Chapter Summaries

Heavenly Venerable Daoling and Fairy Qingxia told Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er to separate from Li Xiaoya for his sake, leaving both women distressed. After discussing the order and their feelings for him, Zhang Hong returned to Li Xiaoya and collapsed into his arms in tears.

• Zhang Hong went to Heavenly Venerable Daoling's cave abode after he summoned her, and she met Liu Xian'er on the way because he had summoned her too.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling and Fairy Qingxia ordered Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er to separate from Li Xiaoya, then explained their reasons to them for more than four hours.
• Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er discussed the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma, Li Xiaoya's past antics, and their feelings for him as they flew away together.
• Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er agreed to follow their masters' instructions and endure the long separation, then parted after spending the afternoon talking.
• Li Xiaoya waited for Zhang Hong to return, and she threw herself into his arms and burst into tears when she arrived.

Zhang Hong told Li Xiaoya that Fairy Qingxia opposed her sharing a husband with Liu Xian'er, and Li Xiaoya went with her to plead his case. Fairy Qingxia confronted him for failing to formally ask for Liu Xian'er’s hand, leaving their dispute unresolved.

• Zhang Hong broke down and told Li Xiaoya that Fairy Qingxia demanded he marry Liu Xian'er alone, rejecting even Zhang Hong as his concubine.
• Li Xiaoya comforted Zhang Hong and decided to visit Fairy Qingxia, while Zhang Hong insisted on going with him.
• Ling Shuang met Li Xiaoya and Zhang Hong at Rainbow Rosy Peak and brought them to Fairy Qingxia’s cave abode, where Liu Xian'er was waiting.
• Fairy Qingxia kept Li Xiaoya and Zhang Hong kneeling before accusing Li Xiaoya of leading Liu Xian'er on and neglecting to formally ask for her hand.

Li Xiaoya asked Fairy Qingxia for Liu Xian'er’s hand in marriage, but Fairy Qingxia demanded that he choose between Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong. When Li Xiaoya refused to abandon either woman, Fairy Qingxia forced Liu Xian'er to choose between him and her master, and Liu Xian'er stayed with Fairy Qingxia.

• Li Xiaoya apologized for not visiting sooner and asked Fairy Qingxia to bless his marriage to Liu Xian'er.
• Fairy Qingxia agreed only on condition that Li Xiaoya leave Zhang Hong, then demanded he choose between the two women.
• Fairy Qingxia questioned Li Xiaoya about his time with Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er and accused him of pursuing them for their beauty.
• Li Xiaoya insisted that he and both women loved one another, while Liu Xian'er knelt and pleaded with Fairy Qingxia not to make things difficult for him.
• Li Xiaoya took Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong by the hand and tried to leave, but Fairy Qingxia threatened Liu Xian'er with losing her as a master.
• Liu Xian'er let go of Li Xiaoya and promised to obey Fairy Qingxia, who forbade her from meeting or speaking to him and ordered him off Rainbow Rosy Peak.

Li Xiaoya, Liu Xian'er, and Zhang Hong sought Fairy Qingxia’s blessing for their relationship, and she agreed only on the condition that they reach the Nascent Soul Realm without meeting or contacting one another. After all three signed the agreement, Li Xiaoya began to suspect Liu Xian'er and Fairy Qingxia had planned the test in advance.

• Liu Xian'er pleaded with Fairy Qingxia not to make Li Xiaoya leave, and Li Xiaoya and Zhang Hong knelt to ask for her blessing.
• Fairy Qingxia said she would approve their relationship if they became Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, then required them to avoid all contact until then.
• Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong accepted the separation, and Li Xiaoya agreed after saying he could form a Nascent Soul within a hundred years.
• Li Xiaoya, Liu Xian'er, and Zhang Hong signed Fairy Qingxia’s written agreement with their soul marks.
• Fairy Qingxia gave them a quarter of an hour before the agreement took effect, and Li Xiaoya asked Liu Xian'er whether she and Fairy Qingxia had arranged the test the day before.

