Chapter Summaries

Tian'ou defeated Xiao Xian in a battle that ended Liao's rule and brought its territory under Li. After declaring that he had fulfilled his oath, Tian'ou left the Song Clan cultivators with an ominous final demand for Li's rightful fruition.

• Tian'ou reclaimed his Vermilion Bird traits and challenged Xiao Xian, declaring that the Song Clan had strayed from the rightful Dao of li fire.
• Xiao Xian used [Falcon Winter Hunt], [Ten Thousand Evil Cavern], and [Wolf's Forceful Raid] to attack Tian'ou, but Tian'ou countered with li fire abilities and began [Liyu's Rising Sun Divine Art].
• Xiao Xian invoked [Sacrificial Skull Rite] and summoned the White Wolf's power, but Tian'ou's Greater Yang li fire burned it away and [Heavenly Dao-Command] shattered Xiao Xian's defenses.
• Tian'ou severed Xiao Xian's head, and the Song Clan's True Persons burned away the Liao Emperor's escaping evil qi as Liao's defenses collapsed.
• Tian'ou declared that Liao belonged to Li and that the imperial undertaking was complete, then fulfilled his oath and shouted that he sought Li's rightful fruition.

Tian'ou challenged Chi for Li Fire’s authority, hoping to reclaim the Vermilion Bird’s position, but Chi ignored him while unsealing Zhu Xia and burning away the vast wood. After Tian'ou’s death, Chi turned his attention east and prepared to slay Jia, while Song Yuanxian began the battle in Liao Capital.

• Song Yuanxian stopped Ying Cuan from attacking Tian'ou and allowed him to seek Li Fire’s true fruit.
• Tian'ou seized the chance to challenge Chi, believing Li Fire’s control had weakened, and reached toward the Origin Net.
• Chi ignored Tian'ou as he burned away the vast wood and unsealed the Dao Verification Zhu Xia.
• Tian'ou realized Chi had never been asleep, then burned to death as Zhu Xia became a Vermilion Bird and shed bloody tears.
• Chi completed his deed of merit, drew his broken sword, and declared that he would first slay Jia.
• Song Yuanxian addressed the Song Clan ruling lineage in Liao Capital and announced that the battle would begin.

In the burning Liao Capital, Song Yuanxian sacrificed the Song Clan’s kin to strengthen Li fire and prepare for the True Lord’s manifestation. The clan dwindled to Song Yuanxian and two Purple Mansion cultivators as the crisis approached its culmination.

• Weihua ordered most Purple Mansion cultivators to leave, while Xing You stayed and declared that Li fire would descend upon the world.
• Bai Jun accepted Weihua’s decree, completed the Central Earth Divine Seal, incorporated Northern Liao into the Li Kingdom, and fled into the Great Void; Weihua then crushed his own divine seal and died.
• Song Yuanxian made Song Yuanli, Song Yuanyin, Song Zong Zheng, Song Zongtang, and Song Zongxiang seek Golden Positions, but Li fire or the evil creature consumed them and their refined golden nature.
• Ashen Death swallowed Song Zongxiang before Heavenly Leaf’s attack dragged him into the Great Void, while Song Yuanxian awakened Song Yuanzhao and Song Yuanqing, whose golden nature the evil creature also devoured.
• Song Mingli failed to find a water-and-Li position and burned to ash, while Song Mingwu sacrificed himself through Burning Abandonment; Song Yuanxian warned the remaining Song Clan relatives to run or burn.
• Song Shiqing and Song Shiyi stayed behind as Song Yuanxian fixed his gaze on Origin Net and prepared to fulfill his final mission when the True Lord manifested.

As Li Fire and Jia Wood clashed, Chi’s strike ended spring and stopped the Solar Terms in eternal summer, while an immense Li Fire evil creature emerged in Liao Capital. Xu Xuan rescued Xie Kuo, then confronted the creature and invoked Central Firmament to try to awaken Tian'ou.

• Xu Xuan concealed Calamity Blessing, removing Li Fire’s ominous portent as Chi and Jia Wood prepared to clash.
• Chi used Dui Metal’s Kui Slaying to strike Jia Wood, forcing spring to become summer and stopping the Solar Terms from cycling.
• A Li Fire evil creature formed in Liao Capital and headed south, while Xie Kuo tried to halt it with the Li Sash and saluted the fallen Emperor.
• Xu Xuan rescued Xie Kuo from the creature, then defied the Gloomy Netherworld officers and took the burning Li Sash.
• Xu Xuan confronted the Malevolent Bird, summoned his Thunder Formation, and decreed “Central Firmament” to try to awaken Tian'ou.

