Chapter Summaries

Su Ru and Tian Buyi’s disciples discovered that the chains sealing a powerful Underworld weapon in Fifth Senior Brother’s hand were coming loose and clashing with a black chain on Luo Yunji. The weapon began tearing open space while Luo Yunji lay unconscious, leaving everyone scrambling to stop it.

• Tian Linger alerted Su Ru that Fifth Senior Brother and Luo Yunji were in trouble, and Su Ru and Zhang Xiaofan found golden and black chains colliding around them.
• Su Ru tried to stop the chains while Sixth Senior Brother rushed to fetch Tian Buyi from Heaven-Reaching Peak; Daoxuan True Person followed them back to Big Bamboo Peak.
• Tian Buyi revealed that a weapon from the Underworld was sealed in Fifth Senior Brother’s left hand and could tear open the world.
• The golden chain nearly broke free, and the weapon’s dark tip emerged from Lu Daxin’s palm as Luo Yunji passed out.
• The Strange Weapon shot out and gouged cracks into space, while Zhang Xiaofan told Daoxuan that Luo Yunji had sealed it with the golden chain.

Zhang Xiaofan used energy created by combining Daoist, Buddhist, and demonic spiritual power to destroy Strange Objects emerging from a rift, while Luo Yunji freed Fifth Senior Brother from a chain. The Strange Weapon then widened the rift, pouring out more Underworld mist as the weapon, Luo Yunji, and the chains became locked in a stalemate.

• Gray-black smoke from the Strange Weapon sank into the ground and formed Strange Objects that resisted the spells of Daoxuan, Tian Buyi, and Su Ru.
• Zhang Xiaofan sent Tian Linger to fetch Sugar Pills, then used his combined spiritual energy to make the Strange Objects disappear.
• Zhang Xiaofan explained how he produced the special energy and warned that he could create only a limited amount of it.
• Luo Yunji pulled a golden chain free from Fifth Senior Brother, freeing the Strange Weapon and opening a vast rift in space.
• Su Ru carried Fifth Senior Brother aside while Luo Yunji struggled with the remaining chains; Tian Linger brought Zhang Xiaofan Sugar Pills, and the Strange Weapon, Luo Yunji, and the chains became locked in a stalemate.

Luo Yunji, Zhang Xiaofan, and Big Bamboo Peak's disciples fought to contain the chains, the Strange Weapon, and a spatial crack, then revealed signs that becoming immortal was real. Fifth Senior Brother Lu Daxin endured the golden paper merging with his arm to suppress the Strange Weapon and was carried back to recover.

• Zhang Xiaofan used Buddhist swastika seals to destroy the Strange Object and seal the spatial crack, while Luo Yunji and Fifth Senior Brother attacked the Strange Weapon and chains.
• After the chains stopped moving and became two sheets of paper, they projected golden and black patterns into the sky, prompting Daoxuan True Person to say becoming immortal seemed real.
• Zhang Xiaofan gave the golden sheet to Lu Daxin, who pressed it against his left arm as it transformed into chains and drilled into him, causing him intense pain.
• Lu Daxin hammered the ground until he collapsed into a deep pit, and Zhang Xiaofan carried the unconscious Fifth Senior Brother out with chains visible beneath the skin of his left arm.
• Back at Cave Dwelling, Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji helped clean Lu Daxin, while Su Ru removed grit from his wounded right hand and Tian Buyi gave him a Great Yellow Pill.

After Lu Daxin survived sealing the Strange Weapon inside his left arm, Tian Buyi explained the danger to Daoxuan True Person, who wondered what the sacrifice would mean for his future. The adults then discovered that Luo Yunji had activated Big Bamboo Peak’s illusory formation, trapping Tian Buyi and Tian Linger inside while Su Ru admitted she barely knew how it worked.

