Chapter Summaries

Li Changshou devised a plan to lure Demon Race reinforcements to Yaosheng Mountain before taking the Witch Soul Sword and striking them with a Great Spirit Explosion. He began the operation by disguising Ao Yi as Ke Le’er to draw several demon kings into defending her, while mobilizing Paper Daoists and preparing to intervene himself.

• Li Changshou and the Jade Emperor planned to lure Demon Race reinforcements to Yaosheng Mountain, seize the Witch Soul Sword, and attack with minimal losses while establishing the Heavenly Court's justification.
• Li Changshou questioned a captured demon, learned about Yaosheng Mountain and its six demon kings, then disguised himself as a patrol demon and infiltrated Rhino Great King's cave.
• Li Changshou sent Ao Yi to settle the Wu Tribe members, then had him disguise himself as Ke Le’er and stage a rescue scene to provoke the demon kings into opposing a Heavenly Court general.
• Rhino Great King and four other demon kings arrived, each became infatuated with Ke Le’er, and they drove off Li Changshou's staged Heavenly Court general before following her into the forest.
• Li Changshou mobilized Paper Daoist forces from across the wilderness, summoned the Xuanhuang Pagoda, and prepared to serve as a backup while the next act began.

Li Changshou staged a series of Heavenly Court defeats to draw the Demon Race forces out, then joined Zhao Dezhu in seizing the Human Extermination Sword and destroying Yaosheng Mountain with spirit explosions. He saved the trapped Wu Tribe spirits by sheltering them in a river, but realized he had accidentally created the Mother-Child River.

• Li Changshou used Ke Le'er and staged three apparent Heavenly Court defeats, encouraging Demon Kings and ancient demons to gather at Yaosheng Mountain.
• Dong Mugong deployed three hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers, while Li Changshou and Zhao Dezhu entered the underground formation and seized the Human Extermination Sword.
• Daoist Lu Ya attacked Li Changshou and Zhao Dezhu, but Li Changshou triggered the spirit explosions that destroyed Yaosheng Mountain as Lu Ya escaped grievously injured.
• Li Changshou discovered that the sword's restrictions were destroying the Wu Tribe spirits within it, then used the Taiqing Water Virtue Chapter and his Water God power to preserve them in a river.
• Li Changshou established rules for the river so women who touched its water could conceive the spirits, then realized he had created the Mother-Child River.

After the Battle of Yaosheng Mountain, exhausted Li Changshou returned to Lesser Qiong Peak and fell asleep under the Heaven and Earth Yellow Pagoda’s protection, while Ling'e secretly kissed him. The Jade Emperor rewarded him for his victory, and a messenger from Empress Nuwa arrived at the Heavenly Court seeking him.

• Li Changshou crossed the North Sea with Ao Yi, reflected on his gains from the battle, and arranged for Ox-Head and Horse-Face to rejoin him.
• Li Changshou showed the Wu Tribe’s Great Witch Sacrifices the Human Extermination Sword and explained the Demon Race’s scheme, then declined their offer of a reward.
• Li Changshou returned to Lesser Qiong Peak, where exhaustion overcame him; Ling'e found him asleep and kissed him before fleeing in embarrassment.
• Dong Mugong told the Jade Emperor that Li Changshou needed leave to recover, and the Jade Emperor granted him double merit salary for a thousand years and other rewards.
• Bian Zhuang stopped a fairy at the Middle Heavenly Gate and learned she had come from the Holy Mother Palace under Empress Nuwa’s orders to invite the Water God.

Bian Zhuang escorted Empress Nuwa’s messenger to the Water God, while Li Changshou and Grand Master Xuandu traveled with her to Holy Mother Palace. Empress Nuwa dismissed Xuandu and began questioning Li Changshou, opening with a pointed question about why Ke Zhen'e’s younger sister was named Ke Le'er instead of Han Xiaoying.

• Bian Zhuang recognized the messenger’s authority and detoured past Tushita Palace to alert others before taking her to the Water God’s Mansion.
• Grand Master Xuandu startled Li Changshou awake, triggering his mountain’s traps and weapons before escorting him to meet the messenger.
• Li Changshou disguised his true appearance and joined the messenger and Xuandu on a cloud boat bound for Holy Mother Palace.
• Dong Mugong delivered gifts from the Jade Emperor for Empress Nuwa, and the party traveled beyond the Five Continents to her palace.
• Empress Nuwa sent Xuandu away so she could speak with Li Changshou alone, explained that she had not summoned him over the Demon Race, and asked why Ke Zhen'e’s younger sister was called Ke Le'er rather than Han Xiaoying.

