Chapter Summaries

Li Changshou protected the Jade Emperor's Incarnation from Daoist Lu Ya, then considered how to preserve Zhao Gongming's fate without interfering too early. Heavenly Court and the Dragon Clan defeated the Western Sea demons and earned merit, and the Jade Emperor proposed planning Lu Ya's elimination.

• Li Changshou analyzed Daoist Lu Ya's origins and concluded that he was likely a surviving Golden Crow prince, while deciding not to interfere with Zhao Gongming's fate until the Investiture of the Gods tribulation.
• Li Changshou followed the Jade Emperor's Incarnation through the Western Sea campaign and used Paper Daoists to guard him as Heavenly Court and Dragon Clan forces routed the demon hordes.
• Li Changshou observed Ao Yi and Bian Zhuang distinguish themselves in battle and noted their potential as Heavenly Court officers.
• After sixteen days, Dong Mugong declared the Four Seas peaceful, and the Heavenly Dao bestowed merit on the armies, including Ao Yi and Li Changshou.
• On the journey back, the Jade Emperor's Incarnation told Li Changshou that Lu Ya was dangerous and proposed devising a plan to eliminate him.

After a golden light appeared over Lesser Qiong Peak, Li Changshou considered the Jade Emperor’s assignment to deal with Lu Ya and weighed the risks of changing the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation. He left the matter for careful planning and prepared a stronger batch of Paper Daoists before returning to work.

• Jiu Jiu explained the golden light to Jiu Yushi, while Ling'e and Youqin Xuanya praised Li Changshou and Jiu Jiu described how he had rejected both of them as dao companions.
• Li Changshou considered how eliminating Lu Ya could make him Lu Ya’s enemy and alter the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, so he decided not to act without sufficient certainty.
• Li Changshou visited the Royal Game Room with Qi Yuan, where his master was pleased that Jiu Yushi called him Senior Brother and Li Changshou supplied Jiu Jiu with wine and spirit pills.
• Li Changshou returned to his alchemy chamber and made more than twenty Late Heavenly Immortal Realm Paper Daoists, which a cart Paper Daoist carried away for work.

Li Changshou searched for the Treasure-Dropping Copper Coins, but his efforts in the Southern Jambu and Central Divine Continents found no useful leads. As he went to Huoyun Cave for help, demons arrived to retrieve a fox demon, who unexpectedly asked to join Du Xian Sect and see the Daoist who had captured her.

• Li Changshou prepared a careful treasure-hunting plan and sent Paper Daoists to search for the Treasure-Dropping Copper Coins and their former holders, Cao Bao and Xiao Sheng.
• After searches across the Southern Jambu and Central Divine Continents yielded no leads, Li Changshou decided to visit Huoyun Cave using the Jade Emperor's letter and authority.
• Li Changshou's Sea God Paper Daoist headed toward Huoyun Cave while Du Xian Sect's warning bell rang to announce the arrival of an enemy.
• A group of demons came to Du Xian Sect and, after presenting gifts and swearing an oath, retrieved the fox demon from the underground prison.
• The fox demon asked to join Du Xian Sect and, if that was impossible, asked to see the Daoist priest who had captured her years earlier.

Fox maiden Lan'er arrived at Du Xian Sect seeking Qi Yuan, whom she had fallen in love with after he resisted her charm techniques during his visits to her prison. As the demons and sect immortals nearly came to blows, Jiang Lin'er intervened and invited Lan'er to Lesser Qiong Peak to clarify the matter.

• Lan'er asked to see Qi Yuan, prompting Jiu Wu to deny any relationship with her and Li Changshou to try to stall the visitors.
• Lan'er explained that she had fallen in love with Qi Yuan after he repeatedly resisted her charm techniques while she was imprisoned.
• Lan'er vowed to accept another three hundred years of imprisonment if she could see Qi Yuan, while her Qingqiu relatives supported her marriage pursuit.
• Wan Linjun and the demons prepared to fight, but Lan'er pleaded with both sides to stop.
• Jiang Lin'er introduced herself as Qi Yuan's master and invited Lan'er to Lesser Qiong Peak to investigate the misunderstanding.

