Chapter Summaries

Bai Yu forced Miao Yinling to become his attendant and took the fragmentary map she had found, which supposedly marked a heaven-grade Divine Mountain. After the group reached the city near the Heavenly Snake Sect, Bai Yu disguised himself and Meng Bingyan as fox demons and threatened to sell Miao Yinling to the Wild Beast Domain if she refused to cooperate.

• Bai Yu rejected Miao Yinling’s offer to share the opportunity and demanded that she become his attendant, then struck her when she refused.
• Bai Yu examined the one-quarter map Miao Yinling had obtained, which she said marked a heaven-grade Divine Mountain but did not reveal its location.
• Bai Yu and Meng Bingyan traveled through the mountain range and reached a vast city in the disputed territory near the Wild Beast Domain.
• Bai Yu used Yu Linglong’s fox-demon blood essence and the Thousand-Faced Gu Device to disguise himself and Meng Bingyan as demon cultivators.
• Bai Yu told Miao Yinling she would pose as their beast slave and threatened to sell her to the Wild Beast Domain unless she cooperated.

Bai Yu, Meng Bingyan, and Miao Yinling entered Ten Thousand Serpent Den, where Bai Yu saw the brutality of the Yellow Sand Domain and Miao Yinling killed men who leered at them. Miao Yinling then asked Bai Yu to buy Beast Transformation Pills for the Compassion Tranquility Retreat disciples, but the prices at Medicine Star Tower proved exorbitant.

• Bai Yu and his companions reached Ten Thousand Serpent Den, a major trading city controlled by the Heavenly Snake Sect.
• Bai Yu observed slave trading in the city and accepted the brutal rule of strength that governed the Yellow Sand Domain.
• After men at the city gates made lewd remarks about them, Miao Yinling used her All-Heaven Desire Spirit Eyes to drain their life force and kill them.
• Miao Yinling asked Bai Yu to obtain Beast Transformation Pills for the Compassion Tranquility Retreat disciples in his cave-heaven.
• At Medicine Star Tower, the old shopkeeper quoted prices that made the group realize treating the disciples would cost a fortune.

Bai Yu learned why Beast Transformation Pills cost so much in the Wild Beast Domain and sought to buy their Spirit Transformation-level formula rather than the finished pills. When the Medicine Star Tower clerk demanded proof of funds, Bai Yu presented a sixth-grade Great Medicine.

• The old man explained that Beast Transformation Pills were rarely needed, so Medicine Star Tower charged exorbitant prices to recover the cost of refining them.
• Meng Bingyan recognized the cruelty behind treating beast slaves as assets, while Bai Yu judged the pill prices too distorted to accept.
• Bai Yu asked whether Medicine Star Tower sold the Beast Transformation Pill formula, and the old man confirmed that it did.
• The old man said the formula required buying ten batches of ingredients, and Bai Yu specified that he wanted the Spirit Transformation-level formula.
• The old man demanded verification of funds, so Bai Yu opened a jade box and revealed a sixth-grade Great Medicine.

Bai Yu traded Great Medicines at Medicine Star Pavilion for Beast Transformation Pill formulas and ingredients, then noticed Yan Lingxi’s interest in a damaged ten-thousand-year polygonatum. Just as he tried to buy it, a burly man challenged him for the herb.

• Bai Yu showed Huang Zhen a sixth-grade Great Medicine, prompting Huang Zhen to apologize and lead him and his companions to Medicine Star Pavilion’s top floor.
• Bai Yu paid six sixth-grade Great Medicines for seventy sets of ingredients and Beast Transformation Pill formulas from grades one through five.
• Bai Yu browsed the Spirit Transformation-level herbs while Meng Bingyan reflected on Medicine Star Pavilion’s vast reach and Miao Yinling wondered why Bai Yu wanted the formulas.
• Yan Lingxi pointed out a blackened ten-thousand-year polygonatum, and Bai Yu asked the attendant to sell it to him for one third-grade Great Medicine.
• A bare-chested burly man arrived and claimed he wanted the polygonatum for his advancing beast slave.

At the Medicine Star Pavilion, Liu Tong tried to seize Bai Yu’s ten-thousand-year yellow essence and claim Miao Yinling as an apology, but Miao Yinling slapped him across the hall. Liu Tong recovered and erupted with killing intent, threatening to kill her.

