Chapter Summaries

Li Fuchan discovered that a Purple Mansion Lord of Azure Ram Temple was manipulating Yang Family cultivators to attack Lesser Yin practitioners and realized he had been offered a choice to join the conflict. He killed the Wandering Gold cultivator Xi Yuan, submitted his pledge of allegiance, and escaped Great Night Lake as more Yang Family disciples arrived.

• Li Fuchan encountered a blood-reeking Yang Family Outer Scenery cultivator who practiced Wandering Gold and blocked his way.
• The cultivator taunted Li Fuchan about Azure Ram Temple's campaign against Wandering Gold practitioners, and Li Fuchan used illuminating light to discover that a Divine Ability had influenced the man's mind.
• Li Fuchan reasoned that Azure Ram Temple and the Pivot Court were contending through the Yang Family, and considered leaving before a Purple Mansion Lord's influence reached him.
• Li Fuchan decided to accept the choice offered by Azure Ram Temple's Purple Mansion Lord and struck down the Wandering Gold cultivator, Xi Yuan, along with his trusted follower.
• Yang Family disciples arrived, and Xi Hong charged at Li Fuchan but was killed; Li Fuchan then flew away after submitting his pledge of allegiance.

Li Fuchan raced toward the Azure Ram Temple while the Pivot Court’s Purple Mansion Lord laid obstacles in his path. After breaking through an ancient art that trapped him at a bridge, he killed the old man who had blocked him and faced a Purple Mansion Lord, only for the Azure Ram Temple’s lord to intervene.

• Li Fuchan considered the Yang Family’s Divine Abilities and the conflict between the Pivot Court and the Azure Ram Temple as he hurried toward Hong Commandery.
• He avoided a valley where Lesser Yin Treasure Light had appeared, then defeated a dark turtle that attacked him over a lake.
• Li Fuchan recognized a white-haired old man at a broken bridge as another of the Pivot Court’s obstacles, but the bridge and old man kept reappearing after he passed them.
• Li Fuchan used Embrace-Lock Crouching Cicada to adapt to the old man’s ancient art, found his way beneath the bridge, and broke the technique’s hold.
• After Li Fuchan killed the old man, a Purple Mansion Lord confronted him, and the Azure Ram Temple’s Purple Mansion Lord appeared and told Changyin to accept his loss.

Li Fuchan met True Lord Chi Sui after killing Yang Xi Yuan and defeating Wei Po, and learned that Chi Sui valued him for never consuming blood or human flesh. Chi Sui brought him to the Azure Ram Temple as a disciple, where Li Fuchan received cultivation resources and began cultivating in seclusion.

• True Lord Chi Sui confronted the Pivot Court over its disciple’s use of blood and human flesh, then questioned Li Fuchan about why he had chosen him.
• Li Fuchan guessed three times and failed, but Chi Sui gave him the Magic Robe Slender and the Enchanted Sword Ten-Thousand-Li Subduer because he had never consumed blood or human flesh.
• Chi Sui personally draped the robe over Li Fuchan and took him to the Azure Ram Temple, sealing his eyes while they crossed the Unseen.
• Wei Xinyun welcomed Li Fuchan as a junior brother and gave him a Storage Bag containing Spirit Objects and Cultivation Resources.
• Li Fuchan considered whether Chi Sui might be scheming against him, then set aside his suspicions and began cultivating in seclusion.

Wei Tingyi and Wei Xinyun discussed Li Fuchan, the people from Evening Yin Island, and the secret conflict between Azure Ram Temple and Pivot Court over Wandering Gold cultivators. Wei Xinyun hoped to enter the Secret Seal of Seam-Sound Grotto and claim its blessed land for Azure Ram Temple, then stole Wei Tingyi’s tea and fled.

• Wei Xinyun told Wei Tingyi that Li Fuchan had gone into seclusion and explained that he had defeated Wei Po but likely killed him on True Lord Chi Sui’s instructions.
• Wei Tingyi served Wei Xinyun Cloud-Subduing Green tea, and they discussed the people from Evening Yin Island and their possible lack of restraint in mortal danger.
• Wei Xinyun learned that Azure Ram Temple might enter the Secret Seal of Seam-Sound Grotto with Pivot Court and compete to locate a Grotto Heaven in the blessed land.
• Wei Xinyun vowed to exert herself if True Lord Chi Sui chose her, then asked Wei Tingyi for more Cloud-Subduing Green.
• Wei Xinyun snatched Wei Tingyi’s tea jar and ran off, leaving him shouting after her.

