Chapter Summaries

After Ao Yi’s wedding, Li Changshou managed the Jade Emperor’s hidden identity and continued working to bring the Dragon Clan into the Heavenly Court. Six days later, he met Zhao Gongming and True Person Huang Long to discuss the Sea Eyes and the plan’s progress, until Zhao Gongming detected and killed a spying blood mosquito.

• Li Changshou helped the Old Dragon King honor the Jade Emperor without exposing his identity, and the Jade Emperor privately asked Li Changshou to return to the Heavenly Court with Matchmaker.
• The Jade Emperor’s Incarnation asked about Li Changshou’s Dao companion, prompting Matchmaker to scold him for suggesting the Red String could be used casually.
• Ao Yi and Sir Jiang celebrated their wedding while Li Changshou hid his Paper Daoist Army and considered how to keep the Western Teachings suppressing the Dragon Clan.
• Six days after the wedding, Li Changshou met Zhao Gongming and True Person Huang Long, confirmed the Sea Eyes were guarded, and reported that the Dragon Clan’s ascent to the Heavenly Court was about thirty percent complete.
• Zhao Gongming sensed a blood mosquito spying above the Sea God Temple and killed it with a flick of azure light.

Li Changshou learned that the Western Teachings still planned to subdue the Dragon Clan and might target Zhao Gongming, then returned his attention to the wedding and Lesser Qiong Peak. Jiang Lin'er asked him for help advancing her relationship with Venerable Wangqing, and he gave her Love Water while warning her to tell him before using it.

• Daoist Wen Jing reported that a Western Teachings disciple wanted to scheme against Zhao Gongming and that the Western Teachings would continue pressuring the Dragon Clan, focusing on the West Sea Dragon Palace.
• Li Changshou judged that Zhao Gongming could defend himself and returned his attention to the wedding banquet at the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace.
• Li Changshou left his incarnation with Matchmaker and accompanied Ling'e to see Jiang Lin'er.
• Jiang Lin'er confessed that she wanted further developments with Venerable Wangqing and asked Li Changshou for Ambition Pills.
• Li Changshou gave Jiang Lin'er a bottle of Love Water and advised her to inform Venerable Wangqing before using it.

Li Changshou secretly gave Jiang Lin'er fake love medicine, hoping she would confess her feelings to Venerable Wangqing without forcing him. After the attempt left Venerable Wangqing searching in vain for the medicine’s effects, Li Changshou made an illustrated guide for him and unexpectedly received Heavenly Dao Merit.

• Li Changshou explained to Ling'e that the medicine he had given Jiang Lin'er was fake and that the couple had to choose their next step themselves.
• Jiang Lin'er confessed that she had put Love Water in Venerable Wangqing’s wine, and he drank it willingly before they waited together for its effects.
• Venerable Wangqing felt nothing and left Lesser Qiong Peak confused, while Jiang Lin'er asked Li Changshou what she should do next.
• Li Changshou asked the Matchmaker for advice, then began preparing an illustrated guide for Venerable Wangqing.
• Li Changshou finished the guide, titled it “Treasure Record for Newlyweds,” and received a wisp of Heavenly Dao Merit before adding a warning to burn it after reading.

Li Changshou enlisted Jiu Wu to help Venerable Wangqing learn about romance, but Wangqing soon entered seclusion, leaving Li Changshou baffled. As Li Changshou departed the Dragon Palace, he detected Sea Clan rebels pursuing his Paper Daoist and prepared to respond.

• Li Changshou gave Jiu Wu a newlywed treasure record for Venerable Wangqing, and Jiu Wu delivered it along with Springtime Pictures to his master.
• After Venerable Wangqing failed to visit Jiang Lin'er, Jiu Yiyi told her that Wangqing had gained insight and entered seclusion.
• Li Changshou and Matchmaker left the Dragon Palace banquet, and Li Changshou told Matchmaker not to expose Bian Zhuang's situation.
• Li Changshou declined the Dragon King's invitation to stay and departed from the Crystal Palace as a Paper Daoist.
• While traveling through the sea, Li Changshou sensed more than ten Sea Clan rebels following him and mobilized his hidden Paper Daoist Army.

