Chapter Summaries

Xu Qiansui explored a crack at Other Shore Rock and found a jade slip revealing that the Nine-Headed Insect sought the Nine-Headed Centipede Banyan Core to force the Mayfly Offering and transform. He returned to the Rotten Moss Tundra, while the Nine-Headed Insect waited deep in Qiong Valley, determined to break through to Spirit Transformation.

• Xu Qiansui found insect traces and a damaged piece of armor near cracks in Other Shore Rock, then hid as a powerful Moss Puppet led others past him.
• Xu Qiansui entered a crack and followed a passage lined with shell remnants to a stone chamber containing a damaged jade slip.
• Xu Qiansui learned from the jade slip that the Nine-Headed Centipede Banyan Core could help force the Mayfly Offering to begin, and Xu Changqing deduced that the Nine-Headed Insect was searching for it.
• Xu Qiansui found dried insect eggs and footprints in the chamber, but Xu Changqing ordered him to retreat rather than enter a more dangerous passage.
• Xu Qiansui returned safely to the Rotten Moss Tundra, and the Nine-Headed Insect declared that it would gather the core and Mayfly Heavenly Fire to begin the ritual and reach Spirit Transformation.

Xu Changqing decided to confront the Nine-Headed Insect after the Immortal Sect refused to send help. While waiting for his avatars to arrive, he used his Creation Deity to send a plane tree leaf to the Rotten Moss Tundra, where it began purifying the land around the Nine-Headed Centipede Banyan.

• Xu Changqing weighed attacking the Nine-Headed Insect himself against asking the Immortal Sect for aid, then decided to do both while preparing to restrain it.
• Xu Changqing contacted Grand Elder Xuan Yan and warned that the Nine-Headed Insect might use the banyan's heart to begin the Mayfly Offering.
• Xuan Yan refused to dispatch Immortal Sect forces unless the Nine-Headed Insect encroached on its territory.
• Xu Changqing summoned his Creation Deity and infused a plane tree leaf with Creation law power.
• Xu Changqing sent the leaf to the Rotten Moss Tundra, where its Life Force purified the foul moss and water and caused vegetation to flourish.

A surge of Life Force transformed the Rotten Moss Tundra and the Nine-Headed Centipede Banyan, threatening the Nine-Headed Insect’s breakthrough plans. He emerged from Qiong Valley, discovered the devastation, and killed the surviving Evil Cultivators to keep them from revealing what had happened.

• Life Force swept across the Rotten Moss Tundra, killing demons and Evil Cultivators that depended on sinister qi.
• The Nine-Headed Centipede Banyan transformed from a sinister spirit plant into a flourishing spirit tree filled with Life Force.
• The Nine-Headed Insect sensed the transformation from inside Qiong Valley and rushed out, fearing it would disrupt his breakthrough into Spirit Transformation.
• The Nine-Headed Insect found the transformed tundra and realized that someone had ruined his plans to obtain the Nine-Headed Centipede Banyan Core.
• When the surviving Evil Cultivators asked for his help, the Nine-Headed Insect attacked and killed them with the weapons of his eight insect heads.

Xu Changqing recognized the Nine-Headed Insect as Bei Cangxuan and ordered Xu Qiansui to track him while he waited for his clone. In the Fallen Immortal Abyss, Xu Ping'an's Demon-Hunting Team faced the Rotbone Dragon Rhino, and the chapter ended as their fight began.

• Xu Changqing recognized the Nine-Headed Insect as Bei Cangxuan, the Luohe Bei Clan's patriarch, and realized he had joined the Lifeless Insect Mother.
• Xu Changqing ordered Xu Qiansui to monitor the Nine-Headed Insect while he waited for his clone to arrive and undergo Body Integration.
• Xu Ping'an's team recovered the Bloodthorn Demon Tree King's heart and decided to return to their outpost after hunting three Greater Demons.
• Fenglong sensed an approaching threat, and a Rotbone Dragon Rhino emerged from the Corrupting Spirit Mist.
• Xu Ping'an and Fenglong attacked the Rotbone Dragon Rhino, and Xu Ping'an directed the team to target its soft underbelly and armpits.

