Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya’s group discovered the Goddess Immortal Fruit inside the Cave Abode, and Li Xiaoya explained how to harvest it after Old Dragon Head destroyed two fruits. As the group prepared to gather the remaining fruit, cultivators entered other newly opened areas of Treasure Mountain.

• Old Dragon Head accused Li Xiaoya of taking the Swastika Divine Stone, but Li Xiaoya and the others denied seeing it and continued forward cautiously.
• Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning recognized the statues as Goddess Immortal Fruits, and Li Xiaoya carefully harvested one into a white jade bottle.
• The restrictions at the other entrances vanished, allowing cultivators to rush into different treasure-filled areas of Treasure Mountain.
• Old Dragon Head tried to harvest the fruits by jabbing their statues, destroying two before Li Xiaoya stopped him and agreed to explain the fruits’ value and harvesting method.
• Li Xiaoya explained that the fruits could restore depleted lifespan and bodily health, increase cultivation, and required divine sense and a spirit-power needle to harvest safely.

Li Xiaoya, Old Dragon Head, Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning, and High Person Qianshan harvested Goddess Immortal Fruits while rival sects seized treasures and fought to control Treasure Mountain’s entrances. As the group prepared to move on, the Demonic Path cultivators battled flying puppet archers, and Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor went to seek Lord Demon Emperor’s help with the mountain’s restriction.

• Old Dragon Head ate a Goddess Immortal Fruit without refining it, endured its power with his dragon-like physique, and joined Li Xiaoya and the others in harvesting more.
• Folo Temple, Fire Dragon Palace, and Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators stripped valuables from their respective passages and blocked their entrances against outsiders.
• Rival sects and Rogue Cultivators fought over the few remaining passages, while the Hehuan Twin Demons and other Demonic Path cultivators battled Silver-Armored Puppets on a stairway.
• Silver-Armored Female Puppets flew above the flight-prohibition restriction and attacked the Demonic Path cultivators with golden arrows.
• Unable to enter Treasure Mountain, Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor suspected the restriction came from the Upper Realm and plunged toward the sea to ask Lord Demon Emperor for help.
• Li Xiaoya and his companions finished harvesting several dozen Goddess Immortal Fruits apiece, and Old Dragon Head urged them to continue toward the next treasure.

Li Xiaoya and his companions explored a restriction-filled plaza while the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor consulted the Demon Emperor about the mysterious Super-Giant Mountain. After Old Dragon Head struck down five elemental metal puppets, they began reassembling, leaving the group facing enemies that could recover from his attacks.

• Li Xiaoya, Old Dragon Head, High Person Qianshan, and their companion reached a vast plaza where restrictions made the surroundings blur and weighed down their bodies.
• The Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor reported the Super-Giant Mountain to the Demon Emperor, who ordered him to find a way inside and make the mountain sink again.
• The Demon Emperor taught the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor a dangerous incantation for possessing a human cultivator, and he prepared to hide his physical body.
• A cracking sound alerted the four cultivators, and Old Dragon Head punched the central statue, revealing a silver metal puppet beneath its stone shell.
• Four more statues shed their stone coverings, revealing five elemental puppets that advanced on the cultivators.
• Old Dragon Head cut all five puppets in half, but their scattered components began flying together to reassemble.

Li Xiaoya and his companions fought five self-repairing Five Elements metal puppet statues, but their attempts to destroy or capture them failed. They headed for the restrictions while Li Xiaoya and the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning held off the statues, as the Demonic Path cultivators faced two even stronger metal gorilla puppets elsewhere.

• Old Dragon Head smashed the five metal puppet statues with Red Lightning, but their fragments gathered and began repairing themselves.
• High Person Qianshan divided the group among the statues, and Li Xiaoya restrained the blue statue until it self-destructed; the others' targets also exploded when they tried to capture them.
• The statues began restoring themselves again, so High Person Qianshan and Old Dragon Head moved to break the restrictions while Li Xiaoya and the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning held the puppets back.
• The Demonic Path's six Spirit Communion Stage cultivators fought two colossal gold and silver gorilla puppets that repaired themselves and proved stronger than the statues.

The Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor killed a cultivator returning from the Super-Giant Mountain and took over his body. Meanwhile, Old Dragon Head and High Person Qianshan failed to break the Five-Element Formation, while Li Xiaoya noticed that a blue metal puppet absorbed his water-element magic.

• The Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor ambushed a lone cultivator, consumed him, and took his Storage Pouch and golden spear.
• Old Dragon Head and High Person Qianshan struck the restrictions together, but the Five-Element Formation absorbed their attacks and remained intact.
• High Person Qianshan warned that brute force would not break the restrictions with their current cultivation, and he and Old Dragon Head resumed studying them.
• Li Xiaoya switched to water-element spells to slow the metal puppets and repeatedly attacked the blue-glowing statue.
• The Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning noticed that the blue statue absorbed Li Xiaoya's spells and that its runes grew brighter.

Li Xiaoya, High Person Qianshan, Old Dragon Head, and Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning filled five formation spirits with magic power and revealed a treasure palace. They climbed its gravity-restricted stairs toward the palace, while other groups remained trapped in separate trials.

• High Person Qianshan identified the five metal puppet statues as formation spirits that absorbed magic power of their corresponding elements.
• The four cultivators kept feeding the statues magic power, but the runes brightened and the puppets grew stronger while consuming the energy.
• Old Dragon Head filled the red-lit puppet first, and the others soon filled the remaining four; the statues returned to their original positions and revealed three stairways leading to a treasure palace.
• The group climbed the stairs under an increasingly powerful gravity restriction, with Li Xiaoya keeping pace with High Person Qianshan.
• Elsewhere, six Demonic Path Spirit Communion Stage cultivators fought another pair of giant puppet gorillas after destroying several identical pairs, while Buddha Xuanmen and the Heavenly Dao Sect elders gathered before a blue-barrier-enclosed seven-story tower.

A cultivator stole a medicinal fruit from a lake, but the hidden guardian killed him, then a dark-faced cultivator ambushed the guardian and devoured his nascent soul. Elsewhere, the Hehuan Twin Demons destroyed two puppets, while Old Dragon Head fought a stone lion before the sealed palace and waited for the others to catch up.

• A blue-clad cultivator found a radiant fruit in a lake and snatched it, triggering a barrage of blue attacks that killed him.
• A blue-armored cultivator emerged from the water, took the fruit and the dead man's possessions, and burned the corpse.
• A dark-faced cultivator attacked the blue-armored cultivator, tore out his nascent soul, devoured it, and vanished.
• The Hehuan Twin Demons used a Two-Colored Spiritual Light Vortex to destroy a golden gorilla puppet, while a silver puppet was also destroyed.
• Old Dragon Head reached the palace square first and fought a huge Unicorn Lion demon beast guarding the sealed doors.
• Old Dragon Head shattered the lion, then rested with High Person Qianshan as Li Xiaoya and Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning arrived.

Li Xiaoya and the others recovered their magic power while Treasure Mountain became a battlefield, then High Person Qianshan forced Old Dragon Head to agree to divide all treasures equally among the four of them. The group prepared to break the next restriction, while King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs hurried across the sea, threatening that three seniors would soon kill the humans.

• Li Xiaoya and the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning reached the summit and replenished their magic power as battles erupted across Treasure Mountain.
• High Person Qianshan refused to help Old Dragon Head break the restrictions unless they agreed to share the treasures fairly.
• Old Dragon Head failed to break the restrictions with repeated attacks and eventually accepted an equal share for each of the four cultivators.
• King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs flew across the sea and warned that three seniors would soon make their move against the humans.
• High Person Qianshan stood and walked toward the Lion Demon Beast to begin breaking the formation after warning Old Dragon Head not to cheat them again.

High Person Qianshan outmaneuvered Old Dragon Head to claim the Swastika Divine Stone and open Dao Virtue Hall, where the group discovered a trove of treasures and an apparition of Dao Virtue Heavenly Lord. The visitors learned they could each choose one treasure, but the treasures evaded Old Dragon Head when he tried to grab one.

