Chapter Summaries

Xu Xuan arrived at Qin River with an imperial decree ordering Wei Xiuwen transferred to the Thunder Department, but Bai Jun rejected the order and challenged him. The two began fighting in the sky as Qu Ling withdrew with the suffering Wei Xiuwen, and the clash shattered Qu Ling’s Earthly Eye.

• Xu Xuan reached Qin River and condemned the deaths of mortals forced to build the Divine Mountain for White Qilin’s spectacle.
• Xu Xuan presented the Imperial House’s decree ordering Wei Xiuwen into Thunder Department custody, and Qu Ling carried it to Bai Jun.
• Bai Jun destroyed the decree, declared that he did not obey Tianchi, and attacked Xu Xuan with a Wu Earth decree.
• Xu Xuan drew his sword and met Bai Jun in the heavens, relying on his thunder and the ancient Thunder Palace’s authority to withstand the pressure.
• Qu Ling led the chained Wei Xiuwen away and helped him bear the temple’s weight as the battle intensified.
• Qu Ling tried to observe the fight with his Earthly Eye, but the Wu Light shattered his stone eyes.

Xu Xuan battled Bai Jun, whose wu earth abilities made him extraordinarily difficult to harm. Xu Xuan finally displaced Bai Jun from the center of heaven and earth and wounded his neck, but Bai Jun recovered quickly and remained standing.

• Bai Jun used altar commands and wu earth techniques to contest the heavenly laws and overpower Xu Xuan in their opening exchanges.
• Xu Xuan used Fate-Extinguishing Purge and the Northern Dipper to damage Bai Jun’s fortune, while Bai Jun’s Invasion-Proof, Leakless ability blocked most of his attacks.
• Xu Xuan combined his thunder oath, Water-Fire Malevolent Armor, and Fate-Extinguishing Purge to disrupt Bai Jun’s central position.
• Bai Jun charged through Xu Xuan’s heavenly chains and attacked, but Xu Xuan’s Calamity-Reversing sword enabled a final strike against Bai Jun’s fortune.
• Xu Xuan used the Heavenly Eye’s light of Righteous Order to knock Bai Jun from the center, then slashed his neck and sent him crashing onto Gaoyang’s summit.
• Bai Jun’s wound rapidly healed as earth qi and incense offerings reached him, and he told Xu Xuan that he had managed to wound him.

Xu Xuan questioned Rang'an about transforming Zhang Gaoxia back into human form and learned the Green-Waste Dao’s nurturing earth arts came from an ancient corpse. Rang'an gave him two cultivation methods and a method for questioning the corpse, while remaining under Bai Jun’s control.

• Bai Jun left Xu Xuan a quarter of an hour to question Rang'an, who Qu Ling brought before him in chains.
• Xu Xuan threatened Rang'an with lightning and asked whether he could reverse Zhang Gaoxia’s ji earth transformation; Rang'an said he lacked the necessary Divine Ability.
• Rang'an explained that the Azure Goat Dao Lineage had inscribed nurturing earth arts on the Great Netherworld Grave Sheep’s corpse, from which he had received his inheritance.
• Rang'an gave Xu Xuan the Earth-Penetrating Azure-Pointing Scripture, the Abundant Harvest Dao-Covering Method, and The Lord Questions the Nether Corpse.
• Tiantuo verified the Dao Texts, and Xu Xuan warned Rang'an to conduct himself wisely before Bai Jun’s Wu Light reclaimed him.

Xu Xuan and Liu Xiaowen discussed new treasures and inheritances recovered from the Azure Leaf Sky, while Xu Xuan explored a Yuejue Sword Pellet and planned how to make a pill. He returned to Mist-Hidden Peak and told a disciple he had come to discuss Divine Abilities.

• Xu Xuan entrusted Liu Xiaowen with the Longflame Radiance Bag and asked him to seek a close-combat Spirit Artifact and ancient Ding Fire treasures overseas.
• Liu Xiaowen gave Xu Xuan the Tribulation Law Thunder-Proclaiming Sword Explanation and other Former Chu Bing Fire inheritances, and reported that Dust-Sweeping had sealed its mountain.
• Xu Xuan offered a Yuejue Sword Pellet to the Dao-Contemplation Hall, but it drew no response, so he placed it in his sword case to nurture it.
• Tiantuo said the pill-making method required a high-grade Lesser Yang flame, and Xu Xuan acknowledged that finding one would be difficult.
• Xu Xuan went to Mist-Hidden Peak and told a disciple he had come to discuss Divine Abilities.

