Chapter Summaries

After Profound Heaven True Venerable failed to enter the All Laws Impermanent Dao Lord’s Origin Mansion, Ji Xiu chose to head to Jiangyin Wharf and pursue its secrets rather than leave with the Crimson Scenery Daoist. The East Sea Dragon Lord, Chen Xuanque, and the other leaders agreed that the factions’ outstanding disciples would enter the site as a trial.

• The Crimson Scenery Daoist speculated that the Origin Mansion held the All Laws Impermanent Dao Lord’s true legacy and urged Ji Xiu to leave Jiangyin Prefecture with him.
• Ji Xiu refused and asked the Crimson Scenery Daoist to take him to Jiangyin Wharf so he could join the elders and seek the Origin Mansion’s secrets; Ji Wei supported his choice.
• Xu Longxiang, Wang Xuanyang, and Xiao Pingnan arrived at the wharf and suppressed the lingering effects of the clash between Profound Heaven True Venerable and the Dharmakaya Phantom.
• The East Sea Dragon Lord confronted Profound Heaven True Venerable for breaking their agreement and attacking the Origin Mansion before the other leaders could join him.
• Chen Xuanque invoked Great Xuan’s authority and proposed that each faction send its outstanding disciples into the site; the East Sea Dragon Lord, Yin-Yang Daoist, and the other leaders accepted.

Ji Xiu sought a place in the Origin Mansion, and Chen Xuanque agreed to secure him one after discovering how much he had advanced. As powerful factions prepared to compete for the Dao Lord’s remains, the Wang Quan Saber flew east toward North Cang.

• Chen Xuanque explained that the Origin Mansion likely held the All Laws Impermanent Dao Lord’s disintegrated body and warned Ji Xiu that elite outsiders would make entry perilous.
• Chen Xuanque discovered Ji Xiu had opened all Four Treasures and promised to use his North Cang Marquis title to secure him a slot.
• Profound Heaven True Venerable ordered young Mystic Talisman Sect disciples to retrieve Jiang Jing’s disintegrated Dao body and offered the winner his personal tutelage and the Heavenly Venerable Dharma.
• Profound Heaven True Venerable reversed his disciple Xuan Qingli’s cultivation to five years earlier and sent him to retrieve the Nine Orifice Golden Core.
• Jiang Shu arrived at Sunken Mountain, defeated Zuo Longshe and the other Divine Weapon Altar mountain masters, and released the Wang Quan Saber toward North Cang.

The All Laws Impermanent Dao Lord’s Origin Mansion drew North Cang’s noble clans, the Mystic Talisman Sect, and the Water Lord’s descendants to Jiangyin Prefecture, where their young prodigies prepared to compete. After strengthening his arts and defeating two visiting saber prodigies, Ji Xiu reached the docks as the Origin Mansion opened, eager to contend with the powerful newcomers.

• Yuwen Ding brought North Cang’s prodigies to Jiangyin Prefecture and instructed them to seize opportunities in the Origin Mansion, while Qin Jinkui welcomed the chance to face Ji Xiu again.
• The East Sea Dragon Lord led his Dragon Sons, Dragon Girl Bai Shuo, and other aquatic prodigies to the Origin Mansion, promising rewards to whoever won its legacy; Bai Shuo wondered whether she would see Ji Xiu.
• Ji Xiu trained in seclusion until his Profound Sky Heavenly Eye and Great Five Decays Sky Saber reached Major Accomplishment, then repeatedly defeated Duan Cheng and Luo Xin in sparring.
• North Cang’s Marquis Chen Xuanque arrived as the Origin Mansion’s entrance appeared, prompting the Mystic Talisman Sect and the Water Lord’s descendants to prepare to enter.
• Ji Xiu reached the docks, saw the powerful outsiders gathered above Jiangyin Prefecture, and resolved to defeat them all.

Ji Xiu joined the Great Xuan, Mystic Talisman Sect, and Water Lord’s Manor prodigies as they entered the Origin Mansion of the All Laws Impermanent Dao Lord. He awoke inside a familiar place from nine hundred years earlier: the Sumeru Cave.

