Chapter Summaries

Xu Xuan rebuilt Green Luo and Heavenly Tribulation, reorganized the Great Scarlet Temple, and appointed its elders and disciples. He then completed Primordial Sequence by proclaiming laws over Red Cloud, establishing himself as the one who would administer heavenly punishment.

• Xu Xuan reshaped Red Cloud, rebuilt Green Luo and Heavenly Tribulation, and restored the Heavenly Brilliance Brilliant Sun Formation to most of its power.
• Wen Guang announced the Great Scarlet Temple's new offices and appointments, promoting disciples and assigning elders to oversee its halls and peaks.
• Liu Fanqing accepted promotion to true disciple but told Liu Xiaowen that he was too old and afraid to attempt Foundation Establishment.
• Xu Xuan reassured Xiong Min that her three tribes could choose whether to stay or leave when Qiong He returned, then assigned Jiang Yuehong to Liu Xingfang after testing his swordsmanship.
• Xu Xuan proclaimed laws across Red Cloud, completed Primordial Sequence, and declared that heavenly punishment would fall on anyone who broke those laws.

In White Azure Cavern, Qing Ling worried that the Altar Thunder Sword Immortal would retaliate for her role in past events, while Bai Xuan prepared to leave for Golden Pivot to seek yin condensation. Bai Xuan departed, leaving Qing Ling alone with a cold-jade Dao text and the memory of how her sister had saved her.

• Qing Ling watched the Altar Thunder Sword Immortal’s tribulation in a water mirror and feared his power and possible vengeance.
• Bai Xuan reminded Qing Ling that her involvement with the Song Clan had entangled her in karma and urged her to repair relations with the Great Scarlet lineage.
• Qing Ling told Bai Xuan she feared being left vulnerable and suggested that Bai Xuan’s marriage thread might point toward Red Cloud; Bai Xuan summoned her incarnation Bai Su and decided to take her overseas.
• Bai Xuan said she was leaving for Golden Pivot to seek the Dao and attempt yin condensation, and promised to seek a way to help Qing Ling.
• Bai Xuan departed, and Qing Ling picked up the Dao text she had left behind and remembered how Bai Xuan had rescued her long ago.

Liu Xingfang brought his daughter Shu Han to Azure Field to visit the Liu Household and enter her in its genealogy, while Wang Cheng Yan emerged from seclusion having formed his Immortal Foundation. The chapter ended with a frost-clad man and two women arriving at Red Cloud and assessing the power of [Primordial Sequence].

• Liu Xingfang and Wu Shaoyue visited Liu Baiyuan at Azure Field with Shu Han, and Liu Baiyuan agreed to add her to the Liu Household genealogy.
• Liu Xingfang told Liu Baiyuan that Shu Han would cultivate with the Wu Household’s main lineage from age eight, and Liu Xingfang then took his wife and daughter to visit the graves on Azure Field.
• Wang Cheng Yan emerged from the sealed Flame-Walking Hall after successfully forming his Immortal Foundation through [Flame of Prosperity].
• Wang Cheng Yan described how his Immortal Foundation connected to a [Baleful Camp Falling Star] and nurtured [ritual-revising primordial fire], which could help him forge artifacts.
• A frost-clad man and two women arrived at Red Cloud, where one woman remarked that [Primordial Sequence] diminished her [Nest of Sorrowful Thieves] and warned that using it could bring thunder punishment.

Xu Xuan welcomed Wei Shuang, Guang Su, and Chen Xiyue to Red Cloud, where he reunited with Chen Xiyue and exchanged a cultivation scripture for a rare spirit treasure. Guang Su then asked whether he had been following events in Kunwei, as the blue crow warned that heavenly punishment was approaching.

• Xu Xuan recognized Wei Shuang and met Guang Su of Azure Radiance, who arrived with Chen Xiyue.
• Guang Su noticed Cheng Yan's Foundation Establishment breakthrough, and Chen Xiyue told Xu Xuan about her life at Azure Radiance and her grief over her family's ruin.
• Xu Xuan sent Chen Xiyue to reunite with Si'an, then gave Guang Su the incomplete Heaven-Repairing Divine Broad Scripture.
• Guang Su traded Xu Xuan a Li-Yin Flame Root, which could help cultivators of vast wood reach Foundation Establishment.
• Guang Su asked Xu Xuan whether he had been following events in Kunwei, and the blue crow cried that heavenly punishment was approaching.

Xu Xuan learned how Kunwei Heaven’s fall tied into Great Li’s plans for the Divine Dao and heard how Imperial Preceptor Huji’s Zhao Court lineage shaped the bloody method used to shake the grotto-heaven. The chapter ended with Xu Xuan offering Wei Shuang a Pure Stone of the Purple Enclosure that could help Guan Quan repair his dharma body.

