Chapter Summaries

Zhang Jian collected Taiyin treasures and removed a vast section of the star containing a mysterious divine-tree stump. While exploring farther out, he saw the Taiyin Fairy pursued by an extraterritorial snake mother and intervened just as she was about to be struck.

• Zhang Jian gathered the Taiyin star souls and divine marrow, then used the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State to take the stump and the surrounding land.
• Zhang Jian explored the star's outer reaches and detected a Lunar Demon Palace cultivator fleeing an extraterritorial snake mother.
• The Heartmoon Hall Master escaped into a bright silver moon, and the snake mother hid in the void rather than continue pursuing her.
• The Taiyin Fairy emerged from the wormhole, tainted by evil-god poison and trapped by the snake mother near True Immortal strength.
• Zhang Jian appeared as a three-legged Golden Crow, shattered the surrounding black qi, and carried the Taiyin Fairy away.

Zhang Jian defeated the Outer-Bound Snake Mother and learned that Taiyin Fairy carried the secret key to the Evening-Moon Grotto-Heaven’s core inheritance. After half a month of exploration, they reached the inner-layer gate, where the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage’s group had gathered and one cultivator was gravely injured.

• Zhang Jian used the Innate Yin-Yang Twofold Extinction Divine Light and the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State to destroy the Outer-Bound Snake Mother.
• Taiyin Fairy told Zhang Jian that the Lunar Demon Palace pursued her for the secret key, which opened the Evening-Moon Grotto-Heaven’s core inheritance.
• Taiyin Fairy revealed her moon-white immortal sword as the secret key, but Zhang Jian returned it and told her to keep it until he needed it.
• Zhang Jian took Taiyin Fairy through several areas of the middle layer for half a month, but they found little.
• Zhang Jian and Taiyin Fairy reached the inner-layer gate and found the five Primordial Spirit grand cultivators of the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage, one of whom was gravely injured.

Zhang Jian and the Primordial Spirit cultivators searched the inner layer of the Evening-Moon Grotto-Heaven, avoiding a Gluttony Demon God guarding ruined alchemy halls. A mysterious, richly built middle-aged man destroyed the Demon God and found the halls empty, while Zhang Jian sensed danger as the group neared the central Divine Mountain.

• Five Thunders True Person withdrew after reporting that a Demon God from the Heavenly Wolf Palace had cost him an arm.
• Zhang Jian, Taiyin Fairy, and the other cultivators searched the inner layer and found ruins, spiritual materials, and a Gluttony Demon God beneath Thousand-Blade Peak.
• Star-Chaser True Lord recognized the valley as the Evening Moon Sword Sect's former alchemy site and persuaded the group to go around it.
• A richly built middle-aged man arrived, subdued and destroyed the Gluttony Demon God, and found that the alchemy halls contained only pills whose medicinal potency had faded.
• As the group approached the central Divine Mountain, Zhang Jian felt a strong premonition and warned the others to be cautious.

Zhang Jian led five Primordial Spirit grand cultivators into an icy earth aperture beneath an Evening Moon Sword Sect site, where they found an immense swarm of One-Eyed Star Rats surrounding an ice palace. After the group drove off the rats, they prepared to enter the palace and search for valuable ice silkworms.

• Zhang Jian gave Taiyin Fairy and the other four cultivators Golden Lotus Concealment talismans after receiving an omen from his heart.
• Taiyin Fairy identified the site as an icy cavern where the Evening Moon Sword Sect had raised ice silkworms, and Zhang Jian agreed to investigate.
• Four Luminaries True Person used a golden beast-wax candle to drive the One-Eyed Star Rats away from the cave entrance.
• Zhang Jian sensed ancient ice silkworms deep within the underground ice palace as the group encountered the vast rat swarm.
• Spirit River True Person froze many rats with her water-aspect arts, while Four Luminaries True Person swallowed the rat kings with her jar.
• The surviving rat kings fled, and the six cultivators turned toward the ice palace to retrieve the ice silkworms.

