Chapter Summaries

Xu Qingtong rushed to Linyue City after learning that Tang Guangyun’s son had detained his cousin Chen Ruoling and tried to force her to become his Dao Companion. He confronted Tang Guangyun, but when Chen Ruoling appeared in the young nobleman’s arms, Tang Guangyun blocked Xu Qingtong from intervening.

• Zhong Ziqing and Lü Wenqiu worried that Xu Qingtong’s five golden cores would make his future Nascent Soul tribulations especially dangerous.
• Xu Qingtong received word that Chen Ruoling had been seized in Linyue City, told Shen Haotian he was going to rescue her, and set out with Du Siwen following behind.
• Xu Qingtong reached Linyue City ahead of Du Siwen, knocked a gate guard aside, and struck down the Garrison Camp commander with a Raging Thunder Finger.
• Xu Qingtong demanded that Tang Guangyun release Chen Ruoling, and Tang Guangyun ordered a subordinate to fetch his son.
• Tang Guangyun’s son arrived with Chen Ruoling in his arms, and Tang Guangyun blocked Xu Qingtong when he tried to attack.

Xu Qingtong confronted City Lord Tang to rescue Chen Ruoling and demand an antidote, fighting him while his incarnation searched the Young City Lord’s soul. Du Siwen joined the battle, and the chapter ended as she and Xu Qingtong launched attacks against Tang Guangyun and his Small Tower.

• The Young City Lord claimed Chen Ruoling had agreed to marry him, but she could not recognize Xu Qingtong, who severed the arm he had around her and shielded her.
• Xu Qingtong fought Tang Guangyun and demanded the antidote, while Tang ordered the Garrison Camp guards to gather.
• Du Siwen arrived by Flying Boat and took Chen Ruoling as Xu Qingtong split into two bodies, one battling Tang while the other searched the Young City Lord’s soul and took his Storage Ring.
• Xu Qingtong summoned six puppets to drive off the guards, while Tang used a Small Tower to trap and torment his incarnation.
• Du Siwen attacked Tang with the Water-Fire Heaven-Shaking Halberd as Xu Qingtong struck with the Fengyi Sword and called out, “Fire Phoenix, slash!”

Xu Qingtong escaped Tang Guangyun’s attack and fled toward Juxian Academy with Du Siwen and Chen Ruoling, but Jade Spring True Person intercepted him over the injury to his disciple. Xu Qingtong wounded Jade Spring True Person with an exploding World-Breaking Fruit and escaped, leaving Shen Haotian to confront the injured pursuer.

• Xu Qingtong cut Tang Guangyun badly, took his Storage Ring, and returned toward Juxian Academy with Du Siwen and Chen Ruoling.
• Xu Qingtong used a pill from the Storage Ring to wake Chen Ruoling, then jumped from the Swiftwind Boat to face an approaching enemy while Du Siwen flew toward the Academy.
• Jade Spring True Person attacked Xu Qingtong and demanded his Fengyi Sword, which he recognized as a Spirit Treasure.
• Xu Qingtong detonated a World-Breaking Fruit, injured Jade Spring True Person, and escaped using his Flying Heaven Wings.
• Xu Qingtong met Shen Haotian, who sent him back to the Academy and confronted Jade Spring True Person, challenging him to fight.

Xu Qingtong returned to Juxian Academy after rescuing Chen Ruoling, while Shen Haotian forced Jade Spring True Person to leave without pursuing revenge. Zhong Ziqing settled the dispute over Linyue City and examined Xu Qingtong’s Fengyi Sword, confirming it was a Spirit Treasure from the Demon Realm that had acknowledged him as its master.

• Shen Haotian threatened that Juxian Academy would defend its honor, and Jade Spring True Person left after taking a healing elixir.
• Xu Qingtong reunited with Chen Ruoling, who said she had been drugged and held until he rescued her.
• Shen Haotian brought Xu Qingtong to Zhong Ziqing, who criticized him for his violent actions in Linyue City.
• Xu Qingtong explained that Tang Guangyun had enabled his son to abduct and assault Chen Ruoling, and Zhong Ziqing declared the matter settled.
• Xu Qingtong showed Zhong Ziqing the Fengyi Sword, and Zhong Ziqing identified it as a Demon Realm Spirit Treasure that had acknowledged Xu Qingtong as its master.
• Xu Qingtong offered Zhong Ziqing the sword, and Zhong Ziqing asked whether he meant it.

