Chapter Summaries

Luo Yunji invented eight colorful mixed drinks and showed the Prince’s family and the Emperor’s household how to make snow-like ice toppings. After the Demon Sect’s scheme failed, the group went kite-flying outside the Imperial City, where Luo Yunji and Liao Xing competed over their kites.

• Luo Yunji experimented with fruit and vegetable juices for three days, and Zhang Xiaofan helped finalize eight drinks that pleased the Prince and the Emperor.
• Luo Yunji named the drinks Eight Sage Drinks in Tasty Things, then made an ice cup and created a snow-like topping from the chilled drink.
• The Prince sent the drinks to the Emperor, and the Empress, Emperor, and Third Prince were amazed when they made snowflakes themselves.
• Li Qinghe prepared to return to Azure Cloud Mountain with He Dazhi’s packages, while the Prince arranged soldiers to escort her.
• The Emperor, Empress, Prince, and Princess Consort joined Big Bamboo Peak’s outing, where Zhang Xiaofan helped Luo Yunji get his kite flying.
• Liao Xing boasted that his kite flew higher than Luo Yunji’s, and the two brothers began dodging and reaching for each other’s kite strings.

Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan spent an outing with the imperial party, where their pets chased a tiger and the Emperor and Prince bathed in spiritual water. Later, Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan discovered a vast lake hidden behind an invisible barrier and prepared to explore it.

• Luo Yunji and Liao Xing quarreled over their kites before Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan entered the woods, followed by Liao Xing.
• Big Yellow and Little Grey chased a tiger out of the woods, and Zhang Xiaofan leaped from the river carrying Luo Yunji and the tiger by its tail.
• The group cooked and ate the tiger, and Liao Xing led the Emperor and Prince to bathe in Luo Yunji's spiritual-water pool.
• Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan explored the mountain forest until they found a vast lake beyond the summit.
• Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan struck an invisible barrier around the lake, then passed through it using the Fire Poker and Flowing Cloud Hairpin.
• Luo Yunji searched Zhang Xiaofan's Bamboo Bag for Yin-Yang Orbs so they could look for big fish in the lake.

Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji explored a lifeless town beneath the Water Marsh, while their senior brothers and the Prince searched for them. After the youngsters returned, they stayed by the shore, where they sensed something terrifying about to emerge from the lake.

• Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji found intact, lifeless villages beneath the lake and explored an eerie ancestral hall filled with blank spirit tablets.
• He Dazhi, the Prince, and the senior brothers discovered the youngsters were beyond a barrier and waited for them to return.
• Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji surfaced safely, described the underwater villages, and told the others the Water Marsh held no living creatures or Yin Spirits.
• Luo Yunji refused to leave the shore, and later he and Zhang Xiaofan sensed something emerging from the lake as Zhang Xiaofan raised his Fire Poker protectively.

A Giant Chi attacked the group at the frozen lake, and Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji wounded it before the Black Water Mystic Snake crashed into the fight. The two ancient beasts became entangled together, leaving everyone waiting by the lake for three days.

• The soldiers reported that the lake had frozen, and a Giant Chi passed through the barrier and attacked Zhang Xiaofan and the others.
• Zhang Xiaofan used the Fire Poker to repel the Giant Chi, while Luo Yunji threw corrosive gemstones at it and helped Zhang Xiaofan trap it with the Jiemo Bead.
• Luo Yunji used Zhang Xiaofan’s Fire Poker to unleash the Dragon-Slaying Art and cut into the Giant Chi’s neck, but the beast protected itself with ice armor.
• The Black Water Mystic Snake crashed onto the Giant Chi and dragged it into a battle beneath the frozen lake.
• He Dazhi realized the beasts seemed to be courting rather than fighting, and the group waited by the lake for three days while Luo Yunji complained that he could not leave Dahei behind.

Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan helped the Giant Chi heal its wound, then learned it was guarding a rift to the Underworld beneath the Water Marsh. After the Chi revealed that a weapon was keeping the rift open, Luo Yunji wanted to investigate the treasure, but He Dazhi held him back, and the Chi carried them away.

