Chapter Summaries

Xiao Zhan refused Liu Ruyan’s public offer to dissolve their engagement, even after she proposed giving him three years to prove himself. Just as he faced humiliation and uncertainty, a woman in white arrived and declared that three days would be enough to make Liu Ruyan kneel before her junior brother.

• Xiao Zhan confronted Liu Ruyan over inviting witnesses to the engagement dissolution and humiliating his family.
• Liu Ruyan offered Xiao Zhan a Tongxian Pill, the Xiaguang Sword, and other resources as compensation, but the crowd urged him to accept.
• Xiao Zhan refused to dissolve the marriage contract and rejected Liu Ruyan’s gifts.
• Liu Ruyan proposed that Xiao Zhan meet her at the Tianling Sect in three years, promising to serve him if he proved stronger and to dissolve the contract if he did not.
• A proud woman in white entered with a group and declared that three days were enough to make Liu Ruyan kneel before her junior brother.

Su Yunyun and Xiao Zhan’s other senior brothers and sisters appeared at the Xiao Family and agreed to move Liu Ruyan’s marriage-contract challenge up to three days away. As the challenge became a joke across the Southern Region, Xiao Yun grew worried that the newcomers might be frauds, especially after hearing their boastful plans.

• Su Yunyun introduced herself and the others as Xiao Zhan’s senior brothers and sisters, then accepted Liu Ruyan’s three-day challenge.
• Xiao Zhan explained Heaven and Earth Gate to Xiao Yun and firmly agreed to face Liu Ruyan at the Tianling Sect in three days.
• Liu Ruyan and the gathered spectators mocked Xiao Zhan, then left after declaring themselves witnesses to the agreement.
• News of the challenge spread through Tianxing City and the Southern Region, drawing crowds toward the Tianling Sect.
• At the Xiao Family, Su Yunyun said the three days were for the bald Bai Qiyu to reach them, while Hong Kuangfeng eagerly anticipated destroying the Tianling Sect if it broke its promise.
• Xiao Yun pulled Xiao Zhan aside and asked if his senior brothers and sisters were frauds, saying their claims made him feel as though cattle were flying in the sky.

Su Yunyun gave Xiao Zhan the book Dou Qi Transforms into Horse, and reading it caused his cultivation to surge to Golden Immortal. Newly confident in his power, Xiao Zhan prepared to face Liu Ruyan and the Tianling Sect in three days.

• Su Yunyun gave Xiao Zhan the book Master had left for him and told him to read it.
• Xiao Zhan read the book, laughed at its famous lines, and suddenly began advancing through the cultivation realms.
• Xiao Zhan reached Golden Immortal as Su Yunyun sealed him in a separate space to contain the surging energy and tribulation clouds.
• Li Jin regretted that Xiao Zhan had only advanced to Heavenly Immortal, while Xiao Zhan thanked his senior brothers and sisters and pledged loyalty to the Heaven and Earth Gate.
• Xiao Yun celebrated Xiao Zhan's new strength and said he would accompany his son to confront the Tianling Sect in three days.

As the Tianling Sect prepared for Xiao Zhan and Liu Ruyan’s duel, Sect Master Yin Tianxiong revealed that he had inflamed the feud to please the Third Prince. Xiao Zhan initially saw no reason to fight, but his companions convinced him to go through with it, and he walked toward the arena as the crowd watched.

• Yin Tianxiong told Liu Ruyan that he had stoked the feud and opened the sect to spectators to demonstrate her resolve to the Third Prince.
• Yin Tianxiong urged Liu Ruyan not to hold back against Xiao Zhan, and she agreed to fight seriously.
• Xiao Zhan said the duel no longer mattered to him, but Hong Kuangfeng and Xiao Yun objected because they wanted the fight and had money riding on it.
• Su Yunyun warned Xiao Zhan that refusing to fight would be too softhearted for the Heaven and Earth Gate, and he resolved to proceed.
• Liu Ruyan waited on the arena as the crowd praised her and mocked Xiao Zhan, who then walked toward the arena.

Xiao Zhan faced Liu Ruyan in a public duel as she revealed her Earth Immortal cultivation and struck at him. He caught her sword between two fingers, snapped off its tip, and launched it back at her, leaving the venue stunned as his attack began.

• Xiao Zhan entered the arena calmly despite the crowd's jeers, while Liu Ruyan said she would use her full strength out of respect for their families' past ties.
• Liu Ruyan revealed that she was a twenty-year-old Earth Immortal, drawing gasps from the spectators and advancing Tianling Sect's plan to raise her profile.
• Liu Ruyan offered Xiao Zhan the first move, but he told her to attack first, prompting more laughter from the crowd.
• Liu Ruyan sent her longsword at Xiao Zhan with a powerful strike, and he stopped the blade between two fingers without moving.
• Xiao Zhan snapped off the sword tip and flicked it toward Liu Ruyan, declaring that it was his turn to strike.

