Chapter Summaries

Wei Suhua completed her nine-lifetime chain form and resolved to seek a Greater Yin retainer position despite Mutual Extinction making the path perilous. After learning that True Lord Xuan Yu’s grotto-heaven might be connected to that position, Xu Xuan decided to pursue the grotto-heaven and deepen his cooperation with Tianyu.

• Wei Suhua completed her nine-lifetime chain form, perfected her Greater Yin Ancient Immortal Dao, and emerged from White Moon Palace as a Daoist Adept.
• Cave Azure warned Wei Suhua that Mutual Extinction had made the Greater Yin retainer position nearly impossible to attain, but she remained determined to seek it.
• Wei Suhua agreed to visit the grotto-heaven on Gathering Grotto Continent and performed a sacrificial rite to ask Xu Xuan for guidance.
• Xu Xuan learned from Wei Suhua that True Lord Xuan Yu’s grotto-heaven had a connection to the Greater Yin retainer position once held by the White Moon Immortal.
• Xu Xuan decided not to let the Xin Metal Grotto-Heaven pass him by and traveled toward the Southern Sea to deepen his cooperation with Tianyu.

Xu Xuan visited Tianyu to learn about Heavenly Thunder, the Lesser Yang Dao Verification, and the plans behind the coming tribulation. He concluded that the White Paper Blessed Land would seek him out, leaving him poised to pursue its power.

• Xu Xuan returned the Azure-Purple Divine Bow to Chuming and asked to meet Tianyu.
• Tianyu explained that Heavenly Thunder had once helped Eastern Radiance pursue firmament and revive lesser yang through shock thunder, but Lin Wang's failure left the Lesser Yang Dao Verification lost in primordial chaos.
• Tianyu revealed that Heavenly Thunder and the daos of Primordial Beginning were building a false future to survive Lesser Yin's destruction of the world.
• Xu Xuan and Tianyu discussed whether restoring the yang positions could break the Immortal Sovereign's reversal of Three-in-One, but Tianyu doubted anyone could safely attain yin-yang.
• Xu Xuan asked where to find the White Paper Blessed Land, and Tianyu said it could only be entered by invitation.
• Xu Xuan manifested withering devil tribulations and declared that the White Paper Blessed Land would come looking for him.

Xu Ming and Xu Fayan entered Plain Truth Heaven, where Xu Fayan met Gongsun Xi and competed with her to catch a Dark Carp. Gongsun Xi revealed the origins of three pieces of nurturing earth golden nature and invited Xu Fayan to visit White Paper Blessed Land.

• Kusuo and Meng Qiu opened the sealed gateway to Plain Truth Heaven, while Baoqiu prepared to enter with Xu Ming and seek the Xin Metal nature.
• Xu Ming and Xu Fayan entered the grotto-heaven, found the ancient Kan Water of Carp River, and met Gongsun Xi, the Sword Immortal of the Western River.
• Gongsun Xi challenged Xu Fayan to catch a Dark Carp, and the two pursued it through the river using their transformations and divine abilities.
• Gongsun Xi caught the Dark Carp and told Xu Fayan that the Grave Sheep’s fall had created three pieces of nurturing earth golden nature, including one held in White Paper Blessed Land.
• Gongsun Xi asked about Xu Fayan’s final divine ability, learned that he had cultivated [Enlightening Wonder and Constancy], and invited him to visit White Paper Blessed Land.

Xu Fayan entered Suzhen Heaven, received guidance from Plain Moon, and reached the Myriad Poisons Plain, where he fought Changsun Jun over an Origin Insect's shed remains. He helped the Red-Fighting Centipede consume the remains and cocoon itself, leaving Xu Fayan to reflect on the power of Primordial witchcraft.