• The disciples learned that the white beast was a Giant Chi, and the Black Water Mystic Snake asked Luo Yunji to help heal it.
• Zhang Xiaofan used the gemstone hairpin on the Fire Poker to heal the Giant Chi while Luo Yunji collected some of its blood.
• The Giant Chi followed Luo Yunji and his companions, then refused to leave the Water Marsh because it had to guard what was sealed there.
• Luo Yunji, Zhang Xiaofan, and He Dazhi traveled with the Giant Chi and discovered wisps of black smoke escaping from a rift to the Underworld.
• The Giant Chi explained that a weapon was keeping the rift open, and Luo Yunji wanted to retrieve it, but He Dazhi restrained him before the Chi carried them back.

Luo Yunji explored the nine-tiered Altar beneath the Water Marsh and discovered that black qi was escaping through a crack inside it. As he examined the crack, it began to widen, putting the Forbidden Spirit Land’s balance in danger.

• Luo Yunji jumped into the Water Marsh to draw the pursuing Underworld smoke away from his senior brothers, then followed it toward the seal.
• Luo Yunji climbed the Altar, pushed aside the black qi covering its upper tiers, and found a gold-foil talisman at the center of the ninth tier.
• The Giant Chi explained that the black qi escaped through a crack inside the eighth tier and warned Luo Yunji not to enter because of the Yellow Springs aura on him.
• Luo Yunji entered the Altar and realized that demonic, Underworld, and spiritual energies were balanced around a crack connecting to the Underworld.
• The Giant Chi explained that a tiny point protruding from the crack had eroded over a thousand years, while the crack quietly began to lengthen.
• Luo Yunji noticed the black strands behind him and mistook them for newly grown hair, while the Giant Chi recognized the danger.

Luo Yunji and the Giant Chi pursued the Evil Weapon after it escaped the Altar, but it struck Lu Daxin before they could stop it. The Yin-Yang Orbs halted the weapon’s corruption, and the group returned to the Altar to find a way to suppress it.

• Luo Yunji noticed the Boundary Rift growing, and his Yin-Yang Orbs suppressed it until the Evil Weapon escaped through the Altar and the rift closed.
• Luo Yunji chased the Evil Weapon with the Giant Chi, and they found Zhang Xiaofan and the senior brothers confronting it.
• The Evil Weapon pierced Lu Daxin’s left palm, while an unseen gray fragment entered one of Du Bishu’s Divine Wood Dice.
• Zhang Xiaofan placed Luo Yunji’s Yin-Yang Orbs on Lu Daxin’s hand, stopping the dark corruption from spreading and calming the weapon.
• Luo Yunji woke the next day and learned the Giant Chi intended to keep the group at the Altar to suppress the weapon.
• The Giant Chi took them back to the underwater Altar and gave them Water-Avoiding Pearls and other treasures, which Luo Yunji eagerly claimed.

Luo Yunji and the senior brothers used the Death Spirit Stone and Gold Foil to suppress the strange weapon fused with Lu Daxin’s hand, then began refining it to save his arm. While Lu Daxin endured the slow process, Luo Yunji modified He Dazhi’s Mountain and River Fan to store the many treasures he had collected.

• Luo Yunji used the Death Spirit Stone to drive the blackness in Lu Daxin’s arm back toward his palm, and the Giant Chi offered Luo Yunji treasures in exchange for the Yang Orb.
• Zhang Xiaofan reported their situation to the Prince, then returned to the Altar with supplies as Luo Yunji brought back a huge bundle of treasures.
• Zhang Xiaofan easily untied Luo Yunji’s Mysterious Gauze bundle, and the senior brothers discovered that Gold Foil drove the blackness from Lu Daxin’s arm but could not separate the weapon from his flesh.
• Luo Yunji gave Lu Daxin a spiritual-energy stone, and Lu Daxin began refining the strange weapon instead of cutting off his hand.
• Luo Yunji helped He Dazhi modify the Mountain and River Fan so it could store all the treasures, while Zhang Xiaofan supplied blood for Lu Daxin’s difficult refining process.

After resolving the spatial rift and Strange Weapon, Luo Yunji and his companions returned to the Imperial City, where they learned the Demon Sect prisoners had escaped during a brief loss of the Forbidden Spirit Land’s power. At Big Bamboo Peak, Shuiyue Zhenren received Li Qinghe and the disciples’ gifts, including a hairpin Luo Yunji had made especially for her.

