Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yang used the Ten Thousand Ravines, Pine Winds Painting to enter Azure Corner Heaven, where he examined the mountain gate and Zhonghai Hall. He left with the painting secured and sixteen jars of Immortal Brew, while Bai Tang's memories of the grotto-heaven remained unclear.

• Jiang Yang questioned whether the Ten Thousand Ravines, Pine Winds Painting could truly open Azure Corner Heaven, then decided to enter despite suspecting that greater powers were guiding events.
• Jiang Yang passed through the painting and arrived at Azure Corner Heaven, where he retrieved the scroll and tucked it away for the eventual return journey.
• Jiang Yang crossed the mountain gate marked Twofold Unceasing and asked Bai Tang whether the sight stirred her memories; Bai Tang suggested they go farther inside.
• Jiang Yang explored Zhonghai Hall, found it empty of people, and discovered rows of spirit-wine jars in its storeroom.
• Jiang Yang opened one jar, admired its potent fragrance, and collected all sixteen jars of Immortal Brew in his Storage Bag.

Jiang Yang explored the Grotto-Heaven, discovered that its Golden Seventh Merchant Wind greatly enhanced movement, and found Langhuan Pavilion guarded by a powerful spirit array. Unable to enter, he searched a nearby retreat and obtained an entry token and two mysterious Jade Talismans from a cultivator’s remains.

• Jiang Yang found sixteen jars of Immortal Brew in Zhonghai Hall and took two Ritual Vessel cups before leaving.
• Jiang Yang flew toward a nearby Jade Tower and learned from Bai Tang that the Grotto-Heaven’s Golden Seventh Merchant Wind enhanced movement.
• Jiang Yang reached Langhuan Pavilion, recognized it as the source of the Immortal Gateway Dao Chapter, and found its entrance blocked by a formidable spirit array.
• Jiang Yang searched a nearby Quiet Retreat and found the remains of a Foundation Establishment cultivator along with a Langhuan Pavilion entry token.
• Jiang Yang buried the cultivator’s remains and its Xun Wood Spirit Treasures, then picked up two Jade Talismans that fell from a sleeve.

Jiang Yang explored Langhuan Pavilion and searched its catalog for the missing fifth divine power tied to his master Xuan Guang. After failing to find it among the Yi Wood methods, he searched for the Upper Mystic Position, hoping it would reveal a path forward.

• Jiang Yang entered Langhuan Pavilion with the Access Token and used its catalog to browse the Dao Canon.
• Bai Tang emerged from Jiang Yang and accompanied him as he moved to the pavilion's second floor.
• Jiang Yang learned that the Wind-Xun Spirit-Rhinoceros Talismans could let someone flee through the Great Void for thirteen breaths.
• Jiang Yang searched the second-floor catalog for Yi Wood methods but found no trace of the fifth divine power, Green Tip Above.
• Jiang Yang reconsidered Xuan Di's words and searched the catalog for the Upper Mystic Position.

Jiang Yang discovered the Cave Mystery Marvelous Unity Heart-Aiding Formula, which could help Xuan Guang cultivate his fifth divine power, and copied several rare texts for himself and Shang Qingzheng. He joined Bai Tang on the Langhuan Pavilion’s third floor, where his token failed to grant access to nine immortal slips on a jade dais.

• Jiang Yang found and copied the Cave Mystery Marvelous Unity Heart-Aiding Formula for Xuan Guang’s Upper Mystery cultivation.
• Jiang Yang searched for Broadwood methods, mystic-pupil arts, and Musical Dao texts, collecting rare spells and cultivation methods for himself and Shang Qingzheng.
• Jiang Yang found the rare sixth-grade Pitch-Within Great Cluster Divine Scroll and copied the Void-traversing spell Wind Rushes Through the Void.
• Jiang Yang finished searching and found Bai Tang standing before a jade dais on the Langhuan Pavilion’s third floor.
• Jiang Yang presented his token to the jade dais, but its gentle force pushed him away from the nine immortal slips.

Jiang Yang and Bai Tang traveled to the Sword-Washing Pool, where Bai Tang followed a mysterious call toward the source of her doubts about her identity. They reached the Pearl Hall, but the chapter ended before they discovered what awaited inside.

• Jiang Yang failed to use his disciple token on the nine immortal slips, and Bai Tang explained that only the Dao Lord's immortal edict could open them.
• Bai Tang recalled that she wanted to visit the Sword-Washing Pool, and Jiang Yang agreed to take her there.
• Bai Tang guided Jiang Yang to an Immortal Palace, where they found the Sword-Washing Pool dried up and strewn with rusty swords.
• Bai Tang reflected on the contradictions in her belief that she was a sword spirit, then followed a voice calling to her.
• Bai Tang led Jiang Yang to the Pearl Hall, where they found two Kui Ox carvings and a stone tablet bearing an inscription about Elixir Nature.

