Chapter Summaries

After escorting Wan Jiangyu into reincarnation, Li Changshou visited the Mortal World and completed the insight he needed before his Golden Immortal tribulation. Jiu Jiu gained insight from his Dao charm and began approaching a Celestial Immortal breakthrough, so Li Changshou took her to an island to cultivate while he checked his tribulation preparations.

• Li Changshou and Jiu Jiu left the Netherworld after giving Ox-Head and Horse-Face spirit fish and spirit beasts, which the two feasted on with great enthusiasm.
• Li Changshou and Jiu Jiu traveled to a Southern Continent city to visit the family into which Wan Jiangyu would be reincarnated, then explored the Mortal World.
• Li Changshou gained the insight that his Dao heart was complete when he accepted the connection between living beings, human nature, and the Mortal World.
• Jiu Jiu contemplated Li Changshou's Dao charm and began advancing toward the Celestial Immortal Realm.
• Li Changshou moved Jiu Jiu to an island in the Eastern Sea to break through safely while he checked the supplies prepared for his own tribulation.

Li Changshou prepared to pass the Golden Immortal Tribulation and left Du Xian Sect after making arrangements for Ling'e and the sect. Grand Master Xuandu, delayed on his way to meet him, recruited Yunxiao and her Primordial Golden Dou to help protect him, and she agreed once she learned he was the one passing tribulation.

• Ling'e worried about Li Changshou and Jiu Jiu, then received Li Changshou’s instructions and two boxes of preparations for her future tribulation.
• Li Changshou entrusted Lesser Qiong Peak’s spirit beasts and cultivation grounds to Xiong Lingli, settled his affairs at the sect, and secretly departed for his chosen tribulation site.
• Li Changshou set up defenses, Paper Daoist immortal-power reserves, and backup tribulation grounds, then waited for Grand Master Xuandu to arrive.
• Grand Master Xuandu visited Yunxiao on Three Immortal Island and asked her to bring the Primordial Golden Dou to help a disciple pass tribulation.
• Yunxiao initially hesitated to interfere, but agreed to accompany Grand Master Xuandu after he revealed that Li Changshou was the one passing tribulation.

Grand Master Xuandu brought Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao to watch Li Changshou prepare for his Golden Immortal tribulation. After Li Changshou revealed an astonishingly perfect Dao foundation, a tremendous tribulation descended, leaving everyone to wonder whether he could survive it.

• Grand Master Xuandu arrived at Li Changshou’s tribulation site with the Three Xiao Sisters and found Li Changshou striking his own forehead with a golden sword to sever his Dao realm.
• Li Changshou’s sword shattered against his unharmed forehead, while three flawless twelve-petaled azure lotuses appeared and astonished Grand Master Xuandu and Yunxiao.
• Grand Master Xuandu explained that Yunxiao had brought her Primordial Golden Dou to help Li Changshou, then urged him to reveal one of his three flowers.
• Li Changshou studied the Du Xian Sect’s Wu Wei Scripture and entered Dao comprehension, while Grand Master Xuandu and Yunxiao worried that his supreme Dao foundation would draw an extraordinary tribulation.
• A phantom resembling the Dao Ancestor appeared and asked whether Li Changshou would cross; Li Changshou agreed, and a vast, terrifying tribulation cloud covered the sky.
• A family of black panthers nearby sensed the Heavenly Might and feared that the creature undergoing the tribulation would die.

Li Changshou began his Golden Immortal tribulation, which took the form of the legendary second-ranked Myriad Spirits Tribulation. He endured its escalating assaults with his hidden techniques and prepared defenses, but the sixth bolt brought down hundreds of heavenly soldiers as the battle continued.

• Li Changshou petitioned the Azure Heavens before his tribulation, and the Heavenly Dao answered with a word of approval.
• The Tribulation Cloud formed a vast pagoda, and Qiongxiao identified Li Changshou's trial as the Myriad Spirits Tribulation.
• Li Changshou endured the first five increasingly powerful assaults, using talismans, written Dao characters, defensive techniques, and lightning arts.
• Three of Li Changshou's Paper Daoist incarnations replenished his immortal power before the sixth assault began.
• The sixth assault combined thunder, fire, wind, ice, and heart demons, then sent hundreds of heavenly soldiers charging at Li Changshou.
• Li Changshou deployed ten Paper Daoists to summon hundreds of Immortal Bean Soldiers against the descending attackers.