Zhang Jian melted into an ancient ice palace and subdued a host of rare Seven-Star Ice Silkworms, sharing some with his companions. After the group gathered treasures and left the underground ice vein, they spotted a demon god from the Heavenly Wolf Palace and decided to follow it, hoping for a chance to avenge Senior Brother Five Thunder.

• Zhang Jian used the Heavenly Purifying Flame and his yin-yang arts to melt the ten-thousand-year ice and reveal a group of Seven-Star Ice Silkworms, which Siming True Person collected and shared among the group.
• Zhang Jian used spatial suppression to trap more than a dozen enormous Seven-Star Ice Silkworms, including a dragon-scaled king, then sealed them with the Landscape and State Map.
• Zhang Jian kept the remaining silkworms and gave each of his five companions one ten-thousand-year specimen, including Taiyin Fairy.
• Zhang Jian led the group to search the ice vein for spirit herbs, medicines, and mines before they stripped the ice palace and left.
• Star-Chasing True Lord and Zhang Jian spotted a demon god from the Heavenly Wolf Palace, and Zhang Jian suggested following it to seek revenge for Senior Brother Five Thunder's severed arm.

Zhang Jian and his companions pursued the Heavenly Wolf Palace demons toward Moon Pillar Mountain, then discovered a Demon Race Heavenly Immortal was nearby. After the group split over the risks of exploring underground routes, Zhang Jian and three allies continued onward, and Taiyin Fairy revealed a possible location of a powerful Evening Moon Sword Sect treasure.

• Zhang Jian sensed a terrifying presence and hid with his companions as a golden-robed Demon Race Heavenly Immortal swept past toward Moon Pillar Mountain.
• Zhang Jian warned the group about the Heavenly Immortal and offered them a choice between pressing toward the mountain’s core or exploring its outskirts.
• Taiyin Fairy described underground restriction passages beneath Moon Pillar Mountain, and Zhang Jian used his authority of the earth to investigate their condition.
• After learning that the earth veins were badly damaged, Spirit River Daoist and Four Luminaries True Person chose to remain behind while Zhang Jian, Star-Chaser True Lord, Purple Thorn True Lord, and Taiyin Fairy continued underground.
• Taiyin Fairy told Zhang Jian that an Evening Moon Sword Sect treasure that once suppressed the sect might be hidden nearby and asked whether he would pursue it.

Zhang Jian and his companions reached the ruined Taiyin Divine Fire Spring to find the Evening Moon Sword Sect’s treasure. The Taiyin Fairy awakened the Taiyin Divine Fire Wheel, but gave the second-tier immortal treasure to Zhang Jian, who then summoned more than a dozen swords from the surrounding peaks.

• The Taiyin Fairy told Zhang Jian that the Taiyin Divine Fire Wheel should still be hidden in the Taiyin Divine Fire Spring, guarded by an earth qilin.
• Zhang Jian led the group to the barren sword-filled mountain range and found the dry well and rune-bound bronze gate at the spring’s center.
• Zhang Jian recognized the gate’s script as Dragon-Phoenix Treasure Seal Script and found no trace of the divine fire or the qilin.
• The Taiyin Fairy recited the Treasure-Commanding Mantra, awakening the Taiyin Divine Fire Wheel and drawing its flames into her body.
• The Taiyin Fairy withdrew her imprint and handed Zhang Jian the second-tier immortal treasure, which he briefly refined.
• Zhang Jian waved his hand and summoned more than a dozen swords from the surrounding peaks.

Zhang Jian and his companions searched for the Evening Moon Sword Sect’s core hidden realm within Moon Pillar Mountain while the Heavenly Fox women plotted to unite demon forces against human sects. The group reached the entrance to the Evening-Moon Immortal Abode, only to find a powerful Gluttony Demon God blocking the way.