Xiao Zhan defeated Liu Ruyan in the arena, revealed himself as a Golden Immortal, and publicly severed their ties with a letter of repudiation. As he left, Yin Tianxiong ambushed him and sent him flying with a powerful palm strike.

• Liu Ruyan was wounded and defeated by Xiao Zhan, then unleashed the Tianling Sect’s Tianling Sword Skill in a desperate attack.
• Xiao Zhan revealed his Golden Immortal cultivation and shattered Liu Ruyan’s attack with a palm strike, defeating her again.
• Xiao Zhan announced that he was severing all ties with Liu Ruyan and dropped a letter of repudiation beside her.
• Liu Ruyan vomited blood and her Earth Immortal realm fell by one level after Xiao Zhan rebuked her.
• Yin Tianxiong attacked Xiao Zhan from behind as he left, and Xiao Zhan was sent flying after failing to withstand the Profound Immortal’s palm.

Su Yunyun rescued Xiao Zhan from Yin Tianxiong and challenged Tianling Sect’s attempt to twist the truth, while Hong Kuangfeng joined the fight and faced the Law Enforcement Hall. The chapter ended as Hong Kuangfeng self-destructed amid hundreds of Tianling Sect fighters.

• Yin Tianxiong chased the wounded Xiao Zhan and struck at him, but Su Yunyun blocked the attack and identified herself as Xiao Zhan’s senior sister from Heaven and Earth Gate.
• Yin Tianxiong accused Xiao Zhan of breaking the rules and urged the onlookers to support his version of events, while Su Yunyun helped Xiao Zhan recover and promised her fellow disciples would defend him.
• Su Yunyun summoned her eighteenth junior brother, Hong Kuangfeng, who charged into the Tianling Sect crowd and brutally killed several disciples.
• Yin Tianxiong ordered the Law Enforcement Hall to surround and kill Hong Kuangfeng, and hundreds of black-clad Heavenly Immortals converged on him.
• Hong Kuangfeng gleefully charged into the encirclement, shouted that he could no longer control himself, and self-destructed in midair.

Hong Kuangfeng destroyed the Tianling Sect's Law Enforcement Hall by self-destructing, but Su Yunyun said he would survive and sent Xiao Zhan and Xiao Yun to gather his remains. Su Yunyun fought the sect's elders alone until Yin Tianxiong called for help, and a white-haired man emerged from seclusion.

• Hong Kuangfeng self-destructed, devastating the Tianling Sect and wiping out its Law Enforcement Hall.
• Yin Tianxiong ordered the sect's elders to kill everyone connected to Heaven and Earth Gate, and dozens of powerful elders joined the fight.
• Su Yunyun told Xiao Zhan and Xiao Yun to collect Hong Kuangfeng's remains, explaining that he was not truly dead.
• Su Yunyun asked Li Jin to help gather the remains, then faced Yin Tianxiong and the elders alone.
• Su Yunyun fought off the elders with ease and brought down several of them, prompting Yin Tianxiong to call on his junior brother for help.
• A white-haired man with scarlet eyes emerged from deep within the Tianling Sect.

Yin Jian appeared to help Yin Tianxiong fight Su Yunyun, but her bald Junior Brother Bai Qiyu arrived and ignored him to use a latrine. After Yin Jian destroyed the latrine and attacked Bai Qiyu, Bai Qiyu finally punched him, leaving Yin Jian badly wounded and crashing through buildings.

• Yin Tianxiong called on Yin Jian to kill Su Yunyun, and Yin Jian prepared to attack her.
• Bai Qiyu rushed past Yin Jian and went into a nearby latrine, saying he had been holding it in for three days.
• Yin Jian destroyed the latrine, but Bai Qiyu dodged his sword attacks while continuing to read his comic.
• Bai Qiyu punched Yin Jian once, sending him flying through buildings and carving a ravine into the ground.

Xiao Zhan’s disciples overwhelmed the Tianling Sect until its long-sleeping ancestor, Ning Tianling, appeared and threatened them. Li Jin’s strange technique forced the First-turn Profound Immortal to kneel and catch his sword, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Yin Jian was killed by the bald monk while sitting on the toilet, and the Tianling Sect lost its will to fight.
• The Tianling Old Ancestor emerged after ten thousand years, and Yin Tianxiong and Liu Ruyan knelt in relief.
• Ning Tianling blamed Yin Tianxiong’s group for the sect’s decline and threatened Su Yunyun, Li Jin, and the others.
• Li Jin drew his sword, and a mysterious force made Ning Tianling kneel and catch it.
• Ning Tianling trembled and asked Li Jin what demonic art he had used, and Li Jin named it the one-hundred-percent Empty Handed Sword Catch.

