Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya fought Li Yu'er and four others, breaking through their illusion formation with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff. After Li Yu'er escaped the devastating attack, a strange howl left Li Xiaoya torn between pursuing her and racing toward the Fire Dragon Palace.

• Li Yu'er surrounded Li Xiaoya with pink mist and trapped him in an illusion formation, while an illusion of Senior Sister Zhang Hong briefly distracted him.
• Li Xiaoya summoned the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff and unleashed Shaking-Heaven Meteor, forcing Li Yu'er and the other four to retreat from the barrage of fireballs.
• Qu Long Scholar sensed the distant explosions, assumed powerful cultivators were fighting, and changed direction to avoid them.
• Li Xiaoya brought the staff down on Li Yu'er's pink mist, blasting open a huge fissure, but Li Yu'er escaped.
• A strange howl sounded farther away, and Li Xiaoya failed to locate Li Yu'er or the other four with his Divine Sense, leaving him unsure whether to pursue them or hurry after the Fire Dragon Palace.

Li Xiaoya abandoned his search for Li Yuer and followed strange howls through the Great Wilderness Valley, where cultivators were fighting over the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma. The chapter left him realizing that the Righteous Path cultivators might have found it, as Black Skeleton and other pursuers drew near.

• Li Xiaoya left Li Yuer behind and raced toward the strange howl, while Li Yuer and her companions emerged from hiding and pursued the wounded Earth Dragon Beast.
• Li Xiaoya followed traces of battles and changed course toward another howl, suspecting that the Fire Dragon Palace cultivators were encountering their rivals.
• Black Skeleton and the Sun brothers hurried through the valley as Heavenly Venerable Daoling chased a demon beast and Dong Santong fought Fire Dragon Palace cultivators.
• Li Xiaoya reached a basin and saw Demonic Path cultivators led by Elder Shi and Elder Mu pursuing a smaller group of Righteous Path cultivators.
• Li Xiaoya hesitated over whether to intervene, then heard someone demand the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma and realized the Righteous Path cultivators might have found it.

Li Xiaoya watched the struggle over the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma shift from a stalemate into a trap laid by the righteous cultivators. As he moved to join the fight, Black Skeleton arrived with two others, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Li Xiaoya watched as Elder Shi and Elder Mu stalled the righteous cultivators while the Fire Dragon Palace signaled for reinforcements.
• The rogue cultivators withdrew from the encirclement, allowing the righteous cultivators to escape and draw their demonic pursuers toward a hidden group.
• Cultivators concealed on a nearby hill attacked the demonic cultivators, and a Five-Colored Light Barrier trapped the fighters as Senior Brother Liu Hang joined the righteous side.
• Li Xiaoya leaped down to join the battle, then recognized Black Skeleton approaching with two figures and warned of his arrival.

Black Skeleton broke the Five-Colored Light Barrier and forced the cultivators to hand over what they believed was the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma, while Li Xiaoya watched from the cliff. Black Skeleton declared the item was not the real ganoderma and agreed to let the cultivators leave only if they accepted one condition.

• Li Xiaoya retreated to the clifftop as Black Skeleton arrived and shattered the Five-Colored Light Barrier with repeated spear attacks.
• Black Skeleton stopped the fleeing cultivators and demanded the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma; a red-robed cultivator handed him a rainbow ganoderma.
• Liu Hang tried to prevent the item from reaching Black Skeleton, but Black Skeleton caught it and blasted Liu Hang into a boulder, badly injuring him.
• Sun Xing and Sun Xing blocked the Righteous Path cultivators from leaving, while Black Skeleton announced that the offered item was not the real Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma.
• After the white-haired old man warned that the Nascent Soul cultivators might detonate their nascent souls, Black Skeleton agreed to let them go on one condition.

Black Skeleton took the Thousand-Year Five-Colored Ganoderma from the Great Wilderness Valley and left with the Fire Dragon Palace cultivators, while Li Xiaoya learned that the real Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma remained undiscovered. The Demonic Path cultivators plotted to spread a false rumor, rogue cultivators attacked Fire Dragon Palace messengers, and Liu Hang learned how Fellow Daoist Che had helped mislead their enemies.

