Chapter Summaries

Su Ru learned from Mr. Ghost that Luo Yunji was carrying a Small World containing Big Bamboo Peak’s seven disciples and urgently prepared for his arrival at Bibo Pool. Luo Yunji arrived under immense pressure, expanded the pool with the Spirit Venerable’s help, and descended into it with the Small World; Su Ru later returned with a huge Water-Avoiding Pearl.

• Su Ru saw the white mourning cloth on Zeng Shuchang and the others and feared Tian Buyi had died, while Wen Min and Shuiyue kept Mr. Ghost’s presence secret.
• Mr. Ghost warned Su Ru that Luo Yunji was carrying a Small World from Two Mountains and that Big Bamboo Peak’s seven disciples were inside it.
• Su Ru took Xiao Yicai to Heaven-Reaching Peak and ordered him to clear the area around Bibo Pool so Luo Yunji could use the Spirit Venerable’s power.
• Luo Yunji arrived carrying the Small World, and the Spirit Venerable expanded Bibo Pool before Luo Yunji descended into it.
• After Luo Yunji failed to reappear, Su Ru returned carrying a person-sized Water-Avoiding Pearl, astonishing the gathered disciples.

Su Ru and the Azure Cloud Sect leaders and elders joined Luo Yunji in stabilizing a great formation beneath Bibo Pool. Their efforts sent a dazzling beam and celestial signs over Heaven-Reaching Peak, ending with a Taiji Seal spreading across Azure Cloud Sect.

• Su Ru entered Jade Water Pool and found Luo Yunji holding up the Small World while blood poured from him.
• Luo Yunji called Su Ru into a formation node, where her presence stabilized one of its rings.
• After disciples who entered the pool failed to return, Shuiyue sent Zeng Shuchang to fetch Water-Avoiding Pearls from Wen Min.
• Zeng Shuchang entered the pool and called the peak leaders and elders to follow, while Xiao Yicai guarded the pool.
• The leaders and elders took their places at the formation's nodes, stabilizing it until its light pierced the sky and a golden pattern rose over Heaven-Reaching Peak.
• Three dragons and a bird appeared above the peak, followed by a vast Taiji Seal that spread across Azure Cloud Sect.

After the Five Spirits revealed the seven Big Bamboo Peak disciples alive inside the Small World, Luo Yunji returned badly injured and recovered under Wen Min’s care. As Su Ru grieved Tian Buyi’s death, Wen Min feared she had joined him in the grave and rushed to find her.

• The Taiji Seal revealed the seven Big Bamboo Peak disciples lying on a huge spirit stone inside the Small World, and the Five Spirits returned to Azure Cloud Mountain with Luo Yunji.
• Su Ru carried the injured Luo Yunji back to Big Bamboo Peak, where he slept for three days before waking briefly to eat.
• Su Ru attended Tian Buyi’s funeral, sent everyone away at his grave, and lay beside him inside the coffin as she mourned their life together.
• Wen Min realized Su Ru might have harmed herself and flew to the burial site, while Tian Linger and Lin Jingyu followed.
• Wen Min found Su Ru lying beside Tian Buyi in the grave, checked her pulse, and desperately tried to wake her.

Wen Min stopped Su Ru from dying beside Tian Buyi and revealed that Tian Buyi had faked his death as part of a plan with Daoxuan. After the funeral, Su Ru awoke and found Tian Buyi beside her, but she did not recognize him.

• Wen Min revived Su Ru, gave Tian Buyi medicine, and explained that his apparent death was a plan devised with Daoxuan.
• Wen Min, Tian Linger, and Lin Jingyu concealed Tian Buyi's survival and moved him to Taiji Cave while Wen Min altered the Cave Dwelling's formation.
• Xiaohuan, Zhou Yixian, and Wild Dog Daoist helped care for Tian Buyi after Xiaohuan's divination suggested he was still alive.
• The Azure Cloud Sect mourned Tian Buyi's death, and several days later Su Ru awoke and kicked the unfamiliar-looking Tian Buyi off her bed.