Xu Qingtong freed the Ice Phoenix from its contract, then spent five years cultivating at Juxian Academy and advancing his disciples. He was summoned with Nangong Zhen and Du Siwen to support the Wuji Sect after transformation-stage demon beasts appeared in its Black Tortoise Secret Realm.

• Zhong Ziqing explained that Xu Qingtong could use the Fengyi Sword because its spirit had acknowledged him, and Lü Wenqiu praised him for defeating Yuquan and warned him to stay cautious.
• Zhong Ziqing and Lü Wenqiu agreed to protect Xu Qingtong and discussed matching him with Du Siwen as a Dao companion.
• Xu Qingtong checked on Chen Ruoling and dissolved his divine soul contract with the Ice Phoenix, which chose to remain with Du Siwen.
• Xu Qingtong spent five years cultivating, reached the peak of the Golden Core Early Stage, and watched Fu Xingzhi and Duoduo establish their foundations.
• Shen Haotian summoned Xu Qingtong, Nangong Zhen, and Du Siwen, and the Grand Elder ordered them to accompany him to the Wuji Sect to investigate the danger in the Black Tortoise Secret Realm.

Xu Qingtong, Nangong Zhen, and Du Siwen prepared to reinforce the Wuji Sect against Seventh Tier Demon Beasts in the Black Tortoise Secret Realm. After reaching the sect, they were summoned to a discussion, where Xu Qingtong spotted someone familiar.

• Shen Haotian explained that Seventh Tier Demon Beasts had appeared in the Black Tortoise Secret Realm and gave Xu Qingtong three Substitute Talismans and two defensive Treasures.
• Xu Qingtong, Nangong Zhen, and Du Siwen agreed to stick together, assigned Du Siwen the armor and Nangong Zhen the shield, and prepared supplies for the mission.
• The Grand Elder took the three by Flying Boat to the Wuji Sect, where Sect Leader Kang welcomed them and arranged for them to rest.
• The Grand Elder later led Xu Qingtong and the others toward the Primordial Beginning Hall for a discussion with the sect's Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Xu Qingtong saw a familiar figure before reaching the hall and was shaken.

Xu Qingtong and other sect disciples entered the Black Tortoise Secret Realm to hunt a seventh-tier Riftwind Beast and gather eligible spirit herbs. Xu Qingtong arrived alone in an unfamiliar location, discovered that his divine sense reached only about ten li, and checked the map jade slip.

• Fairy Yuqi scolded Xu Qingtong for being blind, then entered the Primordial Beginning Hall with the Jade Sound Pavilion cultivators.
• Sect Leader Kang explained the mission, distributed map jade slips and teleportation talismans, and warned the cultivators to gather and hunt the Riftwind Beast in Red Rock Canyon.
• Kang Yi revealed that time passed ten times faster inside the secret realm and opened the entrance through the Black Tortoise Picture.
• Xu Qingtong waited until he and his companions were the last to enter, then asked Kang Yi whether divine sense was restricted.
• Xu Qingtong entered the secret realm, found himself separated from his companions, tested his limited divine sense, and took out the Map Jade Slip.

Xu Qingtong was surrounded at Crouching Ox Ridge by a pack of Silver Moon Wolves led by a sixth-tier Wolf King, and fought them from a narrow cave. After defeating the pack’s strongest attackers, he faced the Wolf King and struck it with purple lightning, leaving it shaking uncontrollably.

• Xu Qingtong sent Xizi ahead to search for treasures and received a three-hundred-year-old mysterious ice grass.
• Xu Qingtong sensed the approaching Silver Moon Wolves, dug a small cave into a cliff, and took shelter as hundreds of wolves closed in.
• Xu Qingtong used six puppets and the Rushou Seal to kill or wound dozens of wolves at the cave entrance.
• The Wolf King sent fifth-tier Silver Moon Wolves to attack, but Xu Qingtong and his incarnation froze them with Ice Flame Palm and finished them with the Rushou Seal.
• The Wolf King confronted Xu Qingtong, whose Mysterious Light Mirror reflected its God-Destroying Light before purple lightning struck and paralyzed it.

