Chapter Summaries

Xu Fayan met Ye Yu after completing his manifestation and learned that he would seek the golden position in three days, while facing several powerful enemies and a planned resurrection if he died. Ye Yu revealed the Golden Crows’ scheme to reverse heaven and earth through Dry Yang, leaving Xu Fayan to prepare for the perilous ascent at Unclarity Mountain.

• Empty-Handed delivered Xu Fayan a Heavenly Inquiry talisman from the White Paper Blessed Land and warned that its bargain could still leave him dead.
• Xu Fayan suspected the White Paper Blessed Land had arranged his fate, then told Wuge Gaoshi that he had killed Evil Land and could seek the golden position.
• Ye Yu summoned Xu Fayan to Ten Suns Hall and set his attempt for three days later, while Xu Fayan asked about the two earth-virtue demons kept under guard.
• Ye Yu explained that White Millet and Black Millet would be used to revive Xu Fayan if he died, and warned that pursuing Heavenly Inquiry before attaining the Dao would bring Yinkang Ziye to kill him.
• Ye Yu revealed that Yang Chi, Yuan Yan, the Earth-Subduing Abbey, White Paper, and Ultimate Yin could all target Xu Fayan, and explained the Golden Crows’ plan to reverse heaven and earth through Dry Yang.
• Ye Yu ordered Xu Fayan to seek the golden position at Unclarity Mountain as the Emperor Lord began attaining Dry Yang, and Xu Fayan vowed to survive.

Xu Wugui prepared Mysterious Heaven’s plans to help Xu Fayan survive the dangers surrounding his attempt to claim the Golden Position. Xu Fayan rejected retreat and headed for Unclarity Mountain, determined to defend nurturing earth even if he died.

• Xu Wugui formed the Immortal Sword Free and Easy and planned to use it or Two Stops of Life and Death to relay Xu Xuan’s one chance to strike.
• Xu Wugui sent Cangguang to protect Xu Fayan’s Dao fruit and ordered Shi Xian to prepare a sacrifice that could restore Xu Fayan if he fell.
• Tao Zhennan reported that the Golden Crow had delivered golden nature to Xu Fayan, while True Lord Divine Stammer ordered him to watch events unfold.
• Feng Cen asked Tao Zhennan about the upheaval threatening nurturing earth, but Tao Zhennan warned that Xu Fayan’s path to xi earth would lead to death.
• Xu Fayan reviewed the factions’ plans against him, concluded he could not retreat, and set out for Unclarity Mountain with a vow to make his enemies understand nurturing earth.

Xu Fayan underwent Dao Transformation at Unclarity Mountain, using Arcane Arts and Witchcraft to unify Nurturing Earth and emerge as True Lord Ominous Portent of Mysterious Sameness. He attained the Dao as the Xia Lands changed, but an ancient Slaughter Blade appeared in the east and targeted him.

• At the Founders' Hall, Liu Xiaowen and Liu Xingfang discussed Xu Fayan's departure and affirmed that he remained their sect's disciple; their master's incense finally began to burn.
• Xu Fayan arrived at Unclarity Mountain to seek the golden position, where he revealed four Nurturing Earth Divine Abilities and unified Sky Thunder and Dry Yang through Enlightening Wonder and Constancy.
• Xu Fayan entered Dao Transformation, sealed a speck of Azure Light within his spirituality, and endured visions and questions as he sought to awaken within the source of Nurturing Earth.
• Xu Fayan emerged as the new spirit of Nurturing Earth, accepted his former self as an offering through Witchcraft, and received Qingrang's protection when Sheji's oppressive might descended.
• Xu Fayan declared that he had attained the Dao as True Lord Ominous Portent of Mysterious Sameness, and the Xia Lands transformed as Dry Yang approached completion.
• An ancient Slaughter Blade appeared in the east and locked onto Xu Fayan's newborn Nurturing Earth form, which faced it and called it forth.