Su Yunyun killed Tianling Old Ancestor and the Tianling Sect leaders, then left Liu Ruyan alive because Xiao Zhan had spared her. As news of the Heaven and Earth Gate’s strength spread, Yi Feng received fifty flyers and believed his hundred-disciple goal was close.

• Su Yunyun killed Tianling Old Ancestor with her sword and then slaughtered Yin Tianxiong and the other Tianling Sect leaders.
• Su Yunyun spared Liu Ruyan, saying she would honor Xiao Zhan’s decision, and dismissed Liu Ruyan’s threat of future revenge.
• Xiao Zhan reported that he had collected Eighteenth Junior Brother’s remains, and Su Yunyun and the others prepared to leave with them.
• Su Yunyun left the ruined Tianling Sect with her fellow disciples, while spectators watched in shock and news of the Heaven and Earth Gate spread across the Cangqiong Empire.
• Yi Feng received fifty flyers after the Heaven and Earth Gate’s reputation increased and estimated that he was nearing his goal of one hundred disciples.

Yun Yaoyao reached Pingjiang City to find Yi Feng, who teased her about her age and their debt before welcoming her to sit and offering her a cucumber. She noticed his Saint Grade umbrella and learned that he could not remember who had given it to him, leaving her baffled by how a mortal possessed such a treasure.

• Yun Yaoyao flew toward Pingjiang City and heard Yi Feng complain that she had not repaid the several million Gold Coins she owed him.
• Yun Yaoyao confronted Yi Feng, who called her “big sis” and then “Grandma,” provoking her anger.
• Yun Yaoyao threatened Yi Feng with her sword, but he reminded her of their agreement not to harm him and complimented her appearance.
• Yi Feng offered Yun Yaoyao his reclining chair and a freshly picked cucumber, which she reluctantly accepted.
• Yun Yaoyao asked where Yi Feng had gotten his Saint Grade umbrella, and Yi Feng said he had forgotten and thought someone had given it to him.

Yun Yaoyao gave Yi Feng five million Gold Coins and a pill that could raise him from a mortal to Martial Spirit, while hiding that they might never meet again. After Yi Feng swallowed the pill and waited without feeling anything, he asked whether it was supposed to take so long to work.

• Yun Yaoyao demanded that Yi Feng discard the black umbrella and gave him a red one instead.
• Yun Yaoyao said she had to leave soon, then gave Yi Feng five million Gold Coins and a pill that could let him reach Martial Spirit.
• Yun Yaoyao told Yi Feng the pill held immense energy and warned him that taking it could cause pain.
• Yi Feng swallowed the pill while Yun Yaoyao guarded him and watched for a reaction.
• After three quarters of an hour, Yi Feng felt nothing and complained that his legs were numb from sitting cross-legged.

Yun Yaoyao confirmed that the pill had no effect on Yi Feng, who reassured her that she would be shocked by him someday. Meanwhile, Lord Miezhi discovered that most of the 234 expected Chosen of Heaven had failed to appear at the Immortal Pillars.

• Yun Yaoyao examined Yi Feng and confirmed he remained an ordinary mortal after taking the pill.
• Yi Feng comforted Yun Yaoyao and promised she would be shocked the next time they met; she watched him go home before leaving.
• Yun Yaoyao entered a chaotic realm where the Immortal River Chaos Tablet was set to open in one year, and seekers of Enlightenment of Dao took seats on the Immortal Pillars.
• Lord Miezhi learned that he had gathered 234 Chosen of Heaven to help him become the Immortal River's Heavenly Dao, then entered the Chaos Hall to inspect them.
• Lord Miezhi found that most of the Immortal Pillars were empty and only six or seven people occupied the eighteen red pillars.

Miezhi concluded that the missing Chosen of Heaven had not yet awakened, while Zang Wu insisted on following a mysterious flyer to the Heaven and Earth Gate instead of pursuing the Immortal River Chaos Tablet. The five brothers split over his decision, and Zang Yi destroyed his own flyer rather than go with him.

• Miezhi rejected the idea that the two mysterious outsiders had disrupted his plan and concluded that the absent Chosen of Heaven had not awakened yet.
• Yun Yaoyao met Bai Piaopiao among the Red Divine Pillars and learned that the five Zang brothers were there as well.
• Zang Wu urged his four brothers to follow their flyers to the Heaven and Earth Gate, arguing that Miezhi and the Chaos Tablet were not trustworthy paths.
• Zang Yi and the other brothers refused to abandon their chance at the Immortal River Chaos Tablet, and Zang Yi threw his flyer into the lava of the Heifei Forbidden Land.

