Chapter Summaries

Qin Huan passed Xu Chuan’s test, became his disciple, and began cultivating in the Xu Household. Two years later, Xu Han survived his transformation tribulation, awakened a Primordial Nether Crow bloodline, and was sent to cultivate in the Nether Yin Mountain Range; the chapter ended with Xu Mingxian breaking through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and advancing his battle-formation abilities.

• Qin Huan passed Xu Chuan’s illusion test, learned about the Three Prefectures Region’s calamity, and knelt to become Xu Chuan’s disciple.
• Xu Chuan gave Qin Huan a Heaven-Mending Pill and an Illusion Dao inheritance, and Qin Huan refined the pill to raise his aptitude to a Heaven Spiritual Root.
• Xu Han survived his transformation tribulation with Xu Chuan’s help and awakened a Primordial Nether Crow bloodline with powerful death-based abilities.
• Xu Han and Xu Sky Lion visited Crow Daoist, who agreed to visit the Demon King Hall before deciding whether to ally with it.
• Hanyuan explained the rarity and potential of Xu Han’s Primordial Nether Crow bloodline, and Xu Chuan later arranged for him to cultivate in the Nether Yin Mountain Range.
• Xu Mingxian broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and developed composite battle formations that let him contend with Great Cultivators.

Xu Chuan traveled to Joyous Union City to protect White Jade Capital and, under the guise of Elder Nether Crow, defeated an attack by the Blood Demon Grotto and Zhong Household. He returned to Yunxi after the major factions began investigating his identity, leaving White Jade Capital under the watch of his ghost cultivator avatar and Xu Han.

• Xu Mingyuan and Xu Chonghui asked Xu Chuan to protect White Jade Capital, and he traveled to Joyous Union City with Xu Han.
• True Lord Jueyin secured Bai Wushang’s permission for the Blood Demon Grotto to attack White Jade Capital, and Blood-Pupil True Lord led the assault with three Golden Core cultivators.
• Xu Han severely wounded Blood-Pupil True Lord with his innate abilities and swallowed his nascent soul, while Xu Chuan injured Blood Demon True Lord and Zhong Xuanye with his spiritual consciousness secret art.
• Blood Demon True Lord and Zhong Xuanye fled, and Bai Wushang ordered an investigation into Elder Nether Crow as news of the fight spread through the Blackwater Domain.
• At a Heavenly Baleful Sect meeting, Xu Dewen advised the others to ignore Elder Nether Crow, and the sect voted not to investigate him.
• Xu Chuan returned to Yunxi, left his ghost cultivator avatar and Xu Han to guard White Jade Capital, and brought back corpses to help Profound Yin and Blood Baleful advance.

Xu Chuan arranged aid for Meiji’s Yin Sect lineage while guiding Xu Zhaoyuan’s cultivation, and the Xu Household gained a transformed great demon and a new Dragon Fox daughter. Xu Zhaoyuan visited Xu Chongjian to study his Five Elements Sword Dao and remained at the Cloud Cang Sword Sect to cultivate.

• Meiji emerged from seclusion and told the Yin Empress that she had reached the peak of the nascent soul middle stage as the Joyous Union Sect’s Yin-Yang Dao Contention approached.
• After Meiji asked the White Jade Capital for help, Xu Chuan advised the Xu Household to wait and let Xu De Ling and Xu De Wen act independently if the conflict required it.
• Xu Dewen broke through to the nascent soul middle stage, while Xu Zhaoyuan reached Foundation Establishment perfection and began studying the Five-Element Creation Palm with Xu Chuan.
• Xu Ying transformed into a great demon with the Crimson Sky Goshawk bloodline and survived his Transformation Tribulation Lightning.
• Hu Meiniang gave birth to a seven-tailed Dragon Fox, whom Xu Chuan named Linglong, and Moyue agreed she would join the Xu Household after three years.
• Xu Zhaoyuan visited Xu Chongfei and Xu Chongjian to study their arts, then stayed at the Cloud Cang Sword Sect after observing Xu Chongjian’s Northern Darkness Sword Dao.

