Chapter Summaries

Xuanxi accompanied Liao Yaohuang to his demon city and gave him two Vital Essence Pills in exchange for protection for herself and Granny. When Liao Yaohuang brought her to the Untransformable Bone, its corpse-aura phantom burst from its coffin but struck an invisible ward, and Xuanxi left him wondering whether she had more pills.

• Liao Yaohuang brought Xuanxi to his demon city, where she described it as filled with malice, resentment, fear, and viciousness.
• Liao Yaohuang demanded two Immortal Elixirs, and Xuanxi agreed on the condition that he keep Granny safe; he said one pill was for Xie Zhiwu.
• Liao Yaohuang took Xuanxi deep beneath the mountains to see the Untransformable Bone, dormant in a stone coffin amid a vast abyss of corpses and bones.
• The Untransformable Bone's corpse-aura phantom surged from the shattered coffin but slammed into an invisible ward, while its true body remained below.
• Xuanxi handed Liao Yaohuang two boxes containing Vital Essence Pills, and he accepted them while asking whether she had more.

Xuanxi remained in Liao Yaohuang’s Demon City as Liao Yaohuang and Xie Zhiwu shared two stolen Vital Essence Pills, while the Heavenly Army advanced toward the Untransformable Bone beneath the city. The bone suddenly stirred, and the Manifest Holiness True Lord prepared to destroy it and slay any wicked demons in his path.

• Xuanxi hid behind a curtain as a messenger from Xie Zhiwu warned Liao Yaohuang that Yi Daozi had reached the Southern Realm, and Liao Yaohuang claimed to have Immortal Elixirs to share.
• Xie Zhiwu heard about the pills, hurried to Yaohuang Demon City with three followers, and joined Liao Yaohuang in examining one of the two Vital Essence Pills.
• Liao Yaohuang revealed that Xuanxi had stolen the pills from Yi Daozi, and Xie Zhiwu recognized her as the cat demon behind the curtain.
• The Untransformable Bone began shaking beneath the city, alarming Liao Yaohuang and Xie Zhiwu.
• The Manifest Holiness True Lord announced that the Untransformable Bone lay beneath the demons’ city and ordered his army to slay wicked beings as they advanced.

The Demon-Subduing Heavenly Army arrived in the Heavenly Realm and advanced toward Yaohuang Demon City, while Xuanxi and the demon kings prepared for the untransformable bone’s escape. The demon kings believed their curse still controlled it, but Xie Zhiwu’s ambition and schemes remained hidden from the approaching forces.

• The Lord of the Martial Star and the Heavenly Emperor learned that the Demon-Subduing Heavenly Army had arrived, and Thousand Eyes identified the Manifest Holiness True Lord leading it southwest.
• Stoneborn, Qi Zhongbin, Hui Mian, and the others reached the army, where the Manifest Holiness True Lord recognized them.
• Xuanxi sensed another tremor beneath Yaohuang Demon City and believed the untransformable bone could no longer escape her and the Manifest Holiness True Lord.
• Granny Terror returned to the Demon King Pavilion seeking a reward, while Liao Yaohuang and Xie Zhiwu went underground to inspect the untransformable bone.
• Liao Yaohuang and Xie Zhiwu fed mortals to the untransformable bone to calm it and discussed using their Corpse-Binding Curse to control it.
• Xie Zhiwu proposed returning the Immortal Elixir to Yi Daozi and delivering Xuanxi to him, but Liao Yaohuang objected, so they went to drink and plan instead.

The Manifest Holiness True Lord led a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers to Yaohuang, where the Lord of the Martial Star accused Xie Zhiwu and Liao Yaohuang of grave crimes. Xie Zhiwu denied the charges, but the heavenly army attacked the Demon City, leaving him facing a sudden assault.

• The Manifest Holiness True Lord arrived near Yaohuang with fifty thousand local troops, bringing the heavenly force to a hundred thousand and ordering the soldiers to form ranks.
• Thunder and war drums alarmed the demons in Yaohuang Demon City, and Xie Zhiwu flew out alone to learn why the Celestial Court had gathered its forces.
• The Lord of the Martial Star accused Xie Zhiwu and Liao Yaohuang of gathering evil demons, harming people, and harboring the untransformable bone, then demanded Xie Zhiwu surrender.
• Xie Zhiwu denied the accusations and secretly warned Liao Yaohuang to prepare their forces, while Liao Yaohuang said the city held twenty thousand demon soldiers.
• Xie Zhiwu released his demonic aura as the Manifest Holiness True Lord prepared to act, and the heavenly army shattered the Demon City's restrictions and charged down to attack.

