Chapter Summaries

After completing his mission to obtain the nine-heavens immortalizing grass, Li Xiaoya spent his race contribution points and traveled to the cross-continent teleportation formation to reach the East Xia Continent. Elder Lei agreed to send him, but asked him to wait for a group of other cultivators, all of whom proved to be Heaven-and-Earth Realm experts.

• Li Xiaoya returned the nine-heavens immortalizing grass to the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones, accepted the conditions attached to permission to travel, and received race contribution points.
• Li Xiaoya spent most of his contribution points on cultivation materials and reference information, then obtained a token for direct teleportation to the East Xia Continent.
• Senior Brother Ding escorted Li Xiaoya to Elder Lei, who agreed to arrange the teleportation after seeing the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones' purple spirit token.
• Elder Lei asked Li Xiaoya to wait half an hour for a friend and other travelers, and Li Xiaoya reluctantly agreed because his assignment was urgent.
• Several Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivators arrived at the teleportation formation, surprising Li Xiaoya.

Li Xiaoya tried to leave for the East Xia Continent after waiting the agreed half hour, but the elders belittled him and Gongyang Yuhua attacked. After Li Xiaoya matched the elders’ power, they agreed to activate the Interrealm Teleportation Formation without waiting for Elder You.

• Elder Lei introduced Li Xiaoya to Yao Zixiu, Situ Xiuya, Gongyang Yuhua, and Lin Qilu while waiting for another elder to arrive.
• Li Xiaoya insisted that the elders activate the formation once his half-hour wait had passed, but Yao Zixiu and Gongyang Yuhua scorned him and demanded that he keep waiting.
• Li Xiaoya revealed power that rivaled the Heaven-and-Earth Realm elders and ordered Elder Lei to activate the formation.
• Gongyang Yuhua attacked Li Xiaoya with a giant skeletal hand, and Li Xiaoya countered with a golden giant hand as Elder Lei’s red bell contained their clash.
• Elder Lei agreed to activate the formation, and Yao Zixiu said they would not wait for Elder You.

Li Xiaoya arrived on Teleportation Island in East Xia and refused the elders’ invitation to explore a secret realm, prioritizing Lord Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones’ task and his search for Zhang Hong. He learned that he needed to travel toward District 321 to reach the Purple Vitality Gate, bought three overpriced Teleportation Tokens, and prepared to teleport to the mainland.

• A five-colored-light cultivator sensed Li Xiaoya’s return to East Xia and decided it was not yet time to meet him.
• Yao Zixiu invited Li Xiaoya to explore an abandoned secret realm, but Li Xiaoya refused and left to carry out Lord Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones’ task.
• After Li Xiaoya flew down to the city, Yao Zixiu proposed inviting Elder Liu to replace him for the secret-realm expedition, and the elders headed into the city.
• Li Xiaoya asked a red-armored elder about reaching District 321 and learned that he would need to travel through other regions because no Heavenly Demon Race formation led there directly.
• The elder warned Li Xiaoya to hide his Legacy Disciple token, then sold him three Teleportation Tokens for five million Spirit Stone Coins each.
• Li Xiaoya rejected the elder’s offer to buy more tokens and asked him to activate the formation to send him to the mainland.

Li Xiaoya crossed the East Xia Continent by teleportation and learned why the route back to the Ancient Demon Continent was so difficult. Meanwhile, Dong Santong announced that he would ascend within a hundred years, and Li Xiaoya arrived at a brightly lit hall in a bustling city, where a female cultivator rushed in.

