Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya returned to the Heavenly Dao Sect with Zhang Hong, proved his identity with the Vacuum Ring, and learned that Patriarch Daoling and several familiar people were away. Zhang Hong brought him to see her master, Liu Yulan, who was playing a board game with a middle-aged cultivator eager to meet Li Xiaoya.

• Senior Brother Lu questioned Li Xiaoya's identity, but accepted him as Patriarch Daoling's disciple after recognizing the Vacuum Ring.
• Li Xiaoya and Zhang Hong flew toward Heavenly Capital Peak and joked about their first meeting and their relationship.
• Zhang Hong invited Li Xiaoya to visit her master, Liu Yulan, despite worrying that Liu Yulan might object to their relationship.
• Liu Yulan welcomed Zhang Hong and hinted to her senior brother that Li Xiaoya was the junior brother he had wanted to meet.

Li Xiaoya and Zhang Hong met Liu Yulan and Dongfang Yi, shared news of their cultivation and adventures, and asked Liu Yulan to bless their relationship. Dongfang Yi congratulated them with gifts, including a Heaven-and-Earth Bag for Li Xiaoya and a pill that Liu Yulan recognized as a Heavenly Dao Pill for Zhang Hong.

• Liu Yulan confirmed that Zhang Hong had reached the peak of core condensation great perfection, while Dongfang Yi praised Li Xiaoya for advancing to the late core condensation peak.
• Li Xiaoya described his experiences in Spiritlight Lake and the Southwestern Ancient City, including the stolen Pearl, the Fire Dragon Sword, and how he and Zhang Hong became dual cultivation partners.
• Li Xiaoya and Zhang Hong knelt before Liu Yulan and asked for her blessing, and she told Li Xiaoya to treat Zhang Hong well.
• Dongfang Yi gave Li Xiaoya a Heaven-and-Earth Bag whose storage space grew with his magic power.
• Zhang Hong opened Dongfang Yi's jade box, and Liu Yulan recognized the black-and-white pill inside as a Heavenly Dao Pill.

Dongfang Yi gave Zhang Hong a Heavenly Dao Pill to help her reach the Golden Core Stage, while Liu Yulan warned her to keep her relationship with Li Xiaoya private until Heavenly Venerable Daoling returned. Li Xiaoya visited Liu Hang’s cave abode and reunited with Little White, who failed to recognize him and attacked.

• Dongfang Yi gave Zhang Hong a Heavenly Dao Pill on the condition that she become another Golden Core Stage Cultivator for Heavenly Capital Peak.
• After receiving cultivation guidance, Li Xiaoya declined Dongfang Yi’s offer to stay overnight and headed for Liu Hang’s cave abode.
• Liu Yulan learned that Ma Weiqi had threatened Zhang Hong and told her to keep her relationship with Li Xiaoya quiet until Heavenly Venerable Daoling returned.
• Liu Yulan invited Zhang Hong to stay the night and said she would prepare to guard her Golden Core Stage breakthrough.
• Li Xiaoya summoned Little White with a whistle, but the bird did not recognize him and attacked until he caught its talon and showed it an object.

Li Xiaoya returned to Senior Brother Liu Hang’s cave abode, where grinding ink and writing the character “Dao” led him into Dao enlightenment and helped him break through to core condensation great perfection. On his way to visit Liu Yulan, he reunited with Huang Hua, who began explaining what had happened after escaping the Southwestern Ancient City.

• Li Xiaoya showed Little White Senior Brother Liu Hang’s jade token and whistle, and Little White finally recognized him; they played together before Li Xiaoya entered the cave abode.
• Li Xiaoya found that many herbs in Senior Brother Liu Hang’s garden had died, while the study and his childhood drawing of a turtle remained preserved.
• Remembering Senior Brother Liu Hang’s lessons, Li Xiaoya ground ink and wrote “Dao,” entering Dao enlightenment and breaking through to core condensation great perfection.
• Li Xiaoya realized more than ten days had passed, stored the calligraphy, said goodbye to Little White, and flew toward Liu Yulan’s cave abode.
• Li Xiaoya spotted Huang Hua and changed course to greet him; Huang Hua asked how he and Zhang Hong had escaped the Southwestern Ancient City.
• Huang Hua said Li Xiaoya’s Invisibility Talisman had helped him escape and began recounting how he notified the sect and later encountered Dong Gu Nü and Li Xiangxiang.

