Chapter Summaries

High Person Qianshan freed Zhang Hong from her demonic affliction, then urged Li Xiaoya to protect the women he loved and the Heavenly Dao Sect. After Zhang Hong recovered and opened her eyes, she suddenly attacked Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er.

• High Person Qianshan melted the ice around Zhang Hong, treated her with an elixir, and drew out her demonic qi.
• High Person Qianshan destroyed the skeletal phantom formed from Zhang Hong's black qi and stabilized her with green and red light.
• High Person Qianshan asked Li Xiaoya whether he loved Zhang Hong, Liu Xian'er, and the Heavenly Dao Sect, then charged him with protecting them.
• High Person Qianshan entered seclusion while Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er watched over Zhang Hong as she recovered.
• Zhang Hong awakened after six to eight hours, recognized Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er, and suddenly thrust both hands toward them.

Li Xiaoya helped Zhang Hong recover after her awakening from a long period of ice, while planning to rescue his father from the Heavenly Earth Demon Sect on the Origin Continent. Once Zhang Hong was well enough to cultivate in seclusion, Li Xiaoya headed to Senior Brother Liu Hang’s former cave abode to establish a place of his own.

• Zhang Hong recognized Li Xiaoya after regaining her memories, learned that her breakthrough had failed, and wept as they reunited after more than a hundred years.
• Li Xiaoya carried Zhang Hong to rest, and Liu Xian'er awkwardly left them alone before entering seclusion in the following days.
• Li Xiaoya resolved to find a way to reach the Origin Continent and rescue his father, considering possible teleportation formations and asking the Heavenly Dao Sect for help.
• High Person Qianshan’s elixirs and treatment helped Zhang Hong recover, and Li Xiaoya promised her another Primordial Chaos Pill for a future breakthrough.
• Zhang Hong entered seclusion to restore her cultivation, and Li Xiaoya set out to claim Liu Hang’s former cave abode in Tranquil Valley as his own.

Li Xiaoya returned to Tranquil Valley and stood guard while Little White advanced, suspecting the bird was a legendary Azure Thunder Roc. Little White reached the seventh rank and immediately tested its new azure lightning on Li Xiaoya, who blocked the attack with his palm.

• Li Xiaoya found Little White close to advancing and chose to guard it in Tranquil Valley.
• Shao Shiqi arrived to investigate the unusual spiritual qi, recognized Li Xiaoya, and recalled their earlier encounter and the battle against the Fire Dragon Palace.
• Little White transformed during its advancement, leading Li Xiaoya to suspect it was an Azure Thunder Roc.
• Little White successfully advanced to the seventh rank, growing larger and gaining azure markings and lightning abilities.
• Little White fired azure lightning at Li Xiaoya, and he blocked it with his palm.

Li Xiaoya registered Senior Brother Liu Hang’s Tranquil Valley cave abode and explored it, finding the Dao Scripture that had once guided his cultivation. He discussed new artifact and cave-abode plans with Second Better, then left Divine Path Mountain after spending the following days making arrangements.

• Li Xiaoya registered Tranquil Valley as his cave abode, visited Heavenly Venerable Daoling and Zhang Facai, and sparred with Zhang Facai before heading back.
• Li Xiaoya entered Senior Brother Liu Hang’s cave abode, found its furnishings unchanged, and revisited the Dao Scripture that had first taught him to read and write.
• Second Better asked Li Xiaoya for materials and three hundred million spirit stones to develop stronger Mechanism Beasts, and Li Xiaoya agreed while asking about Super Teleportation Formations.
• Second Better told Li Xiaoya that the Southwestern Ancient City’s Super Teleportation Formation would not be available until its next opening, and discussed ways to increase the spiritual qi in Tranquil Valley.
• Second Better inspected Tranquil Valley and devised a plan to improve its spiritual qi as Li Xiaoya prepared the cave abode; Li Xiaoya later flew out of Divine Path Mountain.

Li Xiaoya retrieved the damaged Spirit Stone Conversion Furnace from the Four-Tower Cave Heaven so Second Better could turn it into a device that supplied spiritual qi to his cave abode. After a month of renovations, Li Xiaoya visited his mother to ask for protective formations, but she confronted him about something important he had forgotten.