Xu Ping'an, Fenglong, and their allies killed a Rotbone Dragon Rhino, then returned to the Moon-Inviting Immortal Sect outpost. There, Su Qinghan revealed her plan to use Xu Ping'an to regain entry to the Dongting Immortal Sect and advance her cultivation.

• Jiang Weirui, Shi Feng, Mo Chen, Su Qinghan, and the others weakened and restrained the Rotbone Dragon Rhino while Xu Ping'an and Fenglong coordinated their attacks.
• Xu Ping'an pierced the dragon rhino with his spear as Fenglong struck it with thunder power, killing the Demon King.
• Fenglong took the dragon rhino's inner core and gave it to Xu Ping'an, who proposed that the group divide their gains at the outpost.
• At the outpost, Su Qinghan told Su Qinglan that Xu Ping'an was Xu Changqing's biological son and that she intended to use him to return to the Dongting Immortal Sect.

Xu Changqing completed his six spiritual roots, advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and prepared to confront the Nine-Headed Insect. Bei Qingtang returned to the Spirit Melody Sect, and Xu Changqing told her that the Luohe Bei Clan had been destroyed, leaving her devastated as he departed on urgent business.

• Fenglong and Zhurong joined Xu Changqing, and their merged spiritual roots helped him form the unstable Chaos Nascent Soul Dharma Aspect.
• Xu Changqing's cultivation rose from the Nascent Soul Early Stage to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and he gained control over the five elements and lightning.
• As Xu Changqing prepared to leave for the Rotten Moss Tundra, Bei Qingtang arrived at the Spirit Melody Sect, her injuries healed and her spiritual roots and bloodline cleansed by a Nine-Revolution Divine-Concentration Pill.
• Xu Changqing told Bei Qingtang that insect cultivators had wiped out the Luohe Bei Clan, concealing the Nine-Headed Insect's role.
• Bei Qingtang blamed the Lifeless Insect Mother for the clan's destruction, and Xu Changqing asked Shuangmei to speak with her before he left on urgent business.

Xu Changqing returned to the Rotten Moss Tundra, where his Creation Force had purified much of the region, and set out to eliminate the remaining evil cultivators and find the Nine-Headed Insect. After transforming and retrieving the Nine-Headed Centipede Banyan, he uncovered the entrance to Qiong Valley and descended into it.

• Bei Qingtang left Xu Changqing, who used Shrinking the Earth to Inches to travel away from the Spirit Melody Sect.
• Xu Changqing found four Golden Core evil cultivators in the Rotten Moss Tundra and killed them with a single lightning strike, then dispatched other cultivators he encountered.
• Xu Changqing found the transformed Nine-Headed Centipede Banyan, now an Innate Spirit Tree, and lifted it from the earth.
• Xu Changqing discovered that the banyan’s roots had concealed the entrance to Qiong Valley and stored the tree in his Portable Space.
• Xu Changqing descended into Qiong Valley, where he saw a vast, decayed landscape strewn with the remains of monsters and cultivators.

Xu Changqing entered Qiong Valley and found the Nine-Headed Insect using the Mayfly Offering’s Heavenly Fire to transform. He waited for an opening, but the insect completed its metamorphosis into a humanlike form as its aura became refined.

• Xu Changqing killed the Moss Puppets and Echo Souls he encountered while advancing through Qiong Valley.
• Xu Changqing reached the River of the Other Shore and recognized the golden flames as the Heavenly Fire of the Mayfly Offering.
• Xu Changqing sensed the Nine-Headed Insect absorbing the Heavenly Fire and chose to wait until it was fully occupied before attacking.
• The Nine-Headed Insect endured the flames as its eight insect heads shed their shells and their energy fused into its body.
• The Nine-Headed Insect completed its transformation into a humanlike figure, with a glazed, fire-tempered body and a newly refined aura.

