Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya spent over a century cultivating in the Mysterious Place, developing his five-element abilities while Second Better and the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma worked on puppets and Steel-armored Beetles. The chapter ended with Zhang Hong’s Soul Life-Bell glowing brightly, signaling that she had advanced to the Spirit Communion stage, though Li Xiaoya hesitated to contact her.

• Li Xiaoya used a Five-Colored Vortex and Light Shield to overwhelm the Steel-armored Beetles and reflect the Metal Puppets’ attacks, damaging several puppets.
• Second Better and the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma scolded Li Xiaoya for damaging the puppets and risking the newly hatched beetles, and he promised to be more careful.
• Li Xiaoya’s cultivation advanced to the peak of the early Spirit Communion stage’s third layer, while his alchemy skills also improved through years of study and practice.
• Li Xiaoya found that the Immortal Dao Chain had absorbed only a tiny amount of demon-sealing divine milk and still could not contact Liu Xian'er and the others through the Soul Life-Bell.
• More than fifty years later, Zhang Hong’s Soul Life-Bell blazed red, and Li Xiaoya realized she had advanced to the Spirit Communion stage, but he hesitated to send her a voice transmission.

Zhang Hong, Liu Xian'er, Li Mother, and Li Muzhi all reached the Spirit Communion Stage as the Cultivation World faced growing threats from demon beasts and the coming Demon Realm invasion. After Li Mother and Li Muzhi’s advancement sparked demands for the secret method, Liu Xian'er revealed the Nine-Turn Spirit Communion Pill formula, leaving the sects struggling to obtain its rare ingredients and refine more pills.

• Zhang Hong advanced to the Spirit Communion Stage, and the Heavenly Dao Sect celebrated her achievement while cultivators continued to wonder about the missing Li Xiaoya.
• Liu Xian'er returned to the Heavenly Dao Sect after searching the Human Realm and Origin Continent for Li Xiaoya, then stood guard as Li Mother and Li Muzhi prepared to advance.
• Li Mother and Li Muzhi eventually took Nine-Turn Spirit Communion Pills and successfully reached the Spirit Communion Stage, drawing intense attention to Li Xiaoya's family.
• The Three Great Demon Dragon Kings allied with powerful demon beasts and established a nation in the Enchanted Mountain Range, forcing humans to build a vast defensive wall and wage a prolonged war.
• As demonic signs appeared above the Great Wilderness Valley, Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea, and Enchanted Mountain Range, sects demanded the advancement method from the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Liu Xian'er revealed the Nine-Turn Spirit Communion Pill formula, and the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning produced only four pills from three batches, which four major sects divided among themselves.

Spirit Communion Stage cultivators examined signs of a Demon Realm invasion and agreed to search for the cultivator opening the passage. High Person Qianshan left for the Great Illusion Continent to seek an alliance with the Three Great Demon Dragon Kings, while the others prepared to defend Treasure Mountain and the Heavenly Dao Sect.

• High Person Qianshan and the other Spirit Communion Stage cultivators concluded that the sky’s strange signs marked an attempt to open a Demon Realm Passage, though the invasion might still be years away.
• Liu Xian'er suggested finding and stopping the cultivator breaking through the boundary, and the assembled cultivators agreed to investigate suspicious activity.
• High Person Qianshan decided to negotiate with the Three Great Demon Dragon Kings, despite their past demands for half of Treasure Mountain and half the human continent.
• High Person Qianshan assigned Liu Xian'er, Zhang Hong, Heavenly Venerable Daoling, and other fighters to guard Treasure Mountain, while Li Mother, Li Muzhi, and Fairy Qingxia returned to guard the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• High Person Qianshan set out alone for the Great Illusion Continent, and Li Muzhi and Li Mother worried about the coming invasion and Li Xiaoya’s disappearance.

High Person Qianshan negotiated an alliance between humanity and the Demon Beasts by offering terms that satisfied the Three Great Demon Dragon Kings without giving up Treasure Mountain. Meanwhile, cultivators destroyed the demon’s formation in Great Wilderness Valley, but the escaped fiend remained active far beneath it.