Li Fuchan weighed the risks and advantages of returning to the South of the Yangtze and attaching himself to the Azure Ram Temple, while planning how to advance his cultivation. He accepted the Temple’s gifts and prepared to use the Crimson Frost Separation Grease to cultivate the Wu-Gui Di-Yin Spell Light.

• Li Fuchan examined the Enchanted Sword Ten-Thousand-Li Subduer and his Magic Robe, then questioned why Chi Sui True Lord had brought him back and given him such valuable gifts.
• Li Fuchan compared the South of the Yangtze with the lands overseas and concluded that the South offered greater stability, resources, and opportunity for him as a rogue Lesser Yin cultivator.
• Li Fuchan relied on the Heaven of Separation and the Jade Pivot Thunder Canon as safeguards against a Purple Mansion Lord, while planning to complete his Nature Root and Fate Root and reach the True Person level.
• Li Fuchan accepted the Azure Ram Temple Purple Mansion Lord’s Spirit Objects and decided they would help him complete his Nature Root and cultivate the Wu-Gui Di-Yin Spell Light.

Li Fuchan mastered Wu-Gui Di-Yin Spell Light after two years of seclusion, then performed a sacrificial rite on the Moon-Resting Terrace to advance Autumn Moon Joining Frost. As he finished, a mysterious True Lord appeared beneath the moon.

• Li Fuchan used a portion of Crimson Frost Separation Grease to master Wu-Gui Di-Yin Spell Light, whose power crumbled a bluestone to ash.
• Li Fuchan emerged from seclusion, and Wei Xinyun hurried to meet him after her jade token signaled his return.
• Li Fuchan asked Wei Xinyun to find him a high mountain place near the moon, and she led him to the Moon-Resting Terrace.
• Li Fuchan performed a sacrificial rite with autumn moon joining frost qi and the Longxu Golden Branch, bringing his Lunar Soul closer to full mastery.
• A white-robed youth appeared where Wei Xinyun had stood, and Li Fuchan bowed to greet the True Lord.

True Lord Chi Sui expounded on Lesser Yin Dao Fruits and Divine Abilities, helping Li Fuchan refine his Tribulation Qi and advance his Dao Attainment. He then asked Li Fuchan to accompany Wei Xinyun to locate a Grotto Heaven, leaving her to explain the mission.

• True Lord Chi Sui explained the Dao Fruits and Divine Abilities associated with Autumn Moon Joining Frost, Clouds Embracing Moonlight, and Daylight White Wind.
• Li Fuchan listened to True Lord Chi Sui's discourse, advanced his Dao Attainment, and refined the Tribulation Qi within his consciousness.
• True Lord Chi Sui asked Li Fuchan what he thought of Wei Xinyun, then dismissed the idea of matching them because their temperaments were unsuitable.
• True Lord Chi Sui asked Li Fuchan to lead Wei Xinyun and help him locate a Grotto Heaven, telling him to return in three days.
• True Lord Chi Sui disappeared, and Wei Xinyun appeared on the Moon-Resting Terrace, unaware of what had happened.

Wei Xinyun told Li Fuchan that True Lord Chi Sui wanted him to accompany her into a Blessed Land, then True Lord Chi Sui used Nightlight Mansion to complete Li Fuchan’s cultivation. Li Fuchan became an Outer Scenery True Person in a single day.

• Wei Xinyun explained that True Lord Chi Sui had ordered Li Fuchan to accompany her to a Blessed Land and asked him to rein in his rogue cultivator habits.
• Li Fuchan considered how the trip could delay his cultivation progress before three days passed and he went to meet True Lord Chi Sui.
• True Lord Chi Sui said Li Fuchan’s cultivation realm was too low and used his Life Force to fill the gaps in Li Fuchan’s incomplete Life Force.
• True Lord Chi Sui opened Nightlight Mansion, causing Li Fuchan’s Yang Aspect Form and Meaning to reach full accomplishment and his Outer Scenery Transformation to complete.
• Li Fuchan refined the Life Force True Lord Chi Sui had supplied and attained the realm of an Outer Scenery True Person.