• Chen Xuanque welcomed Ji Xiu and introduced North Cang’s Three Tiger Heads as the factions gathered at Jiangyin Prefecture.
• Yuan Lingzai and the East Sea Dragon Lord brought their forces to the Origin Mansion, where Ji Xiu recognized Bai Shuo among the Water Lord’s Manor prodigies.
• The Mystic Talisman Sect’s true disciples revealed their formidable cultivation, and Chen Xuanque urged Great Xuan’s heirs to avoid fighting them and seek opportunities instead.
• Bai Shuo reunited with Ji Xiu, learned why he had agreed to marry Xiao Mingli, and teased him about joining the Water Lord’s Manor as a son-in-law.
• Spiritual essence swept the gathered prodigies into the Origin Mansion, and a day later a Heavenly Saber and a glazed carriage arrived outside.
• Ji Xiu woke inside the Sumeru Cave, which he recognized as a place from nine hundred years earlier, and heard someone call him disciple.

Ji Xiu experienced a reenactment of his past, consumed the Sumeru Immortal Fruit within it, and broke through the Fourth Great Threshold. He found a newly ripened fruit and the Vajra Pestle in the abandoned Sumeru Mountain Courtyard, but the battered Three Meridians Disciples arrived and spotted the Heavenly Material.

• Ji Xiu reenacted Jiang Jing's meeting with Sumeru Ancestor, who explained the struggle over Great Brahma's karmic fruit and gave him a Sumeru Immortal Fruit to strengthen his body.
• Ji Xiu swallowed the fruit in the reenactment, opening his fifth organ and completing the Human Immortal Primal Embryo and Fourth Great Threshold.
• Ji Xiu awoke in the abandoned Sumeru Mountain Courtyard, found the Vajra Pestle, and realized the Sumeru Divine Tree had borne another fruit after nine hundred years.
• Ji Xiu decided to take the fruit for Xiao Mingli, but the Three Meridians Disciples entered the courtyard, saw him unharmed by the Demonic Tide, and spotted the Heavenly Material.

Ji Xiu defended the Sumeru Immortal Fruit from the Mystic Talisman Sect and revealed that he had reached the fourth threshold and formed a remarkable Martial Dao Treasure Body. After he claimed the fruit and shared the spirit leaves with Bai Shuo, the courtyard transformed into a corridor of eighteen murals leading to a mysterious gate.

• A Mystic Talisman Sect disciple attacked Ji Xiu while trying to claim the Heavenly Material, and Ji Xiu shattered his talisman arts with the power of his Treasure Body.
• Bai Shuo stood beside Ji Xiu and persuaded the Mystic Talisman Sect to avoid a fight, while Xuan Qingli directed its disciple to withdraw.
• Ji Xiu used the Vajra Pestle to knock down the Sumeru Immortal Fruit and gave the fallen spirit leaves to Bai Shuo.
• The Sumeru Mountain Courtyard transformed into a corridor lined with eighteen murals, ending at a gate interwoven with all laws.

Jiang Shu and the other great figures recognized the Wang Quan Saber, which attacked the Origin Mansion and caused it to reveal a corridor of eighteen scenes and a coffin. Inside, Ji Xiu found that only he could see the secrets in the otherwise blank scenes, while the others headed toward the coffin.

• Jiang Shu arrived at the Origin Mansion, and Wang Xuanyang identified the treasured saber as the Wang Quan Saber, likely linked to Wang Quan Wumu.
• The Wang Quan Saber struck the Origin Mansion, which projected a corridor containing eighteen scenes, the three groups of prodigies, and a sealed coffin.
• Ji Xiu realized the corridor showed the path the other groups had taken, and he kept the Vajra Pestle and Sumeru Immortal Fruit he had obtained in the Sumeru scene.
• Xuan Qingli led the Mystic Talisman Sect group toward the coffin, with the Great Xuan and Water Lord's Manor prodigies following.
• Ji Xiu told Bai Shuo to go ahead while he examined the scenes, then discovered that his Double Pupils let him see what the others could not.