• Xu Fayan accepted Gongsun Xi's offer to enter White Paper Blessed Land to address the lack of time in his nurturing earth path.
• Xu Fayan entered Heng Lake's moon reflection, where Plain Moon gave him three strands of glazed moonlight and sent him south toward his opportunity.
• At Myriad Poisons Plain, Xu Fayan devoured poisonous creatures to nourish the Red-Fighting Centipede and discovered Changsun Jun guarding an Origin Insect's shed remains.
• Xu Fayan used witchcraft and his divine abilities to defeat Changsun Jun, who fled with the poisoned Changsun Kongming.
• Xu Fayan let the Red-Fighting Centipede devour the poisonous insects and Origin Insect remains, after which it spun a cocoon and fell asleep.

Xu Ming explored the Square and Circle Temple in Plain Truth Heaven, where Zhang Chunxi forced him into a deadly encounter over a Go game. Xu Ming escaped by defeating Zhang Chunxi through an unconventional move and claimed the White Jade Game, then suspected that a matching Green Catalpa Go Board might also exist.

• Xu Ming entered the Square and Circle Temple alone and found Zhang Chunxi, a True Feathers cultivator, activating the temple’s formation against him.
• Xu Ming used his spirits, Sunfire, sword intent, and Greater Yin arts to withstand Zhang Chunxi’s attacks and wound him.
• Zhang Chunxi transported Xu Ming to a Go board and demanded a game, while Xu Ming learned that Zhang had lost countless games to Lord Xuan Yu.
• As Zhang Chunxi tried to bind Xu Ming to the chair, Xu Ming declared he would play and smashed the Go board over Zhang Chunxi’s head, causing him to lose.
• Xu Ming cut open a rift and sent Zhang Chunxi through it, then took the White Jade Game after the Azure Bamboo Sword calmed it.
• Xu Ming recognized the board as an ancient Xin Metal treasure and wondered whether the Green Catalpa Go Board was also nearby.

Xu Xuan entered Plain Truth Heaven, discovered its greater yin treasures, and took the Xuan Zang Secret-Revealing Tower before the immortal formation drove him away. He awakened Zhang Chunxi, who learned that ten thousand years had passed and concluded that the True Martial Great Dao had perished.

• Xu Xuan entered Plain Truth Heaven through the wound and identified Exquisite and the White Jade Game as the Grotto-Heaven’s spirit pivot and greater yin treasure.
• Xu Xuan explored the realm, left Mu Yu, Fa Yan, and Xu Ming to search for themselves, and found the Xuan Zang Secret-Revealing Tower.
• Xu Xuan understood that Xuan Zang had left the tower and its greater yin scriptures, then took the tower with the Immortal Stele’s power.
• The immortal formation attacked Xu Xuan with greater yin mysterious radiance, forcing him to retreat to the Grotto-Heaven’s highest point.
• Xu Xuan awakened Zhang Chunxi, whose revelations nearly destroyed him, and learned that he belonged to the True Martial Dao Lineage.
• Zhang Chunxi asked about the era and the master of true qi, then collapsed after Xu Xuan told him that True Lord Northern Sage held the principal position.

Xu Xuan captured an evil creature carrying the Jade Void venerable nature and helped Many Treasures and Wanjin secure Xuan Yu’s Xin Metal nature. As they discussed metal virtue’s path to completion, Baoqiu revealed that Geng Martial had nearly become a True Immortal before someone in heaven killed him.

• Xu Xuan learned from Zhang Chunxi that the Northern Sage had once belonged to the Sage-Bearing Palace and pursued Yin-Yang cultivation before the Thunder Palace fell.
• Xu Xuan detected a hidden metal retainer position within the White Jade Game and captured a jade-like evil creature with the Complete Yang Binding Rope, obtaining the Jade Void Mystic Truth Venerable Nature.
• Xu Xuan and Baoqiu watched treasures emerge from the lead mountain and mercury sea, and Baoqiu explained that Xuan Yu had dissolved and dispersed his form to depart the world.
• The Heavenly Xin Autumn Dew Nourishing Glory Nature appeared, and Baoqiu, Wanjin, and Xu Xuan secured it while Xu Xuan’s thunderbolts drove off a Dragon Sparrow and its allies.
• Wanjin explained that the Xin Metal nature would help complete the Dao alongside Dui Metal, then Baoqiu said Geng Martial had nearly succeeded in becoming a True Immortal before someone in heaven slew him.