True Lord Chi Sui completed Li Fuchan’s life force, advancing him to Outer Scenery, and explained why the feat could not grant everyone a path to Inner Vision. At Mount Huayu, Yang Houjia prepared Yang Xicheng to form a Dao Fruit while beginning to suspect that someone else was guiding his actions.

• Li Fuchan realized Huici had likely used Flying Light’s Dao Fruit to wash away the Belly Buddha Land, then wondered why Purple Mansion Lords could not freely grant others Dao Fruits.
• True Lord Chi Sui explained that Li Fuchan’s complete dharma nature and deep Dao Attainment made him suited to her intervention, and told him to consolidate his realm before entering the Blessed Land.
• Wei Xinyun congratulated Li Fuchan on becoming an Outer Scenery True Person, and Li Fuchan called her his junior sister and asked her to address him as senior brother.
• Yang Houjia told Yang Xicheng to form his Dao Fruit so the Creek-Generation Disciples’ sacrifice would not be wasted, and Yang Xicheng entered seclusion.
• Yang Houjia realized Azure Ram Temple’s cultivators had never appeared at Great Night Lake and wondered whether his current actions were truly his own.

Ning Xiufu and Ning Xiu Rang learned that numerous Yang Family descendants had died in strange circumstances and resolved to watch the family fall. Nine years later, Yang Xicheng emerged from seclusion after a breakthrough, but Changyin took him overseas as Changshu blinded Yang Houjia, and Li Fuchan was seized for what was about to begin.

• Ning Xiufu told Ning Xiu Rang about the bizarre deaths of Yang Family direct-line descendants, including Yang Xifan, Yang Xichou, and Yang Xi Yuan.
• Ning Xiu Rang connected the deaths to the Ning Family's suffering under the Yang Family and, with Ning Xiufu, chose to watch the Yang Family fall.
• Nine years later, Yang Xicheng emerged from seclusion after a breakthrough, and Yang Houjia promised to support his cultivation and help him reach Purple Mansion.
• A purple-robed man caused Yang Houjia's eyes to turn into purple snails, while Changshu and Changyin discussed the danger of killing him and the approaching conflict.
• Changyin seized Yang Xicheng and took him overseas through the Unseen, while Changshu said he sought a sword wound to refine Changze.
• A hand reached from the Unseen and seized Li Fuchan, who sensed Wei Xinyun nearby as someone said that it was about to begin.

Li Fuchan provoked the Pivot Court disciples at the entrance to the Human-Reversal Blessed Land, then used the Jade Pivot Thunder Canon and the Heaven of Separation to evade the land’s initial suppression. He entered in disguise and woke to a scene where he appeared to be a loyal general facing a fallen city.

• Li Fuchan slashed at Wei Shuo and his companions, wounded Wei Xiang, and demanded that the Pivot Court disciples let him and Wei Xinyun enter the blessed land first.
• Wei Xinyun explained the blessed land’s five stages of Human Reversal and told Li Fuchan to find her after breaking free of its control.
• Li Fuchan entered the Secret Seal, then used the Jade Pivot Thunder Canon and the Heaven of Separation to enter the blessed land without suffering its initial influence.
• Li Fuchan opened his eyes to soldiers reporting that a city’s gates had fallen, while a general refused to commit treason and said he would seek an apology from the emperor.

Li Fuchan discovered that the people of the human-inversion Blessed Land recognized him as a Celestial Person and tried to kill him, so he escaped to the Heaven of Separation. He returned under a new identity and learned that Wei Xiang planned to help him rescue the princess, who might be Wei Xinyun.