• Li Xiaoya visited the Four-Tower Cave Heaven, learned that Elder Wang and Elder Ma had argued after inspecting it, and entered the ruins.
• Li Xiaoya and Second Better dismantled and collected the Spirit Stone Conversion Furnace and its components from the sealed chamber.
• Li Xiaoya and Second Better built a fortified chamber in Tranquil Valley and began renovating his cave abode with a treasury, cultivation chambers, living quarters, an alchemy chamber, and a herb garden.
• After more than a month, Li Xiaoya realized the cave abode still needed protective restrictions and went to Rainbow Rosy Peak to ask Li Mother for help.
• Li Mother stood up and asked Li Xiaoya whether he had forgotten something important.

Li Xiaoya discussed rescuing his father from the Origin Continent with Li Mother, then reunited with Zhang Hong and brought her to his new cave abode. After Li Mother finished setting up its formation, she asked when Li Xiaoya and Zhang Hong would hold their Dual Cultivation Ceremony.

• Li Xiaoya told Li Mother that he planned to find a Super Teleportation Formation to reach the Origin Continent and rescue his father, and said he intended to remain in the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Li Xiaoya asked Li Mother to help prepare a protective formation for his cave abode, then visited Zhang Hong after finding Liu Xian'er still in seclusion.
• Li Xiaoya brought Zhang Hong to his new cave abode, where they resumed their relationship and Zhang Hong worried that she might not advance her cultivation.
• Li Xiaoya told Zhang Hong he planned to travel to the Origin Continent, but refused to take her because her cultivation was too low.
• Li Mother visited the cave abode, set up its formation, and asked Li Xiaoya when he would hold a Dual Cultivation Ceremony with Zhang Hong.

Zhang Hong postponed her Dual Cultivation Ceremony with Li Xiaoya until she reached the Nascent Soul Realm, and Li Xiaoya and Second Better showed her the new cultivation chambers. The fire chamber’s highest setting proved dangerously intense and costly, so they turned it off after Zhang Hong struggled to endure the spiritual qi.

• Zhang Hong asked to delay the ceremony until she reached the Nascent Soul Realm, and Li Xiaoya and Li Mother agreed to wait.
• Li Mother described her advancement experience, and Li Xiaoya told Zhang Hong about his own.
• Li Xiaoya and Zhang Hong inspected Second Better’s spirit-stone furnace, which converted spirit stones into spiritual qi at over eighty percent efficiency.
• Second Better activated the fire chamber and demonstrated its adjustable spiritual qi settings, with each higher setting producing a much denser flow.
• Li Xiaoya set the chamber to its highest concentration, overwhelming Zhang Hong with scorching fire spirit energy, so he shut it off and absorbed the remaining qi.
• Second Better said the highest setting consumed at least a million spirit stones daily, while the third setting cost a little over two hundred thousand.

Li Xiaoya cultivated a water-element method while waiting for spirit herbs to grow, then visited Heavenly Venerable Daoling after learning he had left seclusion. He asked to use the Heavenly Dao Sect’s forbidden Super Teleportation Formation to reach the Origin Continent and rescue his father, but learned High Person Qianshan alone could approve it.

• Zhang Hong took over Li Xiaoya’s fire-attribute cultivation chamber because she was anxious about being the only one among them still at the Golden Core stage.
• Second Better finished outfitting Tranquil Valley, enriching its spiritual qi so Li Xiaoya could cultivate spirit herbs to restore Heavenly Venerable Daoling’s lifespan and cultivation.
• Li Xiaoya cultivated a water-element method and found that it increased the magic power his nascent soul could hold.
• After receiving Zhang Facai’s voice transmission, Li Xiaoya visited Heavenly Venerable Daoling, offered him lifespan-increasing pills, and asked about the Super Teleportation Formation.
• Li Xiaoya explained that his father was held by the Heavenly Earth Demon Sect and asked to use the formation, but Heavenly Venerable Daoling said High Person Qianshan had forbidden its use and held authority over it.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling told Li Xiaoya to have Murong Qi’s disciples retrieve the remaining items from the Four-Tower Cave Heaven, and Li Xiaoya went to see High Person Qianshan.

