Chapter Summaries

He Dazhi and the others found the Six-Tailed Fox suffering from cold poison left by the Nine Cold Condensing Ice Spikes. Little Fatty discovered he could draw out some of the poison, and He Dazhi began searching for a treatment using Ya and a possible counteracting vine leaf.

• He Dazhi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Luo Yunji followed the Three-Tailed Fox Demon to the Six-Tailed Fox beside the Magma Lake.
• Little Fatty approached the Six-Tailed Fox without fear and learned that the fox had endured cold poison for three hundred years.
• Little Fatty drew some cold qi from the Six-Tailed Fox, but explained that it kept returning because it had fused with his organs and drew on spiritual power.
• He Dazhi reasoned that the Ya fruit could serve as medicine if they found an auxiliary ingredient to temper its fire.
• Zhang Xiaofan suggested that leaves from a vine near the Death Spirit Abyss might counteract the Ya, so He Dazhi and the Three-Tailed Fox Demon headed back to investigate.

He Dazhi made an antidote that eased the Six-Tailed Fox’s cold poison, while Zhang Xiaofan mastered a powerful movement technique and demonstrated his strength to the fox demons. The Azure Clouds disciples stayed in the cave to cultivate, and Luo Yunji continued tormenting its strange beasts with the fox demons’ protection.

• Little Fatty played with the Six-Tailed Fox while Zhang Xiaofan practiced Luo Yunji’s movement technique, learning to shift in multiple directions through the air.
• He Dazhi gathered herbs and supplies, then prepared an antidote using Starlight Grass and Ya for the Six-Tailed Fox.
• The Three-Tailed Fox Demon gave the antidote to the Six-Tailed Fox, and He Dazhi said she would need gradual treatment over three years to recover fully.
• Zheng Dali finished absorbing Ya’s energy and stayed with the other disciples to stabilize his cultivation and pursue the remaining fruit.
• Zhang Xiaofan demonstrated his power by striking the Magma Lake with the Dragon-Slaying Art, impressing both fox demons.
• Luo Yunji enlisted Zhang Xiaofan to help him plunder fur, horns, and valuables from the cave’s strange beasts, while the disciples watched uneasily.

Zhang Xiaofan and his companions explored Death Spirit Abyss, where Zheng Dali obtained a Heavenly Heart and gained control of Earth Fire. The group decided to stay so Zheng Dali could help Wu Dayi forge a magic treasure, and they settled on making an umbrella from purified horn spikes and Mysterious Gauze.

• Little Fatty accidentally released Black Water Mystic Snake from the Yin Orb, and its enormous body crushed the stone platform and covered the magma lake.
• Zheng Dali emerged from the magma after obtaining a Heavenly Heart of Earth Fire, and he explained that his cultivation had returned to the seventh level but breaking through to the eighth would now be easier.
• Zheng Dali used his new control of Earth Fire to make a stone platform in the magma lake, and the group chose to stay so he could help Wu Dayi forge a magic treasure.
• Wu Dayi spent three months purifying Quhu horn spikes, which became thin rods that Zhang Xiaofan said looked like umbrella ribs.
• The group agreed that Wu Dayi should make an umbrella using the rods and Mysterious Gauze, and Zhang Xiaofan went to retrieve the cloth.

The Azure Cloud Sect brothers gave the Three-Tailed Fox Mysterious Gauze, and Six-Tailed Fox offered them the Mysterious Fire Mirror to repay them for saving him. After Zheng Dali accepted the ring, Luo Yunji lost it in the Magma Lake, where Zheng Dali found a thousand-year-old Fire Crystal while retrieving it.

• The brothers let the Three-Tailed Fox choose a piece of Mysterious Gauze, and she took it for Six-Tailed Fox.
• Six-Tailed Fox offered the Mysterious Fire Mirror to the brothers, and they debated the trouble it might bring from Incense Valley.
• Zheng Dali agreed to accept the Mysterious Fire Mirror as repayment, though the brothers worried about its consequences.
• Luo Yunji tied the jade ring to the Mysterious Gauze and tossed it into the Magma Lake to play at fishing.
• When the ring became stuck, Zheng Dali entered the magma to retrieve it and emerged with a thousand-year-old Fire Crystal.