• Li Fuchan entered the palace with General Jiang Shou and watched him demand that the emperor clear his parents' names.
• The emperor and Jiang Shou recognized Li Fuchan as a Celestial Person and attacked him, but he escaped through the Jade Pivot Thunder Canon.
• Li Fuchan concluded that he needed to investigate the Blessed Land's ancient inheritances, then returned with a different identity.
• Li Fuchan heard that Jiang Shou had become Prince of Zhenbei and that the princess was to marry him the next day.
• Wei Xiang recognized Li Fuchan and said he had arranged a plan to rescue the princess that night, prompting Li Fuchan to join him.

Li Fuchan saw through Wei Xiang’s plan to lure him into the palace, but Wei Shuo killed his false body before he could subdue Wei Xiang. Wei Shuo and Wei Xiang discussed how both sides had escaped the Human-Reversal Blessed Land’s influence and prioritized finding Ning Xiu Cong.

• Wei Xiang led Li Fuchan to the inner palace and explained that the princess would sneak out after the third watch.
• Li Fuchan questioned Wei Xiang about resisting the Human-Reversal Blessed Land and subdued him when Wei Xiang revealed that he had awakened too.
• Wei Shuo shot Li Fuchan with azure light, and his corpse crumbled into a damaged talisman.
• Wei Shuo explained that Li Fuchan was a false body and that the Azure Ram Temple’s True Lord had likely helped him escape the blessed land’s influence.
• Wei Shuo told Wei Xiang to focus on finding Ning Xiu Cong and to kill Wei Xinyun if he found her.

Li Fuchan uncovered the true origins and powers of the Three Kingdoms’ hegemonic arts while exploiting a moment of human reversal to search the River Kingdom’s treasury. After escaping its guardian and entering the blessed land again as a Year Kingdom prince, he learned that the sovereign planned to send thirty princes into marriage alliances.

• Li Fuchan concluded that human reversal created openings outsiders could exploit, then read hidden histories revealing that Jiang Bianyan, Nian Renshang, and Yu Gongtan had pioneered the hegemonic arts stolen by the Three Kingdoms’ rulers.
• Li Fuchan studied the arts of Law and Momentum, noticed similarities to the Ancient Arts he practiced, and decided to seek Wei Xinyun before the current juncture of human reversal ended.
• A pale, black-hatted guardian entered the treasury, recognized signs of an intruder, and confronted Li Fuchan as he tried to leave.
• Li Fuchan escaped into his Grotto Heaven and reentered the blessed land as a prince of the Year Kingdom.
• An imperial decree announced that the Year Kingdom would send thirty princes to form marriage alliances because the sovereign had only one princess.

Li Fuchan escaped his marriage procession to search the Year Kingdom’s Book Collection Pavilion, using a fabricated tale to get an old eunuch to guide him. He encountered Wei Xinyun, now a princess who had mastered the kingdom’s Hegemonic Art, and began considering whether becoming a princess himself could help him cultivate it.

• Li Fuchan left his marriage procession in disguise and tried to find the emperor, but an attendant refused to let him see his father.
• Li Fuchan softened the old eunuch with a tearful story about admiring the Twelfth Prince, and the eunuch agreed to take him to the prince’s residence.
• Li Fuchan carried the old eunuch through the palace until the eunuch pointed out the Book Collection Pavilion, where Li Fuchan knocked him unconscious and left him hidden.
• Wei Xinyun blocked Li Fuchan’s way to the pavilion and revealed her imposing force as a princess who had inherited the Year Kingdom’s Hegemonic Art.
• Li Fuchan recognized that Wei Xinyun had gained the Hegemonic Art through her princess identity and wondered whether he could become a princess himself.

Li Fuchan fought Wei Xinyun, copied the Hegemonic Art from the Year Kingdom’s Book Collection Pavilion, and uncovered signs that someone was directing the Blessed Land and its conflict with Celestial Persons. Rejecting the role of accumulating the great tide, he burned his copy and decided to accelerate Human Reversal instead.

• Li Fuchan attacked Wei Xinyun to test the Hegemonic Art, but she pinned him with her momentum and struck him down.
• Wei Xinyun brought Li Fuchan’s corpse to the ruler of the Year Kingdom, who dissolved it with black light and found a damaged Spirit Talisman.
• Using his False Body, Li Fuchan entered the Book Collection Pavilion, copied the Hegemonic Art’s cultivation method, and withdrew from the palace.
• Li Fuchan studied the Art’s stages and suspected that someone was using the Blessed Land, its rulers, and Celestial Persons to create a great tide.
• Li Fuchan burned the copied method and decided to speed up Human Reversal so that the Grotto Heaven and a True Lord would appear sooner.

