Chapter Summaries

While Li Xiaoya recovered from his injuries, Zhang Hong explained his old conflict with Liu Qingshan, and Qu Long Scholar suspected Grotto-Heaven True Person was a Fire Dragon Palace spy. The two Sun Xings learned that their companions had died, then asked Grotto-Heaven True Person why he had appeared to rescue them.

• Blue Ice said she had traded heavenly starstone for ten-thousand-year spirit milk, which had saved Li Xiaoya.
• Zhang Hong told the group how Li Xiaoya’s conflict with Liu Qingshan began in the Southwestern Ancient City and continued on Ancient Demon Mountain.
• Qu Long Scholar concluded that Grotto-Heaven True Person likely served the Fire Dragon Palace and that the Four Symbols Grotto-Heaven might be its base.
• Grotto-Heaven True Person hid with the two Sun Xings in a formation and used magic power to revive them.
• Grotto-Heaven True Person told the Sun Xings that Li Xiaoya had killed the other Fire Dragon Palace disciples, and the two youths began treating their injuries.
• One Sun Xing asked Grotto-Heaven True Person why he had come to their rescue.

Li Xiaoya recovered from his violent surge of magic power while the others discussed what had happened on Ancient Demon Mountain. As demon beasts approached, he negotiated a renewed alliance with Qu Long Scholar’s group and led everyone away before the beasts could catch them.

• Zhang Hong recounted the group’s encounter on Ancient Demon Mountain, and Li Mother compared Li Xiaoya’s temperament to his father’s.
• Li Xiaoya finished meditating, reassured Li Mother and the others, and joined the Heavenly Spirit Church group.
• Li Xiaoya challenged Qu Long Scholar over the church’s failure to help against the Fire Dragon Palace and offered to buy its half of the treasure map.
• Li Xiaoya threatened to abandon the treasure expedition, prompting Zhou Xiaoya and Qu Long Scholar to apologize and promise that their group would face future dangers alongside his.
• As the demon-beast horde drew near, Li Xiaoya said he could not risk stirring his killing intent and led the others away, with Qu Long Scholar realizing he had been outmaneuvered.

Li Xiaoya led the group through the Enchanted Forest, then learned from Qu Long Scholar that Grotto-Heaven True Person and the Four Symbols Grotto-Heaven were tied to the Fire Dragon Palace. As the illusion mist thickened, the group pressed on toward the forest’s edge, while Grotto-Heaven True Person and the Sun Xing brothers discussed their trial and Sun Xing’s defeat.

• Li Xiaoya drove back the two-headed bear demon beasts without killing them, and his companions followed him out of their encirclement.
• Li Xiaoya had Zhou Xiaoya summon the demon beast skeleton and told the group to keep their formation while they searched for a safe place to recover.
• Qu Long Scholar told Li Xiaoya that Grotto-Heaven True Person likely belonged to the Fire Dragon Palace and that the Four Symbols Grotto-Heaven was probably one of its secret branches.
• Li Xiaoya noticed the illusion mist thickening, and Qu Long Scholar explained that it meant they were nearing the edge of the Enchanted Forest, so the group sped up.
• A thousand li away, Grotto-Heaven True Person learned that the Sun Xing brothers had entered the forest for the direct descendant trial, while the brothers argued over whether Sun Xing should accept the Grand Supreme’s proposal.

Li Xiaoya and his companions escaped the Mist Forest but found a vast blood-red swamp blocking their path to the Enchanted Mountain Range. As they crossed it at low altitude, a hidden assailant unleashed blood-red beams at them.

• Qu Long Scholar and Li Xiaoya led their companions out of the Mist Forest and spotted a grassy expanse before the distant mountains.
• Zhou Xiaoya’s demon beast skeleton sank into the swamp, and Li Xiaoya and Qu Long Scholar blasted away the Serpentine Demon Beast that attacked her.
• Zhou Xiaoya warned the group that the swamp exerted a powerful suction, so Qu Long Scholar tested the air above it and advised crossing at low altitude.
• Li Xiaoya, Qu Long Scholar, and the others flew across the swamp, growing heavier and spending more magic power as they advanced.
• A blood-red head watched the group from the swamp and promised to wait for them on the other side.
• After the group passed the strongest suction and began to feel lighter, a hidden attacker laughed and sent blood-red beams bursting from beneath the grass.

Li Xiaoya and the others were ambushed by a Demon Beast that attacked through the Illusion Mist, and they fought back after it dragged Li Tu into danger. The beast withdrew under their combined assault, but Li Tu screamed again, leaving the group facing another unknown threat.