Heavenly forces invaded Demon City, and Xie Zhiwu and Liao Yaohuang led the demons into a desperate battle. The Untransformable Bone broke free, but the Manifest Holiness True Lord transformed into a giant and struck it down with his Three-Pointed, Two-Edged Blade.

• Liao Yaohuang rallied Demon City’s defenders as Heavenly Soldiers descended, and Xie Zhiwu declared rebellion against the Heavenly Realm.
• Xie Zhiwu fought the Lord of the Martial Star while demons battled the Heavenly forces, but he discovered countless more troops and warships waiting above the clouds.
• Xuanxi killed Granny Terror while secretly aiding the Heavenly Soldiers, then vanished before the nearby divine general could question her.
• Xie Zhiwu urged Liao Yaohuang to release the Untransformable Bone, which burst from the underground abyss and charged toward the clouds.
• The Manifest Holiness True Lord used Heavenly Gang Transformation-Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation and smashed the Untransformable Bone into the ground with his blade.

Yi Shuyuan used the Heavenly Battle Pill to unleash the Manifest Holiness True Lord’s complete Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation, terrifying the demons and gods and turning the battle in Heaven’s favor. The True Lord’s strike scattered the demon kings, and the chapter ended with heavenly forces closing in on the untransformable bone, whose fate remained uncertain.

• Yi Shuyuan transformed into the enormous Manifest Holiness True Lord, whose arrival silenced the battlefield and left Xie Zhiwu stunned.
• The True Lord called the demons fiends, prompting Xie Zhiwu and Liao Yaohuang to order their forces to flee.
• The True Lord struck with his Three-Pointed, Two-Edged Blade, scattering the demon kings and tearing apart the surrounding mountains and ground.
• The True Lord ordered the heavenly forces to capture Xie Zhiwu, Liao Yaohuang, and the untransformable bone, while sparing demons who cultivated uprightly.
• Yi Shuyuan returned to his ordinary form as the True Lord ended his transformation, and heavenly forces found the untransformable bone motionless in the crater.

Heavenly soldiers recovered the dead untransformable bone, and Yi Shuyuan proposed destroying it in his Heaven-Turning Furnace. After the battle, the Manifest Holiness True Lord kept Xie Zhiwu and Liao Yaohuang in his army’s custody, leaving Xie Zhiwu to preserve his last shred of dignity.

• A divine general found the mangled untransformable bone at the bottom of the crater and reported its death to the Manifest Holiness True Lord.
• Yi Shuyuan proposed refining the untransformable bone in his Heaven-Turning Furnace to prevent it from awakening again, and the Manifest Holiness True Lord agreed.
• The Lord of the Martial Star asked to take Xie Zhiwu and Liao Yaohuang to the Celestial Court, but Xie Zhiwu violently refused.
• The Manifest Holiness True Lord confronted Xie Zhiwu, who accepted his defeat but refused to be judged by the Southern Realm’s Celestial Court.
• The Manifest Holiness True Lord ordered that both demon kings remain in his army’s custody and said he would explain the battle to the Heavenly Emperor.

The Demon-Subduing Great Emperor defeated the demon forces at Yaohuang, suppressing the Untransformable Bone and routing the army. As the Heavenly Realm prepared to welcome him, Yi Shuyuan told Granny Pear Blossom that Xuanxi was an illusory form of himself and urged her to distinguish illusion from reality in her heart.

• The Heavenly Emperor and the gods learned that the Demon-Subduing Great Emperor had defeated Xie Zhiwu and Liao Yaohuang and driven the Untransformable Bone underground.
• At the Southern Sea Dragon Palace, Jiang Lang guessed that the tremor came from the battle, and returning Flood Dragons later reported the demons' defeat.
• The Heavenly Realm's forces secured Yaohuang, while the Demon-Subduing Heavenly Army camped beside the Celestial River and the gods went to welcome the Manifest Holiness True Lord.
• Yi Shuyuan stayed with Stoneborn, Qi Zhongbin, Hui Mian, and Granny Pear Blossom instead of attending the Heavenly Emperor's invitation.
• Granny Pear Blossom asked whether Xuanxi would return, and Yi Shuyuan explained that Xuanxi and Yi Shuyuan were both him.

