Chapter Summaries

Gui Jin’s desperate attempt to climb the gravity-laden stairs ended with his bones shattered, while Old Dragon Head and High Person Qianshan revealed powerful techniques to press onward. High Person Qianshan healed Gui Jin and surged ahead as the other cultivators prepared for a final push.

• Gui Jin activated a lifespan-consuming Divine Ability to lift his foot, but the strain shattered his bones and sent him crashing onto the steps.
• Li Xiaoya injured his ankle when Gui Jin’s fall jolted him, then stopped advancing as Old Dragon Head used a brief burst of blood-red power to climb another step.
• High Person Qianshan summoned Xiao Zhi’s phantom and transformed his body with green runes, then sent a sphere of green light into Gui Jin to repair his bones.
• High Person Qianshan climbed two steps in quick succession while Old Dragon Head activated his own Divine Ability and advanced another step.
• The other cultivators began preparing their Divine Abilities and spells for a desperate push up the stairs.

The cultivators struggled to advance up Treasure Mountain while Great Gong Diamond pulled Buddha Xuanmen, Liu Xian'er, and Zhang Hong through the five-colored spiritual-light hurricane. They reached the mountain’s center and discovered an enormous rune-covered spirit stone, where another group’s startled voice greeted them.

• Old Dragon Head pushed closer to the summit, while High Person Qianshan stalled and Li Xiaoya managed to climb one more step.
• Ghost Sword Deity remained incapacitated, and Ghost King Devil Lord struggled far behind as the mountain’s gravity drained the cultivators’ strength.
• Great Gong Diamond grabbed Buddha Xuanmen and hauled him, Liu Xian'er, and Zhang Hong through the hurricane, beyond which the wind suddenly stopped.
• The four cultivators emerged into a vast circular cavern and saw a mountain-sized five-colored spirit stone surrounded by strange formations.
• A startled voice came from the opposite side of the cavern, and the group turned to look.

Liu Xian'er, Zhang Hong, Great Gong Diamond, and their companions reached the center of Treasure Mountain and discovered tiny five-colored pearls and a stone stele. On the Gravity Stairway, Old Dragon Head reached the summit, while Li Xiaoya’s Immortal Dao Chain activated just as the crushing pressure threatened to break him.

• Dongling Daojian, Beast God Heavenly Lord, and Great Confucian Tiangang arrived at the spirit-stone platform and joined Great Gong Diamond, Buddha Xuanmen, Liu Xian'er, and Zhang Hong.
• The group examined the enormous spirit stone, spotted tiny five-colored pearls, and noticed writing on a nearby stone stele.
• Old Dragon Head crawled up the Gravity Stairway, followed by High Person Qianshan, Li Xiaoya, and the other cultivators, as the crushing pressure forced them to abandon standing.
• Old Dragon Head struggled through the final steps and reached the summit, shattering the bones in his tail as he hauled it up.
• Poison King Immortal Venerable fell and broke his bones, while Li Xiaoya’s wrist cracked and his body began to topple.
• The Immortal Dao Chain on Li Xiaoya’s wrist released white runes and formed a barrier that lifted the pressure and kept his bones from being crushed.

Li Xiaoya and Old Dragon Head raced to claim the treasure on the Mountain Summit, but Old Dragon Head seized it first. The Immortal Dao Chain then released the Devastation Devil Lord, who confronted Li Xiaoya while Old Dragon Head refused to help.

• The Immortal Dao Chain saved Li Xiaoya from the mountain’s gravity, allowing him to reach the Mountain Summit alongside Old Dragon Head.
• The chain’s white beam removed the Little Pavilion’s barrier, revealing a Crescent Moon Jade, but Old Dragon Head reached it first and swallowed it.
• After the chain turned black again, it released torrents of demonic qi that formed the Devastation Devil Lord.
• Li Xiaoya attacked the Devastation Devil Lord with five-colored light, but the Devil Lord blocked the strike and was blasted backward.
• Old Dragon Head declined to join the fight, while the Devastation Devil Lord threatened Li Xiaoya and began gathering black-light runes.