Xu Fayan attained the nurturing earth fruit position and faced an attack from Yang Chi and Yuan Yan as his new authority threatened to remake the lands. After refusing the Hidden Metal Lord’s offer to withdraw and enter the Xiyuan Great Dao, Xu Fayan stood ready to fight, vowing revenge if his enemies failed to kill him completely.

• Yang Zhongzhou and Ming An observed the Black Sun’s growing influence and prepared to summon souls as True Lord Yang Chi and other forces mobilized.
• Yang Chi confronted Xu Fayan, who used the Great Nether Devouring Mystic Demon Jar and his Xi Court authority to summon shattered lands into his Divine Kingdom.
• Yang Chi’s Slaughter Blade disrupted Xu Fayan’s effort, while Yuan Yan arrived with wind calamities and challenged his claim to the Xi Deity’s station.
• The Hidden Metal Lord restrained the three sides and offered Yang Chi a path into the Xiyuan Great Dao if he withdrew, but Xu Fayan refused on the grounds that his Xu name came from his master.
• After the Hidden Metal Lord withdrew, Xu Fayan recognized that he had secretly aided his attainment and warned Yang Chi and Yuan Yan that he would repay the attack if they left any part of him alive.

Xu Wugui analyzed how baleful qi and yin-yang shaped the assault on nurturing earth, while Mercy Spring arrived and left the outcome to the embattled Ominous Portent. As Night Slaughter destroyed the Xi Sheep, Ye Yu revealed that Ominous Portent had another form tied to origin poison, and said Subduing earth had acted.

• Xu Wugui deduced that Yang Chi’s use of Night Slaughter depended on baleful qi, yin-yang authority, and a connection to calamity and fortune.
• Xu Wugui welcomed Mercy Spring, who said she had lent hidden water’s intent to the Nine-Headed One and that Ominous Portent had to cross the tribulation himself.
• Ye Yu watched as the black sun and Yang Chi’s attack battered nurturing earth, while Ming An observed the Xia Lands convulsing with disasters and visions.
• Night Slaughter shattered nurturing earth’s Xi Sheep form, scattering its body across the Xia Lands as the land’s mystic blood poured out.
• Nurturing earth devoured a damaged Great Dao and manifested a second form linked to origin poison, astonishing Ming An.
• Ye Yu said Ominous Portent had endured Night Slaughter and that Subduing earth had acted.

Xu Fayan witnessed Jiaoyang's thwarted attempt to attain dry yang and learned of the True Immortals' plans to delay the world's final conclusion. He refused Wei Huang's offer of a Retainer Position, and the old and new Nurturing Earth Lords began a struggle across history.

• Xu Fayan used nurturing earth to resist Guangyi and the Calamity God, but the battle shattered his countenances and left a curse infecting the baleful sea.
• The Glorious Age Way established Greedy Corpse Truth as a Venerable, while Jiaoyang used the Lightless Burial Earth and the All Suns Sun-Gazing Disc to attempt his dry yang attestation.
• Xuan Zhong's Veiling the World prevented Jiaoyang from completing his ascent, and Yang Jiao returned as Jiaoyang's enemies moved to settle their conflict.
• Xu Fayan awoke before Wei Huang, who explained that True Immortals left the world to delay its final conclusion and described a plan involving retrospection and the Inversion of the Six Blossoms.
• Xu Fayan refused Wei Huang's offer of a Retainer Position, and the two Nurturing Earth Lords began battling across ancient history.

Xu Wugui and Xi En learned that Xu Fayan had chosen to enter Supreme Unity’s wound through Heavenly Inquiry, while Wei Huang returned with Nether Sheep’s corpse and reclaimed nurturing earth. Jiaoyang destroyed his own Dao Attainment and became the terrifying Que Sui Emperor Lord, prompting Xuan Zhong’s Beast Aspect to intervene; Jiaoyang then called upon another ancient power for help.