Xu Xuan warned Xu Fayan that his bloodline and Nurturing Earth path could draw the attention of Evil Land, while Xu Fayan affirmed that he would pursue divine abilities despite the dangers. After Xu Xuan left, Xu Fayan studied an ancient Azure Goat secret art and resolved to follow its example amid the coming age of turmoil.

• Xu Xuan told Xu Fayan about Rang'an, the Green-Waste Dao, and the Wei Household’s ties to the Azure Goat Dao Lineage, while Xu Fayan rejected his birth family and committed himself to attaining divine abilities.
• Xu Xuan warned that Evil Land might have plans for Xu Fayan and that others would notice him once he attained divine abilities; Xu Fayan said cultivators from humble beginnings had to seek danger and unconventional paths.
• Xu Xuan offered to guard Xu Fayan as he studied the secret art and explained that he could use the [Azure-Li Sky-Nurturing Urn] to aid his cultivation.
• Xu Xuan predicted the Li Emperor would march north within a hundred years and urged Xu Fayan to prepare for war, cultivate quickly, and enter seclusion before leaving.
• Xu Fayan reflected on the possibility of being left alone after his elders died, then studied [The Lord Questions the Nether Corpse] and resolved to seek his future in the coming age of turmoil.

Liu Xiaowen exchanged a statue from Ancient Xia for a damaged calamity lamp that could help his master cultivate a three-calamity spell, and arranged for Dousing Flame to refine nurturing earth pills. He left for White Cang after sensing that Demon King Withered Magnetism carried traces of greater yin energy.

• Liu Xiaowen met Pingxiu at Dousing Flame, where Pingxiu explained that the mountain's formation was protecting a pill that Jingying was refining for Yama Hall.
• Liu Xiaowen showed Pingxiu a sacred image of Jiaoling from Ancient Xia and asked to exchange it for a Ding fire artifact of calamity.
• Pingxiu gave Liu Xiaowen the damaged Great Nether Yin Lamp, whose lingering calamity aura could serve as the foundation for his master's spell.
• Liu Xiaowen offered season-harmonizing auspicious-time soil and asked Pingxiu to refine nurturing earth pills for his sect.
• Liu Xiaowen departed for White Cang when Demon King Withered Magnetism arrived, noticing traces of greater yin energy in the demon's magnetic light.

Xu Fayan entered the Nether-Mystic Expanse to obtain an ancient nurturing earth inheritance, but the Nether Sheep spirit recognized his bloodline and nearly trapped him until Xu Xuan pulled him back. The inheritance transformed Xu Fayan’s seal script, while Xu Xuan suspected Evil Land had been watching the lineage; the chapter ended with a breakthrough beginning in Green Luo.

• Xu Xuan and Tiantuo discussed the dangers and history of the nurturing earth path while Xu Fayan’s true spirit entered the Nether-Mystic Expanse.
• Xu Fayan found the Great Wilderness Cauldron and memorized the Nether-Mystic Divine Scripture, an inheritance for cultivating the Nether Sheep Rite.
• A spirit creature called Xu Fayan a descendant of Wei Qingyi and attacked him, but Xu Xuan used the Dao Stele to pull his true spirit back.
• Xu Fayan found that he could neither transcribe nor recite the scripture, and Xu Xuan suspected Evil Land had been observing those who used the secret method.
• Xu Xuan considered the risks surrounding the Azure Goat legacy and the cauldron, then sensed a breakthrough beginning in Green Luo.

Wen Si'an emerged from seclusion having attained the Clear Rainfall divine ability and revealed that she and Xu Xuan had a gifted son, Xu Ming, chosen by the complete yang Dao Seed. As the couple planned Xu Ming’s lesser yang cultivation and the sect’s future amid the coming war, they resolved to rely on Bing Fire and restore their Dao.

• Wen Si'an attained the Clear Rainfall divine ability, and Xu Xuan congratulated her as the complete yang Dao Seed flew into Clear Thought Hall.
• Wen Si'an revealed their newborn son, and the Dao Seed entered the infant; Xu Xuan named him Xu Ming.
• Xu Xuan gave Wen Si'an the [Submerged Flood Dragon Marsh] Ren Water to strengthen her divine ability, and they discussed how Gui Water’s arts might be restored.
• Xu Xuan told Wen Si'an about the Southern Sea upheaval and the coming war, and they discussed protecting the sect and Xu Ming through the conflict.
• Xu Xuan and Wen Si'an chose lesser yang as Xu Ming’s path, considered possible sword inheritances, and named Fa Yan, Xing Fang, and Shu Han as the sect’s prospects for reaching Purple Mansion.

