Chapter Summaries

Qing Mo subdued Tree Demon Matriarch and her ghosts, sparing Xiao Zhuo while keeping Xiao Die behind. Meanwhile, Xiao Zhuo tried to seduce young monk Shi Fang but was driven from the temple, where Master Baiyun returned.

• Tree Demon Matriarch, Xiao Zhuo, and Xiao Die attacked Qing Mo, but he blocked them and slapped Tree Demon Matriarch into submission.
• Qing Mo spared Xiao Zhuo because she resembled an old acquaintance, kept Xiao Die with him, and sent the other ghosts to face the old monk.
• Tree Demon Matriarch ordered Xiao Zhuo to bring the monk back, and Xiao Zhuo went to the dilapidated temple where Shi Fang was hiding.
• Xiao Zhuo tried to seduce Shi Fang, but he resisted with Buddhist scriptures and forced her to retreat.
• Master Baiyun returned to the temple after Shi Fang's narrow victory over Xiao Zhuo.

Master Baiyun and Shi Fang remained at Lanruo Temple, where Shi Fang searched for the broken Golden Buddha and formed a friendship with Xiao Zhuo. When the Tree Demon Matriarch attacked, Master Baiyun confronted her and argued over whether good and evil were truly repaid, leaving their battle underway.

• Shi Fang persuaded Master Baiyun to stay at Lanruo Temple while he searched for the missing Golden Buddha, and Master Baiyun later clashed with Yan Chixia over a debt in the market.
• Xiao Zhuo helped Shi Fang find the shattered Golden Buddha, stole his first kiss, and shared a story of her past before admitting she had made it up.
• Xiao Die told Qing Mo how bandits had destroyed her family, abused her, and left her as a ghost under the Tree Demon Matriarch's control.
• Shi Fang hid Xiao Zhuo from Master Baiyun and helped her escape the sutra-covered house, but the Tree Demon Matriarch captured him before Master Baiyun pursued them.
• Master Baiyun confronted the Tree Demon Matriarch, who challenged his belief in karmic justice by claiming that evil people could prosper even in the underworld.

Qing Mo rescued Xiao Die from Tree Demon Matriarch’s control and took her in, while Shi Fang lost the broken Golden Buddha to a blacksmith in Guobei County. Qing Mo repaired the Buddha and prepared to help Xiao Die take revenge on the bandits who killed her.

• Tree Demon Matriarch wounded Master Baiyun with her lightning technique, and Master Baiyun sent Shi Fang away with the broken Golden Buddha while vines bound him.
• Xiao Zhuo warned Shi Fang to flee Lanruo Temple, and Qing Mo offered to resurrect Xiao Die; she chose to remain a ghost and asked to stay by his side.
• Shi Fang was swindled by a blacksmith in Guobei County, who stole the Golden Buddha and rallied others to chase him; Yan Chixia helped him escape.
• Qing Mo recovered the Golden Buddha from the blacksmiths, punished the deceitful blacksmith, and left with the Buddha before Shi Fang and Yan Chixia arrived.
• Qing Mo repaired the Golden Buddha, shielded Xiao Die from its Buddhist light, and asked whether she wanted revenge on the bandits who had killed her.

Qing Mo allowed Xiao Die to avenge her family by killing the bandits who had destroyed her home, after which she pledged to serve him as Master. Meanwhile, Shi Fang and Yan Chixia found Xiao Zhuo’s ashes urn and rescued Master Baiyun, but the Tree Demon Matriarch trapped them in an illusion and abducted Shi Fang, leaving Yan Chixia and Master Baiyun to rush back to Lanruo Temple.

