Chapter Summaries

Li Changshou sensed that the pill in the porcelain bottle he had given Jiu Wu had been taken out, so he invented a dream to prompt Jiu Jiu to warn the sect. The alarm led Du Xian Sect and Golden Palace Gate experts to rescue Jiu Wu and two elders, though the attackers and their motives remained unknown.

• Li Changshou finished installing the grand array bases with Jiu Jiu and Ling'e, then sensed that the pill in Jiu Wu's bottle had been removed.
• Li Changshou told Jiu Jiu that he had dreamed Jiu Wu was in danger, and she went to wake Jiu Shi and check on him.
• Jiu Shi could not reach Jiu Wu, and the sect raised its alarm after learning that most of the group's message talismans were silent and one carried battle sounds.
• Du Xian Sect's Sect Master rushed to the Central Divine Continent while Golden Palace Gate sent experts to find the missing group.
• Golden Palace Gate experts broke through a concealing formation and rescued Jiu Wu and two injured elders, while two True Immortal deacons had died and the attackers' identities remained unknown.
• Li Changshou learned the rescue news and decided to make more warning devices and prepare a safe house beneath Lesser Qiong Peak.

Li Changshou investigated the ambush on Du Xian Sect’s disciples, prepared secret escape and defense plans, and mobilized his paper figures for battle. Half a year later, Daoist Wen Jing’s plot to inflame conflict among the Three Teachings advanced as three Golden Ao Island Qi Refiners accepted Blood Lotuses and set out to attack Du Xian Sect.

• Li Changshou visited the recovering Jiu Wu, learned the ambush might involve Chan Teaching, and discovered the sect’s Earth Vein Teleportation Array was an emergency escape route.
• Li Changshou secretly analyzed possible plots for three days, prepared coded instructions for Jiu Wu, Jiu Jiu, and his master, and ordered his paper figures to prepare for battle.
• Li Changshou focused on expanding his poison arsenal, strengthening his Paper Daoists, and earning Elder Wan Linjun’s trust while keeping his own cultivation hidden.
• Half a year later, Old Daoist Yuan Ze captured two Golden Ao Island Qi Refiners and brought them to a forest where hidden followers offered them Blood Lotuses.
• Daoist Wen Jing used the Blood Lotuses to persuade the three Qi Refiners to attack Du Xian Sect, hoping to widen the rift between the Three Teachings, then departed to watch from safety.

Li Changshou completed his preparations to defend Du Xian Sect and joined Elder Wan Linjun to patrol the surrounding terrain. They discovered hidden watchers near the sect and quietly returned to prepare a counterattack, leaving the story poised for their ambush.

• Li Changshou finished integrating the formations on Lesser Qiong Peak, refining poison and preparing Paper Daoists to guard against an attack.
• Li Changshou persuaded Elder Wan Linjun to warn the sect and agreed to survey the terrain outside its protective formation with him.
• Li Changshou and Elder Wan Linjun detected watchers in a forest southwest of the sect and continued their patrol without revealing they had noticed.
• Li Changshou advised Elder Wan Linjun to return first and then approach the watchers by surprise, while Wan Linjun agreed to handle the fighting.
• Li Changshou and Elder Wan Linjun slipped back out of the sect as wisps of green smoke, leaving the gate guards under watch.

Li Changshou restrained Elder Wan Linjun from charging into a concealed gathering of demons and human cultivators, then guided him through a cautious plan to incapacitate and kill them. After discovering that Daoist Wen Jing had controlled the gathering with blood-winged black mosquitoes, they erased the traces and returned to Du Xian Sect.

• Li Changshou used an Inner Voice Jade pendant to persuade Elder Wan Linjun to observe the suspicious gathering instead of attacking immediately.
• Li Changshou guided Wan Linjun to spread Soul-Enchanting and Spirit-Intoxicating Powder beneath the formation, incapacitating the gathered demons and cultivators.
• Wan Linjun poisoned the unconscious great demons and burned their bodies with Myriad Poisons Refining Soul Fire while Li Changshou searched for their memories with a Soul-Capturing Bead.
• A blood-winged black mosquito escaped the flames and attacked Li Changshou, revealing Daoist Wen Jing’s distant involvement and alerting her that many of her puppets had been destroyed.
• Li Changshou and Wan Linjun burned the remaining evidence, gathered the scattered treasures, and returned underground to Du Xian Sect after Li Changshou asked the elder not to mention his presence.