Su Ru and Tian Buyi woke after more than ten days unconscious, and their family reunited as Tian Buyi recovered from his shrunken body. Luo Yunji and Tian Linger continued their childish squabbles, leaving Su Ru grateful that they were all together again.

• Tian Linger helped Su Ru realize that the thin, unconscious man was Tian Buyi, and told her that they had both been unconscious for more than ten days.
• Tian Buyi woke as Lin Jingyu went to summon Wen Min and the others, and Luo Yunji laughed at his changed appearance.
• Luo Yunji and Tian Linger argued over Tian Buyi's discarded skin, and Tian Buyi threw shoes at Luo Yunji.
• Su Ru dragged Luo Yunji and Tian Linger out and punished them by making them kneel in the Black Bamboo Pavilion.
• Su Ru placed Tian Buyi's skin beside Luo Yunji's in the Black Bamboo Building and smiled, saying that this was enough.

Luo Yunji secured Bibo Pool and gave Azure Cloud Sect a revised cultivation method before leaving the mountain with Tian Buyi and Su Ru to search for Spirit Mountain and investigate the Huqi Mountains. Amid the devastated lands, he sent many Soul Spirits to the Underworld, while the remaining spirits pledged to follow him.

• Luo Yunji set a formation at Bibo Pool, asked Xiao Yicai to guard it, and gave him the latest Taiji Mystic Purity Dao.
• Luo Yunji asked Xiao Yicai to look after Big Bamboo Peak, then left Azure Cloud Mountain with Tian Buyi and Su Ru to search for Spirit Mountain and investigate the Huqi Mountains.
• The three saw the corpse-strewn devastation below the mountains, and Luo Yunji summoned Soul Spirits with his Ghost Umbrella.
• Luo Yunji opened a passage to the Underworld and helped the Soul Spirits who had once aided him enter the Yellow Springs and reincarnate.
• The remaining spirits, including Two Mountains soldiers and Sanfu Town cultivators, knelt before Luo Yunji and swore to follow the Imperial Preceptor unto death.

Luo Yunji found Spirit Mountain hovering above the Azure Cloud Mountain Range and learned that a black-clad Deity had kept its people captive. He confronted the Deity over claiming the mountain and, realizing the Deity’s new body was human, threatened to beat Him up and punched Him.

• Luo Yunji sent the Soul Spirits back into the Ghost Umbrella, told Tian Buyi and Su Ru he would search for Spirit Mountain, and left while they headed to Mount Huqi.
• Luo Yunji searched for two months and found Spirit Mountain hovering above the Azure Cloud Mountain Range, where the black-clad Deity had refused to let Cangsong, Wan Jianyi, Li Qinghe, and the others leave.
• The people on Spirit Mountain welcomed Luo Yunji, and he learned that the Deity had been trying to claim the mountain.
• The black-clad youth revealed that the Beast God was dead and that He had taken over the body, while Luo Yunji argued that it had been refined into a human body.
• Luo Yunji threatened to beat up the Deity and rushed forward to punch Him in the eye.

Luo Yunji confronted the black-clad Deity about the blood barrier and the world-destroying Great Calamity, then took his companions back to Azure Cloud Sect when the Deity could not answer. After Luo Yunji approved housing for refugees below Big Bamboo Peak, Sanfu Town residents began building a city there, surprising Xiao Yicai.

• Luo Yunji demanded answers from the black-clad Deity about the blood barrier and the world-destroying Great Calamity, but accepted that the Deity could not reveal Heavenly Mystery.
• Luo Yunji arranged to return Spirit Mountain to the sky above Big Bamboo Peak and found that nearly everyone there wanted to stay.
• Luo Yunji returned to Big Bamboo Peak with Li Qinghe and the other women, while Wan Jianyi and Daoist Cangsong stayed on Spirit Mountain.
• Luo Yunji allowed the people of Sanfu Town to build houses below Big Bamboo Peak for refugees, warning them not to disturb his shifu and Shiniang's former residence.
• A month later, Xiao Yicai visited Big Bamboo Peak after hearing that a city was taking shape, and learned that building it had not been Luo Yunji's idea.