Wu Dayi completed his blood-refined silver flute, named it Shadow Moon, and discovered that its birth had affected the senses of everyone nearby. The disciples then discussed adding a formation to it, while Luo Yunji offered increasingly fanciful suggestions.

• Zheng Dali agreed to make his Fire Crystal into a staff-shaped treasure instead of cutting it into swords.
• Wu Dayi blood-refined his stone flute and added silver Cheng Liquid from a gemstone, with He Dazhi guarding him during the final forging.
• Shadow Moon emerged as a gleaming silver flute, and its birth left the disciples’ senses confused for a moment.
• Wu Dayi named the flute Shadow Moon after its moonlike illusion, while Luo Yunji examined it and tried blowing into its holes.
• Luo Yunji explained that the Fire Poker and his Yin Orb had formations, then suggested adding an illusion that made flowers or Seven-Colored Balls appear when Wu Dayi played.

He Dazhi and the Big Bamboo Peak brothers tested formations for Wu Dayi’s flute, accidentally creating a Seven-Colored Pills illusion before successfully making a flute that could conceal its player. The Three-Tailed Fox Demon accepted both flutes, and the group gathered to eat Zhang Xiaofan’s Seven-Colored Pills and share wine, leaving Zhang Xiaofan trying to stop his senior brothers from drinking Monkey Wine straight.

• He Dazhi had Little Fatty draw a sound-amplifying formation, but Wu Dayi’s first test flute produced floating Seven-Colored Pills illusions, so Wu Dayi smacked Little Fatty.
• Zhang Xiaofan persuaded Little Fatty to revise the formation, and Wu Dayi tested the corrected version, which surrounded him in mist and obscured his figure.
• The Three-Tailed Fox Demon played the first flute and was embarrassed by its Seven-Colored Pills illusion, then played the corrected flute and accepted both flutes from He Dazhi.
• He Dazhi put away his broken Rivers and Mountains Brush while Zhang Xiaofan and Sixth Senior Brother finished preparing seven kinds of Seven-Colored Pills.
• The brothers and the foxes ate the pills together, and the senior brothers pressured Zhang Xiaofan to bring out his Monkey Wine.
• Sixth Senior Brother made cups with his sword, while Zhang Xiaofan warned the brothers not to drink the wine straight and Third Senior Brother challenged him.

Zhang Xiaofan and the others shared diluted Monkey Wine beside the magma lake, where He Dazhi reasoned that an environment matching a cultivator’s attribute might help them gain Heavenly Heart. Little Fatty discovered the Acacia Bell and handed out cooling gemstones for the wine, while He Dazhi poured Six-Tailed Fox’s drink into his own cup for an unexplained reason.

• Zhang Xiaofan explained that the Monkey Wine he had given his senior brothers and Master had been diluted with spiritual water, then prepared the undiluted wine for everyone at the magma lake.
• He Dazhi suggested that Third Senior Brother had gained Heavenly Heart because he broke through in an environment suited to his attribute, exciting Fifth Senior Brother and Sixth Senior Brother with the possibility of trying again.
• Luo Yunji found the Acacia Bell among his toys, and the bell stirred strange feelings in the group before He Dazhi identified it as Lady Jinling’s treasure.
• Luo Yunji put indigo gemstones into the others’ wine cups, cooling their drinks, and Zhang Xiaofan explained that the stones could be made into beautifying Cooling Pearls.
• He Dazhi poured the wine and gemstone from Six-Tailed Fox’s cup into his own, as the others watched curiously.

He Dazhi and the Big Bamboo Peak disciples helped the fox demons and Luo Yunji turn unusual gems into ornaments, while the Six-Tailed Fox’s improved health let him regain human form. Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan then experimented with starlight and Cheng Liquid to make jeweled projections, leaving He Dazhi to redesign their awkward patterns.

• He Dazhi suggested making ornaments for the women of Big Bamboo Peak, and the Three-Tailed Fox Demon agreed to craft them from the gems.
• The Six-Tailed Fox transformed into human form for the first time in nearly a century, delighting the Three-Tailed Fox Demon and the gathered disciples.
• The Three-Tailed Fox Demon, Zhang Xiaofan, and Luo Yunji selected gems and beast fur for ornaments, while He Dazhi discovered that blue-green stones could blast hot air.
• Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan stored starlight in three indigo beads, and Du Bishu later made more starlit beads for the Three-Tailed Fox Demon.
• Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan used Cheng Liquid to decorate a starlit jewel that projected images of Big Bamboo Peak, but the disciples rejected Luo Yunji’s drawings of Big Yellow and suggested prettier designs.