• Zhang Jian, the two True Lords, and the Taiyin Fairy collected several spirit swords and learned that the sect’s remaining treasures were likely sealed in its core hidden realm.
• The Taiyin Fairy told Zhang Jian that the core hidden realm lay inside an immortal abode deep within Moon Pillar Mountain, and he led the group there.
• Three Heavenly Fox women considered robbing human cultivators, then decided to contact other Demon Race powers and join forces.
• Zhang Jian and his companions reached Moon Pillar Mountain and quietly searched its dangerous slopes for the route to the immortal abode.
• The group found a Gluttony Demon God blocking the cave entrance, and Zhang Jian formed a Nine-Colored Dao Diagram in his palm.

Zhang Jian and his companions fought their way through the immortal estate, where Purple Thorn True Lord subdued a rare Heaven-Piercing Wood Spirit Vine and gained power approaching that of a True Immortal. At the estate’s central hall, they opened the hidden treasury, but its guardian’s warning that Qingxia Fairy was their enemy triggered a terrifying force that immobilized them.

• Zhang Jian sealed the void and crushed the Gluttony Demon God, then led the others into the immortal estate.
• In the Wood-Spirit Secret Realm, Zhang Jian froze a Heaven-Piercing Wood Spirit Vine after it poisoned Star-Chaser True Lord and Taiyin Fairy.
• Purple Thorn True Lord refined the vine’s inner core and took the Heaven-Piercing Wood Spirit Vine as his own, gaining strength that let him wield part of the immortal Dao laws.
• Zhang Jian and the others reached the central divine hall, where Taiyin Fairy used the Evening Moon Sword Sect’s secret seal to lower the guardian generals’ weapons and opened the doors with the Evening Moon Immortal Sword.
• A female cultivator who emerged from the doors told Taiyin Fairy that Qingxia Fairy was the sect’s ancient immortal enemy, but a thunderous force destroyed the Primordial Spirit in the void and left everyone unable to move.

Zhang Jian defeated the Demon Race Celestial Immortal Jinhuang in the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State, though Jinhuang escaped. Taiyin Fairy took control of the Evening Moon Divine Hall and revealed that much of the Evening Moon Sword Sect’s inheritance remained inside.

• After the Qingxia Fairy’s power swept away the lightning, Zhang Jian entered the hall and found a control token, which he gave to Taiyin Fairy to refine.
• When Zhang Jian sensed Jinhuang approaching, he concealed the true immortal estate with the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State and confronted him using the Taiyin Divine-Fire Treasure Wheel.
• Zhang Jian suppressed Jinhuang with Emperor authority and attacked with a divine Dao golden mountain, but Jinhuang used his God of Wealth authority to break through the spatial seal and escape.
• Jinhuang fled outside Moon Pillar Mountain and decided to recover his losses from the demons in the surrounding area.
• After three hours, Taiyin Fairy finished refining the control token and told Zhang Jian that the hall still held treasures, the Evening Moon Treasured Codex, and the third-rank Taiyin Ice-Soul Bow.
• Zhang Jian let Star-Chaser True Lord and Purple Thorn True Lord search the immortal palace while keeping the treasury’s treasures for himself.

Zhang Jian and his companions left Moon Pillar Mountain with the Evening Moon Sword Sect’s treasures and inheritance, then were ambushed by demon gods. Zhang Jian captured the fleeing demons and swept the rest into the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State as the group prepared to return to the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage.

• Zhang Jian claimed the Taiyin Ice-Soul Bow and studied the Evening Moon Treasured Codex, finding the Instant Primordial-Freezing Grand Method among its inheritances.
• Zhang Jian, Taiyin Fairy, Purple Thorn True Lord, and Star-Chaser True Lord left Moon Pillar Mountain with their treasures.
• Demon gods ambushed the group, and Purple Thorn True Lord captured the Azure Wing Demon God before attacking the Heavenly Wolf Palace demons.
• Star-Chaser True Lord and Taiyin Fairy engaged demons from the Myriad Beasts Palace while Purple Thorn True Lord killed the Nine Nether Black Wolf and trapped the Two-Headed Moon Wolf.
• Three Heavenly Fox Palace demons fled, but Zhang Jian caught them in the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State.
• Zhang Jian swept the fighting demon gods into the diagram and said the group could return to the sect.