Li Changshou returned to Lesser Qiong Peak after helping Elder Wan Linjun defeat the attackers, then inferred that a hidden enemy was plotting against Du Xian Sect. As the sect sealed itself in preparation for another assault, Li Changshou began raising jade frogs as part of his peak’s defenses.

• Li Changshou gave Elder Wan Linjun the Soul-Capturing Bead and the remaining spoils before returning to Lesser Qiong Peak to check his precautions and consider ways to kill the blood mosquitoes.
• Li Changshou concluded that a hidden mastermind had used mosquito-controlled puppets to raise Du Xian Sect’s profile before arranging an attack, and predicted that the enemy would strike again within three years.
• The Sky-Breaking Peak Bell summoned the sect’s immortals, and the Sect Master and other experts searched the battlefield for the enemy’s main force.
• Li Changshou found that Spirit-Nourishing Jade Frogs could serve as mosquito predators and used specially prepared pills to encourage them to breed, while Ling'e watched and teased him.
• The Sect Master forbade sect members from leaving and ordered the Mountain Protecting Grand Formation sealed, while Elder Wan Linjun accepted compensation and privately intended it as a reward for Li Changshou.

Golden Ao Island cultivators continued cultivating the Blood Lotuses while Youqin Xuanya warned Li Changshou about a possible attack on Du Xian Sect. After Li Changshou redirected her to share a safer evacuation instruction, he began planning for the enemy’s approach, and half a year later the attackers moved toward the sect.

• Old Daoist Yuan Ze and two Golden Ao Island cultivators obeyed their master's orders and continued absorbing the Blood Lotuses to prepare to destroy Du Xian Sect.
• Youqin Xuanya visited Lesser Qiong Peak to tell Li Changshou and Ling'e about the sect's Earth Vein Teleportation Array escape route, then joined Ling'e for a meal.
• Li Changshou warned Youqin Xuanya that openly revealing the array could expose the sect's plans to spies and advised her to direct non-immortal disciples to Sky-Breaking Peak instead.
• Youqin Xuanya accepted Li Changshou's advice and left to consult the Hall of Hundred Affairs, while Li Changshou resolved to use poison pills to protect the sect.
• Half a year later, shadowy attackers crossed a barren valley northwest of Du Xian Sect as a concealed paper effigy moved into a nearby tree.

Li Changshou’s concealed Poison Arrays ambushed two groups attacking Du Xian Sect, killing and injuring many as he monitored the approaching forces. With three Golden Immortals among the attackers and the sect still unaware of the danger, he began arranging for Ling'e and Old Daoist Qi Yuan to flee while his Paper Daoists protected them.

• Li Changshou detected attackers approaching Du Xian Sect along northwest and southwest routes and activated Poison Arrays laid by his Earth-character Paper Daoists.
• The first arrays killed several True Immortals and injured Celestial Immortals, while the attackers used magic power to break through and continued advancing.
• Li Changshou sensed three Golden Immortals among the attackers and estimated that the two groups together included more than a thousand True Immortals and dozens of Heavenly Immortals.
• Li Changshou awakened a Human-character Paper Daoist in the pill room and sent Ling'e to fetch Old Daoist Qi Yuan, preparing them to escape through the earth veins.
• As Ling'e and Old Daoist Qi Yuan rushed into the pill room, Li Changshou continued controlling the Poison Arrays and preparing his Paper Daoists for the coming battle.

Li Changshou prepared Du Xian Sect for a sudden assault, using Poison Arrays to weaken two enemy forces before they reached the mountain gate. As the sect fought off the attackers, he kept his Paper Daoists busy clearing the battlefield and performing funeral rites, while Ling'e escorted the unconscious Qi Yuan toward the earth veins.

• Li Changshou's Paper Daoist drugged Qi Yuan and sealed him in a sack, then instructed Ling'e to take him underground when the sect's alarm rang.
• Li Changshou activated the Poison Arrays against two advancing enemy groups, then made two Paper Daoists appear outside the mountain formation and self-destruct to alert Du Xian Sect.
• The sect master ordered the sect to prepare for battle, and Du Xian Sect's immortals mobilized as the attackers revealed their forces and charged the formation.
• Ling'e carried the unconscious Qi Yuan and a Paper Daoist toward the earth veins while Li Changshou sent other Paper Daoists to clear the poisoned battlefield.
• The sect master and Elder Qi Ling engaged enemy Golden Immortals as the attackers bombarded the Mountain Protecting Grand Formation.
• Li Changshou's Paper People collected the corpses, removed the poison, performed funeral rites, and scattered the ashes before withdrawing underground.