• Guangsu explained that Kunwei Heaven would open to cultivators throughout Li, allowing the Imperial House to establish the Divine Dao while sharing the grotto-heaven’s gains.
• Guangsu described Kunwei Heaven’s Wu earth inheritance, and Wei Shuang revealed that Imperial Preceptor Huji, originally named Qi Changsheng, had used a Shu Wang Diagram to shake it through reenacted history.
• Wei Shuang warned Xu Xuan that the White Paper Blessed Land’s Paper Person had chosen him as a historical variable, which could displease Qi Changsheng.
• Guangsu said Kunwei Heaven would take years to open, though fragments of Shu’s immortal sects might fall sooner, and invited Xu Xuan to visit her at Nest-Builders Peak.
• Xu Xuan asked after Guan Quan’s recovery and produced a Pure Stone of the Purple Enclosure for Wei Shuang, who recognized it as exactly what Guan Quan needed.

Xu Xuan learned how Deliverance had devastated the Frost Plum Sect and gained a connection to Guan Quan and the Huayin pill-refining lineage. After considering the Imperial Preceptor’s plans and the sect’s preparations, he promoted Wang Cheng Yan and questioned Wen Guang about restoring the Five-Element Mountain.

• Wei Shuang told Xu Xuan that Deliverance had slain the Frost Plum Sect’s True Person and allies, and that Ancient Boat had forced the demon to retreat.
• Wei Shuang explained that Guan Quan had protected the remnants of his sect, accepted the Pure Stone for him, and invited Xu Xuan to visit the Louguan Dao mountain seat.
• Xu Xuan realized the Song Clan was trying to raise him to the Imperial Preceptor’s station, then considered sending Empty-Handed into the Kunwei Heaven secret realm.
• Xu Xuan returned to Rosy Dawn Peak and appointed Wang Cheng Yan as the sect’s Artifact Refining Elder.
• Wen Guang proposed reforging the Five-Element Mountain, and Xu Xuan learned its model was a treasure handed down by the first-generation Sword Immortal Nanhua.

Xu Xuan prepared to travel to the Western Sea and visited Longflow Island, where he helped Xu Fayan manage the demonic fates threatening his cultivation. The chapter left Xu Xuan heading to meet True Person Pingxiu while Xu Fayan began studying an art that could turn those fates into a source of power.

• Xu Xuan reviewed the spirit treasures needed to reforge Spirit Mountain and decided to seek missing treasures, including Origin Wood, during his trip overseas.
• Xu Xuan appointed Liu Xiaowen to oversee the sect while he was away and learned that Liu Xiaowen had nearly completed his immortal foundation.
• Xu Fayan emerged from seclusion at Foundation Establishment late stage, but his 𫅗 Sheep and Azure Locust fates were spilling out and worsening his demonic qi.
• Xu Xuan taught Xu Fayan the Heavenly Blood Demon Embryo Art and gave him purified blood qi to help contain and use his demonic qi.
• Xu Fayan told Xu Xuan that his Baleful Sun Armor was drawn toward Sindhu, so Xu Xuan warned him to avoid Sindhu and remain near Azure Depths.
• Xu Xuan left for the Wondrous Sea, while Xu Fayan began studying the demon embryo art and considered imbuing the embryo with his two wicked-beast fates.

Xu Xuan visited Pingxiu at the Heaven-Covering Hall to fulfill his promise to help slay Sheni, a demon hiding near the Great Flame Milk Sea. As they prepared for the hunt, Pingxiu revealed that his fire lineage could restore failed breakthrough attempts and recounted how Immortal Lord Xuanming had created that blessing.

• Xu Xuan arrived at Pingxiu's mountain, where the fire-tending boy Tianxin explained that Pingxiu had been waiting for him.
• Pingxiu recognized Xu Xuan's [Primordial Sequence] divine ability, and Xu Xuan agreed to help him slay Sheni, a Purple Mansion demon from Sindhu.
• Pingxiu described Sheni's abilities and recent hiding place near the Great Flame Milk Sea, and said they would wait for his detoxifying pills before setting out with two other cultivators.
• Tianxin reported that Pingxiu's disciple Zhengyan had apparently died during a failed breakthrough, but Pingxiu restored him from ashes with spirit fires and explained the [True Fire Regret] inheritance.
• Pingxiu told Xu Xuan that Immortal Lord Xuanming had created the fire-path blessing by repeatedly cutting down his cultivation and breaking through again, and that Tianpeng had opposed the practice as a burden on heaven and earth.

