Chapter Summaries

Qu Tong tried to persuade Ma Xianhong to restrain his ambitions and obey her, but he saw through her attempt to control him. Ma Xianhong broke the barrier between them, embraced her, and reminded her that he was the sect leader.

• Qu Tong approached Ma Xianhong but stopped when she sensed a sharp aura and an invisible field protecting him.
• Qu Tong warned Ma Xianhong that his actions would attract the Company's attention and reminded him that she had helped build Biyou Village and the Self-Cultivation Furnace.
• Ma Xianhong dismissed Qu Tong's attempt to claim authority over him and privately considered his ambitions for Jiejiao and the future.
• Qu Tong stepped through the pressure to the field's boundary and insisted that Ma Xianhong listen to her.
• Ma Xianhong shattered the barrier, drew Qu Tong against him, and told her that he was the sect leader.

Ma Xianhong outmaneuvered Qu Tong and used her Twin Wholeness Hands technique as a basis for crafting a new artifact. After completing the Twin Wholeness Pearl, he prepared to leave Biyou Village and seek out his next fated encounter.

• Qu Tong left Biyou Village unsettled after Ma Xianhong embraced her, realizing that her younger brother had slipped beyond her control.
• Ma Xianhong studied Qu Tong’s qi circulation and began adapting the incomplete Twin Wholeness Hands technique into an artifact rather than cultivating it himself.
• At Mount Longhu, Tian Jinzong played five-in-a-row with Zhang Zhiwei, while Zhang worried that his junior brother had endured too much and sensed that something was stirring.
• Ma Xianhong finished a red-and-blue pearl using Divine Mechanism Hundred Refinements and named it the Twin Wholeness Pearl, with the separate halves called the Demon Pill and Spirit Pearl.
• Ma Xianhong stored the pearl and considered leaving to seek someone bound to him by fate, possibly by visiting the Medicine Immortal Society in Miao Territory.

Ma Xianhong outfitted the Top Disciples before setting out alone to explore the mountains, but his journey ended with him interrupting Zhao Guizhen’s forbidden cultivation. He arrived just in time to restore a dying victim and confronted the Daoist.

• Ma Xianhong distributed upgraded artifacts to Fu Rong, Qiu Rang, Jin Yong, Uncle Bi, Xiao Long, and Zhang Kun, then left Fu Rong behind to guard the village.
• Ma Xianhong traveled across Guizhou using his artifacts and set up a villa in the woods for the night.
• Ma Xianhong sensed a powerful surge of yin-fiend qi and rode his transformed Kui Ox toward its source with the Ruhua.
• Zhao Guizhen absorbed black energy from a dying man hanging from a tree, but a red pearl from Ma Xianhong restored the victim’s vitality.
• Ma Xianhong dismissed Zhao Guizhen as a vile practitioner and prepared to deal with him.

Ma Xianhong recognized Zhao Guizhen as a murderous Shangqing traitor and killed him with the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords. He kept Zhao Guizhen’s sinister yin energy and turned his purified life force into a wristguard for an unconscious boy, whom he considered a possible future disciple.

• Ma Xianhong identified Zhao Guizhen as a former Shangqing disciple who had murdered seven people to cultivate Seven Fiends Gathering in the Body.
• Zhao Guizhen tried to retreat and speak with Ma Xianhong, but Ma attacked him with the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords.
• Ma Xianhong trapped Zhao Guizhen in the sword formation and unleashed the swords’ powers, leaving him reduced to ash.
• Ma Xianhong stored Zhao Guizhen’s sinister yin energy and refined his purified life force into a wristguard for an unconscious boy.

Ma Xianhong hid from two Nadu Tong employees who investigated Zhao Guizhen’s death and learned that the Medicine Immortal Society had resurfaced. He decided to intervene, especially after recalling Chen Duo’s connection to the Society, and left on Kui Ox.

• Ma Xianhong vanished into the Sun and Moon in the Pot as two Nadu Tong employees arrived at the scene where he had defeated Zhao Guizhen.
• The employees found Zhao Guizhen’s trail ending in a destroyed patch of ground and concluded that he had likely been reduced to dust by a passing expert.
• The employees decided to abandon the search and leave to confront the resurgent Medicine Immortal Society.
• After the employees left, Ma Xianhong emerged and realized the Society’s return was a major incident he could not ignore.
• Ma Xianhong thought of Chen Duo and called the Gu-Bound Holy Child a child destined to join his Jiejiao.
• Ma Xianhong rode away on Kui Ox as its wind-and-lightning patterns glowed and both of them disappeared.