Outside Liao Capital, Xu Xuan invoked the Central Palace Dao Child and reached the pinnacle of altar thunder, erasing Malevolent Bird and its creatures with two divine edicts. After Ashen Death withdrew and Hidden Metal appeared, Xu Xuan completed his five arts and forged a new sword intent, leaving Xie Kuo stunned by his power.

• Xu Xuan borrowed Great Li’s national fortune and the people’s support to invoke the Central Palace Dao Child, opening a Creation Thunder Aperture and gaining a primordial spirit.
• Xu Xuan used the Northern Thunder Black Book of Righteous Law and the Calamity-Expelling Divine Edict to strip away Malevolent Bird’s Li Fire and suppress its creatures.
• Xu Xuan invoked the Great Nonbeing Slash-and-Examination Divine Edict, erasing Malevolent Bird, Tian'ou, and the Song Clan cultivators tied to it across space, time, and cause and effect.
• Ashen Death arrived after devouring a Taboo Wood Attendant Envoy, but withdrew when Xu Xuan held his ground; Hidden Metal then appeared and took the Li Fire-tainted treasure coin.
• Xu Xuan completed the Dao-Venerating Palace and his five altar thunder arts, then transformed Cinnabar Thunder into the Pure Subtle Primordial One Calamity-Splitting Sword.
• Xie Kuo recognized that Xu Xuan’s thunder and sword attainments might already rival or surpass Deng Zhuoxin.

Tianyu relived the betrayals and deeds of his three lives as Eastern Yu, Qin Wanggu, and Pang Fujia, then refused to surrender the Mystic Azure Divine Armor to Geng Huai. The Southern Emperor arrived and destroyed Heavenly Leaf Palace with Li Fire, ordering Tianyu to flee as he prepared to slay him.

• Tianyu confronted memories of devouring Panzhang, abandoning his companions, and taking the jia wood fruition across his three lives.
• Geng Huai accused Tianyu of guilt and demanded that he surrender the Mystic Azure Divine Armor, but Tianyu refused.
• The Southern Emperor entered Heavenly Leaf Palace as Li Fire destroyed Tianyu's azure dragon body and burned the surrounding lands.
• Tianyu donned the Mystic Azure Divine Armor and summoned the Azure Dragon Divine Form and White Scenery to resist the Southern Emperor.
• The Southern Emperor's Li Radiance overwhelmed Canopy Jia and reduced Heavenly Leaf Palace to ash, then told Tianyu to flee.

Zhang Fan and Zhang Yeqing discussed yi wood’s schemes to create a new Divine Vastness and claim the Forest while the Southern Emperor’s campaign threatened the Wood Virtue factions. After Tianyu’s second-life body was cut down and the taboo wood True Lord neared death, the Quyang Ya-Yi Long Abode Devil Lord emerged to intervene.

• Zhang Fan used the Heavenly Forest of Interwoven Secrets to observe Chi’s overwhelming victory over Tianyu and feared the Southern Emperor would next attack Heavenly Ginseng Yi.
• Zhang Yeqing told Zhang Fan that yi wood planned to send the Position Proof Nest into the Primordial Lord’s womb repository and use a grand vow to create a new Divine Vastness.
• Zhang Yeqing explained that their lord intended to block both of Divine Vastness’s routes and make vast wood the private possession of yi wood.
• The Heavenly Forest of Interwoven Secrets shook as Zhang Yeqing learned that Tianyu’s second-life body had been cut down and the taboo wood True Lord was in danger.
• The Heavenly Forest of Interwoven Secrets left Heavenly Ginseng Yi and merged into the ape corpse in Long Abode, awakening the Quyang Ya-Yi Long Abode Devil Lord.

As Li Fire devastated the Golden Forest and the lands of Liao, Xu Xuan decided to wield the authority of calamity blessing by creating a Second Primordial Spirit from the remnant of Great Change Dao Evolution. He sent it toward calamity blessing under the Immortal Stele’s protection, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Jing Yi and Nine Firmaments watched Li Fire overwhelm the Golden Forest, while Yi Wood used the Heavenly Forest of Interwoven Secrets to take Tianyu’s second-life body and fulfill an oath.
• Li Fire slew Tianyu’s Jia Wood dragon body, grievously wounded Death Tower, and set yin wood and the lands of Liao ablaze.
• Xu Xuan and Xie Kuo helped extinguish fires and save people as the Demonic Path and the Glorious Age Dharma Way also sheltered Liao’s people.
• Xu Xuan explained to Tiantuo that he would use the Great Change Dao Evolution divine mechanism to form a Second Primordial Spirit and directly wield calamity blessing’s authority.
• Xu Xuan refined the divine mechanism into a Second Primordial Spirit, then sent it into the Primordial Gate toward calamity blessing while the Immortal Stele’s Fortune character flashed with silver light.