Zhang Jian returned from the Evening-Moon Grotto-Heaven, arranged for the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage to refine Taiyin Golden Pills, and strengthened his Primordial Spirit before preparing to break through to Harmonizing with Dao. As Zhang Jian entered secluded cultivation, an elderly Daoist arrived near West Mountain Temple and decided to speak with the Great Xia Emperor.

• Zhang Jian handed Demon-Slaying True Lord a map of the Evening-Moon Grotto-Heaven, offered the twelve captured demon gods to the sect, and entrusted twenty Taiyin Star Souls to her for pill refinement.
• Zhang Jian returned to Haojing City, planned an independent grotto-heaven for the Zhang clan, and agreed with Bai Liying to seek opportunities overseas at the Azure Duckweed Sea Dragon Palace's Sea King's Festival in five years.
• Three months later, Zhang Jian collected thirty-one Taiyin Golden Pills after commissions and gifts, then distributed pills to family members, the Four Symbols divine beasts, and Taiyin Fairy.
• After consuming Taiyin Golden Pills, Zhang Jian's State-Society Emperor Primordial Spirit grew to nine zhang, and he entered secluded cultivation to pursue Harmonizing with Dao.
• An elderly Daoist arrived at West Mountain Temple, saw Grotto God Abbey's new main abbey, and prepared to enter the imperial city to speak with the Great Xia Emperor.

Taiyin Fairy welcomed the Divine Cave Cult Patriarch to the imperial city, where he reunited with Daoist Jingming and learned how Grotto God Abbey had joined Great Xia. After Zhang Jian reached the Dao-merging realm, he persuaded the Patriarch to serve Great Xia and appointed him Grand Tutor to the Crown Prince; the Patriarch then offered a treasure to strengthen Zhang Jian’s imperial fortune.

• Taiyin Fairy welcomed the Divine Cave Cult Patriarch and escorted him into the imperial city while Zhang Jian remained in secluded cultivation.
• Daoist Jingming reunited with the Divine Cave Cult Patriarch, described how the Emperor’s Dao poem had helped him achieve the Primordial Spirit, and explained that he had led Grotto God Abbey into Great Xia.
• Zhang Jian emerged from cultivation having returned to the void and merged with the State-Society Great Dao, then joined Daoist Jingming and the Patriarch in West Garden.
• Zhang Jian invited the Divine Cave Cult Patriarch to remain in Great Xia and help govern, and Daoist Jingming urged his master to accept.
• The Divine Cave Cult Patriarch agreed, and Zhang Jian appointed him Supreme True Master and Grand Tutor to the Crown Prince, suppressing some of the Patriarch’s backlash of fate with Great Xia’s fortune.
• The Divine Cave Cult Patriarch thanked Zhang Jian and offered him a treasure that might strengthen his imperial fortune.

Zhang Jian received the Nine Emperors Seal from the Divine Cave Cult Patriarch, rewarded Grotto God Abbey, and absorbed the seal’s imperial fortune to strengthen his power. His autumn sacrifice brought Azure Glow Dao Lord a Wutu Earth-Calming Cauldron and Zhang Jian an Innate Taiyin Law Seed, leaving him to consider how the rare treasure could benefit his cultivation.

• The Divine Cave Cult Patriarch presented Zhang Jian with the Nine Emperors Seal, and Zhang Jian rewarded Grotto God Abbey with a higher rank, two immortal cities, spirit fields, a market, and two Taiyin Golden Pills for the Patriarch.
• Zhang Jian absorbed the Nine Emperors Seal’s imperial fortune, increasing his strength and cultivating seven Scarlet Vein Fire Dragons.
• Zhang Jian held an autumn sacrifice at the Imperial Ancestral Temple, burning gold, silver, and a treasure cauldron as offerings.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord received eleven million units of flawless incense power and a Wutu Earth-Calming Cauldron through the Two Realms Pool.
• Zhang Jian received an Innate Taiyin Law Seed from the ancestral sacrifice and realized that its Taiyin path did not match his State-Society Emperor cultivation.