• Qu Long Scholar warned the group as blood-red tentacles attacked, and Li Xiaoya struck one with a Golden Light Fist.
• A pink orb burst beneath the group and released Illusion Mist; Li Xiaoya used golden whirlwinds to draw some of the mist away.
• A tentacle seized Li Tu, and Li Xiaoya tried to free him before an enormous gray saber cut into the tentacle and released him.
• Li Tu unleashed his strange bees, which exploded against the tentacles, while Zhang Hong and the others joined the attack with spells and Magic Treasures.
• The Demon Beast withdrew its tentacles after the group's bombardment, but Li Tu suddenly screamed again.

Li Xiaoya and the cultivators struggled to escape a cunning, poisonous demon beast lurking in the marsh, which killed Li Tu and attacked them with illusion mist. After Li Xiaoya saved Zhang Hong from a surprise attack, Zhou Xiaoya prepared to use a powerful move against the beast.

• Li Tu was poisoned by the marsh, fell into the illusion mist, and was killed by the demon beast's tentacles.
• Li Xiaoya urged the group to flee toward shore, but the speaking demon beast pursued them with volleys of pink illusion-mist spheres.
• Li Xiaoya tried to cover the retreat with his Fire Dragon Sword, while the demon beast avoided him and created a massive cloud of illusion mist ahead of the others.
• Qu Long Scholar used a three-headed wolf jade treasure to clear a path through the mist and offered to hold off the beast, but Li Xiaoya chose to stay and fight.
• The demon beast ambushed Zhang Hong with poisoned water arrows, and Li Xiaoya used his Heavenly Feather Wings to save her.
• Zhou Xiaoya saw that Zhang Hong was safe and declared that she would use a special move against the demon beast.

Zhou Xiaoya invoked the Holy Demon Queen and unleashed gray lightning against the blood-red Demon Beast while Qu Long Scholar and Li Xiaoya tried to hold the battle together. The chapter ended with the Holy Demon Queen’s phantom appearing above the beast and driving a gigantic lightning sword toward its head.

• Qu Long Scholar sent his Three-Headed Giant Wolf to attack the Demon Beast and urged the others to escape while he held it back.
• Zhou Xiaoya began using her secret move, transformed into a white-haired, one-horned maiden, and summoned the Holy Demon Queen through a Dark Portal.
• The Demon Beast broke free, destroyed the Three-Headed Giant Wolf, and struck at Qu Long Scholar, but Zhou Xiaoya wounded it with gray lightning.
• The Demon Beast shrouded itself in illusion mist and attacked Zhou Xiaoya, but the Holy Demon Queen’s phantom dispersed the mist.
• Zhou Xiaoya sent the Holy Demon Queen’s phantom after the Demon Beast, and the phantom appeared above it and plunged her gigantic lightning sword toward its head.

Zhou Xiaoya defeated a powerful swamp beast with her Holy Demon Queen technique, but the effort nearly left her unable to fly. The group recovered the beast’s corpse and continued toward shore, identifying it as a possible Mutant Mire Demon.

• Zhou Xiaoya pierced the beast’s eye with the Gray-Lightning Greatsword and detonated it, blasting the beast apart and carving a crater into the swamp.
• Qu Long Scholar called Zhou Xiaoya back to her senses when she turned toward the others, then caught her as she weakened and helped her take Elixirs.
• Dong Santong reminded the group to collect the Transformation Stage Demon Beast’s remains, and Madam Aiya stored its corpse while Li Xiaoya accompanied her and the Black-Hand Demon Child.
• Qu Long Scholar and the others guessed that the beast might have been a Mutant Mire Demon, and they continued flying until they neared shore.

After reaching the shore, the group divided the spirit herbs and rested while Zhou Xiaoya mourned Li Tu and confronted Li Xiaoya about failing to save him. The Blood Swamp then began churning and released a spreading bank of illusion mist, leaving the group facing a new danger.

• Qu Long Scholar persuaded the group to divide the spirit herbs by faction, then asked Li Xiaoya to watch over Zhou Xiaoya while he supervised the gathering.
• Zhou Xiaoya accused Li Xiaoya of choosing not to save Li Tu, and Li Xiaoya knocked her unconscious to let her rest.
• Black-Hand Demon Child attacked Li Xiaoya, but Qu Long Scholar stopped him after explaining that Zhou Xiaoya had only fallen asleep.
• The group divided the herbs and rested, while Li Xiaoya checked his map and found that it did not mark the Blood Swamp.
• The Blood Swamp began bubbling and releasing illusion mist, and a fierce wind drove the mist toward the group.

Li Xiaoya led the group through the illusion mist toward the mountains of the Enchanted Mountain Range and discovered that a vast region between moving peaks was filled with powerful flying demon beasts. After retreating to safety, he proposed searching the mountain bases for the route marked on Qu Long Scholar’s map.