Li Xiaoya learned from Liu Xian'er that the Heavenly Dao Sect had banned its Super Teleportation Formation after outsiders from the Origin Continent attacked the sect centuries earlier. His mother concluded that the sect was keeping him from leaving, while the attackers’ identities remained unknown.

• Li Xiaoya failed to reach High Person Qianshan and asked Elder Wang about the Super Teleportation Formation, pretending he had found a treasure map.
• Elder Wang admitted he knew about the formation but said High Person Qianshan would never allow anyone to use it.
• Li Xiaoya met Liu Xian'er, who had just emerged from seclusion, and they went to visit his mother.
• Liu Xian'er explained that Spirit Communion Stage cultivators had once used the formation to invade and demand the Heavenly Dao Sect's submission, prompting High Person Qianshan to ban it.
• Li Xiaoya learned that many disciples and elders had died in the battle and that the invading cultivators' identities were still unknown.
• Li Xiaoya's mother said the sect had gone to great lengths to keep him there.

Shi Xuan returned to the Penglai Sect, visited Meng Nishang, and helped Ming Qingyue overcome her doubts and achieve a primordial spirit. Thirty-nine years later, Heavenly Mechanism City had become the Voodoo Sect, where cultivators gathered at the decorated Heavenly Mechanism Residence.

• Shi Xuan returned with treasures, exchanged resources with the sect, and promised Green Cable he would help her through her coming decay tribulation.
• Shi Xuan took Chu Wan'er and Green Cable to visit Meng Nishang, who warned him that Lin Xuantong had a powerful ally and that their plans would need to proceed on separate fronts.
• Ming Qingyue told Shi Xuan how jealousy and doubts had tormented her, and he helped her recognize that she had never abandoned her chosen path.
• Ming Qingyue entered the life-and-death gateway and achieved her primordial spirit, while Shi Xuan and the sect members celebrated her breakthrough.
• Thirty-nine years later, cultivators gathered at Heavenly Mechanism City, whose gate plaque now read “Voodoo Sect.”

Over fifteen years, Li Xiaoya married Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong, advanced to the Nascent Soul middle stage, and watched the Heavenly Dao Sect’s strength grow as more cultivators broke through. With about twenty years left before the Southwestern Ancient City opened, he prepared to travel to the Origin Continent to rescue his father, but ran into trouble arranging Huang Hua’s help.

• At Zhang Hong’s Nascent Soul ceremony, Li Xiaoya announced that he, Zhang Hong, and Liu Xian'er would hold a Dual Cultivation Ceremony a month later.
• At the ceremony, Huang Hua advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm, and the three completed their blood oath and Dual Cultivation Ceremony.
• Over the next fifteen years, Li Xiaoya cultivated all five elemental methods, reached the fourth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, and grew strong enough to challenge Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong together.
• Dongfang Yi, Liu Yulan, Li Xiangxiang, and Dong Gu Nü advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm, further strengthening the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Li Xiaoya obtained Teleportation Spirit Tokens from Elder Wang and arranged for Second Better to refine leather teleportation garments as he prepared to travel to the Origin Continent.
• Li Xiaoya began gathering companions to rescue his father, but encountered a problem with Huang Hua.

Li Xiaoya and his companions returned to the Southwestern Ancient City, preparing to use its Super Teleportation Formation to reach the Origin Continent. After the city opened, Li Xiaoya headed for the maze while the others went to wait at the Ancient Demon Mountain Outskirts, and a huge blood-red eye opened in a sealed chamber.

• Li Xiaoya arranged for his companions to travel with him if Li Xiangxiang formed her nascent soul in time, prepare for the Southwestern Ancient City to open, and let him develop stronger divine abilities.
• Li Xiaoya and eight companions arrived at the city’s outskirts, where their Nascent Soul Realm cultivation made other cultivators mistake them for Golden Core Stage cultivators.
• Li Xiaoya told the group to meet him at the Ancient Demon Mountain Outskirts after entering the city and shared some of his family history in response to Dongfang Yi’s question about their plans on the Origin Continent.
• Li Mother’s formation blocked the tornadoes and shockwaves when the Southwestern Ancient City opened, and Li Xiaoya’s group flew into the city ahead of the other cultivators.
• Li Xiaoya gave Zhang Hong ten-thousand-year spirit milk for Black Qilin, then headed down toward the maze as his companions went to wait at the Ancient Demon Mountain Outskirts.
• An enormous blood-red eye opened in a pitch-black sealed chamber as Li Xiaoya and his companions entered the city.

