Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya learned that the Immortal Dao Chain strengthened divine sense and protected him, making it too valuable to surrender to the Demonic Path cultivators. He planned to return to the Great Illusion Continent with Li Mother and Dong Santong, but Dong Santong remembered that Blue Ice had also been transported to the Origin Continent.

• Li Mother explained that the Immortal Dao Chain improved divine sense and had protected Li Xiaoya during his teleportation.
• Li Xiaoya decided to seek a super teleportation formation to return to the Great Illusion Continent and find help removing Li Mother's restrictions, though they still needed a teleportation token.
• Li Xiaoya asked how to release the devil absorbed by the Immortal Dao Chain, but Li Mother did not know how to control it.
• Li Mother warned Li Xiaoya to keep their family affairs and the Immortal Dao Chain secret, then Li Xiaoya went to check on Dong Santong.
• Li Xiaoya told Dong Santong that they would return to the Great Illusion Continent after he recovered, and Dong Santong remembered that Blue Ice had been teleported to the Origin Continent too.

Li Xiaoya discussed Blue Ice’s arrival with Dong Santong, then checked with Second Better on the teleportation armor. He learned the armor was finished but needed more materials for a second suit for his mother, while Second Better began preparing to refine the Immortal-Binding Rope.

• Li Xiaoya decided he could not abandon Blue Ice after Dong Santong reported meeting her on the Origin Continent.
• Li Xiaoya playfully beat Dong Santong to help ease his injuries, then sent him to rest and heal.
• Li Xiaoya spoke with his mother, who teased him about whether he had a lady cultivator he liked.
• Li Xiaoya gave Second Better the materials for the Immortal-Binding Rope and learned that the Super Teleportation Formation armor was complete.
• Li Xiaoya tested the blue, rune-covered suit and learned that it resisted spatial tearing through resilience rather than brute-force defense.
• Li Xiaoya requested a second suit for his mother, and Second Better sent him a Jade Slip listing the missing materials.

Li Xiaoya decided to travel to the continent alone to find Blue Ice, a teleportation token, and materials for teleportation armor, and he demonstrated his physical Transformation Technique to reassure Li Mother. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Earth Demon Sect debated how to respond to the battle at Heavenly Earth City, and its elders began challenging Black Old Devil over his pursuit of Li Xiaoya.

• Li Xiaoya told Li Mother he planned to leave for the continent that afternoon, despite her suggestion that he wait for Dong Santong to recover.
• Li Xiaoya used his Transformation Technique to change his body, face, and voice, convincing Li Mother that he could disguise himself without a treasure.
• Rumors about the battle at Heavenly Earth City spread across the Origin Continent, while Black Skeleton took control as the Heavenly Earth Demon Sect struggled to contain unrest.
• A balding elder called for a Holy War against the Mystic Heaven Way, but Black Skeleton warned that war would cost the sect dearly.
• Black Old Devil said the sect would retaliate against the Mystic Heaven Way, and other elders questioned his role in bringing Ouyang Haotian to Heavenly Earth City and his interest in Li Xiaoya.

Black Skeleton revealed that Li Xiaoya possessed a treasure containing the power of laws and ordered the Heavenly Earth Demon Sect elders to help search for him. While Blue Ice fought off cultivators hunting her, Li Xiaoya discovered a search party heading toward the Mistshadow Sea and followed them to see whether his mother’s island could remain hidden.

• Black Skeleton told the elders that Li Xiaoya’s treasure could help them break through cultivation bottlenecks and organized a search for him, while concealing the Immortal Dao Chain’s true nature.
• Black Skeleton sent Black Old Devil to make the women take another risk searching for Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong.
• Blue Ice defeated three Golden Core cultivators who mistook her for Li Xiaoya and continued toward the heart of the Heavenly Earth Demon Sect’s territory.
• Li Xiaoya left Dong Santong to recover and gave Li Mother Mechanism Beasts for protection before heading toward the mainland.
• Li Xiaoya overheard eight Heavenly Earth Demon Sect cultivators decide to search the Mistshadow Sea and followed them, hoping to test whether his mother’s island was concealed from their search.

Li Xiaoya disguised himself as a Core Condensation Stage cultivator and traveled into the Heavenly Earth Demon Sect’s territory, reaching East Xia City while avoiding suspicion. After parting ways with three suspicious cultivators, he entered the market district, where a young female cultivator called out to him.

• Li Xiaoya confirmed that the searchers had failed to find Li Mother’s island, then headed toward the mainland to seek materials and a teleportation token.
• Three cultivators led by Nur intercepted Li Xiaoya, and he used the name Liu Qingshan while agreeing to travel with them to a market district.
• After several days, the group reached East Xia City, where Li Xiaoya saw Golden Core Stage cultivators guarding the gate and entered without his disguise being exposed.
• Li Xiaoya left Nur and the other two cultivators inside the city; they discussed whether to report him to the Heavenly Earth Demon Sect but decided against it.
• Li Xiaoya took a flying boat to the market district, where a young female cultivator called to him and hesitated to explain what she wanted.