• Qing Mo took Xiao Die to the bandits’ stronghold, where she killed every bandit and freed the women they had imprisoned.
• Xiao Die’s resentment faded after her revenge, and she vowed to serve Qing Mo as Master before returning to her ashes urn at dawn.
• Shi Fang and Yan Chixia found Xiao Zhuo’s ashes urn beneath the Tree Demon Matriarch’s true body and rescued Master Baiyun from the branches.
• The Tree Demon Matriarch’s sudden rain extinguished Yan Chixia’s torch, so he, Shi Fang, and Master Baiyun sought shelter and later encountered Xiao Zhuo at a crowded street festival.
• The Tree Demon Matriarch disguised herself as Xiao Zhuo and abducted Shi Fang after Master Baiyun exposed her, while Yan Chixia and Master Baiyun realized they were still trapped in the demon’s forest.
• Xiao Zhuo gave Yan Chixia her urn and urged him to save Shi Fang, and Yan Chixia put aside his abacus to leave with Master Baiyun.

Master Baiyun and Yan Chixia fought Tree Demon Matriarch, then fled the arriving Black Mountain Demon with Shi Fang and Xiao Zhuo. As the demon’s barrage threatened to overwhelm them before dawn, Master Baiyun spent his golden blood to clear a path, while Shi Fang shielded Xiao Zhuo from it.

• Tree Demon Matriarch absorbed the little demons’ vital essence, but Xiao Zhuo distracted her by revealing Master Baiyun and Yan Chixia’s hiding place, allowing Xiao Zhuo to free Shi Fang.
• Yan Chixia and Master Baiyun fought Tree Demon Matriarch with their spells and treasures, then burned her to destruction after she drained Xiao Meng’s vital energy.
• Black Mountain Demon arrived, forcing the group to flee on Master Baiyun’s flying cassock; Shi Fang jumped down to retrieve Xiao Zhuo’s ash urn, and Yan Chixia helped them escape the rising gravestones.
• Black Mountain Demon trapped the group with stone walls and a storm of boulders, so Master Baiyun and Yan Chixia fought to hold them back until dawn.
• Master Baiyun scattered his golden blood to pulverize the incoming rocks, and Shi Fang shielded Xiao Zhuo from the blood when it caused her pain.

Shi Fang used Master Baiyun’s golden blood and the sun’s pure yang energy to defeat Black Mountain Demon, while Xiao Zhuo survived and later reunited with Xiao Die. After Qing Mo returned the repaired Golden Buddha and shared his advice with the monks, he prepared to leave for the island nation to bring back the Tree Demon Matriarch.

• Yan Chixia drew Black Mountain Demon away while Master Baiyun transformed Shi Fang’s body into a golden body and Xiao Zhuo carried him through the black clouds toward the sunlight.
• Shi Fang channeled the sun’s pure yang energy to destroy Black Mountain Demon’s house and drive the demon into hiding, then Yan Chixia caught him as his golden body shattered.
• Shi Fang found Xiao Zhuo alive in a rocky crevice, and he and Master Baiyun set off with her ashes while Yan Chixia rode away with her urn.
• Yan Chixia discovered that Shi Fang had stolen Xiao Zhuo’s ashes and left him a note, while Shi Fang carried the ashes in a gourd and continued on with Master Baiyun.
• Qing Mo and Xiao Die sheltered Shi Fang and Master Baiyun, reunited Xiao Zhuo with Xiao Die, and gave Shi Fang the repaired Golden Buddha.
• After the rain stopped, Qing Mo prepared to travel to the island nation and bring the Tree Demon Matriarch back to the cultivation world.

Qing Mo brought the island nation's Tree Demon Matriarch back to the Immortal Cultivation World, where he reunited with his followers and learned that they had rebuilt the Flowing Moon Sect. After revealing the Ascension Jade and preparing to leave the Linhai Continent, he oversaw the sect's recruitment and founding ceremony.