• Su Ru treated Lu Daxin and left Zhang Xiaofan and Du Bishu to care for him while Tian Linger dragged Luo Yunji away.
• Tian Buyi told Daoxuan True Person that Lu Daxin had sealed the escaped Strange Weapon inside his left arm, and Daoxuan worried about the burden Lu Daxin would face.
• Du Bishu reported that Luo Yunji had activated the illusory formation and that Tian Linger was missing.
• Su Ru stopped Daoxuan from stepping into the formation and admitted she was unfamiliar with it.
• The formation revealed Luo Yunji teasing Tian Linger with the Six-Harmony Mirror as Tian Buyi tried to stop them.
• Luo Yunji activated the formation again, making Tian Buyi and Tian Linger disappear from view.

Zhang Xiaofan prepared to leave Big Bamboo Peak with Luo Yunji to investigate the search for immortals in the Five Seas. Before they departed, Zhang Xiaofan told Tian Buyi about the Ghost King’s second volume of the Heavenly Book and his plans to bring back more cultivation methods.

• Tian Buyi returned with Luo Yunji after catching him in the formation, and Zhang Xiaofan served tea to Daoxuan, Tian Buyi, and Su Ru.
• Zhang Xiaofan asked Tian Buyi for permission to leave the mountain to question the Daoist priest about seeking immortals, and said the journey might help resolve Fifth Senior Brother’s injured arm.
• Daoxuan, Tian Buyi, and Su Ru discussed Zhang Xiaofan’s plans and the mysterious Five Seas, while Daoxuan silently accepted that the Spirit-Concentrating Pearl might not be returned.
• The next morning, Zhang Xiaofan told Tian Buyi that Fifth Senior Brother was recovering and that he had stored the Ghost King’s complete second volume of the Heavenly Book in the Black Bamboo Building.
• Tian Buyi urged Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji to leave without being seen, and they headed to the back mountain pool to meet Long Zi.
• Big Yellow and Little Gray appeared at the pool, and Luo Yunji pounced on Big Yellow while Little Gray escaped to Zhang Xiaofan’s shoulder.

Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji flew from Big Bamboo Peak with Long Zi and found Song Daren's traveling party below. Luo Yunji's prank with rain and lightning brought the group together, and the chapter ended with him reuniting happily with Wen Min.

• Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji left Big Bamboo Peak with Big Yellow and Little Gray aboard Long Zi and searched for Song Daren's party.
• Luo Yunji used the Rain Technique to make Song Daren's group take shelter in an abandoned Daoist temple, then struck the temple with lightning.
• Song Daren rode Ten Tigers into the clouds, found Long Zi, and greeted Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan.
• Song Daren told Luo Yunji to stop the rain, but found him peeing from Long Zi and hurriedly carried him down.
• Luo Yunji withdrew the Rain Technique and ran to Wen Min, who welcomed him with joy.

After Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji escaped the awkward aftermath of Luo Yunji's Rain Technique, Zhang Xiaofan asked Zhou Yixian about the golden and black papers and their connection to Seeking Immortality. He learned that all the papers might be needed to reveal the full clue, and he and his Senior Brothers speculated that there could be one for each of the Five Seas.

• Wen Min and Zeng Shushu realized that Luo Yunji had looked down at people bathing, and Zhang Xiaofan hurriedly took Luo Yunji away into the clouds.
• Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji returned to Two Mountains and told Zhou Yixian about the image projected by the golden and black papers.
• Zhou Yixian warned Zhang Xiaofan that removing a paper had brought calamity and said all the papers were needed to reveal the true clue to Seeking Immortality.
• Zhang Xiaofan met Wu Dayi and He Dazhi, who first asked about Fifth Senior Brother's injuries and then discussed how many papers might exist.
• He Dazhi reasoned that the five seas might each hold a paper, and Zhang Xiaofan recalled an unexplored place beneath the Heartless Sea that could be important to the Black Water Mystic Snake.

Zhang Xiaofan and his senior brothers sought information about the Five Seas, while Zhou Yixian prepared to flee the Food Mansion after divining that he would die if he stayed. Long Zi revealed that the Five Seas were deadly and that even the Black Serpent could not approach the Heartless Sea’s core.

