Chapter Summaries

At the Mo Residence, Qi Zhongbin reunited with Stoneborn and learned how the younger Mo family members understood their past. Stoneborn took Qi Zhongbin and Hui Mian to Lingdong to pursue a Starwoven Pill that had become a star, where Qi Zhongbin calculated that it was about to fall.

• Qi Zhongbin was welcomed at the Mo Residence, where Mo Congxian and Tang Liyun discovered that he was the old Celestial Master.
• Stoneborn explained to Mo Congxian that he and Qi Zhongbin had both learned storytelling and transformation arts from Yi Shuyuan.
• Stoneborn took Qi Zhongbin and Hui Mian flying from Tea Province to Lingdong, testing Qi Zhongbin's speed along the way.
• Stoneborn revealed that a missing Starwoven Pill had become a star and had recently begun moving again.
• Stoneborn asked Qi Zhongbin to calculate what would happen, and Qi Zhongbin realized a star was about to fall.

Stoneborn and Qi Zhongbin pursued a Starwoven Pill that had escaped its Alchemy Furnace and was darting across the sky. After Stoneborn struck it with the Universe Ring, the pill vanished into a wonton at a night stall in Xintian County, while a fish and a strange buried being noticed the chase.

• Stoneborn, Qi Zhongbin, and Hui Mian visited a wonton stall in Xintian County while watching for the star to fall.
• Stoneborn and Qi Zhongbin sensed the Starwoven Pill move, left the stall, and chased it through the sky and across the countryside.
• The fish recognized the pill as a Starwoven Pill, and a cracked, deathly being beneath a mountainside heard its cry.
• After pursuing the pill for three hours, Stoneborn sent his Universe Ring to strike it, scattering starlight and briefly blinding the pursuers.
• Stoneborn and Qi Zhongbin gathered some of the pill's star power but lost track of it as it returned to Xintian County.
• The Starwoven Pill slipped into an uncooked wonton at the stall, and the everyday atmosphere concealed its presence.

The Star-Netted Immortal Elixir escaped Stoneborn and Qi Zhongbin by hiding inside a wonton at the stall of Liu Changfa, the reincarnated Long-Haired Ghost. When a turtle and a fish converged on the wonton, the fish recognized Zhou Youzhi and repaid his old kindness by catching the elixir-filled wonton.

• Stoneborn and Qi Zhongbin failed to find the Immortal Elixir, while Hui Mian hinted that the wonton vendor was unusual.
• Hui Mian identified the vendor as the reincarnated Long-Haired Ghost, and Stoneborn and Qi Zhongbin realized Zhou Youzhi lived nearby.
• Liu Changfa prepared wontons for Zhou Youzhi, and the Immortal Elixir remained hidden inside one of them.
• A softshell turtle attacked beneath the bridge, causing Zhou Youzhi to drop the wonton as Stoneborn struck the creature with the Universe Ring.
• A fish caught the wonton, recognized Zhou Youzhi, and resolved to repay him; a fisherman then speared the turtle and celebrated his catch.

Yu Xinmei escaped with the Starwoven Pill and began refining it in her pool, while Yi Shuyuan emerged from several years of seclusion after refining the Heavenly Battle Pill. He learned that a new emperor had ascended and that the realm was in the First Year of Shaoyuan.

• Yu Xinmei caught Zhou Youzhi’s dropped Immortal Elixir, escaped to her pool, and began refining the Starwoven Pill.
• Stoneborn, Qi Zhongbin, and Hui Mian left the mountain, thinking of their master and the Heavenly Battle Pill he had taken.
• After several years of visions and meditation, Yi Shuyuan emerged from his hidden cavern with the Heavenly Battle Pill fully refined.
• Yi Shuyuan reflected that the pill had strengthened him but brought no major advance in his Immortal Dao realm.
• Yi Shuyuan reached a city in the rain and heard that the new emperor had ascended, marking the First Year of Shaoyuan.

Yi Shuyuan watched prisoners leave Guangyuan Prefecture’s prison after the new emperor’s general amnesty and invited a strange, rain-soaked former prisoner to share his meal. The man revealed that he had deliberately sought imprisonment for his own crimes, leaving Yi Shuyuan curious about his unusual story.