• Liu Tong confronted Bai Yu at the counter and tried to take the ten-thousand-year yellow essence, while making clear his interest in Miao Yinling.
• Miao Yinling stopped Liu Tong from grabbing the item, and Bai Yu warned him not to reach too far.
• Bai Yu placed a third-grade Great Medicine on the counter and put away the yellow essence without acknowledging Liu Tong’s demands.
• Liu Tong declared that the yellow essence and Miao Yinling would become Bai Yu’s apology, so Bai Yu told Miao Yinling to slap him without killing him.
• Miao Yinling struck Liu Tong with overwhelming force and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Liu Tong rose with killing intent and threatened to kill Miao Yinling.

Miao Yinling overwhelmed Liu Tong at the Medicine Star Pavilion, and Bai Yu asked Huang Zhen about visiting Holy Snake Mountain and finding something that could improve his fortune. Huang Zhen offered to secure a map to a lost Divine Mountain once ruled by a powerful empress.

• Miao Yinling repeatedly slapped Liu Tong, scattering his battle intent and knocking out one of his fangs.
• Huang Zhen arrived, apologized to Bai Yu, and had guards remove Liu Tong after Liu Tong threatened revenge.
• Bai Yu gave his surname as Yu and asked Huang Zhen to mediate with Liu Tong and explain how to gain permission to enter Holy Snake Mountain.
• Huang Zhen offered the Medicine Star Pavilion's recommendation and said entry would cost about two sixth-grade great medicines.
• Bai Yu asked about items that could improve fortune, and Huang Zhen revealed that a Divine Mountain once ruled by an ancient empress had fallen somewhere in Midstream.
• Huang Zhen offered to obtain a copied map to the Divine Mountain from the Medicine Star Pavilion's headquarters.

Bai Yu learned from Huang Zhen about a map to a forgotten Divine Mountain and a mysterious character that might be linked to the Empress. Suspecting a connection to Yan Lingxi, he returned to his grotto-heaven to show her the character.

• Huang Zhen gave Bai Yu a map whose Divine Mountain name could not be remembered or spoken, and recounted how he had spent decades searching for traces of the Empress.
• Huang Zhen wrote the character "Xi" that he had found in a village, and Bai Yu reacted with surprise and began to suspect it was connected to someone he knew.
• Bai Yu ended the meeting, and Huang Zhen promised to coordinate with the Heavenly Snake Sect and provide news within three days.
• Bai Yu rented a private suite and entered his grotto-heaven, where he checked on Yu Linglong, Dugu Yan, and the still-secluded Xiao Rongrong.
• Bai Yu found Yan Lingxi meditating beneath the Human-Faced Jade Infant Fruit Tree and approached her with his suspicions.

Bai Yu tested Yan Lingxi with a map imprint and ten-thousand-year yellow essence, prompting her to refine and swallow the Three Lives Stone Milk before using him to cultivate. Her awakened awareness revealed that she was the cursed female emperor, and Bai Yu resolved to recover his strength and win back some face.

• Bai Yu showed Yan Lingxi a map imprint, but she gave no clear answer and instead sniffed him before asking for the ten-thousand-year yellow essence.
• Yan Lingxi used golden flames to refine the essence into Three Lives Stone Milk, swallowed it, and triggered a terrifying disturbance in the grotto-heaven.
• Yan Lingxi seized Bai Yu and took him to the palace, where she used him as a catalyst for cultivation and left him drained.
• Yan Lingxi briefly warned Bai Yu not to investigate her possession until he reached the Body Integration Realm, then returned to her dazed state.
• Bai Yu recognized Yan Lingxi as the cursed female emperor and connected with the Creation Yin-Yang Mystic Dragon Gu to restore himself, while a faint awareness in her sea of consciousness cursed him.

Bai Yu arranged for Di Xian'er to refine Beast Transformation Pills so Miao Yinling could send the Compassion Tranquility Retreat disciples away, while he stayed in the inn. Huang Zhen later secured Bai Yu a place in a Heavenly Snake Sect trial at Holy Snake Mountain and revealed that a high-status visitor from the Wild Beast Domain’s Goddess Palace had prompted the event.