Li Xiaoya learned that he could not see Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong for a long time, then left Rainbow Rosy Peak and went to High Person Qianshan's cave abode. Meanwhile, the Fire Dragon Palace learned of Li Xiaoya's extraordinary potential as Black Skeleton recovered from his defeat by High Person Qianshan.

• Zhang Hong revealed that she and Liu Xian'er had agreed to Fairy Qingxia's conditions, including keeping Li Xiaoya away from them, and Liu Xian'er urged him to accept their masters' decision.
• Fairy Qingxia drove Li Xiaoya away, and he flew off after waiting in vain for Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong to come out.
• Liu Xin'er approached Li Xiaoya, but he quickly left to avoid giving Fairy Qingxia reason to misunderstand and headed for High Person Qianshan's cave abode.
• Fairy Qingxia gave Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong cultivation guidance, while Li Xiaoya sparred with Dong Santong and struggled with his weakened divine sense.
• The Flame Dragon General told Sun Xing and Sun Xing that Li Xiaoya had defeated him despite his Exotic Flame Transformation and that Black Skeleton had reported Li Xiaoya possessed the aptitude of the five immortal roots.
• Black Skeleton, recovering at the Fire Dragon Palace, vowed revenge on High Person Qianshan and Li Xiaoya after describing how Qianshan had severely wounded him.

Li Xiaoya spent decades cultivating, recovering his divine sense, and gaining experience outside the Heavenly Dao Sect, while Liu Hang and Li Xiaoya’s mother both reached the Nascent Soul Realm. After battling four Fire Dragon Palace cultivators and returning injured, Li Xiaoya recovered as a new earthshaking piece of news spread.

• Li Xiaoya cultivated for years, refined away the Primordial Chaos Immortal’s remaining self-awareness, and reached the peak of the Golden Core Stage sixth layer before hitting a bottleneck.
• Liu Hang returned as a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator and told Li Xiaoya that he had won the treasure that helped him advance, while Little White returned with him.
• Li Xiaoya stayed with his mother after her failed Nascent Soul Realm breakthrough, then broke through to the late Golden Core Stage seventh layer; his mother later succeeded in reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Li Xiaoya cultivated to the late Golden Core Stage eighth layer, then spent thirty-six or thirty-seven years gaining experience and advanced to the ninth layer.
• Fire Dragon Palace sent four Nascent Soul Realm cultivators after Li Xiaoya; he escaped badly injured, and the resulting hostility worsened the conflict between the Fire Dragon Palace and the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Ten years later, an even more earthshaking piece of news spread.

Li Xiaoya traveled through the Falan Kingdom to temper his state of mind and find the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff’s divine ability hand seals, while the Heavenly Dao Sect celebrated the rise of Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong to the Nascent Soul Realm. After returning to the sect and completing extensive preparations, he swallowed two Primordial Chaos Pills to attempt forming a Nascent Soul.

• Liu Xian'er reached the Nascent Soul Realm at around age one hundred and sixty, bringing the Heavenly Dao Sect’s number of new Nascent Soul cultivators to three in a century.
• Li Xiaoya traveled in disguise through the Falan Kingdom, where a mortal monk guided him and he learned from Folo Temple cultivators while searching for the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff’s hand seals.
• Li Xiaoya found the divine ability hand seals after twenty years, while Dong Santong advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm and Demonic Path cultivators, including two from the Fire Dragon Palace, followed.
• Li Xiaoya returned to the sect, reached Golden Core Stage Great Perfection, and prepared formations, elixirs, and other protections for his breakthrough.
• Li Xiaoya entered a sealed chamber and took two Primordial Chaos Pills at once, sending his magic power surging toward his Golden Core.

Li Xiaoya endured more than three years of painful cultivation before achieving Pill Completion and forming his nascent soul. After stabilizing his new cultivation, he learned that Zhang Hong was in trouble.