The brothers refined Zheng Dali’s Flame Dragon Rod, and He Dazhi discovered a powerful wind-attributed beast horn that he began purifying with the Magma Lake’s Earth Fire. Meanwhile, Zhang Xiaofan started refining the Buddhist pearl Jiemo, while Luo Yunji turned his attention to a giant stone from Death Spirit Abyss; He Dazhi finished removing the horn’s impurities, leaving its artifact yet to be made.

• He Dazhi and Zhang Xiaofan finished setting the Starlight Treasure Pearls, while Little Fatty secretly made crude figures from Cheng Liquid.
• Zheng Dali completed his Fire Crystal staff, named it Flame Dragon, and left it to be nurtured by the Earth Fire.
• He Dazhi found a horn identified as belonging to the ancient beast Zheng and decided to refine it with the brothers’ encouragement.
• Little Fatty named a Buddhist golden pearl Jiemo and explained its abilities, prompting Zhang Xiaofan to begin refining it despite his concerns about his altered Taiji Seal.
• Little Fatty pulled a giant Death Spirit Abyss stone from the Yang Orb and began trying to refine it.
• After more than a month, He Dazhi finished purifying the horn, leaving it pale green and wholly wind-attributed.

He Dazhi completed his new brush treasure, Fresh Breeze and Jade Dew, and the Big Bamboo Peak group left Black Stone Cave after saying goodbye to the foxes. After resting in Changhe City, they chose to travel to the imperial city for Little Fatty’s sake, while continuing to search for Lu Daxin and Du Bishu’s treasures.

• He Dazhi refined the Zheng horn, Six-Tailed White Fox fur, Luo Yunji’s baby teeth, and gemstones into Fresh Breeze and Jade Dew, whose creation unleashed a destructive fire tornado and yielded three Fire Crystals for Luo Yunji.
• The Big Bamboo Peak group said farewell to Three-Tailed Fox and Six-Tailed Fox, and Zhang Xiaofan left them a bundle of dangerous gemstones; the foxes discovered that the group had also been traveling with five Yin Spirits.
• The group left Xiaochi Town for Changhe City, where He Dazhi sent letters to Big Bamboo Peak but kept their Cooling Pearls and finished jewelry with them rather than entrusting them to a disciple.
• He Dazhi’s description of imperial palace delicacies excited Little Fatty, and the group decided to head to the imperial city while avoiding Mount Huqi, the Ghost King Sect’s headquarters.

Wu Dayi and the others struggled to master the eighth step of Luo Yunji’s Twelve Steps, while He Dazhi explained how belief and a state of emptiness affected the technique. Their journey was interrupted when Luo Yunji bit through a stranger’s magic treasure, and the dog-faced man angrily insisted he was human.

• Wu Dayi led the group toward Mount Zhugou as the brothers practiced the Twelve Steps and repeatedly failed to take the eighth step.
• He Dazhi explained that the brothers’ belief that the eighth step was impossible made their bodies resist it, and he suggested they might need to risk their lives to reach a state of emptiness.
• Little Fatty mistook a dog-faced creature for Big Yellow and rushed toward it, so the creature thrust its magic treasure at Luo Yunji.
• Luo Yunji bit the magic treasure in two, and Zhang Xiaofan carried him away from the creature.
• The brothers called the dog-faced stranger a Monster Beast, and he threw aside the broken treasure and shouted that he was human.

Wild Dog Daoist clashed with the people of Big Bamboo Peak, who overwhelmed him with their newfound physical strength and then fed him. After realizing they were fellow cultivators far stronger than he had assumed, he stayed for dinner and praised Zhang Xiaofan’s cooking.

• Wild Dog Daoist attacked He Dazhi after the group laughed at his doglike appearance, but He Dazhi dodged and knocked him unconscious with a slap.
• Wu Dayi checked Wild Dog Daoist and confirmed he was alive, while the others discovered that their training in force had made them extraordinarily strong.
• Wild Dog Daoist woke beside Big Yellow, mistook the group for ordinary people, and was stunned when Sixth Senior Brother felled a tree with one slap.
• Zhang Xiaofan served Wild Dog Daoist soup and dinner, and Wild Dog Daoist realized that the people of Big Bamboo Peak were dangerous fellow cultivators.
• Little Fatty questioned whether Wild Dog Daoist had turned from a dog into a human, while He Dazhi apologized for the teasing.
• Wild Dog Daoist ate Zhang Xiaofan’s food eagerly and praised it as delicious.