Li Xiaoya met Lingyu, who pretended to seek help for her injured father and tricked him into giving her spirit stones. After she confessed that a gang was holding her father hostage and using her to lure cultivators into ambushes, Li Xiaoya agreed to follow her and confront them.

• Lingyu offered to become Li Xiaoya’s concubine to get spirit stones, and an old cultivator tried to take her before refusing when he learned she wanted a thousand stones.
• Li Xiaoya gave Lingyu a thousand spirit stones after she begged him to save her supposedly injured father.
• Lingyu confessed that her father was not injured and that she had been forced to deceive cultivators because a gang had kidnapped him.
• Lingyu explained that the gang targeted cultivators around the core condensation stage, and Li Xiaoya agreed to follow her to rescue her father.
• Lingyu said four or five cultivators were involved, with the old man strongest, and led Li Xiaoya toward them.

Li Xiaoya followed Lingyu to a secluded house, where he defeated the cultivators who had set an ambush and discovered that Lingyu had deceived him. After sparing her and sharing some of the loot, he questioned her about how to find someone outside East Xia City.

• Li Xiaoya entered the house and killed four ambushers, then burned the lecherous old cultivator who had tried to attack him.
• Li Xiaoya found the supposed captive beneath the bed, but the cultivator attacked him and Lingyu confessed that the man was not her father and that she had been forced to lure victims for the group.
• Li Xiaoya defeated the fake captive and frightened Lingyu as a joke, then decided not to harm her and collected the dead cultivators’ Storage Pouches.
• Li Xiaoya gave Lingyu one Storage Pouch and asked about her background; she said she was an orphan who had been threatened into helping the criminals.
• Li Xiaoya asked how to post a commission to find someone outside the city, and Lingyu guessed that he was looking for Li Xiaoya because of the three-hundred-million-spirit-stone bounty.

Li Xiaoya went to the Bounty Hall to arrange for a message to be delivered to Blue Ice, while Lingyu began to suspect his identity. He posted a high-value mission and learned it would receive priority listing.

• Lingyu advised Li Xiaoya to use a bounty to send Blue Ice a message, then wondered if he might be Li Xiaoya before deciding not to report him.
• Li Xiaoya disguised his aura as demonic qi and rebuffed cultivators who tried to sell him forbidden goods or demand protection money.
• Li Xiaoya reached the Bounty Hall and went to the second floor to post a mission to find Blue Ice.
• Li Xiaoya confirmed Blue Ice's portrait and identifying details, then asked the Bounty Hall to tell her to come to East Xia City within a year.
• Li Xiaoya offered ten thousand spirit stones, and the clerk told him the mission would be placed on the priority bounty listing.

Li Xiaoya searched for materials to craft Teleportation Armor, then reunited with Lingyu and asked where he could sell goods of questionable origin. Lingyu led him toward a place to sell their belongings, while Li Xiaoya considered taking her as his disciple.

• Li Xiaoya paid to post a high-reward bounty and hired a cultivator to guide him to the Materials Pavilion.
• Li Xiaoya found few of the materials he needed at the pavilion and left after judging its prices too high.
• Li Xiaoya spotted Lingyu and rescued her from a scarred body refiner who demanded compensation after she bumped into him.
• Li Xiaoya asked Lingyu where to sell his dubious goods, and she offered to sell her own belongings alongside them.
• Li Xiaoya examined Lingyu's four immortal roots and considered taking her as his disciple.

Li Xiaoya followed Lingyu to a hidden Secret Market, where he planned to sell his surplus cultivation materials and buy other items. After he promised Lingyu a share of the proceeds, she wondered whether his generosity meant he had fallen for her.

• Li Xiaoya followed Lingyu through secluded paths to a shop that concealed the entrance to a Secret Market.
• Li Xiaoya claimed Lingyu was his concubine to secure a second Teleportation Talisman, and she followed him into the market.
• Senior Yu directed Li Xiaoya to room three to sell his goods.
• Li Xiaoya spread out a huge collection of materials and artifacts for an old appraiser to tally.
• Li Xiaoya promised Lingyu a tenth of the spirit stones, and she asked whether he had fallen for her.

Li Xiaoya negotiated the sale of his goods at the Secret Market and learned that the materials he needed for the Teleportation Armor cost far more than he could afford. The market’s beautiful female manager offered to show him another way forward.