• Di Xian'er agreed to refine Beast Transformation Pills to remove the beast seeds from the Compassion Tranquility Retreat disciples.
• Bai Yu decided to let the disciples go, hoping to earn Compassion Tranquility Retreat’s favor and redirect conflict toward the Heavenly Snake Sect.
• Miao Yinling and Meng Bingyan departed to escort the disciples to safety after Di Xian'er finished refining the pills.
• Huang Zhen visited Bai Yu and said the Heavenly Snake Sect would hold a trial at Holy Snake Mountain in five days, giving Bai Yu a place in it.
• Huang Zhen revealed that the Heavenly Snake Sect was hosting the trial because a high-status, unusual person from the Wild Beast Domain’s Goddess Palace had arrived.

Huang Zhen explained the Goddess Palace and revealed that Li Shuyu was meeting the Heavenly Snake Ancestor, while Bai Yu prepared to continue toward Holy Snake Mountain and set events in motion. Meanwhile, Meng Bingyan hinted to Compassion Tranquility Retreat’s disciples that their ambush might be linked to the Goddess Palace, leaving them suspecting the Heavenly Snake Sect.

• Huang Zhen told Bai Yu that the Beast Emperor founded the Goddess Palace and that Li Shuyu, its Heaven-rank Celestial Pivot Sword Master, had come to meet the Heavenly Snake Ancestor.
• Huang Zhen explained that the Heavenly Snake Ancestor hoped to use Li Shuyu’s constitution to reach the peak of Tribulation Transcendence, and Bai Yu decided to proceed to Holy Snake Mountain despite the added complications.
• After Huang Zhen left, Bai Yu contacted Meng Bingyan and instructed her to stir up trouble on the Compassion Tranquility Retreat’s side.
• Miao Yinling sent the rescued disciples toward the Blood Prison Dynasty while choosing to stay behind with Meng Bingyan and investigate the ambush.
• Meng Bingyan told the Compassion Tranquility Retreat disciples that the attack might be connected to the Goddess Palace, prompting them to suspect the Heavenly Snake Sect was behind the plot.

Bai Yu arrived at the Heavenly Snake Sect’s trial assembly under the identity of Medicine Star Pavilion and let Liu San believe he was a Seventh-Grade Great Apothecary. Liu San revealed that the assembly’s stated purpose was to retrieve Holy Snake Mountain’s Mountain God Seal, though Bai Yu doubted his explanation about the Wild Beast Domain’s instructions.

• Bai Yu reached the crowded Heavenly Snake Sect grounds with Miao Yinling and Meng Bingyan and met Elder Liu San, who recognized his recommendation from Medicine Star Pavilion.
• Bai Yu described himself as a wandering Rogue Cultivator, but guided Liu San into suspecting he was an unknown Great Apothecary from the Upperstream, at least Seventh-Grade.
• Liu San changed course and led Bai Yu toward a Heaven-grade courtyard residence, treating him as an honored Master.
• Liu San said the sect planned to retrieve Holy Snake Mountain’s Mountain God Seal and claimed the Wild Beast Domain had instructed them to invite everyone.
• Liu San added that the best-performing explorer could receive seven days of service from two Yellow-grade divine maidens of the Goddess Palace, and Bai Yu doubted Liu San’s account.

Bai Yu and his companions suspected the Heavenly Snake Sect’s trial convention was a trap designed to draw sacrifices to Holy Snake Mountain. The Heavenly Snake Ancestor and Li Shuyu prepared to summon the Heavenly Feather Snake, while Li Shuyu demanded the high-ranking Great Apothecary for herself.

• Bai Yu, Miao Yinling, and Meng Bingyan settled into the Heavenly Snake Sect’s Heaven-class courtyard and waited for Compassion Tranquility Retreat to respond.
• Meng Bingyan questioned why the Heavenly Snake Sect would risk losing the Mountain God Seal, and Bai Yu concluded the arriving factions were likely being used as cannon fodder.
• Bai Yu told his companions to rest and prepare, then privately comforted Meng Bingyan while Miao Yinling reacted with panic.
• The Heavenly Snake Ancestor told Li Shuyu that the sacrifices and half the sect’s disciples would make the Heavenly Feather Snake appear, and reminded her of their agreement to divide it.
• Li Shuyu demanded the high-ranking Great Apothecary as an additional condition, then left as the Divine Mountain neared its opening.

