Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya and his companions entered a magma-filled cavern beneath the Primordial Chaos Immortal’s cave abode, where a trap sealed them on a bridge. Dozens of fire spirit puppets rose from the magma, and as Li Xiaoya flew to break the gate, a pillar of flaming magma shot toward him.

• Li Xiaoya’s group followed a long passage downward until they reached a cavern whose floor was a lake of magma, crossed by a narrow bridge.
• Sensing danger, Li Xiaoya tested the bridge and crossed it first while the others waited.
• Two massive metal gates slammed shut at both ends of the bridge, trapping the group.
• A huge fire spirit puppet emerged from the magma, followed by dozens more that filled the cavern with scorching heat.
• Qu Long Scholar warned everyone to form a defensive circle and avoid fire-element spells, while Li Xiaoya flew toward a gate to break it.
• A pillar of flaming magma erupted from the lake and shot toward Li Xiaoya.

Li Xiaoya and Qu Long Scholar’s group battled endlessly regenerating Fire Spirit Puppets while Li Xiaoya tried to break a red barrier restriction. Blue Ice unleashed the power of her Ren-Kui Twin Swords to freeze the puppets, as Li Xiaoya prepared a powerful strike against the barrier.

• Li Xiaoya blasted a magma pillar aside while the Fire Spirit Puppets attacked Qu Long Scholar’s group with scorching fireballs.
• Dong Santong and the others destroyed many puppets, but Qu Long Scholar warned that the creatures could not be killed and another wave emerged from the magma.
• Li Xiaoya discovered that magma was reinforcing the red barrier restriction, while the cavern’s rising magma and renewed puppet attacks threatened to overwhelm the group.
• Blue Ice used a drop of water spiritual qi to empower her Ren-Kui Twin Swords, then froze thousands of attacking Fire Spirit Puppets with a wave of ice swords.
• Li Xiaoya gathered golden power and swung the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff at the red barrier restriction.

Li Xiaoya and his companions escaped the collapsing lava cavern and climbed a spiraling passage to the Primordial Chaos Golden Cauldron. They reached the treasure hall, where Black-Hand Demon Child volunteered to approach the cauldron after Li Xiaoya tested the room.

• Li Xiaoya shattered the red barrier and the passage door, then led everyone away as the cavern collapsed and the lava rose.
• Qu Long Scholar explained that Fire Spirit Puppets were cultivated to guard places rich in fire spirit energy and could be defeated by powers that countered them.
• Li Xiaoya led the group up the passage and broke open a purple mystic gold door, revealing the Primordial Chaos Golden Cauldron and a potent medicinal fragrance.
• Black-Hand Demon Child moved toward the hall, but Li Xiaoya stopped him and warned everyone not to act rashly.
• Li Xiaoya tested the hall with golden beams, then Black-Hand Demon Child volunteered to enter while the others stayed behind.

Black-Hand Demon Child approached the Primordial Chaos Golden Cauldron, triggering an ambush by a White-Headed Golden Eagle, a Shapeshifting Demon Beast at the peak of the ninth tier. Li Xiaoya and the others fought back, but the eagle overwhelmed them and launched another attack at Zhang Hong and Madam Aiya.

• Black-Hand Demon Child enlarged himself, inspected the High Platform, and stepped onto it as Li Xiaoya prepared the group for danger.
• A golden figure burst from above the cauldron and attacked Black-Hand Demon Child, while Li Xiaoya struck at it and was hurled into the Main Hall’s wall.
• Black-Hand Demon Child tried to ensnare the figure with his bandages, but it blasted his hand apart and sent him flying.
• The attackers identified the figure as a White-Headed Golden Eagle, a Shapeshifting Demon Beast at the peak of the ninth tier, and their barrage failed to overcome its wing attacks.
• The eagle appeared between Zhang Hong and Madam Aiya and sent two golden feather-shaped blades toward them.

The White-Headed Golden Eagle attacked Zhang Hong and the others, but Li Xiaoya protected her and engaged the eagle in a high-speed fight. Blue Ice struck the eagle with a freezing attack, leaving it unable to dodge Li Xiaoya’s next sword strike.