• High Person Qianshan revealed he had secretly taken the Swastika Divine Stone, then made Old Dragon Head agree to help find its recess before he would continue.
• High Person Qianshan fitted the stone into the recess, revealing the name Dao Virtue Hall, and the group opened its doors.
• The group entered the hall and saw dozens of dazzling treasures, but the doors shut behind them and the golden script on the pillars formed a figure.
• The figure identified the visitors as people brought by fate, allowed each to choose one treasure, and said they could freely read the Dao Scripture.
• Old Dragon Head tried twice to seize a red-lit treasure, but it vanished each time before he could catch it.

Li Xiaoya and the others divided the Ten-Thousand-Year Purple Sandalwood Incense and copied an original Ancient Clerical Script version of the Dao Scripture. High Person Qianshan discovered that the scripture had let him retrieve a flying treasure, and he began to explain how it worked.

• Old Dragon Head took two sticks of Ten-Thousand-Year Purple Sandalwood Incense, while High Person Qianshan and Li Xiaoya each received one; the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning claimed the incense burner.
• Li Xiaoya stored the white jade table and the Four-Seas Great Flying Elephant hide after High Person Qianshan told him they would be useful.
• The Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning found that the Dao Scripture on a pillar differed from the version they had read, and High Person Qianshan identified it as the original Ancient Clerical Script and began copying it with the others.
• The six Great Cultivators of the Demonic Path struggled to break the treasure restrictions in another hall and had obtained only one High-Grade Spirit Treasure.
• High Person Qianshan noticed a golden glow on his body, realized he could retrieve the flying treasures, and caught an emerald-green fan.
• High Person Qianshan said the Dao Scripture on the fiery-red pillar had caused the golden light, leaving everyone astonished.

Li Xiaoya and the others studied the Original Ancient Clerical Dao Scripture to reveal hidden treasures, and Li Xiaoya gained deep insight that left him able to see the treasures’ true forms. He chose a golden scabbard that seemed to belong to his Fire Dragon Sword, then followed High Person Qianshan into the Rear Hall, where they found a vast complex of cultivators’ residences.

• High Person Qianshan explained that his insight into the Dao Scripture had produced the golden light that let him see and take a treasure.
• Li Xiaoya and the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning meditated on the scripture, while Old Dragon Head finished transcribing and sought insight as well.
• Li Xiaoya entered a profound state, gained a clearer mind, and realized he might be ready to advance to the Spirit Communion Stage.
• Li Xiaoya saw the hidden treasures, selected a golden, dragon-scaled scabbard, and put it in his Heaven-and-Earth Bag.
• High Person Qianshan led Li Xiaoya and the others into the Rear Hall, where they saw a vast cluster of similar-looking residences.

Li Xiaoya discovered that the golden scabbard he had taken from the main hall was connected to his Fire Dragon Sword and greatly increased its power. Meanwhile, the Demonic Path cultivators found the treasures behind the main-hall restrictions had vanished, and an injured dark-faced cultivator struggled on Treasure Mountain.

• High Person Qianshan, Li Xiaoya, and Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning split up to search the disciples’ residences, while Old Dragon Head went off alone.
• Li Xiaoya gathered ancient spirit herbs from a courtyard and tested the golden scabbard with the Fire Dragon Sword, awakening a dragon-shaped rune and greatly amplifying the sword’s power.
• High Person Qianshan warned Li Xiaoya that Old Dragon Head was nearby, and they separated to continue searching.
• The treasures sealed in the main hall vanished from their restrictions, so the Demonic Path cultivators stopped to recover their magic power in separate places.
• Hehuan Young Master reassured Hehuan Fairy that Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor could not use his divine abilities, while they sought an item that might help revive the Hehuan Cult.
• A dark-faced cultivator sat in pain amid fallen cultivators on Treasure Mountain as demonic qi surged from his body.

The Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor absorbed power through a dangerous cultivation method, killed two cultivators, and headed toward the mountain peak. Meanwhile, Li Xiaoya and the others opened a restricted archway with the Swastika Divine Stone and found a vast herb garden, where they agreed to let Li Xiaoya and the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning harvest the herbs for an equal share.

