Chapter Summaries

At the Four Directions Inn, Xu Er and Zhang Dafu planned to keep Li Xiaoya from entering after his meal scams had caused trouble. Li Xiaoya outmaneuvered Xu Er and got inside, where Zhang Dafu tried to drag him out.

• Zhang Dafu ordered Xu Er to keep beggars, especially Li Xiaoya, away from the inn and threatened to dock his wages.
• Xu Er told Zhang Dafu that Li Xiaoya avoided the other restaurants because their staff beat him, then suggested they scare him off too.
• Li Xiaoya arrived, and Xu Er blocked his attempts to enter until Li Xiaoya led him into a pillar and slipped inside.
• Zhang Dafu accused Li Xiaoya of swindling a meal and tried to drag him out, but Li Xiaoya mocked his complaint and refused to budge.

Li Xiaoya used a five-tael silver ingot to secure a meal at Zhang Dafu’s restaurant, where he caught the attention of a powerful old cultivator and his great-granddaughter, Jing'er. After exposing a cockroach in his plate, Li Xiaoya faced the intervention of men from the Far-Reaching Escort Agency, leaving him and Zhang Dafu in a tense predicament.

• Li Xiaoya showed Zhang Dafu a genuine silver ingot and persuaded him to let him eat at the restaurant.
• Li Xiaoya teased Xu Er with an offer of silver, and Zhang Dafu stopped Xu Er from attacking him because Li Xiaoya was now a customer.
• An old cultivator identified Li Xiaoya as having mixed immortal root aptitude, while his great-granddaughter Jing'er prepared to join Beast Spirit Valley.
• Li Xiaoya found a cockroach in his plate and threatened to expose it, prompting a bearded man from the Far-Reaching Escort Agency to offer to settle the dispute.
• The bearded escort and his companions approached the table, leaving Li Xiaoya and Zhang Dafu nervous.

Li Xiaoya used a cockroach and a false complaint to provoke Zhang Dafu, while an unseen intervention frightened the bearded man into leaving the inn. After Li Xiaoya departed, Zhang Dafu chased Xu Er through the courtyard, and Xu Er claimed he knew how to deal with Li Xiaoya.

• Li Xiaoya pretended to complain about the minced pork and eggplant and tricked Zhang Dafu into taking a cockroach from his chopsticks.
• A silver dart was deflected by an unseen force, and a mysterious voice warned the bearded man to return to his seat.
• Zhang Dafu swallowed the cockroach, then accepted the bearded man's silver payment as the man and his companions left.
• Zhang Dafu gave Li Xiaoya his meal for free, returned the silver, and expelled him from the inn.
• The elderly man and the girl prepared to leave for Beast Spirit Valley after the girl admitted she had used magic to help Li Xiaoya.
• Zhang Dafu found Xu Er dozing in the courtyard and beat him until Xu Er fled, claiming he knew how to deal with Li Xiaoya.

Xu Er and Zhang Dafu arranged for the Heavenly Money Gang to punish Li Xiaoya for causing trouble at the Four Directions Inn, while pawnshop owner Yang Baojin hired Scarface Chen to steal Li Xiaoya’s unusual necklace. As Li Xiaoya worried about the gang’s pressure and sensed someone following him, he hurried to escape.

• Xu Er persuaded Zhang Dafu to have his cousin in the Heavenly Money Gang beat Li Xiaoya whenever he returned to the inn.
• Li Xiaoya reclaimed his necklace from the pawnshop and hid its strange black pendant beneath his clothes.
• Yang Baojin hired Scarface Chen to seize Li Xiaoya’s necklace and gave him a portrait of Li Xiaoya.
• Li Xiaoya considered leaving town or joining the Heavenly Money Gang, whose leader had threatened him for refusing to join.
• Li Xiaoya sensed someone following him and quickened his pace to get away.

Li Xiaoya evaded Scarface Chen by faking a conversation in an alley, then escaped to his concealed cave outside Treasure Immortal Town. After resting, he prepared to practice with iron sand and planned to get more from Blacksmith Zhang.

• Li Xiaoya noticed Scarface Chen following him and used vocal mimicry to make him think he had entered a house.
• Scarface Chen hid beneath an eave to wait for Li Xiaoya, while Li Xiaoya slipped away and left Treasure Immortal Town.
• Li Xiaoya entered his hidden cave through a disguised wooden stone and stored away the food he had taken from a meal.
• Li Xiaoya wondered who had sent the tracker, then fell asleep in the cave.
• After waking near evening, Li Xiaoya strapped iron sand bags to his calves and planned to get more from Blacksmith Zhang.

