Chapter Summaries

Old Gong challenged Divine Firmament Mountain to wager on Luo Bin, but Bai Dantai rejected the terms and ordered the elders to attack. Luo Bin used the Thunder Lord and Lightning Mother Nuo Deity Masks to block their Thunder Method, and Luo Xianshen and Si Yan struck back.

• Old Gong offered to let Luo Bin empower Divine Firmament Mountain's elders with his Yin-Yang Arts and wagered that the mountain could not defeat his master without consequences.
• Luo Bin covered himself with Gu worms as Old Gong pressed Bai Dantai to decide before the hour of great yin ended.
• Bai Dantai ordered the elders to purge the Gu and form the Northern Dipper Five Thunders formation, while Luo Bin gave Luo Xianshen and Si Yan the Thunder Lord and Lightning Mother Masks.
• Si Yan's unveiled face briefly distracted the elders, but Bai Dantai ordered them to resume their Thunder Method attack.
• The elders' Thunder Method failed against the masks, and Si Yan lashed out with her whip as Luo Xianshen used the masks' power to launch a storm of talismans.

Luo Xianshen and his companions battled Bai Dantai and the elders of Divine Firmament Mountain, using thunder and Luo Bin’s hexagrams to gain the upper hand. When the mountain’s disciples and elders formed a human wall before Bai Dantai, Luo Xianshen brought down heavenly thunder, leaving the hall roof ablaze and the outcome unclear.

• Luo Xianshen’s Thunder Method struck the elders, and Si Yan’s whip sent four of them flying.
• Bai Dantai tried to attack Si Yan, but Luo Bin disrupted his movement with Death Moon Dusk, allowing Luo Xianshen to knock him into the Main Hall roof.
• Luo Bin empowered Luo Xianshen with Thunder Moon Passing, while Luo Xianshen summoned heart-gouging prison wardens around the elders.
• The elders and disciples formed a human wall in front of Bai Dantai and pleaded with Luo Xianshen to stop invoking the altar.
• Luo Xianshen sent talismans toward Bai Dantai and unleashed heavenly thunder, scattering the crowd and setting the hall roof ablaze.

Luo Xianshen confronted Bai Feng after killing Divine Firmament Mountain's Abbey Master, and Bai Feng punished Bai Dantai while revealing that Wenqing Peak held answers about the mountain's heaven-veiling object. The chapter ended with Bai Feng inviting Luo Bin, Luo Xianshen, and Si Yan into the peak's inner grounds and asking Luo Bin if he was afraid.

• Luo Xianshen challenged Huo Yi and defended his attack on Bai Dantai, while Luo Bin realized the thunderbolt had drawn the hidden patriarch out.
• Bai Feng struck Bai Dantai and ordered him to reflect at Thunder Leap Cliff for forty-nine days.
• Bai Feng recognized Old Gong as a Divine Yang Spirit ghost and asked Bai Xianming to recount what had happened.
• Bai Xianming told Bai Feng that the affair might be connected to Divine Firmament Mountain's heaven-veiling object, and Luo Bin confirmed the connection.
• Bai Feng invited the three visitors to Wenqing Peak, but Luo Bin stopped Luo Xianshen and Si Yan and asked how many Yin Spirits Wenqing Peak had produced.
• Bai Feng asked Luo Bin whether he was afraid.

Luo Bin refused to enter Wenqing Peak until he understood the danger, and Bai Xianming revealed that Divine Firmament Mountain had been compromised and that Si Yan’s six-yin jade maiden fate could make her a cultivation vessel. The group remained outside the peak, with Bai Xianming beginning to explain the fate’s significance.

• Luo Bin suspected Bai Feng was luring them into Wenqing Peak, where a patriarch who had eaten the Stone Brain might threaten Luo Xianshen, so he stopped and asked to recover.
• Bai Feng recognized Si Yan’s six-yin jade maiden fate and true person realm, warned that other Daoist sects would try to take her, and ordered Bai Xianming to settle the group.
• Luo Bin declined to follow Bai Xianming’s intended route and asked whether a Yin Spirit patriarch had eaten the Stone Brain; Bai Xianming said Bai Feng had taken it and its outcome was unknown.
• Bai Xianming explained that the Jade Clarity Peak Master had likely been compromised first and warned that Luo Xianshen would face a group attack inside Wenqing Peak.
• Bai Xianming told Luo Bin that Si Yan could become a cultivation vessel and began explaining how rare female fates could empower Daoists.