Zhang Jian refined the Innate Taiyin Law Dao Seed beneath the Taiyin Treasure Tree, gaining control of Taiyin laws and strengthening his Primordial Spirit and immortal arts. After three years of cultivation and preparations to travel to Azure Duckweed Sea, he received a message from his sect master assigning him an unexpected task.

• Zhang Jian refined the Innate Taiyin Law Dao Seed with the Taiyin Body-Refining Grand Method, triggering a moon omen that drew attention across Haojing City and alarmed Taiyin Fairy and Divine Cave Cult Patriarch.
• Zhang Jian discovered that the Dao Seed had transformed his Primordial Spirit and Taiyin Body-Refining Method, granting him substantial Taiyin authority and a powerful new means of cultivation and defense.
• After three years beneath the Taiyin Treasure Tree, Zhang Jian condensed a trace of immortal Dao law and advanced several Taiyin immortal arts.
• Zhang Jian arranged for Divine Cave Cult Patriarch, Taiyin Fairy, and others to safeguard Great Xia while he prepared to travel to Azure Duckweed Sea for the Sea King's Festival.
• At the docks, Zhang Jian received a message from the sect master and told Bai Liying that his senior brother had found him something to do.

Zhang Jian and Bai Liying traveled to Mushan Prefecture to investigate an otherworldly devil gate and arrived at New Pass City, where the Phoenix Sect was coercing families into surrendering young people for a deadly assessment. They tracked the captives to Guangyuan Mountain, where Zhang Jian sensed the valley’s occupants were connected to an otherworldly devil god.

• Zhang Jian and Bai Liying traveled with the Canal Dragon Lord to the Two Realms River Dragon Palace, where the Silvervault Dragon King welcomed them.
• Zhang Jian explained to Bai Liying why wild dragons such as the Silvervault Dragon King sought ties with orthodox dragon clans, then continued with her to New Pass City in Mushan Prefecture.
• Chen Tong agreed to hand over Chen Xian and Chen Ziyan to the Phoenix Sect rather than risk the rest of the Chen family.
• Two Phoenix Sect cultivators collected Chen Xian, Chen Ziyan, and other youths, then took them to Guangyuan Mountain for a sect-entry assessment in a foggy valley.
• Zhang Jian and Bai Liying followed the youths into the Phoenix Sect grounds, where Zhang Jian sensed that the valley’s occupants were connected to an otherworldly devil god.

Zhang Jian and Bai Liying purified the Guangyuan Mountain Region and uncovered a demonic plot involving the Demon-Sky Stone and a hidden Primordial Spirit incarnation. Zhang Jian pursued Daoist Xianyun and fought the second-rank deity known as the Pure Void Celestial Venerable, but a vast destructive lightning attack suddenly struck him in the void.

• Zhang Jian halted the slaughter in the trial valley while Bai Liying tried to awaken the disciples, and Zhang Jian explained that extraterrestrial demonic qi had corrupted them.
• Zhang Jian used the Azure Lotus Soul-Cleansing Spell to purify the disciples and followed the escaping purple mist to an ancient temple, where he exposed and destroyed the demonic incarnation concealed among the Buddhist statues.
• Zhang Jian seized and sealed the Demon-Sky Stone, identified it as the source of the corruption, and purified demonic thoughts throughout the Guangyuan Mountain Region.
• Daoist Xianyun learned that his incarnation had been exposed and fled with the Pure Void Celestial Venerable, who tore through the void to escape.
• Zhang Jian caught up with the Pure Void Celestial Venerable and forced the second-rank deity to retreat with his Taiyin techniques and second-tier treasure.
• As Zhang Jian pursued the fleeing deity and prepared to use the Taiyin Ice-Soul Bow, destructive blood-red lightning erupted across the void, and he activated Taiyin Sacred Lotus to defend himself.