Li Xiaoya was chased through town by Xu Dagang and the Heavenly Money Gang after being threatened over his visits to the Four Directions Inn. Meanwhile, Scarface Chen was also searching for Li Xiaoya, while two women from the Heavenly Dao Sect pursued the escaped Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma toward his vicinity.

• Li Xiaoya practiced running through the mountains while reflecting on how his swindler master's death had taught him to prepare for danger.
• A young woman from the Heavenly Dao Sect tracked the escaped Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma with her spiritual sense and flew off with her tearful apprentice to pursue it.
• Xu Dagang confronted Li Xiaoya and threatened to break his right hand for visiting the Four Directions Inn, but Li Xiaoya tried to agree and leave.
• Xu Dagang ordered his men to attack Li Xiaoya, who tricked some of them with a false warning and escaped into town.
• Li Xiaoya found himself pursued by more than twenty Heavenly Money Gang members and decided he needed to find a way out of town.
• Scarface Chen, having discovered that Li Xiaoya had tricked him with a false address, vowed to take Li Xiaoya's money and life.

Li Xiaoya fled Treasure Immortal Town with a growing crowd behind him, but Scarface Chen pursued him and attacked with throwing knives. As Scarface approached the wounded Li Xiaoya, Li Xiaoya threw lime powder at his face.

• Scarface Chen abandoned his meal and chased Li Xiaoya across the rooftops as an angry crowd pursued him through town.
• Li Xiaoya escaped town, and Xu Dagang and the exhausted crowd gave up while Scarface Chen continued after him.
• Scarface Chen pretended to offer Li Xiaoya martial arts lessons, then threw a knife at him; Li Xiaoya dodged and kept running toward the woods.
• Scarface Chen baited Li Xiaoya into rolling before striking him with two throwing knives in the shoulder and thigh.
• Scarface Chen flipped the motionless Li Xiaoya onto his back, and Li Xiaoya flung lime powder at his face.

Li Xiaoya killed Scarface Chen with a lime-and-dagger ambush but collapsed from his own wounds while making his way home. A young woman and her apprentice Xian'er discovered him and the young woman sensed unusual five-element attributes in his spiritual root.

• Li Xiaoya blinded Scarface Chen with lime and stabbed him, but Scarface Chen struck Li Xiaoxiao before dying.
• Li Xiaoya realized he was badly injured and set off for home, leaving Scarface Chen behind.
• Li Xiaoya collapsed after walking several li, while a young woman searching for the Five-Element Rainbow Lingzhi initially ignored him.
• The young woman sensed five-element spiritual energy in Li Xiaoya and examined his spiritual root with a technique.
• Xian'er asked whether Li Xiaoya had a heavenly spiritual root like her.

A young woman explained spiritual roots to Xian'er, then healed the badly injured Li Xiaoya and left with her to pursue the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma. Li Xiaoya awoke fully healed and met a strange white creature, which perched on his shoulder as he asked whether it had saved him and what its name was.

• The young woman told Xian'er that Li Xiaoya had a rare five-element spiritual root, whose bearer could sense all five elemental spiritual qi but cultivated extremely slowly.
• The young woman decided to save Li Xiaoya so his death would not trouble Xian'er, then used blue light to remove his throwing knives and heal his wounds.
• The young woman and Xian'er flew away to pursue the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma, unaware that a white creature had emerged near Li Xiaoya.
• Li Xiaoya woke to find his injuries healed and spotted a small white, rabbit-eared creature with a five-branched, multicolored tail.
• The creature vanished when Li Xiaoya tried to touch it, then reappeared on his shoulder, and Li Xiaoya asked if it had saved him and what its name was.

Li Xiaoya befriended the strange creature Guagua and hunted a muntjac for food, unaware that Guagua was the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma sought by the young woman and her disciple. The two women spotted the creature on his shoulder and wondered why it was with him.

• Li Xiaoya named the chirping creature Guagua and walked home with it, giving up trying to touch it when it kept vanishing.
• Hungry and unable to return to town, Li Xiaoya went to Hunter Wang's traps to find food.
• The young woman explained that the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma had doubled back to evade her tracking and continued searching for it with the girl.
• Li Xiaoya drove a muntjac into a trap, roasted it by a lake, and carried the leftover meat home with Guagua.
• The girl and the young woman saw Guagua on Li Xiaoya's shoulder and recognized it as the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma.

A young woman trapped Li Xiaoya and Guagua with her Water-Controlling Nine-Palace Pearl while she and a girl descended to retrieve the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma. Li Xiaoya learned that Guagua had escaped from the women, and the young woman began tightening the barrier to catch him without killing Li Xiaoya.

