Chapter Summaries

Xu Fayan and Liu Xiaowen ambushed Elephant Key, whose Chun Kingdom drew strength from its people and land, and killed him after a prolonged battle. Xu Fayan absorbed Elephant Key’s earth and Dharma Body, then realized that devouring different kinds of earth could ease the limits of his Nurturing Earth path.

• Liu Xiaowen and Xu Fayan watched Elephant Key’s Chun Kingdom cycle from peaceful rule to tyranny and rebellion, revealing how he used the gong note to repeatedly reform his kingdom.
• Xu Fayan attacked Elephant Key, weakening his rule with blood locusts and using the Azure-Li Sky-Nurturing Urn and Hearing the Nether arts to injure him.
• Elephant Key drove Xu Fayan from the ground and pursued him into the Great Void, where Xu Fayan used Soaring Transformation and Earth Refining to steal Elephant Key’s bull’s head and damage the kingdom’s land.
• Elephant Key trapped Xu Fayan with origin magnetism and Wu Earth light, but Xu Fayan’s Red-Fighting Centipede poisoned him before Liu Xiaowen struck with the Demon Abyss Divine Baleful Palace, the Longflame Radiance Bag, and the Great Zhao King Mace.
• Liu Xiaowen and Xu Fayan killed Elephant Key with ultimate fire and Greater Yang, and Xu Fayan devoured his Dharma Body.
• Xu Fayan sensed a golden bull forming in his shadow and realized that devouring different earths could ease the predicament binding his Nurturing Earth.

Xu Fayan perfected [Nether Sheep Rite] by refining Elephant Key, gaining the golden bull familiar and its [Great Tranquil Profound Purity Light]. After Liu Xiaowen departed for the Southern Sea, Xu Fayan explored the Savage Outer Sea and discovered a void spirit mountain whose treasure palace held a stone fragment the seal script urged him to retrieve.

• Xu Fayan absorbed Elephant Key's nature and life, turning him into a familiar and gaining the golden bull's [Great Tranquil Profound Purity Light].
• Xu Fayan and Liu Xiaowen examined Elephant Key's artifacts and letters, learned of his ties to the Great Shao Demon King, and divided the spoils.
• Xu Fayan restored Golden Gourd Isle's spiritual vein with an earthly seal, then agreed that Liu Xiaowen would ask about true fire and water transformation in the Southern Sea.
• Liu Xiaowen left for Pudu Holy Land while Xu Fayan continued exploring the Savage Outer Sea and found a distant void spirit mountain surrounded by Purple Mansion cultivators.
• The seal script revealed a gray stone fragment inside the mountain's treasure palace, and Xu Fayan vanished to retrieve it alone.

Xu Fayan concealed himself among cultivators contesting Myriad Evolutions Mountain, where King Yu He and King White Feathers forced the humans back. Li Shangmi arrived and broke the mountain’s Void-Steaming defenses, giving Xu Fayan a chance to reach the gray stone fragment as the two sides began fighting.

• Xu Fayan watched King Yu He claim Myriad Evolutions Mountain for Great Xia and order the other Purple Mansion cultivators to withdraw.
• Xiang Mang and Han Jue challenged King Yu He, while King White Feathers attacked the concealed cultivators and exposed Xu Fayan.
• Xu Fayan fought back with his Demon Abyss Divine Baleful Palace and poisonous fire, but King White Feathers’s water-and-fire arts suppressed him.
• Si Wenchuan revealed himself and helped Li Shangmi arrive; Li Shangmi severely wounded King White Feathers and severed the Celestial Void Cosmos-Governing Lines.
• Xu Fayan spotted the gray stone fragment inside the mountain and waited as King Yu He and Li Shangmi’s side began their battle.

Li Shangmi fought King Yu He in the Great Void, using Greater Yang sword arts to wound the ancient serpent before King Yu He nearly killed him with an Altar Thunder Spirit Treasure. Li Shangmi escaped with the Violet Heaven Grand Rosy Cloud, and Yang Yuanyi arrived to join King Yu He against him.