• High Person Qianshan told the Demon Beasts that humanity would not surrender any part of Treasure Mountain and warned that the Demon Realm threatened them too.
• High Person Qianshan privately offered One-Eyed Sea Dragon terms, and the Three Great Demon Dragon Kings discussed them before agreeing to an alliance with additional conditions.
• High Person Qianshan left the Enchanted Mountain Range after reaching terms with the Demon Beasts and headed toward Treasure Mountain.
• Cultivators found the fiend’s demonic formation in Great Wilderness Valley, and Spirit Communion Stage Great Cultivators destroyed it, causing the demonic blotches in the sky to disappear.
• Far beneath Great Wilderness Valley, a horn-covered monster struck a cultivator into a rock wall and declared that he was a demon.

A century after humans and demon beasts allied, Golden Core cultivators began disappearing, and investigators traced a possible lead to Black Skeleton’s return on the Origin Continent. Liu Xian'er, Zhang Hong, and Lingyu found no clues there, but a demonic mark appeared just as they prepared to leave.

• A wounded cultivator told a demon that Li Xiaoya had caused his misfortune, and the demon grew delighted as it heard his story.
• High Person Qianshan secured an alliance between human cultivators and demon beasts, promising the Three Great Demon Dragon Kings access to Treasure Mountain for their ascension and recognizing the Enchanted Mountain Range as the demon beasts’ territory.
• Over the following century, Golden Core cultivators disappeared across Great Illusion, prompting the sects to investigate and discover that Black Skeleton had returned and was fighting the Mystic Heaven Way on the Origin Continent.
• Venerable Dayu and Poison King Immortal Venerable mediated a ceasefire between Black Skeleton and Ouyang Qianru, then returned to Great Illusion without investigating further.
• High Person Qianshan sent Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong to investigate the Origin Continent, and Lingyu joined them; the investigation found no clues, but a demonic mark appeared as they prepared to leave.

Zhang Hong, Liu Xian'er, and Lingyu discovered a demonic mark over the Misty Sea Region and were attacked by masked cultivators and a powerful demonic beast. Lingyu escaped while Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er stayed to fight, launching their combined Water-Fire Sky-Piercing Pearl at the beast.

• Zhang Hong, Liu Xian'er, and Lingyu found a demonic mark over the Misty Sea Region before reaching Lingyu and Li Mother's former island.
• Liu Xian'er cleared the mist, revealing dozens of Black-Robed Masked Cultivators, and she and Zhang Hong drove them back with ice and fire attacks.
• A demonic beast rose from the sea and pursued the three women, overpowering their attacks with a massive black beam.
• Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong fled with Lingyu, then sent her away while they prepared to hold off the beast.
• Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er summoned the Water-Fire Sky-Piercing Pearl and launched a red-and-blue sphere that swept up the beast's black lightning spheres.

Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong battled the black monster with powerful combined attacks, but it survived and unleashed a devastating surge of magic power from beneath the sea. As an enormous black explosion erupted, Lingyu turned back toward the fight.

• Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong’s combined water-and-fire attack struck the monster, which survived with one wing burned and the other frozen.
• The monster attacked Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong with black Light Blades, but Liu Xian'er blocked them with the Ren-Kui Twin Swords while Zhang Hong struck its head with the Blazing Flame Divine Whip.
• Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong sensed an unstable surge of magic power from the seabed, withdrew their Magic Treasures, and flew upward.
• The monster unleashed black light across the sea and triggered a gigantic explosion that threw the sea into chaos.
• Lingyu felt the distant shock, saw the explosion, and turned back toward the battle.

Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er survived an attack by a demonic beast and found evidence linking Black Skeleton to the Demon Realm. After decades of fruitless investigation, they returned to Great Illusion when Li Mother and Li Muzhi were badly wounded, and realized the Demon Realm was targeting the Li Family.

• Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er escaped the demonic beast’s self-destruction, suspected Black Skeleton was hiding the demonic mark, and sent Lingyu back to Great Illusion to report.
• Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er searched the Misty Sea Region and the Origin Continent for decades but found no further clues before an attack forced them to return.
• Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong learned that Li Mother and Li Muzhi had been ambushed by a monster while pursuing demonized cultivators, and that it had destroyed their squad before self-destructing.
• Liu Xian'er, Zhang Hong, Li Mother, and Li Muzhi recognized the monster as the same kind that had attacked Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er, and concluded the Demon Realm was targeting the Li Family to get at Xiao Ya.
• Liu Xian'er said she and Zhang Hong would return to the Origin Continent to expose Black Skeleton, but Li Muzhi stopped them.

Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong agreed to stay on Treasure Mountain while Li Muzhi and Li Mother recovered, though Liu Xian'er remained worried about Tianyuan and Black Skeleton. Their longing for the missing Li Xiaoya weighed on both of them, and they discovered that Treasure Mountain's spiritual qi had weakened as the chapter ended with Li Xiaoya in serious trouble.

• Li Mother explained that Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong should stay in Great Illusion until she and Li Muzhi recovered, and they agreed to discuss the plan with Qianshan.
• Liu Xian'er complained to Zhang Hong about staying behind, while Zhang Hong argued that protecting Li Muzhi and Li Mother should come first.
• Liu Xian'er worried that Black Skeleton had survived and might have caused the attacks, then burst out in frustration over Li Xiaoya's long absence.
• Zhang Hong comforted Liu Xian'er and admitted that she, too, missed Li Xiaoya, whose disappearance had stalled both women's cultivation.
• Liu Xian'er noticed that Treasure Mountain's spiritual qi had weakened, and she and Zhang Hong decided to ask Qianshan about it.
• The narration revealed that Li Xiaoya had run into serious trouble.

Li Xiaoya’s cultivation in the Mysterious Place accelerated as he advanced through the Spirit Communion Stage and prepared to break through to the Great Void Stage. The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma explained that Li Xiaoya’s full five-element immortal roots made his unusual cultivation method possible, but the chapter left his breakthrough still underway.

• Li Xiaoya endured a painful attempt to break through to the Great Void Stage while Second Better and the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma discussed his prospects.
• Over more than four hundred years, Li Xiaoya advanced to the late Spirit Communion Stage, while Li Mother and Li Muzhi also broke through to the Spirit Communion Stage.
• Li Xiaoya questioned whether Five-Element Heaven and Earth was a demonic cultivation method after realizing how rapidly it increased his cultivation speed.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma explained that the method required full immortal roots and revealed that his five-element origin force had filled Li Xiaoya’s roots long ago.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma told Li Xiaoya that filling all five-element immortal roots was necessary to advance to the Great Void Stage.

Li Xiaoya learned why his full five-element immortal roots could let him pursue the Great Void Stage, then cultivated to the peak of Spirit Communion Stage in the Mysterious Place. He left with a new puppet army and a few hundred fearsome blood-red steel-armored beetles under his control.

• Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma explained that Great Void Stage cultivators gained false longevity by surviving recurring heavenly tribulations, and that completing and filling all five-element immortal roots was essential to reaching that stage.
• Li Xiaoya devoted himself to cultivation, consumed a Two-Polarity Purple Frost Pill, and reached the peak of great perfection of the Spirit Communion Stage after more than a hundred years.
• Li Xiaoya found the Immortal Dao Chain still grayish white and learned that Second Better had built a smaller, stronger Metal Puppet, which Li Xiaoya named the Demon-Slaying Divine Soldier and ordered produced in quantity.
• Li Xiaoya discovered tens of thousands of steel-armored beetles in their third egg-laying slumber, but after hatching they devoured one another until only a few hundred blood-red beetles remained.
• Li Xiaoya found the surviving blood-red beetles powerful enough to challenge him, performed Blood-Binding on each one, and had Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma stop raising them because their pills and ingredients were nearly exhausted.

As Li Xiaoya endured a painful, century-long attempt to reach the Great Void Stage, the Spirit Communion Stage cultivators on Treasure Mountain argued over its declining spiritual qi and the coming Demon Realm invasion. Their meeting ended when an alarm announced that Treasure Mountain was under attack.

• Li Xiaoya used the Five-Element Heavenly Dao Art and Two-Polarity Purple Frost Pills to attempt a Great Void Stage breakthrough, suffering through repeated transformations for more than a hundred years.
• The Twelve Sects’ Spirit Communion Stage Great Cultivators argued in the Dao Virtue Hall over Treasure Mountain’s declining spiritual qi and whether lower-level cultivators should leave.
• High Person Qianshan explained that Treasure Mountain’s spiritual qi was naturally waning and warned that the mountain might vanish before the Demon Realm invasion.
• High Person Qianshan rebuked cultivators who hoped to ascend rather than defend the Human Realm, and Hehuan Young Master urged them to unite against the invasion.
• An alarm sounded across Treasure Mountain, and the gathered cultivators realized that it was under attack.