Luo Yunji expanded Sanfu Town’s refugee city and helped move troublesome refugees away from Small Bamboo Peak, while Shuiyue insisted he attend a meeting of the righteous sects. The meeting descended into endless arguments, and Luo Yunji remained trapped in his seat as he tried to leave.

• Luo Yunji told Sanfu Town’s residents to enlarge their city, then asked Xiao Yicai to house future refugees at Big Bamboo Peak and give them work.
• Shuiyue brought the Sanfu Town residents to Small Bamboo Peak to retrieve refugees who had caused trouble there, and she was surprised by the city under construction at Big Bamboo Peak.
• Shuiyue ordered Luo Yunji to attend the next Jade Purity Hall meeting as Big Bamboo Peak’s head, despite his efforts to avoid it.
• Shuiyue dragged Luo Yunji to a meeting where the sect leaders discussed disputes among refugee sects and first-rate sects.
• Luo Yunji grew irritated as the leaders argued, but Shuiyue pressed him back into his seat and had Lu Xueqi keep watch so he could not leave.

Luo Yunji lost patience with the arguing sect leaders in Jade Purity Hall and forcefully reminded them that they were guests seeking Azure Cloud Sect’s protection. He left the defiant leaders facing his threat and ordered them out of the hall or to seek shelter elsewhere.

• Luo Yunji hurled a tea table into the arguing crowd, then knocked down a sect leader who challenged his authority.
• Luo Yunji rebuked the sect leaders for making trouble while relying on Azure Cloud Sect for protection, and he publicly scolded Yun Yilan for staying silent.
• Luo Yunji invited an admiring Heaven-Reaching Peak disciple to train with him at Big Bamboo Peak, then demanded that the guests pay for their stay and protection.
• Some sect leaders agreed to return to prepare money and gifts, while others challenged Luo Yunji and accused Azure Cloud Sect of bullying them.
• Luo Yunji threatened to kill anyone who showed hostility and ordered the remaining sect leaders out of Jade Purity Hall, telling them to seek protection from Yun Yilan or Puhong if they refused.

Luo Yunji forced Azure Cloud’s allied sects to help build a refuge city and asserted Two Mountains’ power, while the Strange Objects spread beyond the mountains. Two years later, the Azure Cloud Mountain Range remained a crowded sanctuary, and Tian Buyi, Su Ru, and Daoxuan returned injured with news from outside.

• Luo Yunji struck Yun Yilan down, warned Divine Monk Puhong and the sect leaders, and ordered their disciples and followers to report to Big Bamboo Peak or help build the city.
• Sanfu Town’s cultivators kept the sect members in line as they worked on the refuge city, while Madam Sanmiao and Yuyangzi discussed the Holy Sect’s survival and their ties to Two Mountains.
• After seeing the blood barrier fail to contain the Strange Objects, Tian Buyi, Su Ru, and Daoxuan fled and decided to check on the Imperial City.
• Over the next two years, Azure Cloud Sect’s disciples watched the city near Big Bamboo Peak take shape as the surrounding world became overrun by Strange Objects.
• Tian Buyi, Su Ru, and Daoxuan returned injured to Big Bamboo Peak with news from outside, but Luo Yunji remained focused on protecting those within the mountains.

Luo Yunji learned that refugees and Strange Objects threatened the Imperial City, then found Liao Xing risking his life to help displaced people. He arranged to bring the villagers to the cities at Azure Cloud Mountain and reunited with his parents, but left the Prince's Mansion to continue helping refugees.

• Daoxuan and Su Ru told Luo Yunji that Strange Objects were approaching the Imperial City and that Liao Xing had left the Forbidden Spirit Land to aid refugees.
• Luo Yunji found Liao Xing in a village, ordered him back, and promised to protect the people there after clearing nearby Strange Objects.
• Luo Yunji gave food to Liao Xing and the villagers, then offered to take them to the cities he had built at Azure Cloud Mountain.
• Luo Yunji brought Liao Xing to the Imperial City, where the brothers reunited with their parents at the Prince's Mansion.
• Luo Yunji warned the Princess Consort about the Strange Objects and left to help shelter the displaced people.