Jiang Yang and Bai Tang reached the Three Immortal Platforms, where Bai Tang encountered a woman identical to herself and fell into a trance. The woman, Qing He, revealed that she was connected to Bai Tang and had been calling Jiang Yang for help for centuries.

• Jiang Yang and Bai Tang entered the grand hall and found a tender sprout on the Immortal Platform Profound Seat surrounded by visions of growth and destruction.
• A woman identical to Bai Tang appeared on the seat, and Bai Tang stood motionless as Jiang Yang tried to rouse her.
• The woman introduced herself as Qing He and told Jiang Yang that she and Bai Tang were one and the same.
• Qing He explained that she had guided Jiang Yang to the Three Immortal Platforms, including through Fang Xu and the Ancient Cultivator Legacy eight years earlier.
• Qing He said she had called for help forty-nine times over the past twelve hundred years.

Jiang Yang learned that Qing He had summoned him for help across twelve hundred years, and that she was a remnant of the deceased True Lord Qing Tang, who had once occupied the Execution Thunder position. He agreed to rescue Qing He from the Primordial Three Immortal Platforms and asked her how to proceed.

• Qing He told Jiang Yang that twelve hundred years had passed since the Broadwood fruit position reappeared and that she had called for help forty-nine times.
• Qing He explained that Jiang Yang's Broadwood cultivation and Conjoined Branch technique showed the fruit position had favored him.
• Qing He described how the Primordial Three Immortal Platforms had tormented her for twelve hundred years, leaving her thoughts muddled and stripping away her fortune and lifespan.
• Jiang Yang recognized the immortal platform from a prophecy and realized the woman before him was not his senior sister, Chu Qingjian.
• Qing He revealed that she was a remnant of True Lord Qing Tang, had used the White Du Sword as her vessel, and had been sent out of the grotto-heaven as Bai Tang.
• Jiang Yang set aside his doubts and asked Qing He how he could rescue her.

Jiang Yang joined forces with Qing He to break the Primordial Three Immortal Platforms’ restraints, awakening Sword Intent and freeing her. Bai Tang then explained the nature of golden nature and revealed the origins of True Lord Qing Tang’s remnant.

• Qing He said Jiang Yang could free her by combining his divine status with her strength to break the Primordial Three Immortal Platforms.
• Qing He used Daybreak Separation, and Bai Tang merged into Jiang Yang, flooding him with sword principles and advancing his Sword Intent.
• Jiang Yang unleashed the Two Aspects Unraveling Mystery Sword, then collapsed from the strain after draining his Qi Sea.
• Qing He teased Jiang Yang, then let Bai Tang take over so he could speak with her.
• Bai Tang explained that golden nature was a fragment of Dao fruit and identified her remnant as True Lord Qing Tang’s Upper Thunder Transforms into Destruction Thunder, Shifting Stations Nature.

Jiang Yang learned how thunder wood lost its thunder and why its old cultivation methods could not lead to a present-day position. Qing He revealed that she had spent twelve hundred years compiling methods for the five cracking wood divine powers and planned to cultivate the path herself.

• Bai Tang explained that thunder wood was stripped of earth altar thunder, leaving its fruit position transformed and its old methods ineffective for later cultivators.
• Jiang Yang asked why no cracking wood cultivation methods existed, and Bai Tang revealed that she was compiling them.
• Jiang Yang recognized that Qing He had taken over Bai Tang’s body and allowed her to speak.
• Qing He described revising the cracking wood divine powers, including transforming thunder wood’s principal-position art into “Disintegration and Analysis.”
• Qing He declared that she intended to attain cracking wood anew.

Qing He explained that she planned to use her golden nature to reincarnate through the Nether Bureau and cultivate anew, then asked Jiang Yang to help her avoid the Bureau’s envoys and keep her plans secret. She persuaded him that her success could help him restore the wood path and advance toward a golden position, and they prepared to leave the grotto-heaven to open hidden Dao Canon caches.

• Qing He told Jiang Yang that golden nature could preserve her memories and spiritual essence through reincarnation, allowing her to cultivate anew with exceptional gifts.
• Qing He explained that she could not safely appear outside the grotto-heaven and asked Jiang Yang to help her reincarnate without being exploited by Nether Yin Envoys or attracting attention.
• Jiang Yang questioned why Qing He needed to reincarnate, and she said that attaining a golden position would let her help him restore the wood path and reach the fruit position of cracking wood.
• Qing He admitted she could not guarantee success but urged Jiang Yang to keep advancing with the grand tide, and he agreed to help her.
• Qing He proposed that they leave the grotto-heaven and open Dao Canon caches at treasure sites she knew.