• Qing Mo ordered the island nation's Tree Demon Matriarch to teach the remaining natives before taking her and Xiao Die back to the Immortal Cultivation World.
• Qing Mo introduced Xiao Die to his maids and summoned Jing Yubai, Ren Tianye, and the others to report on their work.
• Jing Yubai gave Qing Mo Shi Tian's ancient bronze sword, and Qing Mo broke it open to reveal the Ascension Jade, which could carry fifty people to the Great Thousand World.
• Qing Mo told his followers he would eventually leave and gave Jing Yubai the Ascension Jade so they could ascend together, while explaining that they needed to grow without his protection.
• Ren Tianye reported that the Flowing Moon Sect had been rebuilt, and Qing Mo set strict standards for its recruits and elders before providing resources.
• Ren Tianye recruited several thousand disciples and dozens of elders, announced the sect founding ceremony, and welcomed representatives from powers across the Linhai Continent.

The Flowing Moon Sect held its founding ceremony, drawing factions from across Linhai Continent. Ren Tianye announced that Wang Weixiu would marry Liang Shuying, joining the Flowing Moon Sect and Heavenly Cloud Sect by marriage.

• Jing Yubai and Xuan Qingyin reunited with their families, and Jing Yubai revealed that he had reached the peak of the Life Wheel realm.
• Jing Yubai introduced Xuan Qingyin as his wife; his mother gave her a family jade bracelet, and Qing Mo spoke warmly with both families.
• Ren Tianye opened the Flowing Moon Sect’s founding ceremony and declared that the sect had risen again.
• Ren Tianye announced Wang Weixiu’s planned marriage to Liang Shuying and asked the gathering to witness the alliance between their sects.
• Yun Tianchen welcomed the marriage announcement, while representatives from other factions envied the Heavenly Cloud Sect.

Qing Mo appointed the Tree Demon Matriarch to teach his juniors about human nature, while the Flowing Moon Sect arranged Wang Weixiu’s marriage to Liang Shuying and prepared for their wedding. Wang Weixiu secured Da Bai and Yinzi’s help with the bridal procession by promising them two lavish tables of food.

• Qing Mo settled the Tree Demon Matriarch by a stream and ordered her to teach the sect’s juniors about human nature.
• Wang Weixiu and the other juniors met their new mentor, and Qing Mo told them and the other disciples to learn from her.
• Qing Mo took Little Tail and Yinzi from Alchemy Peak and traveled with Ren Tianye to the Heavenly Cloud Sect to deliver lavish betrothal gifts.
• Ren Tianye and Yun Tianchen agreed to hold Wang Weixiu and Liang Shuying’s wedding next month, and Liang Shuying accepted the arrangement.
• News of the betrothal gifts spread, prompting factions across the Linhai Continent to prepare suitable young women for the wedding banquet.
• Wang Weixiu persuaded Da Bai and Yinzi to join his bridal procession by offering each of them a separate table of eighteen dishes.

Wang Weixiu and his Flowing Moon Sect companions staged an extravagant wedding procession to collect Liang Shuying from the Heavenly Cloud Sect. After passing a wine-drinking test and distracting the female disciples guarding her room with treasures, Wang Weixiu reached Liang Shuying and prepared to take her home.

• Wang Weixiu arranged the wedding banquet with Xia Qiyue, Qu Ziyun, and Liu Minghua, who agreed to prepare separate meals for Da Bai and Yinzi.
• Wang Weixiu led ninety-eight groomsmen, Da Bai, and Yinzi on a radiant, flower-strewn procession to the Heavenly Cloud Sect, astonishing the wedding guests.
• Jing Yumin asked Jing Yubai to hold Xuan Qingyin a grand wedding someday, and Jing Yubai promised to work toward it.
• Yun Jiange challenged Wang Weixiu to pass a test, and Wang Weixiu and his groomsmen drank all 999 jars of wine on their way to Liang Shuying's bridal chamber.
• Sikong Baiyue and the Heavenly Cloud Sect's female disciples demanded gifts as a second test, so Wang Weixiu and four junior brothers scattered treasures to distract them and rushed past.
• Wang Weixiu entered Liang Shuying's room, told her he had come to take her home and marry her, and she nodded in agreement.