A horde of demonic beasts from the Demon Realm approached Treasure Mountain, confirming High Person Qianshan’s long-held expectation of an invasion. The sects prepared to defend their peaks, and the Heavenly Dao Sect opened the battle by firing its Linked Super Spirit Cannons.

• High Person Qianshan led the cultivators outside after the alarm sounded, where they saw a vast mass of black qi and approaching beasts over the sea.
• Liu Xian'er recognized the leading beasts as demonic beasts from the Demon Realm and recalled High Person Qianshan’s preparations for an eventual invasion.
• High Person Qianshan ordered the sects to withdraw and defend their peaks, then sent Liu Xian'er and the other Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators to their peak.
• Liu Xian'er, Zhang Hong, High Person Qianshan, and the other defenders readied the Heavenly Dao Sect’s restrictions, cultivators, and Linked Super Spirit Cannons.
• High Person Qianshan ordered the cannons to fire, and the Heavenly Dao Sect launched volleys of red beams at the approaching beasts.

Treasure Mountain’s cultivators fought off a coordinated Magic Beast army as High Person Qianshan directed the Linked Super Spirit Cannons. After the cannons devastated the enemy’s ranks, the remaining beasts changed tactics and launched a swarm attack toward Treasure Mountain, leaving its defenses under threat.

• High Person Qianshan ordered the Linked Super Spirit Cannons to target the leading Evil Dragon Beast, while Liu Xian'er warned him that the beasts were powerful and could self-destruct.
• A blue beam struck the Evil Dragon Beast from below, allowing the cannons’ combined red beam to overwhelm it and kill many nearby Magic Beasts.
• The surviving Evil Dragon Beasts roared, sending the One-Eyed Demon Beasts into the sky and the Three-Headed Pythons beneath the sea to evade further cannon fire.
• Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong suspected that something was controlling the unusually coordinated beasts as the Evil Dragon Beasts rose into the sky.
• The One-Eyed Demon Beasts launched a suicide attack toward Treasure Mountain, and High Person Qianshan realized they were targeting the mountain after only some were stopped by the cannons.

The Demon Realm army attacked Treasure Mountain's Five-Colored Light Barrier, rapidly draining the mountain's spiritual qi. High Person Qianshan led the cultivators into battle, first triggering the Giant-Eyed Magic Beasts' explosions from a distance and then turning their attention to the Three-Headed Pythons.

• Giant-Eyed Magic Beasts rammed and detonated against the Five-Colored Light Barrier as Three-Headed Pythons blasted it with black lightning.
• High Person Qianshan realized the attacks were draining Treasure Mountain's spiritual qi and refused to send the cultivators out while Evil Dragon Beasts waited nearby.
• After sects sent urgent messages urging action, High Person Qianshan ordered the cultivators to attack the Giant-Eyed Magic Beasts.
• High Person Qianshan and the other cultivators used low-tier spells to trigger the beasts' self-detonations before they could reach the barrier.
• High Person Qianshan directed Spirit Communion Stage cultivators to attack the Three-Headed Pythons and struck them with his Bright Light Green-Frost Gloves.

Human cultivators turned the battle against the Giant-Eyed Magic Beasts and Three-Headed Pythons, but the arrival of the powerful Evil Dragon Beasts caused casualties. Meanwhile, Li Xiaoya completed the Immortal Dao Chain in the Mysterious Place.

• High Person Qianshan, Liu Xian'er, and the other cultivators killed many Giant-Eyed Magic Beasts and Three-Headed Pythons, forcing them to retreat.
• The Evil Dragon Beasts charged toward the sects' defensive positions as the other beasts renewed their attacks, and High Person Qianshan sent warnings about their strength and self-detonations.
• The Hehuan Twin Demons combined their abilities to repel and kill an Evil Dragon Beast, while cultivators at other positions were driven back and began suffering casualties.
• In the Mysterious Place, Li Xiaoya raised the fully milky-white Immortal Dao Chain and celebrated that it had worked.