Li Changshou disguised himself as Old Daoist Qi Yuan to confront Xiao Lan, a Qingqiu fox demon who believed she had fallen for him, while asking the Matchmaker to sever her one-sided bond. He persuaded Xiao Lan that her feelings came from loneliness, then went to address the Qingqiu demons gathered at the sect gate; the Matchmaker noticed that Li Changshou’s clay figurine already had three Red Strings.

• Li Changshou immobilized Old Daoist Qi Yuan, borrowed his appearance, and told him to stay inside while Xiao Lan arrived at Du Xian Sect.
• Jiang Lin'er recognized that the figure beneath the willow tree was Li Changshou, then let Xiao Lan approach him.
• Li Changshou visited the Matchmaker and borrowed the Golden Scissors to cut the Red String linking Xiao Lan to Old Daoist Qi Yuan’s clay figure.
• Li Changshou told Xiao Lan that she had mistaken her loneliness for love, and she collapsed in confusion as he left.
• Li Changshou flew from the sect gate to confront the Qingqiu Clan demons, while the Matchmaker noticed three Red Strings around Li Changshou’s clay figurine.

Li Changshou ended the Qingqiu fox maiden’s hopes for his master, then traveled to Huoyun Cave as a Heavenly Court envoy and entered after solving its Bagua test. The fox maiden, Qingqiu Xinlan, decided her feelings for Qi Yuan were sincere and awakened a seventh tail as she resolved to seek him again.

• Li Changshou reflected on the Qingqiu Clan and sent Jiu Wu prepared answers to help Du Xian Sect members handle disputes about love and loneliness.
• Qi Yuan scolded Li Changshou for rejecting the fox maiden, then advised him not to grow arrogant or become entangled with the Demon Race.
• Li Changshou traveled to Huoyun Cave, passed its Bagua test as a disciple of Human Teaching, and entered the hidden realm.
• Li Changshou saw Huoyun Cave’s regions for the ancient sages and Emperor Xuanyuan’s household, then encountered a sobbing man fishing from a Wooden boat.
• Qingqiu Xinlan painted Qi Yuan’s image, examined her feelings through meditation, and manifested a seventh fox tail as she vowed to seek him again.

Li Changshou visited Huoyun Cave on the Jade Emperor’s orders and faced three questions from Emperor Da Yu, but Da Yu’s wife turned them both to stone after Li Changshou encouraged him to strike back. Back on Lesser Qiong Peak, Li Changshou noticed Ling'e nearing a breakthrough and decided she needed more training before her tribulation.

• Li Changshou presented the Jade Emperor’s letter and demonstrated his Sea God powers to Emperor Da Yu, who invited him to answer three questions.
• Li Changshou argued that humans should accept nature’s balance and strengthen themselves, then said he would not interfere if the Jade Emperor wanted to experience mortal life.
• Li Changshou said husbands should strike back reasonably when treated unjustly, prompting Da Yu to agree and complain about his wife.
• Da Yu’s wife appeared and turned both men to stone; Da Yu told Li Changshou the spell would wear off in three days.
• Li Changshou monitored Ling'e’s breakthrough and judged her Dao foundation too unstable for a safe tribulation, so he resolved to establish a cultivation training camp.

Li Changshou visited Emperor Da Yu to discuss the Heavenly Court’s plans and received Da Yu’s River Diagram of Water Conditions after declining his merit-laden iron rod. Da Yu later forgot their appointment to visit Fu Xi after Li Changshou helped him reconcile with Lady Tu Shan, leaving Li Changshou waiting outside.

• Li Changshou followed Da Yu to his courtyard, where Da Yu tried to give him a rusted iron rod and a Mountain-Opening Axe, but Li Changshou declined the rod and accepted Da Yu’s River Diagram of Water Conditions instead.
• Li Changshou presented the Heavenly Court’s gifts to Da Yu, and Da Yu explained that Fu Xi had foreseen the visit and that worshipping Heaven and Earth could help restore peace and unity to the Southern Continent.
• Lady Tu Shan brought food to Da Yu and Li Changshou, and Da Yu admitted that he and his wife had been arguing without his understanding why.
• Li Changshou used advice from his wife-coaxing strategies to help Da Yu apologize to Lady Tu Shan and make peace with her.
• Da Yu forgot their plan to visit Fu Xi, while Li Changshou waited quietly outside the mountain’s activated formations.