Zhang Jian pursued the fleeing Pure Void Celestial Venerable, destroyed a Yin-Demon Gate, and traveled with Bai Liying to the Azure Duckweed Sea, establishing hidden spiritual sites for the Zhang clan along the way. They entered the Azure Duckweed Sea Dragon Palace for the Sea King's Festival, where Zhang Jian reunited with familiar cultivators and noticed hostile gazes among the gathered guests.

• Zhang Jian used the Taiyin Ice-Soul Bow to strike Daoist Yunxian, whom Pure Void Celestial Venerable had thrown in the arrow’s path, killing him while Pure Void Celestial Venerable escaped.
• Zhang Jian destroyed a Yin-Demon Gate outside New Pass City and continued toward the Azure Duckweed Sea with Bai Liying.
• Zhang Jian and Bai Liying established a concealed formation in the Qingli Mountain Range, then claimed two more islands as potential spiritual sites for the Zhang clan.
• Zhang Jian and Bai Liying arrived at Myriad-Prefectures Island, where Xuan Zhang welcomed them and sent them through a spatial formation to the Azure Duckweed Sea Dragon Palace.
• Xuan Chou and Xuan He greeted Zhang Jian and Bai Liying, and Xuan Chou led them to the banquet hosted by the Azure Duckweed Dragon Lord.
• Zhang Jian spotted Boundless True Lord and Azure Cloud True Lord in the hall and noticed several guests watching him with hostility.

At the Azure Duckweed Sea Dragon Palace, Zhang Jian supported Bai Liying as she dominated the Golden Core combat arena and searched Sea King Market for earth-element immortal arts. The chapter ended with Fourth Prince Xuan Li and Bai Shuang returning to the Dragon Palace, while Zhang Jian and Bai Liying learned of their arrival.

• Boundless True Lord identified several hostile guests and told Zhang Jian that the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage's return to power had drawn their resentment.
• The Azure Duckweed Sea Dragon Palace opened six arenas ahead of the Sea King's Festival, and Zhang Jian encouraged Bai Liying to enter the Golden Core combat arena.
• Zhang Jian investigated Fourth Prince Xuan Li and learned that he had been demoted to a Water Earl, while Xuan Li's procession revealed his plans to win the festival with help from a red-robed woman and his mistreatment of Bai Shuang.
• Bai Liying defeated a Yun Family cultivator with her imperial authority and techniques, securing her fourth consecutive arena championship and a three-thousand-year Purple-Leaf Dragonblood Grass.
• Zhang Jian learned that earth-element immortal arts might be sold at Sea King Market, and he and Bai Liying received word that Xuan Li and Bai Shuang had returned to the Dragon Palace.

Zhang Jian and Bai Liying discovered that Xuan Li and Huo Nu'er were abusing Bai Shuang and plotting to kill her after the Sea King's Festival. They secretly reached Bai Shuang in the Li Dragon Palace and offered to take her away.

• Xuan Li and Huo Nu'er decided to conceal their mistreatment of Bai Shuang from Zhang Jian and Bai Liying during the visit.
• Bai Liying learned that Bai Shuang had not received news of their father's transformation into a Dark Abyss True Dragon, while Zhang Jian noticed Xuan Li's suspicious attention toward her.
• After Zhang Jian and Bai Liying left, Xuan Li struck Bai Shuang and threatened her, and Huo Nu'er planned to kill her after the Sea King's Festival.
• Zhang Jian used the Eastern Emperor Treasure Mirror to witness Xuan Li and Huo Nu'er's abuse, and Bai Liying asked him to save her eldest sister.
• Zhang Jian and Bai Liying used the Golden Lotus Concealment Technique to enter the Li Dragon Palace and told Bai Shuang they would take her away.