Li Xiaoya reunited with Zhang Hong after returning to Heavenly Capital Peak and learned that his breakthrough came from dao enlightenment. As Zhang Hong prepared to enter seclusion to condense her golden core, the two spent a passionate night together before a long separation.

• Huang Hua invited Li Xiaoya, Dong Gu Nü, Li Xiangxiang, and Zhang Hong to visit his cave abode, then hurried away to complete an errand for his master.
• Li Xiaoya visited Liu Yulan and Zhang Hong, explained his dao enlightenment at Liu Hang's cave abode, and learned that Zhang Hong might soon enter seclusion to condense her golden core.
• Li Xiaoya and Zhang Hong reunited, teased each other, and arranged to meet that evening despite Liu Yulan's warning that they should avoid intimacy for now.
• Li Xiaoya collected his identity jade token, returned to his old house, and spent the day wandering Divine Path Mountain before unease about Liu Xian'er sent him back to meditate.
• At midnight, Zhang Hong slipped into Li Xiaoya's house, where restrictions sealed the building, and the two spent a passionate night together.

Li Xiaoya reunited with old companions, then learned Zhang Hong was preparing to enter seclusion and attempt a breakthrough to the golden core stage. She entered Liu Yulan’s cave abode with Liu Yulan and Dongfang Yi to begin her breakthrough, determined to succeed.

• Li Xiaoya and Zhang Hong visited Huang Hua, Dong Gu Nü, and Li Xiangxiang, caught up on their lives, and gave each of them a spiritual artifact.
• Li Xiaoya learned that the Four Friends of the Wang had gone separate ways and that Yang Sanfan had died from injuries caused by a demon beast.
• Zhang Hong sent Li Xiaoya a message asking to see him before entering seclusion to attempt her golden core breakthrough.
• Li Xiaoya visited Zhang Hong at Liu Yulan’s cave abode and gave her the Spirit-Transforming Beast Hide and Ten-Thousand-Year Agarwood Buddhist Beads to help her focus.
• Liu Yulan and Dongfang Yi accompanied Zhang Hong into Liu Yulan’s restricted meditation cave, where Zhang Hong vowed to condense her golden core.

Li Xiaoya consulted Second Better about disposing of the many treasures he had brought back from the Southwestern Ancient City and learned that the cauldrons could be refined into a spirit treasure. Second Better agreed to help him gather materials and revealed that he planned to create the Giant Spirit Divine Weapon.

• Li Xiaoya summoned Second Better and asked how to handle the piles of artifacts and other treasures from the Southwestern Ancient City.
• Second Better advised Li Xiaoya to sell the artifacts back to the Heavenly Dao Sect, which might pay at least eighty percent of their outside value.
• Li Xiaoya asked Second Better about the cauldrons, and Second Better explained that they were made from rare magic-treasure materials he had refined.
• Second Better said the cauldrons could become a spirit treasure and listed the supplementary materials Li Xiaoya would need to gather.
• Second Better excitedly asked Li Xiaoya to retrieve his Heaven-and-Earth Treasure, then revealed that his planned spirit treasure was called the Giant Spirit Divine Weapon.

Li Xiaoya discovered that Second Better could live inside his Heaven-and-Earth Bag and learned that Number One Under Heaven had invented it. Second Better asked Li Xiaoya for Spirit Stones and materials to modify his Heaven-and-Earth Treasure, while Li Xiaoya set off for Divine Path Mountain to obtain them.

• Li Xiaoya put Second Better inside his Heaven-and-Earth Treasure, then stored it in his Heaven-and-Earth Bag and communicated with him through Divine Sense.
• Second Better explained that Number One Under Heaven had invented the Heaven-and-Earth Bag and ascended after selling them to cultivators.
• Li Xiaoya asked Second Better to make Heaven-and-Earth Bags, but Second Better demanded ten hides from ninth-rank or higher Demon Beasts.
• Second Better asked Li Xiaoya for two million Spirit Stones to fuel his Mechanism Beasts and more Spirit Stones and materials to modify his Heaven-and-Earth Treasure.
• Li Xiaoya agreed to seek the Sect's recycling arrangements and flew toward Divine Path Mountain.