Li Changshou visited the retired Human Emperors in Huoyun Cave to discuss the Human Race’s rites of worshipping Heaven and Earth. He gained Fu Xi’s guidance and divination, several gifts, and ended his visit by paying respects to the secluded Suiren Clan.

• Emperor Da Yu brought Li Changshou to Huoyun Cave, where he met Fu Xi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan.
• Fu Xi gave Li Changshou the Human Race’s ritual codes and advice on improving his Paper Daoist incarnation.
• Fu Xi divined the location of a protective treasure for Li Changshou, while Shennong, Xuanyuan, and Da Yu each gave him a gift.
• Li Changshou introduced Fight the Great Gods to the Human Emperors, who played it together for three days.
• Da Yu told Li Changshou that Suiren Clan was ill and secluded in the Great Marsh, so Li Changshou offered three salutes toward it before leaving.

After reporting his Huoyun Cave mission to the Jade Emperor, Li Changshou followed Fu Xi’s clue to a treasure hidden in Demon Race territory and surrounded it with forces while he gathered intelligence. He also began experimenting with Golden Immortal Paper Daoists, ending with another spiritual explosion near Du Xian Sect.

• Li Changshou entrusted Da Yu with the Jade Emperor’s final gift for the Suiren Clan, then returned to the Heavenly Court and reported on his mission.
• The Jade Emperor issued an edict to promote worship of Heaven and Earth in the Southern Jambu Continent, rewarded Li Changshou, and discussed Daoist Lu Ya with him.
• Li Changshou examined Da Yu’s Water Pattern Map and Sea-Calming Divine Needle, then decided to pursue Fu Xi’s clue to his destined treasure.
• Li Changshou found the treasure near a valley in Demon Race territory and secretly assembled a large force around it while his Paper Daoists investigated.
• Using Fu Xi’s guidance, Li Changshou tried to refine cores that could stabilize Golden Immortal Paper Daoists, but the experiment caused an explosion that blasted away half a Desolate Mountain.

Li Changshou successfully refined a pill that let a Paper Daoist reach Golden Immortal combat power, but Heavenly Punishment targeted him when he tested it. The lightning curved away from the Paper Daoist and struck Li Changshou instead, leaving him battered but realizing the Heavenly Dao had acknowledged his creation.

• Ji Wuyou questioned Li Changshou about the spirit explosions, and Li Changshou admitted they came from his pill research.
• Li Changshou discovered that his pill had stabilized, then refined more cores and used one to create a Golden Immortal Realm Paper Daoist.
• Li Changshou tested the Paper Daoist’s spells and learned that its immortal power was stable, but Heavenly Punishment descended as soon as it reached Golden Immortal combat power.
• The Heavenly Punishment Divine Thunder turned away from the Paper Daoist and struck Li Changshou’s true body underground.
• Li Changshou endured repeated lightning strikes and realized that the Heavenly Dao had acknowledged his Golden Immortal Realm Paper Daoist.

Li Changshou prepared six Golden Immortal Realm Paper Daoists to raid Ci Tie City and search the ox demon clan’s ancestral valley for a treasure. Just before the planned attack, Duobao left Golden Ao Island to investigate a treasure, leaving Holy Mother Huoling and Golden Light Holy Mother scrambling to find someone else to witness a wedding.

• Li Changshou recovered from heavenly punishment, realized his Paper Daoist method might lead to a cultivation system for weak-spiritual-energy environments, and quickly suppressed the thought after sensing the Heavenly Dao’s warning.
• Li Changshou investigated Ci Tie City for six months, identified its defenses and routines, and planned to lure its demon experts away while one Paper Daoist searched the valley.
• Li Changshou deployed six Golden Immortal Realm Paper Daoists and scheduled the feint attack for three days later, while learning that creating more than nine at once could provoke even fiercer heavenly punishment.
• Ao Yi invited Li Changshou to a banquet on Golden Ao Island for two Golden Immortal uncle-masters becoming Dao companions, but Li Changshou declined and sent a gift instead.
• Half an hour before the planned attack, Holy Mother Huoling and Golden Light Holy Mother discovered that Duobao had gone to watch a treasure being born, so they hurried to seek another witness for the wedding.