Xu Xuan deciphered the Toil Hall’s hour diagram and realized that nightfall and daybreak could complete the balance of yin and yang, while Xu Fayan obtained an Origin Insect and intervened when Xu Ming was cornered by two Dragon Kings. As Xu Ming fought Hope Sea, Jiang Jie arrived and struck the Dragon King, identifying himself as Great Flame.

• Xu Xuan examined the Toil Hall’s earthly-branch dial and light-and-shadow diagram, then uncovered the hidden boundaries of nightfall and daybreak.
• Xu Xuan concluded that Blazing Yang, Rising Sun, and the Greater Yin forces were part of a vast design to invert and restore the hours, while the Grotto-Heaven’s formation began withdrawing into the White Jade Game.
• Xu Fayan refined the Origin Insect and hurried to the Golden Pavilion Palace, where he found Xu Ming surrounded by cultivators competing for an embryo that could enable reincarnation or Chain Form.
• Xu Fayan used witchcraft to stop First Sea’s chariot and help Xu Ming escape, but First Sea and Hope Sea attacked them as Xu Ming faced Hope Sea in battle.
• Hope Sea wounded Xu Ming with demonic thunder and a powerful collision, but Xu Ming’s Lesser Yang arts and New Moon Renewal allowed him to endure.
• Jiang Jie appeared, imprisoned Hope Sea’s demonic thunder with ash-green divine light, struck the Dragon King, and introduced himself as Great Flame.

Jiang Jie rescued Xu Ming from Hope Sea, while Xu Xuan killed Hope Sea after the Dragon King of Vast Water tried to pressure him. Xu Xuan regrouped with Xu Ming and Xu Fayan, and the Grotto-Heaven’s spirit pivot began to break away.

• Jiang Jie struck Hope Sea with primordial fire and Soul Summoning, forcing him to flee, then gave Xu Ming a Windflame token and invited him and his mother to visit the Flame Palace.
• Xu Fayan joined Xu Ming and said they would travel together, while Hope Sea resolved to keep watch on Xu Ming’s Lesser Yang cultivation.
• Xu Xuan killed Hope Sea with Calamity-Splitting and Neck-Severing, then faced pressure from the Dragon Lord of Vast Water until the Hidden Metal True Lord intervened.
• Xu Xuan met Xu Ming and Xu Fayan, heard their accounts of Great Flame and the White Paper Blessed Land, and decided they could pursue cooperation with the Millet Immortal.
• The Grotto-Heaven shook, and Xu Xuan realized its spirit pivot was about to break away.

Dragon King Dongzhu suspected Xu Xuan was controlled by a reincarnated Mystic Lord as Plain Truth Heaven began to collapse and the White Jade Game escaped. Xu Xuan tricked the treasure with a false image of its former lord, bound it, and made it acknowledge him as its master, discovering its retainer position was Plain Chang'e.

• Dragon King Dongzhu theorized that a reincarnated Mystic Lord controlled Xu Xuan, while First Sea feared being consumed by the Dragon Lord and resolved to seek the golden position of vast water.
• The Dragon Lord’s attack accelerated Plain Truth Heaven’s collapse, and the White Jade Game broke free as the hidden metal retainer position returned to its master.
• The True Lord of gen earth, Dragon King Dongzhu, Xu Xuan, and the moon deity each tried to capture or stop the White Jade Game, but its Greater Yin power thwarted them.
• Xu Xuan fashioned a false image with the Jade Void Mystic Truth Venerable Nature, used it to lure the White Jade Game close, and bound it with the Complete Yang Binding Rope.
• Xu Xuan used the Immortal Stele to make the White Jade Game acknowledge him as its master and learned that its retainer position was Plain Chang'e.