Xu Zhaoyuan emerged as a peerless Foundation Establishment prodigy, developed powerful five-element techniques, and received a new body-tempering inheritance that strengthened the Xu Household. After three years of further cultivation, he could threaten Golden Core perfection cultivators, while the Xu Household continued managing regional disputes and tracking its members’ growing strength.

• Xu Chongjian warned Xu Wenxiao that Xu Zhaoyuan and Xu Jingwu possessed extraordinary potential, and Xu Wenxiao brought Xu Jinglan to Xu Chuan for help comprehending Profound Nether Sea Suppression.
• Xu Zhaoyuan emerged from seclusion with a divine ability embryo, then defeated Xu Wenxiao’s attacks in a spar through his five-element techniques and forced Xu Chongjian to end the match.
• Xu Chuan showed Xu Zhaoyuan how to improve his Five-Element Primordial Sword with formations, and the Clan Genealogy revealed a Five-Element Creation body-tempering method that Xu Chuan passed to him.
• Xu Zhaoyuan cultivated the Five-Element Creation Body, transformed his magic power, and chose to delay his Golden Core breakthrough until he could comprehend creation intent.
• Over the next three years, Xu Zhaoyuan developed the Five-Spirit God-Slaying Art and combined it with his other abilities to severely injure and kill a late-third-rank demon beast; Xu Deling also forged him a high-grade Five-Element Ring.
• The Xu Household continued mediating disputes among Northwest cultivators as Ye Fan and Xu Deyue advanced to Nascent Soul middle stage, and the chapter ranked the household’s strongest fighters.

Xu Zhaoyuan developed a five-element divine ability and traveled to the Blackwater Domain to kill a Blood Demon Grotto genius, where he began a campaign against the Xin Household to draw out his target. After forcing the household to seek reinforcements, he and Xu Zhaoheng prepared to intercept them on the road.

• Xu Zhaoyuan comprehended creation power, and Xu Chuan helped him develop a Five-Element Treasure Seal that could become a quasi-greater divine ability.
• Xu Chuan sent Xu Zhaoyuan to the Blackwater Domain with Xu Zhaoheng, where they planned to provoke the Xin Household and target Xin Yulang.
• Xu Zhaoyuan killed Xin Youlin and defeated Xin Xuekuang, then hunted Xin Household cultivators until the household sent its Grand Elder to seek help from the Blood Demon Grotto.
• Xu Zhaoyuan and Xu Zhaoheng learned that the Xin Household had sought reinforcements and decided to intercept them before they returned.
• Xu Zhaoyuan urged Xu Zhaoheng to remember his ties to the Xu Household, and Xu Zhaoheng affirmed that he would return if the lineage needed him.

Xu Zhaoyuan killed Xin Yulang after a fierce battle, then formed a Xiantian Five-Element Dao Body golden core in the Azure Sea Forest and advanced to Golden Core Middle Stage. Azure Firmament agreed to serve as his Guardian Daoist and took him through a Spatial Passageway to teach him.

• Xu Zhaoheng and Xu Zhaoyuan ambushed the Xin Household party, with Xu Zhaoheng holding off the Xin Household Ancestor and Ma Qiying while Xu Zhaoyuan fought Xin Yulang and Xin Rufeng.
• After enduring their attacks and recovering with pills, Xu Zhaoyuan broke through Xin Yulang's defenses, struck him down with the Five-Element Primordial Finger, and fled as Xu Zhaoheng covered his escape.
• Xu Chuan healed Xu Zhaoyuan and brought him back to Yunxi, while Xu Zhaoheng remained in the Blackwater Domain and Xu Deling was assigned to watch the Joyous Union Sect.
• Xu Chuan took Xu Zhaoyuan and Xu Huai to the Azure Sea Forest, where Azure Firmament permitted Xu Zhaoyuan to form his core beneath the great pagoda tree.
• Xu Zhaoyuan's core formation stirred a thousand-li spiritual energy tide, revealed his Xiantian Five-Element Dao Body and extraordinary foundation, and carried him from Golden Core First Layer to Golden Core Middle Stage.
• Azure Firmament agreed to guide Xu Zhaoyuan as his Guardian Daoist until Spirit Transformation and took him through a Spatial Passageway.