Li Changshou faced the eighth and final waves of his Golden Immortal Tribulation, using Immortal Bean Soldiers to hold off its spirit armies. When the Dragon Phoenix Phantoms overwhelmed his defenses, he escaped into the tribulation lightning and let it destroy them, then endured the remaining heavenly power as his Golden Immortal breakthrough began.

• Li Changshou used Paper Daoists and Immortal Beans to block the eighth tribulation’s spirit soldiers while he endured the lightning strikes.
• The eighth tribulation summoned hundreds of demon and witch spirit soldiers, and Li Changshou’s bean soldiers helped him survive their assault alongside the Five Elements tribulation.
• Before Li Changshou could recover, the ninth tribulation unleashed Dragon Phoenix Phantoms and intensified lightning, wind, fire, and ice; Xuandu and Yunxiao prepared to intervene if he called for help.
• Li Changshou drew the Dragon Phoenix Phantoms toward him, then used the Nine Heavens Thunder Evasion Art to enter the tribulation lightning and evade their attack.
• The Dragon Phoenix Phantoms were shattered by the tribulation lightning, while Li Changshou was forced out and endured the remaining heavenly power without using his Nine-Turn Golden Elixir.
• Golden light rose from Li Changshou as his Dao rhythm and aura surged, and the tribulation’s power began to fade.

Li Changshou attained the Golden Immortal Realm, but the Heavenly Dao punished him with twelve bolts of divine lightning before he could enter seclusion. After recovering inside Yunxiao’s Primordial Golden Dou, he began consolidating his realm while the Heavenly Court prepared a list of benefits for Orthodox Gods.

• Li Changshou completed his Golden Immortal tribulation, fused his Dao body and Primordial Spirit, and waited for the auspicious phenomena to pass.
• A Gray Cloud appeared and struck Li Changshou with repeated Heavenly Punishment Divine Thunders for his earlier actions, forcing him to use his Nine-Turn Golden Elixir.
• Yunxiao placed Li Changshou inside the Primordial Golden Dou while Grand Master Xuandu shielded it, but the punishment followed him inside and continued until the cloud vanished.
• Grand Master Xuandu sensed that the Heavenly Dao was punishing Li Changshou for repeatedly delaying his tribulation, but he told Yunxiao that the Heavenly Secrets must not be divulged.
• Li Changshou left notices announcing a twelve-year seclusion, recovered in the Primordial Golden Dou, and entered the Gate of All Wonders to consolidate his Golden Immortal Realm.
• Dong Mugong presented the Heavenly Court’s Orthodox God benefits to the white-robed youth, who wondered what cultivation realm Li Changshou had reached.

Li Changshou ended his twelve-year seclusion in Fairy Yunxiao’s Primordial Golden Dou after advancing to the second rank of the Golden Immortal Realm and improving his concealment and escape techniques. He returned to the sea, contacted Ao Yi and Ling’e, and headed toward Du Xian Sect, unaware that two sisters were preparing to ambush him.

• Li Changshou spent seven years in ascension enlightenment, two years reviewing his insights, and three years improving the Golden Turtle Qi Harmonizing Art and his Earth Evasion and Water Escape techniques.
• Li Changshou left the Primordial Golden Dou, thanked Yunxiao for guarding him, and received her invitation to visit Three Immortal Island and discuss the Dao.
• Li Changshou used a disguise, contacted Ao Yi about the Four Seas and Heavenly Court divine positions, and planned to visit the Jade Emperor after returning to Du Xian Sect.
• Li Changshou contacted Ling'e and found her playing tiles with Jiu Jiu, Jiang Lin'er, and Xiong Lingli; Ling'e admitted that she missed him.
• Li Changshou sent a Paper Daoist ahead toward Du Xian Sect, while two sisters watching the island prepared to bind and ambush him.

Li Changshou escaped Qiongxiao and Bixiao’s interrogation and returned to Du Xian Sect, where he realized his future identity might be Grand White Gold Star. Meanwhile, the Panther Demon’s plan to seize territory failed, and the chapter left Li Changshou considering how to proceed with his cultivation and Heavenly Court ambitions.

• Qiongxiao and Bixiao captured Li Changshou’s Paper Daoist, bound him, and questioned him about his relationship with Yunxiao and his origins.
• Li Changshou answered the sisters’ questions and discovered they were testing whether he had improper intentions toward Yunxiao; Yunxiao arrived and ordered them to kneel as Li Changshou escaped in an incarnation.
• Li Changshou visited the young girl Jiang Lin'er planned to take as her disciple, then returned to Du Xian Sect and resumed planning to cultivate Lesser Qiong Peak into a large magical treasure.
• Li Changshou realized that the name Li Chang Geng and his future role might connect him to Grand White Gold Star from the Journey to the West calamity.
• The Panther Demon and his companions failed to seize a mountain, and three Demon Race factions exterminated the Old Rhinoceros Demon and divided his territory.