• Black Skeleton let the Righteous Path cultivators leave, identified his ganoderma as a Thousand-Year Five-Colored Ganoderma, and departed with the Fire Dragon Palace group.
• Brother Guo and the Demonic Path cultivators decided to spread word that the Fire Dragon Palace had found the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma and then left the valley.
• Li Xiaoya overheard their plan, concluded the real Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma was still missing, and headed away from Black Skeleton's route to search for it.
• A group of rogue cultivators killed Fire Dragon Palace messengers and planned to disguise the deaths as an attack by the Righteous Path.
• Fellow Daoist Che told Liu Hang that the ganoderma was not the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma and explained that he had deliberately let the misunderstanding continue to prepare for the battle.

Liu Hang and Black Skeleton’s group searched for the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma while Li Xiaoya raced through the Great Wilderness Valley. Liu Hang discovered the real Ganoderma in his cave, disguised as a small white creature.

• Liu Hang refused to abandon the Great Wilderness Valley to find his master, then withdrew to a cliff to heal after Black Skeleton’s attack.
• Black Skeleton’s group realized the five-color ganoderma they had pursued was not the real treasure and learned Liu Hang was Li Xiaoya’s senior brother.
• Black Skeleton sent Elder Shi back to find the group’s missing cultivators while he continued searching with Sun Xing.
• Li Xiaoya neared the towering mountains at the edge of the valley and continued looking for the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma.
• While Liu Hang meditated in a mountain cave, a white, five-tailed creature gnawed at his entrance restriction, and he recognized it as the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma.

Liu Hang discovered the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma and pursued it, drawing the attention of Li Xiaoya, Heavenly Venerable Daoling, and cultivators from the Fire Dragon Palace. After the Ganoderma absorbed a vast pillar of five-colored spiritual energy, Liu Hang caught it in his Purple Light Net, but Elder Mu and Elder Shi attacked him from behind as Li Xiaoya rushed to intervene.

• Liu Hang spotted the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma escaping and sent an emergency signal to Heavenly Venerable Daoling when he could not catch it.
• Elder Shi and Elder Mu saw the Ganoderma flying and raced after it, while Li Xiaoya spotted it descending and hurried toward it.
• The Ganoderma landed in the sand, where a huge pillar of five-colored light erupted and drew cultivators from across the area.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma absorbed the pillar and rose into the sky, but Liu Hang caught it in his Purple Light Net.
• Li Xiaoya recognized Liu Hang and rushed to help, just as Elder Mu and Elder Shi fired a Long Spear and a Long Glaive attack at Liu Hang from behind.

Li Xiaoya fought Black Skeleton and the elders after Liu Hang was killed, trying to protect the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma. The Ganoderma attached itself to Li Xiaoya again, but Black Skeleton struck him with the Skeleton Devil Cauldron, shattering his armor and leaving him badly wounded.

• Li Xiaoya intercepted Elder Shi and Elder Mu's attacks, but Black Skeleton's spear pierced Liu Hang, who threw the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma toward Li Xiaoya as he fell.
• Realizing Black Skeleton had killed Liu Hang, Li Xiaoya attacked him with a golden spear and the Fire Dragon Sword, then knocked Elder Shi and Elder Mu's treasures aside with his fists.
• Li Xiaoya caught the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma with a Golden Giant Hand and clashed his Fire Dragon Sword against Black Skeleton's enormous skeletal hand.
• Li Xiaoya retrieved the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma amid the explosion, and it vanished from the Purple Light Net and attached itself to him again.
• Black Skeleton's Skeleton Devil Cauldron struck Li Xiaoya, shattered his Golden Light Armor, and sent him flying as he spat blood.

Li Xiaoya fought Black Skeleton and his Skeleton Devil Cauldron, surviving devastating attacks with the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma’s healing and striking back with the Fire Dragon Sword. As Black Skeleton’s cauldron smashed through Li Xiaoya’s fiery dragon attack, Li Xiaoya vanished with his Storm Gold-Light Wings to evade the descending blow.