Xu Qingtong defeated the Silver Moon Wolf pack and discovered spiritual wine brewed by a White-Browed Rat Monkey. He traded his spirit fruits for the monkey’s wine, leaving with more than forty jars of Monkey-Brewed Wine.

• Xu Qingtong killed the Sixth-Tier Wolf King, while Xiao Qi captured its demon core and helped defeat the Fifth-Tier Silver Moon Wolves.
• Xizi found a tree that dripped spiritual wine, and Xu Qingtong recognized that a White-Browed Rat Monkey had made it by fermenting stored spirit fruits.
• Xu Qingtong summoned Xiao Bai to collect the wine and gave the Rat Monkey spirit fruits in exchange for leaving it unharmed.
• Xiao Bai learned that the Rat Monkey had a larger wine stash, so Xu Qingtong offered it more fruit for the rest of its wine.
• Xu Qingtong obtained more than forty jars of wine and named it Monkey-Brewed Wine.

Xu Qingtong rested beside Jadewater Lake, where a Seventh-Tier Jadewater Flood Dragon ambushed him and summoned two Fifth-Tier Demon Beasts. Xu Qingtong killed the flood dragon with the Fengyi Sword, though it begged him to stop too late.

• Xu Qingtong left Crouching Ox Ridge with more than forty jars of Monkey-Brewed Wine and continued toward Red Rock Canyon.
• Xu Qingtong camped beside Jadewater Lake, but a Seventh-Tier Jadewater Flood Dragon emerged and attacked him.
• Xu Qingtong used his Five Divine Seals, Evil-Slaying Sword, and Blazing Flame Burning Heaven to fight the flood dragon, which called two Fifth-Tier Demon Beasts to join the battle.
• Xu Qingtong sent his Incarnation and Xiao Qi to fight the Demon Turtle and Water Python while his main body struggled against the flood dragon.
• Xu Qingtong drank Monkey-Brewed Wine and unleashed the Fengyi Sword, slicing the flood dragon's head before it could finish begging for its life.

Xu Qingtong defeated the demon beasts at Jadewater Lake, then discovered a hidden island with rare treasures and a house protected by a powerful formation. After learning that the island held a Mandui Fruit plant and ancient spirit medicines, he began collecting them and left the mysterious house unexplored.

• Xu Qingtong used Blood-Soul Restriction Talismans and the Soul Refining Pot to secure the Azure Water Flood Dragon's soul, then collected its demon core and other spoils as Xiao Qi killed a water python and Xu Qingtong killed a demon turtle.
• Xu Qingtong worried that more seventh-tier demon beasts threatened the secret realm and his missing companions, Du Siwen and Nangong Zhen, before deciding to fly across Jadewater Lake.
• Xu Qingtong spotted an uncharted island, landed there, and sent Xiao Qi, Xiao Bai, and Xizi to investigate while he waited.
• Xiao Qi reported a fifth-tier Lightning Eagle and a house protected by a powerful formation, while Xiao Bai found a Mandui Fruit plant that could greatly improve its spatial abilities and Xu Qingtong ordered it planted in the Seven-Star Bracelet.
• Xizi brought back spirit medicines more than a thousand years old, including an eighteen-hundred-year-old specimen, and Xu Qingtong told it to collect and replant everything over a hundred years old.

Xu Qingtong and Xiao Bai entered a formation around an ancient house and discovered that the air inside carried the aura of the Immortal Realm. Inside the house, a white speck possessed Xu Qingtong’s Puppet and spoke of a promised Mandui Fruit before collapsing and revealing that the Cosmic Heart Stone was in its pouch.