Wang Weixiu and Liang Shuying married at the Flowing Moon Sect, where Qing Mo and the others gave the bride powerful gifts. After Qing Mo and his companions departed for other worlds, the chapter shifted to Dark Nether Isle, where a mysterious newcomer stepped on a Seven-Hued Supreme Flower.

• Wang Weixiu brought Liang Shuying to the Flowing Moon Sect, and the couple completed their wedding ceremony.
• Qing Mo corrected Liang Shuying's address to him, accepted her tea, and bestowed an Immortal Emperor-grade sword art; Liu Yurou and the other women gave her additional treasures.
• The wedding banquet took place as the visiting factions' young women eyed the Flowing Moon Sect's male disciples.
• Qing Mo told his companions to cultivate until they could ascend, then entered a spatial passage with his group as the others tearfully bid them farewell.
• On Dark Nether Isle, a junior sister neared the Seven-Hued Supreme Flower while her senior brother held off demon snakes, but a foot emerging from a spatial hole landed on the flower.

Qing Mo and his companions arrived in the Crimson Spirit Continent, where they rescued Cloud Cliff Sect disciples Tang Xuanhua and Pei Yuexin from a swarm of Bloodthirsty Demon Snakes. After Da Bai subdued the snake king, Qing Mo gave it to the disciples and instantly transported everyone to Azure Cloud City, leaving Tang Xuanhua and Pei Yuexin stunned by his power.

• Qing Mo accidentally crushed the Seven-Colored Absolute Flower Pei Yuexin had sought while Tang Xuanhua fought the Bloodthirsty Demon Snakes and was badly bitten.
• Tang Xuanhua and Pei Yuexin retreated to Qing Mo's group as the Bloodthirsty Snake King and its swarm surrounded them.
• Qing Mo stopped Tang Xuanhua from burning his blood essence, and Da Bai's divine beast pressure killed the swarm and pinned down the snake king.
• Qing Mo gave the Bloodthirsty Snake King to Tang Xuanhua and Pei Yuexin, who harvested its materials before telling him about the Crimson Spirit Continent and Azure Cloud City.
• Qing Mo snapped his fingers and transported his group, Tang Xuanhua, and Pei Yuexin to Azure Cloud City's gates in an instant.

Qing Mo and his companions explored Azure Cloud City with Tang Xuanhua and Pei Yuexin, but a confrontation with Murky Mist Sect disciples ended in Liu Yurou crippling and killing them. Liu Yurou killed two of the three attackers, while Mu Yunfeng remained alive and terrified.

• Tang Xuanhua and Pei Yuexin offered to guide Qing Mo's group around Azure Cloud City, and Tang explained the local sects and the Fury River Sect.
• Qin Xiaocheng and the other Murky Mist Sect disciples mocked Tang Xuanhua and Pei Yuexin and tried to recruit them and Qing Mo's female servants; they refused.
• Qin Xiaocheng, Cui Haonan, and Mu Yunfeng blocked the group and threatened to force the women into joining the Murky Mist Sect.
• Liu Yurou swiftly crippled all three attackers, shattering their dantians and limbs, then crushed Cui Haonan's neck beneath her foot.
• Liu Yurou accused Qin Xiaocheng of plotting to exploit them and crushed his neck before he could answer, leaving Mu Yunfeng alive.

Liu Yurou killed Qin Xiaocheng and two other Murky Mist Sect disciples, but Qing Mo’s group refused to fear the consequences and continued exploring Azure Cloud City. At Vine Origin Pavilion, Tang Xuanhua and Pei Yuexin sold the Bloodthirsty Demon Serpent King’s remains, while Qing Mo uncovered the true identity of a supposedly ordinary piece of wood.