• Black Skeleton attacked the injured Li Xiaoya with the Skeleton Devil Cauldron, but the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma healed him.
• Li Xiaoya charged Black Skeleton and struck the cauldron, knocking it away and shattering their sphere of magic power.
• Li Xiaoya pursued Black Skeleton with the Fire Dragon Sword, but Black Skeleton dodged and sent the cauldron crashing down at him.
• Li Xiaoya unleashed Fire Dragon Soaring to the Heavens, but the Skeleton Devil Cauldron smashed the fiery dragon apart.
• Li Xiaoya beat his Storm Gold-Light Wings and vanished just as the cauldron plunged toward him.

Li Xiaoya fought Black Skeleton after stealing the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma, but his magic power dwindled as he struggled to land a decisive blow. Heavenly Venerable Daoling intervened, and Li Xiaoya emerged from the rubble holding two orbs as Black Skeleton realized he had to stop him before he finished his technique.

• Li Xiaoya escaped the Skeleton Devil Cauldron with the Storm Gold-Light Wings' Teleportation Divine Ability and attacked Black Skeleton, but his strikes repeatedly missed as his strength and magic power ran low.
• Sun Xing and the other Sun Xing arrived with Elder Shi and Elder Mu, then held back as Black Skeleton began forming seals with the Skeleton Devil Cauldron.
• Li Xiaoya struck the cauldron to interrupt Black Skeleton's spell, but Black Skeleton pierced his armor with a spear and blasted him into a mountain wall.
• Li Xiaoya used the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma's final healing effect, swallowed elixirs, and began chanting a profound incantation inside the cave.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling attacked Black Skeleton with a fiery-red sword-shaped beam and demanded that he spare Li Xiaoya, his disciple.
• Li Xiaoya emerged from the collapsing cave holding a golden orb and a red orb, and Black Skeleton realized he had to stop him from finishing his technique.

Li Xiaoya unleashed the God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave, devastating Great Wilderness Valley and leaving both him and Black Skeleton’s fate uncertain. As Heavenly Venerable Daoling blocked the Fire Dragon Palace Members from reaching the wounded Li Xiaoya, a pitch-black object fell from the sky.

• Black Skeleton attacked Li Xiaoya, who fused his red and golden spheres and fired the God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave at him.
• Black Skeleton evaded the initial blast, but the golden-red attack caught him and exploded, carving a vast crater and scattering the onlookers.
• Sun Xing found Li Xiaoya alive but gravely injured, and Li Xiaoya explained that he had sacrificed three hundred years of his lifespan to unleash the technique.
• Li Xiaoya mourned his fallen senior brother Liu Hang as the Fire Dragon Palace Members rushed to kill him.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling blocked the attackers and threatened to kill them all.
• Li Xiaoya and the others looked up as a pitch-black object plummeted from the sky.

Black Skeleton survived Li Xiaoya’s God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave, and Heavenly Venerable Daoling risked his life to rescue Li Xiaoya while fighting Black Skeleton. The battle remained unresolved as five-colored spiritual light suddenly flared behind Daoling, making Black Skeleton fear Li Xiaoya was recovering.

• Black Skeleton emerged from his nearly shattered Skeleton Devil Cauldron, while Li Xiaoya realized he could not unleash another God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling grabbed Li Xiaoya and endured Black Skeleton’s attack with the Heavenly Gang Armor, then tried to flee with him.
• Black Skeleton pursued and wounded Daoling, who crashed into a mountainside with Li Xiaoya before emerging and using a method that forcibly boosted his strength.
• Daoling fought Black Skeleton with his chessboard and True Mantra, while Black Skeleton attempted to wear down Daoling’s borrowed power.
• Five-colored spiritual light erupted from the rocks behind Daoling, and Black Skeleton feared Li Xiaoya was recovering.

The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma flooded Li Xiaoya with spiritual qi, healing him and driving his cultivation rapidly upward while Black Skeleton and his allies tried to kill him. The chapter left Li Xiaoya newly able to move and facing Sun Xing and Sun Xing’s blue-violet flame attack.

• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma told Li Xiaoya it would repay him, then unleashed spiritual qi that healed his organs and awakened his nascent soul.
• Li Xiaoya rose into the air as his magic power recovered, while Heavenly Venerable Daoling attacked Black Skeleton to keep him from interrupting.
• Black Skeleton sent a skeletal hand toward Li Xiaoya, but a Fire Phoenix struck it and a five-colored barrier shielded Li Xiaoya from the blast.
• Sun Xing and Sun Xing attacked Li Xiaoya with blue-violet flames, while Black Skeleton intercepted Heavenly Venerable Daoling’s counterattack.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma’s spiritual qi raised Li Xiaoya to the nascent soul realm third layer, and he formed a barrier against the twins’ attack before realizing he could move.