Li Changshou lured the Sea Clan rebels into an ambush, poisoned them, and disposed of their bodies while pretending to be the Sea Cucumber Daoist. Meanwhile, Bian Zhuang left the Dragon Palace with the Tianya Pavilion party and spotted Ke Le’er’s elderly companion near Tianya City.

• Li Changshou led more than three hundred Sea Clan cultivators to a deserted island, where his Paper Daoists prepared poison and an ambush.
• When the rebels surrounded him, Li Changshou claimed they had mistaken him for the South Sea Sea God and called himself the Sea Cucumber Daoist.
• Li Changshou triggered the poison, rendering the Sea Clan unconscious, then killed them, burned their bodies, and collected their remnant souls.
• Bian Zhuang agreed to leave the Dragon Palace after learning Ke Le’er had been confined for a thousand years and could not be found.
• Bian Zhuang and the Tianya Pavilion party reached the vicinity of Tianya City, where he mistook an approaching elderly woman for Ke Le’er before recognizing her as Ke Le’er’s grandmother.

Li Changshou used a Paper Daoist to confront Bian Zhuang and make him face how his pursuit had troubled Ke Le'er. Bian Zhuang briefly resolved to make something of himself, but soon fell for another woman, while Li Changshou considered Heavenly Court expansion and went to ask Elder Wan Linjun about Venerable Wangqing.

• Li Changshou told Bian Zhuang that Ke Le'er disliked his unwanted attention and urged him to put himself in her place and abandon his pursuit.
• Bian Zhuang left Tianya City intending to travel the Five Continents and build a reputation through his own efforts, but he immediately became infatuated with a passing female immortal.
• Matchmaker saw Bian Zhuang's marriage thread attach to a Golden Immortal woman from Jade Lake and called him the Immortal of Many Affections.
• Li Changshou considered developing the Three Thousand Worlds for the Heavenly Court but decided not to propose the plan to the Jade Emperor, whom he also resolved to guard against.
• Li Changshou headed to Pill Cauldron Peak to ask Elder Wan Linjun to check whether Venerable Wangqing was truly in secluded cultivation.

Li Changshou enlisted Elder Wan Linjun to help Venerable Wangqing overcome his worries about being worthy of Jiang Lin'er, but a misunderstanding about the Treasure Record for Newlyweds sent Wangqing back to studying it alone. The chapter ended with Wangqing heading toward Lesser Qiong Peak at dusk, looking dejected.

• Elder Wan Linjun visited Wangqing Residence at Li Changshou’s request and learned that Venerable Wangqing was troubled despite having Jiang Lin'er as his Dao companion.
• Wan Linjun gave Wangqing an enhanced Ambition Pill and asked about his troubles, prompting Wangqing to reveal that he thought he did not deserve a Dao companion.
• Wangqing showed Wan Linjun the Treasure Record for Newlyweds and explained that he had mistaken it for a cultivation technique he needed to master before approaching Jiang Lin'er.
• Wan Linjun identified the record as a dual-cultivation technique and encouraged Wangqing to study it with Jiang Lin'er, then left the pill and departed.
• Jiu Wu told Li Changshou that he had presented the record to Wangqing as a profound technique gifted by the sect elders.
• Half a day later, Venerable Wangqing rode toward Lesser Qiong Peak looking dejected.

Li Changshou arranged a hot pot feast while Jiang Lin'er and Venerable Wangqing secluded themselves together, then learned that the Western Teachings had spread rumors accusing him of provoking conflict between the Western Teachings and the Jie Teaching. Six Jie Teaching immortals arrived at the Sea God Temple, and Li Changshou prepared to meet them with a plan.

• Li Changshou arranged a hot pot celebration as Jiang Lin'er and Venerable Wangqing entered her cottage, while Qi Yuan, Ling'e, and the others gathered outside.
• Jiu Jiu used a Sound-Transmitting Conch to eavesdrop on Jiang Lin'er and Venerable Wangqing, but Jiu Yiyi caught the group and crushed the conch.
• During the feast, Ao Yi told Li Changshou that rumors on Golden Ao Island accused him of manipulating Zhao Gongming to provoke conflict between the Western Teachings and the Jie Teaching.
• Li Changshou reassured Ao Yi and said he would meet any Jie Teaching immortals who came to Anshui City.
• Six Jie Teaching immortals led by a Golden Immortal female immortal arrived at the Sea God Temple, and Li Changshou activated a Paper Daoist to receive them.