• Xu Qingtong found that the formation around the stone house resisted his attacks, while Xiao Bai identified a weak point and helped them enter.
• Xu Qingtong sensed that the aura inside the formation matched the immortal light that had tempered him during his Heavenly Tribulation.
• Xu Qingtong sent a Puppet into the house and found an empty room with a stone coffin.
• A white speck flew from the coffin into the Puppet, which spoke in a woman’s voice about being abandoned and about a promised Mandui Fruit.
• Xu Qingtong showed the Puppet a Mandui Fruit, but it collapsed and said the Cosmic Heart Stone was in its pouch.

Xu Qingtong explored the stone house, buried the woman whose remains lay in the jade coffin, and took her belongings. While his spirit beasts cultivated nearby, he discovered the pouch contained treasures and immortal jade, whose energy nearly overwhelmed him before he refined it and broke through to mid-stage Golden Core.

• Xu Qingtong entered the stone house after a puppet fell silent and found a woman's skeleton in a jade coffin.
• Xu Qingtong collected the woman's jewelry and pouch, then enlisted Xiao Bai and Xizi to bury the heavy coffin.
• Xiao Bai asked to cultivate in the secret realm because it felt close to a breakthrough, and Xu Qingtong also sent Xiao Qi to cultivate.
• Xu Qingtong explored the pouch's hundred-zhang space, found jade slips, elixirs, a ruyi scepter, and energy-filled jade stones, but could not read the slips.
• Xu Qingtong nearly lost control after drawing energy from an immortal jade, then refined it and advanced to mid-stage Golden Core.
• A voice called out to Xu Qingtong for help.

Xu Qingtong helped Xiao Bai, Xiao Qi, and Xizi advance before escaping the formation and traveling toward Red Rock Canyon. Two Anyang Sect disciples tracked him down and attacked him on their Sect Leader’s orders.

• Xu Qingtong gave demon cores and a demon soul to Xiao Bai, Xiao Qi, and Xizi to help them advance, and Xiao Bai and Xiao Qi broke through while Xizi neared the fifth tier.
• Xu Qingtong and Xiao Bai weakened and escaped the great formation, then continued northeast toward Red Rock Canyon.
• Two Anyang Sect disciples followed Xu Qingtong using a rat-like beast and approached him by the lakeshore.
• The disciples told Xu Qingtong they had been instructed to borrow his head, then attacked together with a flying sword and a golden saber.

Xu Qingtong killed two Anyang Sect disciples who attacked him, then continued toward Red Rock Canyon while avoiding demon beasts and other cultivators. The next morning, he spotted the Profound Yin Church man racing toward him and hurriedly moved aside.

• Xu Qingtong blocked the Anyang Sect disciples’ attacks and learned that their Sect Leader had ordered them to kill him and take his Storage Ring.
• Xu Qingtong killed Junior Brother Mo and Senior Brother Li, and Xiao Qi swallowed Junior Brother Mo’s escaping golden core.
• Xu Qingtong collected the disciples’ belongings, burned their corpses, and continued toward Red Rock Canyon, stopping to meditate after nightfall.
• A Profound Yin Church man passed Xu Qingtong during the night, and Xu Qingtong found the man’s route stripped of demon beast remains and other resources the next morning.
• Xu Qingtong spotted the Profound Yin Church man racing toward him ten li away and swiftly moved to one side.

Xu Qingtong foiled a Profound Yin Church disciple’s attempts to lure a demon beast onto him, then continued gathering spirit herbs and demon cores on his way to Red Rock Canyon. He later faced the disciple and his Fourth Senior Brother, who demanded an apology and prepared to fight.

• Xu Qingtong spotted a sixth-tier demon beast chasing a Profound Yin Church disciple and evaded the disciple’s attempt to redirect it toward him.
• When the disciple circled back and used Xu Qingtong as cover, Xu Qingtong attacked him with Ice Flame Palms, and the demon beast joined in, forcing the disciple to flee.
• Over the next five days, Xu Qingtong gathered spirit herbs, spirit fruits, and demon cores, and encountered wounded disciples from several sects.
• The Profound Yin Church disciple returned with his Fourth Senior Brother and accused Xu Qingtong of attacking him.
• Xu Qingtong explained the disciple’s actions, but Fourth Senior Brother demanded an apology and challenged him; Xu Qingtong calmly invited him to make the first move.