• Li Xiaoya bought teleportation tokens cheaply from a fat Heavenly Demon Race cultivator and continued through several formations, while Gongyang Yuhua and his party later found no tokens left.
• Li Xiaoya learned that Teleportation Island’s formation led only one way and that returning to the Ancient Demon Continent required a long, dangerous journey across the sea.
• Qian Lan and Xi Lanruyu entered the cross-continent teleportation formation on the Ancient Demon Continent and headed for East Xia Continent.
• Dong Santong told the Spirit Communion Stage masters that he would ascend within a hundred years and would help those who reached Great Perfection before then.
• Dong Santong went to check on Xiao Ya’s parents at the bottom of Spiritlight Lake, while Buddha Xuanmen, Heavenly Venerable Daoling, and Fairy Qingxia departed together.
• Li Xiaoya emerged in a brightly lit hall beneath a bustling city, and a plump female cultivator hurried inside to greet him.

Li Xiaoya arrived at Jiangyang City, met a young girl guarding its Teleportation Formation, and went out to explore after leaving her a message talisman and gifts. The chapter then shifted to the Chinese Empire’s war with the European Alliance, where Zhang Huahan ordered army groups around the world to stay at their posts despite their commanders’ demands to join the fighting.

• Li Xiaoya caught the girl before she fell and learned that she was ten and guarding the Teleportation Formation for her absent great-grandfather.
• After learning that the formation stood in Jiangyang City, Li Xiaoya gave the girl a talisman for her grandfather and changed his appearance before leaving.
• Li Xiaoya gave the girl a bracelet and a Little Pearl to help her cultivation, then hurried out while she watched in amazement.
• Liu Wangyang said the Chinese Empire’s naval victory would support its ground forces as fighting intensified against the European Alliance.
• Zhang Huahan ordered the First through Sixth Army Groups and forces in Africa to remain in their territories, rejecting their requests to fight in Europe.

Li Xiaoya rescued a young cultivator from three Giant Race warriors in Jiangyang City and learned that the Heavenly Dao Sect was a powerful sect based on Divine Path Mountain. The youth offered Li Xiaoya the mysterious orb the giants had tried to steal, and Li Xiaoya felt an unexpected reaction when he touched it.

• Li Xiaoya immobilized the three Giant Race warriors, drove them off, and carried the young cultivator away before the city guards arrived.
• The young cultivator thanked Li Xiaoya and asked him to become his master, but Li Xiaoya refused and questioned him about the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• The youth explained that the Heavenly Dao Sect was the largest sect in Jiangyang Territory and protected the Huaxia Human Race, prompting Li Xiaoya to consider visiting Divine Path Mountain.
• The young cultivator revealed that the giants had tried to steal his treasure and offered Li Xiaoya a golden, rune-covered orb to examine.
• Li Xiaoya accepted the orb and felt a strange sensation as recognition stirred in him.

The narrator and Lu Lu hunted night creatures to complete a quest for twenty-five types of ears, then turned in their progress at the Volcano Tree Monster. In the separate investigation, Tang Wu and the police tried to stop Deputy Governor Zhao from leaving with Zhao Lei, but the governor denied knowing where his son was and demanded to see the bureau chief.

• The narrator and Lu Lu defeated a night cat and collected its ears as their twentieth type.
• The narrator and Lu Lu hunted for several nights, eventually gathering twenty-five types of ears.
• The narrator and Lu Lu went to the mountaintop to turn in the quest to the Volcano Tree Monster.
• Tang Wu learned Deputy Governor Zhao had driven away and ordered Liang Yuanshan to search Zhao Lei's home and block the governor from reaching the expressway.
• The police intercepted Deputy Governor Zhao's car near the expressway, but he showed his official ID and denied seeing Zhao Lei.
• The detectives asked Deputy Governor Zhao to cooperate in the investigation, and he demanded that they bring the bureau chief.

Li Xiaoya accidentally activated the green gemstone and metal ring, briefly opening a Spatial Gate that alarmed powerful beings across distant realms. He escaped being pulled through, then returned to Jiangyang City to teleport toward District 321 and address Zhang Hong’s injuries.