Li Xiaoya went to the Treasure Appraisal Hall to sell a large collection of Dharma Artifacts, forcing Steward Liang to summon the elder in charge. After waiting half an hour, Li Xiaoya sensed someone arrive at the doorway.

• Li Xiaoya asked a disciple where the sect bought back Dharma Artifacts and learned that the Treasure Appraisal Hall handled the transactions.
• Li Xiaoya entered the hall and told Steward Liang that he wanted to sell more than five hundred Dharma Artifacts.
• Steward Liang recognized Li Xiaoya as Patriarch Daoling's disciple and said the transaction exceeded his authority, so he went to summon Elder Lin.
• Li Xiaoya called out to Second Better through the Heaven-and-Earth Bag, but Second Better angrily told him not to interrupt.
• After Li Xiaoya waited for half an hour, a figure flashed into view at the doorway.

Li Xiaoya brought a vast collection of Dharma Artifacts to the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Treasure Appraisal Hall, where Elder Lin recognized their quality and negotiated to buy them. Elder Lin offered seventy-five percent of market price and ten thousand sect contribution points, and Li Xiaoya asked what those points could buy.

• Elder Lin dismissed Steward Liang and deduced from Li Xiaoya’s sample artifacts that he possessed nearly a thousand Dharma Artifacts.
• Li Xiaoya admitted his stock and released piles of carefully selected high-grade and supreme-grade Dharma Artifacts for Elder Lin to assess.
• Elder Lin asked where the treasures came from, and Li Xiaoya said he had obtained them in the Southwestern Ancient City but withheld the details.
• Elder Lin offered to purchase the treasures at seventy-five percent of market price and award Li Xiaoya ten thousand sect contribution points.
• Elder Lin explained that contribution points could be exchanged for treasures, materials, spirit beasts, and cultivation methods, and Li Xiaoya asked what his ten thousand points could buy.

Li Xiaoya sold hundreds of dharma artifacts and over a hundred spiritual artifacts to the Heavenly Dao Sect, earning 23,534,000 spirit stones and 20,000 sect contribution points. He headed to the Materials Pavilion to gather materials for Second Better, but was recognized across Heavenly Dao Mountain and stopped by a woman whose appearance unsettled him.

• Elder Lin valued Li Xiaoya’s 781 supreme-grade and 362 high-grade dharma artifacts at 8,534,000 spirit stones and awarded him 10,000 sect contribution points.
• Li Xiaoya revealed over a hundred spiritual artifacts, and Elder Lin spent hours inspecting them before offering 15 million spirit stones and another 10,000 contribution points.
• Li Xiaoya received the spirit stones partly as Heavenly Dao Sect Spirit Exchange Tokens, bringing his total proceeds to 23,534,000 spirit stones and 20,000 contribution points.
• Second Better told Li Xiaoya to obtain materials for modifying his furnace, so Li Xiaoya set out for the Materials Pavilion.
• Cultivators across Heavenly Dao Mountain recognized Li Xiaoya as Grand Supreme Ancestor Daoling’s disciple and discussed his status and cultivation.
• A woman called out to Li Xiaoya, and he turned to her with a dramatically changed expression and turmoil in his thoughts.

Li Xiaoya learned that Liu Xian'er was away from the sect and had not yet advanced to the Golden Core Stage, then went to the Materials Pavilion to buy materials for modifying the Heaven-and-Earth Treasure. He discovered that the materials would cost 5,300 Sect Contribution Points, which he had hoped to save for other exchanges.

• Li Xiaoya met Liu Xin'er, who resembled Liu Xian'er, and learned that she was Liu Xian'er's niece.
• Sect disciples gossiped about Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er, revealing that Liu Xian'er had left the mountain to cultivate and break through to the Core Condensation Stage.
• Liu Xin'er flew back toward Rainbow Rosy Peak as Li Xiaoya continued to the Materials Pavilion.
• At the pavilion, Li Xiaoya gave a disciple the materials list for modifying the Heaven-and-Earth Treasure and asked for one portion of each item.
• The pavilion disciple said the materials required 5,300 Sect Contribution Points and could not be bought with spirit stones.