• Zhou Yixian packed to escape the Food Mansion, convinced his divination foretold his death if he stayed, and Xiaohuan reluctantly began packing with him.
• He Dazhi, Wu Dayi, and Zhang Xiaofan discussed searching for the Five Seas and decided Zhou Yixian was their only lead, so they planned to take him to see their Master.
• Zhang Xiaofan asked Luo Yunji to speak with Long Zi about the Five Seas, and Long Zi admitted he knew of them but not their locations.
• Long Zi warned Zhang Xiaofan that ordinary people who entered the Five Seas were doomed to die and explained that the Black Serpent had kept them from reaching the Heartless Sea’s core, where even it could not go.

The Deity revealed that Luo Yunji's soul was incomplete and that he would die before adulthood unless he found the Five Seas in time. Zhang Xiaofan reported this to Tian Buyi, who decided to search the Five Seas with him.

• Long Zi explained that reaching the Five Seas required immortal strength, even though the secrets needed to become immortal were hidden there.
• The Deity ordered Long Zi to help find the Five Seas and revealed that Luo Yunji's incomplete soul would cause him to die young if it was not restored.
• Zhang Xiaofan told Wu Dayi and He Dazhi about Luo Yunji's condition, and they agreed that the Five Seas had to be explored.
• Zhang Xiaofan informed Tian Buyi, who decided to seek Daoxuan's help and go down the mountain to search for the Five Seas.

Tian Buyi received permission to leave Azure Cloud Sect and seek the Five Seas for a way to save Luo Yunji. After Daoist Zhou disappeared from Two Mountains, He Dazhi suggested asking Old Ancestor Fengyue, who had visited one of the Five Seas.

• Daoxuan agreed to Tian Buyi's request to leave the mountain and promised Azure Cloud Sect's support.
• Su Ru learned that Luo Yunji might not live past twenty, but Tian Buyi persuaded her to stay behind while he searched for the Five Seas.
• He Dazhi visited the Ghost King and borrowed his copy of Records of Strange Ambitions.
• Long Zi brought Tian Buyi and the others back to Two Mountains, where they learned Daoist Zhou had secretly disappeared.
• He Dazhi proposed asking Old Ancestor Fengyue for help because he had been to the Nether Domain, one of the Five Seas.

Zhang Xiaofan visited Old Ancestor Fengyue to invite him on an expedition into the Nether Domain, while making clear that their past grievance had to be settled first. He left Fengyue stunned by revealing the grudge concerned his earlier protection of the man who bullied Luo Yunji.

• Zhang Xiaofan volunteered to visit Old Ancestor Fengyue in Sanfu Town, and Luo Yunji followed him with food before He Dazhi stopped him.
• He Dazhi suggested seeking help from the Ghost King Sect, while Tian Buyi considered the dangers of the Five Seas and their search for a way to save Luo Yunji.
• Old Ancestor Fengyue reflected on his past choice to oppose Zhang Xiaofan and the others for a supposed clue to becoming immortal.
• Zhang Xiaofan asked Fengyue whether he had visited the Nether Domain and invited him to go there, challenging him to dare to come.
• Zhang Xiaofan struck Fengyue, dislocating his shoulder, and said the blow settled the matter of Fengyue protecting the man who bullied Luo Yunji.

Zhang Xiaofan brought Old Ancestor Fengyue to Two Mountains after demonstrating that his strange energy could injure him despite his spiritual power. At the Food Mansion, Zhong Ming was accepted as Wu Dayi’s disciple and welcomed to Big Bamboo Peak, while Luo Yunji was distracted from trying to claim him as his own disciple.

• Zhang Xiaofan injured Old Ancestor Fengyue with a palm strike that his spiritual power could not stop, then brought him to Two Mountains.
• He Dazhi explained to Tian Buyi why Wu Dayi had accepted Zhong Ming as a disciple, noting Zhong Ming’s spirit attribute and Luo Yunji’s insistence on taking him in.
• Tian Buyi accepted Zhong Ming’s tea, welcomed him as a Big Bamboo Peak disciple, and told Wu Dayi to teach him the first level of Azure Cloud Sect’s Taiji Mystic Purity Dao.
• Old Ancestor Fengyue entered the Food Mansion and exchanged greetings with Tian Buyi, who had noticed him waiting outside.
• Liao Xing brought toys for Luo Yunji, drawing his attention away from Zhong Ming and relieving the others.