Luo Yunji reassured Yan Hui that Zhang Xiaofan was alive and brought refugees to Azure Cloud Mountain, where they were settled. He then prepared to travel to the Mystic Realm for resources and a way to protect humanity from the Strange Objects.

• Luo Yunji warned Yan Hui not to revive the Ghost King Sect, then gave him an item and placed his people under the Two Mountains while promising to return for them.
• Luo Yunji led Liao Xing and a growing group of refugees toward Azure Cloud Mountain, recruiting Azure Cloud Sect disciples and agreeing that Zeng Shushu could build a town beneath Wind Return Peak.
• After three months of travel and attacks by Strange Objects, Luo Yunji handed the refugees to the people of Sanfu Town, who arranged their lodging and planted new fields.
• Luo Yunji asked Xiaohuan to locate the Mystic Realm, then told Tian Buyi to use the Water-Avoiding Pearl to clear the Dragon Lair in the Imperial City's Water Marsh for refugees.
• Liao Xing joined Luo Yunji on his journey, and Luo Yunji explained that Azure Cloud Mountain needed an array to shield people from the Strange Objects before telling Liao Xing to go home and care for the child once it was over.

Luo Yunji brought six Floating Mountains to the Imperial City to shelter its people, then helped secure Azure Cloud Sect before leaving alone to face the ruined world. He ended the chapter hungry and undecided about whether to turn back for food when noise erupted outside his tent.

• Luo Yunji moved six Floating Mountains above the Forbidden Spirit Land and arranged for the Imperial City’s citizens to settle on them.
• Luo Yunji promised one Floating Mountain to the people of Sanfu Town, urged them to help others, and told them about the city built at the foot of Big Bamboo Peak.
• Luo Yunji found Tian Buyi at the Water Marsh and later helped complete a protective formation around Azure Cloud Sect after three years of work.
• Bi Yao angrily asked to accompany Luo Yunji, but he called her dead weight; after they tussled, she cried in his arms.
• Luo Yunji left Azure Cloud Mountain alone and crossed the devastated land, where he ran out of food before a burst of noise outside his tent interrupted him.

Luo Yunji rescued a group of children, then spent two years traveling and guarding the outskirts of the Forbidden Spirit Land from Strange Objects. He returned to Big Bamboo Peak and reunited with Wen Min, Tian Buyi, and Su Ru before asking Tian Buyi to accompany him to confirm something with the black-clad Deity.

• Luo Yunji shared his remaining food with the starving children, sheltered them overnight, and took them to the city below Big Bamboo Peak.
• Luo Yunji stocked up on food and left Azure Cloud Mountain to travel; for two years, he guarded the outskirts of the Forbidden Spirit Land against Strange Objects.
• Luo Yunji returned to Big Bamboo Peak, where Wen Min and the other women welcomed him back.
• Luo Yunji visited Tian Buyi and Su Ru on Spirit Mountain, and Su Ru embraced him after seeing how exhausted he was.
• Luo Yunji told Tian Buyi he needed to confirm something with the black-clad Deity, and Tian Buyi offered to go with him.

Luo Yunji learned that ordinary cultivators had almost no way to fight the Underworld’s Strange Objects, so he prepared to leave again and train Bi Yao and Liao Xing. He took them toward the Imperial City, where his return brought joy to his family and the people who had been protected by his efforts.

• Luo Yunji asked the Black-Clad Figure how ordinary cultivators could fight Strange Objects, and learned that the needed Yang Essence treasures were nearly impossible to obtain.
• Luo Yunji reunited with Bi Yao and agreed to take her and Liao Xing when he left again in a few days.
• Luo Yunji explained that only people who cultivated all five volumes of the Heavenly Book could pass through the blood barrier, and set out to train Bi Yao and Liao Xing.
• Luo Yunji taught Bi Yao and Liao Xing how to face Strange Objects and helped them grasp Great Brahma Prajna as they traveled toward the Imperial City.
• Luo Yunji and Liao Xing returned to the Prince’s Mansion, where their family welcomed them, while officials praised Luo Yunji for protecting the people from monsters.

Luo Yunji returned to the Prince's Mansion with Bi Yao and reunited with his parents, bringing the family great joy. After he left at dawn to patrol the Forbidden Spirit Land, the Princess Consort and Liao Xing realized he might be preparing to face the monsters again.