Xu Xuan stabilized his second primordial spirit by joining it with the Void Zheng divine mechanism and calamity blessing, becoming a formless ghost god able to wield calamity blessing’s authorities. After explaining the limits and powers of his new form to Tiantuo, he stepped out of the Grotto-Heaven into the world as the Dark Shaman Shi Xian Ghost God.

• Xu Xuan used the Void Zheng divine mechanism, the Immortal Stele, and the connection to his original self to keep his second primordial spirit from being assimilated by calamity blessing.
• Xu Xuan gained access to calamity blessing’s six authorities: Formlessness, Life and death, Imitative verification, Tethered flexibility, Divination, and Sacrifice.
• Xu Xuan appeared before Tiantuo as a ghost god, startling him before revealing his identity and explaining that his original self limited the power of the new being.
• Xu Xuan explained that his divine mechanism could still use the Great Change Dao Evolution’s powers of observation and divination, enhanced by calamity blessing.
• Xu Xuan left the Grotto-Heaven and introduced himself as the Dark Shaman Shi Xian Ghost God.

Xu Xuan uncovered Tianyu’s connection to the Venerable Jia Thunder-Shock and decided to help him recover the stolen authority. By activating his tethered flexibility authority through the divine bow, Xu Xuan awakened Split Wood and enabled Tianyu to confront Geng Huai.

• Xu Xuan watched Li Fire burn the corpse and saw the youth in the coffin awaken as True Lord Gu Sui, who accused Eastern Yu of owing a debt.
• The Li Emperor burned away the phantom Buddha of vast wood and turned his attack west, then spotted Xu Xuan and struck at him with a sword.
• Xu Xuan returned to the Northern Sea and discovered a divine bow in the Thunder Pivot, where he witnessed Tianyu examine it and speak Geng Huai’s name.
• Xu Xuan recognized the bow as the position proof of the Venerable Jia Thunder-Shock and decided to help Tianyu by using his tethered flexibility authority.
• Split Wood rose from the Secret Realm and merged with the azure light as Tianyu tore the hidden human face from his neck and demanded that Geng Huai return what he had stolen from Yilin.

Tianyu reclaimed the Canopy Jia Fruit Position and destroyed Heavenly Leaf, while Geng Huai revealed his schemes and confronted him with the sword Yize. As Li Fire battled a newly born Vast Wood awakened one in the West Kang Plains, Jin Qi entered the world carrying Yearning, drawing the attention of powerful figures.

• Tianyu restored his memories, claimed the Jia Wood Fruit Position, and declared himself Restored Jia as he faced Geng Huai.
• Geng Huai invoked the Great Nonbeing Slash and Examination to destroy Heavenly Leaf, killing Nest-Builders Lianyi and taking Linked Branches.
• Geng Huai drew the Immortal Sword Yize against Tianyu, while a golden light escaped the Azure Wood Coffin into the Great Void.
• A Vast Wood awakened one, born from Divine Vastness's vow and the corpse of Long Abode, resisted Li Fire in the West Kang Plains.
• Li Fire invoked Supreme Unity and attacked the Pure Land, but a headless figure carrying Yearning appeared and was identified as Jin Qi.

True Lord Jin Qi used the Mysterious Branch’s Greater Yin light to overcome calamity and forge his golden body, experiencing memories of Lianyi and their shared past as he became the Yin Wood Lord. He emerged with his familiar face and confronted the Wooden Buddha, calling it his disciple.

• Lianyi followed the Divine Crow across a bridge in the void and reunited with Ye Jie, remembering their early life together.
• Ye Jie and Lianyi recalled their marriage and how Ye Jie advanced the Nest-Builders Clan’s sacred work, renaming nestwood and earning merit.
• The reunited pair joined their Mysterious Branches, but Ye Jie named the new wood the Firewood-origin great Yu Yin Wood, and Lianyi recognized that something was wrong.
• A burning wooden figure swallowed Lianyi and took the completed Mysterious Branch as a colossal beast, Tree Ring, and the Wooden Buddha appeared amid the battle and tribulation.
• After enduring the flames, True Lord Jin Qi became the Yin Wood Lord, resisted the calamity with Greater Yin light, and faced the Wooden Buddha as his disciple.

Xu Xuan uncovered how Divine Vastness revived by impersonating Jin Qi and seized control of the vast wood position, then used witchcraft to contact Tianyu and arrived in the Jia Wood Grotto-Heaven. The chapter left him face to face with Dragon King Cave Azure, who welcomed him as an honored guest.