• Li Xiaoya challenged Steward Hai’s offer of seven hundred and seventy thousand spirit stones, and the Secret Market’s manager raised it to one million.
• The manager recognized Li Xiaoya as the cultivator who had defeated the East Xia Six Wolves and confirmed she was in charge of the Secret Market.
• Li Xiaoya gave the manager his list of materials for the Teleportation Armor, and she said the available materials would cost thirty-six million spirit stones.
• Li Xiaoya realized he could not afford the materials, and the manager offered to point him toward a clear path forward.

Li Xiaoya and Lingyu left the Secret Market after the beautiful young woman secretly told him something about the East Xia Six Wolves. Lingyu feared retaliation from Senior Yu, and Li Xiaoya pressed her for information about who ran the market; she began to explain as the chapter ended.

• The beautiful young woman paid Li Xiaoya and privately told him about the East Xia Six Wolves before leaving.
• Li Xiaoya and Lingyu exited the Secret Market through a Teleportation Formation, and Lingyu collected her share of the spirit stones.
• Li Xiaoya asked Lingyu about Senior Yu, and she admitted she feared he might retaliate because she had discovered his secret.
• Lingyu pleaded for Li Xiaoya's help, and he suggested he might assist if she performed well, then asked who ran the Secret Market.
• Lingyu led Li Xiaoya to an inn, where he sealed the room and asked her to explain the Secret Market; she began to tell him.

Li Xiaoya agreed to shelter Lingyu and take her with him when he left East Xia City, while learning that the Secret Market might be run by the Mystic Heaven Way. Meanwhile, Yu and a senior discussed recruiting Li Xiaoya and reporting information about him, and the chapter ended with Li Xiaoya and Lingyu heading to the mountain to rent a cave abode.

• Lingyu told Li Xiaoya that the Mystic Heaven Way had opened the Secret Market, and said she learned Yu was connected to them after sneaking into his home for food.
• Li Xiaoya considered the Secret Market's possible strategic purpose and agreed to let Lingyu stay in his cave abode until he left East Xia City.
• Yu and a beautiful senior discussed how Li Xiaoya had killed the East Xia Six Wolves, decided to warn Lingyu rather than eliminate her, and prepared information about Li Xiaoya for the higher-ups.
• The beautiful senior wondered aloud why the entire continent was searching for Li Xiaoya.
• The next morning, Li Xiaoya took Lingyu toward the mountain to rent a cave abode, and they got off the flying boat at the guarded archway.

Li Xiaoya, posing as Liu Qingshan, rented a third-grade cave abode from the Gu Household in East Xia City after passing an inspection for illusion techniques. Once settled, he unexpectedly agreed to take Lingyu as his disciple, but only after she met a condition he had yet to reveal.

• Li Xiaoya asked Old Gu to rent a third-grade cave abode and defended Lingyu when Old Gu warned him that she had tricked senior cultivators.
• At the Gu Household's gate, Li Xiaoya pretended to be offended by the required inspection, then allowed the cultivators to use a mirror to check his and Lingyu's appearances.
• After touring several cave abodes, Li Xiaoya chose one, paid the rent and deposit, and signed the required blood pact for a one-year stay.
• Li Xiaoya teased Lingyu about her aptitude and her ambition to attain the Dao, while she again asked him to take her as his disciple.
• Li Xiaoya agreed to accept Lingyu as his disciple only if she met a condition, leaving her to ask what it was.

Li Xiaoya set Lingyu a six-month cultivation test, corrected her flawed Wood Spring Art, and gave her a new method. He then disguised himself and followed a plan to target the Heavenly Earth Demon Sect, but instead encountered Nur and two companions robbing and killing a cultivator, and confronted them.

• Li Xiaoya told Lingyu she had to reach the fourth layer of true cultivation within half a year to become his disciple, then discovered her Wood Spring Art formula was faulty and gave her a jade slip with a replacement method.
• After considering his dwindling spirit stones and the cost of materials and a teleportation token, Li Xiaoya decided to collect a little interest from the Heavenly Earth Demon Sect.
• Li Xiaoya left the Gu Household, bought dozens of outfits, disguised himself with the Transformation Art, and used the Five-Element Conversion method to alter his escaping light.
• Li Xiaoya spotted Nur and two companions flying with an unfamiliar cultivator, then hid in the clouds to watch them.
• Nur and the other two lured the thin cultivator into revealing a thousand-year mystic crystal, killed him, took his belongings, and burned his corpse.
• Li Xiaoya appeared above the three robbers and mocked them for murder, robbery, and destroying the evidence.

Li Xiaoya killed Nur and his two companions for the thousand-year mystic crystal, then continued hunting cultivators for their treasures. A month later, as East Xia City grew alarmed and the Gu Household planned how to exploit the killings, Li Xiaoya sensed that cultivators were following him.