Bai Xianming explained the ranks of immortals and warned Si Yan that her fate could lead to daylight ascension, while Luo Bin chose to hide in Chen Hongming’s valley and investigate the fakes on Divine Firmament Mountain. The group rested and ate as Luo Bin revealed that the Jade Clarity Peak Master, Chen Hongming, Xu Lu, and Bai Xian had all been replaced, and Old Gong prepared to demonstrate the limits of Luo Bin’s divination.

• Bai Xianming explained that immortals could be Corpse-Liberation Immortals, earth immortals, or heavenly immortals, and warned that Si Yan’s fate could make her a target for those seeking a Six-Yang Golden Boy and daylight ascension.
• Luo Bin led the group to Chen Hongming’s valley to avoid Divine Firmament Peak and asked Bai Xianming where the mountain’s core was, but Bai Xianming did not know.
• Luo Bin exhausted himself and slept while his Gu Worms guarded the room, then woke at night and joined Bai Xianming by a bonfire for food.
• Luo Bin reasoned that the Jade Clarity Peak Master, Chen Hongming, Xu Lu, and Bai Xian were fakes, and Bai Xianming confirmed that Xu Lu and Bai Xian had disappeared for several days before returning.
• Luo Bin concluded that the real Bai Xian and Bai Xiaoshan were still hidden on Divine Firmament Mountain and revealed that the group was acting as bait to draw out the Heaven-Veiling Objects.
• Old Gong told Luo Bin that his divination still needed practice and offered to demonstrate the power of Earth Aspect’s mystic golden teeth.

Old Gong investigated Bai Xian’s belongings and entered Luo Bin’s forehead, forcing Luo Bin to perceive Bai Xian’s past experience. Luo Bin witnessed faceless beings tormenting her as voices resembling Bai Xiaoshan and Xu Lu spoke to her.

• Old Gong divined from his teeth, then asked whether Bai Xian had any personal belongings.
• Bai Xianming directed Old Gong to a room where Xu Lu and Bai Xian’s belongings remained, while Luo Bin sensed a hidden presence with no yin energy.
• Old Gong found a Marriage Contract bearing Xu Lu and Bai Xian’s bloody handprints, then collapsed after examining it.
• Old Gong merged his head into Luo Bin’s forehead, and Luo Bin began experiencing Bai Xian’s perceptions.
• Luo Bin perceived faceless beings surrounding Bai Xian and placing their hands on her abdomen while voices imitating Bai Xiaoshan and Xu Lu frightened her.

Luo Bin used the sensations he had shared with Bai Xian and his knowledge of mountain energy and Feng Shui to deduce that she was being held in a cave to the south. After identifying the location, he sensed that Divine Firmament Mountain’s Heaven Veil was secretly watching them and ordered the group to kill every watcher.

• Luo Bin recovered from sharing Bai Xian’s sensations, while Old Gong proposed using an item belonging to Bai Xiaoshan to search for him.
• Luo Bin sensed the mountain’s energy and led the group to a cave whose rough, cramped interior matched the place he had sensed around Bai Xian.
• Luo Bin reasoned from the cave’s echo, ground, and Feng Shui that Bai Xian was in a cave to the south, a yang site associated with fire.
• Luo Bin rushed out of the cave after realizing that Divine Firmament Mountain’s Heaven Veil was spying on the group, and he ordered Daoist Luo to kill every watcher.

Luo Bin and his companions fought faceless beings inside Old Gong’s vast Fierce Prison, discovering that the creatures could imitate people and their abilities with uncanny accuracy. Just as Old Gong sensed another watcher and his prison began to collapse, an outside force broke through it.

• Luo Bin realized the faceless beings had been watching Bai Xian and imitating people, while Luo Xianshen pursued them with Palm Thunder.
• Old Gong transformed the mountain valley into a sprawling Fierce Prison and sent Bai Xianming, Si Yan, and Luo Bin after the creatures.
• Luo Bin used his Gu Worms and Black-Gold Toad to destroy several faceless beings that attacked him.
• Luo Xianshen blasted apart imitations of Xu Lu and Bai Xian, and Luo Bin used his Three Golden Silkworm Gu to kill a false Luo Xianshen.
• Old Gong sensed someone watching him, then shattered into ghostly energy as an outside power forcibly broke the Prison Hexagram.

Luo Bin led Luo Xianshen and Si Yan to First Ancestor Peak to search for Bai Xian and Bai Xiaoshan, while Fourth Master Gray warned them that the caves there held coffins and were guarded by an old Taoist. The Taoist appeared and mistook Luo Xianshen for someone about to undergo corpse liberation, asking which cave and method he had chosen.