• Lu Daxin finished refining the Death Spirit stone and Strange Weapon into the Death Sword, which fused with his left arm, while Giant Chi decided to leave with the group.
• Luo Yunji found Giant Chi’s shrinking stone bed and took it into the Mountain and River Fan before the group landed at the Prince’s Mansion and crushed much of it.
• The Emperor welcomed the returning group, and He Dazhi learned that the Demon Sect prisoners had escaped after briefly regaining their spiritual energy half a year earlier.
• Li Qinghe arrived at Big Bamboo Peak with Shuiyue Zhenren and several disciples, carrying gifts and a revised cultivation technique for Shuiyue’s approval.
• Su Ru and the others admired the jewelry Luo Yunji and his companions had made, and Shuiyue Zhenren accepted the silver hairpin made for her.

Tian Buyi and Su Ru examined He Dazhi’s letters and drawings, learning that their disciples had uncovered dangerous Demon Sect plots and acquired powerful treasures. The secret letter revealed a fragment of the Heavenly Book, new Azure Cloud techniques, and that the traveling disciples had all reached the seventh level of the Taiji Mystic Purity Dao.

• Tian Buyi opened the gifts made for him, found golden plaques shaped like Big Yellow and Little Gray, and angrily set them aside.
• Su Ru gave Shuiyue an ornament for Lu Xueqi, while Song Daren nervously gave Wen Min a hairpin.
• Tian Buyi, Su Ru, Song Daren, and Tian Linger studied He Dazhi’s drawings and learned about the disciples’ encounters, magic treasures, and discovery of the Demon Sect’s plot to target ordinary people with Blood Mayflies.
• Song Daren noticed that the Death Spirit Abyss drawing was mounted, and Tian Buyi found hidden scrolls inside it.
• Tian Buyi discovered drawings showing the Mysterious Fire Mirror and Old Ancestor Fengyue’s Mountain and River Fan in the disciples’ possession, and warned Song Daren and Tian Linger to keep what they had seen secret.
• Su Ru and Tian Buyi read He Dazhi’s secret letter, which described a Heavenly Book fragment, Luo Yunji’s improved Taiji Mystic Purity Dao, the Dragon-Slaying Art and Yuqing Sword Art, and the party’s seventh-level cultivation.

Tian Buyi secured permission to take the Big Bamboo Peak family down the mountain to find their disciples, while keeping the secret behind their mission from the other peak heads. Before leaving, he shared the upgraded cultivation method with Zeng Shuchang, and Starlight Wine Su Ru gave Shuiyue caused breakthroughs at Small Bamboo Peak as Luo Yunji and the others enjoyed a meal at the Imperial Palace.

• Tian Buyi told Daoxuan that Big Bamboo Peak's disciples had taken Old Ancestor Fengyue's Fengyue Fan and requested permission for everyone from his peak to go down the mountain.
• Shuiyue, Cangsong, and Zeng Shuchang supported Tian Buyi and Su Ru's request, and Daoxuan granted permission after the Seven Peaks heads met at Jade Purity Hall.
• Tian Buyi recited the upgraded Taiji Mystic Purity Dao for Zeng Shuchang and asked him to keep it restricted to himself and his disciples.
• Su Ru gave Shuiyue two jars of Starlight Wine, and Shuiyue's disciples drank it; Wen Min broke through to the sixth level and Li Qinghe to the fourth, while Wen Min's breakthrough destroyed Shuiyue's bedroom.
• Tian Buyi and Su Ru took two younger disciples down the mountain, while Luo Yunji ate a meal prepared by Zhang Xiaofan at the Imperial Palace.

After Lu Daxin recovered enough to be safe, Big Bamboo Peak prepared to replenish his blood and vital energy without killing any soldiers, while Luo Yunji’s shopping spree stirred up the Imperial City. The chapter left the Prince heading to investigate whether Luo Yunji was gathering herbs to refine an immortal pill or simply to make food.

• He Dazhi arranged for Zhou Mu to select at least five thousand fit soldiers whose blood energy Zhang Xiaofan could absorb without causing deaths.
• Luo Yunji went shopping with Zhang Xiaofan and Liao Xing, buying toys, snacks, and other goods until carriage after carriage arrived at the Imperial Palace.
• Luo Yunji found valuable herbs and accepted a shopkeeper’s request to trade a collection of herbs for a surplus pill, prompting herb shops across the city to send offerings.
• He Dazhi sent Wu Dayi with the Mountain and River Fan so Luo Yunji could retrieve what he needed from it.
• The emperor and the Prince heard the rumors about Luo Yunji collecting herbs, and the Prince went to find out whether he intended to refine an immortal pill or cook with them.