Xu Zhaoyuan entered the Little Five-Element Secret Realm and learned how it could help him cultivate, while Xu Chuan watched the Xu Household and its allies grow over seven years. The Joyous Union Sect’s Yin-Yang Dao Contention began, with Meiji fighting for the Yin Sect and drawing Bai Wushang’s attention.

• Xu Zhaoyuan told Xu Chuan that Azure Firmament had become his Path Guardian and explained the Little Five-Element Secret Realm’s trials and cultivation resources.
• Xu Zhaoyuan chose to pursue the Creation Dharma Form by cultivating the Five Emperors and Five Sovereigns Dharma Form as its foundation, and Xu Chuan warned him to conceal the cave-heaven’s connection from Lingjun.
• Over the following years, the Xu Household expanded its influence, Blood Baleful and other allies advanced, Xu Chuan improved his divine abilities, and the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty strengthened its foundations.
• The Yin Empress sought aid from the Xu Household and the Heavenly Baleful Sect; Xu Dewen agreed to support her faction in exchange for a future favor.
• The Yin and Yang factions agreed to settle control of the Joyous Union Sect through a Dao Contention, and Meiji volunteered as the Yin Sect’s stake.
• The Dao Contention began with Foundation Establishment and Golden Core battles and Nascent Soul duels; Meiji quickly defeated her opponent, prompting Bai Wushang to praise her.

The Yin Sect lineage and Bai Wushang’s Yang Sect fought over control of the Joyous Union Sect, until Xu Deling and the Xu Household’s support shifted the battle. After Bai Wushang conceded and surrendered the Yang Sect’s spirit treasure, Xu Deling rejected Tantai Ming’s marriage proposal.

• Bai Wushang and the Yin Empress gathered their allies, and Meiji killed a Yang Sect elder while the other fighters engaged in battle.
• Xu Dewen fought True Lord Jueyin, destroyed the Green-Haired Corpse King’s intelligence, and drew Jueyin back toward the main battlefield.
• Xu Deling arrived on the Blazing Vermilion Bird and joined Tantai Ming in defeating Blood Demon True Lord, whose Nascent Soul Chongyuan later swallowed.
• Tyrant Blade True Lord and True Lord Jueyin fled, leaving Bai Wushang surrounded; after an hour of fighting, he was grievously wounded and conceded the Dao Contention.
• Bai Wushang surrendered the Yang Sect’s spirit treasure and withdrew, allowing the Yin Sect lineage to reclaim control of the Joyous Union Sect.
• Tantai Ming asked Xu Deling to consider a marriage alliance with the Tantai Household, and she told him he did not measure up.

Xu Dewen took advantage of Blood Demon True Lord’s death to loot the Blood Demon Grotto, while Xu Chuan helped him subdue its Heavenly Demon Blood Corpse. The Blackwater Domain descended into conflict and named four rising Nascent Soul prodigies the Four Great Devil Lords; two years later, Xu Zhaoyuan returned with an Earth Origin Root as Xu Moyue attempted to reach the transformation peak.

• Xu Deling rejected Tantai Ming’s advances, while Xu Dewen enlisted Xu Huai to enter the Blood Demon Grotto ahead of the other powers.
• Xu Dewen persuaded Blood Tempering True Lord to guide him through the Grotto’s vaults, took its accumulated resources, and found the Heavenly Demon Blood Corpse hidden beneath the sect.
• Xu Chuan used an illusion and Life-and-Death Seals to make the Heavenly Demon Blood Corpse acknowledge Xu Dewen as its master.
• The Yin Empress, Fan Xue, Tyrant Blade, Jueyin True Lord, and Xu Deling breached the Grotto’s formation, but found its vaults empty; the four remaining factions divided its people and disciples.
• News of the Grotto’s destruction spread, and Xu Dewen joined Heavenly Ghost True Lord and Corpse Soul True Lord as one of the Four Great Devil Lords amid growing warfare.
• Two years later, Xu Zhaoyuan returned to the Xu Household with an Earth Origin Root, and Xu Chuan revealed that Xu Moyue had begun attempting to reach the transformation peak.