• Xu Wugui discovered that Xu Fayan intended to enter Supreme Unity’s wound, and Xi En left to watch Wei Huang as Xu Wugui summoned Thunder Marsh and moved the altar into the Primordial Gate.
• Xu Wugui saw Nether Sheep’s heart arrive and realized Xu Fayan had seized it from Wei Huang, while Wei Huang reclaimed the Great Wilderness Cauldron and Nether Sheep’s remains.
• Jiaoyang confronted Wei Huang, Qu Taichong, and Bitter Day, who explained that the cycle had repeated six times and that Jiaoyang’s advancement had always been suppressed.
• The True Lords attacked Jiaoyang, but he destroyed his own Dao Attainment, giving rise to the pale Great Sun, Que Sui, which declared itself the Burial Brightness Corpse Dryness Que Sui Emperor Lord.
• Xuan Zhong’s Beast Aspect struck Que Sui into the Western Sea and suppressed its power, while Jiaoyang challenged Xuan Zhong and then called another ancient being from the history of withering qi.
• An aged voice answered Jiaoyang and promised him a path to survival.

Jiaoyang and the Second Demon challenged the Beast Aspect as Xu Fayan and Wei Huang pursued competing plans for nurturing earth. Xu Wugui’s sword strike killed Jiaoyang and destroyed the demon Buddha aspect, while the struggle to determine nurturing earth’s master remained unresolved.

• Jiaoyang invoked Heavenly Restraint and sacrificed the offerings of the Golden Crows, but the Beast Aspect used Disbelief to suppress the Second Demon’s attempt to enter true history.
• The Beast Aspect crushed Jiaoyang, who called on the Second Demon to help break it, while Xu Fayan searched the ruined Court of the Nine Songs for Supreme Unity’s wound.
• Xu Fayan established the Xi Deity beside Wei Huang’s Wild Deity and sent his true spirit toward the wound of Supreme Unity, committing to contest Wei Huang for nurturing earth.
• Xu Wugui summoned Xu | Xuan’s supreme sword strike, which cleaved through the Histories, killed Jiaoyang, and erased Taojue’s demon Buddha aspect.
• The sword strike restored balance between Yin-Yang, but nurturing earth’s final contest continued; Xu Wugui believed Ominous Portent would prevail and that nurturing earth could be renamed xi earth.

After Xu Xuan’s sword strike destroyed Que Sui, Xu Wugui tried to awaken him while Xu Fayan entered the history of Xia’s fall and fought Wei Huang for nurturing earth’s fruit position. Xu Fayan prevailed, restored his golden nature, and returned to the Great Void to rename nurturing earth as Xi earth.

• Xu Wugui recognized that Xu Xuan had reached the Second Severance but could not return to his senses, and he sought Thunder Marsh’s help to awaken him.
• Xu Fayan appeared in the history of Xia’s fall and witnessed the last suns descend, along with the final words of Yang Ci and the fallen emperor.
• Wei Huang recounted how Ancient Void had shaped his life, then challenged Xu Fayan to fight for nurturing earth’s fruit position.
• Xu Fayan defeated Wei Huang, who revealed he had returned from Beyond the Heavens to make nurturing earth a supreme Dao and change the fate of Grave Sheep.
• Xu Fayan reclaimed his preserved golden nature, perfected his divine status, and returned through the Primordial Gate as his countenance united with Nether Sheep’s mystic heart.
• Xu Fayan descended to the Great Void and renamed nurturing earth Xi earth, giving it the attained nature Mysterious Unity, Undivided Xi Divinity.

Xu Fayan established Xi Earth’s divine court and settled old grievances with White Paper and Mount Sumeru. He reclaimed the Suspended Corpse Truth by creating Mysterious Sheep Truth, then founded Nonduality Temple in the Western Sea.

• Xu Fayan completed the mysteries of Mutual Affliction and Mutual Separation, established the Five Earth Spirits, and made Xi Earth’s methods a path for Spirit Monsters to cultivate.
• Xu Fayan created Xi Earth’s blessed land and divine kingdom, appointed Xiangqing and Wuge Gaoshi as Attendant Envoys, and sent them to their duties.
• Xu Fayan confronted Shenxi at White Paper, reclaimed the Proliferating Soil as an immortal object, and received an incomplete imprint of Heavenly Inquiry’s history.
• Xu Fayan invaded Mount Sumeru, defeated the Great Age Six-Aspect Dharma Sea Venerable, and used Thunderbolt to break Greedy Corpse Truth’s vow and return him to the earth.
• Xu Fayan formed Mysterious Sheep Truth from the Greed Root, let him claim part of Mount Sumeru’s Pure Land, and established Nonduality Temple in the Western Sea.