• Luo Yunji and Bi Yao kowtowed to Liao Zhihe and the Princess Consort, moving them to tears as they welcomed Luo Yunji back into the family.
• The family and household celebrated together, while the Princess Consort kept Bi Yao close and the Emperor postponed his visit to give them time together.
• Liao Yunji told Liao Zhihe he had stayed away because he feared he would not be able to leave, and said he had to protect the people he cared about from the monsters.
• After Liao Zhihe fell asleep, Luo Yunji settled him in and kept watch beneath the night sky; at dawn, he and Bi Yao left to patrol the outskirts of the Forbidden Spirit Land.
• The Princess Consort learned Luo Yunji had departed without eating and grew uneasy about his return, so Liao Xing told her that Luo Yunji had been badly injured after the Beast Demon calamity and might be going to fight the monsters again.

Luo Yunji rescued Wuluo, Big Yellow, Little Gray, and Taotie inside Mount Huqi’s blood barrier, then investigated the Ghost King’s study and discovered a hidden cavern beneath it. As he descended toward a strange pillar, unseen eyes and anguished faces appeared behind him.

• Liao Xing and Bi Yao joined Luo Yunji in traveling to Mount Huqi, and he rushed into the blood barrier after sensing familiar auras.
• Luo Yunji, Liao Xing, and Bi Yao used Buddha’s light to save Wuluo, Big Yellow, Little Gray, and Taotie from the Strange Objects.
• The group reached the Two Mountains, where Luo Yunji reunited with the Beast God, Linglong, Empress Witch, and the residents of Sanfu Town.
• Luo Yunji secretly entered the Ghost King’s study and discovered a hidden door leading into a dark cavern.
• Luo Yunji descended toward a dark-brown pillar as an unseen eye and anguished human faces appeared whenever he looked away.

Luo Yunji escaped the Strange Objects beneath Ghost King Sect Headquarters and returned to Two Mountains, where Dabai revealed himself as the mastermind who had imprisoned the Yin Spirits. When Luo Yunji demanded a reason, Dabai declared that he wanted to destroy the world, then accused Luo Yunji of being too sheltered to understand suffering.

• Luo Yunji discovered a web of Strange Objects in the secret chamber, escaped their pursuit, and returned to Two Mountains as the Huqi Mountains erupted into chaos.
• Liao Xing and Bi Yao questioned Luo Yunji about Ghost King, but he could only shake his head; then Dabai's Black Silk attacked them and revealed itself.
• Dabai appeared with Blackheart Elder and three other Yin Spirits imprisoned in his Black Silk, while Daoyan warned Luo Yunji that Dabai had planned everything and used Ghost King's Four Spirits Blood Array.
• Luo Yunji repeatedly demanded a reason for Dabai's betrayal, and Dabai dismissed him before Luo Yunji blocked his flight and froze the tips of his attacking Black Silk.
• Dabai declared that he wanted to destroy the world and claimed Luo Yunji had been protected and spoiled too much to understand suffering.

Luo Yunji learned that Dabai had once been human and a disciple of the Azure Cloud Sect, but the Heavenly Book recorded no trace of him, leading Luo Yunji to identify him as another Son of God. As Mount Huqi began to shake, Dabai descended into the sea of blood and stepped onto the black cocoon being nourished by the Dragon-Subduing Tripod.

• Dabai escaped Luo Yunji’s attack and returned to the Ghost King Sect Headquarters while Luo Yunji captured the four Yin Spirits in the Ghost Umbrella.
• Luo Yunji and his companions waited for the four spirits to recover, then explained that the Heavenly Book recorded everyone except Dabai and the Beast God.
• Luo Yunji concluded that Dabai was a Son of God, and Liao Xing and Bi Yao comforted him before the three went to cook.
• Mount Huqi shook violently beneath the blood-colored barrier as bloody rain fell, and Luo Yunji suspected Dabai might be responsible.
• Dabai descended through the White Web to the sea of blood, where the Dragon-Subduing Tripod fed Underworld power into a huge black cocoon, and he stepped onto it.