• The Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor completed his absorption, killed a cultivator who entered the building, then hunted down and killed another cultivator hiding in the woods.
• Old Dragon Head demanded that Li Xiaoya use the Swastika Divine Stone to open the archway, and Li Xiaoya agreed in exchange for an equal share of the treasures inside.
• Li Xiaoya fitted the Swastika Divine Stone into the archway, dispelling its restriction and revealing a staircase leading to a fragrant herb garden.
• Old Dragon Head tried to pull spirit herbs from a plot, but they withered into spiritual light before he could collect them.
• High Person Qianshan persuaded Old Dragon Head to let Li Xiaoya and the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning harvest the herbs for an equal division, and Old Dragon Head followed them into the fields.

Li Xiaoya and the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning harvested rare spirit herbs while the Heavenly Dao Sect explored a five-colored light pillar and its cavern. Buddha Xuanmen entered the cavern, while the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor was driven back when the entrance collapsed and the light threatened to neutralize his demonic qi.

• Li Xiaoya and the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning identified and carefully harvested rare spirit herbs, while Old Dragon Head urged them to hurry and High Person Qianshan waited nearby.
• Liu Xian'er and the Heavenly Dao Sect members took one treasure each from the pagoda before gathering at a cavern beneath a five-colored pillar of light.
• Buddha Xuanmen refused to send disciples into the cavern and entered it himself, ordering the others to guard the area and search the mountain.
• Liu Xian'er left Ma Jie and several elders to wait for Buddha Xuanmen while she led more than twenty elders to search elsewhere.
• The Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor killed several cultivators who fled into a cavern, but their attacks collapsed its entrance and forced him back when the five-colored light began neutralizing his demonic qi.
• The Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor abandoned the blocked cavern and leaped from the far side of the mountain.

Li Xiaoya, High Person Qianshan, Old Dragon Head, and Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning harvested the Herb Garden and fled as the Demonic Path cultivators arrived. Both groups reached the Origin-Breaking Nine-Turn Tower, which erupted with runes of law just as Old Dragon Head and High Person Qianshan moved toward it.

• Ghost Sword Deity and Hehuan Young Master argued over whether to visit a side peak or the Main Peak, then all six Demonic Path cultivators headed for the Main Peak.
• Li Xiaoya, Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning, Old Dragon Head, and High Person Qianshan divided the harvested spirit herbs, then fled through the far exit when Old Dragon Head sensed the Demonic Path cultivators approaching.
• The six Demonic Path cultivators found the Herb Garden empty and pursued Qianshan's group, while a towering black figure followed them into the garden after detecting the scent of Spirit Communion Stage humans.
• Old Dragon Head and the others raced down a stone stairway, and Li Xiaoya found his speed and magic power had improved after reading the Dao Scripture.
• The group reached the Origin-Breaking Nine-Turn Tower, and Old Dragon Head charged toward it as High Person Qianshan tried to act first.
• The tower released five-colored light and mysterious runes, prompting High Person Qianshan and Old Dragon Head to recognize the power of laws.

The Demonic Path cultivators and Old Dragon Head’s group negotiated turns to claim the Origin-Breaking Nine-Turn Tower, which Old Dragon Head identified as a Heaven-Opening Treasure. The Demonic Path’s first attempt failed when the tower repelled their attacks, leaving them injured and prompting Heavenly Spirit Granny to urge caution.

• The Origin-Breaking Nine-Turn Tower’s aura blasted Old Dragon Head and High Person Qianshan backward, and Old Dragon Head declared it a Heaven-Opening Treasure.
• Hehuan Twin Demons tried to seize the tower, but Old Dragon Head destroyed their attacks, and the two factions negotiated timed turns to claim it.
• Old Dragon Head and High Person Qianshan let Hehuan Young Master’s side go first, while Old Dragon Head privately indicated that they should act if the Demonic Path succeeded.
• The Demonic Path cultivators argued over who should attempt to claim the tower until Hehuan Young Master and Hehuan Fairy launched an attack and the others joined in.
• The tower shattered the Demonic Path’s attacks and blasted the five attackers backward, while Heavenly Spirit Granny stayed back and urged the group to study the treasure first.