As the mosquito puppets battered Du Xian Sect’s Mountain Protecting Grand Formation, Li Changshou stayed hidden and coordinated preparations for the battle. When the formation broke and fighting erupted, he disguised his voice to redirect Jiu Wu toward Sky-Breaking Peak and sent four Paper Daoists toward the enemy battlefields.

• Youqin Xuanya helped manage the Hall of Hundred Affairs while Li Changshou and Lan Ling'e stayed hidden, and Li Changshou reassured her that they would meet at the underground grand array if the formation fell.
• Du Xian Sect’s elders and disciples prepared to fight or retreat as the mosquito puppets attacked the Mountain Protecting Grand Formation, while Li Changshou observed the defenses and planned his response.
• Jiu Wu left the southwestern formation to look for Li Changshou and Lan Ling'e, but Li Changshou imitated Elder Wan Linjun’s voice and told him to open the brocade pouch and go to Sky-Breaking Peak.
• An enemy Golden Immortal struck the Mountain Protecting Grand Formation with a merit-bearing sword, shattering it and triggering battles across the southwest and northwest.
• Li Changshou sent four concealed Paper Daoists from wooden boxes toward the two battlefields.

As Du Xian Sect’s defenses collapsed, Li Changshou prepared a hidden counterattack and devised a way to call for help from the Grand Pure Sage. The chapter ended when Youqin Xuanya’s plea made the sect patriarch’s portrait stir with a faint Dao resonance.

• Li Changshou moved his master and Ling'e away from Sky-Breaking Peak, then sent Paper Daoists underground to prepare an ambush against the advancing enemy.
• Youqin Xuanya resolved to evacuate the younger disciples, but found Jiu Wu weeping before the patriarch’s portrait and begging the Cult Leader to save Du Xian Sect.
• Li Changshou concluded that Jiu Wu’s appeal had failed and coached Youqin Xuanya to make a more forceful plea, guiding her to summon sorrow and anger before entering the hall.
• Youqin Xuanya lit incense, kowtowed, invoked the Grand Pure Sage, and recited the Wu Wei Scripture before the portrait.
• As Youqin Xuanya recited the scripture, the portrait trembled and released a faint Dao resonance.

Great Mage Xuandu responded to the Du Xian Sect’s appeal and went to seek Du'e, while Li Changshou continued directing the sect’s defense and evacuation. With the disciples escaping and the battle nearing Sky-Breaking Peak, Li Changshou launched his hidden Paper Daoist attack against the mosquito puppets.

• The Portrait of a Saint reacted after Jiu Wu and Youqin Xuanya clarified the Du Xian Sect’s lineage and appealed for help, and Great Mage Xuandu set out to find Du'e.
• Li Changshou advised Elder Wan Linjun to draw the fighting toward Sky-Breaking Peak and told Ling'e to escort his true body and their master away.
• The Du Xian Sect evacuated its younger disciples through the Earth Vein Teleportation Array as its immortals retreated toward Sky-Breaking Peak.
• Li Changshou deployed forty paper soldiers in concealed positions and had them fire Silent Heavenly Poison Arrows into the densest ranks of mosquito puppets.

Li Changshou used poison arrows, explosive paper soldiers, and three baiting Paper Daoists to disrupt the Blood Mosquito Puppets attacking Du Xian Sect. Daoist Wen Jing redirected a puppet toward the east, while Li Changshou lured a demon force toward Lesser Qiong Peak to begin his second operation.

• Li Changshou poisoned dozens of Blood Mosquito Puppets with Heavenly Poison Arrows, then destroyed more with poisoned Paper Daoists that rushed the enemies near the forests.
• Daoist Wen Jing noticed the enemy forces faltering and ordered a Celestial Immortal puppet to ride a Demon Roc eastward toward Du Xian Sect's disciples.
• Li Changshou spotted the puppet and Demon Roc, prepared his defenses, and sent three late True Immortal Paper Daoists into the battle as decoys.
• The northern Paper Daoists drew a group of puppets away while the brawny Paper Daoist insulted the demons and fled toward Lesser Qiong Peak.
• The brawny Paper Daoist lured more than twenty demons, including two Heavenly Immortals, to the edge of Lesser Qiong Peak's Grand Array and challenged them to attack.