Li Changshou staged an assault on Ci Tie City to draw away its defenders while infiltrating a bull demon valley in search of treasure. He reached the treasure vault but encountered Daoist Duobao, who accidentally destroyed his Paper Daoist and then covered the city and valley with a giant alms bowl.

• Li Changshou sent fifty thousand Immortal Bean Soldiers and several Golden Immortal Paper Daoists to attack Ci Tie City, prompting the demons to call for reinforcements.
• Li Changshou slipped Paper Daoists into the valley as the bull demon experts left to defend the city, then located the guarded treasure vault.
• Li Changshou used Gold Character No. 4 to enter the vault underground and found Daoist Duobao lying unclothed among the treasures.
• Daoist Duobao hurled hundreds of spiritual treasures at Li Changshou's Paper Daoist, destroying it before realizing it was only a paper effigy.
• Daoist Duobao summoned a purple-gold alms bowl that descended over Ci Tie City and the valley.

Li Changshou’s carefully arranged treasure hunt collapsed when Daoist Duobao intervened, but Duobao later helped him find the two ancient copper coin prototypes that Fu Xi had foretold. The chapter ended with Duobao insisting on giving Chang Geng a congratulatory gift from the several thousand spirit treasures in his sleeve.

• Li Changshou burned his Immortal Bean Soldiers and used his Paper Daoists to escape the bull demons as Duobao’s Purple Gold Alms Bowl sealed the area.
• Duobao contacted Li Changshou and showed him a concealed passage into the bull demons’ treasure vault.
• Duobao helped Li Changshou search the vault, then used a Treasure Seeking Spirit Butterfly to lead them to a bundle holding two copper coins.
• Duobao identified the coins as the first human-made copper coin prototypes, rich in merit, and said they could safeguard Li Changshou’s Dao.
• Duobao called Li Changshou Chang Geng and insisted he choose a congratulatory gift from the spirit treasures in his sleeve.

Li Changshou accepted Daoist Duobao’s Five Elements Treasure Pearls and Treasure-Dropping Copper Coins, then hid with him as Daoist Randeng searched for the missing treasure. Randeng confronted Duobao, and Li Changshou correctly predicted his attempt to provoke him.

• Daoist Duobao offered Li Changshou a vast collection of treasures, but Li Changshou asked for a Five Elements set and swore not to reveal what he had seen.
• Daoist Duobao gave Li Changshou five powerful Five Elements Treasure Pearls and the Treasure-Dropping Copper Coins, then took him into a concealed treasure cave when Daoist Randeng arrived.
• Li Changshou told Duobao about his earlier encounter with Randeng, and Duobao warned him that Randeng’s thoughts were complicated and he should be cautious around him.
• Randeng questioned the bull demons in Ci Tie City about the events and ordered them to check their vaults and belongings for missing treasures.
• Randeng called on Duobao to appear and offered to exchange a favor for the treasure, while Li Changshou advised Duobao that Randeng was trying to provoke him.
• Randeng demanded to know whether he had to invite Duobao out personally, just as Li Changshou had predicted.

Li Changshou and Daoist Duobao hid from Randeng after Duobao obtained the treasure Randeng sought. At Golden Ao Island, Yunxiao and Qiongxiao challenged Randeng’s claim, forcing him to retreat, while Duobao revealed Li Changshou to Yunxiao.

• Li Changshou predicted Randeng would appeal to the bonds between the three teachings, and Duobao laughed as Randeng tried that tactic.
• After bull demons reported that no treasure was missing from their valley, Randeng injured them and headed toward Golden Ao Island to confront Jie Teaching disciples.
• Duobao and Li Changshou followed Randeng, while a hidden hand returned two ordinary copper coins to a child’s bundle in the valley.
• Yunxiao questioned Randeng about whether Duobao had taken the treasure directly from him and why Randeng had not retrieved it earlier.
• Duobao joined Yunxiao, and Qiongxiao pointed out that Randeng could not even name the treasure he claimed was fated for him.
• Randeng threatened to report the matter to the Sect Master and left, while Duobao brought Li Changshou before Yunxiao and called him a treasure he had picked up.