After returning to Du Xian Sect, Li Changshou planned his cultivation, taught Ling'e and Xiong Lingli, and prepared a Heavenly Court decree granting positions to the Dragon Clan. The chapter ended with the battered Master Panther rescued by a water demon, who made him her husband.

• Ling'e worried that Li Changshou had spent his twelve-year absence pursuing a Dao companion, but he reassured her that he had been handling proper business.
• Li Changshou sealed his memories about becoming Grand White Gold Star and planned to focus on cultivating safely and strengthening his Paper Daoists.
• Li Changshou taught Ling'e and Xiong Lingli the Dao, then uprooted and burned the spirit trees on Lesser Qiong Peak because they knew too much.
• After the Jade Emperor approved his plan, Li Changshou gathered five thousand heavenly soldiers and told Ao Yi that the decree granting the Dragon Clan god positions had formed.
• Master Panther collapsed at a lakeside after another demon group was wiped out, and a water demon rescued him and forcibly made him her husband.

Li Changshou staged a Dragon Clan selection contest to award sixteen Heavenly Court sea-patrol god positions, but the spectacle drew a crowd of powerful guests. After Grand Master Xuandu visited him, Li Changshou met an arrogant child at the Sea God Temple who demanded he visit his master, whom the child identified as the Burning Lamp Daoist.

• Li Changshou and Ao Yi organized a Dragon Clan god-selection contest, but the Four Seas Dragon Kings postponed it so they could invite guests from across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Li Changshou directed the grand contest before numerous immortals and Heavenly Court officials, and the sixteen selected Dragon Princes and Dragon Princesses received god positions and broke through.
• Li Changshou met Grand Master Xuandu, who praised his progress and encouraged him not to be overly cautious as the Dragon Clan joined the Heavenly Court.
• Grand Master Xuandu took Li Changshou to Anshui City, where an arrogant child riding an Immortal Crane demanded that the Sea God meet his master.
• The child recited a verse identifying his master as the Burning Lamp Daoist, and Li Changshou dismissed him without agreeing to go.

Li Changshou refused Randeng’s demand to meet in person and gained the Great Mage’s support, then arranged to confront Randeng with witnesses and recordings. Randeng arrived at the Sea God Temple with the child, while Zhao Gongming and True Person Huang Long hid nearby to record what happened next.

• Li Changshou rebuffed Randeng’s arrogant Daoist Child and sent him away from the Sea God Temple.
• The Great Mage divined that Randeng was acting as guarantor for a Western Teachings disciple seeking to discuss the Dragon Clan, then placed the Taiji Diagram’s protection over the temple.
• Li Changshou recruited True Person Huang Long at the Dragon Palace and explained Randeng’s demand; Ao Yi escorted them out.
• Zhao Gongming joined Li Changshou and True Person Huang Long, and the three prepared recording treasures to document Randeng’s arrival.
• Randeng reached the Sea God Temple with the Daoist Child, and Li Changshou rose above the courtyard to meet him.

Li Changshou confronted Daoist Randeng, who sought concessions for the Western Teachings in the Dragon Clan dispute, and maneuvered through their tense conversation without giving him what he wanted. Randeng left without securing an agreement, while Zhao Gongming went off to fight.

• Daoist Randeng arrived at the Sea God Temple and accused Li Changshou of disrespecting Chan Teaching, but Li challenged his identity and mocked him as an impostor.
• Randeng proved who he was by displaying his treasures and swearing a Heavenly Dao oath, after which Li apologized and invited him inside.
• Li showed Randeng an Image Recording Orb documenting the Daoist Child's earlier visit, then asked whether Randeng was negotiating personally or ordering him as Chan Teaching's Vice Sect Master.
• Li argued that helping the Western Teachings weaken the Heavenly Court would conflict with Randeng's position in Chan Teaching, and Randeng apologized before departing with his Daoist Child.
• After Randeng left, Li burned the chair he had used and cleared away a hidden trace of aura; True Person Huang Long then revealed that Zhao Gongming had gone to fight.

