Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya learned why Liu Xian'er had been troubled: Fairy Qingxia had sent cultivators to protect the Liu Family after they disrupted her seclusion. He helped Liu Xian'er understand her Master's choice, and she ended by teasing him with a question about whom he would save first.

• Li Xiaoya returned to the fortress with Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong, then left Murong Qi to oversee the arriving supplies.
• Li Xiaoya visited Liu Xian'er and learned that her family had demanded protection during the war, triggered an emergency signal, and forced Fairy Qingxia out of seclusion.
• Liu Xian'er explained that Fairy Qingxia had scolded her and sent Rainbow Rosy Peak cultivators to protect the Liu Family, leaving her feeling that her Master had acted selfishly.
• Li Xiaoya explained that protecting close relatives was natural and could also preserve sect morale and resources, citing his own decision to aid the Lin Family.
• Liu Xian'er accepted his reasoning, then asked whether he would save her or Zhang Hong first if both were in danger; Li Xiaoya refused to answer.

The war remained stalled as the Heavenly Dao Sect strengthened its defenses and Li Xiaoya took on greater command responsibilities. Old Dragon Head rejected Sun Haotian’s proposal to abandon Spring Renewal Valley and hinted that he would act soon.

• The four Demonic Path sects kept their forces from attacking the Heavenly Dao Sect while Fire Dragon Palace remained trapped in Spring Renewal Valley and the mortal kingdoms fell into turmoil.
• Li Xiaoya managed the Second Army, sent Spirit Cannons to the First Army and the Heavenly Dao Sect, and ordered Second to develop improved cannons.
• Old Dragon Head brooded over how Li Xiaoya’s discoveries and the failure of his allies had derailed his plans for the war.
• Sun Haotian urged Old Dragon Head to retreat from Spring Renewal Valley to the Red Dragon Kingdom, but Old Dragon Head refused and told him to wait.
• After Sun Haotian left, Old Dragon Head smiled and muttered that the other sects’ refusal to act meant they could not blame him for what he did next.

Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong's supply boat was ambushed by Demonic Path cultivators during a thunderstorm. They defended the vessel and went on the offensive, driving the attackers out of the clouds as the clash began.

• Liu Xian'er ordered the Flying Boat to descend and activate its protective barrier as a storm approached.
• Demonic Path cultivators fired black beams from the clouds, nearly shattering the boat's barrier until Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong reinforced it.
• Liu Xian'er left Ningshuang in charge of the Flying Boat and led Zhang Hong and two elders into battle.
• Liu Xian'er used her Ren-Kui Water Sphere to block the black beams while Zhang Hong attacked the clouds with her Blazing Flame Divine Whip.
• Seven or eight figures appeared in the sky and scattered to escape Zhang Hong's fiery attack.

Li Xiaoya received an alert that Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong were under attack and raced to rescue them while guarding against a diversion at the Second Army's fortress. Trapped by a restriction that suppressed their speed and strengthened their enemies, the women and their allies fought to protect a transport flying boat carrying vital supplies as Ningshuang joined the battle.

• Li Xiaoya received a warning bell message, chose to head alone to rescue Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong, and sent Murong Qi warnings to strengthen the fortress defenses.
• Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong fought masked Nascent Soul cultivators while a restriction trapped the transport flying boat and weakened the defenders.
• The Demonic Path's restriction suppressed the defenders' speed and magic power as Spirit Cannons bombarded the flying boat and its precious supply shipment.
• Ningshuang left the flying boat and helped two Rainbow Rosy Peak elders fight their masked opponents.
• Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er prepared a powerful combined attack using the Fire Sky-Piercing Pearl and Water Sky-Piercing Pearl.

Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er fought the masked cultivators attacking the Flying Boat, combining their powers to unleash devastating water-and-fire attacks. As the Flying Boat’s barrier weakened, they launched a giant blue-and-red sword at the six-armed masked cultivator, who answered with black lightning.

• Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er combined the Fire and Water Sky-Piercing Pearls, killing one masked cultivator with their spinning sphere of water and fire.
• The six-armed masked cultivator countered their attack with a sphere of black energy, and the clash sent a powerful blast across the battlefield.
• The explosion struck the Flying Boat and weakened its five-colored barrier as another masked cultivator fired black beams at the women.
• Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er fought off the attackers while the six-armed cultivator began casting a powerful spell.
• The women joined their powers to form a giant blue-and-red sword, which knocked away three black flying swords and descended toward the six-armed cultivator.
• The six-armed cultivator finished his spell and fired a bolt of black lightning at the descending sword.

Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er fought the demonized, green-haired cultivator and his Blood Fiend Thunderlight with the Water-Fire Sky-Piercing Pearl. As the six-armed monster charged through their shattered attacks, a five-colored light appeared on the horizon.

• The black-robed cultivator revealed Blood Fiend Thunderlight and transformed into a towering, six-armed green-haired monster.
• Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er joined the Water-Fire Sky-Piercing Pearl’s blue-and-red rings and destroyed the three masked cultivators’ flying swords.
• The monster hurled blood-red lightning spheres at the women, and they countered with pillars of intertwined water and flame.
• The monster used four more lightning spheres to blast apart the women’s pillars, then charged through the explosions with six swords of black lightning.
• A drawn-out cry came from the horizon as a speck of five-colored light appeared in the dark sky.

Li Xiaoya arrived at the Heavenly Dao Sect’s besieged forces and shattered the restrictive barrier with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff. With the restrictions gone, Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong regained their strength and turned the fight against the green six-handed monster, while Li Xiaoya attacked the enemy cultivators and Spirit Cannons.

• Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong fought off the green six-handed monster as the three black-robed, masked cultivators battered the flying boat and drove back its Golden Core Stage defenders.
• Li Xiaoya broke through the black restrictive barrier with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff and rushed into the battle.
• Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong dodged the monster’s sword attacks and resumed fighting at full strength, while Li Xiaoya sent the Giant Spirit Divine Weapon toward the ground forces and flew at the black-robed, masked cultivators.
• Li Xiaoya knocked one black-robed, masked cultivator flying with a Golden Light Fist, then pursued another who begged him not to kill him.

Li Xiaoya and his allies defeated the ambushers, with Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong slaying the Green Six-Handed Monster and Li Xiaoya's Steel-armored Beetles devouring the fleeing Nascent Souls. After the battle, Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong began explaining how the attack had happened as the Supreme Flying Boat continued toward the Second Army Fortress under escort.

• Li Xiaoya immobilized one masked cultivator, struck down another who tried to flee, and sent the Golden Core Stage Cultivators to secure the battlefield.
• Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong trapped the Green Six-Handed Monster in their Water-Fire Combined Strike, forcing its Nascent Soul to flee after its body was destroyed.
• Li Xiaoya's concealed Steel-armored Beetles devoured the Green Six-Handed Monster's Nascent Soul and later killed the two masked cultivators fighting Ningshuang and the Rainbow Rosy Peak elders.
• Li Xiaoya reunited with Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong, confirmed they were unharmed, and asked how they had been ambushed.
• Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong began recounting the attack while the Supreme Flying Boat restored its barrier and headed toward the Second Army Fortress with eight escorting Flying Boats.

Li Xiaoya and his companions discussed the Blood Fiend Thunderlight and suspected the unfamiliar attackers were trying to provoke a war between the righteous and demonic paths. After returning to the Supreme Flying Boat, Li Xiaoya began searching the captured cultivator’s soul for clues.

• Liu Xian'er explained that Blood Fiend Thunderlight had once been wielded by the Blood Fiend Demon, though she did not know why the masked attacker could use it.
• Li Xiaoya reassured Liu Xian'er that Murong Qi had strengthened the Second Army's defenses, then led the others back to the Flying Boat to interrogate their captive.
• Ningshuang reported that no disciples had died, and Liu Xian'er promised to report everyone's contributions so the sect could reward them.
• Li Xiaoya and the others found the unmasked captive was an unfamiliar cultivator, and Li Xiaoya concluded that ordinary interrogation would reveal nothing.
• Li Xiaoya pierced the captive's skull with golden blades and sent blue light into his brain to search his soul.