Li Changshou tried to understand why Empress Nuwa tested him with references to Han Xiaoying, a famous poem, and a nursery rhyme, while concealing his past-life origins. He concluded that Nuwa might be searching for an earlier person who had brought Blue Star culture into the Primordial Wilderness, and then she appeared in the main hall.

• Empress Nuwa asked Li Changshou whether he knew Han Xiaoying, and he explained that Ke Zhen'e was a name he had chosen for a scheme at Yaosheng Mountain.
• Nuwa asked Li Changshou to continue a line about the Yellow River, and he offered a version based on the river's course through the Southern Continent.
• Nuwa supplied the line's original continuation, and Li Changshou recognized it as poetry from his previous life.
• Nuwa hummed “Twinkle, twinkle, little star,” then sent Li Changshou to the front hall while saying she would question him further later.
• Li Changshou reasoned that Nuwa might be investigating an earlier person who had introduced Blue Star culture to her, rather than sharing his own origins.
• Grand Master Xuandu warned Li Changshou not to repeat something he had said, and Empress Nuwa appeared in the main hall.

Li Changshou met Empress Nuwa, who exposed that he came from another world and trapped him in her private pavilion. She spared him on the condition that he write stories for her, and their conversation revealed more about the Primordial Wilderness’s hidden past.

• Empress Nuwa told Li Changshou that she had promised to protect Lu Ya, but would allow the Heavenly Court to kill him if he obstructed its affairs again.
• Nuwa tricked Li Changshou with a brocade box and isolated him from Grand Master Xuandu, then revealed that she knew he came from elsewhere.
• Nuwa summoned Li Changshou to her pavilion and demanded that he write original stories in exchange for not punishing him for deceiving her.
• Li Changshou learned that an unknown person had manipulated Nuwa and the War of the Ancients in an attempt to become a Sage, but had been erased.
• Nuwa told Li Changshou that Kunpeng remained alive at the edge of the Chaos Sea and that she protected Lu Ya because she had been close friends with his mother.

After receiving a trove of treasure materials from Nuwa, Li Changshou returned to Lesser Qiong Peak and reconsidered his path, deciding to strengthen his own foundations rather than rely on protection alone. A month later, he began revising the peak’s defenses, while the Demon Race debated how to answer the Heavenly Court’s attack and resolved to appeal to Nuwa.

• Nuwa rewarded Li Changshou with rare Five Elements materials after he supplied her with comics, and the Great Mage escorted him back toward the Du Xian Sect.
• Li Changshou secluded himself in a hidden chamber on Lesser Qiong Peak and reflected on the Heavenly Dao, the Sages, and the need to establish a path of his own.
• After a month of recovery, Li Changshou told Ling'e he would keep Lesser Qiong Peak in place for now and planned extensive changes to its formations and surroundings.
• Ling'e admitted she had sentenced herself to copy the Steady Character Scripture and asked Li Changshou whether she could become pregnant; he reassured her that holding hands and kissing could not cause it.
• More than three hundred Demon Kings, ancient experts, and Demon Race Elders failed to devise a counterattack, until an old woman urged them to ask Nuwa to punish Li Changshou.

Li Changshou finished fortifying Lesser Qiong Peak and arranged for his master, Qi Yuan, to become a mountain god in the Heavenly Court, shielding him with the Water God’s influence. Qi Yuan returned to the sect bewildered but protected, while the Matchmaker began checking his marriage fate.

• Qi Yuan woke to find Li Changshou’s Paper Daoists renovating Lesser Qiong Peak, and Ling'e reassured him that the work had official approval and was meant to protect the peak.
• After a month of seclusion, Qi Yuan found the peak concealed by illusion techniques, and Li Changshou gave him a talisman and invited him to register as a Heavenly Court mountain god.
• Li Changshou accompanied Qi Yuan to the Eastern Heavenly Gate, where Longji escorted Qi Yuan through the Heavenly Court’s procedures and helped him obtain a mountain deity post covering the area around Du Xian Sect.
• Dong Mugong, acting on the Jade Emperor’s orders, escorted Qi Yuan back toward his jurisdiction with Heavenly Soldiers and Generals before Qi Yuan returned to Lesser Qiong Peak.
• Li Changshou revealed to Qi Yuan that he was the Water God and told him to carry the talisman and consult him before going out; Qi Yuan struggled to make sense of the revelation.
• The Matchmaker went to the Back Hall to check Qi Yuan’s marriage fate and consider arranging a match if he found an opportunity.

Li Changshou reviewed his preparations for the Investiture of the Gods and planned how to save people without drawing the Heavenly Dao’s wrath. Meanwhile, Zhao Gongming uncovered a secret meeting between Western Sect members and demon experts, then staged a collapse to infiltrate their gathering.