Li Changshou used Lesser Qiong Peak’s arrays, poison, and Paper Daoists to lure in and kill waves of demons, turning the tide of the battle at Du Xian Sect. As another threat approached the evacuated disciples, he began a plan that relied on Youqin Xuanya’s standing as Chief Disciple.

• A burly Paper Daoist lured more than twenty demons into Lesser Qiong Peak’s Star-Burial Thousand-Dipper Illusory Heart-Severing Array, where poison and the killing array wiped them out.
• Li Changshou’s Paper Daoists began luring another group of enemies toward the same traps while he controlled their behavior and expressions from afar.
• Li Changshou learned that a Heavenly Immortal old Daoist and a True Immortal Demon Roc were heading to attack the disciples who had escaped through the Earth Vein Teleportation Array.
• Youqin Xuanya offered to lure the powerful enemies away, but the elders refused and prepared to confront them themselves.
• Lan Ling'e suggested summoning help through the Earth Vein Teleportation Array, but the array had been destroyed by Primordial Immortals who stayed behind at the sect.
• Li Changshou and his junior sister approached Youqin Xuanya to begin a plan that would use her status and prestige as Chief Disciple.

Li Changshou used Youqin Xuanya and several decoys to prepare for the approaching Heavenly Immortal enemy while coordinating defenses at Du Xian Sect. As the Peng demon arrived, the elders’ formations began to meet its attack, and the controlled Daoist remained poised above it.

• Li Changshou secretly gave Youqin Xuanya a bottle of Soul-Enchanting and Spirit-Intoxicating Powder and guided her into rallying the disciples and elders to retreat underground and prepare an ambush.
• The elders set up concealed defenses, while Li Changshou kept Ling'e beside him and arranged for two External Affairs Elders to draw the enemy toward the valley.
• At Sky-Breaking Peak, Li Changshou sent three Paper Daoists into the enemy ranks, where they self-destructed and distracted the Blood Mosquito Puppets.
• Li Changshou reflected on the casualties and resolved to hide more thoroughly as he continued guarding his master, junior sister, and Du Xian Sect.
• The Peng demon reached the valley, and its controlled Heavenly Immortal Daoist attacked as the elders’ formations activated and Youqin Xuanya prepared to fight.

Li Changshou used Youqin Xuanya’s poison-bottle attack as cover to incapacitate the Demon Roc and the others, then used a miniature formation and Earth Evasion to rescue them when a Celestial Immortal attacked. His God Character Number One Paper Daoist fought the Celestial Immortal, and Li Changshou prepared another ambush in the forest.

• Li Changshou secretly dispelled the Demon Roc’s demonic power and released sleeping drug after Youqin Xuanya shattered the poison bottle, knocking out the Roc, Youqin Xuanya, Ling'e, the elders, and the Human Character Number Three Paper Daoist.
• The Celestial Immortal Daoist stayed in the sky and hurled a great seal at the unconscious group, but a miniature formation blocked the strike while underground hands dragged the others to safety.
• God Character Number One confronted the Celestial Immortal Daoist, trading spells and treasures while using the Luo Tian Yang Lei True Scripture and Writing Sutras to Form Laws.
• The Celestial Immortal Daoist’s Poison Repelling Treasure Pearl countered the Paper Daoist’s poisoned Fly Whisk, and the Paper Daoist deliberately fell into the forest after taking a glancing blow.
• The Celestial Immortal Daoist pursued the falling Paper Daoist, while three figures hidden in the trees activated their Miniature Array Discs.

Li Changshou’s paper figures trapped and killed the Celestial Immortal controlled by Daoist Wen Jing, destroying the Mosquito Daoist’s descending divine sense. Xuandu then confronted Daoist Wen Jing through an illusion and warned her not to harm the Human Teaching again, leaving her shaken and afraid.

• Li Changshou lured the Celestial Immortal into overlapping arrays, which trapped and gravely wounded him.
• The Mosquito Daoist’s divine sense took control of the old Daoist, but Li Changshou’s paper figures knocked away his Poison Repelling Treasure Pearl and burned him to ashes with Samadhi True Fire.
• Daoist Wen Jing realized her divine sense had been destroyed and wondered who was behind the paper figures.
• Xuandu used the power of the Taiji Diagram to enter an illusion and warn Daoist Wen Jing that he would not spare her if she attacked the Human Teaching again.
• Daoist Wen Jing returned to her cave abode trembling, while Xuandu opened his eyes beside the old Daoist northwest of Du Xian Sect.