Hehuan Young Master and five other Demonic Path cultivators joined forces to attack the Origin-Breaking Nine-Turn Tower, while Old Dragon Head’s group prepared to act if they weakened it. As the tower’s runes began to yield under the six cultivators’ full strength, Old Dragon Head told his companions to get ready.

• Heavenly Spirit Granny urged the Demonic Path cultivators to study the tower before attacking, and Hehuan Young Master agreed before secretly discussing a plan with the others.
• Old Dragon Head, High Person Qianshan, and Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning discussed joining forces to seize the treasure, but they could not settle how to divide it.
• Li Xiaoya worried that Dong Santong had vanished despite supposedly being able to bypass the tower’s restrictions, while the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor secretly watched and waited for a chance to kill the human cultivators.
• The Hehuan Twin Demons and their companions surrounded the tower, raised defensive treasures, and attacked together, but the tower’s runes shattered their combined magic power and forced them back.
• The six Demonic Path cultivators unleashed their full strength and began driving the tower’s runes back, so Old Dragon Head told Li Xiaoya, High Person Qianshan, and Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning to prepare.

The Origin-Breaking Nine-Turn Tower repelled repeated attempts by the Demonic Path cultivators and Old Dragon Head’s group to seize it. After Li Xiaoya tried communicating with the tower’s consciousness, a deep voice finally answered him.

• The Origin-Breaking Nine-Turn Tower unleashed a golden phantom that blasted the six Spirit Communion Stage cultivators away, and their formation attempt failed as well.
• Second Better told Li Xiaoya that Heaven-Opening Treasures could not be forcibly tamed and suggested communicating with the tower’s consciousness.
• The Demonic Path cultivators exhausted their allotted time without success, then Old Dragon Head, High Person Qianshan, the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning, and Li Xiaoya also failed to take the tower.
• After hearing Li Xiaoya’s proposal, Old Dragon Head agreed to let him try, and Li Xiaoya approached the tower and called to it with his divine sense.
• Just as Li Xiaoya was about to give up, a deep, resonant voice answered within his divine sense.

Li Xiaoya spoke with the Origin-Breaking Nine-Turn Tower, learning that it was bound to await fate at the Dao Virtue Grotto-Heaven and that fate awaited him at Treasure Mountain’s summit. The tower warned him that Old Dragon Head and five Demonic Path cultivators meant him harm, then sent an object flying out as both factions rushed to seize it.

• Li Xiaoya confirmed that the tower was the Origin-Breaking Nine-Turn Tower and learned that the Dao Virtue Grotto-Heaven belonged to the Dao Virtue Heavenly Lord.
• The tower said it could not leave before fulfilling its mission, named itself Xiao Jiu, and directed Li Xiaoya toward the mountain summit, where fate awaited him.
• Xiao Jiu recognized the Immortal Dao Chain as its friend Xianxian but could not explain the chain’s mission.
• Li Xiaoya told Old Dragon Head, High Person Qianshan, and the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning that the tower would not leave and that other treasures lay ahead.
• Xiao Jiu warned Li Xiaoya that Old Dragon Head and five of the Demonic Path cultivators carried evil intent toward him, but refused to harm them.
• Xiao Jiu sent an object flying toward Li Xiaoya, and the Demonic Path cultivators and Old Dragon Head’s group charged to seize it.

Several powerful cultivators fought over the object that emerged from the Origin-Breaking Nine-Turn Tower. Li Xiaoya seized it from Poison King Immortal Venerable, who retaliated with a spray of black blood as High Person Qianshan warned Li Xiaoya to dodge.

• The Hehuan Twin Demons and Old Dragon Head clashed over the object, while Ghost Sword Deity struck Old Dragon Head’s claw and knocked it into the air.
• Ghost King Devil Lord and High Person Qianshan fought for the object, but Heavenly Spirit Granny’s ghostly phantom distracted Qianshan and let it fly past him.
• Poison King Immortal Venerable trapped Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning with the Blood Cloud Myriad Poisons Banner and caught the object.
• Li Xiaoya cut through Poison King Immortal Venerable’s armored arm and grabbed the object with his Golden Giant Hand.
• Poison King Immortal Venerable sprayed black blood at Li Xiaoya, and High Person Qianshan shouted for him to dodge.