• Li Xiaoya demanded the thousand-year mystic crystal from Nur and his two junior brothers, who attacked him when he laughed at Nur’s offer to name a price.
• Li Xiaoya broke their weapons, killed the two junior brothers and Nur, and looted their bodies, finding the crystal he needed.
• A month later, rumors spread that a mysterious cultivator had killed dozens of people near East Xia City, and the Gu Family Head scolded two men for failing to catch him.
• The Gu Family Head’s younger brother argued that the victims had been troublemakers and proposed a plan that pleased the Family Head.
• Li Xiaoya left a general store in disguise, sensed several cultivators following him, and hurried away.

Li Xiaoya struggled to fund Second Better’s years-long attempt to refine the Immortal-Binding Rope, then discovered that the Gu Household had blamed him for the murders and robberies around East Xia City. The chapter left him realizing the rumor was luring cultivators out of the city with the three-hundred-million-spirit-stone bounty on his head.

• Li Xiaoya evaded Secret Market trackers and returned invisibly to his cave abode at the Gu Household, where he found Lingyu cultivating diligently.
• Li Xiaoya told Lingyu he would be away for half a month to a month, and she warned him about cultivators robbing people around East Xia City.
• Second Better asked Li Xiaoya for five million spirit stones to continue refining the Immortal-Binding Rope, which he said would take another four or five years.
• Li Xiaoya gave Second Better several dozen bags of spirit stones and lamented that he would need to earn more to cover the ongoing expense.
• Li Xiaoya left the Gu Household and heard cultivators at Bounty Hall claim he was responsible for the recent killings and was outside the city.
• Li Xiaoya recognized the Gu Household cultivators spreading the story and realized the household had made him a scapegoat to draw bounty hunters out of the city.

Li Xiaoya escaped scrutiny in East Xia City by disguising himself and leaving to carry out his Third Plan elsewhere. Meanwhile, Black Skeleton failed to divine Li Xiaoya’s location but confirmed he was still within Heavenly Earth Demon Sect territory.

• Li Xiaoya provoked a Gu Household disciple into insulting him, then pretended to attack him until the Gu Household’s Second Elder intervened.
• Li Xiaoya realized the Gu Household had used rumors of his presence in East Xia City to lure cultivators into searching for him, and he decided to leave and enact his Third Plan.
• Li Xiaoya disguised himself, slipped past groups searching for him, and flew hundreds of miles away from East Xia City.
• Black Skeleton attempted to divine Li Xiaoya’s whereabouts but found only that Li Xiaoya remained within Heavenly Earth Demon Sect territory.
• Black Old Devil reported the East Xia City murder rumors, and Black Skeleton ordered him to keep the city under discreet observation.

Li Xiaoya began carrying out his Third Plan by hunting cultivators in the Heavenly Earth Demon Sect’s territory and seizing their treasures. After killing a golden core stage demoness, he continued toward another target, intent on causing chaos before leaving the Origin Continent.

• Li Xiaoya changed course after sensing activity in a secluded cave and found a demoness draining a male cultivator with Yang-Stealing Yin-Nourishing.
• The demoness tried to lure Li Xiaoya closer and used a bewitchment technique, but he pretended to fall under its influence.
• Li Xiaoya broke through her defenses, snapped her neck, burned her corpse, and collected her golden core.
• Li Xiaoya searched the demoness’s and the dead man’s storage pouches, found several million spirit stones, and collapsed the cave with a fireball.
• Li Xiaoya flew away to continue killing cultivators and seizing their treasures throughout the Heavenly Earth Demon Sect’s territory.

Black Old Devil suspected Li Xiaoya or Dong Santong was killing Heavenly Earth Demon Sect cultivators, while Li Xiaoya headed back to East Xia City. Blue Ice continued trying to escape Ouyang Haotian’s relentless courtship, until an approaching cultivator recognized them and called for them to wait.

• Black Old Devil questioned his masked subordinate about the deaths of eighteen Golden Core Stage cultivators, and she proposed that Li Xiaoya or Dong Santong was responsible.
• Black Old Devil ordered an investigation across the Heavenly Earth Demon Sect’s territory and decided to inform the supreme elder.
• Li Xiaoya, pleased with the spirit stones and materials he had collected, flew toward East Xia City and wondered whether another cultivator was also killing Golden Core Stage cultivators.
• Ouyang Haotian chased Blue Ice and repeatedly asked her to become his concubine, while she ignored him and tried to get away.
• Blue Ice asked Ouyang Haotian why he avoided Golden Core Stage cultivators, and he explained the agreement restricting powerful cultivators from attacking weaker ones.
• One of four approaching Core Condensation Stage cultivators recognized Blue Ice and Ouyang Haotian, flew toward them, and called for them to wait.