Li Xiaoya appeared to kill the Devastation Devil Lord, while Old Dragon Head kept the treasure he had taken from the Little Pavilion. The five-element spirit stone formation then erupted, and the Devil Lord reappeared and struck Li Xiaoya before the pavilion trapped him in five-colored light.

• Li Xiaoya dodged the Devastation Devil Lord's black lightning and cleaved through his barrier with the Fire Dragon Sword, apparently killing him, but injured his wrist in the attack.
• At Treasure Mountain's center, Liu Xian'er, Dongling Daojian, and the others gathered five-colored spiritual pearls while Lord Wind Spirit and his companions arrived.
• The enormous spirit stone's formation began to flare as Old Dragon Head removed an object from the Little Pavilion, and the platform beneath the cultivators vanished, sending them falling.
• Old Dragon Head dismissed Li Xiaoya's warning about keeping the treasure, then watched as the Devastation Devil Lord struck Li Xiaoya with hell lightning and blasted him into the Little Pavilion.
• Li Xiaoya stood unharmed by the hell lightning, but the Immortal Dao Chain on his wrist heated up, and five-colored runes trapped him inside the Little Pavilion.

Li Xiaoya was trapped inside the Little Pavilion as Devastation Devil Lord attacked, but the pavilion absorbed the attack and vanished with Li Xiaoya. Devastation Devil Lord fled the summit, and the other cultivators arrived to confront Old Dragon Head, who was left to answer for Li Xiaoya’s disappearance.

• Li Xiaoya struck the Five-Colored Light Curtain with the Fire Dragon Sword, but it threw him back and broke his wrist again.
• Devastation Devil Lord formed a huge sphere of black light and launched it at the Little Pavilion, but the pavilion’s Five-Colored Spiritual Light Vortex swallowed it and retaliated with flames.
• The Little Pavilion flashed and disappeared with Li Xiaoya while its five-colored flames burned Devastation Devil Lord’s black protective light.
• Devastation Devil Lord forced his way through the flames and fled down the gravity-restricted steps, which had ceased to affect him.
• High Person Qianshan, Ghost Sword Deity, Poison King Immortal Venerable, and the others reached the summit and surrounded Old Dragon Head, demanding to know where Li Xiaoya had gone.

The five-element defense restriction around Treasure Mountain vanished, drawing more cultivators toward the mountain and alarming Li Xiaoya’s parents when their Soul Lifebound Bells rang. Inside the mountain, Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong were sucked into separate passages’ shared vortex and survived the fall, but their bells rang as they discovered Liu Xian'er had broken her arm.

• The five-element formation restriction disappeared, and cultivators rushed toward Treasure Mountain through its remaining accessible passage.
• Li Mother and Li Muzhi heard their Soul Lifebound Bells warn of trouble with Li Xiaoya and left the Treasure Ship to investigate.
• The platform beneath Liu Xian'er, Zhang Hong, and the other Spirit Communion Stage cultivators vanished, and vortexes pulled them into separate openings.
• Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong grabbed hold of each other and were swept through a passage, where repeated impacts left Liu Xian'er with a broken arm.
• Liu Xian'er reset her arm while Zhang Hong realized she had protected her, then both women heard their Soul Lifebound Bells ring.

Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er discovered that Li Xiaoya's Soul Life-Bell was dim and hurried through the passages to find him. Meanwhile, the Devastation Devil Lord escaped the five-colored flame's pursuit by slipping through a restriction, and Old Dragon Head claimed that a soul contract had annihilated Li Xiaoya, leaving the gathered Spirit Communion cultivators stunned.

• Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er saw the dim light on Li Xiaoya's Soul Life-Bell and rushed through the passages to search for him.
• The Four Great Spirit Communion Rogue Cultivators and Great Gong Diamond's group later found the passage back to the spirit-stone mountain's center sealed by a restriction.
• The Devastation Devil Lord fled the pursuing five-colored flame, was blasted apart by Kunqi Sect cultivators, and slipped through their one-way restriction as a tiny speck of black light.
• The five-colored flame escaped the Kunqi Sect cultivators' attempts to capture it and vanished into the sky.
• Old Dragon Head refused to reveal what had happened to Li Xiaoya, then claimed the soul contract had annihilated him after he attacked Old Dragon Head.
• High Person Qianshan and the other Spirit Communion cultivators reacted with shock to Old Dragon Head's claim.