Li Xiaoya awakened amid the battle and discovered that five-colored spiritual light gave him powerful protection and let him fly despite Great Wilderness Valley’s restriction. As Black Skeleton realized the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma had transformed Li Xiaoya, a vast bank of black mist appeared on the horizon.

• Dong Santong and Zhang Facai fought two Fire Dragon Palace cultivators while Li Yuer and the Hehuan Cult party examined a scorched crater and decided to leave.
• Li Xiaoya awakened as Sun Xing and Sun Xing’s attacks struck his Five-Colored Light Barrier, then countered their Blue-Violet Flame Beam with a Crimson Fire Pillar.
• Sun Xing and Sun Xing joined hands to strengthen their beam, but Li Xiaoya survived the attack unharmed within his five-colored spiritual light.
• Black Skeleton recognized that the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma had transformed Li Xiaoya and resolved to seize the treasure as well as the Immortal Dao Chain.
• Li Xiaoya spotted an enormous bank of pitch-black mist appearing on the horizon.

Li Xiaoya overwhelmed the two Sun Xings and their allies, killing Elder Shi and Elder Mu as the black sandstorm swept toward the battle. He launched the God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave at Black Skeleton just as the storm’s suction began pulling everyone in.

• Li Xiaoya’s Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff shattered the Sun Xings’ combined lightning sword, and he drove the two Sun Xings, Elder Shi, and Elder Mu onto the defensive.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling recognized the approaching black sandstorm and warned Li Xiaoya and the others to flee.
• The two Sun Xings escaped, but Li Xiaoya pursued the others, killed Elder Shi, and burned Elder Mu to ashes.
• Li Xiaoya returned to aid Heavenly Venerable Daoling against Black Skeleton as the black sandstorm drew near.
• Black Skeleton blasted Heavenly Venerable Daoling aside and tried to escape, but the sandstorm’s suction pulled at all three fighters.
• Li Xiaoya completed the Dragon-Devouring God-Reversal Art and hurled the God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave at Black Skeleton.

Li Xiaoya escaped the Black Sandstorm with Heavenly Venerable Daoling after the God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave shattered the tornado, but Daoling was gravely injured. After five days of treating him, Li Xiaoya grieved over Liu Hang’s fate as Daoling told him the Heavenly Dao Sect would depend on him.

• The Black Sandstorm pulled Black Skeleton and Li Xiaoya’s red-and-yellow orb into its tornado, where the God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave exploded and split the storm apart.
• Li Xiaoya rescued Heavenly Venerable Daoling with his Golden Giant Hand and fled as the storm’s fragments swept across the Great Wilderness Valley.
• Dong Santong and Zhang Facai hid underground and discussed their companions while Sun Xing and Sun Xing fought a three-headed wolf demon beast in another cavern.
• Li Yuer led four Nascent Soul Realm cultivators away from the approaching storm after recognizing the danger.
• Li Xiaoya took the gravely wounded Heavenly Venerable Daoling underground and spent five days channeling magic power into him and helping him recover.
• Daoling stopped Li Xiaoya’s treatment and told him the Heavenly Dao Sect would be counting on him, as Li Xiaoya mourned Liu Hang.

Li Xiaoya and Heavenly Venerable Daoling discovered that Liu Hang was still alive, though the Black Sandstorm kept Li Xiaoya from reaching him. Li Xiaoya then realized the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma had transformed his aptitude and greatly advanced his cultivation, leaving Heavenly Venerable Daoling astonished.