Xu Xuan studied the White Jade Game and the ruins of Plain Truth Heaven, then investigated the unstable Jade Void Venerable Nature and the missing Cold Yin Position Proof. He left the chapter planning to guide Bai Xuan toward a Greater Yin Venerable Position and sent Miao'e and Zhang Chunxi to Mystic Unity.

• Xu Xuan used his calamity-blessing authority to reveal the White Jade Game's Greater Yin mysteries and saw the Xin Metal Position Proof suppressed before True Lord Primordial Heaven Shen Pu seized the clear qi beneath Xuan Yu's silver-tree Dao Verification.
• Xu Xuan examined the Jade Void Venerable Nature, concluded that jade virtue might help transform falsehood into reality, and planned to investigate its connection to the White Paper Blessed Land and Ji Earth's history.
• Xu Xuan used the White Jade Game to enter the Cold Yin Golden Rank, found its Position Proof missing, and linked the Cold Yin Venerable Position to Plain Chang'e.
• Xu Xuan considered helping someone claim the Cold Yin Venerable Position and identified Bai Xuan as a possible candidate, while suspecting that her pursuit of Yin-Origin Condensation could lead her into a fatal Lesser Yin path.
• Xu Xuan sent Miao'e and Zhang Chunxi to join the Mystic Unity Dao Lineage, then ordered Mu Yu to visit Jinshu and summon Bai Xuan so he could inspect her Divine Ability.

Si Wenchuan obtained the [Autumn Origin of Rongping] after destroying True Person Han Jue, but Ji Yue brought him into the Yi Wood Demonic Path and gave him its bloodline. In the Xia Lands, Ye Yu discussed the Grave Sheep and concluded that two such beasts would eventually kill each other.

• Si Wenchuan destroyed True Person Han Jue's Dharma Body, though a fragment of Han Jue's true spirit escaped.
• Ji Yue captured Si Wenchuan and explained that he could have used the Blood Navel Technique to form [Steal and Crown] more easily.
• Si Wenchuan accepted the Yi Wood bloodline through a bloody umbilical cord and began forming [Steal and Crown].
• Ye Yu heard that their lord had retrieved [Lin Hun]'s corpse and discussed the dynasty's prospects amid the coming final calamity.
• Ming An told Ye Yu that the Grave Sheep was growing powerful and difficult to control, and Ye Yu said the two Grave Sheep would eventually kill each other.

Shi Xian organized Mystic Unity’s growing sect by appointing leaders for its new towers and halls, then arranged for the An Dynasty to receive a response from Thunder Marsh. Xu Xuan learned that Fa Yan had entered the White Paper Blessed Land, leaving the next development unresolved.

• Liu Shu Han returned to Azure Mountain and reviewed Mystic Unity’s expansion before joining Liu Xingfang, Xu Mingguang, and Pang Qingyi at Shi Xian’s summons.
• Shi Xian established three towers, appointed Bei Xi Zhang Chunxi to the Truth-Keeping Tower and Miao'e to the Greater Yin Hall, and assigned Shen Yi and Judge the Nether to the other towers.
• Shi Xian appointed Divine Cang to oversee the Ten Thousand Evils Palace, arranged Dao instruction, and told Judge the Nether to monitor Feng Jihuan as a possible future palace master.
• Shi Xian sent Dragon Prince Mu Hua to the Northern Sea Dragon Palace, then identified offerings to Thunder Marsh as coming from the An Dynasty.
• Xu Xuan instructed Thunder Marsh to send a storm over Kui Gate, where the resulting lightning enriched the region, and asked about the Wu Earth Sovereign’s sacrifice.
• Xu Xuan considered why Turbid Nether would not discuss Houtu, then learned that Fa Yan had entered the White Paper Blessed Land.