• Xu Xuan traced Heavenly Leaf’s destruction and learned that Death Tower had helped destroy the lineage, while Tianyu’s memories had also been damaged by the Thunder Palace’s Slash and Examination.
• Xu Xuan discovered that Divine Vastness had revived in Jin Qi’s body, deceived Yilin’s true spirit, and renamed the vast wood Great Dao as Yin Wood.
• Tianyu and Death Tower fought over the Jia Wood fruit position as Divine Vastness faced the Thunder Palace’s punishment and Li Fire’s advance.
• Xu Xuan decided to support Tianyu and used Tianyu’s scale and blood in a witchcraft offering to invoke the Jia Wood True Lord’s power.
• Xu Xuan’s consciousness reached the Jia Wood Grotto-Heaven inside the Constructive Wood, where Dragon King Cave Azure appeared and welcomed him.

Xu Xuan, disguised as the Dark Shaman Shi Xian Ghost God, entered Azure Firmament Heaven and agreed to help Eastern Azure oppose Divine Vastness in exchange for future aid. As he waited with Cave Azure, Li Fire erupted across the world under the Southern Emperor’s command, ending with the emperor declaring, “I am Li.”

• Xu Xuan met Cave Azure in Azure Firmament Heaven and claimed to serve a hidden Greater Yin immortal who commanded calamity blessing.
• Cave Azure explained that True Lord Death Cen was contesting Lord Tianyu for Jia Wood, while Ji Earth and Lesser Yin shaped the conflict.
• Cave Azure revealed True Lord Jin Qi’s buried head in the Dawn-Presiding Temple and asked Xu Xuan to help deal with Divine Vastness.
• Xu Xuan and Cave Azure swore an oath: Xu Xuan would use his authority against Divine Vastness, and Eastern Azure would assist him once in the future.
• Cave Azure predicted that Li Fire would strike Divine Vastness, and the Southern Emperor’s two Li Fire Dharma Forms soon attacked across the West Kang Plains.
• The Southern Emperor’s Li Fire destroyed the Pure Land, crushed the Wooden Buddha, and slew an ape that tried to flee into Yi Wood before declaring, “I am Li.”

The Southern Emperor’s li fire destroyed the Nest Palace and [Forest] while Tianyu defeated Gu Sui and restored Jin Qi’s great dao. As Tianyu and his allies faced the Emperor, Bai Yi arrived and destroyed the corpse and Mysterious Coffin, declaring that Divine Vastness had overstepped his authority.

• The Southern Emperor burned the Nest Palace and forced Divine Vastness’s golden body to flee beyond the heavens, while his li fire dharma form eradicated [Forest] in the west.
• Tianyu defeated Gu Sui, cast his head into primordial chaos, and began restoring jia wood and Jin Qi’s great dao with help from the White Pheasant and the woman in white.
• Tianyu restored Jin Qi’s greater yang dao, and Jin Qi’s power helped settle the mountains and rivers and extinguish the flames.
• The Southern Emperor’s golden body descended toward Green Pond, and Tianyu transformed into an azure dragon to meet it as the White Pheasant attacked the mysterious branch.
• Bai Yi arrived atop the Mysterious Coffin, destroyed the corpse and coffin with geng metal qi, and accused Divine Vastness of overstepping his authority.

Xu Xuan used the Hairy Head Sun Long-Cry Star Official to disrupt Divine Vastness’s hold on the Mysterious Branch, then delivered the Split Wood arrow to Thunder Pivot, where it struck Divine Vastness and exposed him to Tribulation Punishment. As the battle continued and Jiao Yang emerged, Jin Qi’s master of Vast Wood returned in Pan Sea.

• Xu Xuan hid inside the Hairy Head Sun Long-Cry Star Official and tried to make the Mysterious Branch reject Divine Vastness by resonating calamity blessing with Greater Yin.
• Chi recalled the Mysterious Branch and struck the white-feathered Mysterious Chicken, forcing Xu Xuan to flee to Thunder Pivot.
• Xu Xuan delivered the Split Wood arrow to the divine bow Cross Ten, which launched it at Divine Vastness and shattered his head.
• With Greater Yin’s protection gone, Tribulation Punishment struck the battlefield as Divine Vastness and the others continued fighting; Xu Xuan sensed that Jiao Yang had emerged.
• In Pan Sea, a petite figure used the White Jade Bottle to heal the head, whose eyes opened as the master of Vast Wood returned.