Xu Fayan returned to Mysterious Heaven with Proliferating Soil and a stolen heart from Yang Chi, then claimed Great Xia’s remaining legacy for the xi earth lord. In Jiaoyang’s Remnant Evening Heaven, he transformed a remnant of dry yang golden nature and found an ancient Xiyuan cauldron before Heavenly Firmament Reincarnation Emperor Nether Ancient God confronted him.

• Xu Fayan sent Proliferating Soil to Mysterious Heaven, where Xu Wugui and Xi En discussed its status, Great Luo, and the threat posed by the Immortal Sovereign and the First Demon.
• Xu Fayan returned with Yang Chi’s heart, thanked Xu Wugui for his help, and planned to pursue the Earth-Subduing Great Dao through wu earth and shock thunder.
• Wuge Gaoshi took charge of Great Xia’s treasury and arranged for Xu Fayan to claim Jiaoyang’s remaining grotto-heavens and gather the surviving Purple Mansion monsters.
• Xu Fayan entered Remnant Evening Heaven, repaired Jiaoyang’s damaged golden nature through interflowing union, and gained insight into the Xiyuan Great Dao and Year Formation.
• Xu Fayan found the Supreme Unity Generates Water Cauldron, then greeted Heavenly Firmament Reincarnation Emperor Nether Ancient God, who said Xu Fayan had exceeded his expectations.

Xu Fayan explored the Xia Lands’ grotto-heavens, learned more about Emperor Nether’s plans for transcendence, and claimed several important treasures. He returned to his sect as a True Lord and raised its status into the Great Scarlet Immortal Gate.

• Emperor Nether told Xu Fayan that White Paper’s history of supreme falsehood would replace the world’s living beings, then urged him to seek transcendence by pioneering anew.
• Xu Fayan claimed the Great Expansion Dao-Inquiry Instrument and began refining Remnant Evening Heaven as his own refuge.
• In Yang Prison Heaven, Xu Fayan discovered an edict from Xuanyang sealed inside the Supreme Yang Heavenly Prison and suspected it concerned the succession of Greater Yang.
• Xu Fayan learned that Yuan Yan had left to pursue establishing Xun Wind, and recognized him as the opponent in a future battle of Dao.
• Xu Fayan returned to his sect, proclaimed it a Golden Core lineage, and reunited with Liu Xiaowen, who welcomed the newly named Great Scarlet Immortal Gate.

A nameless traveler endured trials of hatred, desire, loneliness, compassion, and arrogance, becoming an unhealable wound as Heaven and Earth formed around him. After remaining motionless for ages, he was found by a Daoist who took him and the green scale to Great Mystery Mountain.

• The traveler passed the trials before him, cast off his compassion and arrogance, and used his wound to annihilate the immortal and demon blocking his path.
• He entered primordial chaos, where a portion of the Scale Beast's flesh followed him and became a green scale as Heaven and Earth separated.
• The traveler sat motionless for decades while tribes worshiped and later abandoned him; a remnant Nine Li army arrived, and its leader lost an index finger when he tried to lift him.
• Gu Su identified the motionless man as a cultivator of the Great Dao of Severance, and the Nine Li soldiers charged into their final battle and were destroyed.
• After the Earthly Epoch began, a dark azure Daoist brushed the dirt from the traveler's face, reclaimed the Immortal Sword, and invited him to Great Mystery Mountain.
• The green scale became a pendant around the youth's neck, and he asked where they were going before the Daoist told him they were going home.

Great Azure brought two troublesome Flood Dragons to Great Mystery Mountain, where Ying Qi received his name, began studying the Mystic Canons, and subdued a runaway White Horse. Great Azure returned with the Immortal Sword [Shang Xuan], and Ning Qi arrived to take the White Horse as Ying Qi prepared to enter the world.