• Li Shangmi used Greater Yang abilities and the White Crown to break King Yu He's void defenses and burn his scales.
• King Yu He revealed his serpent form and attacked Li Shangmi with countless heads and a thunder nail, while Li Shangmi countered with his sword and the Six-Dragon Golden Chariot.
• King Yu He used a heavenly void eye to keep the Great Extreme Heavenly Punishment Nail on Li Shangmi, but Li Shangmi blocked it with the Violet Heaven Grand Rosy Cloud and escaped.
• King Yu He summoned Yang Yuanyi, who had reached the Purple Mansion late stage, and asked about Wan Yan.
• King Yu He learned that King White Feathers and the Evil Blood King had already gone ahead, then joined Yang Yuanyi in targeting Li Shangmi.

Xu Fayan and other cultivators raced toward the divine mountain at the heart of Myriad Evolutions Mountain while fleeing powerful pursuers. When a woman tried to use Xu Fayan as a shield against the white crane, he revealed his preparations and counterattacked, prompting the crane to declare its intent to slaughter them.

• Xu Fayan reached the starlit region around the divine mountain and used finger-made clones to test the dangerous fissures before Xiang Mang arrived and forced his way through them.
• A white crane pursued Xiang Mang, Si Wenchuan, Xu Fayan, and other cultivators while carrying the wounded Blood Hero, who transformed into a Zhuyan and attacked Si Wenchuan.
• Si Wenchuan escaped the Zhuyan with the Pu River Dao-Teaching Mystic Diagram and continued toward the secret realm's divine mountain as the pursuing monsters were distracted.
• The white crane trapped Xu Fayan and a woman in white qi and water and fire, and the woman joined him in using the Demon Abyss Divine Baleful Palace to break through.
• When the woman tried to pin Xu Fayan in place as a shield, he countered with Great Tranquil Profound Purity Light and attacked her with golden-bull manifestations.
• The woman summoned Jian Chou, a demon king from Wusheng Devil Court, and the white crane transformed into a crane-headed Daoist and drew its sword, vowing to kill them.

Xu Fayan and several other cultivators were caught in King White Feathers’ water-and-fire assault as they approached the divine mountain. After Xu Fayan escaped Zhuyan with help from an Origin Magnetism rogue cultivator, he entered the hall, while Zhuyan and King White Feathers followed to seek the Great Expansion Dao-Inquiry Instrument.

• King White Feathers used his Zhenxi abilities to suppress Xu Fayan, the Daizheng Purple Mansion cultivator, and Jianchou, forcing Xu Fayan to escape in the form of a Red-Fighting Centipede.
• Xu Fayan reached the divine mountain and pretended to submit to Zhuyan, who threatened him while crushing Han Jue, whom he held in a lead pellet.
• An Origin Magnetism rogue cultivator pressed Zhuyan down with a magnetic mountain, seized Han Jue, and fled into the hall; Xu Fayan escaped Zhuyan and followed.
• Zhuyan found traces of the Emperor Lord’s gaze and the Black Sun’s blessing in Xu Fayan’s windblown sand, then showed them to King White Feathers.
• King White Feathers and Zhuyan decided to proceed cautiously, pursued the Water Transformation demon light, and entered the hall to search for the Great Expansion Dao-Inquiry Instrument.

Xu Xuan discovered the secrets of the Savage Outer Sea and sent Liu Xingfang to rescue Xu Fayan, who reached the Great Expansion Dao-Inquiry Instrument in Wan Yan Palace. The instrument revealed two possible paths for Xu Fayan’s Nurturing Earth cultivation, leaving him convinced that he must avoid the [Pleading to Sheji] art.