Xu Fayan examined the treasures recovered from Plain Truth Heaven before Empty-Handed led him into a vision of the Heavenly Epoch. He witnessed the rise of the first Shaman and learned that the being, later called Wu Xuan, had transcended as a manifestation of Origin Qi.

• Xu Fayan identified the ancient treasures, assigning the Nine Springs Divine Mercury Sea to Xu Ming and the Cinnabar Blood Heart Cauldron to Aunt-Master Wen, while keeping the White Fox Record for his Divine Kingdom.
• Xu Fayan stored the Void Emperor Cave-Yin Gold Embryo in the Spirit Vault and encountered Empty-Handed, who offered to show him the way to a blessed land.
• Empty-Handed led Xu Fayan through white radiance into the Heavenly Epoch, where Xu Fayan watched humans suffer under powerful Monsters, gods, and ghosts.
• Xu Fayan witnessed the first Shaman gather humanity, spread Witchcraft, and establish a divine mountain while worshipping Mysterious Heaven and the earth.
• Empty-Handed told Xu Fayan that the first Shaman had transcended and was a manifestation of Origin Qi known to later generations as Wu Xuan.

Xu Fayan traveled through the Heavenly Epoch’s history, gained an ancient primordial divine status, and entered the Nurturing Transformation Palace. There, Tao Zhennan summoned the Mystic Lord, and Xu Xuan met the ji earth True Lord Shenxi before Panmi appeared.

• Xu Fayan learned how Wu Xuan entered nonbeing and watched the Nest-Builders, Great Flint, and Emperor Fu shape humanity and the Great Dao.
• Xu Fayan and Empty-Handed reached the end of the Heavenly Epoch, where a supreme sword’s radiance obscured what followed as history transitioned into the Earthly Epoch.
• Xu Fayan gained an ancient primordial divine status and entered the Nurturing Transformation Palace, where Right Historian Tao Zhennan awaited him.
• Tao Zhennan asked the Mystic Lord to reveal himself, and Xu Xuan manifested alongside the ji earth True Lord Shenxi, who gave his name as Taiyou.
• Panmi appeared within pale jade light as Xu Xuan and Shenxi stood in the palace.

Xu Xuan negotiated a thousand-year truce between Taiyou and Panmi while learning how the White Paper Blessed Land planned to advance deification and align with jade virtue. He then revealed his own path of using the false to cultivate the real and asked Shenxi for a history to serve as its vessel.

• Xu Xuan and Panmi agreed to postpone their conflict for a thousand years under Shenxi's ji earth contract, with Panmi barred from interfering in origin wood's attainment of the Dao.
• Shenxi explained that nurturing earth depended on dry yang and entering the night chamber, and Xu Xuan realized how that imagery connected the coming Final Dusk to attaining nurturing earth.
• Shenxi confirmed that the White Paper Blessed Land was protecting Zhang Xuan Mystic Secrets to establish a register for deification and align with jade virtue.
• Shenxi described the Void Emperor and jade virtue as a path to transcendence through using what was real to cultivate what was false.
• Xu Xuan declared that he would use the false to cultivate the real and asked the White Paper Blessed Land for a history to serve as its vessel.

Xu Fayan learned how True Lord Azure Loam Abundant Years fell after seeking a Fruit Position instead of a Nurturing Earth Retainer Position, and how Buddhism likely obtained his Golden Nature. He accepted Tao Zhennan’s challenge to defeat Evil Land and restore Nurturing Earth.