Li Xiaoya survived a soul-searching blood restriction that exposed the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor as a possible force behind the ambush and the Righteous-Demonic War. Worried that the First Army’s supply boat might also have been attacked, he raced ahead while Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong prepared to scout the route.

• Li Xiaoya searched the masked cultivator’s soul, triggering a blood restriction that caused the cultivator’s nascent soul to self-destruct and blast Li Xiaoya out of the flying boat.
• Li Xiaoya told the others that the attack was linked to the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor, a powerful Demonic Path figure who might be manipulating the Righteous-Demonic War.
• Li Xiaoya realized that the First Army’s supply boat might also have been attacked, but Liu Xian'er noted that she had received no distress signal.
• Li Xiaoya warned Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong to stay alert, then flew toward the Second Army’s fortress as they stayed behind to scout ahead and protect the boat.
• The Second Army’s fortress remained largely unharmed, but an exceedingly troublesome figure had arrived there.

Ghost Sword Deity attacked the Second Army Fortress and challenged High Person Qianshan, but Dong Santong came out to fight him. Ghost Sword Deity overwhelmed Dong Santong and nearly killed Murong Qi before Zhang Cai rescued him, while Dong Santong’s Moonlight Crescent Saber suddenly bypassed Ghost Sword Deity’s blade and closed in on him.

• Ghost Sword Deity bombarded the Second Army Fortress’s defenses and demanded that High Person Qianshan come out, while Murong Qi ordered the fortress to remain on defense.
• Dong Santong appeared to confront Ghost Sword Deity, who tried to seize him and then attacked him with black magic and a saber.
• Dong Santong countered with the Moonlight Crescent Saber and a giant silver hammer, but Ghost Sword Deity’s saber strike shattered his shield and wounded him.
• Ghost Sword Deity attacked Murong Qi and knocked him toward the fortress, where Zhang Cai pulled him behind the restrictions and blocked the Black Light Blade.
• Dong Santong sent the Moonlight Crescent Saber at Ghost Sword Deity, and it vanished past his Black Long Saber to appear only feet away from him.

Dong Santong ambushed Gui Jin with the Moonlight Crescent Saber, but Gui Jin survived and counterattacked with a devastating torrent of ghostly blades. Dong Santong kept fighting outside the Super Fortress as its cannons supported him, and Gui Jin dodged his powerful white sphere.

• Dong Santong pierced Gui Jin's chest with the Moonlight Crescent Saber, but Gui Jin regenerated without injury.
• Gui Jin summoned a towering figure of black qi and unleashed a tide of ghostly blades that forced Dong Santong to flee.
• Murong Qi ordered the Super Fortress's Spirit Cannons to fire, and their red beams destroyed many of the black figures pursuing Dong Santong.
• Gui Jin knocked the cannon beams aside with his Black Long Saber while Dong Santong stayed outside and prepared a powerful Divine Ability.
• Dong Santong launched a small sphere of white light at Gui Jin, who vanished to avoid it as the sphere exploded in the distance.

Gui Jin nearly defeated Dong Santong outside the Super Fortress, but Li Xiaoya intervened and fought him to a standstill. Gui Jin abruptly withdrew without explaining why he had come to the Heavenly Dao Sect.

• Gui Jin dodged Dong Santong’s white orb, then attacked him with the Black Long Saber and overwhelmed his defenses.
• Dong Santong tried to flee toward the Super Fortress, but Gui Jin struck him hard and sent him hurtling away, badly injured.
• Li Xiaoya arrived and stopped Gui Jin from pursuing Dong Santong with a powerful golden sword ray.
• Gui Jin challenged Li Xiaoya, and the two fought with the Black Long Saber and Fire Dragon Sword while the Heavenly Dao Sect watched in shock.
• After exchanging many blows with Li Xiaoya, Gui Jin broke away and flew off, saying he would settle accounts with the Heavenly Dao Sect another time.