Li Xiaoya entered the Maze Passage with Second Better to retrieve the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Spirit Cauldron, while Liu Xian'er’s group met the Black Qilin at Ancient Demon Mountain and asked to use a Super Teleportation Formation. Second Better led Li Xiaoya through a Mechanism Puppet Storage Chamber toward his Sealed Chamber, and the rising fire spirit energy left them nearing their destination.

• Li Xiaoya summoned Second Better in the Maze Passage and learned that the Mechanism Puppets would continue attacking cultivators even after Second Better left the city.
• The Black Qilin appeared before Liu Xian'er’s group, accepted the ten-thousand-year spirit milk Zhang Hong offered, and heard their request to enter Ancient Demon Mountain.
• The Black Qilin admitted he knew nothing about the Super Teleportation Formation and asked after Li Xiaoya, who Zhang Hong said was still in the maze.
• Second Better opened a passage to the Mechanism Puppet Storage Chamber and told Li Xiaoya that the route to his Sealed Chamber ran through it.
• Li Xiaoya saw tens of thousands of Mechanism Puppets being sent toward passages entered by cultivators and learned that there were eight storage chambers.
• Second Better flew with Li Xiaoya through a ceiling passage toward his Sealed Chamber as the fire spirit energy grew denser.

Li Xiaoya discovered that the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Spirit Cauldron had manifested as a firebird spirit-touched being and began devising a way to capture it. He set a hidden trap near the passage and launched the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff toward the firebird.

• Li Xiaoya reached the ruined sealed chamber, where the fire spirit energy had melted the metal passage, and Second Better warned him that the Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Spirit Cauldron might have escaped.
• Li Xiaoya saw a powerful firebird flying above molten metal and recognized it as the cauldron’s spirit-touched being, but Second Better admitted he did not know what it was.
• Li Xiaoya retreated to avoid alarming the firebird, then decided to lure it into a trap because he could not overpower it directly.
• Li Xiaoya fashioned two ice-attribute Dragon-Devouring Wave spheres, concealed one near the passage opening, and sent the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff flying toward the firebird.

Li Xiaoya returned to Tranquil Valley to watch Little White advance and discovered that the mount might be a legendary Azure Thunder Roc. Little White successfully became a seventh-rank demon beast, then tested his new lightning attack on Li Xiaoya.

• Li Xiaoya found Little White preparing to advance and stayed in Tranquil Valley to guard him.
• Shao Shiqi arrived after sensing the disturbance, recognized Li Xiaoya, and recalled how he had once helped Li Xiaoya and his companions.
• Little White transformed amid azure lightning and spiritual energy, leading Li Xiaoya to suspect he was an Azure Thunder Roc.
• Little White completed his advancement to the seventh rank and grew to more than sixty meters long.
• Little White fired azure lightning at Li Xiaoya, who stopped it with his palm.

Li Xiaoya escaped the molten chamber with several enormous Spirit-Touched Firebirds pursuing him, then reunited with his companions outside the Maze Passage. Liu Xian'er sent her Ren-Kui Water Sphere toward him as the group fled into Ancient Demon Mountain, leaving Li Xiaoya racing to reach it with the firebirds close behind.

• Eight enormous Spirit-Touched Firebirds emerged from the molten metal, and Li Xiaoya used a Transparent Ice Crystal Bottle to capture the frozen bird as the others attacked.
• Liu Xian'er sensed a strange fluctuation near the Maze Passage, and a tremor and pillar of flame alerted the group to Li Xiaoya's struggle.
• Li Xiaoya burst from the Maze Passage and warned the others to flee as a giant firebird and several others pursued him.
• The group flew toward Ancient Demon Mountain while Li Xiaoya's icy Golden Light Fists repeatedly scattered the firebirds, which re-formed and continued chasing them.
• Liu Xian'er formed a Ren-Kui Water Sphere and launched it toward Li Xiaoya, who broke through the firebirds' encirclement and raced toward it.

Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er used the Ren-Kui Water Sphere to fend off the pursuing firebirds, but the birds shattered it and kept chasing them. As Li Xiaoya prepared a counterattack, the Black Qilin arrived, though the firebirds still chose to charge at him.

• Li Xiaoya plunged through the Ren-Kui Water Sphere to escape the firebirds’ flames, while Liu Xian'er sent the Ren-Kui Twin Swords to enlarge and drive the sphere at them.
• The firebirds crashed into the water sphere and destroyed it, allowing Li Xiaoya, Liu Xian'er, and the others to flee more than a li.
• The firebirds pursued them, and Li Xiaoya told Liu Xian'er to hold them off as he began preparing the water-element God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave.
• The Black Qilin arrived from Ancient Demon Mountain and questioned why the group was causing trouble there.
• The firebirds hesitated at the Black Qilin’s arrival, then flared with red flames and charged toward Li Xiaoya.

Li Xiaoya secured the Black Qilin’s permission to use the Super Teleportation Formation beneath his tower, then received an offer to obtain more spirit pills in exchange for a powerful treasure. The chapter ended with the Black Qilin revealing a fearsome shield that Li Xiaoya suspected was a True Immortal Spirit Treasure.

• Li Xiaoya told the Black Qilin that the group had come to use the Super Teleportation Formation and received permission after reminding him of the ten-thousand-year spirit milk.
• The Black Qilin led Li Xiaoya and the others to a hidden passage beneath his tower, where they uncovered the formation and began replacing its depleted spirit stones.
• Li Xiaoya gave the Black Qilin a bottle of Transformation Body-Tempering Pills, which the Black Qilin eagerly swallowed after learning they could help his cultivation.
• The Black Qilin privately asked Li Xiaoya to obtain more pills and offered him a reward in return.
• The Black Qilin produced a sinister black shield crackling with lightning, and Li Xiaoya asked whether it was a True Immortal Spirit Treasure.

Li Xiaoya arranged to borrow the Black Qilin’s Hell Lightning Shield in exchange for delivering spirit elixirs within two hundred years, then reached the Origin Continent with four companions. As they waited for the others to arrive, he realized they might need to return within a month and considered the potential of the Spirit-Touched Firebird he had captured.

• The Black Qilin agreed to lend Li Xiaoya the Hell Lightning Shield after they entered a soul contract, requiring him to bring spirit elixirs before the Southwestern Ancient City opened again in two hundred years.
• Li Xiaoya told Liu Xian'er and the others that the Black Qilin had agreed to let them use the Super Teleportation Formation, and the group prepared to teleport.
• Li Xiaoya, Liu Xian'er, Zhang Hong, Huang Hua, and Li Xiangxiang arrived on the Origin Continent and waited for the next group to teleport.
• Second Better told Li Xiaoya that the Super Teleportation Formation required a full day between uses.
• Huang Hua reminded Li Xiaoya that they had to return within a month, prompting Li Xiaoya to worry about the deadline while assuring him they would finish their business in time.
• Li Xiaoya reflected on the benefits of spirit-touched objects and the potential power of fusing the Spirit-Touched Firebird into his Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff as the formation began to shine.

Li Xiaoya and his companions traveled to Heavenly Lake City to seek help finding his father, whom the Heavenly Earth Demon Sect had captured. They found the city on alert but the Du Household still intact, then Dong Santong’s loud greeting stirred the city as cultivators flew up to meet them.

• Li Xiaoya told his companions that he had come to rescue his father, and they agreed to help him seek assistance from the Du Household or the Mystic Heaven Way.
• Li Xiaoya and the others learned the Tianyuan language, disguised themselves, and flew toward Heavenly Lake City.
• The group spotted Heavenly Lake City’s closed gates and heavy defenses, then discovered that Du Chengfeng was still there with several Golden Core Stage cultivators.
• Li Xiaoya led the group past the city’s flight restrictions and stopped above the island at the city’s center.
• Dong Santong shouted for the people inside to come greet their guests, prompting laughter from the group and commotion throughout the city.
• Several streaks of light shot up from the island toward Li Xiaoya and his companions.