Li Changshou met six Jie Teaching immortals who accused him of scheming against Zhao Gongming, then used his Human Teaching credentials and a carefully framed account to convince them he had acted to help Zhao. After they left, a familiar voice appeared behind him, startling his true body in the secret chamber beneath Lesser Qiong Peak.

• Li Changshou prepared the Sea God Temple to receive six Jie Teaching immortals and met them in the air above Anshui City.
• Golden Light Holy Mother accused Li Changshou of plotting against Zhao Gongming, but he identified himself as a Human Teaching disciple and brought the group into the temple.
• Li Changshou showed the visitors a painting bearing their Saint's Dao imprint, introduced himself as Chang Geng, and learned that the leader was Golden Light Holy Mother.
• After the six immortals swore they were Jie Teaching members, Li Changshou recounted how he had tried to help Zhao Gongming and persuade Fairy Yunxiao.
• Golden Light Holy Mother apologized and offered Li Changshou gifts before the six immortals departed, believing they had wrongly blamed him.
• A familiar gentle voice spoke behind Li Changshou, and his true body in Lesser Qiong Peak's secret chamber nearly lost control from shock.

Yunxiao visited Li Changshou to ask him to help advise Zhao Gongming, whose growing recklessness worried her, but he declined to interfere until Zhao suffered a setback. Meanwhile, the Western Teachings captured a former West Sea Dragon Palace commander and tasked Daoist Wen Jing with secretly locating the South Sea Sea God's true body.

• Yunxiao asked Li Changshou whether Zhao Gongming had deliberately involved himself in the Dragon Clan affair, and Li Changshou explained how events had unfolded by chance.
• Yunxiao confided that Zhao Gongming and her younger sisters worried her, and Li Changshou advised her to wait until Zhao encountered a setback before trying to change his mind.
• Li Changshou decided he might help Zhao Gongming avoid his future calamity if doing so would not harm him, then noticed Venerable Wangqing had grown closer to Jiang Lin'er.
• The hunchbacked old Daoist, Daoist Wen Jing, and Jin Chan subdued a three-headed flood dragon to use against the West Sea Dragon Palace.
• The hunchbacked old Daoist gave Daoist Wen Jing a Soul Chasing Spirit Locking Butterfly and ordered her to find the South Sea Sea God's true body within three years without exposing herself.

Li Changshou sensed someone probing for his true body and cautiously evaded a series of attempts to draw him out. Daoist Wen Jing ultimately used a blood butterfly to track him, only to find eighteen decoy paper effigies before receiving his voice transmission.

• Li Changshou investigated repeated warnings and ruled that Ao Yi’s reports made him less likely to be the source of the threat.
• Daoist Wen Jing hesitated over whether to use a blood cocoon’s butterfly to locate Li Changshou’s true body, then released it despite her doubts.
• Li Changshou stayed near the Du Xian Sect’s Saint portrait as an enemy repeatedly provoked Sea God Temples and tried to lure out his incarnation.
• A blue butterfly tracked Li Changshou’s Nascent Soul Power to a paper effigy, and the burly man followed it to eighteen Sea God Temples, where each decoy self-destructed.
• Daoist Wen Jing grew furious at Li Changshou’s many decoys, then heard him ask through the Blood Mosquito Puppet, “Have you had enough fun, Wen?”

Li Changshou exposed Daoist Wen Jing’s attempt to locate his true body and summoned her to Anshui City. After confirming she had not betrayed the Human Teaching, he persuaded her to turn her ambition toward serving the Human Teaching and Heavenly Court, leaving her ready to handle the Western Teachings’ order involving the Soul Chasing Spirit Locking Butterfly.

• Li Changshou bluffed the Blood Mosquito Puppet into revealing that Daoist Wen Jing was behind it, then instructed her to come to Anshui City.
• Daoist Wen Jing met Li Changshou’s Paper Daoist and admitted that she had tried to find his true body after the Western Teachings ordered her to track and kill him.
• Li Changshou had Daoist Wen Jing make a Great Dao Oath to prove she had not betrayed him.
• Li Changshou spoke to Daoist Wen Jing about self-worth, fulfilling desires, and pursuing a purpose beyond survival.
• Daoist Wen Jing vowed to become useful to the Human Teaching and Heavenly Court, then left to handle the Soul Chasing Spirit Locking Butterfly as Li Changshou had instructed.