Yi Shuyuan received the Immortal Elixirs, rewarded and protected Granny Pear Blossom, and later learned that Xie Zhiwu and Liao Yaohuang would be executed. Ten days later, the Manifest Holiness True Lord personally beheaded Xie Zhiwu on the Demon-Slaying Platform.

• Yi Shuyuan gave one Immortal Elixir to Granny Pear Blossom and sent her back to the lower realm with Stoneborn to protect her identity.
• At the Heavenly Banquet, the gathered cultivators learned that the Manifest Holiness True Lord could unleash Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation.
• Jiang Lang told Yi Shuyuan that the Southern Sea's Dragon Woman blamed him for Xie Zhiwu's capture, and Yi Shuyuan said Xie Zhiwu and Liao Yaohuang would die.
• Ten days later, the Heavenly Court brought Xie Zhiwu, Liao Yaohuang, and more than a hundred captured demons to the Demon-Slaying Platform.
• The Manifest Holiness True Lord declared that he had come to execute Xie Zhiwu, then beheaded him as his true spirit flew toward the Netherworld.

After executing the demon kings and condemning the remaining Heavenly offenders, the Celestial Court sent the Untransformable Bone to Mystic Gold Mountain to be refined in Yi Shuyuan’s Heaven-Turning Furnace. As people gathered to observe, Cai Yusheng concluded that Yi Shuyuan was likely refining pills as well as the Untransformable Bone.

• The Manifest Holiness True Lord beheaded Liao Yaohuang, and the Celestial Court brought out the God-Slaying Platform to execute its offending gods.
• A Divine Official announced that the Untransformable Bone would be refined in the Heaven-Turning Furnace, and Yi Shuyuan brought the furnace to Mystic Gold Mountain.
• The Lord of the Martial Star and Lu Xin released the Untransformable Bone into the furnace, where Yi Shuyuan intensified the flames and sensed the wicked spirit being purged.
• Jiang Lang, Hui Mian, Stoneborn, and Qi Zhongbin discussed visiting the Southern Sea Dragon Palace while Yi Shuyuan remained beside the furnace.
• People gathered around Mystic Gold Mountain, and Cai Yusheng concluded from the mountain’s gathering spiritual forces that Yi Shuyuan was likely refining pills.

Yi Shuyuan refined the dissolved untransformable bone in the Heaven-Turning Furnace, drawing on its true fire, Mystic Gold Mountain’s earth power, and starlight. The white-gold pill emerged and rose into a lightning-filled tribulation as Yi Shuyuan watched.

• Cai Yusheng told the Purple Mountain Sect cultivators to return any pill they caught to Yi Daozi and forge a favorable bond.
• Over several months, the Heaven-Turning Furnace’s true fire transformed and warmed Mystic Gold Mountain while refining the untransformable bone.
• Yi Shuyuan began refining a pill from the bone, and its final traces gave him brief visions of the buried person’s past and awakening.
• Yi Shuyuan formed a smooth white-gold pill as dark tribulation clouds gathered over Mystic Gold Mountain.
• The Heaven-Turning Furnace erupted with true fire, and the pill shot skyward to meet repeated lightning strikes while Yi Shuyuan watched.

Yi Shuyuan refined the untransformable bone into a Mystic Gold Pill that proved to be a powerful Sword Pellet, then used it to complete a striking sword technique. He confirmed that the bone had been fully refined and could no longer cause harm.

• The Mystic Gold Pill flew into the tribulation clouds, endured the lightning, and descended back to Yi Shuyuan.
• Yi Shuyuan explained that the pill was a Magical Treasure like a Sword Pellet, then demonstrated it by slicing through the clouds above Mystic Gold Mountain.
• The cultivators who witnessed the strike were stunned, while Yi Shuyuan realized the Sword Pellet had completed the yang aspect of his String-Sound Sword Art.
• Jiang Lang hurried to Mystic Gold Mountain to see the pill, and the Morning Star Lord congratulated Yi Shuyuan.
• Yi Shuyuan assured the Morning Star Lord that the untransformable bone had been completely melted and refined.

After refining the Untransformable Bone, Yi Shuyuan revealed the Mystic Gold Sword Pellet and accepted an invitation to the Southern Sea Dragon Palace. Cai Yusheng encountered a painter attempting to capture Yi Shuyuan’s sword stroke, while the Southern Sea Dragon Lord decided to welcome Yi Shuyuan despite suspecting him of involvement in Xie Zhiwu’s death.