Liao Xing and the Third Prince visited the noisy mountain formation where Zhou Mu was training with the soldiers. The Third Prince asked to learn cultivation, and Zhou Mu agreed to test whether he could endure it.

• The Third Prince escorted Liao Xing and Luo Yunji out of the tense room, and Luo Yunji explained that Liao Xing could not cultivate because he would become a prince.
• Liao Xing and the Third Prince followed Luo Yunji into the mountain formation to find Zhou Mu, where they saw soldiers breaking rock with their bare hands.
• Zhou Mu reunited with Liao Xing and explained that he was training his physical strength rather than practicing Daoist arts.
• The Third Prince said he wanted to try training, and Luo Yunji allowed Zhou Mu to teach him and see whether he could endure it.
• He Dazhi planned to move the soldiers' training underground and build a city with an aboveground and an underground side.

Liao Xing asked Luo Yunji to teach him cultivation and began memorizing a technique after struggling to understand it. Meanwhile, Sanfu Town’s rapid growth overwhelmed the Old Prime Minister with registration work, and the Prince and Princess Consort met Old Ancestor Fengyue at the Food Mansion.

• Liao Xing asked Luo Yunji to teach him a cultivation technique, but he could not understand the formula and chose to memorize it for later.
• The Prince took the Princess Consort to Sanfu Town, where the Old Prime Minister and his family struggled to process the growing pile of household registers.
• The Old Prime Minister discussed the influx of residents with his son and hoped the emperor’s officials would arrive to help manage the town.
• The Prince and Princess Consort returned to Two Mountains and met Tian Buyi and Old Ancestor Fengyue at the Food Mansion.
• Tian Buyi introduced the Prince and Princess Consort to Old Ancestor Fengyue, who learned that Tian Buyi’s young disciple was a prince.

Luo Yunji’s younger brother Liao Xing memorized the Heavenly Book, and Tian Buyi warned the family that it was a lost Demon Sect cultivation method that could put him in danger. The Prince learned that Luo Yunji might not live past twenty and offered to investigate the Five Seas for a way to save him.

• Tian Buyi brought the Prince and Princess Consort to see Liao Xing reciting the Heavenly Book, and identified it as a supreme but dangerous Demon Sect cultivation method.
• Tian Buyi warned that Liao Xing should stay inside the Food Mansion because news of his cultivation could bring trouble from the Ghost King Sect.
• Wu Dayi explained that Luo Yunji might not live past twenty, and the Princess Consort reacted with grief.
• The Prince recalled a children's story that described the Five Seas and said the Imperial Palace's records gave incorrect names for them.
• Tian Buyi confirmed that someone would guide them to the Sea of Nether Domain, and the Prince promised to investigate the other three seas.

He Dazhi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Wu Dayi discussed bringing the Ghost King to help them explore the Five Seas and suspected that the Prince’s unusual introductory story held clues. The next morning, the Prince worried over Liao Xing’s rapid cultivation and went to ask Tian Buyi whether anything could be wrong.

• He Dazhi proposed bringing the Ghost King on the trip to the Five Seas, while Zhang Xiaofan explained that Old Ancestor Fengyue was no match for Dabai.
• Wu Dayi recounted the story the Prince had told, and He Dazhi and Zhang Xiaofan suspected it was an imperial secret connected to the Five Seas.
• Tian Buyi returned to his room, felt touched by its resemblance to his home, and woke the next morning to breakfast prepared by Zhang Xiaofan.
• The Prince and Princess Consort urged Liao Xing to remain inside the Food Mansion because his rapid progress in cultivation had to be kept secret.
• The Prince grew concerned that Liao Xing’s one-day cultivation progress might signal a problem and went to find Tian Buyi.

Tian Buyi examined Liao Xing and learned that the boy’s rapid cultivation came from the nourishing food he had eaten, while the group prepared for a dangerous journey to the Sea of Nether Domain. After hearing about the Five Seas’ secrets, Ghost King decided to join the expedition, leaving Tian Buyi’s party to prepare for his involvement.