• Li Changshou reflected on his strengthened defenses at Lesser Qiong Peak, his plans to protect the Daoist sects, and the limits of opposing the Heavenly Dao.
• Li Changshou considered sending Ling'e out to gain experience and studied his plan for calculating how much he could alter events during the Investiture of the Gods.
• Qiongxiao tried to push Zhao Gongming into overcoming his hesitation about Junior Sister Jinguang by bringing him to Tianya Pavilion, but he left without accepting her plan.
• Zhao Gongming detected two Spirit Mountain old Daoists meeting with demon experts, listened to their conversation, and summoned Qiongxiao to follow them.
• Zhao Gongming approached the meeting island and pretended his old injury had flared up, collapsing in front of the young Daoist and the two old Daoists.

Li Changshou learned that the Western Teachings and ancient Demon Race had secretly met to scheme against the Heavenly Court, then discovered Ksitigarbha had been involved in the encounter with Zhao Gongming and Qiongxiao. He urged them to pursue Ksitigarbha and destroy his divine soul.

• Ksitigarbha and Dilong escaped with two fellow disciples after Zhao Gongming and Qiongxiao confronted them, and Ksitigarbha resolved to keep scheming against the Daoist schools.
• Li Changshou and Jiu Wu secretly observed Li Jing receiving warm care from an elderly couple at Du Xian Sect.
• Bian Zhuang told Li Changshou that Western Teachings disciples and ancient Demon Kings had met at a Tianya Pavilion branch to discuss harming him and sowing discord.
• Li Changshou used an agreed ocarina signal to contact Daoist Wen Jing, who understood that Spirit Mountain would suspend communication for another hundred years.
• Zhao Gongming and Qiongxiao visited Li Changshou and confirmed that the Western Teachings had met with ancient demons; Qiongxiao identified their white-robed opponent as Ksitigarbha.
• Li Changshou urged Zhao Gongming and Qiongxiao to pursue Ksitigarbha and destroy his divine soul.

Li Changshou, Zhao Gongming, and Qiongxiao pursued Ksitigarbha but encountered Kong Xuan, whose Five-Colored Divine Light clashed with Zhao Gongming’s Sea-Calming Divine Pearls. After they reconciled and visited Kong Xuan’s hidden island, he asked Li Changshou to help the Phoenix Clan, and Li Changshou agreed to consider it.

• Zhao Gongming and Qiongxiao helped Li Changshou track Ksitigarbha’s trail through the Southern Sea.
• Zhao Gongming and Qiongxiao fought Kong Xuan until Li Changshou stopped the clash and learned that Ksitigarbha had already left the Five Continents.
• Li Changshou calmed Zhao Gongming and Kong Xuan, and Kong Xuan invited them to his hidden island.
• Kong Xuan explained that he sensed an opportunity for the Phoenix Clan, and Zhao Gongming and Qiongxiao described Li Changshou’s influence and connections.
• Kong Xuan asked Li Changshou to help the Phoenix Clan, and Li Changshou promised to consider his request and help wholeheartedly.

Li Changshou helped Kong Xuan devise a plan for the Phoenix Clan to gain a foothold by protecting the future human sovereign and becoming his totem. Afterward, he helped Zhao Gongming pursue Golden Light Holy Mother, only to be caught watching their meeting alongside a crowd of Jie Teaching immortals when Yunxiao’s warning presence made the spectators tremble.

• Kong Xuan explained that the Phoenix Clan needed to preserve its bloodline and recover Destiny, and Li Changshou proposed that it protect the future human sovereign and become his totem.
• Kong Xuan agreed to Li Changshou’s conditions: he would not interfere excessively when the dynasty fell and would aid endangered Heavenly Court soldiers and generals.
• Li Changshou, Zhao Gongming, and Qiongxiao left Peacock Island, and Zhao Gongming decided to try becoming Dao companions with Golden Light Holy Mother.
• Qiongxiao went ahead to sound out Golden Light Holy Mother while Li Changshou prepared a scroll of advice for Zhao Gongming.
• Zhao Gongming met Golden Light Holy Mother at Ao Yi’s cultivation grounds as Duobao and Jie Teaching immortals watched from hidden earthen caves, and Li Changshou was pulled into a viewing spot.
• Li Changshou prepared to escape when he feared Yunxiao might discover the spectators, but her soft snort made the Jie Teaching immortals tremble.

Li Changshou reunited with Yunxiao on Golden Ao Island, then met her privately by the East Sea, where their conversation about the Heavenly Dao and the Dao Ancestor eased his doubts. Zhao Gongming awkwardly began courting Golden Light Holy Mother, while the chapter ended with several figures gathering in a Great Thousand World near the Five Continents.