Li Changshou managed the fallout after Zhao Gongming ambushed Daoist Randeng, then searched for ways to obtain treasures without taking on excessive karma. His attempt to strengthen his Paper Daoists caused repeated explosions near Du Xian Sect before he suspended his experiments and joined Jiang Lin'er and Venerable Wangqing on a trip to recruit disciples.

• Zhao Gongming explained how he had used the Twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to corner Daoist Randeng, then claimed he had only wanted to test a method for breaking the trick.
• At True Person Huang Long's prompting, Zhao Gongming ended the confrontation without demanding anything from Randeng and warned him that Li Changshou had powerful allies.
• Li Changshou assessed Randeng's standing within Chan Teaching and made a list of treasures, but crossed out the candidates because they were already owned or carried too much karma.
• Li Changshou identified the Treasure-Dropping Copper Coins as a possible target and began upgrading his Paper Daoists, but an experiment destroyed a mountain near Du Xian Sect.
• Over the next two months, Li Changshou's experiments caused more than twenty explosions, and he eventually suspended his research into divine abilities.
• Jiang Lin'er and Venerable Wangqing summoned Qi Yuan and his three disciples, and they went to the Southern Continent to accept disciples.

Li Changshou brought Old Daoist Qi Yuan to meet Wan Jiangyu’s reincarnated body, helping his master accept the truth about his Martial Uncle’s fate. As the group approached the Southern Continent, Li Changshou sensed trouble at the Sea God Temple and found Asuras demanding his death.

• Jiang Lin'er gathered the Lesser Qiong Peak group to bring Wan Jiangyu’s reincarnated body back to Du Xian Sect, while Li Changshou arranged a private conversation with Old Daoist Qi Yuan.
• Li Changshou confessed to Qi Yuan that he had killed Daoist Kuai Si, and Qi Yuan offered to take the blame for him.
• Li Changshou showed Qi Yuan the reincarnated girl, then explained that she was Wan Jiangyu; Qi Yuan broke down in tears before accepting her return to the sect.
• As the group flew toward the Southern Continent, Li Changshou sensed trouble at the Sea God Temple and used his divine sense to investigate.
• Twelve Asuras attacked the Sea God Temple, and Li Changshou ordered the Sea God Cult’s divine envoys to retreat while summoning dragon reinforcements and deploying Paper Daoists.
• A Female Asura called for the Sea God to come out and die, and Li Changshou’s Old Immortal Paper Daoist appeared before the temple.

Li Changshou faced an Asura assault on the Sea God Temple, using poison, avatars, and Immortal Bean Soldiers to protect the mortals and contain the attackers. As four Eight-Armed Asuras charged, Horse-Face and Ox-Head arrived from the Netherworld and crushed the assaulting commanders.

• Li Changshou poisoned the twelve Asuras who first attacked the Sea God Temple, but a hidden expert opened a spatial passage beneath the temple.
• Four Eight-Armed Asuras and hundreds of other Asuras emerged, and Li Changshou evacuated the mortals while stalling them with his avatar.
• Li Changshou revealed three hundred and sixty-five pillars and thirty thousand Immortal Bean Soldiers surrounding the temple, prompting the Asuras to hesitate.
• Horse and Ox watched the battle through a bloody well and threw roasted meat, a grill rack, and Ox-Head Headgear through the portal.
• The four Eight-Armed Asuras charged Li Changshou’s avatars, but Horse-Face and Ox-Head arrived and knocked the commanders into the ground.

Li Changshou and Ox-Head and Horse-Face defeated an Asura assault on the Sea God Temple, then celebrated their new friendship over a feast. After the Wu Tribe pair left, Li Changshou planned retaliation against the Western Teachings, while Ox-Head and Horse-Face secretly headed to find his friend Li Changshou for seasonings.

• Ox-Head and Horse-Face arrived at the Sea God Temple and overwhelmed the Eight-Armed Asuras as Li Changshou coordinated his Paper Daoists and Immortal Bean Soldiers to block their escape.
• Ox-Head and Horse-Face destroyed the Asuras, but their battle damaged the Sea God Temple, so Li Changshou reassured them and began processing the corpses.
• Golden Cicada watched the Southern Sea battle from an undersea volcano, considered attacking Li Changshou, and left after finding no useful opening.
• Dragon Clan reinforcements and Li Changshou's forces wiped out the remaining Asuras, and a Dragon Clan Elder promised to rebuild the temple on a grander scale.
• Li Changshou hosted Ox-Head and Horse-Face for a feast and sent them away with food, while deciding to retaliate against the Western Teachings.
• Ox-Head and Horse-Face secretly flew toward the Eastern Continent of Sheng to find Li Changshou's friend and trade for seasonings.