• Yi Shuyuan read the new emperor’s proclamation and watched prisoners emerge from the prefectural prison after the general amnesty.
• A newly released man stood in the rain as it intensified around him, then entered Qingyun Tower and climbed upstairs.
• Yi Shuyuan invited the man to share his untouched food, and the man accepted while the waiter watched uneasily.
• The man praised Yi Shuyuan’s bearing, and Yi Shuyuan asked what offense had sent him to prison.
• The man said he had come to Great Yong in the thirtieth year of Chengxing, confessed his crimes to the Guangyuan Prefecture magistrate, and secured Emperor Mingzong’s approval to be imprisoned.

Yi Shuyuan heard a newly released prisoner recount how a corpse from Mystic Gold Mountain became a bloodthirsty Malevolent Corpse that escaped heavenly pursuers. The man revealed that he had told a demon creature about the Mystic Gold Coffin, and Yi Shuyuan identified the woman as Xuan Ji, leaving the coffin’s connection to the present unresolved.

• Yi Shuyuan shared a meal with the disheveled man and listened as he began a tale about the Golden Goodness Kingdom.
• The man described how a corpse thrown into the Earthfire Abyss transformed, slaughtered a city, and repeatedly escaped the gods and practitioners hunting it.
• The man confessed that he had told a demon creature about the Mystic Gold Coffin before she vanished, and that the Malevolent Corpse later began harming people.
• Yi Shuyuan named the woman Xuan Ji, and the man realized that Yi Shuyuan was not an ordinary mortal.

Yi Shuyuan learned that the Mystic Gold Coffin once held the corpse that became an untransformable bone, and he resolved to deal with the threat tied to the coffin. After revealing his identity to Rong Zhang and questioning him about the creature, Yi Shuyuan summoned Qi Zhongbin and Stoneborn to Guangyuan Prefecture.

• Yi Shuyuan explained that he had killed Xuan Ji, and Rong Zhang introduced himself as a cultivator from Southern Realm Purple Mountain.
• Rong Zhang recognized Yi Shuyuan as Immortal Venerable Yi Daozi and bowed, while Yi Shuyuan turned their discussion to the untransformable bone.
• Yi Shuyuan learned more about Rong Zhang's part in the battle against the untransformable bone and decided to pursue the matter.
• Yi Shuyuan and Rong Zhang left the restaurant as the rain stopped, and Yi Shuyuan asked what the untransformable bone valued most.
• Yi Shuyuan summoned Qi Zhongbin and Stoneborn to meet him in Guangyuan Prefecture, and both disciples realized their master had emerged from seclusion.

Yi Shuyuan reunited with Stoneborn and Qi Zhongbin over breakfast and ordered the Qiankun Lineage to find and destroy the Untransformable Bone. The group decided to visit the Demon-Subduing Palace for its records and seek capable troops, while Rong Zhang hoped their efforts could end the threat that weighed on him.

• Stoneborn and Qi Zhongbin left for Guangyuan Prefecture after learning that their master had emerged from seclusion, while Hui Mian joined them.
• Yi Shuyuan and Rong Zhang discussed the Untransformable Bone and the original owner of its body as they walked through the capital.
• Stoneborn, Qi Zhongbin, and Hui Mian arrived at a noodle shop and reunited with Yi Shuyuan, where Rong Zhang met the master's disciples and Hui Mian.
• Yi Shuyuan declared that the Qiankun Lineage had to find and destroy the Untransformable Bone, prompting Rong Zhang to welcome the plan and Qi Zhongbin to recall the creature's rarity.
• Hui Mian recognized that the Demon-Subduing Palace held records about an Untransformable Bone, and the group decided to visit the palace and borrow capable troops from the True Lord.

Yi Shuyuan traveled to the Demon-Subduing Palace to investigate an Untransformable Bone, and his arrival prompted both Hui Mian and the Manifest Holiness True Lord to manifest in divine form. The True Lord greeted Yi Shuyuan as the Heavenly Emperor and other gods watched the extraordinary appearance from afar.