After the secret realm collapsed, the cultivators emerged with their spoils, and Xuan Guang learned that Chu Qingjian had obtained the Armor-Piercing Spirit Thunder needed for her breakthrough. Jiang Yang was still missing, while Feng Yi sensed danger and turned his attention back toward the seal.

• The old Monk retrieved Jing Wu and Jing Chen, who blamed a Sword Cultivator for their injuries and presented him with their gains.
• Xuan Guang and Xuan Di brought out Chu Qingjian and Zhang Yunbai, then examined the treasures they had collected.
• Chu Qingjian displayed the Armor-Piercing Spirit Thunder, and Xuan Guang said it would secure her breakthrough.
• Chu Qingjian noticed Jiang Yang had not returned, and Xuan Guang said he would bring him out shortly.
• Xuan Di sorted Zhang Yunbai's treasures and said the Mystic Star Locust Blossom should be refined into Pills.
• Mo Yu brought Yun Zhen and Ying Huang out to Feng Yi, who sensed a premonition and began calculating toward the seal.

Feng Yi realized that the Tribulation Qi guarding the Grotto-Heaven had nearly vanished, while cultivators gathered at its exposed entrance. As Xuan Guang prepared to enter, a golden-robed Daoist delivered Chang Geng's Immortal Edict and warned him not to go inside.

• Feng Yi sent Yun Zhen, Ying Huang, and Mo Yu back to the Royal Court, then went to Huai Tan Palace to investigate the fading Tribulation Qi.
• A Purple Mansion cultivator spotted the exposed Grotto-Heaven entrance and alerted the gathered cultivators, who crowded into the Sandalwood Palace.
• Xuan Di divined that the site was a Grotto-Heaven and hurried there, while Xuan Guang stayed behind to arrange for Zhi Yu to escort the juniors away.
• After Zhi Yu departed with the juniors, Xuan Guang prepared to follow the others into the Grotto-Heaven.
• A golden-robed Middle Stage Purple Mansion cultivator arrived with Chang Geng's Immortal Edict and told Xuan Guang that he must not enter.

Xuan Guang delayed accepting Chang Geng's immortal edict until Zhi Yu returned, allowing him to give his disciple instructions before being barred from the Grotto-Heaven. Meanwhile, Jiang Yang and Qing He headed for the South Garden Terrace to search its treasures.

• Jiang Li delivered Chang Geng's immortal edict, and Xuan Guang endured its growing weight without accepting it.
• Zhi Yu returned, and Xuan Guang told him to enter the Grotto-Heaven, meet Xuan Di, and follow his lead.
• After secretly giving Zhi Yu one more instruction, Xuan Guang accepted the edict and thanked Jiang Li for not interrupting his arrangements.
• Jiang Yang and Qing He set out for the South Garden Terrace, where Qing He described its vaults and the immovable Primordial Three Immortal Platforms.
• Jiang Yang spotted a distant terrace and asked Qing He whether it was the South Garden Terrace.

Jiang Yang and Qing He explored the abandoned Essence-Nurturing Pavilion in the Southern Garden and discovered a Great Net Eight-Vision Platform that had nurtured a taiyin spirit resource. Qing He explained the platform’s principles and how its arrangement could be changed to produce other forms of yin.

• Jiang Yang and Qing He entered the dilapidated Essence-Nurturing Pavilion, where its empty Nurturing Pools showed that its spirit resources were gone.
• Jiang Yang found a faintly glowing mystic platform in the upper chamber and identified it as the Great Net Eight-Vision Platform after Qing He explained its origins and purpose.
• Qing He determined that four missing corners had left the platform with four illuminated yin positions, which had nurtured a taiyin spirit resource rather than a spirit treasure.
• Qing He explained that adding sovereign fire would produce hui yin, then told Jiang Yang to replace gui water with kan water to transform the platform’s output into nether yin.

Jiang Yang collected five Golden Osmanthus Moon Medicine beads from the immortal pavilion and obtained Qing He’s promise to teach him how to refine a Mystic Platform. As they reached the Tower of No Return, Qing He sensed that someone had broken into the Grotto-Heaven.