Li Changshou attended a Jie Teaching wedding feast after Daoist Duobao brought him to Golden Ao Island, then Yunxiao escorted him back toward the Du Xian Sect. He returned to his underground chamber, examined his treasures, and began preparing Ling'e for her imminent tribulation.

• Li Changshou reunited with Yunxiao and Qiongxiao, and Daoist Duobao persuaded him to stay for the wedding feast.
• At the feast, Li Changshou sat between Daoist Duobao and Yunxiao, gave the newlyweds spirit pills, and endured their overlapping sound transmissions.
• Li Changshou explained his encounter with Duobao and Randeng to Yunxiao, who agreed that Randeng had gone too far and escorted him toward the Du Xian Sect.
• Li Changshou reviewed his newly acquired treasures in his underground chamber and decided to restore the Treasure-Dropping Copper Coins with merit later.
• Li Changshou summoned Ling'e and began preparing her for tribulation, making them each carve out their allotted punishments before he strengthened her Dao foundation.

Ao Yi grew suspicious of changes in Ao Mou and planned to investigate a gathering of the Four Seas Dragon princes. At Du Xian Sect, Ling'e began her Immortal Ascension Tribulation, whose power grew beyond what Li Changshou had expected.

• Ao Yi noticed that Ao Mou's health and Dragon Source had changed dramatically and decided to consult elders about secretly following the princes to the West Sea.
• Ling'e entered the Dao through the Steady Character Scripture, revealing a nine-petaled green lotus as Li Changshou recognized her imminent tribulation.
• Jiang Lin'er alerted the sect, and Li Changshou led Ling'e beyond the mountain gate to prepare for her tribulation with an array of protective treasures.
• Jiu Jiu, Xiong Lingli, and Youqin Xuanya cheered Ling'e on as she began laying out her equipment on the Desolate Mountain.
• Ji Wuyou arrived and claimed he had supplied Ling'e's treasures, while the Tribulation Cloud suddenly grew stronger and sent a Gray Cloud over Li Changshou.
• A black panther recognized Ling'e's tribulation as the Nine Heavens Pure Spirit Tribulation and declared that she could not survive it.

Li Changshou endured repeated Heavenly Punishment while Ling'e passed her Nine-Lightning Heavenly Tribulation and became an immortal. After Ling'e declared she would become his Dao companion, Li Changshou sensed a black leopard carrying a young girl nearby and sent a Paper Daoist to investigate.

• Li Changshou redirected the first bolt of Heavenly Punishment onto a Blood Soul Gem and endured further bolts while concealing his true body and identity.
• Ling'e passed the early stages of her tribulation, and Ji Wuyou helped Li Changshou disguise the Heavenly Punishment as an accident involving the Blood Soul Gem.
• Ling'e endured the later lightning strikes and charged into the final tribulation, telling Li Changshou she would become his Dao companion.
• After surviving the last bolt of Heavenly Punishment, Li Changshou sensed a black leopard carrying a young girl and sent a Golden Immortal Realm Paper Daoist to investigate.

After Ling'e ascended to immortality and entered Dao comprehension, Li Changshou secretly followed a black leopard who seemed to be Shen Gongbao, acting under a command from the Grand Pure Sage. He confirmed the leopard’s disastrous blessing and followed him to a hidden treasure trove, where incoming Demon Race experts threatened the couple.

• Ling'e ascended, questioned what her own Dao was, and entered secluded cultivation at Lesser Qiong Peak while Li Changshou received visitors and healed.
• Li Changshou sensed Heavenly Dao protection on a black leopard and pursued him after receiving the Sage’s command to go.
• Li Changshou met the leopard and his wife, Miaomiao, gave them treasures, and learned that the leopard called himself A'bao and remembered parts of a past life.
• Li Changshou tested the leopard’s ability and found that his unintended words caused misfortune for others while healing Li Changshou’s injuries.
• Li Changshou followed A'bao and Miaomiao to a hidden trove of treasure, where several Demon Race experts arrived as the couple celebrated their find.