Liao Zhong gathered Everywhere Access forces in Miao Territory to attack the Medicine Immortal Society, while Ma Xianhong secretly infiltrated the group under an alias. The chapter ended as Liao Zhong ordered the units to prepare for the operation beginning in half an hour.

• Liao Zhong rallied the gathered employees to wipe out the Medicine Immortal Society, and Ma Xianhong watched from the crowd in disguise.
• Liao Zhong welcomed Old Meng, whose bacteria-controlling ability could neutralize the society’s gu poisons, and discussed tactics with him.
• Ma Xianhong assessed Old Meng’s abilities and accepted a protective suit only to pass it on, claiming his armor made it unnecessary.
• Ma Xianhong introduced himself as Duanmu Yan and chatted with the other temporary operatives.
• Liao Zhong announced that the operation would begin in half an hour and ordered the units to attack the cultists, sparing only the children identified in the intelligence.

Ma Xianhong led Everywhere Access operatives in a loud assault on the Medicine Immortal Society’s village, overwhelming its defenses with life-force weapons and golden armor. After the operatives left him to secure a nearby house, he approached the courtyard where Chen Duo was being held.

• Ma Xianhong stopped a Gu Arrow with a Little Green Bottle and led the operatives in attacking the village’s western side.
• Ma Xianhong used golden armor and lightning to kill a middle-aged cultist and devastate the Medicine Immortal Society’s forces.
• Ma Xianhong’s spectacular assault drew enemy forces alongside Old Meng’s quieter attack, while he enhanced operatives’ gear and helped recruit potential members for Jiejiao.
• Ma Xianhong flew into the village, fought his way toward the house holding Chen Duo, and accepted the operatives’ request to secure the area.
• Ma Xianhong realized his perception-disrupting artifact had switched off and that the operatives now thought he was one of their colleagues, then approached Chen Duo’s courtyard.

Ma Xianhong found Chen Duo in the Medicine Immortal Society and took her away, using a life-giving cloak to suppress the gu poison damaging her body. At the Society’s ruins, Liao Zhong learned a Gu Body Holy Child had survived and demanded to know where she was, while Chen Duo was already gone with Ma Xianhong.

• Ma Xianhong broke through the hidden barrier and found Chen Duo, whose training had left her unable to understand ordinary human life.
• Ma Xianhong invited Chen Duo to join Jiejiao and took her silence as agreement.
• Ma Xianhong wrapped Chen Duo in a vitality-filled cloak that restrained the gu poison, then carried her away on the Kui Ox and told her she could use the name Chen Duo.
• Ma Xianhong attacked the Medicine Immortal Society members still resisting as he departed, while Chen Duo showed stronger flickers of emotion in the sky.
• At the Society’s ruins, a survivor told Liao Zhong that the Gu Body Holy Child’s training had succeeded, but no one could find her.
• Liao Zhong accused the survivor of lying and beat him with a stun baton as he demanded the Holy Child’s whereabouts.

Ma Xianhong welcomed Chen Duo to Biyou Village and began planning ways to treat her uncontrollable Gu Poison. He crafted protective artifacts, then called Qu Tong to ask her to find ten boys and ten girls for an unexplained purpose.

• Ma Xianhong brought Chen Duo to Biyou Village, where Zhong Xiao Long and Qiu Rang reacted to her and Bi Yuan recognized the danger in her condition.
• Ma Xianhong assigned Fu Rong, Zhong Xiao Long, and Bi Yuan to look after Chen Duo and considered seeking Tang Sect techniques to help her control her Gu Poison.
• Ma Xianhong crafted two vitality bracelets and a jade pendant carrying Dual-Handed Manipulation as safeguards for Chen Duo and the others.
• Ma Xianhong called Qu Tong and offered to continue their cooperation in exchange for her help.
• Ma Xianhong asked Qu Tong to find ten lively boys and ten girls aged ten to fifteen, leaving her baffled about his intentions.

Qu Tong helped Ma Xianhong gather children so he could guide Chen Duo toward a normal life, while Ma disguised himself and traveled to Mount Longhu. Zhang Zhiwei received Ma’s visiting card and grew serious after reading it.

• Qu Tong learned that Ma Xianhong had likely killed Zhao Guizhen and helped destroy the Medicine Immortal Society, then arranged for twenty children to be sent to him.
• Ma persuaded the children’s families to let them stay longer by promising custom Protective Dharma Artifacts in return.
• Ma and his companions gradually introduced Chen Duo to ordinary life, and three days later she cried for the first time.
• Ma left a duplicate in Biyou Village, disguised himself as a hairy-faced monk, and traveled east on an ox.
• Zhao Huanjin gave Zhang Zhiwei Ma’s visiting card, and Zhang grew grave as he read it.