• The girl summoned a blue silk handkerchief to hover in the air while the young woman used a blue pearl to trap Li Xiaoya and Guagua inside a dome.
• Two women descended before the barrier, and Li Xiaoya mistook them for fairies and Guagua for an immortal beast.
• The young woman demanded to know why Li Xiaoya was with the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma, and Li Xiaoya said Guagua had come to him on his own.
• The girl explained that Guagua had escaped from them, and Li Xiaoya reluctantly realized they had come to take him back.
• The young woman began shrinking the barrier around Li Xiaoya and Guagua, using a gentler spell to avoid freezing Li Xiaoya to death.

Li Xiaoya was injured when the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma rebounded off the Water-Controlling Nine-Palace Pearl’s barrier, but the young woman captured it. When Li Xiaoya touched the creature, it vanished and his injuries healed, leaving the young woman suspecting a connection between them.

• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma failed to break the barrier and rebounded into Li Xiaoya, leaving him badly injured.
• The young woman shrank the barrier and reached through it to seize the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma.
• The creature dodged her grasp, but the young woman held it suspended and drew it toward her.
• Li Xiaoya touched the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma, which vanished in a flash of five-colored light.
• Li Xiaoya accused the young woman and the girl of taking the creature, then discovered his injuries had healed.
• The young woman found no sign of the creature escaping and suspected Li Xiaoya’s touch had caused it to disappear.

After discovering that the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma had possessed Li Xiaoya, Fairy Qingxia decided to take him to her sect to find a way to extract it. Li Xiaoya refused when he realized Guagua might be taken from him.

• Fairy Qingxia concluded that Li Xiaoya's five-attribute spiritual root let the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma possess him.
• Li Xiaoya learned that Fairy Qingxia and Liu Xian'er were immortal cultivators, and Fairy Qingxia examined him through the barrier.
• Fairy Qingxia said extracting the Ganoderma would endanger Li Xiaoya and damage its vitality, so she planned to seek help from her senior brothers at the sect.
• Fairy Qingxia learned that Li Xiaoya lived alone, expanded the barrier to give him room, and said they would return to the sect.
• Li Xiaoya realized that taking him to the sect could put Guagua in their hands, so he shouted that he would not go and demanded to be released.

Fairy Qingxia took Li Xiaoya away after knocking him unconscious, and he woke during their flight toward her Sect. As they neared their destination, Li Xiaoya learned that Qingxia had saved him after he was injured, though he remained confused about the scar-faced man who had tried to kill him.

• Fairy Qingxia put Li Xiaoya to sleep and carried Liu Xian'er away toward the Sect.
• Li Xiaoya woke inside a ball of blue light, marveled at flying, and asked Fairy Qingxia to teach him; she said they would discuss it after she extracted the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma.
• Li Xiaoya asked whether Qingxia intended to kill Guagua, and Qingxia and Liu Xian'er insisted that the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma was needed for their Sect's survival.
• Liu Xian'er told Li Xiaoya that Fairy Qingxia had saved him when she found him injured in the woods, but Li Xiaoya doubted her because he remembered Guagua healing him.
• Li Xiaoya described the fight that had left him injured and wondered why the scar-faced man had targeted him; Fairy Qingxia then announced that they were nearly there, and Li Xiaoya admired the place ahead.

Fairy Qingxia brought Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er to the Heavenly Dao Sect on Divine Path Mountain. After reaching Heavenly Dao Hall, she sent Li Xiaoya to sleep just as Heavenly Venerable Daoling arrived.

• Fairy Qingxia flew with Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er across the Divine Path Mountain range and showed them the sect’s towering mountain.
• Fairy Qingxia brought the two to Heavenly Dao Hall, where Xuandaozi respectfully greeted her as his Grand Martial Aunt.
• Fairy Qingxia told Xuandaozi that Heavenly Venerable Daoling would meet her and ordered him to keep others away.
• Li Xiaoya asked Fairy Qingxia whether she was an elder, and she warned him not to call her sister before making him fall asleep.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling arrived in the hall and greeted Fairy Qingxia as his Junior Sister.

Heavenly Venerable Daoling joined Fairy Qingxia and agreed to use a Five-Element Formation to extract the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma from Li Xiaoya. The formation began with Li Xiaoya immobilized at its center, and he panicked when he realized he could not move.