• Li Xiaoya fitted the green gemstone into the metal ring, which opened a green Spatial Gate and began pulling him toward it.
• Powerful beings in the Thirty-Three Star Realm and the East Xia Continent sensed the object’s brief appearance and ordered searches in District 456 and District 451.
• Li Xiaoya used his Magic Power and strength to separate the gemstone from the ring, closing the gate before it could suck him in.
• After receiving a Communication Talisman from the plump female cultivator, Li Xiaoya put away the items and decided to prioritize Zhang Hong’s injuries over investigating the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Li Xiaoya returned to Jiangyang City, where the elderly cultivator and the plump female cultivator escorted him to the basement Teleportation Formation.

Qin Lin’s forces and the Portuguese fleet crushed the Spanish fleet after Perez turned on his former allies. The captured Spaniards learned that Portugal had broken free of Spanish rule, while the Portuguese wondered how Qin Lin had foreseen the Armada’s defeat.

• Perez ordered the Portuguese fleet to attack the Spanish ships from behind, and Yu Zigao and Shen Yourong sent their Fujian junks in from the flank.
• Qin Lin watched as the Spanish fleet was attacked from three directions, and half an hour later the Poseidon surrendered.
• Ferdinand cursed Perez aboard the Lin Ying, while Perez revealed that the Spanish Armada had already been annihilated in the English Channel.
• Rob and Wavei told the Spanish officers that Bishop Enrique had crowned the Duke of Braganza king of Portugal.
• The Portuguese officers looked to Qin Lin in awe, wondering how he had predicted the Armada’s defeat and arranged a secret agreement with Portugal.

A Huaxia Human Race cultivator rescued four Heartmind Pavilion women from the Greenfolk, destroying their leader’s meteor hammer and forcing the attackers to flee. The story then shifted to a car crash, where mortally wounded Old Song warned Zhang Yifan that someone wanted to harm him before dying.

• Four Heartmind Pavilion cultivators fought off the pursuing Greenfolk, but their senior sister refused to abandon them.
• A Greenfolk leader attacked the women with an enormous meteor hammer, and one junior sister pushed their senior sister to safety.
• A Huaxia Human Race cultivator appeared and shattered the meteor hammer with a streak of golden light.
• The Greenfolk leader recognized the newcomer’s superior cultivation and ordered his followers to flee.
• A black Audi collided with another car and was thrown into the air.
• Old Song, fatally injured in the crash, warned Zhang Yifan that someone wanted to harm him and then died.

Li Xiaoya decided to help Heartmind Pavilion and Heartmind City after learning the Greenfolk had besieged the city to capture its women. He rejoined the four cultivators, heard the details of the attack, and learned that four Great Void Stage Greenfolk had sealed the city in a grand formation.

• The four Heartmind Pavilion cultivators set out for Qinlong City to seek reinforcements after failing to find Li Xiaoya.
• Li Xiaoya overheard their conversation from a hundred li away and turned back, deciding to help save Heartmind City.
• The four women reconsidered returning to Li Xiaoya after the youngest suggested taking the treasures left by the Greenfolk, and their Senior Sister agreed to go back.
• Li Xiaoya caught up with the women and asked what had happened to Heartmind City.
• The Senior Sister explained that the Greenfolk had infiltrated the city, surrounded it, and intended to seize its women; the cultivators added that four Great Void Stage attackers had sealed the city with a grand formation.

Granny Lingxin broke out of the Heartmind Pavilion’s besieged city and killed thousands of Greenfolk cultivators before their leader and three other fighters blocked her retreat. She was left trapped outside the city’s protective formation.

• Greenfolk cultivators surrounded the city, taunted its defenders, and abused captured Huaxia Human Race women.
• Granny Lingxin erupted from the city wall, blasted a breach through the purple formation, and charged the Greenfolk army.
• Lingxin’s Crescent Light Blades killed thousands of Greenfolk cultivators in a barrage of red beams and explosions.
• A short, lecherous Greenfolk cultivator confronted Lingxin and countered her attacks with black-purple skull-shaped lights.
• Lingxin tried to fly back to the city, but three Greenfolk cultivators appeared in her path, and Jingyang mocked her.