• Li Changshou stepped forward to greet Yunxiao and helped her avoid reprimanding Qiongxiao in front of the other Jie Teaching immortals.
• Zhao Gongming briefly used the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to consult a scroll before asking Golden Light Holy Mother whether she enjoyed poetry and paintings.
• Li Changshou invited Yunxiao to meet his true body by the East Sea, where they discussed Zhao Gongming and Golden Light Holy Mother's tentative courtship.
• Li Changshou shared his concern that the Heavenly Dao might limit living beings' choices, and Yunxiao suggested that the Dao Ancestor, rather than the Heavenly Dao itself, arranged events.
• Yunxiao reminded Li Changshou that Jie Teaching valued helping others and preserving a thread of life, and they spent the day talking and playing music together.
• Several figures successfully met in a Great Thousand World near the Five Continents.

Ksitigarbha secured the Demon Race’s obedience with treasures and the promise of returning the Demon Court’s Heavenly Emperor’s Seal, while Li Changshou established Dragon Clan Water Gods across the Southern Continent and advanced the Heavenly Court’s influence. After years of uneasy calm, demons attacked border cities, and Li Changshou mobilized his Paper Daoist Army as the Heavenly Court sounded its war drums.

• Ksitigarbha offered the Demon Race a Lotus Seed and a lost cultivation method, then used the Demon Court’s Heavenly Emperor’s Seal to make them obey his scheme against the Heavenly Court.
• Li Changshou received Ao Yi’s news that the Dragon Palace had selected its first batch of Water Gods, reviewed their names, and brought the appointment memorial to the Jade Emperor with Ao Guang.
• The Jade Emperor approved the Phoenix Clan’s request to provide the next Southern Continent Human Co-lord’s totem, and the Heavenly Court issued Water God decrees across the Southern Continent twelve years later.
• Li Changshou spent years building the Heavenly Court’s influence, preparing his forces, and suspecting that Ksitigarbha and the Western Sect were plotting against the Demon Race.
• Demons attacked cities along the Southern Continent’s border, so Li Changshou sent his Paper Daoist Army to rescue people and fight them while war drums sounded at the South Heaven Gate.

Li Changshou responded to a coordinated Western Sect attack on the Sea God Cult by mobilizing defenses across the Heavenly Court, Netherworld, and Dragon Clan. Ksitigarbha then revealed a plan to draw out the Water God by targeting the Du Xian Sect, while concealed forces gathered near the sect and Li Changshou watched their movements.

• The Western Sect attacked 162 cities, destroying Sea God Cult temples and causing thousands of mortal casualties before Li Changshou's Paper Daoists and Heavenly forces wiped out the demons.
• Li Changshou mobilized Heavenly Court troops, Underworld forces, and the Four Seas Dragon Palaces, while ordering Sea God Cult followers to evacuate their cities and temples.
• Taiqing Lord sent the Xuanhuang Pagoda to protect Li Changshou, prompting him to activate his highest defensive precautions.
• Ksitigarbha gathered Daoist Wen Jing and the Primordial Chaos Fierce Beasts, claiming he had found the Water God's origins and planning to lure him out by attacking the Du Xian Sect.
• Ksitigarbha said the Hundred Thousand Demon Host would besiege the Carefree Immortal Sect while other forces targeted the Du Xian Sect, and concealed auras gathered near the sect as Li Changshou monitored them.

Li Changshou recognized the Western Teachings’ scheme to use the Demon Race against the Human Teaching, the Heavenly Court, and the Sea God Cult, so he evacuated Du Xian Sect and arranged defenses while preparing a counterattack. The demons found the sect empty, and Li Changshou baited them into entering after confirming that the promised reinforcements had not deceived him.

• Li Changshou deduced Ksitigarbha’s layered plot and ordered Ji Wuyou to evacuate Du Xian Sect through a hidden teleportation array.
• Ji Wuyou led the sect’s immortals and disciples underground, while Youqin Xuanya chose to stay behind with Li Changshou and Ling'e.
• Li Changshou deployed Immortal Bean Soldiers to defend Du Xian Sect and sent Heavenly Soldiers to battle demon beasts attacking Sea God Cult cities.
• More than a hundred thousand demons attacked Carefree Immortal Sect as other Human Teaching sects hurried to its aid.
• The Demon Race surrounded the empty Du Xian Sect, and Li Changshou appeared as the Water God before letting the sect’s protective formation collapse and inviting the demons inside.