Old Dragon Head refused to surrender the treasure and hid behind the soul contract while the other cultivators argued over what to do. High Person Qianshan and Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning found signs that Li Xiaoya might have been teleported away, and a five-colored pavilion suddenly appeared in a distant meadow.

• Old Dragon Head claimed Li Xiaoya had triggered the soul contract, then sealed himself inside a soundproof restriction and meditated with pills from the Pill Chamber.
• Hehuan Fairy proposed that the demonic cultivators leave Treasure Mountain and attack the Fire Dragon Palace, since the soul contract only applied on the mountain.
• Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning declined to join the demonic cultivators and went to ask High Person Qianshan where Li Xiaoya had gone.
• High Person Qianshan found demonic qi and residual spatial force at the center of the Square, suggesting Li Xiaoya might have been teleported away.
• High Person Qianshan and Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning decided to wait and recover their magic power.
• A five-colored pavilion appeared out of thin air in a meadow beside several wooden houses.

Old Dragon Head revealed that he had prepared to ascend from the Human Realm and triggered a heavenly tribulation atop Treasure Mountain's Main Peak. As the first massive bolt descended, the other cultivators fled, leaving his ascension unresolved.

• Li Xiaoya remained missing while Old Dragon Head and the other cultivators waited on the Main Peak.
• Old Dragon Head dispelled his barrier, announced his ascension, and transformed into his enormous true dragon form.
• Old Dragon Head summoned a Five-Colored Vortex as lightning, spiritual clouds, and Buddhist Chant gathered overhead.
• Cultivators on nearby mountains saw the celestial spectacle, while Heavenly Spirit Granny, Ghost Sword Deity, High Person Qianshan, and the others fled the summit.
• A massive bolt of five-colored spiritual lightning descended from the vortex toward Old Dragon Head.

Old Dragon Head used Treasure Mountain’s defenses to withstand a heavenly tribulation and began ascending, but a Golden Giant Hand tried to seize him from the vortex. A mysterious figure with enormous red eyes stopped the intervention, leaving the struggle unresolved as black light shot toward Treasure Mountain.

• Treasure Mountain’s barrier blocked repeated strikes of five-colored spiritual lightning while Old Dragon Head endured the heavenly tribulation.
• Old Dragon Head sent a pillar of red light into the vortex and began rising toward it under a descending beam of red light.
• Hehuan Young Master cursed Old Dragon Head’s success, while High Person Qianshan recognized his plan to use Treasure Mountain’s restrictions.
• A Golden Giant Hand reached from the vortex to grab Old Dragon Head, but a figure with immense red eyes accused its owner of breaking the rules.
• The Golden Giant Hand withdrew, and the red-eyed figure said heaven was helping him before sending black light toward Treasure Mountain.

After the Upper Realm and Demon Realm cultivators vanished, the Human Realm’s leaders accepted that a demonic invasion was coming and agreed to cooperate. They returned to search for Li Xiaoya, while Li Mother and Li Muzhi tried to enter the five-colored portal to find him and faced resistance from Ma Jie and the Ma Family elders.

• The cultivators beneath Treasure Mountain discussed the terrifying appearance of the Upper Realm and Demon Realm powers, and High Person Qianshan urged the Demonic Path to unite against the invasion.
• The Spirit Communion Stage cultivators realized Old Dragon Head had vanished and speculated that he had ascended after using Treasure Mountain to pursue a treasure.
• The cultivators identified the Upper Realm figure as the Dao Virtue Heavenly Lord and suspected that Li Xiaoya’s disappearance was connected to the treasure, then returned to search for him.
• High Person Qianshan and the others sensed that Treasure Mountain’s spiritual qi had weakened after it resisted Old Dragon Head’s Ascension Tribulation.
• Li Mother and Li Muzhi asked Ma Jie how to reach the Main Peak, then tried to enter the five-colored portal, but Ma Jie and the Ma Family elders blocked them.

Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong emerged from a hidden passage and reunited with Li Muzhi and Li Mother, who were trying to reach Li Xiaoya. After the family speculated that Old Dragon Head might have trapped Li Xiaoya and the others, Ma Jie brought word from the Main Peak that Li Xiaoya had gone missing and asked whether they had his Lifebound Primordial Spirit Lamp.

• Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong emerged from the five-colored passage and found Li Muzhi and Li Mother confronting Ma Jie and the elders.
• Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er led Li Muzhi and Li Mother aside, where the family discussed Old Dragon Head's ascension and possible reasons for Li Xiaoya's disappearance.
• Liu Xian'er reasoned that Old Dragon Head might have used a trap to restrain Li Xiaoya, High Person Qianshan, and the others, and the family agreed to find a way to the Main Peak.
• Ma Jie received a message from Uncle-Master Qianshan saying that Li Xiaoya was missing and asking whether his family had his Lifebound Primordial Spirit Lamp.

The Devastation Devil Lord recovered his physical body beneath Treasure Mountain and received the Demon Emperor’s order to open a passage to the Demon Realm within a thousand years. Li Xiaoya awoke in an unfamiliar place after the Little Pavilion brought him there.

• The Devastation Devil Lord escaped the five-colored flame, reclaimed his body in the sea, and discovered traces of Heaven-Shaker’s demonic qi within it.
• The Demon Emperor contacted the Devastation Devil Lord through a black vortex and ordered him to open a passage to the Demon Realm within a thousand years.
• The Devastation Devil Lord accepted the order despite his severe injuries and wondered whether Heaven-Shaker had perished.
• Li Xiaoya woke inside a wooden pavilion on a flower-covered grassland and wondered how he had left Treasure Mountain.

Li Xiaoya survived the Little Pavilion’s immense teleportation and woke in a place filled with pure five-element spiritual qi, while Devastation Devil Lord fled the sea near Treasure Mountain. On the mountain, High Person Qianshan and the others learned from Liu Xian'er’s message that Li Xiaoya’s Soul Lifebound Bell still showed signs of life.

• The Little Pavilion transported Li Xiaoya through a spatial tunnel, and he woke injured in a place rich with five-element spiritual qi before beginning to heal.
• Devastation Devil Lord reasoned that the Demon Emperor had sent Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor into the Human Realm in his body, then fled underwater when cultivators approached Treasure Mountain.
• High Person Qianshan and the others found traces of spatial power on Treasure Mountain’s Main Peak and suspected Li Xiaoya had been teleported away.
• High Person Qianshan received Liu Xian'er’s message and examined Li Xiaoya’s dimly glowing Soul Lifebound Bell, confirming that Li Xiaoya was likely alive but possibly far away or badly injured.
• Hehuan Young Master asked High Person Qianshan to let him examine the bell.

High Person Qianshan reassured the Heavenly Dao Sect that Li Xiaoya was probably safe and assigned the disciples to guard their mountains. Meanwhile, three colossal sea dragons slaughtered cultivators near the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea as King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs arrived and pointed them toward Treasure Mountain.

• High Person Qianshan refused Hehuan Young Master's offer to examine Li Xiaoya's Soul Life-Bell, then sent the Heavenly Dao Sect a message saying Li Xiaoya had likely been transported away and ordering the disciples to protect their mountains.
• Liu Xian'er reassured Li Xiaoya's parents, sent Zhang Hong to accompany them, and began planning the management of Rainbow Rosy Peak with Ma Jie and other elders.
• Golden Core Stage cultivators hunting demon beasts near the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea were caught by a towering wall of water and the arrival of three enormous sea dragons.
• The sea dragons blasted the cultivators away, killed and devoured them, and discussed the spiritual qi coming from the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea.
• King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs arrived and told the three senior experts that Treasure Mountain was ahead, asking whether they should wait for the army behind them.

The Three Great Demon Dragon Kings led a vast demon beast horde toward Treasure Mountain, seeking revenge on the Fire Dragon Head and the human cultivators. At the Treasure Ship Market, Elder Wang recognized the threat and ordered the defenders to prepare for battle as the dragons approached.