• Xu Xuan saw the sealed Lesser Twilight Heaven, where the corpse of Lin Hun lay beneath a wound caused by sunset light, and suspected the Great Western Abyss Dark Crow had killed him.
• Xu Xuan used Calamity Blessing to send fortune and virtue qi to Xu Fayan, then dispatched Liu Xingfang with Cinnabar Thunder and the Great Expansion Five-Metal Sword Pellet to aid him.
• Xu Fayan entered Wan Yan Palace, seized the gray stone fragment, and fled deeper inside as monsters pursued the cultivators and blocked the gateway.
• The Great Expansion Dao-Inquiry Instrument answered Si Wenchuan’s question about Yi wood and showed him a route into the demonic path through [Steal and Crown].
• The instrument advised Xu Fayan to seek Nurturing Earth through four nurturing arts and one dryness art, then offered a second route using [Harmonizing the Seasons].
• Xu Fayan concluded that the current five pure Nurturing Earth arts could not all be cultivated and that he must never cultivate [Pleading to Sheji].

Xu Fayan escaped the collapsing Myriad Evolutions Secret Realm as the First Sea Dragon King’s arrival unleashed a black tide and exposed an ancient Vast Water Immortal Sword. Outside, the Demon Kings continued their battles, and Evil Blood King pursued Xu Fayan on the Imperial Son’s orders to test his cultivation.

• King White Feathers, Xu Fayan, and Si Wenchuan fled the treasure palace as Zhuyan hindered their escape.
• The First Sea Dragon King brought a black tide into the Secret Realm, causing it to collapse and swallowing the Great Evolution Inquiring into the Dao treasure.
• Xu Fayan escaped and witnessed an ancient Vast Water Immortal Sword rise from the ruins and vanish toward the Golden Rank.
• Evil Blood King learned that the Imperial Son had sent Xu Fayan to the Secret Realm and pursued him to test his cultivation.
• King White Feathers fought Xiang Mang and challenged him for protecting the woman beside him.

Xu Fayan fled across the outer sea while the Evil Blood King pursued him, using ghost spells and altar-thunder talismans to slow the Zhuyan. Trapped in the Zhuyan’s grasp, Xu Fayan invoked a secret art and began transforming as the Great Wilderness Cauldron stirred within the Nether-Mystic Expanse.

• The Evil Blood King chased Xu Fayan toward the Western Sea, intent on capturing him despite Xu Fayan’s warning that his master was the Calamity-Splitting Sword Immortal of Great Li.
• Xu Fayan unleashed [Ghost Collision], sending female ghosts into the Zhuyan’s seven apertures, but the Evil Blood King resisted and activated [Devouring Kin].
• Xu Fayan used three Altar Thunder Talismans to summon heavenly tribulation, injuring the Zhuyan and slowing his pursuit, though the lightning struck Xu Fayan as well.
• The Zhuyan endured the tribulation and seized Xu Fayan, crushing him in his grasp while the Green-Mud Mystic Urn struggled to protect him.
• Xu Fayan invoked [The Lord Questions the Nether Corpse] and called upon the Great Wilderness Cauldron, transforming as a sinister half-human, half-sheep being appeared and ate one of the Zhuyan’s hands.

Xu Fayan awakened Nether Sheep’s corpse and gained a deeper understanding of his Grave Sheep abilities while fleeing the Zhuyan. Liu Xiaowen and Liu Xingfang arrived to help him escape, and Xu Fayan swallowed the Zhuyan’s severed head before returning toward the mountain with Liu Xingfang.

• Xu Fayan invoked Nether Sheep’s power, saw its preserved corpse, and gained insight into the Yellow Dust Aspect’s transformations between soaring and inertia.
• The Zhuyan used Origin Blood Pact against Xu Fayan, but Xu Fayan shifted into cold, concealed night and frost to resist while fleeing toward the Western Sea.
• Liu Xiaowen arrived and fought the Zhuyan with his Longflame Radiance Bag and mace, then a green-robed swordsman severed the Zhuyan’s head with Sword Radiance.
• The Zhuyan escaped using a taboo wood death substitute, leaving his severed head for Xu Fayan to swallow and absorb.
• Liu Xingfang escorted the recovering Xu Fayan toward Great Li while Liu Xiaowen continued alone toward Pudu Holy Land and reflected on his combat skills and Xu Fayan’s potential.