Jin Qi returned as the lord of Vast Wood and defeated Song Lang, ending Li Fire’s reign as the emperor died. In the aftermath, Vast Wood’s Dao entered the pure land, Xu Xuan judged Li Fire’s ill omen, and relief efforts in the Liao Lands continued as the first grain appeared.

• Jin Qi manifested in Vast Wood, destroyed the Yin Wood golden body, and confronted Nanxian, who fought him with the remnants of Li Fire.
• Jin Qi defeated Nanxian after Mars fell; the dying emperor condemned Jiaoyang before darkness consumed him and his Broken Sword.
• Great World Sea told Jin Guangying that Vast Wood’s Dao had been remembered by Amitabha, allowing Buddhist cultivators to attain Expansive, but said Jin Guangying was not the one destined to fulfill the prophecy.
• Xu Xuan judged the ill omen of Li Fire and condensed it into a vermilion-yellow apricot blossom, then returned to disaster relief with Xie Kuo in the Liao Lands.
• A Liao youth approached Xu Xuan and Xie Kuo carrying an ear of grain grown in the thawed soil.

After the northern calamities, Xu Xuan returned to Green Luo and arranged disaster relief while considering how his dragon body could seek the Golden Position. He and Tiantuo concluded that Vast Wood might be essential to resisting Altar Thunder's punitive pursuit, and Xu Xuan suspected the Lord of Shock Thunder was a Primordial Embryo of the world.

• Xu Xuan met Wei Yang in the Nether Wastes, learned that nurturing earth had stirred up deadly sandstorms, and sent him to guard the region while Xie Kuo returned to seek help from his clan and Upper Firmament.
• Xu Xuan returned to Green Luo, where Wen Si'an told him Great Rites had fallen and disasters were devastating the surrounding lands; he summoned nine Martial Upholding Divine Guards to assist with relief and protection.
• In the Great Scarlet Heaven, Xu Xuan examined the Calamity-Expelling and Great Nonbeing's Severing of the Abyss divine edicts, then discussed True Lord Jin Qi's return and the challenges facing his dragon body's path to the Dao with Tiantuo.
• Xu Xuan and Tiantuo considered his identity, the Immortal Elixir, powerful allies, and the dangers of Seeking the Golden Position, and concluded that Vast Wood might be able to shield them from Altar Thunder's punitive pursuit.
• Xu Xuan decided they needed allies against the Lesser Yin Lord and suspected that the Lord of Shock Thunder was a Primordial Embryo of the world.

Song Shiqing came to Great Red Abbey seeking Song Qing’s help as Liyang Heaven faced destruction, and she agreed to return to the Southern Capital. After learning that the [Colorless World Gate] had flown toward the West Kang Plains, Xu Xuan suspected Le Yu was involved and reacted with fury.

• Jiang Yuehong met Song Shiqing at the mountain gate and brought him to Xu Xuan, who summoned Song Qing.
• Song Shiqing asked Song Qing to return because Liyang Heaven would fall in three days, and she agreed despite condemning the Song Clan for her father’s death.
• Song Shiqing explained that the Song Clan had been devastated by the True Lord’s fall and hoped Song Qing could claim a share of Liyang Heaven’s remnants on the clan’s behalf.
• Xu Xuan agreed to attend Liyang Heaven’s disposal after hearing that General Weihua had requested it, and learned that Great True Person Northern Yin had become a Demonic Nature.
• Song Shiqing said the [Colorless World Gate] had flown toward the West Kang Plains, and Xu Xuan’s anger surged as he said, “Le Yu.”

Xu Xuan watched Liyang Heaven collapse and agreed to join Nangang in pursuing Le Yu and reclaiming the Wu Clan ancestor’s remains. As the calamity stirred in his grotto-heaven, an unknown drop of blood appeared in its apricot blossom, and Song Shiqing delivered the sword Tomb Shifter, left for Xu Xuan by True Person Weihua.

• Nangang told Xu Xuan that the Wu Clan ancestor had dissolved himself, the [Colorless World Gate] had fled, and Treading Crow had died in the disasters that followed.
• Nangang revealed that the [Colorless World Gate] had been sent into the Great Void with their ancestor’s demonic nature, and Xu Xuan agreed to pursue Le Yu with the Wu Clan.
• Xu Xuan and Nangang watched Liyang Heaven collapse, ending the Song Clan’s existence as its remnants scattered or were gathered by Immortal Sect figures.
• Xu Xuan discovered a drop of blood in the apricot blossom of Great Scarlet Heaven; its incantations resonated with his fruit position of “calamity blessing” and resisted his harmonious union mysterious radiance.
• Song Shiqing gave Xu Xuan the sword [Tomb Shifter], which True Person Weihua had left for him.