• Yi Shuyuan rode to the Demon-Subduing Palace while Hui Mian manifested and told Lu Xin to find the dossier on the Untransformable Bone.
• Yi Shuyuan underwent Divine Transformation, and the Demon-Subduing Great Emperor appeared in the Demon-Subduing Hall amid overwhelming golden light.
• Stoneborn and Qi Zhongbin marveled at Yi Shuyuan's influence as he approached the palace, and Yi Shuyuan suggested the Untransformable Bone had drawn the True Lord's interest.
• The Demon-Subduing Great Emperor greeted Yi Shuyuan, while the Heavenly Emperor, White Robe, and Xiang Yi watched from beside the Lotus Pond.

Yi Shuyuan and the Manifest Holiness True Lord gathered the Demon-Subduing Palace and the Heavenly Court’s support to destroy the Untransformable Bone in territory governed by the Southern Heavenly Realm. After the Heavenly Emperor approved the campaign, the Demon-Subduing Drum summoned the palace’s divine troops.

• Yi Shuyuan met the Manifest Holiness True Lord at the Demon-Subduing Palace, where they reviewed records and images of the Untransformable Bone’s past attacks.
• The Purple Star Lord and the Morning Star Lord arrived and joined the discussion about sending troops against the Untransformable Bone.
• White Robe reported the plan to the Heavenly Emperor, who approved the campaign and issued a decree supporting the True Lord’s action.
• The Demon-Subduing Palace deliberated for three days while a divine envoy traveled south to notify the Southern Heavenly Realm.
• The Manifest Holiness True Lord ordered the Demon-Subduing Drum sounded, summoning divine beings of the palace’s lineage to muster.

Yi Shuyuan led his companions south ahead of the Demon-Subduing Heavenly Army, whose fifty thousand troops the Manifest Holiness True Lord mobilized to confront an untransformable-bone fiend. After Dragon King Jiang caught up and joined them, Yi Shuyuan reached the Southern Celestial Court and requested an audience with the Heavenly Emperor, who was surprised by his arrival.

• The Manifest Holiness True Lord assembled fifty thousand troops and ordered the Demon-Subduing Heavenly Army to march south against a resurgent zombie fiend with an untransformable bone.
• Yi Shuyuan departed ahead of the army with his disciples and Rong Zhang, while the East Sea Dragon Lord sent for Jiang Lang to meet him.
• Jiang Lang caught up with Yi Shuyuan, agreed to accompany him, and learned they were traveling to the Southern Heavenly Realm.
• At the Southern Celestial Court's gate, a divine general recognized Yi Daozi and escorted Yi Shuyuan inside to request an audience with the Heavenly Emperor.
• The Heavenly Emperor received a report that Yi Daozi had arrived, before the Southern Celestial Court learned that the Demon-Subduing Heavenly Army was coming.

Yi Shuyuan told the Southern Heavenly Realm that the Untransformable Bone had recovered and would cause trouble again, then proposed a cautious plan to confront it. He left the Heavenly Emperor and assembled gods expecting the Manifest Holiness True Lord to arrive with forces as their ally.

• Yi Shuyuan arrived at the Southern Heavenly Realm’s Cloud Firmament Treasure Hall with Jiang Lang, Hui Mian, and his disciples, where the Heavenly Emperor and many gods received him.
• Yi Shuyuan announced that he had come to slay the Untransformable Bone, and said his deductions showed its primordial essence had recovered.
• The Lord of the Martial Star questioned Yi Shuyuan, while the Water Virtue Star Lord suggested the Untransformable Bone might be hiding in the Southern Domain Mountains and Seas.
• In a private meeting, Yi Shuyuan urged the Heavenly Realm to hold back until events became clearer and said an ally would arrive with a host if the situation grew complicated.
• Yi Shuyuan named the ally as the Eastern Heavenly Realm’s Northern Sovereign, the Manifest Holiness True Lord, who had called the Untransformable Bone worth taking action against.

Yi Shuyuan informed the Heavenly Court that he and the Manifest Holiness True Lord planned to destroy the Untransformable Bone, then traveled with his companions to meet Granny Pear Blossom. He obtained Xuan Ji’s Life-Bound Golden Bell, whose lingering demonic aura seemed connected to his plan.

