helped him steal a living treasure from her Sacred Land.
• Liu Bai tried to prevent Nangong Xianyun from joining him on his perilous journey, warning that her father would punish him if she died.
• Nangong Xianyun threatened to summon her great-grandfather, and Liu Bai reluctantly agreed to let her come along.

Liu Bai invited Nangong Xianyun to the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land, warning her about the lingering battle-soul obsessions within. He opened a passage into the place he had sealed in a previous life, and Nangong Xianyun entered first.

• Liu Bai explained that the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land held the remnants of an immortal-demon war and asked Nangong Xianyun to accompany him.
• Nangong Xianyun agreed despite Liu Bai's warning about the battle-soul obsessions and resentful spirits.
• Liu Bai opened the forbidden land with a green jade shard, revealing an ancient passageway.
• Nangong Xianyun realized the forbidden land had been missing for ages and wondered who Liu Bai was.
• Liu Bai challenged Nangong Xianyun to walk ahead, and she entered the passageway.

Liu Bai and Nangong Xianyun escaped a collapsing passage, but an accidental touch sparked a fight when Nangong Xianyun attacked him with Supreme Law. Liu Bai redirected her meteors, while warning that their battle could awaken dangerous beings in the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land.

• Liu Bai sealed the passage behind them and pulled Nangong Xianyun through before it collapsed.
• Liu Bai accidentally squeezed Nangong Xianyun's chest, then fled when she threatened him with Supreme Law.
• Nangong Xianyun pursued Liu Bai with a Heavenly Fire Meteor attack and intensified it into a dark-purple Supreme Law Meteor Shower.
• Liu Bai warned Nangong Xianyun that their commotion could awaken terrifying beings in the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land.
• Liu Bai used the Great Shift of the Cosmos to swallow the meteors into a Void space and send them exploding elsewhere.

Liu Bai and Nangong Xianyun fled through the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land as primordial aberrations pursued them. They reached a hill with a thatched hut, where the creatures stopped short.

• Liu Bai sensed that the creatures in the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land had grown stronger and sped up as the ground trembled.
• Nangong Xianyun followed Liu Bai, and he told her to stay close as eerie voices surrounded them.
• A gray-mist aberration with countless arms pursued Nangong Xianyun, whose flames could not harm it.
• Liu Bai told Nangong Xianyun that the mist was the aberration's true body and could not be killed, then led her toward a distant hill.
• Liu Bai and Nangong Xianyun reached the hill and its thatched hut, and the pursuing aberrations abruptly stopped.

Liu Bai and Nangong Xianyun took shelter in Liu Bai’s former home in the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land, where he revealed that he had been a powerful immortal in a past life. He explained that he had come to retrieve a jug of wine he left brewing in the Heavenly Pool, and Nangong Xianyun doubted his priorities.

• Liu Bai and Nangong Xianyun escaped the eerie beings by taking refuge in Liu Bai’s thatched cottage, which still carried the aura of his past life.
• Nangong Xianyun questioned Liu Bai’s familiarity with the cottage, and Liu Bai claimed he had been a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal in his previous life.
• Nangong Xianyun searched the cottage while Liu Bai explained that he had lived there alone and spent his wealth making wine.
• Liu Bai revealed that he had come to find a jug of wine he had left in the Heavenly Pool, hoping it had become a supreme treasure.
• Nangong Xianyun questioned whether Liu Bai had really entered the dangerous forbidden land just for wine.

Liu Bai and Nangong Xianyun set off through the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land to search for the wine Liu Bai sought, avoiding the aberrations that infested it. As they traveled, the chapter explained the forbidden land’s origins and how it had vanished after the ancient war between immortals and demons.

• Liu Bai offered to send Nangong Xianyun out of the forbidden land, but she insisted on staying and promised she would not hold him back.
• Liu Bai warned Nangong Xianyun to move quietly so they would not alert the weakened aberrations, then set off with her following close behind.
• Liu Bai and Nangong Xianyun crossed the scorched battlefield, where broken weapons and decayed armor lay scattered.
• The chapter recounted how the Ancient Desolate Earth became the battlefield for the war between immortals and demons and was ruined by the fighting.
• The Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land later vanished mysteriously, and even Primordial Unity Golden Immortals could not discover where it had gone.

Liu Bai and Nangong Xianyun crossed into the Immortal-Demon Battlefield on their way to the Heavenly Pool, where they encountered countless resentful spirits. Nangong Xianyun used her purple gourd to collect them, while Liu Bai wondered why it seemed familiar.