• Yi Shuyuan showed the Morning Star Lord the Mystic Gold Sword Pellet, and the sword stroke’s changing seasons brought snow to Mystic Gold Mountain before the furnace’s warmth melted it into rain.
• Jiang Lang persuaded Yi Shuyuan to visit the Southern Sea Dragon Palace, and Yi Shuyuan departed with Jiang Lang, Hui Mian, Stoneborn, and Qi Zhongbin after asking the Morning Star Lord to report to the Heavenly Emperor.
• Cai Yusheng found a painter on Mystic Gold Mountain capturing Yi Shuyuan’s sword stroke as the Sword Rainbow Splitting Rain Painting, and the painter described hearing a wordless Dao sound.
• The Dragon Son welcomed Yi Shuyuan to the Southern Sea Dragon Palace, while the Dragon Lord suspected Yi Shuyuan had schemed behind Xie Zhiwu’s death.
• The Southern Sea Dragon Lord dismissed the grievance as Xie Zhiwu’s own misfortune and ordered a banquet, summoning his sons to join him in welcoming Yi Shuyuan.

Yi Shuyuan and his disciples toured the Southern Sea Dragon Palace with Third Crown Prince Wu Cheng and the Southern Sea Dragon Lord. The Dragon Lord admired Yi Shuyuan’s Mystic Gold Sword Pellet, whose sharp presence stirred the palace into radiant colors.

• Wu Cheng guided Yi Shuyuan and his companions through the dark, glowing waters to the Southern Sea Dragon Palace.
• The Southern Sea Dragon Lord welcomed Yi Shuyuan and led him on a tour of the Crystal Palace.
• Wu Cheng recounted the Sword Pellet’s creation and its dramatic encounter with a pill tribulation, while Stoneborn and Qi Zhongbin privately noted that he exaggerated the tale.
• Stoneborn explained that Yi Shuyuan’s Mystic Gold Pill was both a pill and a treasure called the Mystic Gold Sword Pellet.
• Yi Shuyuan lent the Sword Pellet to the Southern Sea Dragon Lord, whose Divine Sense touched its edge and triggered a brilliant display of Dragon Qi throughout the palace.

Yi Shuyuan and his companions toured the South Sea Crystal Palace, where the Southern Sea Dragon Lord showed off his treasures after admiring Yi Shuyuan’s Mystic Gold Pill. The Dragon Lord’s collection revealed a living immortal Alchemy Furnace, leaving Yi Shuyuan astonished.

• The Southern Sea Dragon Lord inspected Yi Shuyuan’s Mystic Gold Pill, then invited him to admire the Crystal Palace’s treasures.
• Yi Shuyuan praised the palace, and the Dragon Lord led him and his companions into the great hall.
• Yi Shuyuan noticed the hall’s water-repelling setup, and the Dragon Lord explained that four Water-Repelling Pearls and a Heavy Water Formation kept the room dry.
• Yi Shuyuan, Jiang Lang, Stoneborn, and Qi Zhongbin enjoyed the banquet, music, and dancing while the Dragon Lord welcomed them.
• The Dragon Lord opened a magical view into his treasury, displaying countless treasures and a still-living immortal Alchemy Furnace that amazed Yi Shuyuan.

Yi Shuyuan examined the Southern Sea Dragon Lord’s ancient Immortal Dao Alchemy Furnace and awakened its power with a tap. He and the Dragon Lord discovered that the furnace contained a world where something was still being refined.

• The Southern Sea Dragon Lord brought the Immortal Dao Alchemy Furnace into the hall and invited Yi Shuyuan to inspect it up close.
• Stoneborn and Qi Zhongbin compared the ancient furnace with their master’s Heaven-Turning Furnace while the Dragon Palace guests marveled at the treasure.
• Yi Shuyuan touched the furnace, harmonized his fire-element power with it, and sensed that its original owner was gone and its fire had weakened.
• After the Dragon Lord sent the less accomplished Aquatic Folk away, Yi Shuyuan struck the furnace, sending a bell-like shockwave through the hall and awakening its flames.
• Yi Shuyuan told the Southern Sea Dragon Lord that the furnace contained a world and was still firing and refining something.

At the South Sea Dragon Palace, Yi Shuyuan sensed that the Immortal Dao Alchemy Furnace held an unfinished treasure that had been refined for over a thousand years. The South Sea Dragon Lord agreed to let Yi Shuyuan attempt to complete it, though Yi Shuyuan warned that the furnace and its contents might be destroyed.