• Yi Shuyuan told the Heavenly Emperor that he had invited the Manifest Holiness True Lord to help destroy the Untransformable Bone, and the Heavenly Court agreed to assist.
• Yi Shuyuan’s party arrived in a mountain town in the Lingzhao Kingdom, where Rong Zhang led them to Granny Pear Blossom’s hidden courtyard.
• Granny Pear Blossom welcomed the group, and Rong Zhang told her that Xuan Ji had died decades earlier after encountering an Immortal Dao master.
• Yi Shuyuan introduced his companions to Granny Pear Blossom and asked to borrow Xuan Ji’s Life-Bound Golden Bell.
• Granny Pear Blossom gave Yi Shuyuan the bell, while he kept the reason for needing it to himself.

Yi Shuyuan took Granny Pear Blossom’s cat bell into the mountains and used it to cultivate a cat transformation, enduring a lightning tribulation before emerging in a woman’s form. He fastened the bell around his neck and asked Hui Mian whether he looked like Xuan Ji.

• Yi Shuyuan thanked Granny Pear Blossom for the bell, then left with Jiang Lang, Stoneborn, Qi Zhongbin, and Hui Mian.
• Yi Shuyuan told Jiang Lang and his disciples to stay in the city while he flew into the mountains with Hui Mian.
• Yi Shuyuan transformed into a black cat, played among the mountain creatures, and began developing demonic power.
• Yi Shuyuan’s demonic aura drew tribulation clouds, and lightning struck him through the night as Jiang Lang, Granny Pear Blossom, and others watched the storm from the city.
• After the storm ended, Yi Shuyuan transformed into a woman, put on his clothes and the bell chain, and asked Hui Mian whether he resembled Xuan Ji.

Yi Shuyuan completed his cat-demon transformation and visited Granny Pear Blossom as Xuanxi, reminding her that he was not Xuan Ji. He then tested his disciples by pretending to be someone else at the inn, leaving them unsure until he revealed himself as their master.

• Yi Shuyuan transformed into a cat demon, returned the golden bell to Granny Pear Blossom, and introduced himself as Xuanxi.
• Granny Pear Blossom recognized that Yi Shuyuan was not Xuan Ji but felt deeply moved by his resemblance to the woman she remembered, and she gave him the bell to keep.
• Yi Shuyuan arrived at the inn and asked Jiang Lang, Stoneborn, Qi Zhongbin, and Rong Zhang where Immortal Venerable Yi Daozi was.
• Stoneborn and Qi Zhongbin suspected the woman was their master, but Yi Shuyuan's bluff unsettled them, while Rong Zhang fell from his stool in shock.
• Yi Shuyuan revealed himself and told Stoneborn and Qi Zhongbin that their cultivation was insufficient because they had failed to see through his disguise.

Yi Shuyuan revealed his transformed appearance, explained that he had undergone a transformation lightning tribulation, and led the group to the Southern Domain Mountains and Seas. He disguised the Heaven-Turning Furnace as a Mystic Gold Coffin to lure out the untransformable bone, then set the others in motion for the plan.

• Jiang Lang, Rong Zhang, and the others realized that Yi Shuyuan’s unfamiliar appearance was his Earthly Fiend Transformation, and Yi Shuyuan confirmed he had never met Granny Pear Blossom before.
• After lunch, Yi Shuyuan explained that the storm the previous night had been his transformation lightning tribulation, then led the group south to the mountains.
• Yi Shuyuan transformed the Heaven-Turning Furnace into a Mystic Gold Coffin and asked Rong Zhang whether it would lure out the untransformable bone.
• Yi Shuyuan sent Jiang Lang to the Southern Sea and told Rong Zhang and the others to make their reactions convincing for the plan.
• Yi Shuyuan and Granny Pear Blossom flew southwest while Stoneborn and Qi Zhongbin pursued them, with Stoneborn shouting, “Demon-where do you think you're going!”

Xuanxi and Granny Pear Blossom fled Stoneborn and Qi Zhongbin through the Southern Territory, using a staged injury and an escape trick to evade their pursuit. They hid in a mountain grotto, where a local demon woman found them and promised to keep their presence quiet.