Moyue reached transformation peak and returned to Nine Dragons Mountain with his children, where he defeated Grand Elder Qing Lei and succeeded him, gaining the inherited Spirit Treasure Azure Horn. After arranging Dragon Pool baptisms for his children, Moyue told Qing Lei that the Xu Household had enabled his rise and that he intended to return to them.

• Xu Chuan explained that Moyue planned to return to Nine Dragons Mountain and claim its Spirit Treasure, while Moyue reached peak fourth tier and agreed to take his children there for Dragon Pool baptisms.
• Moyue arrived at Nine Dragons Mountain with Jiao Xuan, Jiao Lei, Han Xue, and Linglong, then asked the clan chiefs to admit his children to the Dragon Pool.
• Moyue revealed his transformation-peak cultivation and spirit transformation bloodline, challenged Grand Elder Qing Lei, and gained the upper hand in their battle.
• Qing Lei accepted Moyue as his successor, and Moyue received the Grand Elder's token and the inherited Spirit Treasure Azure Horn at the succession ceremony.
• Moyue arranged Dragon Pool places for the clans and his children, then told Qing Lei that he served the Xu Household and that it had helped transform his bloodline.

Moyue persuaded Qing Lei to consider an alliance between Nine Dragons Mountain and the Xu Household, while Xu Chuan negotiated terms and later forged the pact as Nine Dragons Mountain faced a looming succession crisis. Xu Chuan refined Nascent Soul Formation Pills, Xu Mingshu reached the Nascent Soul Realm, and the chapter ended as Tantai Ming met Xu Chuan in Yunxi.

• Moyue told Qing Lei about the Xu Household’s Dragon Transformation Pill, and Qing Lei traveled through Azure Dragon Prefecture and neighboring regions to judge the Xu Household for himself.
• Xu Chuan proposed trade, spirit-beast contracts, and military support in exchange for a Dragon Transformation Pill, and Nine Dragons Mountain’s leaders debated the alliance before both sides signed a pact.
• Xu Mingxian built a Grand Transmission Array and defensive formation at Nine Dragons Mountain, and the Clan Genealogy revealed the twelfth generation’s Mystic Nether Spirit Body and Crimson Sky Spirit Body.
• Xu Chuan refined nine Nascent Soul Formation Pills, and Xu Mingshu used one to break through her bottleneck and form her nascent soul.
• Tantai Ming arrived in Yunxi, explored Cloudbrook City, and met Xu Chuan, whose Withering-and-Flourishing Dao startled him.

Xu Chuan’s household strengthened its alliances and advanced its cultivation while Xu Chuan perfected his withered-glory ability and discovered the greater potential of his [Withering and Flourishing] talent. The chapter left the Xu Household preparing to send Xu Jinglan and other disciples to a Southern Heaven Heavenly Pride Gathering.

• Tantai Ming visited the Xu Household, sparred with Ye Fan, and declined Xu Chuan’s offer to trade for the Golden Dawn Void-Breaking Art.
• Xu Chuan proposed helping Tantai Ming compete for the Tantai Household’s leadership, and Tantai Ming later agreed to the Xu Household’s support.
• Xu Deheng formed his Nascent Soul, several Xu Household cultivators advanced, and Cloud Roc broke through to the Transformation late stage.
• Ye Fan reached the fourth-tier middle stage in body tempering and left to seek natural cultivation grounds, while Xu Chuan’s xiantian withered-glory intent reached perfection and resonated with [Withering and Flourishing].
• Xu Zhaoyuan advanced to the Golden Core late stage, and Xu Jinglan agreed to represent the Xu Household at the upcoming Foundation Establishment Heavenly Pride Gathering.