Li Changshou staged a battle at Du Xian Sect, using formations, Paper Daoists, and a false show of weakness to draw out the Demon Race and Ksitigarbha’s allies. He revealed his true strength and summoned Heavenly Court forces, while Ksitigarbha learned that his plan had gone badly wrong.

• Li Changshou evacuated Du Xian Sect, concealed himself beneath Lesser Qiong Peak, and used Immortal Bean Soldiers and Paper Daoists to delay the Demon Race.
• Li Changshou confronted the demons and defended himself with the Heaven and Earth Linglong Xuanhuang Pagoda, poisoned needles, and other attacks.
• Li Changshou told Ling'e and Youqin Xuanya about the dangers of the Primordial Wilderness and urged Youqin Xuanya to pursue demon-slaying after reaching the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
• Daoist Wen Jing and the Primordial Chaos Fierce Beasts joined the battle, and Wen Jing attacked Li Changshou’s apparent body before his paper decoy was revealed.
• Li Changshou summoned Heavenly Soldiers, Generals, dragons, and battle shamans, then used Lightning Escape to strike the demons and fierce beasts.
• Ksitigarbha heard from Truth Listener that Wen Jing’s attempted assassination had failed and was warned that he was in serious trouble.

Li Changshou’s preparations crushed the Demon Race’s attacks and left Ksitigarbha blamed by both demons and the Western Sect, while the Heavenly Court and Human Teaching gained prestige. After the crisis settled and Du Xian Sect resumed its routine, an unexpected group arrived, led by a fox-tailed woman who resolved to win Daoist Master Qi Yuan’s heart.

• Ksitigarbha learned that the Water God had foiled his plans and warned Wen Jing not to attack the escaping demons, but she and her allies had already killed several Demon Race leaders.
• Li Changshou’s public remarks made the Demon Race believe Ksitigarbha had schemed alongside him, and Ksitigarbha’s teacher reclaimed the Green Lotus Treasure Banner and the Demon Court’s Heavenly Emperor’s Seal.
• Li Changshou asked Ling'e and Youqin Xuanya what they had learned from the battle, then declined to launch a wider campaign against the Demon Race to avoid disturbing the Investiture of the Gods.
• The Heavenly Court and Daoist sects capitalized on the victory, while Carefree Immortal Sect mourned its dead and Central Divine Continent’s sects organized demon-cleansing expeditions.
• After Du Xian Sect returned to normal and Youqin Xuanya began secluded cultivation, an uninvited group arrived, led by a fox-tailed woman determined to win Daoist Master Qi Yuan’s affection.

Li Changshou learned that Jiu Yushi saw Qi Yuan as a brother rather than a romantic partner, then disguised himself as Qi Yuan to handle a Qingqiu fox woman who had come to visit. The fox woman approached him in Du Xian Hall, while Ling'e and Jiu Jiu tried to block her.

• Li Changshou asked Jiu Yushi about her feelings for Qi Yuan, and she said she wished he were her elder brother by blood.
• Qi Yuan drank over his disappointment, then said he would treat Jiu Yushi like a younger sister and hoped to reincarnate and cultivate again someday.
• Jiu Wu told Lesser Qiong Peak that the Qingqiu Clan had arrived to return a courtesy and that a fox woman wanted to meet Qi Yuan.
• Li Changshou disguised himself as Qi Yuan and went to Du Xian Hall with Jiu Jiu and Ling'e, intending to let his master refuse the fox woman.
• The fox woman walked toward Li Changshou, but Ling'e and Jiu Jiu took seats beside him before she asked whether she could sit near him.

Qingqiu Lan pursued Qi Yuan after the Qingqiu Clan proposed a marriage alliance with Du Xian Sect, while Li Changshou tried to keep the situation under control. After discovering that the Saint Empress had tied Lan’s Red String to Qi Yuan, Li Changshou watched his master meet her in an array and left the chapter with the pair blushing after an awkward moment.

• Ling'e objected to Qingqiu Lan’s advances toward Qi Yuan, and Ji Wuyou gave the pair half a day to speak privately.
• Li Changshou led Lan to Lesser Qiong Peak, where she became lost inside a trapping array while he woke Qi Yuan and explained the situation.
• At the Matchmaker’s Hall, Li Changshou learned that Lan’s Red String had been tied to Qi Yuan’s by the Red Embroidered Ball, which the Matchmaker suspected the Saint Empress had used.
• Qi Yuan entered the array and tried to reject Lan, but she poured out her feelings and danced for him until he began bleeding from the nose.
• Lan rushed to help Qi Yuan, and they both blushed when his hand touched hers as she covered his mouth and nose; Li Changshou and the others watched in dismay.