Ji Xiu uncovered three of the All Laws Impermanent Dao Lord’s eighteen paintings and recognized the Nine Orifice Golden Core hidden in the ancient coffin. As Xuan Qingli revealed the Mystic Talisman Sect’s claim to the pill and threatened the other factions with powerful Dao Artifacts, Ji Xiu stood before the treasure.

• Ji Xiu read the second Dao painting, learning how Great Brahma fell and how its people became human demons amid war and plague.
• Ji Xiu glimpsed the third painting, where Jiang Jing swallowed a treasure and advanced to the Golden Core realm, but the paintings blurred before he could inspect them further.
• Ji Xiu reached the ancient coffin and recognized the embedded Nine Orifice Golden Core; the Primordial Dao Talisman identified it as the All Laws Impermanent Dao Pill and offered him a chance to advance.
• Outside the Primal Palace, Profound Heaven True Venerable told Yuan Lingzai that the Nine Orifice Golden Core had been stolen from the Mystic Talisman Sect and ordered him to have Xuan Qingli retrieve it.
• Xuan Qingli claimed the Golden Core for the Mystic Talisman Sect and warned the gathered heirs that they could not defeat him, then displayed two powerful Dao Artifacts that suppressed them.

Xuan Qingli succumbed to the ancient coffin’s demonic influence and removed the Nine Orifice Golden Core, awakening the being sealed inside. The Golden Core flew into Ji Xiu, leaving him with the chance to refine it through Yellow Millet Dream.

• Qin Jinkui and the Water Lord’s Manor dragon sons yielded to Xuan Qingli, who spared them and approached the ancient coffin.
• Xuan Qingli became consumed by desire for the Nine Orifice Golden Core as Ji Xiu discovered five-turbidity demonic thoughts seeping from the coffin into him.
• Ji Xiu warned Xuan Qingli not to take the Golden Core, but Xuan Qingli pulled it free and tried to swallow it.
• A masked figure emerged from the coffin, seized Xuan Qingli, and prepared to destroy the Golden Core.
• The Nine Orifice Golden Core flew into Ji Xiu’s brow, and a message revealed that he could refine it through Yellow Millet Dream.

Ji Xiu absorbed the Nine Orifice Golden Core and faced Corpse Minister, the revived master of the Corpse Puppet Divine Sect, who tried to recruit him after attacking with the Four Killing Images. Just as Corpse Minister prepared to claim Ji Xiu and his treasures, a woman from Water Lord's Manor arrived and declared that he could not take Ji Xiu away.

• The Nine Orifice Golden Core flew into Ji Xiu's brow, and Corpse Minister emerged from the coffin and revealed that Jiang Jing had once sealed him with the Golden Core.
• Corpse Minister attacked Ji Xiu with the Four Killing Images, but Ji Xiu's Vajra Pestle broke the killing art and burned Corpse Minister with Buddhist light.
• Corpse Minister offered to transform Ji Xiu into a human demon and make him the first corpse seed of the restored Corpse Puppet Divine Sect, while the other trapped prodigies could only watch.
• A hole opened in the Primal Palace Ancient Site's barrier, and the Wang Quan Saber arrived beside Ji Xiu.
• A woman arrived in a Dragon Sparrow carriage, told Corpse Minister that he could not take Ji Xiu, and raised her Absolute Peak Human Dao Manifestation.

Jiang Shu arrived at the Origin Mansion and drove off the revived Corpse Puppet Sect Master, saving Ji Xiu. She then told Ji Xiu he reminded her of an old friend and that meeting him might let her settle a century-old debt.