Li Xiaoya drove Ghost Sword Deity away, then organized the Second Army as attacks threatened both armies. After learning the First Army was fighting the Hehuan Cult and Heavenly Spirit Church, he ordered the Second Army to hold its fortress and prepare for a Demonic Path assault.

• Ghost Sword Deity fled after clashing with Li Xiaoya, and Li Xiaoya learned he had attacked the Second Army fortress looking for Qianshan.
• Li Xiaoya reprimanded Dong Santong for recklessly joining the fight, then dispatched Zhang Facai to escort the returning supply Flying Boats and ordered Murong Qi to investigate Ghost Sword Deity’s attack.
• Zhang Facai escorted Liu Xian’er and Zhang Hong safely to the fortress as Li Xiaoya led a council about the attack on the Supreme Flying Boat.
• Li Xiaoya received an emergency message that the Hehuan Cult and Heavenly Spirit Church had attacked the First Army, with the Hehuan Twin Demons forcing it onto the defensive.
• Li Xiaoya concluded the attacks were part of a plan to provoke a two-front war and ordered the Second Army to strengthen its defenses, triple its patrols, and avoid sorties without orders.

After the First Army survived a Demonic Path assault, Li Xiaoya reinforced the Second Army as both sides entered a tense standoff. In the Fire Dragon Palace, Old Dragon Head met the mysterious Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor, who promised reinforcements and defensive treasures while warning him not to attack recklessly.

• The Demonic Path attacked the First Army after raiders struck the Hehuan Cult, but its forces withdrew after the Super Spirit Cannons destroyed many Flying Boats; High Person Qianshan arrived afterward.
• Li Xiaoya strengthened the Second Army’s defenses with a hundred Super Spirit Cannons, while Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong stayed to help guard the camp.
• The Demonic Sword Sect and Demon Ghost Cliff hesitated to attack, and both sides recognized that simultaneous raids had likely been intended to provoke conflict, leaving them in a tense standoff.
• Old Dragon Head erupted in anger over Li Xiaoya’s actions as Sun Haotian and a masked cultivator watched.
• The masked cultivator revealed himself as Heaven-Shaking, promised to send Five Poisons Church forces and defensive treasures, and told Old Dragon Head to avoid reckless attacks.
• After Heaven-Shaking’s black light vanished, the masked cultivator introduced himself as Jia Wushi San and left with Sun Haotian; Old Dragon Head privately vowed not to be deceived.

Li Xiaoya’s investigation of a strange spiritual-qi disturbance led him to discover that a flood had killed countless mortals, apparently as a consequence of the cultivators’ prolonged war. He stopped the torrential rain, but was left grieving over the ordinary people who had suffered.

• The Righteous and Demonic Paths maintained their standoff for six years as all Twelve Great Sects remained on alert and investigated the masked cultivators and Old Dragon Head’s motives.
• Li Xiaoya struggled to manage the Second Army while Second Better focused on researching Upper Realm artifact refining instead of improving the Super Spirit Cannons.
• After High Person Qianshan summoned him to the First Army, Li Xiaoya sensed powerful resentment while traveling through the rain and diverted toward the Raging Dragon River.
• Li Xiaoya found thousands of mortal corpses floating in the river and traced the flood to unusually concentrated water spiritual qi in the sky.
• Li Xiaoya gathered the water spiritual qi and stopped the rain, then realized the prolonged cultivator war had caused the disaster and mourned the mortals’ suffering.

Li Xiaoya burned the corpses choking the Raging Dragon River, killed the demonic cultivator who had blocked it to gather them, and discovered a mysterious white stone. After freeing the river, he flew toward the First Army with a heavy heart and firming resolve.