Luo Yunji gathered medicinal herbs and had a jade cabinet made while He Dazhi prepared to train five thousand soldiers in Luo Yunji’s method for cultivating force. The group headed to the Imperial Palace but stopped at Qingyan Pavilion for food, where the Third Prince noticed the Prince’s unusual fondness for Luo Yunji and learned that Zhou Mu was already practicing Luo Yunji’s cultivation method.

• Wu Dayi found Luo Yunji at the apothecary, where a crowd had gathered to trade herbs for refined medicine, and Zhang Xiaofan used jade from the Mountain and River Fan to make a medicine cabinet.
• He Dazhi and Third Senior Brother selected five thousand soldiers and planned to prepare them by teaching them Luo Yunji’s method for cultivating force.
• Luo Yunji, Wu Dayi, He Dazhi, the Prince, and their companions met and headed toward the Imperial Palace, but Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan went into Qingyan Pavilion for food.
• The Third Prince joined the group at Qingyan Pavilion and was surprised by the Prince’s affection for Luo Yunji and the casual way the group treated each other.
• He Dazhi told the Prince he would copy Luo Yunji’s cultivation method for him and the Emperor, and Third Senior Brother revealed that Zhou Mu had already begun practicing it.

At Qingyan Pavilion, Zhang Xiaofan cooked for Luo Yunji and the princes while Liao Xing arranged for the legendary Seven Sages Gathering to draw a crowd. Luo Yunji later impressed the academy with his perfect memory, and He Dazhi proposed that Zhang Xiaofan learn courtly and political skills so he could guide and protect him.

• Zhang Xiaofan prepared shredded-meat noodle rice, other dishes, and Eight Sage Drinks at Qingyan Pavilion, while Liao Xing publicized the Seven Sages Gathering.
• Luo Yunji’s song, “Eighteen Touches,” embarrassed the musicians and amused the princes, while Wu Dayi reluctantly played flute as colorful dumplings appeared around him.
• With He Dazhi’s instruction and Luo Yunji’s medicine, five thousand soldiers learned the basics of Jin.
• The Prince sent Luo Yunji to the Imperial City’s finest academy, where he recited every passage the scholars tested him on and won the students’ admiration.
• He Dazhi suggested that Zhang Xiaofan learn court strategies, proper conduct, and royal etiquette so he could help protect Luo Yunji, then asked whether Zhang Xiaofan was willing.

He Dazhi arranged for Zhang Xiaofan to learn courtly conduct and clear-headed decision-making while the brothers prepared for the dangers awaiting them outside the Forbidden Spirit Land. After a year in the Imperial City, the group decided to leave and draw away the Demon Sect members who were attacking nearby villages.

• He Dazhi asked Zhang Xiaofan to study under him so he could protect himself and Luo Yunji if their senior brothers were no longer around, and Prince agreed to help.
• Luo Yunji’s magical handwriting caused students to imitate him, and one tutor fainted after seeing their illegible work.
• Zhang Xiaofan studied with Prince and the court ministers, while Luo Yunji’s Great Yellow Pills healed a dying minister’s son and attracted desperate buyers.
• Zhang Xiaofan explained that Luo Yunji had eaten the Great Yellow Pills Tian Buyi had given him, prompting Tian Buyi to make him learn the pill formula; Luo Yunji admitted he had eaten the new batch too.
• After a year in the Imperial City, He Dazhi and the brothers decided to leave and draw away the Demon Sect members who were raiding nearby villages.
• Lu Daxin’s soldiers’ blood energy had suppressed the evil sword in his left arm, allowing him to travel without trouble.

Luo Yunji and the Big Bamboo Peak brothers left the Imperial City after receiving farewell gifts and the Emperor’s token, but Demon Sect forces ambushed them on the road. Zhang Xiaofan overwhelmed the attackers, while the woman who tried to capture Luo Yunji discovered that her Immortal Binding Rope had already been broken.

• Luo Yunji gave parting gifts to the Prince’s family, and the Emperor presented him with a gold token recognizing his status as Imperial Preceptor.
• The Big Bamboo Peak brothers departed the Imperial City aboard the Black Water Mystic Snake, then encountered a large force of Demon Sect members before reaching the Forbidden Spirit Land.
• He Dazhi returned the woman’s Immortal Binding Rope, prompting Du Bishu and the others to mistakenly accuse him of stealing her waistband.
• Zhang Xiaofan struck the charging Demon Sect members with a wave of force, then attacked the burly man and the disciples who advanced on him.
• The woman tried to bind Luo Yunji with the Immortal Binding Rope, but it snapped; Luo Yunji admitted he had broken it while testing it and tossed her the other broken end.