Pingxiu explained to Xu Xuan how the ancient Thunder Palace governed karmic force through heavenly laws and tribulation punishment, then recounted how Blood Ancestor Qiyong’s Dao Oath turned blood qi consumption into a widespread temptation that contributed to the Thunder Palace’s decline. The chapter ended with Pingxiu acknowledging his ties to the Thunder Palace and Xu Xuan thanking him for sharing the history.

• Pingxiu explained that ancient altar thunder and withering qi served to temper cultivators and enforce the morality of heaven and earth.
• Pingxiu used insects and a sand tray to show Xu Xuan how cultivators’ actions left karmic traces, and Xu Xuan used his altar thunder Divine Ability to punish them under heavenly laws.
• Pingxiu explained that ancient tribulations weeded out mediocre cultivators and taught reverence for sin and karma, but that the Thunder Palace eventually fell after the Heavenly Emperor Xuanhao rebelled against it.
• Pingxiu described how Blood Ancestor Qiyong created the Heavenly Blood Shared-Feast Dao Oath, enabling cultivators to gain blood qi mysteries by consuming mortal blood qi and raising his disciple Xuechi to immortality.
• Xu Xuan concluded that Qiyong had drawn the world’s cultivators into opposition to the Thunder Palace, and Pingxiu revealed that his own tradition had ties to the palace before Xu Xuan thanked him.

Xu Xuan entered Pingxiu’s Wind-Thunder Pool to cleanse and temper his Dao body while Pingxiu prepared antidote pills for the plan to slay Sheni. Jianzhuo warned that Xu Xuan’s altar thunder path left him little room to retreat, and Pingxiu later secretly visited a hidden furnace where flames began rekindling from dead ash.

• Pingxiu explained the Wind-Thunder Pool’s origins and warned Xu Xuan that its cleansing pain rivaled a heavenly tribulation.
• Xu Xuan cautiously entered the pool, withdrew his protective divine abilities, and endured its wind and thunder as they purified his nature and life.
• Pingxiu watched Xu Xuan withstand the pool and returned to the hall to refine antidote Spirit Pills for the coming fight with Sheni.
• Jianzhuo emerged from the shadows and told Pingxiu that altar thunder was a constrained path requiring its practitioner to mete out punishment on heaven’s behalf.
• Jianzhuo left for the Great Flame Milk Sea, where he planned to meet Pingxiu when they moved to slay Sheni.
• Pingxiu secretly entered a hidden cave abode in the Great Void and saw flames rising from the dead ash inside a scarlet Pill Furnace.

Xu Xuan met the Vast Marsh Dark-Cloud Dragon King through the Deep Abyss and learned that the Dragon Court had been sealed while Sun Lake was wounded. Vast Marsh explained the Dragon Court’s history and the True Dragon Form, then revealed that Ren Water had gained two new relationships after the Fall of Zhou: it was bound by Yi and merged with Vast.

• Xu Xuan used the Dragon Court’s Edict and Incantation to enter a hidden Ren Water domain in the Deep Abyss and meet the Vast Marsh Dark-Cloud Dragon King.
• Xu Xuan asked what came next after recovering Heaven Pool, and Vast Marsh said the Dragon Court was sealed, Sun Lake had been wounded, and Mistcloud Heaven’s perimeter was closed.
• Xu Xuan asked who was targeting the Dragon Court, and Vast Marsh began explaining Dragon Lord Heavenly Mist’s ties to Great Zhou and the Human Emperor.
• Vast Marsh described the True Dragon Form and said the Way of Vast Water had benefited from the fall of the two Dragon Lords of Ren and Vast.
• Vast Marsh told Xu Xuan that after the Fall of Zhou, Ren Water gained two relationships of generation and restraint: it was bound upon meeting Yi and merged upon meeting Vast.

Xu Xuan learned that a Yi Wood fiend had sealed off Mistcloud Heaven and might be targeting him, while Mist Marsh could no longer send help freely. Vast Marsh sent Bo Chang to assist Xu Xuan, who then planned to travel to the Great Flame Milk Sea for its water transformation.

• Vast Marsh explained the history of the Yi Wood path and identified its fiend as the one sealing off the region beyond Mistcloud Heaven.
• Vast Marsh warned that the fiend might be targeting Xu Xuan and said Mist Marsh needed Heaven Pool to unlock its dragonkin bloodlines.
• Vast Marsh sent Bo Chang through the Deep Abyss using Mist Marsh's last Deep Abyss Passage Token to aid Xu Xuan.
• Xu Xuan asked permission to retrieve the water transformation in the Great Flame Milk Sea, and Vast Marsh agreed if he could win it.
• Vast Marsh withdrew when the ink dragon's corpse stirred, and Bo Chang rebuilt his Dharma Body in Qinghe Hall after Xu Xuan returned.
• Xu Xuan welcomed Bo Chang's help and resolved to travel to the Western Sea to seek the water transformation and test Eastern Vast's attitude.