True Lord Du'e arrived at Du Xian Sect and crushed the invading Golden Immortals, leaving the sect safe and Li Changshou’s Human Teachings roots strengthened. After recovering from the battle, Li Changshou was summoned to Du Xian Hall, while Ling'e’s Beast Skin Pouch began to move unnoticed.

• Xuandu sent True Lord Du'e to Du Xian Sect and asked him to bring back the Golden Ao Island Qi Refiners’ corpses for a later trip to Golden Ao Island.
• True Lord Du'e reached Du Xian Sect and knocked the three invading false Golden Immortals unconscious with a thunderous snort, allowing the sect to repel its enemies.
• Li Changshou hid his role in the battle, worried about Mosquito Daoist and the rapidly growing South Sea Cult, and learned that Du Xian Sect had survived with its Human Teachings lineage confirmed.
• The sect’s disciples found Li Changshou, Ling'e, and Youqin Xuanya unconscious; Jiu Jiu and other elders later brought them back to the sect.
• After pretending to remain unconscious for seven and a half days, Li Changshou received a command to report to Du Xian Hall and left Jiu Jiu’s room.
• Ling'e’s Beast Skin Pouch began to squirm while she remained unconscious, and she did not notice it.

Li Changshou received a Six-Revolutions Spirit Pill from Sect Master Ji Wuyou and returned to Lesser Qiong Peak, relieved that his hidden cultivation remained undiscovered. On Golden Ao Island, Han Zhi learned that her master Yuan Ze had been reborn as a black-skinned leopard.

• Li Changshou met the injured Ji Wuyou, who gave him a Human Teaching spirit pill intended to settle karma and advised him to remain with Du Xian Sect after becoming immortal.
• Li Changshou concluded that Grand Master Xuandu had sent the pill and decided to save it as a gift for his master’s future Dao companion.
• Li Changshou saw memorial steles and statues honoring the fallen and considered turning Lesser Qiong Peak into a movable formation before heading to retrieve his junior sister.
• Ao Yi tried to comfort Han Zhi as they awaited news about Yuan Ze’s reincarnation.
• Two Jie Teaching Daoists told Ao Yi and Han Zhi that a strange surge knocked Yuan Ze’s soul into the Animal Path, where he was reborn among the Demon Race as a black-skinned leopard.

Li Changshou returned to Lesser Qiong Peak and staged a fake injury to explain why he and Ling'e had drugged their master, Qi Yuan, during the demon attack. After discovering that worshippers of his South Sea God Cult were killing one another and giving him karmic sin, he began planning to dismantle the cult.

• Li Changshou and Ling'e returned to Lesser Qiong Peak, where they pretended he was gravely injured to make Qi Yuan believe their account of the battle.
• Qi Yuan realized the siblings had tricked him, whipped Li Changshou, then accepted their explanation and went to the Hall of Hundred Affairs.
• Li Changshou sensed that one of his South Sea God statues had been smashed and found mortals fighting over the cult, generating karmic sin that canceled some of his Incense Merit.
• Li Changshou decided he needed to bring down his own South Sea God Cult and considered scaring the wealth-obsessed Bear Stockade.
• Jiu Jiu woke on Sky-Breaking Peak and found the formations around her room unresponsive and the room unusually clean.
• Ao Yi encouraged Han Zhi to stop grieving over Yuan Ze and take a walk, and the two left Golden Ao Island together.

Jiu Jiu asked Li Changshou to repair her broken residence arrays, while he sent Paper Daoists to covertly dismantle the South Sea Sea God Cult and prepared for his future tribulations. In the Southern Sea, Ao Yi defeated his cousin Ao Mou after seeing through his water-transformation technique and ordered him to apologize to Han Zhi.

• Jiu Jiu broke the arrays around her pavilion while trying to repair them, then went to Lesser Qiong Peak to ask Li Changshou for help.
• Li Changshou dispatched Paper Daoists to make the South Sea Sea God Cult collapse covertly and reflected on avoiding Karmic Obstruction before his future Golden Immortal Tribulation.
• Jiu Jiu left to gather materials, and Li Changshou arranged to meet her at Sky-Breaking Peak after securing his dispatched Paper Daoists.
• Ao Mou mocked Ao Yi, and Han Zhi answered him, prompting the two Dragon Princes to agree to fight at sea.
• Ao Yi overcame Ao Mou’s water-transformation technique, caught him by the throat, and told him to apologize to Han Zhi.