• Yuan Lingzai recognized the revived Corpse Puppet Sect Master and feared the demon could overpower the gathered forces.
• Wang Quan Saber cleaved open the Origin Mansion barrier and joined Ji Xiu, awakening the saber’s acknowledgment and advancing his Great Five Decays Sky Saber.
• Jiang Shu opened the Heavenly Gate, confronted the Corpse Puppet Sect Master, and forced him to flee in his ancient coffin.
• Jiang Shu struck the fleeing coffin with sword lights, but the Corpse Puppet Sect Master escaped; she decided to convene an Absolute Peak Council.
• Jiang Shu introduced herself to Ji Xiu and said he was exactly like an old friend, whose century-old debt she intended to settle.

After the All Laws Impermanent Primal Palace collapsed, Jiang Shu publicly protected Ji Xiu and gave him a token granting him full access to the Qishan Jiang Family’s support. Wang Xuanyang recognized clues that Ji Xiu might be connected to Wang Quan Wumu, leaving him stunned by the possible implications for their seniority.

• Jiang Shu explained that the Wang Quan Saber had acknowledged Ji Xiu from across the distance between Western Qi and North Cang, while Ji Xiu concealed his connection to Wang Quan Wumu.
• The All Laws Impermanent Primal Palace collapsed, and Ji Xiu emerged onto the Cang Sea as the major figures watched the Mystic Talisman Sect’s Cloud Ship.
• Yuan Lingzai demanded that Ji Xiu return the Nine Orifice Golden Core, offering rewards and warning that the Corpse Puppet Sect Master would pursue him.
• Jiang Shu warned Yuan Lingzai not to threaten Ji Xiu, then gave Ji Xiu a Qishan Jiang Family seal and declared that she would protect him.
• Wang Xuanyang reconsidered Ji Xiu’s unusual past and suspected that he might be Wang Quan Wumu, wondering how he should address him by seniority.

After the All Laws Impermanent Primal Palace trial, Ji Xiu returned to Jiangyin Wharf with the Nine Orifice Golden Core and the attention of Great Xuan’s most powerful figures. As the Corpse Puppet Divine Sect’s return prompted plans for a Vassal King to be sent north, Ji Xiu learned that his achievements were likely to earn him a place on the Young Dragon Tablet.

• Jiang Shu forced Yuan Lingzai and the Mystic Talisman Sect to withdraw, while the Profound Heaven True Venerable accepted her intervention.
• The East Sea Dragon Lord invited Ji Xiu to the Water Manor’s Dragon Lord Banquet, and Bai Shuo left determined to rise above her siblings and become strong enough to stand beside him.
• Jiang Shu warned Chen Xuanque that the Corpse Puppet Divine Sect had resurfaced, then announced she would go to White Jade Capital to consult the other Heavenly Pillars.
• As Jiang Shu departed, she revealed that she recognized Ji Xiu as Wang Quan Wumu, the youth who had saved her two hundred years earlier.
• Chen Xuanque presented Ji Xiu with the promised Marquis’s Inscription, and Xu Longxiang said Ji Xiu was likely to be nominated for the Young Dragon Tablet.

Ji Xiu’s gains in the All Laws Impermanent Primal Palace earned him a nomination for the Young Dragon Tablet and drew the attention of Wang Xuanyang and Xu Longxiang, who each offered him powerful inheritances. As the group departed, the Mystic Talisman Sect began planning a longer campaign in North Cang, while Ji Xiu resolved to repay Xiao Mingli’s kindness.

• Ji Xiu learned that his achievements had earned him a nomination for the Young Dragon Tablet, while Wang Xuanyang recognized the Wang Quan Saber and resolved to protect him and reopen the Saber Court.
• Wang Xuanyang offered to teach Ji Xiu the method for entering the Flawless realm, but Xu Longxiang insisted on passing down the Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Prison-Suppressing Profound Art, created by his elder brother Xu Baxian.
• Ji Xiu reviewed the Nine Orifice Golden Core and Wang Quan Saber’s potential, realizing that the Golden Core Great Dao and the saber’s Three Tribulations of Reincarnation could guide his future cultivation.
• Xu Longxiang explained the nine transformations of his profound art and its immense potential, and Ji Xiu agreed to inherit it from both Martial Ancestors.
• After Xiao Pingnan and Xiao Mingli slipped away, Ji Xiu resolved to repay Xiao Mingli for her kindness; the Water Lord’s Manor left him an invitation to the Dragon Lord Banquet before departing.
• True Lord Yuan Lingzai asked whether the Mystic Talisman Sect would abandon its claim, and Profound Heaven True Venerable ordered disciples below the True Person realm to establish a foothold in North Cang.