• Liu Yurou crippled and killed Qin Xiaocheng and two other Murky Mist Sect disciples despite Mu Yunfeng’s threat that the Murky Mist Sect would retaliate.
• Tang Xuanhua and Pei Yuexin warned Qing Mo’s group to flee, but Qing Mo, Han Qianxue, Mo Yanyu, and Xiao Die reassured them and continued touring Azure Cloud City.
• Qing Mo’s group entered Vine Origin Pavilion, where Qing Mo split off to browse while Tang Xuanhua and Pei Yuexin met Manager Dong.
• Tang Xuanhua and Pei Yuexin sold the Bloodthirsty Demon Serpent King’s remains to Manager Dong and used part of the payment to buy listed medicinal materials.
• Qing Mo bought a seemingly ordinary wooden log for one hundred thousand upper-grade spirit stones, broke its illusion formations, and identified it as Azure Water Glazed Wood.

Qing Mo bought Azure Water Glazed Wood, then punished Fang Xiaoqi and Meng Fan after they tried to take it by invoking Heaven's Zenith Sect. He forced the sect's leaders to pay two-thirds of their accumulated foundation and destroy the Murky Mist Sect within three days before he continued to the fourth floor.

• Qing Mo bought the Azure Water Glazed Wood, and Feng Yiyi asked to purchase it from him, but he refused.
• Fang Xiaoqi demanded the wood in the name of Heaven's Zenith Sect, so Qing Mo tore open space and brought the sect master and two Supreme Elders to Vine Origin Pavilion.
• Qing Mo slapped a Supreme Elder, subdued everyone on the third floor with his aura, and explained that Fang Xiaoqi and Meng Fan had tried to take his purchase.
• Qing Mo demanded two-thirds of Heaven's Zenith Sect's accumulated foundation and the destruction of Murky Mist Sect, threatening to destroy Heaven's Zenith Sect if its leaders refused.
• The Heaven's Zenith Sect leaders agreed, and Qing Mo gave them three days to destroy Murky Mist Sect before he went up to the fourth floor.
• Feng Yiyi and the Vine Origin Pavilion attendant confirmed what Fang Xiaoqi and Meng Fan had done, and the sect leaders took the two disciples away while preparing to carry out Qing Mo's orders.

Qing Mo taught his seven maidservants the time-stretching technique “An Instant, Ten Thousand Years,” then tested Chu Yun'er and Cang Lanyue's practice with Planet Cups. The next day, he began refining his self-created sword art while Liu Yurou guarded his retreat and awaited Heaven's Zenith Sect's delivery.

• Heaven's Zenith Sect attacked Murky Mist Sect after its disciples provoked Qing Mo, while the other sects watched for a chance to profit.
• Qing Mo taught his seven maidservants “An Instant, Ten Thousand Years,” and they learned to spend different lengths of time cultivating in their consciousness spaces.
• Chu Yun'er and Cang Lanyue completed Qing Mo's Planet Cup practice and, after repeated attempts, left with cups to continue training.
• Qing Mo ordered Liu Yurou to prevent disturbances and collect any items Heaven's Zenith Sect delivered, or kill its members and take the items if no delivery came within two days.
• Qing Mo formed nine sword-wielding phantoms and began combining the sword arts he had learned into a style of his own.

After settling the conflict with Murky Mist Sect, Qing Mo arranged for five of his maidservants to search separately while he traveled with Mo Yanyu and Cang Lanyue toward Wave Gathering City. At an auction aboard their ship, he overheard two siblings discussing their family conflict and their hope of obtaining Water-Hued Reflection Wood.

• Liu Yurou accepted Heaven's Zenith Sect's compensation and the spoils from Murky Mist Sect, while Fang Xiaoqi and Meng Fan were sentenced to labor in a spirit mine.
• Qing Mo had his seven maidservants draw bamboo slips; Mo Yanyu and Cang Lanyue stayed with him, while the other five received jade slips and protective tools for their search.
• Qing Mo, Mo Yanyu, and Cang Lanyue boarded a passenger ship bound for Wave Gathering City and learned that its evening auction would feature Water-Hued Reflection Wood.
• Qing Mo's group took a private room at the auction, where he overheard a young man tell his sister that the wood could heal his damaged dantian and meridians before their family's competition.
• The young man's sister warned that their cousin had advanced far ahead and might take the young man's position as heir, but the young man insisted he had a plan.