• Great Azure brought two Flood Dragons to Great Mystery Mountain, and Xi Xinyin released them into [Mystic Ancient Lake] to temper their viciousness.
• The Daoist Master and a formless presence bestowed the name Ying Qi on the youth, assigned him to [You Court], and instructed him to study [Creation] and [Primordial].
• Nangong Shaoqing showed Ying Qi the scriptures, and he found their teachings strangely familiar before catching an escaped White Horse with his Divine Status.
• Great Azure returned with the Immortal Sword [Shang Xuan], while Ning Qi arrived and took the White Horse as a mount for his Ultimate Yin.

Tai Qian emerged from seclusion after completing the three harmonizations of yin-yang, and the immortals gathered in Lesser Yang to celebrate his achievement. The banquet ended in a confrontation when a Wild Daoist tried to enter and a silver-robed deity threatened him with a sword formed from the Northern Dipper.

• Tai Qian emerged from seclusion, explained his mastery of even density to Tai Cang, and met Ying Qi at Harmonious Union Abbey.
• Nangong Shaoqing delivered an invitation from Lesser Yang, and Tai Qian traveled east to attend a banquet hosted by Di Shaoyang.
• At the banquet, Tai Cang joined the contests while Nangong Shaoqing explained the gathered immortals and demons to Ying Qi.
• Heavenly Huo questioned Ying Qi about his Dao lineage, recognized him as a Venerated Immortal, and toasted him.
• A Wild Daoist arrived at the immortal gates and demanded to join the feast, but a silver-robed deity summoned a sword from the Northern Dipper and warned him that he was courting death.

At the immortals’ banquet in Lesser Square Zhu, Ying Qi drove off the wild Daoist with a single sword strike and received a token from Tianpeng. The gathering ended with Yu Kang forcing Great Azure to settle his debts, while Ying Qi and Nangong Shaoqing remained among their fellow disciples.

• The wild Daoist called out Zhang Primordial Heaven and threatened to harm the beings trapped in his Black Pouch, but the Northern Dipper Immortal Sword kept him pinned.
• Tai Qian sent Ying Qi to escort the wild Daoist away, and Ying Qi cut through the Daoist and his withering qi with one ordinary sword strike.
• Tianpeng gave Ying Qi a Central Firmament token and invited him to study Fengxuan’s Dao at Primordial Beginning once he had learned it.
• Yu Kang confronted Great Azure over his unpaid debts and demanded that he stay at Lesser Square Zhu to help with divine affairs for three hundred years.
• A Female Immortal advised Yu Kang to accept Ying Qi’s Azure-Scale Pendant, and Yu Kang took it before leaving.
• Nangong Shaoqing joined Xi Xinyin, while Ying Qi refused to cover Great Azure’s debts and told him they should be repaid.

Tiantuo inhabited a primordial clear qi body as he prepared to pursue the clear qi golden position and help awaken Xu Xuan. Xu Wugui uncovered mysteries concerning dusk and dawn, found Xu Xuan missing from secondary falsehood, and ordered Liu Xingfang to guard Jingying’s attempt to attain the true fire golden position.

• Tiantuo inhabited the newly formed clear qi boy body and resolved to pursue the clear qi golden position despite the dangers posed by his other dao paths.
• Xu Wugui told Tiantuo and Shi Xian that Yuan Yan had fled into primordial chaos to pursue emptiness attestation, then ordered Shi Xian to monitor origin wood.
• Xu Wugui discovered that Lin Hun and Hua Xiao’s dusk and dawn positions may have been one hidden golden rank, and ordered Tiantuo to have Xu Ming study the Divine Scroll of Morning and Evening's Unfolding Passage with the Great Azure Transformation Mystic Essence.
• Xu Wugui realized Xu Xuan was no longer in secondary falsehood and questioned whether he had returned from Supreme Truth, while considering the nature of altar thunder and the thunder oath.
• Xu Wugui agreed to send Liu Xingfang to guard Jingying’s attempt to attain the true fire golden position, hoping the experience would advance Liu Xingfang’s cultivation.