Ma Xianhong met Zhang Zhiwei and Tian Jinzong, offering a magical artifact that could alter memories and repair the body in exchange for a few teachings. He left the truth of the past untouched and asked how Zhang Chulan was doing.

• Ma Xianhong introduced himself to Zhang Zhiwei as the leader of Biyou Village’s new Jiejiao and offered to help avert a calamity.
• Ma Xianhong showed Zhang Zhiwei the Dual-Handed Pearl and revealed his connection to Zhang Huaiyi through his great-grandfather.
• Ma Xianhong offered Tian Jinzong the pearl to seal or restore his memories and described additional healing tools, prompting Tian Jinzong to ask what he wanted.
• Ma Xianhong rejected Zhang Zhiwei’s offer to reveal the past and urged Tian Jinzong to use the pearl if he wished.
• Ma Xianhong mentioned that Quanzhen’s acting leader was curious about the old secret, then asked Zhang Zhiwei how Zhang Chulan was doing.

Ma Xianhong studied Mount Longhu’s teachings after helping Tian Jinzong recover, then quickly mastered the Golden Light Mantra and Yang Five Thunders. He teased Zhang Lingyu by offering to help him learn Yang Five Thunders, leaving Lingyu wondering what Ma Xianhong wanted in return.

• Ma Xianhong watched Tian Jinzong regrow his limbs, while Tian Jinzong sealed away painful memories and began rehabilitation.
• Ma Xianhong received Mount Longhu’s teachings and letters of introduction from Zhang Zhiwei, who had joined Biyou Village as a guest elder.
• Ma Xianhong read the Five Thunder Orthodox Method and Golden Light Mantra and considered how their fundamentals could strengthen his body-refining methods.
• A disciple told Zhang Zhiwei that Ma Xianhong had mastered golden light and white lightning, prompting Zhang Zhiwei to realize he had learned Yang Five Thunders.
• Ma Xianhong told Zhang Lingyu that he could help him master Yang Five Thunders, and Lingyu wondered what Ma Xianhong wanted.

Ma Xianhong returned to the Gray Fog Space and caught up on the others’ memories, including Tang San’s new teleportation Soul Skill and Xiao Yan’s increasingly tangled romantic life. Xiao Yan insisted he was serious about finding heavenly flames in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where he had just offered Xiao Yi Xian something she feared might make her burst.

• Ma Xianhong returned to the Gray Fog Space after leaving Mount Longhu and completing his work in Biyou Village.
• Ma Xianhong exchanged memories with Han Li, Sasuke, Tang San, and Xiao Yan, learning about their recent progress.
• Tang San described reaching level thirty-three and developing Fragrant Grass, Far Horizon, a Soul Skill that let him evade attacks and teleport through Blue Silver Grass.
• Ma Xianhong and the others mocked Xiao Yan for being drained by Nalan Yanran and Xiao Xun'er despite his claims that he had renounced worldly desires.
• Xiao Yan said he had gone to Qingshan Town to search the Magical Beast Mountain Range for heavenly flames, then asked Xiao Yi Xian whether eating something would strengthen her without making her burst.

Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian Spiritfire Pills to help control the poison in her Woeful Poison Body, then took her to explore a cave beneath a cliff. After killing the Rock Snake guarding it, he led Xiao Yi Xian deeper into the ruins.

• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian Spiritfire Pills, which suppressed her poison but left her flushed and restless.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that a cave abode lay beneath the cliff, and Xiao Yan carried her down through the air using flames.
• Xiao Yi Xian encountered a Rock Snake at the cave entrance, and Xiao Yan killed it with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.
• Xiao Yan headed deeper into the cave to retrieve its contents, while Xiao Yi Xian hurried after him and asked how he was so strong.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian entered the poison master's ruins, where he recovered a Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map and Xiao Yi Xian gathered rare herbs. Xiao Yan buried the skeleton with respect, and Xiao Yi Xian invited him to her secret base to plant the herbs.

• Xiao Yan destroyed the stone door with his flames and told Xiao Yi Xian he was a three-star Da Dou Shi.
• Xiao Yan explained that his Flame-Seeking Art had detected traces of heavenly flames and that the fragment map was interfering with his perception.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian found the poison master's chamber, where she gathered rare herbs and received two specialized Storage Rings from him.
• Xiao Yan used Universal Pull to retrieve the fragment map and three keys from the skeleton, then buried the skeleton in a coffin.
• Xiao Yi Xian offered to take Xiao Yan to her secret base and plant the herbs there.

Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and persuaded her that mastering her poison constitution could let her use poison to save people, even joking that treating people to death improved medical skill. As they opened another stone box and found the Eagle Wings flying technique, an intruder arrived and caught them embracing.

• Xiao Yan opened the first stone box and gave Xiao Yi Xian the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture.
• Xiao Yan comforted Xiao Yi Xian by arguing that her poison powers could complement her medical skills and help her save people.
• Xiao Yi Xian regained her confidence, while Xiao Yan teased her about checking her poison line and she playfully scolded him.
• Xiao Yan opened another stone box, revealing the High Xuan Tier Flying Dou Technique, Eagle Wings.
• A triumphant intruder entered the cave, saw Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian embracing, and shouted at them.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian confronted Mu Li and the Wolf Head Mercenary Group in the cave, and Xiao Yan killed the mercenaries with a single attack. After collecting two Dou Technique scrolls, they prepared to continue their treasure hunt, and Xiao Yan became interested in Mad Lion's Roar.

• Mu Li arrived at the cave with his mercenaries and ordered them to capture Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yan empowered Xiao Yi Xian with the Lie Yan Bodyguard Barrier, then struck down Mu Li and the mercenaries with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler and scattered their ashes.
• Xiao Yi Xian accepted that Xiao Yan had killed Mu Li and planned to return to Qingshan Town after their business in the cave was finished.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave Xiao Yan the Purple Cloud Wings scroll, which he intended to study and adapt for his own technique.
• Xiao Yan opened the final food box and found the Mad Lion's Roar scroll, whose introduction caught his interest.

Xiao Yan studied Mad Lion's Roar, shared techniques and pills with Xiao Yi Xian, and parted ways with her before continuing into the Magical Beast Mountain Range. After using the technique to roast a Savage Boar, he sensed the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame and headed toward it.

• Xiao Yan recognized Mad Lion's Roar as a useful way to control Dou Qi and kept it along with another Dou Technique, while giving Xiao Yi Xian medicinal ingredients and pills.
• Xiao Yan sealed the cave, then left with Xiao Yi Xian and gave her Spiritfire Pills, Poison Pills, and a ring of life-saving pills before she returned to Qingshan Town.
• Several days later, Xiao Yan used Mad Lion's Roar to prepare and roast a Savage Boar in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan sensed the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame deeper in the mountains and set out to find it.

Xiao Yan used Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils to pinpoint the myriad beast spirit flame in the Magical Beast Mountain Range and suspected it was connected to powerful local beasts. Unable to explain the strange locations around it, he awakened Yao Lao for advice, then hoped the flame could help with his temporary kidney weakness.

• Xiao Yan unleashed Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils, revealing the location and scattered traces of the myriad beast spirit flame.
• Xiao Yan noticed that the flame's surrounding traces lay within the territories of powerful magical beasts and considered how the flame might benefit them.
• Xiao Yan found the flame's central area unmarked on his map and could not explain why the beasts did not cultivate with it.
• Xiao Yan shattered Han Li's stone statue and poured its energy into his Storage Ring to awaken Yao Lao.
• Yao Lao emerged and complained about Xiao Yan's laugh, while Xiao Yan defended it and privately hoped the myriad beast spirit flame would remedy his kidney weakness.

Xiao Yan consulted Yao Lao about the myriad beast spirit flame and a dangerous ancient battlefield, while Yao Lao praised his cultivation and crafted Bone Spirit Pills. After advising Xiao Yan to investigate the battlefield’s leaking fiery energy, Yao Lao returned to slumber, leaving Xiao Yan to handle what came next.

• Yao Lao praised Xiao Yan’s progress in cultivation, soul power, and developing techniques without consuming a heavenly flame.
• Xiao Yan explained what he had learned about the myriad beast spirit flame, and Yao Lao found an old account of a battle between Dou Zong and seventh-rank magical beasts at its location.
• Yao Lao suggested they visit a site where fiery energy was leaking out, then examined Xiao Yan’s Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map and sensed an unusual power on it.
• Yao Lao advised Xiao Yan to keep cultivating and use the bone spirit cold flame more boldly, then refined several Bone Spirit Pills for him.
• Yao Lao praised Xiao Yan’s modified Mad Lion’s Roar and suggested it could become the Myriad Beast Art after further refinement.
• After four hours, Yao Lao went back to sleep, then realized Xiao Yan had infected him with his habit of swearing.