Xu Xuan discovered that the Gray Remnant Stone contained a fragment of the void zheng Dao Verification’s divine mechanism, which strengthened his calamity arts and let him sense scattered Thunder Palace legacies. He located the Northern Thunder Blessed Land within Feng Li’s Immortal Plum Heaven, while Xu Fayan chose to delay his decision about directing the firmament.

• Xu Xuan examined Xu Fayan’s recovered treasures, returned most of them, and offered to seek five-essence spirit treasures for his disciple.
• Xu Xuan recognized the Gray Remnant Stone as a fragment connected to [Great Change Dao Evolution], and learned from Tiantuo that it contained a wisp of the supreme treasure’s divine mechanism.
• Xu Xuan used the divine mechanism to connect with [Primordial Beginning Myriad Kalpas], expanding his [Secret Principles of the Three Calamities' Manifestation] and manifesting the Void-Rending World-Breaking Calamity.
• Xu Xuan fed clear qi to the divine mechanism, then sensed [Celestial Subtlety's Central Pivot] and the authority of [Lord of Dongting, Blameless in the Nine Heavens].
• Xu Xuan followed a responding lightning signal to the Northern Thunder Blessed Land, where he saw Deng Zhuoxin’s remains, thunder scriptures, and the surrounding Immortal Plum Heaven.

Liu Xiaowen visited Pudu Holy Land on Xu’s behalf and learned how its methods could help expose and defeat Le Yu’s Demon Manifestations. The chapter ended with Chou Xi agreeing to lend her sword to Xu, while Fan Huayan gave Liu Xiaowen a scripture and Water Transformation for Xu Fayan.

• Liu Xiaowen reunited with Fan Huayan, who had recently attained the Purple Mansion realm, and entered Pudu Holy Land to deliver a letter from his monastery.
• Great True Person Miaolin said Pudu could help Xu find the hidden Seventh Demon Manifestation and explained its link to Xu Dai and Xu’s own fate.
• Miaolin asked Pudu’s followers to wait until Xu had five Divine Abilities before helping him attack Le Yu, and she sent Liu Xiaowen to the Ten-Thousand-Benevolence Spring.
• Fan Huayan gave Liu Xiaowen a treatise on mutual diagnosis and two kinds of Water Transformation for Xu Fayan’s cultivation.
• Liu Xiaowen and Fan Huayan met Chou Xi, who set aside her grievance over her sister’s death and agreed to lend her sword to help Xu free her sister from Le Yu.

Xu Ming broke through to Lesser Yang and revealed the powers of his [Sun-Moon Leisure] immortal foundation to Xu Xuan. As Xu Ming prepared to advance his cultivation and marry Song Qing, Xu Xuan resolved to make himself remembered, then sensed Xiao Wen returning.

• Xu Ming emerged from seclusion with the [Sun-Moon Leisure] immortal foundation, which let him cast multiple spells rapidly and use divided spirits to accelerate his cultivation.
• Xu Ming told Xu Xuan that his new foundation had helped him reach the sword vapor realm and overcome his bottleneck in the [Qian Origin Great Divination Nourishment Art].
• Xu Xuan gave Xu Ming [Leisurely Splendor of Ceremonial Grace] to help perfect his foundation, and Xu Ming estimated he could do so within twelve years.
• Xu Xuan told Xu Ming that the Imperial Capital had arranged his marriage to Song Qing at [Scarlet Sun Palace] and advised him to focus on cultivation and judge the relationship over time.
• Xu Ming vowed to remember the fallen elders and pass their names down through the generations, while Xu Xuan resolved to make everyone remember him.
• Xu Xuan sensed two familiar Fire Virtue divine ability auras approaching and realized Xiao Wen had returned.

Xu Xuan met Yuan Qingxiu, True Person Pingxiu, and brought him into the Virtue-Heavy Secret Realm to examine the false nature of ultimate fire. There, Pingxiu identified an inscription linked to Celestial Master Ye and revealed that Ye Xianzhen’s inheritance had ties to Azure Child.