Xiao Mingli refused to ask Ji Xiu for his Heavenly Material, even as her father and Li Xuanyi urged her to seize a chance to heal. The Jade Universe Xie Family offered her a Coiled Dragon Golden Branch in exchange for a promise, but Ji Xiu arrived with a Sumeru Immortal Fruit and offered it without conditions.

• Xiao Pingnan and Li Xuanyi urged Xiao Mingli to ask Ji Xiu for the Heavenly Material he had obtained, but she refused to claim it through obligation.
• Xiao Mingli explained that she owed Ji Xiu no favor and would not take away his chance to advance for her own sake.
• Shi Popo announced that a Jade Universe Xie Family elder had arrived with a Heavenly Material and no stated conditions, sent by Xie Wen for Xiao Mingli.
• Xie Xun explained to Xie Jixuan that the gift was meant to bind Xiao Mingli to the Xie Family through a future debt of gratitude.
• Xie Xun presented the Coiled Dragon Golden Branch and asked Xiao Mingli for a promise, while Xie Jixuan accused her of rejecting his brother's goodwill.
• Ji Xiu entered the hall with a Sumeru Immortal Fruit and offered it to Xiao Mingli without asking for any promise.

Ji Xiu offered Xiao Mingli a Sumeru Immortal Fruit, but Xie Jixuan insulted him and attacked when Xiao Mingli rejected the Jade Universe Xie Clan’s gift. Ji Xiu stopped Xie Jixuan with his Martial Dao Treasure Body and Profound Sky Forbidden, then drew the Wang Quan Saber as Xie Jixuan realized how formidable he was.

• Ji Xiu offered Xiao Mingli the Sumeru Immortal Fruit so she could undergo Metamorphosis and recover, while Xie Jixuan challenged Ji Xiu’s background and disparaged his True Sects.
• Xiao Mingli rejected the Jade Universe Xie Clan’s [Coiled Dragon Golden Branch] and ordered Xie Jixuan and Xie Xun to leave, while Xiao Pingnan stayed silent in support.
• Xie Jixuan pretended to leave, then suddenly struck at Ji Xiu’s dantian to cripple him and seize the Heavenly Material.
• Ji Xiu caught Xie Jixuan’s wrist with his Human Immortal Primal Embryo, and the two clashed with their Martial Dao Treasure Bodies.
• Ji Xiu used Profound Sky Forbidden to slow Xie Jixuan, then drew the Wang Quan Saber, shocking Xie Jixuan with its Martial Saint weapon aura.

Ji Xiu nearly killed Xie Jixuan before Xu Longxiang stopped Xie Xun and drove the Jade Universe Xie Family away. Ji Xiu offered Xiao Mingli the Sumeru Immortal Fruit to heal her leg, while Xu Longxiang secured Xiao Pingnan’s promise to bind the two young people together; the chapter ended as Xiao Mingli began asking Ji Xiu a hesitant question.

• Ji Xiu drew the Wang Quan Saber against Xie Jixuan, but Xie Xun shielded his clan descendant and attacked Ji Xiu.
• Xu Longxiang revealed himself as a Titan, seized Xie Xun, and forced him to retreat with Xie Jixuan after rejecting his threats.
• Ji Xiu offered Xiao Mingli the Sumeru Immortal Fruit as the foundation for medicine to cure her leg and restore her cultivation.
• Xu Longxiang asked Xiao Pingnan to honor the marriage contract if Xiao Mingli recovered, and Xiao Pingnan eagerly agreed.
• Ji Xiu pushed Xiao Mingli’s wheelchair beside the cold pool, where she began asking him a hesitant hypothetical question.