• Heavenly Venerable Daoling found Liu Hang's still-burning Soul Lamp, and Li Xiaoya rejoiced that his senior brother had survived.
• Li Xiaoya tried to leave the cave to find Liu Hang, but the raging Black Sandstorm nearly swept him away and forced him back.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling explained that no one knew the Black Sandstorm's origin, though rumors linked it to an unseen ancient ruin.
• Li Xiaoya found the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma had become an unresponsive five-colored bead inside him and realized his five immortal roots had been transformed.
• Li Xiaoya demonstrated that he could naturally summon powerful earth and water spiritual qi, and Heavenly Venerable Daoling recognized his improved aptitude.
• Li Xiaoya gave Heavenly Venerable Daoling elixirs to restore his divine sense and revealed that his cultivation had reached the peak of the third layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, which left his master incredulous.

Li Xiaoya learned that the Heavenly Dao Sect believed he was tied to a prophecy about a coming calamity, then emerged from the Great Wilderness Valley with Heavenly Venerable Daoling to search for Liu Hang. As rumors of the Fire Dragon Palace’s defeat spread, its cultivators Sun Xing and Sun Xing argued over their failure and blamed Li Xiaoya.

• Heavenly Venerable Daoling told Li Xiaoya that a prophecy linked the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma and the Heavenly Dao’s five elements to averting a calamity threatening the Human Realm.
• Li Xiaoya resolved not to spare the Fire Dragon Palace and meditated while Heavenly Venerable Daoling recovered from his injuries.
• After the black sandstorm passed, Li Xiaoya and Heavenly Venerable Daoling emerged and hurried to search for Liu Hang, while Li Xiaoya discovered he could no longer fly in the valley.
• Li Xiaoya wondered whether Black Skeleton had died in the storm, but Black Skeleton was shown drifting unconscious through a mass of black mist.
• Rumors of the Fire Dragon Palace’s crushing defeat spread across the Great Illusion Continent, weakening its standing among the Demonic Path sects.
• Sun Xing killed four cultivators who repeated the rumors, then argued with Sun Xing about their failure and their need to explain it to the Palace Master.

Li Xiaoya and Heavenly Venerable Daoling left the Great Wilderness Valley without finding Liu Hang and returned toward the Heavenly Dao Sect. After learning Liu Xian'er had gone to the Spring Returning Church for medicine to treat Zhang Hong, Li Xiaoya grew worried because she had been gone much longer than expected.

• Li Xiaoya and Heavenly Venerable Daoling searched the underground valley, found no trace of Liu Hang, and decided he had likely left to recover.
• Sun Haotian learned that Black Skeleton was missing, blamed the losses on leaked information and poor discipline, and ordered Sun Xing and Sun Xing into seclusion.
• Li Xiaoya and Heavenly Venerable Daoling returned to the Liang Kingdom, where increased patrols guarded against demonic cultivators searching for Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling warned Li Xiaoya not to reveal anything about Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma before returning to his cave abode.
• Li Xiaoya discovered Liu Xian'er was not at her cave abode and learned from Fairy Qingxia that she had gone to the Spring Returning Church to obtain medicines for Zhang Hong.
• Li Xiaoya became alarmed when Fairy Qingxia said Liu Xian'er had been gone for about twenty days, far longer than the expected journey.

Li Xiaoya reunited with Liu Xian'er, Zhang Facai, and Dong Santong, then learned that Heavenly Venerable Daoling was injured and Liu Hang was missing after the clash with the Fire Dragon Palace. As the group discussed the Heavenly Dao Sect’s factional rivalries, Li Xiaoya asked what would happen if the sect wiped out the Fire Dragon Palace.

• Li Xiaoya worried about Liu Xian'er’s absence, left Rainbow Rosy Peak, and encountered her returning with Zhang Facai and Dong Santong.
• Liu Xian'er explained that delays at the Spring Returning Church and the Black Sandstorm had kept her from reaching the Great Wilderness Valley in time.
• Li Xiaoya told Zhang Facai and Dong Santong that Heavenly Venerable Daoling had been badly injured and Liu Hang was missing after the Fire Dragon Palace attack.
• Zhang Facai and Dong Santong condemned the Fire Dragon Palace, while Li Xiaoya blamed himself for failing to protect his master and senior brother.
• Liu Xian'er explained that Elder Wang, Elder Ma, and other elders had opposed Heavenly Venerable Daoling’s plan to mobilize the sect against the Fire Dragon Palace.
• Zhang Facai described the Heavenly Dao Sect’s four family factions, and Li Xiaoya asked what would happen if the sect wiped out the Fire Dragon Palace.