Xu Changqing interrupted the Nine-Headed Insect’s attempt to reach Spirit Transformation and killed him with the Five-Colored Divine Radiance and Purple Firmament Divine Lightning. He collected the remaining Mayfly Heavenly Fire and stored it in his Portable Space.

• Xu Changqing unleashed the Five-Colored Divine Radiance, suppressing the Heavenly Fire and tearing apart the Nine-Headed Insect as he attempted to transform.
• The Nine-Headed Insect drew in the remaining Heavenly Fire and summoned a tide of flames to destroy Qiong Valley.
• Xu Changqing summoned Purple Firmament Divine Lightning, which shattered the fire tide and annihilated the Nine-Headed Insect, his spiritual insect origin, and his soul.
• Xu Changqing gathered the residual Heavenly Fire into a sphere of Mayfly Heavenly Fire and stored it in his Portable Space.

Xu Changqing intercepted three outsiders from the Azure Sea Realm near the Spirit Melody Sect and killed two who attacked him. He questioned the survivor, who explained the Azure Sea Realm’s crisis and how a Guiding Spirit Light led them to the Heavenly Origin Realm.

• Xu Changqing noticed spatial fluctuations near the Spirit Melody Sect and watched three outsiders emerge from a crack.
• The two bold outsiders planned to replenish their Water Qi by devouring natives, while their timid companion urged them to hide and gather information.
• Xu Changqing trapped the outsiders with his Five-Colored Banners, but the two attacked him with giant fish formed from Water Qi.
• Xu Changqing used a simplified Five-Colored Divine Radiance to kill the two attackers, then spared the frightened survivor in exchange for answers.
• The survivor identified his people as the Mystic Scale Clan from the Azure Sea Realm and described their Divine Fish Transformation cultivation and the threat of the Extraterrestrial Hundred-Dragon Procession.
• The survivor said his group found a Guiding Spirit Light while drifting through spatial turbulence and followed it to the Heavenly Origin Realm.

Xu Changqing captured Lin Qi, an outsider from the Azure Sea Realm, and reported the threat to Sect Master Chao Jin and Grand Elder Xuan Yan. Their investigation raised alarm when Xu Changqing revealed that he had recently seen Bei Qingtang, who was supposed to be away for twenty years, and Chao Jin sent him to find her.

• Xu Changqing took Lin Qi and his belongings to the Dongting Immortal Sect and summoned Chao Jin and Xuan Yan.
• Lin Qi explained that a Guiding Spirit Light had revealed the Heavenly Origin Realm to outsiders from the Azure Sea Realm.
• Xuan Yan and Chao Jin confirmed the Hundred Dragons' Procession was real but believed it would not pass through the Heavenly Origin Realm.
• Chao Jin said Bei Qingtang was expected to return in twenty years, but Xu Changqing insisted he had spoken with her only hours earlier.
• Chao Jin failed to find Bei Qingtang and ordered Xu Changqing to search for her while he sent Lin Qi to prison.

Xu Changqing refined a powerful Spirit Plant Puppet from the Nine-Headed Centipede Banyan while preparing to search cautiously for his missing senior sister, Bei Qingtang. The puppet reached Early Inferior Nascent Soul and was named Xu Jiuyou.

• Xu Changqing returned to his meditation chamber and entered his Portable Space, deciding he needed a Nascent Soul-level puppet while Violet Firmament was away and Qiansui lacked strength.
• Xu Changqing extracted the Banyan Core from the Nine-Headed Centipede Banyan and shaped a new puppet body from wood marrow, spirit jade powder, Creation Spirit Dew, and Nine Nether Soil.
• Xu Changqing engraved the Nine Chapters of Puppetry on the puppet, adapting its abilities to its wood-born vitality, branch-binding power, and evil-devouring traits.
• Xu Changqing activated the puppet with his magic power and Wood Dao Resonance, then inscribed six offensive, eight defensive, and six auxiliary Spirit Runes.
• The puppet's cultivation rose to Early Inferior Nascent Soul, and Xu Changqing named it Xu Jiuyou.