Li Xiaoya arrived as Lingxin was threatened by four Greenfolk cultivators and fought them with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff and his golden fists. He broke their weapons and freed his staff, which was about to strike one of the attackers as the battle continued.

• Li Xiaoya confronted Jingyang and the other Greenfolk cultivators after they mocked him and threatened Lingxin.
• A Greenfolk cultivator attacked Li Xiaoya with a black-purple staff, but Li Xiaoya's Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff shattered it and sent him flying.
• Jingyang and the other two cultivators joined the fight, attacking Li Xiaoya and his staff with a skull hammer, a trident, and a black beam.
• Li Xiaoya battered Jingyang's skull hammer with golden fists and shattered the trident that struck his staff.
• Li Xiaoya burned through the black beam restraining the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff and sent the staff smashing into the injured Greenfolk cultivator.

Mo Qing crossed the first layer of Ninefold Mountain until earth-element mud men rose from the ground and attacked him. He easily defeated wave after wave, but their numbers kept growing as the fight continued.

• Mo Qing released Frost Qi to cope with the heat and headed toward the mountain leading to the Second Layer.
• A dozen mud men emerged near a lava lake and charged Mo Qing.
• Mo Qing shattered the first mud man’s head and defeated the rest of the initial group.
• More mud men arrived in increasingly large waves, and Mo Qing welcomed the chance to use them as sparring practice.
• As Mo Qing punched behind himself, his fist struck something with a metallic clang, and the impact made his arm ache.

Li Xiaoya rescued Granny Lingxin and joined her in defeating the Greenfolk pursuing them. Afterward, Lingxin revealed that Xiao Hanlan was an Immortal Tribulation Stage rogue cultivator and that his blood-red Steel-armored Beetles were unique, leaving Li Xiaoya with a new clue about Xiao Hanlan.

• Granny Lingxin recognized Li Xiaoya as the cultivator who had freed her from the Skull Head, and the returning Steel-armored Beetles and Immortal-Binding Rope brought back treasures from their prey.
• Lingxin recognized Li Xiaoya’s blood-red Steel-armored Beetles and asked whether he was Xiao Hanlan’s disciple, but Li Xiaoya instead asked how to deal with the approaching Greenfolk.
• Li Xiaoya killed the Greenfolk attackers with golden sword rays while Lingxin struck their Flying Boats with fiery rings and crescents, and the Steel-armored Beetles devoured many fleeing cultivators.
• Li Xiaoya and Lingxin dodged the Greenfolk Flying Boats’ black-and-red beams until the surviving Greenfolk fled, leaving nearly a third of their forces dead.
• Li Xiaoya introduced himself and asked Lingxin about Xiao Hanlan, learning that he was an Immortal Tribulation Stage rogue cultivator who traveled the Greater Star Realms and had the only blood-red Steel-armored Beetles.

Li Xiaoya helped Lingxin destroy the Greenfolk’s Spell-Sealing Demon Crab Formation around Heartmind City, then learned the Greenfolk had launched an unusually bold siege. At Greenfolk Earth City, a masked cultivator reported Li Xiaoya’s interference to a sinister master, who demanded to know who he was.

• Li Xiaoya told Lingxin that the four Heartmind Pavilion disciples she had sent for help were safe and agreed to travel to the Purple Vitality Gate using the Heartmind Pavilion’s teleportation formation.
• Lingxin asked Li Xiaoya to help destroy the Spell-Sealing Demon Crabs, and he readily agreed.
• Li Xiaoya struck down an enormous Spell-Sealing Demon Crab, dispelling the barrier around Heartmind City and prompting the city’s residents to celebrate.
• Li Xiaoya rested in Heartmind City while learning that the Greenfolk’s siege formation had cut off the city’s teleportation links and left the Heartmind Pavilion puzzled by the attack.
• A masked cultivator returned to Greenfolk Earth City and told a sinister master that a Huaxia Human Race cultivator had killed four Greenfolk Great Void Stage Cultivators; the cultivator presented an image of Li Xiaoya.