Wild Dog Daoist mistook Wu Dayi and the Big Bamboo Peak disciples for Monster Beasts and became convinced they planned to eat him, so he followed them rather than risk escaping. As the group traveled toward the Imperial City, another man confronted Wild Dog Daoist over his failure to report back.

• Wild Dog Daoist watched the group use their abilities and mistook the five Yin Spirits for dangerous evil beings, then fell to his knees begging them not to eat him.
• Wu Dayi and He Dazhi tried to prove they were Azure Cloud Sect disciples, but Wild Dog Daoist remained convinced they were Monster Beasts in disguise.
• Wild Dog Daoist tried to leave, fled back from a Yin Spirit, and ultimately stayed with the group, believing their attempts to dismiss him were another trick.
• Wu Dayi and the others continued along their planned route toward the Imperial City, while Wild Dog Daoist helped gather food and marveled at their abilities.
• A man confronted Wild Dog Daoist for ignoring his messages, and Wild Dog Daoist explained that he had tracked down the group using clues from the Ancient Cave of Ten Thousand Bats.

Wild Dog Daoist told his contact that the group at the Ancient Cave of Ten Thousand Bats had trapped them with a formation and overwhelmed him, then accepted replacement materials from the Big Bamboo Peak group for his broken magic treasure. After learning Zhang Xiaofan had visited the Death Spirit Abyss, he asked Luo Yunji about refining the Red-Eyed Wild Boar tusks and eyes, but Zhang Xiaofan warned him against blood-refining and Luo Yunji refused to do the work for him.

• Wild Dog Daoist described the powerful, strange beings at the Ancient Cave of Ten Thousand Bats to his contact, but admitted he had learned little about their formation.
• Wu Dayi and the senior brothers decided to compensate Wild Dog Daoist with Red-Eyed Wild Boar tusks and eyes, and he eagerly accepted them after Sixth Senior Brother threatened him.
• Wild Dog Daoist wondered how to refine the materials, and Zhang Xiaofan suggested making them into a set of magical treasures and revealed he had visited the Death Spirit Abyss.
• Wild Dog Daoist sought advice from Luo Yunji, who proposed combining the eyes and tusks into a pair of treasures that could transmit sight between them.
• Zhang Xiaofan warned Wild Dog Daoist that Luo Yunji's method used blood-refining, so Wild Dog Daoist handed the materials back, and Luo Yunji told him to refine them himself.

Wild Dog Daoist refined a pair of blood-linked curved blades with help from the group, but Little Fatty destroyed one after Wild Dog stole food from his bowl. As the group prepared to leave Kongsang Mountain, remnants of the Blood Refining Hall blocked their way and demanded the formation’s secrets.

• Zhang Xiaofan helped Wild Dog Daoist gather materials, and Wild Dog finished refining a pair of curved blades with the Blood Refining Method.
• Wild Dog Daoist tested the blades and discovered their linked control extended their range and let him share their vision.
• Wild Dog Daoist stole food from Little Fatty’s bowl, and Little Fatty shattered one of his new blades with his teeth.
• Wild Dog Daoist mourned the broken blade until He Dazhi kicked him into recovering, and Wild Dog wrapped up the fragments.
• Dozens of Blood Refining Hall remnants confronted the group as they left Kongsang Mountain and demanded the cave formation’s entry method and an explanation for the Yin Spirits.

Big Bamboo Peak's disciples dealt with the escaped Yin Spirits, refined a magical treasure for Du Bishu, and continued their journey to the Imperial City. They arrived and settled into an inn after Luo Yunji eagerly explored the bustling city and bought many things.