Xu Changqing sent Xu Jiuyou to search for Bei Qingtang along Luo River, where he learned that she had visited the Bei Clan ruins and gone upstream. As Xu Jiuyou continued searching, he witnessed a brutal battle between the Great Moon Dynasty and an unknown faction.

• Xu Changqing sent Xu Qiansui to the Nine Yaoguang Domains to search for Eldest Senior Sister and investigate the Lifeless Insect Mother, while Xu Jiuyou went to the Luohe Bei Clan.
• Xu Jiuyou found ordinary villagers living among the ruins and questioned Zhang Xiang, who said Bei Qingtang had visited two hours earlier and headed upstream.
• Xu Jiuyou searched upstream for Bei Qingtang but found no trace of her, and Xu Changqing observed the contrast between fleeing villagers and wealthy people enjoying a pleasure boat.
• Xu Jiuyou discovered tens of thousands of Great Moon Dynasty soldiers fighting an unknown faction, with the slaughter turning Luo River dark red.

Xu Changqing tracked Bei Qingtang through Xu Jiuyou but found Lin Feng in the Southern Domain instead, then returned to Azurewood Peak and caught up with his disciples. Qingyao’s reminder that Fifth Martial Uncle was lonely left him realizing he had neglected her.

• Xu Jiuyou followed the Luo River into the Southern Domain while Xu Changqing continued searching for Bei Qingtang and refused to interfere in a battle below.
• Xu Jiuyou spotted Lin Feng, whose cultivation had advanced to the Middle Golden Core Realm, but Xu Changqing ordered him to keep tracking Bei Qingtang.
• Xu Changqing returned to Azurewood Peak and found Sun Shangxiang and Li Muyao together; he permitted them to go out into the mortal world.
• Xu Changqing learned that Qingyao had been studying diligently and cautioned her not to rush her cultivation.
• Qingyao said she had visited Fifth Martial Uncle because he was lonely, making Xu Changqing realize he had neglected her while focusing on the Spirit Melody Sect.

Demon God Kong Fang learned that the Heavenly Origin Realm’s location had been exposed and ordered demons to gather at the Interstice while he waited for an opportunity to invade. In the Southern Domain, Bei Qingtang awakened the Blackwater Dark Serpent through a bloodline symbiosis, gaining power as she sought to surpass Inferior Nascent Soul.

• Kong Fang learned that the Blackflame Bull Demon Clan had used Guiding Spirit Light to locate the Heavenly Origin Realm.
• Kong Fang decided not to open the Interstice yet and predicted the three great Immortal Sects would seek his help.
• Kong Fang ordered the Fox Clan, Wolf Clan, and Snake Clan to gather demons near the Interstice.
• Bei Qingtang entered an ancient ruin and found the ten-thousand-year-frozen Blackwater Dark Serpent.
• Bei Qingtang used her Profound River Bloodline and the Bloodline Symbiosis Secret Method to awaken the serpent and form a symbiotic contract.
• Bei Qingtang’s cultivation rose to the middle stage of the Early Inferior Nascent Soul, and she vowed to become more than an Inferior Nascent Soul.

Xu Changqing visited Mu Ning at the Life Pool, where she told him she had briefly sensed Bei Qingtang’s aura. He left to inspect Mu Ji’s neglected Grade-Four Spirit Fields after Mu Ning reminded him to tend them.

• Xu Changqing brought Mu Ning gifts and promised to have Qingyao keep her company, though Mu Ning admitted she knew little about planting.
• Mu Ning asked when Mu Ji and Bei Qingtang would return, and Xu Changqing concealed that Bei Qingtang had already returned to the Heavenly Origin Realm.
• Mu Ning said she had sensed Bei Qingtang’s aura, startling Xu Changqing, who wondered whether Bei Qingtang’s cultivation had greatly advanced.
• Mu Ning reminded Xu Changqing to look after Mu Ji’s Spirit Fields, so he went to inspect the Grade-Four fields and their thriving spirit plants.