The ruler of River Kingdom used a moment of clarity to defy the absurd forces controlling his world and declared himself Jiang Huai. After the rulers of River Kingdom, Yu Kingdom, and Year Kingdom each changed course, all three kingdoms went to war as Li Fuchan prepared to push events forward.

• River Kingdom's officials reported a murder, Military Governor Zhang's threat to resign, the Yu Kingdom Prince Regent's pursuit of his consort, and the crown prince's favoritism toward the second prince.
• The ruler ordered the merchant's son killed, directed Military Governor Zhang to carry out the execution, and threatened force against Yu Kingdom's troops.
• In the imperial study, the ruler recalled his father's warning about Celestial Persons and realized that their power had kept him from controlling his own choices.
• The ruler summoned the Celestial Person's written characters, declared that his name was Jiang Huai, and resolved to kill a Celestial Person to gain freedom.
• The rulers of River Kingdom, Yu Kingdom, and Year Kingdom changed their conduct, mobilized their armies, and plunged the kingdoms into war.
• Li Fuchan concealed himself as he left Yu Kingdom, watched its troops mobilize, and said he would now push events forward.

Li Fuchan infiltrated the Year Kingdom’s palace and used False Bodies and poison to abduct Wei Xinyun. As the rulers regained their senses and the kingdoms prepared for war, Wei Shuo and Wei Xiang abandoned their search for Ning Xiu Cong and headed for the Year Kingdom.

• Li Fuchan scattered more than thirty False Bodies throughout the Year Kingdom’s imperial city before sneaking into the palace.
• Li Fuchan knocked out an old palace attendant and found Wei Xinyun waiting outside her sleeping quarters with a Great Halberd.
• Li Fuchan used False Bodies to distract Wei Xinyun and gradually poisoned her with a sedative, then carried her away from the palace.
• Li Fuchan chose to follow the army’s route with Wei Xinyun rather than search the Yu Kingdom for Ning Xiu Cong.
• Wei Shuo and Wei Xiang concluded that someone was advancing Human Reversal and decided to go to the Year Kingdom instead of looking for Ning Xiu Cong.

Wei Shuo and Wei Xiang reached the chaotic Year Kingdom, where Wei Shuo used the Abdominal Sword-Seed Technique to recover six Flying Swords. Suspecting Li Fuchan was accelerating Human Reversal, Wei Shuo sent a sword to track him and flew north to kill him.

• Wei Shuo and Wei Xiang killed a band of soldiers and rode into the Year Kingdom.
• Wei Shuo bought blood-staunching herbs, seized sixteen children, and extracted six sword seeds from his abdomen to make Flying Swords.
• Wei Xiang said Li Fuchan might be accelerating Human Reversal and needed to be killed, and Wei Shuo agreed.
• Wei Shuo used Li Fuchan's damaged Spirit Talisman to send a Flying Sword north in search of him.
• Wei Shuo rode away on five Flying Swords and told Wei Xiang to wait while he went to kill someone.

Li Fuchan faced Wei Shuo, who attacked him with six flying swords and exposed his lack of orthodox swordsmanship. He used the Errant Thunder Drum to turn her swords against her and defeated her, leaving her at his mercy.

• Li Fuchan examined Wei Xinyun’s copper coin and realized Human Reversal had reached its second stage, then resolved to accelerate its progress.
• Wei Shuo attacked Li Fuchan with her flying swords and inferred that he was not an Azure Ram Temple direct successor, likely came from Overseas, and might be surnamed Liu.
• Wei Shuo drove Li Fuchan back and prepared to kill him with all six swords, but Li Fuchan activated the Errant Thunder Drum and used Deviating from Its Proper Course to turn the swords against her.
• Li Fuchan gathered the swords into his sleeve, returned them toward Wei Shuo, then knocked her down and held the broken halberd to her brow.
• Li Fuchan mocked Wei Shuo’s reliance on external aids and called her swordsmanship ordinary.