• Luo Bin found Old Gong injured by a sword and learned that a Yin Spirit had possessed Bai Xianming and attacked him.
• Luo Bin chose to leave Bai Xianming for the time being and head south with Luo Xianshen and Si Yan to rescue Bai Xian and Bai Xiaoshan.
• Fourth Master Gray returned with burned flesh on his rump and reported that his Mountain Rats had failed to find Bai Xian or Bai Xiaoshan.
• Luo Bin identified their destination as First Ancestor Peak and warned the others to avoid its Taoists.
• The group reached a cliff with nine caves, and Fourth Master Gray warned that coffins filled the caves and a Taoist guarded the area.
• An aged Taoist emerged and asked Luo Xianshen which cave and corpse-liberation method he had chosen.

Luo Xianshen and his companions met Seven Dust Taoist, who revealed that Divine Firmament Mountain’s Patriarchs had guided events toward Luo Xianshen taking over as Abbey Master and restoring the mountain’s Four-Rules origins. Luo Xianshen refused, leaving Seven Dust Taoist bewildered as he asked what mattered most in cultivating the Tao.

• Seven Dust Taoist introduced himself as a former Grand Elder who had guarded the tombs for forty years and explained that he had expected to undergo sword liberation when the time was right.
• Seven Dust Taoist declared Luo Xianshen the Four-Rules Real Person and asked him to take over as Abbey Master of Divine Firmament Mountain, restoring it as Four-Rules Mountain.
• Luo Bin argued that Divine Firmament Mountain had fallen under the control of divine yin spirit Patriarchs and that Four-Rules Mountain had legitimate grounds to take over.
• Seven Dust Taoist said the Patriarch had guided both him and Luo Xianshen, and that Luo Xianshen could change the worsening situation on Qing Wen Peak.
• Luo Xianshen calmly rejected the offer and denied coming at the Patriarch’s direction.
• Seven Dust Taoist struggled to understand the refusal, and Luo Xianshen asked whether a ruined Taoist order mattered more than one’s Taoist heart.

Luo Xianshen challenged Seven Dust Taoist to follow his own Dao Heart rather than blindly serve Divine Firmament Mountain, then led Luo Bin to search the mountain caves for Bai Shanxiao and Bai Xian. Luo Bin climbed into a hidden cave and encountered a Taoist's corpse as footsteps approached.

• Luo Xianshen argued that the Dao meant single-minded devotion to righteous action, and Seven Dust Taoist accepted that they followed different paths.
• Luo Bin climbed the sunlit cliff to search its caves, but Fourth Master Gray's possession failed under the intense Yang Energy.
• Luo Bin continued climbing alone and discovered a hidden cave near the top of the cliff.
• Luo Bin entered the cave and found a bald Taoist's corpse sitting cross-legged in the passage.
• Footsteps approached Luo Bin from deeper inside the cave.

Luo Bin and his companions passed the Yang Spirit projection guarding the cave and found Bai Xian and Bai Xiaoshan bound inside. When they tried to free them, both captives attacked, leaving the group to face a sudden ambush.

• Luo Bin recognized that a Yang Spirit projection and powerful Sealing Suppression guarded the passage, and suspected Chen Hongming had damaged the seal out of greed for the Heaven-Veiling Object.
• Luo Bin, Luo Xianshen, and Si Yan followed the sound of Bai Xiaoshan's Five Purifications Curse and found him and Bai Xian tied up in the cave.
• Luo Bin freed Bai Xian and then Bai Xiaoshan, but neither responded as though they trusted their rescuers.
• Bai Xiaoshan grabbed Luo Bin by the throat and struck at his head, while Bai Xian rose and attacked Si Yan with a Bronze Sword.
• Luo Bin invoked the Four Rules of the Eye, named Fangzhu, stopping Bai Xiaoshan's strike before it could hit him.

Luo Bin proved his identity to Bai Xian and Bai Xiaoshan, then helped them escape the cave passage. They recovered the Divine Firmament Four Sovereigns Mirror and reached a room where Bai Xian could rest, while the strange creatures remained hidden.