• The South Sea Dragon Lord asked Yi Shuyuan whether the furnace's contents had survived, and Yi Shuyuan sensed that the fire was too weak and the refinement remained incomplete.
• Yi Shuyuan touched the blazing furnace and glimpsed three ancient Cauldron Cultivators struggling to keep its fire burning as time passed and they disappeared one by one.
• Yi Shuyuan told the South Sea Dragon Lord that the furnace contained the unfinished legacy of the old Alchemy Cauldron path and asked permission to complete the refinement.
• Yi Shuyuan warned that the attempt could destroy both the contents and the furnace, and the South Sea Dragon Lord accepted the risk and pledged the South Sea Dragonkind's support.
• Yi Shuyuan said he sought only to complete the refinement, whether its result was an elixir or treasure, and the South Sea Dragon Lord bowed to him in respect.

Yi Shuyuan and Wu Yin searched pill scriptures for clues about the Four-Pillar True Yang Furnace and discovered its connection to the ancient True Yang Sect. They dispatched messengers to gather pill texts from across the realms while continuing their search in the Southern Sea.

• Yi Shuyuan and Wu Yin sealed the furnace’s heat and searched the Southern Sea Dragon Palace’s pill scriptures with Jiang Lang, Stoneborn, Qi Zhongbin, and the Aquatic Folk.
• Wu Yin found a jade slip describing the furnace’s origin and its first trial firing, which had produced a Dao Pill nearly three thousand years earlier.
• Yi Shuyuan recalled the True Yang Sect from the Eastern Heavenly Realm’s Pill Scripture Pavilion and sent Stoneborn to ask the Heavenly Emperor to lend its entire collection.
• Wu Yin sent his children to the Northern and Western Seas and asked Jiang Lang to borrow the East Sea’s pill scriptures.
• Yi Shuyuan sent Qi Zhongbin to the Northern Celestial Court with the Beiming Azure Wolf’s fang and agreed to visit the realm above, while Wu Yin arranged a mission to the Western Celestial Court.
• Yi Shuyuan and Wu Yin resumed searching the scriptures and ordered fresh food and wine.

Stoneborn reached the Heavenly Court to borrow the Medicine God Palace’s entire Pill Scripture Pavilion collection for Yi Daozi, while news of the Demon-Subduing Heavenly Army’s victory spread across the Heavenly Realm. Jiang Lang returned to the East Sea Dragon Palace and reported the campaign to Dragon Lord Feng Yan, who was astonished by the Manifest Holiness True Lord’s Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation.

• Stoneborn flew to the Heavenly Court, announced the Demon-Subduing Heavenly Army’s great victory, and requested the entire Pill Scripture Pavilion collection for Yi Daozi’s use in the Southern Sea.
• The Heavenly Emperor agreed to lend the books, and Medicine God Palace officials prepared to escort Stoneborn and the collection to the Southern Sea.
• Stoneborn’s vivid account of the Manifest Holiness True Lord suppressing the Untransformable Bone and slaying two great Demon Kings spread through the Heavenly Realm.
• Jiang Lang flew to the East Sea Dragon Palace and told Dragon Lord Feng Yan about the Southern Realm campaign, leaving out the wonders of his friend’s transformations.
• Dragon Lord Feng Yan widened his eyes when Jiang Lang described the Manifest Holiness True Lord’s Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation.

Jiang Lang gathered pill Dao texts from the East Sea and led a procession toward the Southern Sea, where scholars and dragonkind assembled more than five hundred thousand volumes to revive the Alchemy Cauldron way. Their search uncovered fragments of the Four-Pillar True Yang Furnace’s incantation, and Yi Shuyuan recited lines missing from the ancient text.

• Jiang Lang told Feng Yan about Yi Daozi’s discovery of the Southern Sea’s Immortal Dao Treasure Furnace, and Feng Yan agreed to lend the East Sea’s pill Dao books.
• Feng Yan led Jiang Lang to the East Sea collection, where Jiang Lang gathered nearly a hundred and twenty thousand volumes.
• Jiang Lang led dragonkind beneath the returning Demon-Subduing Heavenly Army and refused to change course, while the Manifest Holiness True Lord recognized his dragon cry.
• Yi Shuyuan, Wu Yin, and their collaborators assembled more than five hundred thousand pill Dao texts and decided to revive the way of the Alchemy Cauldron.
• The Eastern Medicine Master Star Lord found fragments of the Four-Pillar True Yang Furnace’s incantation in a jade pearl, and Yi Shuyuan recited lines that were not present in it.