• Li Xiaoya returned with the group to their shelter and proposed finding their location before proceeding across the Enchanted Mountain Range.
• Li Xiaoya observed that the illusion mist rose from the marsh and persuaded the group to wait for it to clear before climbing the mountain.
• After the mist vanished, Li Xiaoya halted the group before they entered the mist-covered heights and led them around the peak instead.
• The group discovered enormous moving mountains surrounded by illusion mist and flying demon beasts, including two powerful beasts fighting in the sky.
• Li Xiaoya led everyone to a rocky ledge and proposed searching the mountain bases for the route shown on Qu Long Scholar’s map.

Li Xiaoya and his companions searched the Enchanted Mountain Range for a canyon, then spotted and pursued a Superwind Beast. Li Xiaoya killed it for its wings, but when he realized the others had not caught up, he hurried back to find them.

• Li Xiaoya chose to search east along the mountain cliffs, and the group traveled for days without finding the canyon.
• Qu Long Scholar questioned their direction, and Li Xiaoya agreed to continue for two more days before turning back.
• Zhang Hong spotted a blue-green demon beast, which Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong recognized as a Superwind Beast whose wings could help refine Dong Santong's Wing Ancient Treasure.
• Li Xiaoya used the Heavenly Feather Wings, fire attacks, and the Immortal-Binding Rope to catch and kill the Superwind Beast.
• Li Xiaoya noticed Dong Santong and the others were missing and flew back in alarm.

Li Xiaoya reunited with the group after acquiring the Superwind Beast’s wings, and they followed a fissure believed to match their map through the Enchanted Mountain Range. After traveling for days, they reached a dark cavern filled with strange cries and eerie green lights, leaving them to decide whether to enter it or seek another route.

• Li Xiaoya gave the Superwind Beast’s wings to Dong Santong, who refused Qu Long Scholar’s request to trade for the Wing Ancient Treasure formula.
• Li Xiaoya and the others agreed that the enormous mountain fissure matched their map and flew into it together.
• Dong Santong secretly gave Li Xiaoya a Storage Pouch containing materials and asked him to have Second Better refine them.
• The group traveled more than a thousand li through the winding, chilly fissure, then rested in temporary cave abodes before continuing.
• On the third day, the group reached a vast cavern where strange cries and eerie green lights emerged, and they stopped to consider their way forward.

Li Xiaoya scouted a cave filled with Green Poison Bat Beasts, then led the group through it using Dong Santong’s light spells to exploit the beasts’ weakness. Deep inside, a gigantic white Green Poison Bat Beast learned that its children had been killed and flew out to confront them.

• Li Xiaoya entered the cave alone, identified the seventh-rank Green Poison Bat Beasts, and drew a swarm of them back toward the group.
• Dong Santong blinded the beasts with flashing light, allowing Li Xiaoya and the others to attack while the creatures struggled to evade them.
• Li Xiaoya reported that the cave stretched for several li and suggested Dong Santong lead the group using his light spells.
• The group fought its way deeper, overcoming eighth-rank Green Poison Bat Beasts that used sonic attacks to cause hallucinations.
• Several eighth-rank beasts reached a cavern where a gigantic white Green Poison Bat Beast learned its children had been killed and flew out to meet the intruders.

Li Xiaoya and his companions encountered a ninth-tier white Green Poison Bat Beast that demanded they endure three moves before it would let them pass. Dong Santong volunteered, survived the first attack, and met the beast’s second move with a massive beam as the clash continued.

• Li Xiaoya’s group confronted the white Green Poison Bat Beast and its hundreds of followers after it accused them of killing its children.
• Zhou Xiaoya revealed that the group had killed the Mud Old Monster, making the bat beast reconsider its hostility before it demanded that someone withstand three moves.
• Li Xiaoya agreed to the challenge, but Dong Santong stepped forward to take it instead.
• The bat beast launched red blades at Dong Santong, who formed a Light Net that broke the attack and counted it as the first move.
• The bat beast charged Dong Santong within a red vortex, and he joined beams from his many figures into a huge blast aimed at it.

Li Xiaoya and his companions survived the Green Poison Bat Beast’s attack after Li Xiaoya shielded Dong Santong from the beast’s deadly eye beams. They continued through the cavern, while the Green Poison Bat Beast suspected they had killed the Mire Demon and wondered how they knew the route; the group was nearly out of the passage.

• The Green Poison Bat Beast unleashed a barrage of red beams, forcing Dong Santong to defend himself with the Moonlight Crescent Saber.
• The Green Poison Bat Beast fired two beams from his eyes at Dong Santong, but Li Xiaoya appeared and blocked them with his arms.
• Li Xiaoya declared that the beast had used all three moves, and the Green Poison Bat Beast fled into a passage as his smaller beasts scattered.
• Li Xiaoya and the others discussed how the Green Poison Bat Beast had tested them and suspected his story about the Mire Demon was false.
• The Green Poison Bat Beast wondered whether the humans had killed the Mire Demon and how they knew the route, while Li Xiaoya’s group flew toward the cave exit.