Xiao Mingli doubted whether recovering her cultivation could make up for six lost years, but Ji Xiu encouraged her to resume competing for Heavenly Pool’s Walker position. She accepted his support, proposed that they honor their families’ marriage agreement, and left him to answer later; Jiang Nian then warned two Great Vehicle Boundless Temple Dashi to stay away from Ji Xiu.

• Xiao Mingli recounted how a plot during a secret-realm contest left her paralyzed and six years behind her former rivals, and questioned whether Ji Xiu should spend a Heavenly Material on her.
• Ji Xiu held Xiao Mingli’s hand and urged her not to accept defeat, reminding her of her ambition and declaring that he would strive for the Absolute Peak despite his humble origins.
• Xiao Mingli regained her resolve to contend again and warned Ji Xiu that she might distance herself from him after recovering; he said repaying his debt was enough for him.
• Xiao Mingli asked Ji Xiu not to dissolve their families’ marriage agreement and confessed that she was willing to become his wife if she recovered, then asked him to answer after he returned from North Cang.
• Jiang Nian summoned Kinkui Dashi and Danyuan Dashi and told them not to approach Ji Xiu, whom he called an honored guest of the Jiang Family Head.

Kinkui Dashi recognized the Vajra Pestle Ji Xiu had obtained as a relic inscribed for the Greater Vehicle World Honored One, whose return was prophesied to overturn the Pure Land. After Xie Jixuan vowed revenge in North Cang, Ji Xiu began stabilizing his new Origin Spirit Out of Body realm but was interrupted by a ray of Mysterious Light.

• Kinkui Dashi told Danyuan Dashi that the Vajra Pestle bore an inscription honoring Zhunti Heaven’s Greater Vehicle World Honored One, and they concluded it could herald a threat to the Pure Land.
• Kinkui Dashi urged Danyuan Dashi to report the discovery to Great Vehicle Boundless Temple immediately.
• Xie Jixuan and Xie Xun went to Xie Fuyun’s residence but were turned away, and Xie Jixuan vowed to make Ji Xiu suffer when he reached North Cang.
• Ji Xiu prepared to stabilize his fifth Dao Technique realm, Origin Spirit Out of Body, and sent his soul out from his body.
• A ray of Mysterious Light descended from above the Eastern Cang Sea and called for Ji Xiu to stop.

Ji Xiu’s first attempt at Origin Spirit Out of Body brought him into Profound Heaven True Venerable Xuan Xiao’s grotto-heaven, where Xuan Xiao tried to take his Nine Orifice Golden Core. Qin Wanfa intervened by challenging Xuan Xiao to seven years of Dao Chess, while Ji Wei’s calls brought Ji Xiu back to his body; Ji Wei then told him she was leaving for Dipper Pivot True Mansion with Chi Jing.

• Xuan Xiao lured Ji Xiu’s out-of-body soul into his grotto-heaven and demanded the Nine Orifice Golden Core, offering Dao teachings and a Mystic Talisman true inheritance seat in exchange.
• When Xuan Xiao tried to plant a Dao Seed in Ji Xiu, the Eight Hundred Dao Seals in Ji Xiu’s Great Dao Purple Palace repelled it and revealed his Ten Thousand Methods Sect foundation.
• Ji Wei’s calls reached Ji Xiu, and his soul escaped Xuan Xiao’s grotto-heaven and returned to his body.
• Qin Wanfa confronted Xuan Xiao and challenged him to seven days of Dao Chess, which would last seven years in Great Xuan; Xuan Xiao agreed to wait before pursuing Ji Xiu again.
• Ji Xiu woke on Golden Turtle Island with his soul strengthened and resolved to pursue greater martial cultivation.
• Ji Wei told Ji Xiu that her Master had said her time had come and that she was leaving with Chi Jing for Dipper Pivot True Mansion.