Xu Xuan established the Sea Capital formation at Heaven Pool and appointed Bo Chang to guard it before visiting Flame-Offering Mountain. He left for the Western Sea with Yang Yuanxin after discovering Yang Yuanyi’s changed temperament and learning that Yang Yuanxin had been sent away from her clan.

• Bo Chang manifested the Sea-Capital Dragon Pillar and explained how the Sea Capital formation drew on fortune official qi and could empower Xu Xuan with Mingxiong Origin.
• Xu Xuan appointed Bo Chang guardian of Heaven Pool, then left for the Western Sea and stopped at Flame-Offering Mountain.
• Xu Xuan sensed a Golden Core-level blood drop influencing Yang Yuanyi’s temperament and found the Fire Crows anxious while Dao Yan remained in seclusion.
• Yang Yuanyi ordered Yang Yuanxin to leave Flame-Offering and manage Mistsea, and Xu Xuan agreed to take her to Heaven Pool.
• Xu Xuan sent Yang Yuanxin ahead to Heaven Pool and continued west, intending to investigate the Fire Crows’ dealings and meet Mu Wude.

Xu Xuan visited Great Pei Mountain and questioned Mu Wude about the Dragon Lords before continuing toward the Great Flame Milk Sea. On Deva Continent, he met Gao Chan, learned about the ancient treasure called the Beast Venerable, and set off after confirming the way to the sea.

• Xu Xuan arrived at Great Pei Mountain, where Mu Wude bowed and explained that he stayed to restore the mountain and cultivate his divine ability.
• Xu Xuan learned that the Eastern Sea Dragon Lord held the honorific Heavenly Vessel, while Mu Wude collapsed when pressed about the name Origin Vast.
• Xu Xuan left Great Pei Mountain and considered the links between Mu Wude, Yang Yuanyi, the Golden Crow, and the Eastern Sea Dragonkin.
• Xu Xuan reached Deva Continent and subdued Gao Chan's ultimate fire before taking him into the clouds to question him.
• Gao Chan told Xu Xuan that Deva Continent had broken away from Sindhu and that the Great Flame Milk Sea lay nearby, then described the rumored Beast Venerable treasure.
• Xu Xuan gave Gao Chan magical artifacts and spirit pills, confirmed directions to the Great Flame Milk Sea, and departed.

Xu Xuan met with Pingxiu and Wuyou to plan the hunt for Sheni, learning that the Western Sea’s dangerous fire barriers came from the lost divine treasure Beast Venerable. After receiving word that Sheni had been found near the Milk Sea, the three set out to confront him.

• Xu Xuan emerged from the Wind-Thunder Pool, where Cinnabar Thunder had also absorbed the pool’s essence, and went to meet Pingxiu.
• Xu Xuan and Wuyou met Pingxiu and agreed that Wuyou would engage Sheni while Xu Xuan struck with his sword.
• Pingxiu explained that Sheni possessed the Great Cosmic Shuttle and promised to refine pills for Xu Xuan and Wuyou if they helped recover it.
• Pingxiu revealed that the Western Sea’s Great Void had been blasted apart when the lost Beast Venerable fell there after Great Wrathful Heaven’s death.
• Pingxiu received word from Jianzhuo that Sheni had been spotted near the Milk Sea, and the three departed together.

Xu Xuan traveled to the Great Flame Milk Sea seeking essence water of transformed nature and learned about its ancient rites and competing powers. After reaching the sea’s depths and taking some of the sacred water, he met Dragon Maiden Ashe, who revealed she guarded the Western Expanse’s legacy and had been waiting to capture a demon that stole a treasure.

• Xu Xuan crossed the poisonous Great Flame Milk Sea, suppressed his aura, and captured the Golden Roc Jiansai after it tried to attack him.
• Xu Xuan planted a thunder seal in Jiansai and compelled him to guide him toward the essence water of transformed nature.
• Jiansai explained the powers and cultivation rites connected to the milk sea, including the twelve-observance Beast Venerable rite attributed to Great Wrathful Heaven.
• Xu Xuan subdued Jiansai and sent him into his inner scenery before descending in dragon form to the sea’s bottom.
• Xu Xuan tried to take several white fish from the divine altar, but Dragon Maiden Ashe stopped him and allowed him only one.
• Dragon Maiden Ashe identified herself as a guardian of the Western Expanse’s legacy and said she had awaited a demon who stole a treasure; Xu Xuan suspected the demon was Sheni.