Qing Mo joined the auction and outbid the Fury River Sect’s Mingyue Ying for two defensive spirit artifacts he wanted to give Mo Yanyu and Cang Lanyue. After threatening the Fury River Sect with the same fate as the Heaven's Zenith Sect and Murky Mist Sect, he accepted Mingyue Ying’s apology and ordered her to tell her sect master to prepare the River-Cutting Stone.

• The Rosy Clouds Chamber of Commerce auctioned increasingly valuable items, including a hairpin and necklace that Cang Lanyue and Mo Yanyu admired.
• Qiu Chi and Mingyue Ying competed for the two artifacts until Mingyue Ying’s bid of five million seven hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones forced Qiu Chi to stop.
• Qing Mo bid one million supreme-grade spirit stones and said he would give the artifacts to Mo Yanyu and Cang Lanyue.
• Mingyue Ying threatened Qing Mo, and he claimed he had crippled the Heaven's Zenith Sect and destroyed the Murky Mist Sect.
• Mingyue Ying apologized and saluted Qing Mo, then he told her to return to the Fury River Sect and have its sect master prepare the River-Cutting Stone.

Qing Mo left the auction without bidding on the damaged Water-Hued Reflection Wood, while Brother Chen later obtained it and cured his affliction, rapidly advancing his cultivation. After reaching Wave Gathering City, Qing Mo witnessed the fallout of Feng Chen and Luan Fengya’s broken engagement; he then arrived at the Fury River Sect with Da Bai and asked its Sect Master about the message and supplies he had requested.

• Qing Mo paid for the hairpin and necklace, gave them to Cang Lanyue and Mo Yanyu, and left the auction before bidding on the Water-Hued Reflection Wood.
• A powerful rogue cultivator bought the Water-Hued Reflection Wood for thirty million premium-grade spirit stones, and Brother Chen’s Immortal Venerable teacher urged him to seek the buyer and cure his affliction.
• Brother Chen cured the rogue cultivator and himself, acquired the wood, and advanced from early Dao Integration to its peak while resolving to surprise his family at the tournament.
• Qing Mo, Mo Yanyu, and Cang Lanyue arrived in Wave Gathering City and heard Feng Chen and Luan Fengya agree to settle their broken engagement with a duel five years later.
• Qing Mo arrived at the Fury River Sect on Da Bai’s back, and the Sect Master greeted him as the sect trembled before Da Bai’s divine might.
• Qing Mo asked the Fury River Sect Master whether Mingyue Ying had delivered his message and whether the Sect Master had prepared the items he required.

Qing Mo traded the Fury River Sect's River-Cutting Stone for a powerful array disk, then reached Spirit Origin City with his companions. After Hua Yunsheng and Bai Xiliang tried to buy Little Tail and threatened them, Mo Yanyu and Cang Lanyue knocked them out, prompting the city lord and Sun Origin Sect to launch a manhunt while the trio relaxed at an inn.

• Qing Mo took the River-Cutting Stone from the Fury River Sect master and compensated him with an array disk containing twenty top-grade formations.
• Qing Mo and his companions arrived in Spirit Origin City, where Little Tail begged for candied hawthorns.
• Hua Yunsheng and Bai Xiliang demanded to buy Little Tail, but Qing Mo refused and they threatened him with their identities.
• Mo Yanyu slapped Hua Yunsheng unconscious, and Cang Lanyue slapped Bai Xiliang; Mo Yanyu also knocked out their coachman before the trio disappeared into the crowd.
• Bai Anhao ordered a citywide manhunt, while Hua Yunsheng reported the incident to the Sun Origin Sect, which sent several elders to Spirit Origin City.
• Qing Mo and his companions enjoyed themselves at an inn as Cang Lanyue and Mo Yanyu danced for him.