• Luo Bin showed Bai Xian the Primordial White Flower Lantern and Fourth Master Gray, convincing her and Bai Xiaoshan that he was genuine.
• Bai Xian revealed that Second Madam Hu had disappeared near Black City Monastery and that Xu Lu was still alive but near death; Si Yan urged them to get Bai Xian, who was pregnant and weak, out quickly.
• Bai Xiaoshan led the group deeper through the Cave Passage, explaining that Chen Hongming had brought him there and warning them that they might encounter strange creatures again.
• Bai Xiaoshan recovered the Divine Firmament Four Sovereigns Mirror from a charred corpse and resolved to kill White Oak, while Luo Bin suspected that someone impersonating Chen Hongming had imprisoned him.
• Luo Bin and Bai Xiaoshan climbed out through a vertical opening and joined Si Yan and Bai Xian in a room; Si Yan urged Bai Xiaoshan to stop searching for the hidden creatures and find medicine for Bai Xian.

Bai Xiaoshan treated Bai Xian at the Lower Scholar Shrine and decided to hunt the strange entities, subdue the Yin Spirits, and take command of Divine Firmament Mountain. At the Main Peak Hall, Bai Dantai exposed the apparent Bai Xiaoshan as an impostor, while the Four Sovereigns Mirror revealed Luo Bin as an aberration.

• Bai Xiaoshan brought the group into the Lower Scholar Shrine, where Si Yan used herbs from the offerings to treat Bai Xian.
• Luo Bin told Bai Xiaoshan about the Heaven-Veiling Entity, the events at Jade Clarity Peak, White Oak's death, and Divine Firmament Mountain's upheaval.
• Bai Xiaoshan left the Divine Firmament Four Sovereigns Mirror with Si Yan and set out with Luo Bin and Luo Xianshen to gather everyone and destroy the strange entities.
• The three reached the Main Peak Hall and found Bai Dantai beneath the Taoist statue, despite his supposed confinement at Thunder Leap Cliff.
• Bai Dantai rang a bronze bell and used the Divine Firmament Four Sovereigns Mirror, then declared that the person with them was not Bai Xiaoshan and that Luo Bin was an aberration.

Bai Xiaoshan defeated Bai Dantai’s opening attack, but Bai Dantai accused him of being a strange creature and urged the elders and disciples to kill him. As the courtyard prepared for battle, Luo Bin realized something was wrong, and Bai Xiaoshan offered to let Bai Dantai test him with the Clear Radiance Five Directions Thunder Seal.

• Bai Xiaoshan rebuked Bai Dantai and demanded that he surrender the Divine Firmament Four Sovereigns Mirror and step down as Abbey Master.
• Bai Xiaoshan pierced Bai Dantai’s bronze bell and wounded him, but Bai Dantai countered with the Clear Radiance Five Directions Thunder Seal.
• Bai Dantai called Bai Xiaoshan a strange creature and accused Luo Xianshen and Luo Bin of being bewitched, prompting the elders and disciples to form up against him.
• Luo Bin grew uneasy and realized there was a problem, while Bai Xiaoshan told the elders and Luo Xianshen to hold their hands.
• Bai Xiaoshan offered to let Bai Dantai strike him with the Clear Radiance Five Directions Thunder Seal and asked what would happen afterward.

Bai Xiaoshan endured Bai Dantai’s test with the Clear Radiance Five Directions Thunder Seal and proved that Bai Dantai’s bell-based attack had failed because the patriarchs protected him. When Bai Dantai refused to yield and invoked a Yin Spirit Patriarch, a summoned sword struck him down in the hall.

• Bai Xingtai and Bai Lushu proposed that Luo Xianshen test Bai Xiaoshan with the Clear Radiance Five Directions Thunder Seal, and Bai Dantai agreed.
• Luo Xianshen placed the seal on Bai Xiaoshan, who remained unharmed, exposing that Bai Dantai had expected his bell to suppress Bai Xiaoshan’s soul.
• Bai Dantai revealed that he had linked the elders’ life-bound bells to a master bell to control them, and the elders demanded that he surrender Bai Xianming and the Divine Firmament Four Sovereigns Mirror.
• Bai Dantai defended his actions by claiming a Yin Spirit Patriarch had ordered him to keep the elders in check, then dismissed Bai Xiaoshan.
• Bai Xiaoshan advanced toward Bai Dantai, and a summoned sword flew into the hall and pierced Bai Dantai’s mouth, pinning him to the wall.

Seven Dust Taoist killed Bai Dantai, took command as Divine Firmament Mountain’s Abbey Master, and asked Luo Xianshen to accept the mountain’s return to Four-Rules Mountain. After Luo Xianshen agreed, Seven Dust Taoist led the elders toward Wenqing Peak to confront its pure spirit ghosts and cleanse its Yin energy.