• Xuanxi accelerated the demonic wind carrying Granny Pear Blossom as Stoneborn and Qi Zhongbin pursued them with the Wind-Fire Wheels, the Universe Ring, and the Heavenly Gang Mace.
• Xuanxi narrowly dodged the Universe Ring, then shielded Granny Pear Blossom from Qi Zhongbin's attack before the Universe Ring struck her and sent them fleeing into the mountain mist.
• Xuanxi and Granny Pear Blossom hid as a mystic cat and a tabby cat, while a strand of Xuanxi's hair escaped as a decoy and led Stoneborn and Qi Zhongbin away.
• After waiting until night, Xuanxi and Granny Pear Blossom left their hiding place and resumed human form in a Cliff Grotto, where Xuanxi revealed that she had been prepared for the blows.
• A local demon woman arrived and offered help, but Xuanxi and Granny Pear Blossom concealed their identities and asked her to keep their presence quiet.
• After the woman left, Xuanxi warned Granny Pear Blossom that promises not to tell anyone were rarely trustworthy.

He Ziyi investigated the mysterious immortals who had come to Cliff Grotto and learned that Xuanxi was likely the transformed Xuan Ji, whom she suspected of stealing and consuming Immortal Elixir. After He Ziyi hurried back, the old woman she had questioned sought an audience with the Great King, also claiming to have urgent news about Immortal Elixir.

• Granny Pear Blossom urged the injured Xuanxi to leave, but Xuanxi said she needed to rest and that her gains made the suffering worthwhile.
• He Ziyi choked a spirit monster for failing to spy properly, then ordered him to watch Xuanxi and Granny Pear Blossom while she left to investigate the immortals.
• He Ziyi entered a hidden demonic street and asked an old woman to identify an immortal treasure she described as flaming wheels.
• The old woman identified the treasure as the Wind-Fire Wheels, a supreme immortal treasure belonging to a disciple of Immortal Venerable Yi Daozi.
• He Ziyi concluded that Xuanxi was the former Xuan Ji, transformed by consuming stolen Immortal Elixir, and hurried back toward Cliff Grotto.
• The old woman told two spirit monsters she had urgent business with the Great King concerning Immortal Elixir.

Granny Terror told the Demon City’s Great King that He Ziyi was seeking information about the Wind-Fire Wheels, which belonged to Yi Daozi’s eldest disciple, and might be connected to Immortal Elixirs. The Great King took Granny Terror toward Shallow Mist Mountain, where Xuanxi and Granny Pear Blossom were waiting as He Ziyi returned with food and an unseen demonic visitor watched them.

• A spirit monster woke the Demon City’s Great King with Granny Terror’s claim that she had news connected to Immortal Elixirs.
• Granny Terror reported that He Ziyi had asked about the Wind-Fire Wheels, and the Great King decided to visit Shallow Mist Mountain with her.
• A mountain spirit monster brought Xuanxi and Granny Pear Blossom fruit and warned them that the old demon had gone out, but Xuanxi said they would not leave it behind.
• He Ziyi returned to the cliff grotto with a food box, while Xuanxi sensed a demonic presence hidden in the mist.
• The unseen man wondered whether Xuanxi had noticed him and questioned who the striking demon cultivator was.

Liao Yaohuang confronted Xuanxi at He Ziyi’s cave and tested her strength, then took her toward Demon City after she agreed to go in exchange for Granny Pear Blossom’s safety. On the way, he asked about Yi Daozi’s Immortal Elixir and revealed that he knew Xuanxi had stolen the Mystic Gold Coffin and released the Untransformable Bone.

• He Ziyi offered Granny Pear Blossom and Xuanxi food and shelter while Liao Yaohuang and Granny Terror watched from the mist.
• Xuanxi sensed Liao Yaohuang and challenged him to come out, after which he struck He Ziyi aside and attacked Xuanxi.
• Xuanxi fought Liao Yaohuang with a chopstick and her Silver Lock and Golden Bells, but her injuries left her unable to defeat him.
• Liao Yaohuang offered to take Xuanxi away, and she agreed on the condition that he leave Granny Pear Blossom alone.
• After Liao Yaohuang and Xuanxi departed, Granny Pear Blossom blamed He Ziyi and seized Granny Terror as He Ziyi protested.
• On the way to Demon City, Liao Yaohuang asked Xuanxi about the Immortal Elixir and accused her of stealing the Mystic Gold Coffin and releasing the Untransformable Bone.