• Xu Xuan welcomed Pingxiu, and they discussed their lineages and the true-fire ability [Fate-Regretting Elixir].
• Xu Xuan opened the Virtue Gate and led Pingxiu into the secret realm, where they found Xu Fayan recovering from his injuries.
• Pingxiu examined the White Jade Stele bearing the words [True Person Luo Fu] and recognized it as a gift from Celestial Master Ye.
• Pingxiu described Ye Xianzhen as a famed spell practitioner whose birth was marked by an unusual omen.
• Pingxiu said Ye Xianzhen had found an inheritance in a water-virtue secret realm connected to Azure Child, leaving Xu Xuan and Tiantuo stunned.

Xu Xuan and Pingxiu sealed the false nature in the Xu ancestral shrine and discovered that the ultimate-fire fruit position had changed to [Heaven-Collapsing, Yang-Defying Archvillain]. In Dust-Candle Heaven, Song Shiyi delivered an imperial decree to Dust-Sweeping, while Ye Xi and Wei Peibai faced the burdens their lineage would bear when Final Dusk came.

• Xu Xuan led Pingxiu and Xu Fayan to the Xu ancestral shrine, where its restraining seal reacted to Xu Fayan's nurturing-earth cultivation before Xu Xuan suppressed it.
• Pingxiu used the [Primordial Fate-Joining Formula] to seal the false nature and produced a mystic core, invoking [Heaven-Collapsing, Yang-Defying Archvillain] instead of the former ultimate-fire name.
• Xu Xuan summoned the purified black-fire sword, whose true name emerged as [Invoke Wrath], and heard Pingxiu explain how True Lord Mancang and Dust-Sweeping had risen against tyrannical Xia.
• Wei Peibai brought Song Shiyi to Dust-Candle Heaven and described how her lord and True Lord Mancang had slain [Demon Lord Crimson Manifestation Fire-Ruling Divine Radiance] at the [God-Quelling Gate].
• Ye Xi escorted Song Shiyi to the [Upside-Down Hanging Diagram], where the imperial decree was accepted, then told him Dust-Sweeping would hide in its grotto-heaven when Final Dusk came.
• After Song Shiyi departed, Ye Xi told Wei Peibai that their path had to bear its responsibility, even if tribulation fire burned this lifetime to ashes.

Ye Yanzhen became a third Purple Mansion cultivator in Long Abode Grotto-Heaven, while Ye Lingxiao took a reincarnated infant as his disciple in Origin Capital. In Fengdu, a ghost mother’s desperate hunger ended with her eating the nine ghosts carrying her sedan chair.

• Ye Yanzhen broke through on the Bronze Dao Platform, manifested the Heaven-Shrouding Leaf, and received recognition as rightful blood of the Ye clan with part of Heavenly Leaf’s dharma lineage.
• Ye Lingxiao took the reincarnated infant from a herdswoman on Evergreen Mountain and named him Xu Ying, making him his disciple.
• A ghost mother traveled toward Fengdu in a sedan chair carried by her son and eight other little ghosts.
• The little ghosts stopped at a tea stall, ignored the purple-and-gold man’s warning, and tried to attack him when he could offer no food.
• The leading little ghost took a golden plum from the tree and gave it to his mother, who swallowed him along with the fruit.
• The starving ghost mother ate the remaining eight carriers and then realized nobody was left to carry her sedan chair.

Xu Xuan established a hidden way for registered Purple Mansion cultivators to enter Great Scarlet Heaven through the Secret Realm, then brought Xu Fayan inside and gave him an inheritance and a mystic core. He arranged for the Sect’s other cultivators to follow and prepared for Ming’er’s wedding and the coming struggle over the Golden Position.

• Xu Xuan made the Formless Lord the master of the Secret Realm and set up a sacrificial rite that secretly carried registered Purple Mansion cultivators into Great Scarlet Heaven.
• Xu Fayan entered the Grotto-Heaven, where Xu Xuan showed him the Most High Pavilion and gave him the [Primordial Witchcraft] and a mystic core.
• Xu Xuan encouraged Xu Fayan to pursue the Golden Rank and planned for Wen Si'an, Liu Xiaowen, and Liu Xingfang to enter the Grotto-Heaven in turn.
• Xu Xuan considered the Song Clan’s divisions and the coming battle among the Golden Cores, deciding that he would side with no faction and might use calamity blessing against Li Fire.
• Xu Xuan sent Liu Shu Han to Shu with a secret letter for Wen Si'an, then discussed with Tiantuo how restored Daos could improve long-distance communication and cultivation.