• Liu Bai told Nangong Xianyun to stay close as they headed for the Heavenly Pool through the Immortal-Demon Battlefield.
• Liu Bai and Nangong Xianyun reached the main battlefield and saw countless battle-soul obsessions gathering in the mist.
• The resentful spirits noticed the living and approached, prompting Liu Bai to explain how many had died there during the ancient war.
• Nangong Xianyun summoned her purple gourd and used it to suck the resentful spirits into it.
• Liu Bai put away an ancient bell and said the gourd looked familiar, and Nangong Xianyun angrily told him it was a protective treasure from her father.

Liu Bai and Nangong Xianyun reached the Heavenly Pool, where they encountered a Qiongqi guarding the immortal brew. Liu Bai realized the creature he had captured in his previous life had survived and grown to the peak of the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm, leaving him facing the consequences of his past actions.

• Nangong Xianyun used her purple gourd to absorb the vengeful spirits blocking their way as she and Liu Bai advanced.
• Liu Bai spotted the mountain concealing the Heavenly Pool and hoped the immortal brew was still there.
• Liu Bai pulled Nangong Xianyun away just before a black beam shattered the ground where they had stood.
• The creature revealed itself as a legendary Qiongqi, terrifying Nangong Xianyun.
• Liu Bai realized he had captured the Qiongqi in his previous life to guard the Heavenly Pool, and that it had survived to reach the peak of the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm.

Liu Bai and Nangong Xianyun encountered the legendary Qiongqi guarding the way to the Heavenly Pool and moved to kill it. Liu Bai’s sword techniques failed to penetrate its defenses, leaving them facing a foe whose cultivation and strength far exceeded his own.

• Nangong Xianyun and Liu Bai found Qiongqi, and Liu Bai said he would hold it back while she looked for a way to kill it.
• Qiongqi charged Liu Bai, who recalled capturing it as a weak cub in his previous life and wondered how it had survived and grown so powerful.
• Liu Bai unleashed Three Thousand Sword Rain, but Qiongqi’s black barrier blocked all three thousand sword shadows.
• Liu Bai merged the sword shadows with Three Thousand as One, but Qiongqi’s black radiance destroyed the attack.

Liu Bai distracted Qiongqi long enough to enter the Heavenly Pool and retrieve the immortal brew he had sealed there in his past life. He left the pool holding a spatial wine jar filled with enough brew to fill a world.

• Nangong Xianyun used Chantian Finger to pin Qiongqi, but the beast broke free and charged at her.
• Liu Bai ignored Nangong Xianyun’s demand for help and dove into the Heavenly Pool, saying he would return after retrieving the item.
• Nangong Xianyun fought Qiongqi while Liu Bai reached the spring where he had sealed the immortal brew.
• Liu Bai used the incantations from his past-life memories to draw a black jar out of the spring.
• Liu Bai embraced the jar, which held an immense quantity of immortal brew inside its spatial interior.

Liu Bai opened a powerful wine jar, drank too much, and passed out after destroying Heavenly Pool. Meanwhile, Nangong Xianyun fought Qiongqi and tried to subdue it as her mount, but it dodged her attacks.

• Liu Bai opened the black jar, whose wine aroma stirred the laws around Heavenly Pool.
• Liu Bai tasted the wine, poured the jar into his gourd, and drank a large gulp before collapsing unconscious.
• Nangong Xianyun cursed Liu Bai while dodging Qiongqi's attacks.
• Nangong Xianyun used the Azure Emperor Longevity Tree art to strike Qiongqi with a purple willow branch.
• Nangong Xianyun sent countless law-infused branches at Qiongqi, but Qiongqi nimbly avoided them.

Nangong Xianyun tried to make Qiongqi submit, but it refused and broke free from her cage. She unleashed the power of her blue pendants and prepared to kill it.

• Nangong Xianyun noticed Qiongqi had become agile and trapped it in a cage formed from willow branches.
• Nangong Xianyun offered to help Qiongqi reach the Golden Immortal realm if it formed a contract with her, but Qiongqi roared in refusal.
• Nangong Xianyun grew enraged, took off her crescent-moon pendant, and transformed the surroundings into a boundless expanse of water.
• Qiongqi shattered the cage and fixed its scarlet eyes on Nangong Xianyun, intent on killing her.
• Nangong Xianyun rose into the air as blue pendants radiated immense power, and she declared that Qiongqi's chance to submit had passed.