Xu Qingtong rescued Du Siwen from Dongfang Hui and tried to stop their fight, but Dongfang Hui stabbed him when he refused to move aside. After Xu Qingtong said he had accepted the blow willingly, Dongfang Hui left in tears, shaken by the feelings she had tried to sever.

• Xu Qingtong defeated the Profound Yin Church disciples and sent them away before resting through the night.
• Xu Qingtong found the wounded Du Siwen, learned Dongfang Hui was pursuing her, and gave her an elixir to heal.
• Xu Qingtong blocked Dongfang Hui from attacking Du Siwen, and Dongfang Hui's flying sword nearly shattered his Black Tortoise Shield before escaping his Five Elements Formation.
• Dongfang Hui broke Xu Qingtong's formation with her flying sword and pierced his chest when he did not dodge.
• Du Siwen prepared to fight Dongfang Hui, but Xu Qingtong stopped her and said he had taken the strike willingly to repay Dongfang Hui's affection.
• Dongfang Hui recalled her sword and left in tears, lamenting that her master had forced her to sever her feelings.

Xu Qingtong recovered from Dongfang Hui’s sword strike while Du Siwen cared for him inside the protected formation on Lakeside Island. As he regained his strength, he explained that the Anyang Sect was hunting him and revealed clues that the Secret Realm and a buried skeleton were connected to the Immortal Realm.

• Du Siwen challenged Dongfang Hui over abandoning her love, and Dongfang Hui left in anguish before Du Siwen carried the unconscious Xu Qingtong away.
• Following Xiao Bai’s directions, Du Siwen brought Xu Qingtong to Lakeside Island and entered its formation, where even powerful demon beasts could not reach them.
• Du Siwen treated Xu Qingtong’s severe chest wound, and he began recovering enough to speak the next day and move freely after half a month.
• Xu Qingtong told Du Siwen that Yuquan had ordered Anyang Sect disciples to kill him and that he had already killed two of them.
• Xu Qingtong explained that the formation’s unusual spiritual qi and stone house seemed tied to the Immortal Realm, then showed Du Siwen a hairpin left by the skeleton he had buried.

Xu Qingtong and Du Siwen confessed their feelings, exchanged gifts, and decided to cultivate before heading to Red Rock Canyon. While studying the Cosmic Heart Stone, Xu Qingtong discovered that strange runes appeared when he scanned it with his divine sense at a particular speed.

• Xu Qingtong gave Du Siwen a hairpin and confessed his feelings, and they embraced and kissed.
• Xu Qingtong gave Du Siwen earrings and showed her a pouch that might be a storage bag or spirit beast bag.
• Xu Qingtong revealed that he had killed one seventh-tier demon beast and three sixth-tier demon beasts, and showed Du Siwen the spirit herbs he had gathered in his Seven-Star Bracelet.
• Xu Qingtong and Du Siwen decided to cultivate for half a year before going to Red Rock Canyon for the remaining three months.
• Xu Qingtong studied the Cosmic Heart Stone and discovered that strange runes appeared when he scanned it at a particular speed.

Xu Qingtong studied the Cosmic Heart Stone’s time-related runes and practiced them in his Niwang Palace until seventy-two runes formed the Time Slowdown command. He tested the new ability on Xiao Bai and a flying stone, then Du Siwen challenged him to test it against her Long Halberd.

• Xu Qingtong discovered five groups of runes on the Cosmic Heart Stone but found that any attempt to record or depict them made them vanish.
• Xu Qingtong practiced reproducing the runes in his Niwang Palace, gradually tracing them over four months while his and Du Siwen’s cultivation progressed.
• After Xu Qingtong traced the seventy-second rune, all seventy-two linked and disappeared, leaving him with the command for Time Slowdown.
• Xu Qingtong used Time Slowdown on Xiao Bai and a thrown stone, and Xiao Bai recognized it as the Power of Law.
• Du Siwen asked which law Xu Qingtong had glimpsed, then summoned her Long Halberd and cleaved toward him to test his ability.