Sheni followed a revelation from the Great Cosmic Shuttle toward the Flame Cavern, unaware that Jianzhuo and several Purple Mansion cultivators had gathered to kill him. Meanwhile, Great Adept Calamity Power and Kong Zhao prepared their own attempt to capture Sheni and claim the shuttle.

• Sheni read a revelation directing him to the Milk Sea and Flame Cavern, then flew toward the Flame Cavern with the Great Cosmic Shuttle.
• Jianzhuo watched Sheni depart and met True Person Pingxiu, True Person Wuyou, and Xu Xuan to plan an ambush.
• Pingxiu proposed that he and Jianzhuo seal the Great Void while Xu Xuan struck Sheni and Wuyou waited to prevent his escape.
• Great Adept Calamity Power met Kong Zhao at the edge of the Milk Sea and demanded a share of whatever was inside the Great Cosmic Shuttle.
• Calamity Power revealed that he had located Sheni and led Kong Zhao and an assembled host of rakshasas and yakshas toward the Flame Cavern.

Xu Xuan accepted Dragon Maiden Ashe’s request to help seize Sheni’s Spirit Treasure and recovered with essence water of transformed nature. At the Flame Cavern, Sheni was ambushed by Ashe’s forces and Xu Xuan’s sword strike as he tried to escape.

• Xu Xuan recognized celestial virtue on Sheni’s Great Cosmic Shuttle while watching scenes reflected above the Divine Dew Altar.
• Ashe offered Xu Xuan a portion of essence water of transformed nature in exchange for his help, and he agreed to attack Sheni when the time came.
• Xu Xuan refined the water for several days, healing his injuries and reflecting on the lost art of uniting water and fire.
• Sheni entered the Flame Cavern to investigate ding fire, but the flame qi became tribulation fire and threatened to explode.
• Ashe’s forces trapped Sheni with nether radiance, a pill furnace, and three spirit-fire beasts as he tried to flee.
• Xu Xuan appeared above Sheni amid altar thunder and sent a sword strike toward him, engulfing him in lightning and fire.

Xu Xuan, Wuyou, Pingxiu, and Jianzhuo cornered Sheni, but the demon used the Great Cosmic Shuttle to escape their attacks and enter the Great Void. Jianzhuo and Pingxiu then used a Grand Talisman to drag Sheni back out, leaving the battle poised to continue.

• Pingxiu and Jianzhuo’s attacks failed to stop Sheni from breaking through the Three Luminaries Flame Formation with the Great Cosmic Shuttle.
• Xu Xuan struck Sheni with thunder and sword light, and Wuyou ambushed him with the Dui Metal Divine Ability [No Return].
• Sheni used [Azure Jade Table] to pull Wuyou’s dagger free, then swallowed Jianzhuo’s Yin-Nurtured Ginseng to heal his wounds.
• As Sheni tried to flee into the Great Void again, Jianzhuo cast an Earth-Subduing Grand Talisman and asked Pingxiu to empower it.
• Jianzhuo and Pingxiu’s combined power dragged Sheni back out of the Great Void.

Xu Xuan and Ashe watched Sheni struggle to escape with the Great Cosmic Shuttle while Calamity Power and Kong Zhao intervened. Kun Pool Ash erased the Great Void around the battlefield, trapping Sheni as the cultivators agreed to attack him, and the shuttle began to stir with a faint breath.

• Xu Xuan and Ashe discussed the Great Cosmic Shuttle, the hidden Western Sea lineages, and the threat posed by Calamity Power and Kong Zhao.
• Ashe identified Calamity Power as a Venerable of Calamity's Remnant Temple and Kong Zhao as a prince protected by the Great Asura Obscuring Barrier, then asked Xu Xuan to help deal with Calamity Power.
• Sheni escaped Sleeve Cosmos in white-elephant form, but Calamity Power and Kong Zhao intervened as he tried to flee into the Great Void.
• Calamity Power scattered Kun Pool Ash, erasing the Great Void and trapping Sheni above the sea while his Diamond guardians raised the Glazed Treasure Pagoda.
• Calamity Power proposed that the cultivators slay Sheni before deciding who would claim the Spirit Artifact, and Pingxiu agreed as Sheni offered all his celestial virtue to the shuttle.
• The Great Cosmic Shuttle released a faint sound of breathing as Sheni faced imminent danger.