• Five-colored spiritual light gathered above Divine Path Mountain, and cultivators realized someone was about to enter the Nascent Soul Realm.
• A woman on Rainbow Rosy Peak recognized the phenomenon as Li Xiaoya's breakthrough and watched with tears in her eyes.
• Li Xiaoya formed his nascent soul in High Person Qianshan's sealed chamber and celebrated until Heavenly Venerable Daoling told him to stabilize his cultivation with ten-thousand-year spirit milk.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling and Fairy Qingxia discussed Li Xiaoya's success and worried that he would learn about Zhang Hong's situation.
• After meditating for three days, Li Xiaoya asked Heavenly Venerable Daoling what was wrong, and his master revealed that Zhang Hong was in trouble.

After reaching the nascent soul realm, Li Xiaoya reunited with Liu Xian'er and learned that Zhang Hong had been frozen in ten-thousand-year mystic ice after a passion demon ruined her breakthrough. Once his cultivation stabilized, he decided to leave the mountain to find High Person Qianshan and a Primordial Chaos Pill for Zhang Hong.

• Li Xiaoya hurried to Rainbow Rosy Peak and reunited with Liu Xian'er after more than a hundred years apart.
• Liu Xian'er took Li Xiaoya to Zhang Hong, who lay trapped in mystic ice after her attempt to form a nascent soul was disrupted by a passion demon.
• Liu Xian'er explained that Fairy Qingxia had frozen Zhang Hong to save her, and that only High Person Qianshan might be able to dispel her heart demon.
• Li Xiaoya stayed with Liu Xian'er, then entered seclusion to stabilize his cultivation and practice nascent soul realm abilities.
• After leaving seclusion, Li Xiaoya told Liu Xian'er he would leave the mountain to seek High Person Qianshan and find a Primordial Chaos Pill for Zhang Hong.

Li Xiaoya gave Liu Xian'er the Heavenly Feather Wings and explained that his new Storm Gold-Light Wings suited him better. They began testing their Nascent Soul Realm abilities in High Person Qianshan's Dueling Formation, and the chapter ended as their first serious clash began.

• Li Xiaoya told Liu Xian'er he was seeking ingredients to refine Primordial Chaos Pills for Zhang Hong, whose heart demon kept her trapped in ice.
• Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er went to High Person Qianshan's Dueling Formation to spar, finding Dong Santong absent in seclusion.
• Li Xiaoya revealed his Storm Gold-Light Wings and gave Liu Xian'er his Heavenly Feather Wings, which she quickly learned to use.
• Liu Xian'er summoned the Ren-Kui Twin Swords and launched a massive ice blade at Li Xiaoya.
• Li Xiaoya summoned the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff and began transforming it to meet Liu Xian'er's attack.

Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er sparred with their divine abilities, escalating from clashes between their fire and ice treasures to Li Xiaoya’s newly strengthened Golden Light Fists. The chapter left Liu Xian'er facing his attacks inside a rapidly expanding sphere of water.

• Li Xiaoya struck Liu Xian'er's blue-violet ice blade with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff and launched a towering flame tornado.
• Liu Xian'er protected herself with ice armor and sent the Ren-Kui Twin Swords spinning into a blue-violet tornado that met Li Xiaoya's flame tornado in a stalemate.
• Li Xiaoya strengthened his flame tornado, but Liu Xian'er held her ground with the Ren-Kui Twin Swords.
• Li Xiaoya split his Golden Light Fist into pursuing fists that chased Liu Xian'er through the air, then launched two spinning golden cones at her.
• Liu Xian'er summoned a blue sphere of water that rapidly expanded around her as Li Xiaoya's attacks approached.

Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er sparred inside High Person Qianshan's Dueling Formation, where he broke her Ren-Kui Water Sphere by unleashing a powerful attack from within it. Their duel paused when Dong Santong emerged from seclusion and joined them.