After the Demon Realm’s first assault depleted a third of Treasure Mountain’s spiritual qi, the cultivators searched for the beast army for more than twenty years without success. A new attack then began, and Qin Xian fled toward Treasure Mountain with several Evil Dragon Beasts pursuing him.

• The Spirit Communion Stage cultivators agreed to patrol Treasure Mountain and search Great Illusion and Tianyuan for the Demon Realm army, but a year of searching turned up no trace.
• Huang Hua and Li Xiangxiang spent decades searching Tianyuan without finding any Demon Realm beasts, and most of the search parties were eventually recalled.
• More than twenty years after the first assault, warning bells sounded across Treasure Mountain, prompting the cultivators to prepare for another attack.
• Qin Xian and his patrol spotted a massive Demon Realm army and sent a warning, then fled as several Evil Dragon Beasts pursued them.
• Qin Xian used his wing ancient treasure to speed ahead of the other fleeing cultivators, but an Evil Dragon Beast continued closing in as screams and explosions sounded behind him.

Qin Xian was pursued by five Evil Dragon Beasts until Li Xiaoya arrived and defeated them with overwhelming power. Li Xiaoya revealed himself as Qin Xian’s master, while the account explained that he had reached the Great Void Stage but still could not use the Immortal Dao Chain to open the Little Pavilion.

• Qin Xian fled the Evil Dragon Beast’s attacks, was wounded by a black beam, and survived when a substitute treasure activated.
• Four more Evil Dragon Beasts surrounded Qin Xian after killing the other Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.
• A cultivator protected Qin Xian with a Five-Colored Light Barrier and blasted the Evil Dragon Beasts with five-colored beams.
• The Evil Dragon Beasts self-destructed, and the cultivator carried Qin Xian to safety.
• Qin Xian recognized the newcomer as his master, Li Xiaoya.
• The story revealed that Li Xiaoya had reached the Great Void Stage decades earlier, but the Immortal Dao Chain could not open the Little Pavilion.

After twenty years of meditation in the Mysterious Place, Li Xiaoya’s resolve to fulfill his fate triggered the Little Pavilion and caused the dimension to collapse. The Pavilion transported him back to Treasure Mountain, where he saved the dying Qin Xian and wiped out Evil Dragon Beasts as his long-awaited return stunned the cultivators.

• Li Xiaoya failed to activate the Little Pavilion for years, stabilized his Great Void Stage cultivation, and reflected on immortality and his duty to save humanity’s cultivators.
• After twenty years of meditation, Li Xiaoya roared that he would accept what heaven had ordained, and his power caused the Mysterious Place to collapse.
• Li Xiaoya put Second Better and the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma into his Heaven-and-Earth Bag and entered the Little Pavilion as it gathered the collapsing space’s five-colored spiritual light.
• The Little Pavilion vanished and transported Li Xiaoya to Treasure Mountain, where his arrival released a powerful aura and made Li Xiaoya’s Soul Life-Bell blaze for Liu Xian'er and the others.
• Li Xiaoya sensed that Qin Xian was near death, used Divine Wandering Through the Great Void to reach him, and saved him as five-colored light wiped out many Evil Dragon Beasts.

Li Xiaoya returned to Treasure Mountain, rescued Qin Xian, and reunited with Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er after centuries apart. He learned that his parents were safe at Divine Path Mountain, then faced Spirit Communion Stage cultivators demanding an explanation about an old agreement to share treasures.

• Li Xiaoya used Divine Wandering Through the Great Void to reach Treasure Mountain and save Qin Xian from the Evil Dragon Beasts.
• Zhang Hong rushed to Li Xiaoya and embraced him, and the two wept with joy at their reunion.
• Li Xiaoya embraced Liu Xian'er, then learned from Zhang Hong that his parents were safe and had reached the Spirit Communion Stage.
• Spirit Communion Stage cultivators from several sects arrived and recognized Li Xiaoya, whose aura made them suspect he had advanced to the Great Void Stage.
• The Poison King Immortal Venerable and Ghost King Devil Lord invoked an agreement to share treasures, and Li Xiaoya asked what agreement they meant.