Xu Ming and Song Qing completed their politically motivated wedding and discussed their cultivation paths and the dangers ahead. Meanwhile, Xu Xuan and Wen Si'an examined gifts from Tian'ou, uncovering a possible scheme involving the Jiang and a broken Li Fire sword that suggested the Li Fire Vassal Venerable was unlike the Vermilion Bird.

• Xu Ming met Song Qing at the Scarlet Sun Palace, where she discussed Tianxi’s plans and their shared prospects after the war.
• Song Qing warned Xu Ming to beware Dust-Sweeping and Dragonkind, and revealed that she had cultivated the immortal foundation Suwujie despite being treated as a discarded pawn.
• Xu Xuan met Wen Si'an in their grotto-heaven and examined the Mustard Seed Object Tian'ou had sent.
• Xu Xuan and Wen Si'an identified the Flame Seed Jar as a possible probe of the Jiang's attitude toward Li Fire through the Many-Treasure Tradition.
• Xu Xuan studied the Abandoned Flame Sword and suspected that the being holding Li Fire's Vassal Venerable position was the complete opposite of the Vermilion Bird.

Xu Xuan mastered Shock Thunder’s mysteries and planned a dangerous journey from Yan Province to Cold Gate to seek the golden position, while doubting Mist Marsh would support him. In Mist Marsh, Taoyu rejected an alliance to rectify Water Virtue, and the Dragon King of Sun Lake demanded Vast Marsh tell him what Martial Mu Mountain had said.

• Xu Xuan demonstrated his mastery of Thunder-Shock to Hou Ni and ordered him to send word to Northern River that Xu Xuan would visit Dragon King White Silk.
• Xu Xuan told Yang Yuanxin that he would seek the golden position by traveling from Ancient Thunder Marsh’s ruins in Yan Province to Cold Gate, and said he first needed to learn Mist Marsh’s stance.
• Vast Marsh asked Taoyu about Martial Mu Mountain’s proposal to rectify Water Virtue, but Taoyu rejected it and favored Mist Marsh’s alliance with Eastern Vast.
• Taoyu told Vast Marsh to offer Xu Xuan at most a magical treasure’s support, while warning that the true Shock Thunder fruit was likely reserved for another being.
• The Dragon King of Sun Lake confronted Vast Marsh and demanded a full account of Martial Mu Mountain’s message.

Gongsun Xi negotiated with Martial Mu Mountain to reshape her Kan Water Divine Ability, while Wu Chu confronted the Gloomy Netherworld over its control of him. Song Lang intervened to protect Wu Chu, and Mars appeared amid the emperor’s Li Fire as the Gloomy Netherworld withdrew.

• Gongsun Xi visited Fu Yun at Feathered Ascension Blessed Land and asked Martial Mu Mountain for help finding an ancient Kan Water Golden Nature.
• Gongsun Xi transformed [Origin-Water Mountain] into [Hidden River Flood Dragon], and Fu Yun told her to return after cultivating [Huai River Slumber].
• Wu Chu remembered the destruction of Double Radiance Mountain and the cost of bearing the title [Northern Yin] as he faced Zhu Ye in the Gloomy Netherworld.
• Wu Chu rejected Zhu Ye’s threats and refused to obey the Gloomy Netherworld’s arrangements, even when Zhu Ye showed him the Wu Clan’s suffering.
• The High King questioned Wu Chu’s resistance, but Song Lang arrived and threatened to march into the Gloomy Netherworld if it violated his rules.
• The Gloomy Netherworld withdrew, and a blood-colored star resembling a wolf’s head rose amid Song Lang’s Li Fire.