• Tao Zhennan explained that Youchao Ju’s Fruit Position altered Nurturing Earth’s Great Dao and brought him into conflict with both Nurturing Earth and Sheji.
• Xu Fayan questioned whether Balance and History had caused Abundant Years’ fall, and Tao Zhennan insisted their Dao had given him a chance to transcend.
• Tao Zhennan revealed that Abundant Years’ Golden Nature had left with the Dao’s consent and was likely drawn to Buddhism through Gu Huaixu’s Cause and Effect.
• Tao Zhennan said Xu Fayan could seek the primordial Nurturing Earth nature if he defeated Evil Land, who might bear Abundant Years’ Golden Nature.
• Xu Fayan vowed to release Gu Huaixu from his suffering, set Nurturing Earth right, and soothe its wounds.

Xu Xuan visited the White Paper Blessed Land, studied the stone drums, and obtained Qu Zhu’s silk threads to weave a foundation for false history. He returned to Great Scarlet Heaven with the white cloth and prepared to use it to refine a false embryo into a true Nascent Soul.

• Xu Xuan learned that nine of Tai Ji’s ten stone drums remained, and that their primordial characters could not be remembered after leaving the realm.
• Shenxi explained that Xu Xuan could compile false history using Qu Zhu’s silk threads if he agreed to help the History-Balancing Great Dao sense altar thunder within a thousand years.
• Xu Xuan and Shenxi made a pact witnessed by altar thunder, and Xu Xuan used his authorities to weave the silk threads into white cloth that could serve as a foundation for history.
• While weaving the cloth, Xu Xuan gained insight into altar thunder’s authority of beginning and its connection to abyss-severing and the establishment of order.
• Shenxi told Xu Xuan that Bing Fire and Wu Earth would attain the Dao anew, so Peace and Yan would ultimately divide the north and south rather than fight to the death.
• Xu Xuan returned to Great Scarlet Heaven, verified that the white cloth held no hidden trick, and prepared to borrow withering to refine a false embryo into a true Nascent Soul.

Xu Xuan entered the false history as the Buddhist monk No Light to contend with Devil Lord Wusheng for the Withering Fruit. He won the Prince of Yan’s attention by revealing Papiyan and asked for help entering Yan Territory to attain withering.

• Xu Xuan chose the final years of Wei, around Tuoba Yuanye’s fall, to challenge Devil Lord Wusheng for withering.
• Xu Xuan used the Desire Fruit’s Buddhist cause and effect to create the identity of No Light and arrived at the Prince of Yan’s residence in Luo Capital.
• No Light effortlessly stopped Murong Jun’s attacks and persuaded Tuoba Chunyan to let him enter the residence.
• No Light told Tuoba Chunyan that Emperor Wei’s position was unstable and urged him to pursue imperial ambitions amid the coming upheaval.
• No Light revealed a fragment of Papiyan and asked Tuoba Chunyan to help him enter Yan Territory to attain withering.

Xu Xuan prepared for Emperor Wei’s fall, strengthened Tuoba Chunyan’s power in Yan Territory, and watched the Devil Lord Wusheng’s rise. When the Second Immortal-Demon War erupted, Xu Xuan protected Yan Territory until a greater-yin attack shattered the Desire Manifestation Demon Dharma Form and plunged him into darkness.

• Xu Xuan told Tuoba Chunyan that Emperor Wei could not hold out and advised him to build power in Yan Territory before taking Luo Capital.
• Tuoba Chunyan confirmed that Wang Yi, a descendant of the Lesser Yang Wang clan, was still in the Eastern Sea and had yet to attain a divine ability.
• After Emperor Wei fell, Tuoba Chunyan defied Tuoba Tianjue’s order to return to the capital, while Xu Xuan’s influence and protection of Yan Territory grew.
• Xu Xuan learned that Wang Yi had obtained the You Dai Demonic Path inheritance and waited for him to come north toward Mount Heng.
• The Lesser Yin Lord and another Immortal battled beyond the heavens, bringing devastating upheaval to the world as Xu Xuan sheltered Yan Territory and rejected the vow power he had received.
• A ray of greater yin mysterious radiance shattered Xu Xuan’s Desire Manifestation Heavenless Chief Demon Awakener Dharma Form, and darkness swallowed his vision.