Li Changshou discovered that Ox-Head and Horse-Face had come to Du Xian Sect for barbecue seasoning, then presented the Jade Emperor with a plan for a joint Heavenly Court and Dragon Clan campaign against the Deep Sea Great Demons. The Jade Emperor approved the campaign and appointed General Hua Ri Tian commander-in-chief, while Li Changshou realized that the Jade Emperor intended to lead the expedition himself.

• Li Changshou noticed Ox-Head and Horse-Face had arrived near Du Xian Sect and used Xiong Lingli to tell them he was away.
• Ox-Head and Horse-Face surveyed the area, hunted spirit beasts, and discussed trading Underworld favors for Li Changshou's barbecue seasoning.
• Li Changshou met Ox-Head and Horse-Face, gave them two vats of seasoning, and returned to Lesser Qiong Peak as his companions questioned their relationship.
• Li Changshou submitted a memorial proposing that the Heavenly Court and Dragon Clan join forces against the Deep Sea Great Demons, and the Jade Emperor approved the plan and authorized 100,000 heavenly soldiers.
• The Jade Emperor appointed General Hua Ri Tian commander-in-chief, and Li Changshou realized that the Jade Emperor planned to lead the campaign personally.

Li Changshou arranged a secret Heavenly Court and Dragon Clan campaign against the Deep Sea Demon Race while preparing contingency plans. He then attended Jiu Yushi’s apprenticeship ceremony, where he discovered that his master, Qi Yuan, had dressed himself up to watch her enter the sect.

• The Jade Emperor appointed his incarnation Hua Ri Tian Demon-Subduing Marshal, while Dong Mugong volunteered as Battle-Supervising Marshal for the campaign against the Four Seas demons.
• Li Changshou arranged for the Dragon Clan to deploy three hundred experts, thirty thousand Immortal Flood Dragon Soldiers, and one hundred eighty thousand Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals under Ao Yi’s command.
• Li Changshou prepared backup plans and returned to Lesser Qiong Peak before Ling'e called him to Jiu Yushi’s apprenticeship ceremony.
• Jiu Jiu introduced Jiu Yushi as her junior sister, and Li Changshou gave her Hunger-Filling Pills as a welcome gift.
• Li Changshou found that his master, Qi Yuan, had dressed up to watch Jiu Yushi’s ceremony and urged him to let her new life take its natural course.

After Jiu Yushi became Venerable Wangqing’s disciple, Li Changshou advised the Du Xian Sect on how to handle a powerful faction searching for a captured fox demon. He then helped direct the Heavenly Court and Dragon Clan’s campaign against the Deep Sea Demon Race, which ended with a mysterious old Daoist confronting the advancing army.

• Jiu Yushi completed her apprenticeship ceremony under Venerable Wangqing and received gifts from her new senior brothers and sisters.
• Jiu Wu told Li Changshou that a powerful Demon Race faction was searching for the fox demon the Du Xian Sect had captured, and Li Changshou proposed a strategy for the elders to consider.
• Li Changshou monitored the Heavenly Court’s campaign as its troops and the Dragon Clan ambushed the Deep Sea Demon Race in the Southern Sea and swept toward the Western Sea.
• Li Changshou let Hua Ri Tian lead the Western Sea attack while he and Dong Mugong oversaw the broader situation.
• An old Daoist carrying a large purple-and-white gourd blocked the army and demanded to know why the Heavenly Court meant to drive the Orphan of the Demon Court to extinction.

Li Changshou and the Jade Emperor’s Incarnation confronted Daoist Lu Ya, who used the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife to destroy one of Li Changshou’s Paper Daoists. Li Changshou revealed that he recognized Lu Ya and persuaded him to withdraw, leaving the Heavenly Court’s army ready to resume its campaign against the Western Sea demons.

• Dong Mugong offered to inspect the old Daoist blocking the vanguard, but Li Changshou went ahead instead.
• Hua Ri Tian challenged the old Daoist, who revealed the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife and beheaded Li Changshou’s Paper Daoist.
• Li Changshou returned in another Paper Daoist and urged Hua Ri Tian to let him negotiate rather than risk the Jade Emperor’s incarnation.
• Li Changshou identified the old Daoist as Daoist Lu Ya and used his knowledge of Lu Ya’s origins and treasure to bluff him into leaving.
• The Jade Emperor’s Incarnation praised Li Changshou, then raised his sword and rallied the Heavenly Court army to continue its campaign.