• The White-Headed Golden Eagle’s attacks injured Li Xiaoya and knocked Zhang Hong and Dong Santong into a pillar, while Qu Long Scholar pushed Madam Aiya out of danger.
• Li Xiaoya shattered the eagle’s golden bell-breaking attack and cut a long gash into its wing with the Fire Dragon Sword.
• Li Xiaoya pursued the eagle through the main hall, but his repeated sword strikes missed as the eagle used its speed to evade him.
• Dong Santong and Zhang Hong recovered and found Black-Hand Demon Child gravely wounded, while Zhou Xiaoya began summoning a powerful aid.
• Blue Ice’s blue-violet attack blasted the White-Headed Golden Eagle with freezing cold, and Li Xiaoya rushed above it to strike its head.

Li Xiaoya, Blue Ice, and Li Mother worked together to subdue the White-Headed Golden Eagle with the Immortal-Binding Rope. As Li Xiaoya prepared to kill him, the eagle revealed that killing him would mean losing the Primordial Unity Pill, leaving Li Xiaoya to question where the pill was.

• Blue Ice and Li Mother helped Li Xiaoya fend off the White-Headed Golden Eagle, while the eagle wounded Li Xiaoya and Blue Ice kept it occupied with Blue-Violet Light.
• Li Xiaoya used the Immortal-Binding Rope to bind the White-Headed Golden Eagle and suppress its magic power.
• The White-Headed Golden Eagle fired spinning golden beams at Li Xiaoya, but Blue Ice deflected one and Li Xiaoya turned another aside before the eagle lost control of its power.
• Li Xiaoya approached the helpless eagle and began to strike, while Zhou Xiaoya stopped summoning the Holy Demon Queen and Qu Long Scholar and the others saved the Black-Hand Demon Child.
• The White-Headed Golden Eagle begged for his life and warned Li Xiaoya that killing him would cost them the Primordial Unity Pill, prompting Li Xiaoya to stop his sword and ask whether the pill was in the Primordial Unity Golden Cauldron.

Li Xiaoya and the others opened the Primordial Chaos Golden Cauldron, only to find it empty, and negotiated with the White-Headed Golden Eagle for the Primordial Chaos Pills. After they established a soul contract, the eagle revealed that the pills were already there.

• Qu Long Scholar opened the Primordial Chaos Golden Cauldron, and Li Xiaoya and the others found it empty despite its strong medicinal fragrance.
• Blue Ice pointed out that the White-Headed Golden Eagle might know where the Primordial Chaos Pills were, and the eagle offered to provide them in exchange for its freedom.
• Li Xiaoya negotiated for nine pills and insisted on a soul contract that would prevent either side from attacking the other in the Enchanted Mountain Range.
• Everyone completed the soul contract, and the White-Headed Golden Eagle smugly announced that the Primordial Chaos Pills were right there.

The White-Headed Golden Eagle revealed that the Primordial Chaos Pill was stored in his inner core and recounted his history as the Primordial Chaos Immortal’s mount. Li Xiaoya obtained the eagle’s bottle, but when he opened it, he was shocked by what he found inside.

• The White-Headed Golden Eagle told Li Xiaoya that the Primordial Chaos Pill was inside his inner core and that he needed some magic power to retrieve it.
• Li Xiaoya explained that the still-lit spirit stone lamps had led him to suspect someone lived in the cave, and the eagle admitted he had once been the Primordial Chaos Immortal’s mount.
• The White-Headed Golden Eagle revealed that the Primordial Chaos Pill had helped him transform, but caused unbearable agony, and said the Primordial Chaos Immortal died after a failed attempt to use his own breakthrough elixir.
• Li Xiaoya loosened the Immortal-Binding Rope, allowing the White-Headed Golden Eagle to expel his inner core and produce a small bottle before swallowing the core again.
• Li Xiaoya opened the bottle, releasing a powerful five-colored medicinal fragrance, then peered inside and cried out in surprise.