• Wild Dog Daoist took a red beam meant for Luo Yunji, and Big Bamboo Peak's disciples drove off the Blood Refining Hall attackers.
• He Dazhi explained that their formation had sealed the Blood Refining Hall's base and that removing the giant stone had released Yin Spirits from Death Spirit Abyss; Luo Yunji let them return the stone's lower half.
• The group found a thousand-year-old Three-Trunk Tree, and Du Bishu refined its essence into three dice embellished with powerful materials.
• After a month and a half of travel, the disciples reached the Imperial City, where Luo Yunji explored the markets with Zhang Xiaofan and gathered a pile of purchases.
• Du Bishu found an inn for the group, and Luo Yunji played with his new belongings until Du Bishu came to remind him to eat.

Wu Dayi and the senior brothers found the inn food and wine disappointing, while Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji were separated from them in the imperial city. Luo Yunji was mistaken for a young prince and taken with Zhang Xiaofan to the prince's residence, where the princess consort saw him and reacted with shock and grief.

• Wu Dayi and the senior brothers complained that the inn's food and wine tasted poor, and He Dazhi sent a waiter to fetch wine from Refreshing Garden Workshop.
• Little Fatty dragged Zhang Xiaofan out to find tasty food, while Sixth Senior Brother searched for them and mistakenly brought back a lookalike to the inn.
• Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji were surrounded by the prince's attendants, who mistook Luo Yunji for their young prince and invited them to the residence.
• The princess consort heard the middle-aged woman's report and hurried to meet Luo Yunji, while Zhang Xiaofan stayed beside him.
• The princess consort saw Luo Yunji, began to cry, and stared at him in emotional disbelief as the middle-aged woman supported her.

Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji visited the Prince's Mansion, where the Princess Consort tried to keep them close and watched Luo Yunji with tearful longing. As Zhang Xiaofan and his fellow disciples prepared a feast, the Princess Consort's look-alike son appeared, leaving He Dazhi suspicious of their connection.

• The Princess Consort warned her servants to keep the day's events secret, then tried to persuade Luo Yunji to stay while Zhang Xiaofan agreed to make food for him.
• Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji entered the mansion kitchen, where Luo Yunji chose ingredients and Zhang Xiaofan began preparing a meal.
• Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan used magic to handle ingredients, astonishing the Princess Consort and the kitchen staff.
• The other disciples arrived with the Bamboo Bag, and Fifth Senior Brother and Sixth Senior Brother joined Zhang Xiaofan in cooking.
• The Little Prince arrived and looked nearly identical to Luo Yunji, prompting the Princess Consort to embrace him in tears as He Dazhi began to suspect a connection.
• Luo Yunji eagerly ate the dishes while the disciples set aside portions for the Princess Consort and the Little Prince.

Princess Consort and the Little Prince sampled Little Fatty’s unusual dishes, then discovered that Biluo Grass improved the Prince’s treasured Green Jade wine. Princess Consort asked for the herb so the Prince could try it and sent servants to find him.

• He Dazhi explained Little Fatty’s spectacular dishes as Princess Consort and the Little Prince tasted them.
• Princess Consort offered the disciples the Prince’s Green Jade wine, and Luo Yunji bluntly said it smelled strange.
• Luo Yunji added Biluo Grass to the wine, removing its strange smell and improving its flavor.
• Princess Consort asked for Biluo Grass for the Prince, and Zhang Xiaofan offered her the remaining half sprig.
• He Dazhi advised Princess Consort to have the herb drawn so people could search for more, and she dismissed a disrespectful servant.
• Princess Consort sent more groups of servants to look for the Prince.

Wu Dayi and the others stayed at the Prince's Mansion while they considered whether Little Fatty might be the Princess Consort's missing son. Little Fatty and Zhang Xiaofan went out with the Little Prince, where they met the Eldest Young Master and were dragged into Lixiang Pavilion.

• The Princess Consort persuaded He Dazhi and the others to stay until the Prince returned, and He Dazhi agreed after noticing her concern for Luo Yunji.
• He Dazhi and the senior brothers discussed Little Fatty's resemblance to the Little Prince, the dangers of using magic in the Imperial City, and writing to their Master and Shiniang.
• Little Fatty woke and took Zhang Xiaofan out to explore, and the Little Prince joined them while servants followed.
• The Eldest Young Master encountered Little Fatty, doubted that he was his brother, and followed the group as they shopped through the streets.
• Little Fatty and Zhang Xiaofan were surrounded by women and pulled into Lixiang Pavilion, while the Little Prince went inside too and the Eldest Young Master followed after him.