Bai Yu, Meng Bingyan, and Miao Yinling traveled to the Heavenly Snake Sect’s central plaza as Holy Snake Mountain opened, where they saw the formidable forces gathering to enter. After the Heavenly Snake Sect went in first, Bai Yu followed the other cultivators into the mountain.

• Bai Yu asked the Li Shishi siblings to investigate why the Compassion Tranquility Retreat disciples had not returned, but no news arrived before Holy Snake Mountain opened.
• Bai Yu, Meng Bingyan, and Miao Yinling left their courtyard and flew to the Heavenly Snake Sect’s central plaza.
• Miao Yinling identified Li Shuyu and the two Yellow-rank Goddesses among the sect’s leaders and warned that many powerful cultivators had gathered.
• The Heavenly Snake Ancestor announced that Holy Snake Mountain’s restrictions had been lifted and that visitors could keep any opportunities they found except the Mountain God Seal.
• The Heavenly Snake Sect disciples, the Heavenly Snake Ancestor, and the elders entered the mountain first, followed by Bai Yu and the waiting cultivators.

Bai Yu, Meng Bingyan, and Miao Yinling entered Holy Snake Mountain and traveled through its vast, chaotic wilderness on Miao Yinling’s Phoenix-Feather Mystic Eagle. They discovered Blood Demon Rot Mud in a swamp, exciting the spirits Zhao Yun and the Red Emperor inside Bai Yu’s aperture.

• Meng Bingyan protected Bai Yu and Miao Yinling as they passed through the spatial vortex and arrived in Holy Snake Mountain’s remote outer region.
• Bai Yu observed the mountain’s chaotic aura, and the three decided to travel deeper in search of clues.
• Miao Yinling summoned her Phoenix-Feather Mystic Eagle, and the group rode it over forests filled with snake-type demon beasts.
• Bai Yu sensed that Holy Snake Mountain felt like a prison but refrained from using the Divine Baleful Gu because of his bad luck.
• Meng Bingyan cleared debris from a swamp, revealing Blood Demon Rot Mud that excited Zhao Yun and the Red Emperor inside Bai Yu’s aperture.

Bai Yu, Meng Bingyan, and Miao Yinling discovered and collected more Blood Demon Rot Mud, which Zhao Yun and the Red Emperor absorbed to strengthen themselves and Bai Yu. Their search led them to a forest where the Phoenix-Feather Mystic Eagle confronted a Spirit Transformation-realm Soul-Devouring Python.

• Meng Bingyan, Miao Yinling, and Bai Yu collected the swamp's Blood Demon Rot Mud after finding the Soul-Devouring Python and Corpse-Eating Snakes missing.
• Bai Yu placed some Blood Demon Rot Mud in Zhao Yun's and the Red Emperor's coffins, and their absorption increased his physical strength.
• Bai Yu led the group through several forests toward a blue aura, and they found another swamp with Blood Demon Rot Mud guarded by two snakes.
• Bai Yu crushed the guarding snakes with the Ironclad Certainty Gu, and Zhao Yun and the Red Emperor absorbed the swamp's Blood Demon Rot Mud.
• The Phoenix-Feather Mystic Eagle cried out and confronted a Spirit Transformation-realm Soul-Devouring Python near the source of the blue aura.

Bai Yu, Meng Bingyan, and Miao Yinling discovered a Soul Corpse Dragon Python and attacked it, hoping to claim its Blood Demon Corruption Pearl. Before they could take the basin, the rogue cultivator Situ Kuang confronted them, but a sinister aura and enormous phantom hand appeared as he prepared to strike.

• Bai Yu and the others saw a Soul Corpse Dragon Python in the basin and learned it might guard a Blood Demon Corruption Pearl.
• Bai Yu agreed to attack, and Meng Bingyan and Miao Yinling killed the python and the snakes in the basin.
• As Meng Bingyan and Miao Yinling prepared to take the basin, Situ Kuang appeared and demanded the treasure and the Phoenix-Feather Mystic Eagle.
• Meng Bingyan recognized Situ Kuang, a notorious first-level Tribulation Transcendence rogue cultivator who had once nearly killed her group.
• Situ Kuang sealed off the area and prepared to attack Bai Yu and the others, but a gigantic phantom hand appeared overhead.