The Big Bamboo Peak group escaped a Demon Sect ambush, but Old Ancestor Fengyue caught them over his stolen Fengyue Fan. He Dazhi survived their confrontation and offered the fan back, only to reveal that he had already blood-refined it.

• Zhang Xiaofan defeated the burly Demon Sect leader and helped the Big Bamboo Peak group drive off their attackers.
• Wu Dayi, Zheng Dali, and He Dazhi used their abilities to clear a path, and the seven Big Bamboo Peak disciples left the battlefield.
• The beautiful woman sent word of their escape, and Old Ancestor Fengyue pursued the group alone and demanded his fan from He Dazhi.
• He Dazhi challenged Old Ancestor Fengyue to a fight to buy time for his fellow disciples, and Wu Dayi's flute helped him escape the elder's crushing spell.
• Old Ancestor Fengyue agreed to let the group go if He Dazhi returned the fan, but He Dazhi revealed that he had blood-refined it.

As Old Ancestor Fengyue pursued He Dazhi over the Mountain and River Fan, the Big Bamboo Peak disciples distracted him with wine, Zhang Xiaofan’s cooking, and the strange companions around Luo Yunji. After Luo Yunji drove off Demon Sect pursuers with frozen rain, Old Ancestor Fengyue joined the party and began to notice that the rain had been falling for days.

• He Dazhi apologized to Old Ancestor Fengyue, while Zhang Xiaofan set up a shelter and began cooking for the hungry Luo Yunji.
• He Dazhi shared wine and food with Old Ancestor Fengyue, who was astonished by the Yin Spirits, Big Yellow, Little Gray, and the sinister Black Silk accompanying the disciples.
• Dabai discovered that the Black Silk could strengthen Yin Spirits, and he drew one strand into himself to improve his cultivation.
• Luo Yunji froze the rain into ice needles and wiped out a group of Demon Sect pursuers, while Wild Dog Daoist fled after recognizing him.
• Old Ancestor Fengyue agreed to travel with the Big Bamboo Peak party and remarked that the rain had continued for several days, prompting the disciples’ startled looks.

Luo Yunji revealed his strength during a spar with Old Ancestor Fengyue, who later left the Mountain and River Fan with He Dazhi before returning to Jieshi Mountain. With the Demon Sect’s pursuit intensifying and Wu Dayi badly wounded, He Dazhi began to suspect the pursuers had another reason for targeting them.

• Old Ancestor Fengyue challenged Luo Yunji, who overwhelmed him with water attacks, speed, and an ice spike that could dissipate spiritual power; Zhang Xiaofan stopped the final strike with Soaring Crane.
• Du Bishu complained to Old Ancestor Fengyue about how the senior brothers were outclassed by their junior disciples, and Fengyue began giving them more sincere cultivation guidance.
• After Luo Yunji inspired him to reconsider his cultivation art, Old Ancestor Fengyue returned to Jieshi Mountain to seek enlightenment and gave He Dazhi the Fengyue Fan.
• The Demon Sect’s pursuers grew more numerous and formidable after Fengyue left, and the Big Bamboo Peak disciples treated the chases as training until Wu Dayi was ambushed and severely wounded.
• As He Dazhi and the others fled with Wu Dayi, He Dazhi began to suspect the Demon Sect was pursuing them for reasons beyond the events in the Imperial City.

He Dazhi and the Big Bamboo Peak disciples became lost in the Wildlands while fleeing the Demon Sect, then wandered through the desert and were carried underground by a giant sand scorpion. They escaped the scorpion’s back in a dark, damp cavern, but their surroundings remained unknown.

• He Dazhi realized the group had crossed into the Wildlands after fleeing through an underground river, and the disciples chose to explore rather than turn back.
• Wu Dayi and Zheng Dali’s injuries stabilized as the group traveled through the barren Gobi and struggled to find food.
• The disciples crossed into a desert, encountered dangerous creatures, and Zhang Xiaofan’s attempt to cook a large sand scorpion put Luo Yunji off the desert’s food.
• A giant sand scorpion pursued the group, and they flew away on their magical treasures.
• The ground gave way beneath them, and the disciples were dragged underground while clinging to the enormous scorpion.
• He Dazhi confirmed everyone was present and told the others to dismount before the scorpion noticed them.