• Liu Xian'er trapped Li Xiaoya's attacks with her Ren-Kui Water Sphere and teleported around inside it, so he formed Power-Gathering Armor and charged in.
• Li Xiaoya fought through Liu Xian'er's freezing water and attacks, but she dodged his attempts to catch her and summoned a Water Golem.
• Li Xiaoya blasted the Ren-Kui Water Sphere apart with beams of golden-red light, and Liu Xian'er escaped the explosion while the Dueling Formation remained unharmed.
• Li Xiaoya summoned the Giant Spirit Divine Weapon, prompting Liu Xian'er to recognize it as a spirit treasure.
• Dong Santong entered the Dueling Formation after sensing the fight, and he joined Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er in increasingly fierce sparring.

After completing his sect affairs, Li Xiaoya left Divine Path Mountain with Liu Xian'er to seek the Divine Fish's essence blood for Primordial Chaos Pills. As they headed for the Thunder Sea, they sensed someone following them and attacked a cloud, forcing a dark figure to emerge.

• Li Xiaoya celebrated his nascent soul advancement, joined the Elder Council, and sparred with Murong Qi, Liu Hang, and Heavenly Venerable Daoling, who warned him to conceal the Immortal-Binding Rope.
• Li Xiaoya learned that Zhang Bingmei had reached the nascent soul realm over a century earlier, while his companions refused to explain where she was.
• Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er departed Divine Path Mountain in disguise after saying farewell to their fellow sect members and Fairy Qingxia.
• Li Xiaoya told Liu Xian'er they were heading to the Thunder Sea to find the Divine Fish, whose essence blood was needed for Primordial Chaos Pills.
• Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er sensed a follower, attacked a white cloud with golden and ice swords, and made a dark figure emerge.

Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er were confronted by a masked cultivator who revealed herself as Li Xiaoya’s fifth senior sister, Zhang Bingmei. After they exchanged attacks, she proved her identity with a Vacuum Ring, and Li Xiaoya asked why she had been following them.

• Zhang Bingmei called Li Xiaoya her junior brother, and he and Liu Xian'er stopped preparing to attack her.
• Zhang Bingmei revealed her face and identified herself as Li Xiaoya’s fifth senior sister, but Li Xiaoya demanded proof and attacked her.
• Zhang Bingmei evaded Li Xiaoya’s golden barrier and countered with a strange gray-white fist that absorbed and bounced back his Golden Light Fist.
• Li Xiaoya changed his attack into a golden cone, which Zhang Bingmei escaped before blocking its scattered beams with a Silver Giant Shield.
• Zhang Bingmei showed Li Xiaoya a Vacuum Ring, confirming her identity, and he apologized for attacking her.
• Li Xiaoya asked Zhang Bingmei why she had been following him and whether Master had sent her to find him.

Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er visited a mountain market to search for alchemy ingredients and artifact-refining materials, while Zhang Bingmei returned to the sect after confirming that Li Xiaoya could protect himself. At the Treasure Pavilion, Li Xiaoya noticed a strange stone offered by a desperate young cultivator and recognized something unexpected about it.

• Zhang Bingmei explained that she had followed Li Xiaoya to test his abilities, then flew back to the Heavenly Dao Sect, pleased that she no longer had to protect him.
• Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er traveled east, concealed their nascent soul auras, and chose to enter the Treasure Pavilion to look for materials.
• A young masked cultivator pleaded with a shopkeeper to trade a dark stone for a Thousand-Spirit Jade Fruit so she could save her master.
• The shopkeeper shoved the girl away, but Li Xiaoya stopped her fall with golden light and rebuked him for mistreating a customer.
• Li Xiaoya examined the dark stone with his divine sense and froze when he recognized it.

Spirit Old Freak seized a young female cultivator’s pitch-black stone, and a bidding contest revealed that several cultivators wanted it despite its ordinary appearance. A nervous young gentleman outbid Liu Qiu with fifty thousand mid-grade spirit stones and obtained the stone, but someone stopped the exchange as he handed the girl her payment.

• Spirit Old Freak took the girl’s stone and tried to force her to accept a hundred spirit stones, knocking her down when she tried to reclaim it.
• Liu Qiu challenged Spirit Old Freak and the two raised their bids as onlookers gathered.
• A young gentleman offered twenty thousand spirit stones, prompting Spirit Old Freak to throw the stone to Liu Qiu and leave after Liu Qiu bid thirty thousand.
• The young gentleman offered fifty thousand spirit stones, produced a bag of mid-grade spirit stones, and received the pitch-black stone from Liu Qiu.
• The young gentleman handed the spirit stones to the girl, but an unidentified voice suddenly called for them to wait.

Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er watched a staged scam, browsed several Market Districts, and found two herbs needed for Primordial Chaos Pills. As they left, three Golden Core Stage Cultivators invited them to explore Ancient Cultivator Ruins, but Li Xiaoya refused and they departed.

• Li Xiaoya recognized that the girl, Spirit Old Freak, and Liu Qiu had staged the stone dispute to swindle cultivators, and he stopped Liu Xian'er from confronting them.
• Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er spent the afternoon shopping at the Treasure Pavilion and Materials Pavilion, then stayed at an inn overnight.
• The next day, Li Xiaoya found two herbs for Primordial Chaos Pills at a Secret Market and bought them at considerable cost.
• As Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er left the Market District, three Golden Core Stage Cultivators approached and asked whether Liu Xian'er was Blue Ice.
• One of the cultivators invited Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er to explore Ancient Cultivator Ruins, but Li Xiaoya refused and left with Liu Xian'er.

Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er discovered the swindlers from the Treasure Pavilion trying to rob and kill a young gentleman from the Ling Family, then intervened to save him. Li Xiaoya killed Spirit Old Freak and Liu Qiu was frozen, leaving the pair to decide what to do with the two survivors.

• Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er found Spirit Old Freak, Liu Qiu, and a female cultivator confronting the young gentleman and demanding his treasures.
• The young gentleman revealed he belonged to the Ling Family, so Spirit Old Freak abandoned the plan to ransom him and Liu Qiu tried to kill him instead.
• Blue Ice appeared and froze Liu Qiu's arm, while Li Xiaoya kicked him away and rescued the young gentleman.
• Spirit Old Freak fled with the female cultivator, but Li Xiaoya shielded her from his attacks and killed him with a golden beam.
• Li Xiaoya returned to Liu Xian'er, and she asked what they should do with the rescued young gentleman and the female cultivator.

Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er rescued Zhao Xiaoqing and Ling Yuyu, then helped both young cultivators set out for the Heavenly Dao Sect. Zhao Xiaoqing became Liu Xian'er's registered disciple, while Li Xiaoya cured Ling Yuyu's constitutional problem and sent him on his way, unaware that the favor would matter greatly during the coming calamity.

• Zhao Xiaoqing confessed that Spirit Old Freak had forced her into wrongdoing, and Li Xiaoya exposed her disguise before Liu Xian'er forgave her.
• Zhao Xiaoqing revealed she had nowhere to go, so Liu Xian'er accepted her as a registered disciple of the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Ling Yuyu offered Li Xiaoya his family's Gratitude Token and explained that he had secretly left home hoping Li Xiaoya could cure his constitution.
• Li Xiaoya examined Ling Yuyu and resolved his constitutional problem while Liu Xian'er spoke with Zhao Xiaoqing.
• Ling Yuyu volunteered to escort Zhao Xiaoqing to the Heavenly Dao Sect, while Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er continued east.

Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er traveled to the Thunder Sea in search of the Divine Fish, enduring a violent lightning storm after months of fruitless searching. They spotted a possible glimpse of the fish, lost its trail, and then faced a huge Demon Beast attacking from below.

• Li Xiaoya reassured Liu Xian'er that Ling Yuyu would not harm Little Qing, explained Ling Yuyu's rare bone condition, and accepted his Repayment Token.
• Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er disguised themselves and traveled east through several kingdoms, helping cultivators and gathering ingredients for Primordial Chaos Pills along the way.
• Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er reached the ocean and continued toward the Thunder Sea, recalling their past adventures at the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea.
• After months of searching the Thunder Sea, Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er encountered a lightning hurricane tsunami and spotted five-colored light that might have come from the Divine Fish.
• Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er pursued the light through the storm for a day and night, then attacked a massive Demon Beast that lunged from the sea.