The Black Feather King killed Situ Kuang with a crushing palm strike and Golden Crow Divine Fire, after which Bai Yu’s group harvested the basin and continued toward their goal. Along the way, Miao Yinling reconsidered Bai Yu’s abilities, and the group spotted a powerful creature and an old acquaintance ahead.

• The Black Feather King crushed Situ Kuang with a palm strike, then burned his body and soul with Golden Crow Divine Fire.
• Bai Yu, Meng Bingyan, and the Black Feather King dug up the basin and sent it into Heavenly Goat Mountain, where Yu Linglong and the others received it.
• Bai Yu stored Situ Kuang’s spatial ring and continued onward with Meng Bingyan and Miao Yinling aboard the Phoenix-Feather Mystic Eagle.
• Miao Yinling reflected on Bai Yu’s judgment and began to question the limits imposed on her by her reputation as a prodigy.
• Bai Yu spotted a formidable presence and an old acquaintance ahead, and Meng Bingyan recognized the same pair.

Zhang Baidao explained to Su Jinyun that Holy Snake Mountain’s Mountain God Seal and a hidden map could lead them to its opportunities. Bai Yu and his companions caught up with them, and Bai Yu held Zhang Baidao at swordpoint while proposing to cooperate and demanding information about the mountain-spirit structures.

• Su Jinyun asked Zhang Baidao how they could find the Heavenly Feather Snake in the vast Holy Snake Mountain, and he explained that the Mountain God Seal would reveal the mountain’s center.
• Zhang Baidao said Holy Snake Mountain had a hidden map and planned to find it, strip the mountain of its opportunities, and seize the Heavenly Feather Snake.
• Zhang Baidao dismissed the Heavenly Snake Ancestor as a substitute Mountain God who did not understand the Divine Mountain’s mysteries, while Bai Yu listened nearby.
• Bai Yu, Meng Bingyan, and Miao Yinling confronted Zhang Baidao and Su Jinyun, and Bai Yu pressed his broken bronze sword to Zhang Baidao’s neck.
• Bai Yu proposed splitting the mountain’s opportunities and asked about the mountain-spirit structures, while Zhang Baidao demanded the return of his Chaos Heaven Disk and tried to bargain for Su Jinyun’s safety.

Zhang Baidao explained the Mountain Spirit Structure in Earth-grade Divine Mountains and led Bai Yu and the others to the one in Holy Snake Mountain. As they prepared to use the Chaos Heaven Disk to reveal its hidden barrier, four silver-maned berserk lions arrived with a group of riders.

• Zhang Baidao explained that a Mountain Spirit Structure held a detailed map of its Divine Mountain and that the map and Mountain God Seal were key to claiming it.
• Bai Yu pressured Zhang Baidao into guiding the group to Holy Snake Mountain, where they found a blood tower surrounded by snakes and contaminated by the Qi of Five Turbidities.
• Meng Bingyan and the other woman found an invisible barrier blocking their way to the tower, and Bai Yu could not see it with his Delusion-Breaking Golden Eyes.
• Zhang Baidao told Bai Yu to use the Chaos Heaven Disk to reveal the barrier, then suggested it could absorb someone else's luck instead of Bai Yu's.
• Four silver-maned berserk lions carrying more than a dozen riders charged toward the group, and Miao Yinling recognized the mounts as belonging to the Wild Beast Domain.

The Zheng siblings of the Moon God Rhinoceros Clan surrounded Bai Yu and his companions, intending to enslave them and seize the opportunities inside the strange structure. As Zheng Yuan prepared to fight Miao Yinling, Bai Yu and Zhang Baidao revealed their interest in the siblings’ fortune and the Chaos Heaven Disk.

• The Zheng siblings arrived on Silverlight Mad Lions and identified Bai Yu as the Great Apothecary they wanted to capture.
• Zheng Qingyue and Zheng Yuan threatened to turn Bai Yu and his companions into beast slaves, while Zhang Baidao backed away from the confrontation.
• Miao Yinling stepped forward and revealed her Divine Pupil, provoking Zheng Yuan to attack her.
• Zheng Yuan transformed and summoned a phoenix-wing gilded halberd as Meng Bingyan prepared to help Miao Yinling.
• Bai Yu asked Zhang Baidao about the Zheng siblings’ fortune, and Zhang Baidao said each could activate the Chaos Heaven Disk three times.