Yi Feng suspected the Heaven and Earth Gate disciples had joined only to freeload, so he summoned them to test their resolve and abilities. After seeing their weak demonstrations and accidentally destroying the wooden dummy with a kick, he decided to dismiss them once the sect had a hundred members.

• Zang Wu left Zang Yi, believing in the faint feeling that had guided him.
• Yi Feng concluded that his disciples had joined Heaven and Earth Gate to freeload and ordered Qing Huanxiang to gather them.
• Zang Wu reflected on the treasures in the Scripture Repository and joined the other disciples in answering Yi Feng's summons.
• Yi Feng asked several disciples to demonstrate their skills, but their attacks seemed feeble to him.
• Yi Feng kicked the wooden dummy apart, leaving Zang Wu awestruck at his master's power.
• Yi Feng decided that he would dismiss the disciples once the sect reached a hundred members.

After discovering that Zang Yi’s fifth brother had vanished from the Chaos Hall, Lord Miezhi warned Zang Yi not to miss the upcoming Immortal River Chaos Tablet. Zang Yi and his brothers decided to bring Fifth Brother back, and Zang Si set out to find him.

• Yi Feng’s disciples took his scolding as motivation and returned to the Scripture Repository, while Yi Feng privately despaired over them.
• Lord Miezhi discovered that the Chaos Hall had gained no new people in a month and that one person in a red pillar of light had disappeared.
• Lord Miezhi summoned Zang Yi, who explained that his fifth brother had gone to handle personal matters and promised to send for him.
• Zang Yi told his brothers that Fifth Brother needed to return before the Immortal River Chaos Tablet opened, and they agreed to bring him back.
• Zang Si volunteered to fetch Fifth Brother, and Zang Yi warned him not to be swayed by his younger brother.

Zang Si came to bring Zang Wu back for the opening of the Immortal River Chaos Tablet, but Zang Wu insisted on showing him Heaven and Earth Gate instead. After witnessing the island’s strange laws and the boatman’s astonishing leap, Zang Si wondered if the old man was the sect’s top combat power.

• Zang Si reached the area near Heaven and Earth Gate and contacted Zang Wu, who was studying in the Scripture Repository.
• Zang Si met Zang Wu and urged him to return for the Immortal River Chaos Tablet, but Zang Wu refused and invited him to visit Heaven and Earth Gate.
• Zang Si agreed to visit, and the pair discovered that the island’s laws made the surrounding space unusually solid and restricted their movement.
• Zang Si underestimated the old boatman until the man leaped three zhang onto the raft with ease.
• Zang Si apologized to the boatman and asked Zang Wu whether the old man was Heaven and Earth Gate’s top combat power.

Zang Wu showed Zang Si the extraordinary people and objects around Heaven and Earth Gate, leaving him eager to join the sect. The chapter ended with Zang Si asking how he could become a member.

• Zang Si doubted that the old boatman was merely a boatman until Zang Wu confirmed it and pointed out elderly women dancing under the island’s gravity.
• Zang Wu explained that the boatman and dancing women were ordinary workers, and that they represented only a small part of Heaven and Earth Gate’s power.
• Zang Wu showed Zang Si extraordinary items around the island, including Zhu Rou Rong’s high-grade Immortal Artifact butcher’s knife.
• Zang Si watched Ambassador Lu carry dung buckets at immense speed as Zang Wu described him and other powerful members of Heaven and Earth Gate.
• Zang Si covered Zang Wu’s mouth and asked how he could join Heaven and Earth Gate.

Zang Si joined the Heaven and Earth Gate after Zang Wu convinced him that its master and treasures surpassed what he had expected. More than half a month later, the brothers reunited at the ripening Heavenly Zen Flame Lotus, unaware that Zang Si had joined the sect.

• Zang Si asked Zang Wu to help him join the Heaven and Earth Gate, and Zang Wu explained that his flyer would let him enter.
• Zang Wu brought Zang Si to Yi Feng, who accepted him as a disciple after the usual process.
• Zang Si spent more than half a month immersed in the Heaven and Earth Gate’s library.
• Zang Yi, Zang Er, and Old Three traveled to protect their tribe’s ripening Heavenly Zen Flame Lotus, which could grant them the Extreme Flame Physique.
• Zang Si and Zang Wu arrived, and their brothers welcomed them, believing Zang Si had brought Zang Wu back.