Xiao Dianqing completed [Yang-Breath Surge] and received authority over Autumn Clarity Gate’s mysterious cavern as Huan Biao prepared to leave for the Southern Sea. After she installed the Divine Dao token at Great Mystery Mountain, a supernatural change swept across Shu and a blackbird appeared over Longyang Commandery.

• Xiao Dianqing completed [Yang-Breath Surge] after twenty years of cultivation and went to report to Huan Biao.
• Huan Biao warned Xiao Dianqing about her entanglement with Du Shaosi and told her to either commit to him or stop misleading him.
• Huan Biao gave Xiao Dianqing the sect’s Profound Token and announced that he would travel overseas to seek an audience with the Heavenly Dreary Sea Dragon Lord.
• Xiao Dianqing placed the Divine Dao banner in Great Mystery Mountain’s Grand Formation, confirming the mountain as the Southern Sacred Peak.
• A crimson flying fish bearing a divine temple flew toward Lacquer Mountain as wu earth radiance spread across Shu.
• Xiao Dianqing saw a blackbird descend over Shu and identified its destination as the Wei clan’s territory in Longyang Commandery.

Wei Cun attained Purple Mansion as the Wei clan welcomed a newborn whose birth coincided with strange manifestations over Lacquer Mountain, but the child’s arrival cost his mother and household their lives. After White Qilin’s envoy tried to recruit him into the Divine Department, Wei Cun refused and considered sending Wei Xu overseas to seek protection for the infant.

• Wei Cun attained Purple Mansion in Longyang Commandery, and Wei Xu told him that their mother had given birth to a younger brother.
• A maid reported that Wei Cun’s wife had died giving birth to a monster, and Wei Cun killed the household’s maids and guards with a thought.
• Wei Cun found his wife’s body and a silent newborn bearing a Blackbird-shaped birthmark, then entrusted the child to Wei Xu before leaving through the Great Void.
• Qu Ling met Wei Cun on behalf of White Qilin and invited him to join the Divine Department, but Wei Cun declined.
• Wei Cun realized White Qilin might target him and considered sending Wei Xu overseas to seek help from a Wei clan ancestor.

Liu Xiaowen returned to Green Luo, where Wen Si'an had emerged as a divine ability cultivator, and received a Bing Fire token to aid his next cultivation. Xu Xuan and Wen Si'an planned the sect’s expansion and defenses, while Tiantuo revealed a new profound art intended to transform Xu Xuan’s son.

• Liu Xiaowen returned to Green Luo, congratulated Wen Si'an on her breakthrough, and accepted a True Lord’s Bing Fire token from Xu Xuan.
• Liu Xiaowen reported on overseas affairs, including an Origin Magnetism monster with a Greater Yin aura, then went to visit his newborn junior brother, Ming'er.
• Xu Xuan and Wen Si'an discussed reclaiming lands in Shu, assigned Cheng Yan and Wei Yan to investigate Brocade Capital and Great Mystery Mountain, and planned to seek help building a protective Grand Formation.
• Xu Xuan prepared for seclusion, reviewed his Spirit Treasures, and decided that Azure-Glow True-Gold Bamboo leaves could nourish the Sword Pellet he intended Xing Fang to wield.
• Tiantuo emerged from seclusion with the [Eastern Yang Receptacle Profound Art] and told Xu Xuan he would use it to transform Xu Xuan’s Blood Heir before the child cultivated.

Bo Chang recovered from his injuries at the White Moon Palace, where its mysterious greater yin mistress refused to treat Xu Xuan without seeing him in person. After Bo Chang reported back, Xu Xuan became concerned about the stranger’s origins and her claim to have known a Soaring Serpent that died of old age.

• The mistress of the White Moon Palace healed Bo Chang’s injuries in twenty days and told him she would consider treating Xu Xuan only if he came to her himself.
• The mistress sent Bo Chang away, and he found himself transported to the waters near Heaven Pool.
• Bo Chang returned to Xu Xuan at the Clear Harmony Water Palace and reported what he had learned about the greater yin cultivator.
• Xu Xuan noticed that Bo Chang had been completely healed and asked how long Soaring Serpents lived.
• Bo Chang said Soaring Serpents could live over eight hundred years at Foundation Establishment Peak or thirteen hundred years after reaching Purple Mansion, prompting Xu Xuan to wonder whether the mistress was a Jade Rabbit or White Toad.

Xu Xuan visited Gray Cliff, where True Person Wei healed his lesser yin injury and revealed a connection to ancient Shu and the Sword Immortal Zhou Shi. After he left, Wei told Withered Magnetism to accompany Great Li’s emissary to Shu for an altar undertaking, explaining that it could help him pursue the origin magnetism retainer position.