Li Xiaoya purchased a large batch of materials from the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Materials Pavilion, paying with Sect Contribution Points and Spirit Stone Exchange Tokens. After collecting the order, he gave the disciple a second list for the Giant Spirit Divine Weapon Spirit Treasure, which startled him.

• Li Xiaoya agreed to pay three million six hundred eighty-three thousand spirit stones for the materials and handed over his identity token and four Spirit Exchange Tokens.
• The disciple used the red jade brick to deduct Li Xiaoya’s Sect Contribution Points and spirit stones, then explained that only Identity Jade Tokens could open the materials’ restrictions.
• The disciple spent nearly an hour gathering the materials, and Li Xiaoya checked them before storing them in his Heaven-and-Earth Bag.
• Li Xiaoya handed the disciple a Jade Slip listing materials for the Giant Spirit Divine Weapon Spirit Treasure, and the disciple cried out in surprise as he inspected it.

Li Xiaoya discovered that the Dragon Sword Art in the Fire Dragon Sword could temper his body and unleash astonishing speed and power. After accidentally blasting Qin Xian with astral wind, he learned the boy had been cleaning his cottage and sent him away with gifts, then turned his attention back to the sword.

• Li Xiaoya found that the Materials Pavilion lacked many materials for the Giant Spirit Divine Weapon and that the available supplies cost more than he could afford, so he left without buying anything.
• Li Xiaoya returned to his cottage, reviewed his remaining resources, and cultivated through the night instead of sleeping.
• Li Xiaoya practiced the Dragon Sword Art in the clearing and felt his blood, vital energy, flesh, and bones being tempered as his speed and golden aura grew.
• Li Xiaoya stopped abruptly, and the resulting astral wind blasted Qin Xian away and filled the clearing with dust.
• Li Xiaoya learned that Qin Xian had cleaned the cottage monthly for over two years, rewarded him with a dharma artifact and elixirs, and told him the cottage no longer needed cleaning.
• Li Xiaoya watched Qin Xian leave, then examined the Fire Dragon Sword with a solemn expression.

Li Xiaoya realized the Dragon Sword Art could refine the diamond grass potency still inside him and began considering body cultivation as his path. He visited the Scripture Pavilion to seek body-tempering arts, where the Long-Browed Elder sent him to the eighth floor with a white jade token and privately identified him as someone he had expected.

• Li Xiaoya discovered that practicing the Dragon Sword Art refined lingering diamond grass potency and strengthened his body.
• Li Xiaoya reflected on his unfocused cultivation and decided to look for body-tempering methods in the Scripture Pavilion.
• Li Xiaoya entered the Scripture Pavilion after showing his identity spirit token to a guard.
• The Long-Browed Elder gave Li Xiaoya a white jade token and directed him to the eighth floor for a suitable cultivation method.
• After Li Xiaoya left, the Long-Browed Elder murmured that there could be no mistake and that Li Xiaoya should be the person he had expected, then vanished.

Li Xiaoya used the Long-Browed Elder’s jade token to reach the Scripture Pavilion’s eighth floor, where Heavenly Venerable Tianling explained that the token enabled short-range teleportation. After Li Xiaoya arrived in the sealed, artifact-filled chamber, his Fire Dragon Sword flew toward one of the objects.

• Li Xiaoya passed the contribution-point checks on the lower floors and met Heavenly Venerable Tianling on the seventh floor.
• Li Xiaoya showed Heavenly Venerable Tianling the jade token given to him by the Long-Browed Elder, and Tianling confirmed it allowed entry to the eighth floor.
• Heavenly Venerable Tianling activated the token and explained that it would teleport Li Xiaoya to the eighth floor for two hours.
• Li Xiaoya appeared inside a metal chamber filled with barrier-enclosed objects, and his Fire Dragon Sword flew out of his Heaven-and-Earth Bag toward one of them.