Nangong Xianyun used the Boundless Art to badly wound Qiongqi, but the exhausted creature began healing by absorbing the resentful spirits’ power. She grabbed the drunken, unconscious Liu Bai and fled before Qiongqi could recover.

• Nangong Xianyun unleashed three attacks with the Boundless Art, leaving Qiongqi riddled with wounds and lying motionless.
• Her Primordial Spirit faltered, ending the technique and returning her and Qiongqi outside the Heavenly Pool.
• As Nangong Xianyun approached, gray mist surged into Qiongqi and rapidly healed its wounds.
• Nangong Xianyun realized Qiongqi was absorbing the forbidden land’s power and turned to flee.
• Nangong Xianyun found Liu Bai drunk and unconscious at the Heavenly Pool entrance, grabbed him, and ran while scolding him.

Nangong Xianyun struggled to escape Qiongqi while carrying the drunken Liu Bai, but after he woke, he drunkenly approached the beast. The chapter left Liu Bai facing Qiongqi after summoning three droplets of water with his Sever technique.

• Nangong Xianyun carried the unconscious Liu Bai while fleeing Qiongqi, whose law power and pursuit pushed her to her limit.
• Qiongqi struck Nangong Xianyun down, and she threatened it with a supreme-grade Boundless artifact powered by her heart’s blood.
• Nangong Xianyun backed away from Qiongqi and searched for Liu Bai, only to find him standing behind her with a wine flask.
• Liu Bai drunkenly walked toward Qiongqi, called it a big tiger, and used Sever to summon three droplets of water.

Liu Bai used his drunken sword techniques to defeat the peak Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal Qiongqi. After the beast fell, Liu Bai collapsed, leaving Nangong Xianyun to wonder how they would escape.

• Liu Bai wounded Qiongqi with repeated strands of Sword Qi as Nangong Xianyun watched in disbelief.
• Liu Bai used his Boundless Arts to crush and kill Qiongqi, reducing it to a heap of flesh and blood.
• Liu Bai praised the wine and collapsed to the ground, leaving his life or death unknown.
• Nangong Xianyun hurried to Liu Bai and shook him, demanding to know how they would get out.

After ten years of unconscious drunkenness, Liu Bai remained stranded with Nangong Xianyun in the Ancient Desolate Forbidden Land. Ye Lin finished comprehending the Three Heaven-Opening Forms and the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment, then asked the newly awakened Li Xiaoyao to protect his Dao.

• Nangong Xianyun carried the unconscious Liu Bai to the thatched cottage to hide from the Forbidden Land's anomalies.
• Ye Lin completed ten years of comprehension and concluded that the Three Heaven-Opening Forms could eventually open a great world.
• Ye Lin comprehended the fragment's method for severing the evil corpse and considered which clone should inherit it.
• Li Xiaoyao woke up with a painful headache, and Ye Lin asked him to go out and protect his Dao.

Ye Lin began using One Breath Becomes Three Purities to strip his evil thoughts from himself and place them onto Xiaoyao, hoping to help the clone advance to the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm. After the transfer, Xiaoyao continued circulating his cultivation technique.

• Li Xiaoyao left to take a walk while Ye Lin summoned Xiaoyao.
• Ye Lin reflected on the different cultivation levels of his three clones and his plans to help Lin Xian advance.
• Ye Lin focused on his Primordial Spirit and used One Breath Becomes Three Purities to strip away his evil thoughts.
• Ye Lin sent the black mass of evil thoughts into Xiaoyao's glabella.
• Xiaoyao kept his eyes shut and circulated his cultivation technique after receiving Ye Lin's evil thoughts.

Ye Lin gave Xiaoyao his pure evil intent and suppressed him in his dantian, then wondered whether the Shangguan Family already had a fragmentary scroll. Suspecting they might, Ye Lin set out with Li Xiaoyao to revisit the Xiang Clan, while the Anlan Great World remained peaceful and remote.

• Ye Lin infused Xiaoyao with his evil intent, greatly increasing Xiaoyao's aura, then drew him into his dantian to keep him suppressed.
• Ye Lin noted that he had six fragmentary scrolls and suspected the Shangguan Family might possess one of their own.
• Ye Lin decided to return to the Xiang Clan to investigate and called Li Xiaoyao to accompany him.
• Outside the Anlan Great World, the remote region remained peaceful because it had little value and few outsiders dared enter.