• The Prince asked Tian Buyi to examine Liao Xing, and Tian Buyi explained that the boy’s quick progress came from Yunji’s nourishing food rather than extraordinary talent.
• Luo Yunji taught the quadruplets footwork until Zhang Xiaofan noticed their weak bodies and stepped in to teach them jin.
• Third Prince trained alongside Zhou Mu and the soldiers, impressing the Prince, Princess Consort, and Tian Buyi with his progress.
• He Dazhi shared what Zhou Yixian had told him about the dangerous Sea of Nether Domain, and Tian Buyi discussed the Five Seas with Old Ancestor Fengyue.
• Tian Buyi sent He Dazhi to reveal part of the Five Seas’ secrets to Ghost King, who decided to join the journey after suspecting a greater purpose behind the expedition.

Tian Buyi led a perilous expedition with the Ghost King, Old Ancestor Fengyue, and a thousand imperial soldiers to save Luo Yunji, while Daoxuan explained to Xiao Yicai why Luo could not be abandoned. The group learned their destination was the Sea of Nether Domain in the Far North Ice Plains.

• The Prince’s thousand soldiers volunteered to risk their lives to save Luo Yunji, and he bowed to thank them before the procession left Sanfu Town.
• The Ghost King, Tian Buyi, Old Ancestor Fengyue, Ghost King Sect disciples, and imperial soldiers traveled together, prompting rumors that Azure Cloud Sect and Ghost King Sect had formed an alliance.
• Daoxuan told Xiao Yicai that Tian Buyi’s journey was nearly a one-way trip and that Luo Yunji would not live past twenty if they did not make it.
• Daoxuan revealed that Luo Yunji had been the god who appeared on Heaven-Reaching Peak during the Demon Sect’s attack and warned that Azure Cloud Sect must never abandon him.
• Tian Buyi told the Ghost King that their destination was the Sea of Nether Domain in the Far North Ice Plains, where Venerable Kuxin had found the Nine Heavens Exotic Iron used to forge Tianya.

The Ghost King traveled with Tian Buyi and their followers toward the Far North to seek the secret of becoming immortal, puzzling over Tian Buyi’s reasons for involving the Ghost King Sect. The party pushed north through increasingly harsh country, with Luo Yunji bringing along several Monster Beasts, including a Demon Wolf and a demon bear.

• The Ghost King asked Tian Buyi why he had brought the Ghost King Sect along, and Tian Buyi refused to explain while assuring him that the promise of becoming immortal was genuine.
• The Ghost King complained that they had no cold-weather clothing, then arranged for his followers to get a carriage after seeing He Dazhi, Luo Yunji, and Zhang Xiaofan riding in one.
• Tian Buyi grew irritated by Big Yellow’s attention to the female Demon Wolf and watched Big Yellow run toward the rear of the group.
• The travelers went north from Mount Huqi, passed Kongsang Mountain, and entered the sparsely populated, bitterly cold borders of Qing Province, where they continued on foot.
• Tian Buyi questioned Luo Yunji about bringing the demon bear, and Luo Yunji said Big Bear would keep him warm in the Far North.
• Little Gray jumped onto Big Bear’s head and excitedly squeaked at the demon bear as the group traveled onward.

Luo Yunji delayed the group for two days while chasing and catching a strange creature. Old Ancestor Fengyue identified it as Jiang Feng, a plant used to treat madness whose parasitic seeds kill their hosts, leaving Tian Buyi wondering if the creature was already dead.

• Ghost King observed the untamed Monster Beasts and traveled with the group while Bi Yao remained at Mount Huqi to study the Heavenly Book.
• Luo Yunji pursued a strange creature into the forest, prompting Tian Buyi to send Zhang Xiaofan and He Dazhi after him and delaying the group for two days.
• Luo Yunji returned with the creature, and Ghost King and He Dazhi failed to identify it.
• Old Ancestor Fengyue named the creature Jiang Feng and explained that it was a plant used to treat soul-loss disorder, or madness.
• Old Ancestor Fengyue identified the red mark on Jiang Feng as a ghost maple leaf and explained that its parasitic seeds fed on living hosts until they died.
• Tian Buyi asked whether the Jiang Feng in Luo Yunji's hand was already dead.