Li Changshou watched Du Xian Sect disciples face heavenly tribulations, using the spectacle to push Ling'e toward more serious cultivation, before planning his own staged tribulation and considering how to answer the Western Teachings. After the Dragon Palace delivered gifts to the South Sea Sea God Temple, True Person Huang Long arrived looking troubled.

• Li Changshou watched Liu Sizhe pass his Immortal Ascension Tribulation and encouraged Ling'e to take cultivation more seriously.
• Five of the next five disciples passed their tribulations, including Wang Qi and Liu Yan'er, but a Sky-Breaking Peak disciple died during his attempt.
• Li Changshou planned to have a Paper Daoist leave the sect and return appearing to have reached the Primordial Immortal Realm, while considering how to respond to the Western Teachings.
• The Dragon Palace sent six hundred chests of gifts to the South Sea Sea God Temple, and Li Changshou advised Dong Mugong to decide whether the Heavenly Court needed its share.
• True Person Huang Long arrived at the Sea God Temple, appearing sorrowful and burdened by a difficult matter.

Li Changshou convinced True Person Huang Long that the Western Teachings would exploit the Dragon Clan, then enlisted him to help the Dragon Clan and promote the South Sea Sea God’s reputation. The chapter ended with Huang Long directing Chan Teaching disciples to spread a poem praising Li Changshou’s Sea God identity.

• True Person Huang Long asked Li Changshou whether the Western Teachings meant to exploit the Dragon Clan or accept it as a protected member.
• Li Changshou argued that the West had provoked bloodshed after the Dragon Clan refused recruitment and would burden the clan with karma if it joined.
• Huang Long revealed that Vice Sect Master Randeng had praised the Western Teachings, then asked Li Changshou how to help the Dragon Clan.
• Li Changshou asked Huang Long to help with a small matter, and Huang Long gathered Chan Teaching disciples at Jade Void Palace several days later.
• Huang Long gave the disciples a poem praising the South Sea Sea God and instructed them to spread it around Kunlun Mountain.

Li Changshou spent several years preparing for threats, navigating the Dragon Clan’s divisions, and teaching Ling'e and Xiong Lingli before ending his work as the sect’s matchmaker. Just as he settled down to cultivate and refine pills, Dong Mugong arrived with a merit-made Lover’s Tree from the Heavenly Court, leaving Li Changshou stunned.

• Li Changshou fortified his Sea God Cult arrangements and spent two and a half years keeping a low profile as the Dragon Clan’s internal divisions grew.
• Li Changshou advised Ao Yi to stay neutral while building connections among Dragon Clan figures and arranged for Heavenly Court generals to strengthen ties with the Dragon Palace.
• Li Changshou taught Ling'e and Xiong Lingli about cultivation, then used Xiong Lingli’s question about spirit-beast flavor to explain how the Dao could be found in everyday things.
• Jiu Wu asked Li Changshou for Ambition Pills, and Li Changshou gave him the final batch while declaring he would stop making them before his tribulation.
• Dong Mugong brought Li Changshou a miniature merit-filled Lover’s Tree, explaining that the Heavenly Court had cultivated it for him at the Jade Emperor’s request.

Li Changshou received the Lover's Tree as a merit treasure, stored it in the Sea God Cult's underground defenses, and continued preparing for the Western Teachings' next move against the Dragon Clan. After a new Sea Clan rebellion and reports of West Sea infiltration, he began mobilizing the Heavenly Court, but urgent news from the Netherworld interrupted his plans.

• Li Changshou placed the Lover's Tree in his hidden Paper Daoist Repository beneath Anshui City and considered cultivating it with incense merit.
• Li Changshou reflected on his approaching Golden Immortal Tribulation and resolved to remain cautious while his cultivation entered a brief peaceful period.
• The Sea Clan Rebel Army attacked the North Sea Dragon Palace, while Daoist Wen Jing reported that the Western Teachings had infiltrated much of the West Sea Dragon Palace.
• Li Changshou alerted Your Majesty Jade Emperor, who secretly assembled one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers; Li Changshou supplied them with Immortal Bean cultivation methods and equipment.
• Ling'e told Li Changshou that Grandmaster urgently wanted him because Martial Aunt Wan Jiangyu's reincarnation had encountered a problem in the Netherworld, and that Sect Master Ji Wuyou was already at Wangqing Residence.