• One-Eyed Dragon, Broken-Claw Dragon, and the dragon with the damaged tail questioned King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs about the Fire Dragon Head and vowed to attack the humans and avenge their injuries.
• King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs led the three dragons and more than a hundred powerful demon beasts toward Treasure Mountain, and the horde attacked human cultivators along the way.
• At the Treasure Ship Market, Li Mother asked Zhang Hong whether she and Liu Xian'er had considered having children, but their conversation ended when they heard the approaching waves.
• Elder Wang ordered the Treasure Ship defenders to reinforce their restrictions and ready the Linked Super Spirit Cannons, then sent an emergency signal to Treasure Mountain.
• As the three colossal dragons came into view, Elder Wang identified them as the Three Great Demon Dragon Kings and ordered the defenders to prepare their weapons but hold their fire.

The Three Great Demon Dragon Kings led a vast Demon Beast army to Treasure Mountain, hoping to seize its spiritual treasure and help them ascend. After Broken-Claw Dragon countered the Heavenly Dao Sect’s cannons, High Person Qianshan and the other Spirit Communion Great Cultivators set out to confront the Dragon Kings.

• The Three Great Demon Dragon Kings and their Demon Beast army charged toward Treasure Mountain, while Broken-Claw Dragon directed a group toward the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Treasure Ship Market.
• Elder Wang ordered the Linked Super Spirit Cannons to fire, killing many Demon Beasts before Broken-Claw Dragon froze their barrage and forced Elder Wang to stop firing.
• King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs explained to One-Eyed Dragon and Missing-Tail Hu that the humans had breached Treasure Mountain’s five-element formation after he fled to seek their help.
• High Person Qianshan learned from a Communication Talisman that the Three Great Demon Dragon Kings had arrived and urged the other Spirit Communion Great Cultivators to confront them.
• Heavenly Spirit Granny, Hehuan Young Master, Hehuan Fairy, and the other cultivators followed High Person Qianshan toward the stairs.

High Person Qianshan and the cultivators on Treasure Mountain's Main Peak rushed to aid the Treasure Ship Market as the Three Great Demon Dragon Kings attacked. The ship's defenses barely held off Broken-Claw Dragon's assault, but the three kings closed in before its crew could recover.

• High Person Qianshan promised the Demonic Path cultivators Linked Super Spirit Cannons if they helped repel the Demon Realm invasion, then hurried toward the sea.
• One-Eyed Dragon held back from joining Broken-Claw Dragon's attack at first, while Broken-Claw Dragon led the demon beasts against the Treasure Ship Market.
• Elder Wang ordered the Linked Super Spirit Cannons to fire at Broken-Claw Dragon, and their beams briefly stalemated his freezing blue pillar.
• One-Eyed Dragon, Missing-Tail Hu, and King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs joined the assault, weakening the cannons' barrage until they ran out of spirit stones.
• A woman directed the disciples to form the Nine-Palace Heavenly Spirit Walls and urged the cultivators to reinforce the ship's five-element defense, which stopped Broken-Claw Dragon's reduced attack.
• The Three Great Demon Dragon Kings charged to within a few li of the Treasure Ship Market.

Li Mother's experimental use of the Linked Super Spirit Cannons strengthened the Treasure Ship Market's barrier enough to repel the Three Great Demon Dragon Kings' first attack. As the Kings prepared a more powerful assault, Li Xiaoya recovered in the mysterious place and set out to explore it.

• Li Mother ordered the Linked Super Spirit Cannons to fire five-element spiritual qi at the formation barrier, and two cannons exploded during the unstable attempt.
• The cannons began firing successfully, rapidly thickening the Treasure Ship Market's five-element formation defense restriction.
• The Three Great Demon Dragon Kings struck the strengthened barrier with their tails and claws, but failed to break through.
• The Three Great Demon Dragon Kings prepared another divine ability as nearby cultivators debated whether to intervene.
• Li Xiaoya recovered enough to stand, wondered where he was, and headed toward a cluster of little houses.