Li Xiaoya exploited a loophole in the Soul Contract to keep the White-Headed Golden Eagle bound after receiving the Primordial Chaos Pills. He tried to make the eagle his mount, then tightened the Immortal-Binding Rope and argued that the contract’s protection against attacks did not apply until the eagle was released.

• Li Xiaoya pointed out that the Soul Contract did not specify when he had to release the White-Headed Golden Eagle, shocking his companions and enraging the eagle.
• The White-Headed Golden Eagle refused to become Li Xiaoya’s mount and charged at him after Li Xiaoya suggested it.
• Li Xiaoya tightened the Immortal-Binding Rope, subduing the White-Headed Golden Eagle and prompting him to invoke the Soul Contract’s curse.
• Qu Long Scholar and the others feared Li Xiaoya had violated their contracts, but Li Xiaoya argued that the clause forbidding attacks applied only after they released the eagle.

Li Xiaoya negotiated a new Soul Contract with the White-Headed Golden Eagle in exchange for the treasures in the Primordial Chaos Immortal’s cave abode. When the eagle stopped him from taking the Primordial Chaos Golden Cauldron, he revealed that he had learned to refine elixirs by joining his primordial spirit and nascent soul with the furnace, and Li Xiaoya asked him to demonstrate.

• Li Xiaoya persuaded the White-Headed Golden Eagle to sign a new Soul Contract promising the group the cave’s treasures and his release.
• Li Xiaoya asked about the Illusory Mountain Range, and the eagle told him that Illusion Old Devil was a tenth-tier demon beast ruling Illusory Mountain.
• The White-Headed Golden Eagle inferred that the group had passed through the giant bat’s territory, and Li Xiaoya confirmed the bat had let them through.
• Li Xiaoya approached the Primordial Chaos Golden Cauldron, but the eagle warned that taking it would violate their contract because his life depended on it.
• The White-Headed Golden Eagle revealed that he could refine elixirs by merging his primordial spirit and nascent soul with the cauldron, and Li Xiaoya agreed to watch a demonstration if the eagle’s bonds were loosened.

Li Xiaoya and the others accepted the White-Headed Golden Eagle’s demonstration of alchemy and agreed to leave the Primordial Chaos Golden Cauldron in exchange for the promised treasures. The eagle led them through the Immortal’s herb garden toward the Treasure Pavilion, where a hidden trap began to take effect.

• Li Xiaoya withdrew the Immortal-Binding Rope and watched as the White-Headed Golden Eagle used his inner core, primordial spirit, and nascent soul to refine several sixth-grade elixirs in the Primordial Chaos Golden Cauldron.
• Li Xiaoya decided not to risk the group’s lives over the cauldron, and the White-Headed Golden Eagle stored it inside his body before leading them to the herb garden.
• The White-Headed Golden Eagle opened the cavern walls to reveal the Primordial Chaos Immortal’s herb garden and promised the group its medicinal ingredients before guiding them toward the Treasure Pavilion.
• As the group crossed a corridor lined with Purple Jade Drunken Butterfly flowers, the Black-Hand Demon Child collapsed, followed by Zhang Hong and Madam Aiya.
• Li Xiaoya realized they had fallen into a trap, but he too became dizzy and sank to his knees.

The White-Headed Golden Eagle incapacitated Li Xiaoya and the others with Purple Jade Drunken Butterfly, then decided to take over Li Xiaoya’s body. He sent his golden Nascent Soul into Li Xiaoya as he began the possession.

• The White-Headed Golden Eagle used Purple Jade Drunken Butterfly to make Li Xiaoya, Zhou Xiaoya, Li Mother, Dong Santong, and Qu Long Scholar collapse, while Blue Ice initially resisted with her veil.
• The White-Headed Golden Eagle explained that the butterfly could enter through the skin, and Blue Ice also collapsed after he threatened to imprison them in a sealed chamber.
• The White-Headed Golden Eagle picked up the Immortal-Binding Rope and discovered it was a True Immortal Spirit Treasure.
• The White-Headed Golden Eagle examined Li Xiaoya and decided to seize his body, reasoning that sealing Li Xiaoya’s soul and memories would not count as killing him.
• The White-Headed Golden Eagle prepared his inner core and sent his golden infant into Li Xiaoya’s body.