• Heavenly Venerable Daoling arrived and learned that the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma had possessed Li Xiaoya.
• Fairy Qingxia proposed using five golden core cultivators and a Five-Element Formation to remove the spirit without harming Li Xiaoya.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling agreed, and Fairy Qingxia sent Liu Xian'er to summon Xuandaozi before giving her a jade pendant.
• Xuandaozi received Fairy Qingxia's instructions and left to prepare the formation.
• Li Xiaoya woke in a sealed stone chamber surrounded by the cultivators and was told to sit in the formation's center.
• Fairy Qingxia placed a talisman on Li Xiaoya's forehead, leaving him unable to move as the Five-Element Formation began.

Fairy Qingxia and the others used the Five-Element Formation on Li Xiaoya, drawing the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma out of him. Fairy Qingxia caught Guagua, while Li Xiaoya recovered and demanded to know what they had done.

• Fairy Qingxia silenced Li Xiaoya and joined Heavenly Venerable Daoling and the others in activating the Five-Element Formation.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling controlled the formation as its five-colored vortex surrounded and pressed in on Li Xiaoya.
• After about a quarter of an hour, Li Xiaoya regained his voice and expelled a cloud of white vapor containing the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma.
• Fairy Qingxia caught the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma in a silver net as Heavenly Venerable Daoling released Li Xiaoya from the formation.
• Li Xiaoya sprang up and asked what they had done to Guagua, while Heavenly Venerable Daoling marveled that he could not detect the Ganoderma's true body.

Fairy Qingxia and Heavenly Venerable Daoling refused Li Xiaoya’s plea to free the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma, explaining that the creature was tied to a prophecy about a future calamity. Fairy Qingxia admitted Li Xiaoya to the Heavenly Dao Sect, and the group left the chamber to find a place to confine their captive.

• Fairy Qingxia ordered the Red-Robed Elder and the other two to keep the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma’s capture secret, while the Black-Clad Man secretly flashed an icy glint.
• Li Xiaoya knelt and begged Fairy Qingxia to release the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma, but she and Heavenly Venerable Daoling refused and said they would confine it until they understood its purpose.
• Fairy Qingxia and Heavenly Venerable Daoling explained that a divine divination linked the five-element rainbow spirit to a ten-thousand-year tribulation awaiting the Heavenly Dao Sect two thousand years later.
• Fairy Qingxia invited Li Xiaoya to stay at the Heavenly Dao Sect, and he casually accepted the offer.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling opened hidden doorways, and the group carried the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma through the passage into another stone chamber.

A black-robed man attacked Fairy Qingxia’s Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma with Spirit-Devouring Demonfire, then fled and detonated his Golden Core before Heavenly Venerable Daoling captured the blast. When Daoling returned to the cave abode, he found Li Xiaoya writhing in pain under Fairy Qingxia’s treatment, and the Ganoderma was missing.

• Heavenly Venerable Daoling dismissed the red-robed elder and his companions, while Li Xiaoya asked what would happen to him.
• The black-robed man struck the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma with Spirit-Devouring Demonfire, and Fairy Qingxia and Heavenly Venerable Daoling tried to stop the flames and attacker.
• The black-robed man fought past the red-robed elder and the brocade-robed burly man, but a red streak pierced his Black Baleful Shield and wounded him.
• The black-robed man tore out his Golden Core and sent it toward the doorway, then blew up his head to escape as a black orb; Heavenly Venerable Daoling seized the Core and absorbed its explosion with a white jade bottle.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling dismissed the disciples who rushed toward the blast, then returned to the cave abode and found Li Xiaoya screaming with black vapor around him while Fairy Qingxia sent blue light into his body and the Ganoderma was gone.

Fairy Qingxia and Heavenly Venerable Daoling saved Li Xiaoya from the Spirit-Devouring Demonfire’s lingering power after the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma possessed him. The spy’s death was kept secret as the elders ordered an investigation, while Li Xiaoya asked for food and Fairy Qingxia prepared to keep the ganoderma from escaping.

• Fairy Qingxia extinguished the Spirit-Devouring Demonfire, but the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma leaped into Li Xiaoya and left him screaming in agony.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling and Fairy Qingxia channeled their power into Li Xiaoya until the burning pain subsided, then Fairy Qingxia sealed him to prevent the ganoderma from escaping.
• Fairy Qingxia identified the flames as Spirit-Devouring Demonfire associated with the demonic Fire Dragon Palace, and Heavenly Venerable Daoling ordered two core disciples to secretly investigate the spy’s infiltration.
• Fairy Qingxia regretted acting before Senior Brother Feikong arrived, but Heavenly Venerable Daoling reassured her that they had eliminated a dangerous demonic spy.
• Li Xiaoya asked Fairy Qingxia what would happen next, then requested a meal because he had not eaten in over a day; Heavenly Venerable Daoling encouraged her to feed him.