• Xu Xuan arrived at Gray Cliff and learned from Withered Magnetism that the master of the White Moon Mysterious Palace was True Person Wei, a human cultivator in seclusion.
• After emerging from seclusion, True Person Wei asked Xu Xuan about Zhou Shi and said that, in ancient Shu, he had given her a Soaring Serpent that she later refined into a spirit artifact.
• True Person Wei used greater yin arts to dispel Xu Xuan’s lesser yin injury and disclosed that his remaining wounds would heal on their own.
• Xu Xuan left Gray Cliff, planning to research Shu’s histories and pursue [Radiance Illuminates the Night] now that his injury was gone.
• Withered Magnetism asked True Person Wei whether they should continue associating with Xu Xuan, and she said that Great Li would soon send someone and instructed him to accompany them to Shu.
• True Person Wei explained that the altar undertaking could give Withered Magnetism a chance to pursue the origin magnetism retainer position, then ended the conversation.

Xu Xuan and Yang Yuanxin discussed the need for another Purple Mansion cultivator to guard the western waters and agreed to contact the Dragon Court through Deep Abyss. Before acting, they uncovered Deep Abyss’s origin in the hearing the nether path and discussed the importance and dangers of the blood qi position.

• Xu Xuan told Yang Yuanxin that he expected to master his shock thunder divine ability within ten years and described how it would strengthen his combat abilities.
• Yang Yuanxin explained that the Dragon Court’s waters lacked enough guards, while the Dragon Court itself remained sealed and could not easily send another cultivator.
• Xu Xuan proposed contacting the Dragon Court through Deep Abyss, and Yang Yuanxin agreed that the decline of Yi wood made the timing favorable.
• Yang Yuanxin revealed that Deep Abyss had been created from the Shadow God’s remains and the immortal artifact [Shadow-Transferring Abyss Book], linking it to the hearing the nether path.
• Yang Yuanxin explained that monsterkind lacked the blood qi position and feared the safeguards left by the Devil Ancestor, then noted the Eastern Sea dragonkind’s interest in that path.
• Xu Xuan decided to enter Deep Abyss and asked Yang Yuanxin to protect him while he used a secret art to contact the Dragon Court.

Xu Xuan met Dragon King Guangze in the hidden Dragon Court realm of Deep Abyss and learned about Dragon Lord Tianyu’s ties to Heavenly Leaf and Eastern Radiance, as well as the looming return of Primordial Heaven and Demon Lord Jiaoyang. Guangze offered Xu Xuan one of the Dragon Court’s available Purple Mansion cultivators for deployment, leaving him to choose an ally.

• Xu Xuan used Guangze’s secret decree to enter the hidden Dragon Court realm and spoke with the Dragon King about the weakened blockade on the Grotto-Heaven.
• Xu Xuan told Guangze what he had witnessed in Azure Leaf Sky, and Guangze explained Dragon Lord Tianyu’s history with Heavenly Leaf and Eastern Radiance.
• Guangze described Heavenly Leaf’s destruction and its True Lords, while Xu Xuan inferred that Tianyu might have taken its remaining golden nature and legacy.
• Guangze warned that the Immortal Prophecy was nearing fulfillment and that Demon Lord Jiaoyang might emerge to attain his great Dao as Primordial Heaven returned.
• Xu Xuan asked the Dragon Court for reinforcements, and Guangze offered him a choice among its available Purple Mansion cultivators, excluding Li Wen.

Xu Xuan chose Hou Ni as the Purple Mansion retainer most suited to aid him, while Vast Marsh warned him about Dragonkin heirs and Deep Abyss’s instability. After Xu Xuan briefed Yang Yuanxin on the coming return of Jiaoyang and other plans, the Constructive Wood descended and restored Pan Sea, leaving them ready to prepare for its affairs.

• Xu Xuan rejected Bo Yuan, Li Zhu, and Xiu Ling as retainers before choosing Hou Ni, whose subduing-earth abilities and skill in formations suited him best.
• Vast Marsh asked Xu Xuan about offspring, offered spirit treasures to help, and warned that the Shadow-Transferring Abyss Book’s abnormalities threatened Deep Abyss.
• Xu Xuan told Yang Yuanxin that the Constructive Wood would descend, Jiaoyang would return in the Western Sea, and the Dragon Court could send a middle-stage Purple Mansion cultivator.
• The Southern Sea shook as the Constructive Wood emerged through a widening rift and flew toward the void beyond the Southeast Two Seas.
• The Constructive Wood settled in the void and restored Pan Sea, stabilizing the surrounding world and raising spiritual energies across the seas.
• Xu Xuan concluded that they could begin preparing for Pan Sea.