Li Xiaoya was attacked by a strange baby that clawed into his five-colored pearl form and flooded his mind with another cultivator’s memories, while black heart-demon qi invaded his body. After a black lightning strike drove the demonic baby into a hole beneath the Primordial Chaos Golden Cauldron hall, Li Xiaoya regained control of his body, but the mountain began shaking as the volcano prepared to erupt.

• Li Xiaoya, trapped as a five-colored pearl, fought a strange baby that broke through his golden covering and burrowed into him.
• Li Xiaoya was overwhelmed by the baby’s memories and emotions, realized someone was trying to possess his soul, and cried out in confusion over his identity.
• Black qi and ghostly faces poured into Li Xiaoya, whose body blasted through the corridor floor and fell into the hall containing the Primordial Chaos Golden Cauldron.
• A pitch-black baby emerged from Li Xiaoya and absorbed the black faces, but a bolt of black lightning struck it and blasted it into a deep hole.
• Li Xiaoya woke with his body apparently his own, then realized the mountain was shaking and the volcano was about to erupt.

As the volcano erupted, Li Xiaoya rescued the unconscious group and escaped while suffering severe pain from the Primordial Chaos Immortal’s memories lodged in his mind. He hid with the others in a sealed cavern and told Second Better what had happened, prompting Second Better to warn that the situation was bad.

• Li Xiaoya burned the Purple Jade Drunken Butterflies, cut a section of corridor free, and carried it with the unconscious group out of the collapsing basin as the volcano erupted.
• Li Xiaoya caught Blue Ice when she fell from the corridor, but the White-Headed Golden Eagle fell to the ground and appeared to be dead.
• After landing, Li Xiaoya realized the White-Headed Golden Eagle had been the Primordial Chaos Immortal and that the immortal’s memories were causing his head to spasm.
• Hearing a roar from the Enchanted Mountain Range, Li Xiaoya feared another Tenth Tier demon beast would investigate, so he opened a cave, brought Blue Ice and the corridor inside, retrieved the eagle’s corpse, and sealed the entrance.
• A mass of shifting pink vapor and three enormous figures searched around the erupting volcano while Li Xiaoya struggled to suppress the memories in the cavern.
• Li Xiaoya summoned Second Better and explained what had happened, and Second Better sighed that the situation was bad.

Li Xiaoya used Second Better’s method to refine Primordial Chaos Immortal’s memories before his weakening divine sense could be exhausted. As he remained in a dangerous healing state, his companions awoke and guarded him, while Blue Ice recalled the Purple Jade Drunken Butterfly.

• Second Better gave Li Xiaoya a jade slip explaining how to refine the memories, warning that the process would severely damage his divine sense.
• Blue Ice woke and agreed to guard Li Xiaoya and keep everyone from leaving the cave.
• Li Xiaoya used Golden Needle Acupoint Stimulation to unleash his divine sense and began refining Primordial Chaos Immortal’s memories, including extensive alchemy knowledge.
• The pink cloud and three flying demon beasts gathered outside the cave, then split up to search in different directions.
• Dong Santong, Qu Long Scholar, Li Mother, Zhou Xiaoya, Zhang Hong, and Madam Aiya woke and waited quietly while Li Xiaoya healed; they noticed their divine senses had improved.
• Blue Ice remembered the White-Headed Golden Eagle’s words and identified the Purple Jade Drunken Butterfly.

After awakening, Li Xiaoya hid how he defeated the White-Headed Golden Eagle and kept the eagle’s corpse and treasures for himself, while his divine sense remained badly weakened. He urged the survivors to keep their expedition gains—especially the Primordial Chaos Pills—secret.