• Li Xiaoya followed the Raging Dragon River and used the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff to burn the corpses and their resentment from the water.
• Li Xiaoya found a pale-faced Golden Core Stage cultivator practicing demonic cultivation in a cave and killed him after the cultivator attacked and tried to flee.
• Li Xiaoya found a square white stone with strange runes that survived his flames and strength, then placed it in the Heaven-and-Earth Bag after Second ignored his calls.
• Li Xiaoya discovered that the cultivator had used pitch-black chains to block the river and gather corpses, then burned the chains and bodies to release the river.
• Li Xiaoya flew toward the First Army after the water began to recede, carrying a heavy heart and having reached certain decisions.

High Person Qianshan explained that mortal suffering threatened the Heavenly Dao Sect’s supply of cultivators and announced plans for peace talks with the Demonic Path. The Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning refused to abandon his feud with the Fire Dragon Palace and demanded that Li Xiaoya meet a condition if he wanted the Spring Returning Church to stop fighting.

• Li Xiaoya arrived at the First Army hall and described the plight of mortals he had encountered on his way there.
• High Person Qianshan defended Li Xiaoya’s compassion and explained that mortal populations sustained the Cultivation World by producing cultivators with immortal roots.
• High Person Qianshan said leaders from several orthodox and demonic sects wanted to cease hostilities and called for the Heavenly Dao Sect to decide whether to pursue peace talks.
• The Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning insisted that his church would fight the Fire Dragon Palace over its destruction of the Spring Returning Church.
• The Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning pointed at Li Xiaoya and said he would agree to stop fighting only if Li Xiaoya accepted a condition.

Li Xiaoya promised the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning that he would help restore the Spring Returning Church and reclaim Spring Renewal Valley, allowing High Person Qianshan to announce peace talks at Spiritlight Lake. High Person Qianshan then revealed that the Demon Realm might invade early and that a demonic prophecy specifically threatened the Five Elements, leaving Li Xiaoya alarmed.

• Li Xiaoya promised in his personal capacity to help restore the Spring Returning Church and reclaim Spring Renewal Valley if the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning ended the fighting.
• The Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning accepted Li Xiaoya’s promise and agreed to High Person Qianshan’s peace proposal.
• High Person Qianshan announced that the Heavenly Dao Sect would seek peace negotiations at Spiritlight Lake and forbid clashes with the Demonic Path during the talks.
• After the meeting, High Person Qianshan told Li Xiaoya that the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning had joined the Heavenly Dao Sect because Li Xiaoya possessed Five Immortal Roots.
• High Person Qianshan warned Li Xiaoya that signs pointed to a possible Demon Realm invasion and that a demonic prophecy declared demons would destroy the Five Elements and shake Heaven and Earth.

Li Xiaoya learned why the Spring Returning Church had joined the Heavenly Dao Sect and prepared the Second Army while the Twelve Sects negotiated an end to the war. The sects reached a verbal ceasefire agreement, and Li Xiaoya ended the chapter contemplating what to do about Old Dragon Head.

• High Person Qianshan told Li Xiaoya that the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning had joined the Heavenly Dao Sect for protection, and Li Xiaoya wondered whether his Calamity-Bound One status explained past disasters.
• Li Xiaoya checked on a flood-stricken city, then informed the Second Army Elder Council of High Person Qianshan's decision and sent disciples to suppress demonic rogue cultivators and help disaster victims.
• At the Spiritlight Lake Immortal Gathering, the Heavenly Dao Sect's disciples won the most places, and the Spirit Communion Stage cultivators began peace talks.
• Li Xiaoya tightened security around the Second Army, discovered underground markets between the opposing sides, and bought two ingredients for the Nine-Turn Spirit Communion Pill.
• The Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning demanded that the Fire Dragon Palace return Spring Renewal Valley, but later entrusted the Spring Returning Church's decisions to High Person Qianshan.
• With four Spirit Communion Stage rogue cultivators acting as guarantors, the Twelve Sects agreed to dismantle their border restrictions and withdraw their armies within a month, leaving Li Xiaoya thinking about Old Dragon Head.