• Seven Dust Taoist appeared at the Main Hall and killed Bai Dantai in one move, shocking Bai Xiaoshan, Luo Bin, Luo Xianshen, and the assembled disciples.
• Seven Dust Taoist declared himself Divine Firmament Mountain’s Abbey Master and explained that the mountain’s damaged Dao hearts and harmful conduct had caused pure spirit ghosts to arise.
• Seven Dust Taoist knelt before Luo Xianshen and announced that Divine Firmament Mountain would return to Four-Rules Mountain as a branch temple under his command.
• Luo Xianshen said he could not decide on behalf of his eldest senior brother, the Abbey Master of Four-Rules Mountain, but agreed to Seven Dust Taoist’s request for an exception.
• Seven Dust Taoist ordered the elders to follow him into Wenqing Peak to summon the pure spirit ghosts, cleanse the Yin energy, and ascend through corpse liberation.
• Bai Xiaoshan planned to gather Bai Xian, Siyan, and the elders at Qingyu Peak, while Luo Bin urged him to help restore the mountain.

Luo Bin accompanied Seven Dust Taoist and the elders into Wenqing Peak to confront the Yin Spirit Patriarchs, while growing suspicious that Bai Xiaoshan had been altered by corpse worms. They found every hall empty and could not account for the Patriarchs or their corpses, so the elders asked Luo Bin to explain what had happened.

• Luo Bin suspected Bai Xiaoshan had developed corpse worms and ordered disciples to bring Si Yan and Bai Xian from the Lower Scholar Shrine and clear up the misunderstanding at Jade Clarity Peak.
• Luo Bin, Bai Xiaoshan, and the others entered Wenqing Peak’s valley, where Seven Dust Taoist used the Five Purifications Curse to clear the corpse worms from their sight.
• Seven Dust Taoist called on the Yin Spirit Patriarchs to appear and urged them to return to the Taoist path, but no one answered.
• The group searched six halls and found neither Yin Spirit Patriarchs nor their corpses, leaving Bai Xingtai and Bai Lushu unable to explain their disappearance.
• Bai Lushu asked Luo Bin where the yin-spirit corpses had gone.

Luo Bin diverted suspicion from Mao Yousan by proposing that rogue immortals had escaped by imitating the missing yin spirit cultivators, prompting Seven Dust Taoist to reveal the danger they posed. The group restrained Bai Xiaoshan and began confronting the possibility that rogue immortals had infiltrated Divine Firmament Mountain.

• Luo Bin raised the possibility that the missing cultivators were rogue immortals disguised as yin spirit projection cultivators, drawing Seven Dust Taoist's attention.
• Seven Dust Taoist explained that rogue immortals could imitate and consume people, then become indistinguishable from them, and questioned whether Bai Xiaoshan was still himself.
• Seven Dust Taoist ordered Bai Xiaoshan restrained, and Bai Xiaoshan agreed while claiming Chen Hongming had definitely been eaten.
• Bai Xingtai pierced Bai Xiaoshan's shoulder blades with locking hooks, and other Elders bound him.
• Luo Xianshen warned that many people might be suspects, while Seven Dust Taoist said the Abbey Master and Tomb Guardian Elder held a secret last resort.
• Seven Dust Taoist concluded that the yin spirits had fled after the Heaven-Veiling Objects escaped, and Old Gong remarked that their departure spared the group a fight.

Seven Dust Taoist exposed Bai Xiaoshan as a soul-less Heaven-Veiling Object by testing him with a bell, and the creature revealed that it had not yet finished devouring him. Divine Firmament Mountain was left facing a confirmed impostor who remained shackled in their custody.

• Seven Dust Taoist led the Elders and Real Persons through Wenqing Peak, where they found no remaining Yin Spirit Patriarchs.
• Luo Xianshen recounted what had happened at Wenqing Peak, and the group returned to Divine Firmament Peak, where Bai Xiannan, Bai Chuanyun, Bai Xian, and the disciples questioned Bai Xiaoshan's renewed shackling.
• Bai Xian insisted that Bai Xiaoshan had helped her while they were imprisoned, but Luo Bin remained uneasy about whether he was truly the Peak Master.
• Seven Dust Taoist rang a bell and observed that Bai Xiaoshan reacted half a beat later than the others, exposing that he had no soul and was not protected by a Patriarch.
• Bai Xiaoshan's features vanished and re-formed as he struggled against his restraints, then declared that he had not finished gnawing through the Peak Master.