• Jiang Yang shattered the pavilion’s Spirit Array and gathered five beads of Golden Osmanthus Moon Medicine.
• Qing He explained the medicine’s Taiyin properties and uses, including clearing the mind, nourishing qi, and dispelling demonic obstructions.
• Jiang Yang asked to take the Great Net Eight-Vision Platform home, and Qing He offered to give him its refining method while warning that building one would be difficult and slow.
• Jiang Yang left the pavilion with Qing He and headed toward the Tower of No Return, where the Grotto-Heaven’s Mystic Artifacts and Spirit Treasures were likely kept.
• As they reached the tower, Qing He sensed that someone had broken into the Grotto-Heaven.

Jiang Yang followed Qing He to the Tower of Memento’s summit and obtained the Spirit Treasure [Lush Jade Branch]. After Purple Mansion cultivators broke into the Grotto-Heaven and fighting erupted nearby, he asked Qing He to direct him to the next Hidden Abode.

• Qing He sensed Purple Mansion cultivators entering the Grotto-Heaven and warned Jiang Yang that they were plundering its Dao palaces and immortal halls.
• Qing He guided Jiang Yang to the top floor of the Tower of Memento and opened its protective Spirit Array.
• Jiang Yang found and took the [Lush Jade Branch], the Spirit Treasure anchoring the Yi Wood path.
• Jiang Yang left the Dao tower and saw smoke, flames, and signs of Purple Mansion cultivators fighting in the distance.
• Jiang Yang asked Qing He where the next Hidden Abode was.

Jiang Yang reached the Hidden Abode and gathered rare Wood Nine-Angle Wind with an Autumn Blessing Cicada Slough. Wen Hu arrived, mistook him for an unprotected Foundation Establishment cultivator, and demanded the Dao canon he had obtained.

• Qing He directed Jiang Yang to the Hidden Abode, and Jiang Yang flew south to its elegant immortal peak.
• Qing He identified the emerald mystic wind as Wood Nine-Angle Wind, and Jiang Yang collected it with his Autumn Blessing Cicada Slough.
• Wen Hu, driven into the remote southern region after other Purple Mansion cultivators claimed the best sites, spotted Jiang Yang gathering wind.
• Wen Hu sensed no nearby Purple Mansion cultivator and ordered Jiang Yang to present whatever Dao canon he had obtained.

Jiang Yang’s sword strike wounded Wen Hu, but Qing He intervened and overwhelmed the Purple Mansion True Person. As Jiang Yang emerged from the Painting Scroll, the Southern Garden Plains shook with the signs of a divine power cultivator’s death.

• Jiang Yang retreated from Wen Hu and struck him with Sword Qi, cutting his hand and revealing his sword intent.
• Wen Hu recognized Jiang Yang as an extraordinary threat and unleashed his full strength to kill him.
• Qing He emerged from Jiang Yang and froze Wen Hu and his divine powers, then reached out to kill him.
• Jiang Yang opened the Painting Scroll and found himself alone after the confrontation vanished from view.
• The earth veins of the Southern Garden Plains gathered and raised the land, signaling that a divine power cultivator had fallen.

Qing He killed the Wu Earth True Person to protect Jiang Yang, and Jiang Yang collected the dead cultivator’s scattered treasures. Qing He identified the Wu-Xu Guarded Simplicity Seal and warned Jiang Yang that its inherited lineage would eventually seek an accounting, so he should keep it hidden until he was strong enough.

• Qing He revealed that she had killed the True Person after he threatened to force Jiang Yang out of the Grotto-Heaven.
• Jiang Yang gathered the True Person’s scattered spirit treasure, spirit resources, and Small Seal from the plain.
• Qing He identified the Small Seal as the above-middle-grade Wu-Xu Guarded Simplicity Seal, a defensive wu earth Spirit Artifact with three wondrous properties.
• Jiang Yang found eight engraved characters on the seal, and Qing He explained that it belonged to an established Dao lineage.
• Qing He warned Jiang Yang that the lineage would seek him out over the stolen treasures, and he agreed to keep the seal hidden until he reached Purple Mansion.

Jiang Yang and Qing He left the battlefield and explored a hidden treasury, where they found vast stores of Spirit Stones, guarded treasure chambers, and a portion of Purple Mansion-grade spirit water. The chapter ended with Jiang Yang recognizing the rare water as a valuable Ren Water treasure.

• Jiang Yang identified the Radiant Purple Light Amber as a rare resource for refining Spirit Artifacts, and Qing He urged him to leave before other Purple Mansion cultivators arrived.
• Jiang Yang and Qing He returned to the hidden abode and entered its spirit-crystal treasury.
• Jiang Yang found millions of Spirit Stones and filled a Storage Bag with as many as it could hold.
• Qing He frightened the Xiezhi guardians into dismissing the spirit array, allowing Jiang Yang to enter the inner treasury.
• Jiang Yang examined a great cauldron and recognized its contents as Purple Mansion-grade Ren Water spirit water.