Xu Fayan visited the Greater Yin Star, where Jin Qi revealed the decline of its divine offices, the truth behind Tiantuo’s death, and his plan to mend Yin-Yang by compiling a Greater Yin Calendar. Xu Fayan left with the hairpin and new questions about balancing Greater Yang and Greater Yin, ending as he considered whether such a path could address Ancient Void’s problem.

• Xu Fayan entered Azure Firmament Heaven and learned that Tianyu was absent, then followed the Immortal Ladder to the Greater Yin Star to meet Qianqi.
• Qing'e told Xu Fayan that nearly all the Greater Yin Moon Goddesses had fallen and that a hairpin from Lesser Sage Tiantuo had protected her.
• Jin Qi explained that he was compiling a Greater Yin Calendar, that the true moon had disappeared, and that Nangong Suchi could no longer endure as the moon’s caretaker.
• Xu Fayan learned from the hairpin’s memories that Qing'e had helped kill Tiantuo, whose failed attempt to attain the Golden Position left an evil entity preserved by Ji Earth.
• Jin Qi said he intended to use Vast Wood to mend Yin-Yang, while Xu Fayan agreed to leave the hairpin’s revelation to Senior Shao You and departed for the world.
• Xu Fayan reasoned that Greater Yang and Greater Yin should jointly govern time and space, and wondered whether a path balancing them could resolve Ancient Void’s problem.

Pingxiu visited Green Xi Blessed Land to arrange for Liu Xingfang to guard Xu Qingying’s golden-position ascension, while warning that a sinister anomaly and the unclear attitude of the current true fire fruit-position holder could threaten her. After Liu Xiaowen left to seek the True Lord’s guidance, Liu Xingfang remained at Heavenly Tribulation Mountain, still unable to complete his breakthrough and haunted by memories of someone absent.

• Pingxiu toured Green Xi Blessed Land with Liu Xiaowen and saw Five Yang Mountain and the thunder sanctuaries being built for Great Scarlet’s Golden Core lineage.
• Pingxiu asked Liu Xingfang to guard Xu Qingying’s ascension at the Divine Evolving Sea in ten days and explained the possible sinister anomaly tied to the true fire path.
• Pingxiu revealed that Xu Qingying was the spirit monster born from Xu Juling’s mystic core and asked Liu Xiaowen to learn the heavenly mandate divine true fire lord’s attitude toward her bid.
• Liu Xiaowen agreed to seek the True Lord’s instructions before traveling, then left with Zhang Gaoxia to discuss true fire at Great Scarlet Heaven.
• Liu Xingfang stayed alone on Heavenly Tribulation Mountain, reflected on his stalled progress in Thunder-Grasping Formation Art, and asked his silver sparrow whether it missed someone.

Xu Fayan visited Qingrang after transforming nurturing earth into Xi earth, seeking insight about the spirit monster lords, the Devil Ancestor Qiyong, and Jingying’s chances of attaining the true fire venerable position. He left with warnings about Heaven-Covering’s hidden scandal and presented Qingrang with his newly composed Scripture of the Various Sages of Xi Court.

• Xu Fayan established Mount Mutual Separation on Mount Tai and entered Lingyou Palace, where he bestowed Xi earth mysteries on Shao Ken.
• Xu Fayan met Qingrang in Nurturing Auspiciousness Heaven, discussed cultivating both Immortal and Buddhist paths, and learned about the Greedy Corpse Truth and the possible awakening of Amitabha.
• Qingrang described how Qiyong’s influence and Feng Yan’s brief ascent had heightened the extremity of the powerful lineages, and warned Xu Fayan not to probe the Devil Ancestor too deeply.
• Xu Fayan asked about Jingying, and Qingrang explained that Heaven-Covering fell after an internal scandal damaged its defenses and cautioned Xu Fayan against taking on its heavy karmic ties.
• Xu Fayan departed after giving Qingrang the Scripture of the Various Sages of Xi Court, which contained the divine ability Imitating the Various Sages.