Li Changshou learned that Wan Jiangyu’s reincarnated tree-spirit body had vanished, and Jiang Lin’er feared she had died. He prepared a Paper Daoist and joined Jiang Lin’er and Sect Master Ji Wuyou on a trip to the Netherworld to investigate.

• Li Changshou recalled how Jiang Lin’er had searched the Netherworld and found Wan Jiangyu’s reincarnated body, a tree spirit with some lifespan remaining.
• Jiang Lin’er’s friends reported that Wan Jiangyu’s true spirit could no longer be found, and the group considered whether she had been killed or suffered a calamity.
• At Wangqing Residence, Jiang Lin’er told Li Changshou and the others that Wan Jiangyu’s current body had vanished without a trace.
• Li Changshou proposed going to the Netherworld with Jiang Lin’er, and Ji Wuyou decided to accompany them as well.
• Li Changshou returned to Lesser Qiong Peak, prepared a Paper Daoist for the journey, and told Ling'e to stay behind and keep the trip secret.

Ji Wuyou led Li Changshou, Youqin Xuanya, Jiang Lin'er, and Venerable Wangqing through the Netherworld Path to Netherworld East, while Youqin Xuanya awkwardly invited Li Changshou to travel with her. At the Eastern Heavenly Gate, Bian Zhuang tried to join the Heavenly Court for the sake of pursuing a fairy, but the soldiers rejected him.

• Ji Wuyou explained the Underworld Officialdom as the group traveled east, while Li Changshou wondered why Youqin Xuanya had joined them.
• Youqin Xuanya told Li Changshou about her cultivation progress and invited him to travel with her someday, then hurriedly clarified that she had no improper intentions.
• The group crossed the Eastern Sea, descended through the whirlpool beneath the Heavenly Pillar, and followed the Netherworld Path to Netherworld East.
• Jiang Lin'er worried about Wan Jiangyu and noticed Youqin Xuanya's interest in Li Changshou.
• Bian Zhuang arrived at the Eastern Heavenly Gate and declared that pursuing a fairy was his dream and that he wanted to join the Heavenly Court.
• The Heavenly Soldiers and Generals shouted for Bian Zhuang to get lost.

Li Changshou and the Du Xian Sect group traveled through the Netherworld toward Fengdu City to find Wan Jiangyu’s reincarnated body. A dispute with the Underworld Emissaries nearly turned into a fight before a powerful Marshal appeared wearing an ox head.

• Ji Wuyou led Li Changshou, Venerable Wangqing, Jiang Lin'er, and Youqin Xuanya through the Netherworld toward Fengdu City.
• Li Changshou observed the disorderly Netherworld and its Underworld Emissaries, while Ji Wuyou explained the region’s cities and inhabitants.
• At the guarded passage between two mountains, the Emissary General refused to let the group pass and rejected Jiang Lin'er's attempted payment.
• Venerable Wangqing and Youqin Xuanya prepared to fight, but Ji Wuyou stepped forward and revealed his Golden Immortal pressure.
• The Emissary General summoned a powerful Marshal, who jumped back to the mountain to fetch his forgotten ox-head hood, then returned wearing it and mooed.

Li Changshou used a Witch Blood Stone and the South Sea Sea God's connections to win Ox-Head's favor and secure passage into Fengdu City. There, the group learned that Wan Jiangyu's true spirit was missing, and Li Changshou persuaded a Netherworld official to show them where it had been reincarnated.

• Ox-Head arrived at the checkpoint and ordered Ji Wuyou's group to turn back, but Li Changshou stepped forward to negotiate.
• Li Changshou showed Ox-Head a Witch Blood Stone and spoke of the South Sea Sea God, earning a token and a clear path into Fengdu City.
• Ox-Head punished the Emissary General for abusing his authority, while Li Changshou told the others that his cousin Xiong Lingli had given him the stone.
• In Fengdu City, a Netherworld official could not find Wan Jiangyu's reincarnated tree spirit, even after consulting his superior.
• Li Changshou offered the official Treasure Pouches and persuaded him to reveal where Wan Jiangyu's true spirit had been reincarnated.