Li Xiaoya and the Heavenly Spirit Church each made plans for a possible fight over the Primordial Chaos Golden Cauldron, while Zhou Xiaoya took command of her group. After the map revealed that the treasure was nearby, both sides set out cautiously, unsure what the other intended.

• Li Xiaoya’s group rested in a cave abode, where he outlined a battle plan to protect his companions and secure the treasure.
• Qu Long Scholar revealed that the Heavenly Spirit Church had come seeking the Primordial Chaos Pill, and Zhou Xiaoya ordered the others not to act without her command as Holy Demon Queen.
• The next day, Zhou Xiaoya joined the two map halves, revealing the route from the Green Poison Bat Beast’s cave to the treasure site.
• Zhou Xiaoya told Li Xiaoya to keep the assembled map, while Li Xiaoya grew suspicious of the Heavenly Spirit Church’s confidence and warned his companions to stay alert.

Li Xiaoya and the others skirted a colossal mountain filled with powerful demon beasts while staying concealed. After more than ten days, they reached the location marked on the Treasure Map and identified the smoking mountain as their destination.

• After seeing the enormous, beast-filled mountain, Li Xiaoya urged the group to avoid hunting demon beasts and travel under concealment.
• Blue Ice brought out her Water-Repelling Pearl, Zhou Xiaoya revealed an Invisibility Banner Treasure, and Qu Long Scholar supplied demon-beast-repelling spiritual liquid.
• The two groups used their concealment treasures to pass through the snowy forest while Li Xiaoya guided them around eighth-tier demon beasts.
• At the foot of the mountain, the group spotted White-Headed Golden Eagles and chose to skirt the mountain rather than cross it.
• After more than ten days of evading beasts and resting along the way, the group reached a valley where Li Xiaoya identified the smoking mountain on the Treasure Map.

Li Xiaoya and his companions reached the mist-shrouded restrictions near the Primordial Chaos Immortal's cave abode and discovered that five-element attacks were absorbed by them. Li Mother identified the restrictions' weakness and began preparing a formation to disrupt their balance.

• Li Xiaoya's group reached a hot spring lake and found restrictions beyond it on the mountainside.
• Blue Ice cleared an abandoned pavilion, where Li Xiaoya read an Ancient Clerical Script inscription about the Alchemy Dao and the group inferred that the cave abode lay ahead.
• The group examined the misty restrictions while Dong Santong kept watch, and a golden-eyed figure in a dark cave sensed intruders and vanished.
• Li Xiaoya and Qu Long Scholar considered forcing their way through, but Li Mother demonstrated that the restrictions absorbed most five-element attacks.
• Li Mother explained that a formation could disrupt the restrictions' five-element balance, then asked everyone to move back while she prepared it.

Li Mother used a Fire-Gathering Formation to convert the group’s magic power into fire spirit energy and break the restriction around the Primordial Chaos Immortal’s Cave Abode. The group entered the revealed garden and approached the stairway, where Li Xiaoya concealed what he read on an ancient stone stele.

• Li Mother set up a Fire-Gathering Formation and explained that it could turn their magic power into fire element energy to disrupt the restriction’s five elements balance.
• Li Mother directed the group to feed their magic power into the formation, then fired its gathered energy at the restriction until its Five-Colored Light Curtain turned red and cracked apart.
• The group saw the garden hillside and stone stairway leading toward the Primordial Chaos Immortal’s Cave Abode after the restriction collapsed.
• Qu Long Scholar led the group up the stone steps, while Li Xiaoya moved beside him and Dong Santong noticed the ancient writing on a stone stele.
• Li Xiaoya told Dong Santong through voice transmission what the stele said, then claimed aloud that it only listed the trees’ names and descriptions.

Li Xiaoya and the others reached the Primordial Chaos Immortal’s cave abode, broke through its purple mystic gold entrance, and discovered a passage filled with fire spirit energy. Before they entered, Zhou Xiaoya secured Li Xiaoya’s promise that the treasures would be shared fairly, and the group prepared to search together.

• Qu Long Scholar examined the purple mystic gold door, and Li Xiaoya lifted it slightly before knocking it down with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff.
• A hidden golden-pupiled being cursed the intruders and welcomed them into the cave abode, intending to kill them.
• Li Xiaoya sensed the strong fire spirit energy in the passage and stored the fallen purple mystic gold door in his Heaven-and-Earth Bag.
• Zhou Xiaoya asked Li Xiaoya to share any treasures fairly, offering the Primordial Chaos Golden Cauldron to him in exchange for an equal share of the Primordial Chaos Pills.
• Li Xiaoya promised to share the treasures, and the group entered the cave abode with renewed morale.