• Blue Ice explained that the Purple Jade Drunken Butterfly had knocked everyone unconscious, and the group realized Li Xiaoya had protected them while they were helpless.
• Li Xiaoya’s divine sense barrier shattered, and he recovered, having lost roughly two-thirds of his divine sense while gaining the Primordial Chaos Immortal’s alchemy memories and experience.
• Li Xiaoya told the group a misleading account of the eagle’s death and the volcano’s eruption, concealing the Primordial Chaos Immortal’s identity, its corpse, and the Primordial Chaos Golden Cauldron.
• Madam Aiya questioned whether Li Xiaoya had recovered any treasures, and he said he had fled without them; the others accepted the loss and noted that each had obtained a Primordial Chaos Pill.
• Li Xiaoya asked everyone to keep their expedition gains, especially the Primordial Chaos Pills, confidential to avoid attracting danger and greed.

Li Xiaoya persuaded the group to seal their journey and its spoils with a soul contract, then recovered in a cave while pursuing the Primordial Chaos Immortal’s pill-making knowledge. After rejoining the others, he learned Blue Ice still sought a millennium jade ganoderma and offered to help her find it.

• Li Xiaoya explained that the White-Headed Golden Eagle’s soul-contract loophole had been a bluff, and the group agreed to a new contract concealing everything they had done, obtained, and encountered.
• Li Xiaoya secluded himself, found two storage pouches on the White-Headed Golden Eagle’s corpse, and took a Spirit-Drunk Pill to restore his damaged divine sense.
• After sleeping through nightmares of the Primordial Chaos Immortal’s memories, Li Xiaoya awoke with his divine sense partly restored and joined the others in the main hall.
• Li Xiaoya learned that Black-Hand Demon Child was still healing and that Blue Ice seemed unusually weak, then suggested checking whether it was safe to leave.
• Li Xiaoya privately asked Blue Ice about her search for the millennium jade ganoderma, and she told him it was somewhere in the Enchanted Forest.
• Li Xiaoya offered to leave the Heavenly Spirit Church and help Blue Ice search for the millennium jade ganoderma.

Li Xiaoya led his companions out of the ruined cave abode through a hidden passage and a teleportation formation, bringing them to another part of the Enchanted Forest. He then chose to part ways with Qu Long Scholar and Zhou Xiaoya, but Qu Long Scholar called after him as they left.

• Li Xiaoya found a hidden stairway inside an ancient tree and led the group to a Short-Distance Teleportation Formation.
• Li Xiaoya and his companions activated the formation in groups and emerged from a cave in another part of the Enchanted Forest.
• Li Xiaoya proposed that his group and the Heavenly Spirit Church party return separately, citing the risk of attracting attention.
• Qu Long Scholar accepted Li Xiaoya's decision, and the two groups exchanged farewells.
• Li Xiaoya led Zhang Hong and the others away, but Qu Long Scholar suddenly called after him.

Li Xiaoya led his companions through a hidden passage and a teleportation formation to escape the devastated valley and reach the Enchanted Forest. There, he parted from Qu Long Scholar’s group and set off with his own companions.

• Li Xiaoya led everyone to a hidden stairway inside a scorched ancient tree, which he said the White-Headed Golden Eagle had revealed to him.
• The group found a short-distance teleportation formation and split into groups to travel through it.
• Li Xiaoya and his companions arrived at the other end, where the Heavenly Spirit Church’s group soon joined them.
• Li Xiaoya led everyone out through a cave in the Enchanted Forest and proposed that the two sects separate.
• Qu Long Scholar agreed to part ways, and Li Xiaoya departed with his companions before Qu Long Scholar called after him.

Li Xiaoya and Zhang Hong went to Blue Ice’s cave to discuss the millennium jade ganoderma, but Blue Ice drugged the group and took Li Xiaoya away. She revealed herself as Liu Xian’er and prepared to give him a pill before he woke and recognized her.

• Li Xiaoya and Zhang Hong stopped teasing each other and went with Blue Ice to discuss the millennium jade ganoderma.
• Blue Ice admitted the ganoderma had never existed, then used a bottle’s contents to knock Zhang Hong, Li Xiaoya, Li Mother, and Dong Santong unconscious.
• Blue Ice carried Li Xiaoya away, confessed that she had loved him, and suffered another bout of blue light spilling from her body.
• Blue Ice removed her veil and revealed herself to be Liu Xian’er, then prepared to give Li Xiaoya a pink pill.
• Li Xiaoya woke and stared at Liu Xian’er in disbelief.