After helping Heartmind City repel the Greenfolk, Li Xiaoya sought to use its teleportation formation to reach the Purple Vitality Gate and obtain a pill for his injured friend. Lingxin persuaded him to stay fifteen days until reinforcements arrived, then revealed that she already possessed the rare pill he needed.

• A masked cultivator reported Li Xiaoya’s intervention to the Ghost Demon Ancestor, who decided not to pursue him and planned to sacrifice the Greenfolk for nourishment.
• Six months later, Earthen City was destroyed and all its inhabitants vanished, prompting rumors that the Huaxia Human Race had retaliated for the attack on Heartmind City.
• Lingxin offered Li Xiaoya a generous reward, but he declined it and asked instead to use Heartmind City’s teleportation formation to reach the Purple Vitality Gate.
• Lingxin asked Li Xiaoya to defend Heartmind City until reinforcements arrived, and he agreed to wait fifteen days before leaving.
• Li Xiaoya asked Lingxin about the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill, and she revealed that she had obtained one from a Purple Vitality Gate cultivator years earlier.

Lingxin gave Li Xiaoya a Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill, and he used it to try to restore Zhang Hong’s soul inside the Secret Realm Necklace. As the pill took effect, Zhang Hong’s soul grew stronger and her finger began to twitch.

• A mysterious figure listened from high above as Li Xiaoya and Lingxin discussed the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill.
• Lingxin gave Li Xiaoya the pill, and they spent several hours discussing cultivation and the Human Race.
• After Lingxin left, Li Xiaoya sealed his room and entered the Secret Realm Necklace, where Zhang Hong lay surrounded by life flowers.
• Li Xiaoya fed Zhang Hong the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill and a drop of blue liquid, then channeled spiritual power into her to guide the pill’s effects.
• Zhang Hong’s soul grew stronger under Li Xiaoya’s treatment, and one of her fingers gave a faint tremble.

Li Xiaoya saw Zhang Hong briefly open her eyes after her soul began recovering, but she still needed more Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pills. After a five-colored Daoist Patriarch secretly arranged for the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch to assist him, Li Xiaoya prepared to seek the pills at the Purple Vitality Gate and left for its territory.

• Zhang Hong opened her eyes, but her soul remained too weak to respond, so Li Xiaoya concluded she needed more Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pills.
• A hidden observer watched Li Xiaoya, then the five-colored Daoist Patriarch met the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch and asked him to arrange assistance for Li Xiaoya at the Purple Vitality Gate.
• Li Xiaoya studied the Demon-Suppressing Divine Art, believing that it was strengthening his soul and divine sense.
• The Greenfolk army withdrew toward Greenfolk Earth City, while cultivators from other cities arrived to reinforce Heartmind City.
• Li Xiaoya met and sparred with several Great Void Stage Human Race cultivators, then asked Lingxin to teleport him to the Purple Vitality Gate's territory.

Li Xiaoya arrived at the Ling Household in Purple Vitality City and learned that Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch had recalled the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pills he needed to save a friend. Ling Yun was secretly instructed to bring Li Xiaoya to the Purple Vitality Gate, and they reached Purple Vitality Mountain together.

• Ling Yun welcomed Li Xiaoya at the Ling Household and explained how Lingxin and her family were connected to Heartmind City.
• Li Xiaoya said he wanted Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pills, and Ling Yun told him that Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch had ordered the pills collected from various Lineages.
• Li Xiaoya asked for an introduction to a Purple Vitality Gate Elder, and Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch secretly instructed Ling Yun to bring him to the sect.
• Ling Yun accepted Li Xiaoya's elixirs and offered to take him to the Purple Vitality Gate immediately.
• Ling Yun and Li Xiaoya flew across Purple Vitality City and arrived at the foot of Purple Vitality Mountain.