Huan Biao traveled toward Pan Sea after recognizing the restored Constructive Wood, but the Dragon King of Hope Sea ordered him away. At Pan Sea, a Daoist created Cave Azure, who founded the Eastern Azure Lineage and invited talented humans and monsters to join.

• Huan Biao recognized the Constructive Wood and headed toward Pan Sea, where he avoided a jeweled palace radiating Greater Yin power.
• The Dragon King of Hope Sea stopped Huan Biao and had Guyang order him to leave; Hope Sea then set off for Tomb Mountain to consult Immortal Aunt Cangyu.
• An azure-robed Daoist stabilized Pan Sea and established the Eastern Azure palace beneath the Constructive Wood.
• With help from a cloud of springwater, the wooden dragon statue transformed into Cave Azure, who reached Purple Mansion Peak.
• Cave Azure announced the founding of the Eastern Azure Lineage in Pan Sea and invited talented humans and monsters to cultivate its Heavenly Leaf Legacy.

Xu Xuan waited at Crossing Sea for Dragon Court cultivators to emerge from Mistcloud Heaven, where Yi Wood’s Dusk Wood blockade resisted the Dragon Court’s treasures. After the Heavenly Road opened, Hou Ni and Li Zhu arrived with supplies, and Xu Xuan prepared to return to Heaven Pool and use their aid amid upheavals overseas.

• Xu Xuan and Bo Chang watched the Dragon Court’s treasures—the Eclipse Moon Pearl and Great Mist Scepter—struggle against the Immortal Branch of Moku’s Dusk Wood and finally stabilize the Heavenly Road.
• Hou Ni emerged from the road injured and in elephant form, then paid his respects to Xu Xuan and delivered supplies selected by Lord Vast Marsh.
• Li Zhu arrived from Mistcloud Heaven after a lord of the Mist Blossom lineage secured an extra place for her.
• Hou Ni presented Xu Xuan with a Mustard Seed Object containing cultivation supplies and an ancient Ren Water treasure, explaining that the Grotto-Heaven’s magic treasures could not be activated again soon.
• Xu Xuan ordered Hou Ni and Li Zhu to return with him to Heaven Pool and planned to use their help to expand his authority across the Southern Sea.

Xu Xuan discussed how Heaven Pool should handle the Clear Vast Way and Flow-Resigning Mountain, then received the Great Weakness Cold Disk to restore Heaven Pool’s concealment formation. After inspecting gifts from Vast Marsh, he considered using a future heir to establish ties with the new sect in Pan Sea.

• Xu Xuan assigned Hou Ni to cultivate ties with the Clear Vast Way after Hou Ni traced its origins to the Eastern Radiance Dao Lineage.
• Hou Ni identified Flow-Resigning Mountain as a likely remnant of an ancient Kan Water lineage, and Xu Xuan sent Li Zhu to investigate and seek its submission.
• Hou Ni presented the Great Weakness Cold Disk, and Xu Xuan ordered him to restore the Weak Sinking Grand Formation beneath the dragon pillar.
• Xu Xuan inspected nine Shock Thunder spirit treasures and three ancient Purple Mansion pills sent by Vast Marsh.
• Xu Xuan considered sending a future blood heir to cultivate in the new Pan Sea sect and establish a connection with Eastern Azure.

Xu Xuan completed the Heaven Pool formation and welcomed the birth of his blood heirs, Mu Sheng and Mu Yu. Bai Su revealed that she had been serving as an avatar for her original body’s Dao-seeking plan, then departed for Golden Pivot, leaving Xu Xuan to plan the children’s cultivation.

• Xu Xuan and Hou Ni completed the Great Weakness Cold formation, and Hou Ni explained his knowledge of the five virtues and his past under the Lesser Yin True Person Ling Qian.
• Xu Xuan went to the Temporary Palace as Bai Su gave birth to two flood dragons, whose bloodlines reflected shock thunder and Ren water.
• Xu Xuan named the children Mu Sheng and Mu Yu, and Bai Su told him that she had approached him to help her original body refine a great pill and seek the Dao.
• Bai Su left for Golden Pivot after telling Xu Xuan that she felt no attachment to the children and reminding him about Qing Ling.
• Xu Xuan and Yang Yuanxin discussed the children’s cultivation, with Xu Xuan planning for Mu Sheng to join a tradition in Eastern Azure when he reached Qi Refining.