Li Xiaoya obtained the Dragon-Devouring God-Reversal Art from the Scripture Pavilion, though he could not understand its profound instructions, and prepared a magic treasure as a gift for Zhang Hong. As he studied at home, the Heavenly Dao Sect learned that its affiliated Lin Family had been massacred, while Second Better contacted Li Xiaoya about a problem with his research.

• Li Xiaoya used the jade token to remove the barrier around a hide scroll, obtained permission from the Long-Browed Elder to keep it, and discovered it contained the Dragon-Devouring God-Reversal Art.
• After leaving the Scripture Pavilion, Li Xiaoya exchanged five thousand sect contribution points for the Blazing Flame Divine Whip to give Zhang Hong when she emerged from golden-core condensation.
• Li Xiaoya spent several days trying to study the profound art while Second Better continued researching his Heaven-and-Earth Treasure.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect learned that the affiliated Lin Family had been massacred and began mobilizing in response.
• Second Better contacted Li Xiaoya, confirmed that his research was finished, and told him not to bring the requested materials yet because he had encountered problems.

Li Xiaoya learned that the Lin Family, a lineage under the Heavenly Dao Sect, had been massacred and that the sect was mobilizing to hunt down the killer. After gathering materials for Second Better, he was summoned by the Sect Master to the Heavenly Dao Hall.

• Second Better asked Li Xiaoya to gather several additional materials and claimed he had refined many of the artifacts in the Maze Passage from materials left by dead cultivators.
• At Divine Path Mountain, Li Xiaoya heard that the Lin Family had been exterminated and asked Qin Xian about the news.
• Qin Xian explained that the Lin Family was tied to the Heavenly Dao Sect and that the sect planned to pursue the murderer; he also revealed that Zhang Cai and Dong Santong had been sent out under the pretext of investigating.
• Li Xiaoya spent several hundred thousand spirit stones and sect contribution points to obtain Second Better's materials, then returned to his cottage.
• A disciple delivered the Sect Master's urgent summons, and Li Xiaoya set off for the Heavenly Dao Hall after giving the disciple a bottle of elixirs.

Li Xiaoya accepted Heavenly Venerable Daoling’s mission to retrieve an item from the Lin Family and assist Jiang Lingzi with the aftermath of the massacre. Before leaving the mountain, he delivered materials and two million spirit stones to Second Better so he could modify his Magic Treasure, then headed to Liu Hang’s cave abode.

• Xuandaozi told Li Xiaoya that Heavenly Venerable Daoling had sent him to retrieve an item from the Lin Family, and Li Xiaoya agreed to go.
• Xuandaozi asked Li Xiaoya to assist Jiang Lingzi and protect the other disciples while they investigated the massacre; Li Xiaoya agreed and prepared to leave.
• Li Xiaoya contacted Second Better, who said modifying his Heaven-and-Earth Treasure would take a little over six months, while the Giant Spirit Divine Weapon would take much longer.
• Li Xiaoya returned to his house, handed Second Better the gathered materials and two million spirit stones, and learned the stones might last only three or four years.
• Li Xiaoya tidied his house and flew toward Senior Brother Liu Hang’s cave abode.

Li Xiaoya traveled to the Lin Family to investigate a massacre, while cultivators from several sects converged there and discussed the killer’s targets. He arrived before the Heavenly Dao Sect’s main party and met four leaders from other sects, just as a streak of light burst from the estate.

• Li Xiaoya left farewell messages and arranged to leave Zhang Hong a Magic Treasure and her share of the spirit stones before setting out for the Lin Family.
• Zhang Cai and Dong Santong flew toward the Lin Family, while Liu Zhengran, Suoluo, Fairy Green Lotus, Granny Fudi, and their disciples also headed there to investigate.
• The four sect leaders discussed evidence that the killer had targeted lineages with one to three Golden Core Stage cultivators.
• In a remote cave, an enormous wounded figure sat beside nearly a thousand Storage Pouches as an aged voice said it had gathered enough.
• After three days of travel, Li Xiaoya reached the Lin Family and met the four sect leaders, who asked whether he had come alone.
• Before Li Xiaoya could explain, a streak of light shot out from within the Lin Family estate.