Xu Changqing cultivated his master's rare spirit plants, while Lin Feng and three Golden Core cultivators witnessed a black tide devour a battlefield and a gigantic Blackwater Dark Serpent consume the remains. The group fled toward the Eastern Domain as the serpent continued feeding.

• Xu Changqing discovered rare Law-bearing spirit plants, including a Five-Element Dao-Rhyme Flower and Chaos Auspicious Grain, in his master's garden.
• Xu Changqing used the Auspicious Grain Record to nourish the spirit plants, and Mu Ning felt a cool breath while eating Azure Mist Spirit Honey.
• Lin Feng and three Eastern Domain cultivators watched two mortal nations fight on a battlefield between the Southern Domain and Eastern Domain, but did not intervene.
• Black water surged across the battlefield, swallowed more than a hundred thousand soldiers, and dissolved their bodies into floating skeletons.
• A hundred-zhang Blackwater Dark Serpent arrived and devoured essence blood and undissolved flesh from the black water.
• Lin Feng and the three cultivators summoned flying artifacts and fled toward the Eastern Domain.

The Three-Eyed Clan arrived at the Heavenly Origin Realm aboard the Myriad-Eye Radiance, and its younger members judged the realm weak. Qiong warned them that the realm’s ancient history and hidden survivors made it dangerous, then ordered the clan to make contact cautiously.

• Qiong, Lie, Xuan, Li, and several dozen Three-Eyed Clan elites arrived near the Heavenly Origin Realm aboard the Myriad-Eye Radiance.
• Li, Lie, and Xuan disparaged the realm and suggested conquering it for its resources.
• Qiong explained that the Heavenly Origin Realm had once been powerful and might still hold ancient inheritances and hidden survivors.
• Qiong ordered the Three-Eyed Clan to seek out the realm’s foremost powers, investigate before making plans, and avoid provoking its cultivators.

Xu Ping'an and his Demon-Hunting Team crossed the dangerous Burial Dao Plain, fighting demons and collecting treasures as they advanced. They reached a largely intact palace ruin and found three other Demon-Hunting Teams gathered at its entrance.

• Xu Ping'an led Li Yueyao, Su Qinghan, Mo Chen, Shi Feng, and Jiang Weirui into the Burial Dao Plain, where Li Yueyao handed out Miasma-Clearing Pills.
• A Miasma Spirit attacked with poison needles and illusions, but Xu Ping'an shattered its attacks with Five-Colored Divine Radiance and killed it.
• When more than a dozen Miasma Spirits emerged, Xu Ping'an assigned his companions combat roles, and the team defeated them together.
• The group traveled deeper, fighting Miasma Spirits, Bone Colossi, and Law Aberrations while gathering crystals, fragments, and spiritual plants.
• Xu Ping'an's team reached a palace ruin surrounded by poisonous miasma and turbulent law power, where they found three other Demon-Hunting Teams observing the entrance.

Xu Ping'an and the other demon-hunting squads were ambushed by masked Golden Core cultivators near the palace ruins. Xu Ping'an killed their Earth-Grade Golden Core Perfection leader with the Five-Colored Divine Radiance, and the surviving attackers were driven onto the defensive.

• Dozens of masked, poison-wielding cultivators burst from the Seven-Colored Venomous Miasma and attacked Xu Ping'an's group and the other demon-hunting squads.
• Mo Chen protected Li Yueyao, Jiang Weirui shielded Mo Chen, and the group fought back with vines, water, ice, talismans, and Shi Feng's saber.
• The attackers' leader unleashed black sword radiance at Xu Ping'an, who countered with his five-element spear and then dissolved the leader's attack with the Five-Colored Divine Radiance.
• Xu Ping'an's divine radiance struck and killed the leader, causing the remaining masked cultivators to lose morale.
• Xu Ping'an and the other demon-hunting squads launched a counterattack, pushing the surviving attackers into a disadvantageous position.