Chapter Summaries

Xu Qingtong persuaded Shen Haotian to fund Spirit Fields for Yuanrong Fruit, then planted them on Back Mountain and arranged for Ding Jiayue to tend them. He sought help from Zhuo Mingshan to refine Yuanrong Crossbows and left him one to study.

• Xu Qingtong and Shen Haotian argued over funding before agreeing that the Academy would provide five hundred million Spirit Stones for Xu Qingtong to open sixty mu of Spirit Fields.
• Xu Qingtong spent four hundred and fifty million Spirit Stones on supplies, then worked with Xiao Qi for over a month to open nearly seventy mu of Spirit Fields and plant Yuanrong Fruit.
• Xu Qingtong entrusted Ding Jiayue with tending the fields and guarding the formation, gave her Nine Yin Pills, and borrowed her Yuanrong Crossbow.
• Xu Qingtong realized that no one at the Academy could refine Yuanrong Crossbows while Duoduo was away, so he visited Zhuo Mingshan at the Artifact Refining Pavilion.
• After learning that Duoduo had refined the crossbow, Zhuo Mingshan agreed to study it; Xu Qingtong left it with him and gave him a Jade Slip of artifact-refining insights.

With Juxian Academy under siege, Xu Qingtong’s Incarnation ambushed Netherworld Cultivators while his Original Body harvested Yuanrong Fruits and refined bolts. After Xu Qingtong broke through to the late stage of the Witch Wisdom Realm, he learned the Netherworld Cultivators had overrun the Jade Sound Pavilion, while his Original Body supplied nearly three hundred more Yuanrong Bolts.

• Xu Qingtong assigned guards to defend Juxian Academy’s four gates and rationed their Yuanrong Bolts as the siege continued.
• Xu Qingtong’s Incarnation ambushed Netherworld Cultivators, then used a powerful Yuanrong Crossbow and the Heaven and Earth Bowl to capture one.
• Xu Qingtong and his companions harvested the ripened Yuanrong Fruits, and Xiao Qi told him the captured cultivator’s residue contained pure power of the Great Yin.
• Xu Qingtong absorbed the power of the Great Yin for half a month and broke through to the late stage of the Witch Wisdom Realm.
• Xiao Qi reported that the Netherworld Cultivators had overrun the Jade Sound Pavilion and Fairy Yuqi had died.
• Xu Qingtong’s Original Body gave his Incarnation nearly three hundred newly refined Yuanrong Bolts.

Xu Qingtong strengthened Juxian Academy’s defenses and discussed the Netherworld threat with Lü Wenqiu, then left to hunt Netherworld cultivators in the Haoyu Mountain Range. After entering deserted Haoyue City, he sensed someone nearby and called on the hidden senior to reveal themselves.

• Xu Qingtong gave Ximen Wanyan Yuanrong Bolts and told him to distribute them and strengthen Juxian Academy’s defenses.
• Xu Qingtong warned Lü Wenqiu that the Netherworld cultivators might overwhelm the Human Realm, and Lü Wenqiu explained that powerful cultivators were pursuing their own interests instead of uniting.
• Xu Qingtong discussed plans with Lü Wenqiu and Shen Haotian, then refined over thirteen hundred Yuanrong fruits into bolts and gave most of them to Ximen Wanyan.
• Xu Qingtong gave Xiao Bai five sixth-tier Demon Cores and Earth Milk, ordering him to guard the spirit fields and reach form transformation within a year.
• Xu Qingtong and Xu Jing Tong hunted Netherworld cultivators in the Haoyu Mountain Range, killing more than thirty before Xu Qingtong entered deserted Haoyue City.
• After sensing someone nearby during the night, Xu Qingtong calmly asked the hidden senior to show themselves.

Xiao Yi tried to possess Xu Qingtong, who trapped them both inside his Niwang Palace with the Heaven and Earth Bowl’s corrosive power. As Xiao Yi pressed his attack, the Pure-Heart Snow Lotus appeared to protect Xu Qingtong, leaving Xiao Yi bargaining for it.

• Xiao Yi appeared before Xu Qingtong and revealed that he intended to possess him because Netherworld Cultivators had prevented him from returning to the Wuji Sect.
• Xu Qingtong tried to delay Xiao Yi while Uncle-Master Lü hurried to help, but two Late Body-Shaping Stage Netherworld Cultivators intercepted Lü Wenqiu.
• Xiao Yi lunged into Xu Qingtong’s body, and Xu Qingtong activated the Heaven and Earth Bowl, forcing both of their divine souls to endure its corrosion.
• Xiao Yi attacked Xu Qingtong inside the Niwang Palace, but Xu Qingtong blocked his first spell with manifested divine sense.
• The Pure-Heart Snow Lotus appeared and knocked away Xiao Yi’s flying sword, prompting Xiao Yi to offer to abandon possession in exchange for the lotus.
• Xu Qingtong asked Xiao Yi how he could trust him.

Xu Qingtong tricked Xiao Yi into letting his guard down, then killed him and struggled to refine the immense power left behind. With Lü Wenqiu’s help, he survived and advanced to the Nascent Soul late stage.

• Xu Qingtong pretended to accept Xiao Yi’s bargain, then struck him with the Pure-Heart Snow Lotus while he made a Heart Demon Oath.
• Xu Qingtong battered Xiao Yi until his Primordial Spirit was badly weakened, then used Divine Sense Thorn to kill him before he could self-detonate.
• Xiao Yi’s divine soul and spiritual power surged into Xu Qingtong, and Lü Wenqiu rescued him and sealed the rampaging power in his body.
• Xu Qingtong spent half a month refining Xiao Yi’s divine soul power, then three days bringing the spiritual power in his body under control.
• After nearly a month in Lü Wenqiu’s cave abode, Xu Qingtong finished refining Xiao Yi’s Nascent Soul and Primordial Spirit and reached the Nascent Soul late stage.

After destroying Xiao Yi’s primordial spirit, Xu Qingtong hunted Netherworld cultivators to relieve pressure on Juxian Academy and advanced to the body-shaping middle stage. A message reported that the Wuji Sect’s protective array had fallen, and Xu Qingtong headed for the Netherworld Forest to investigate the invaders’ sudden rampage.

• Xu Qingtong told Lü Wenqiu how Xiao Yi had tried to possess him and how he had destroyed Xiao Yi’s primordial spirit.
• Xu Qingtong left Juxian Academy to hunt Netherworld cultivators, ambushing thirteen body-shaping cultivators with Xiao Qi over three months.
• Xu Qingtong and Xiao Qi hid in a cliffside cave, cultivated with Dark Azure Elixirs for two months, and Xu Qingtong broke through to the body-shaping middle stage.
• Lan Xin Butterfly delivered a Jade Slip reporting that the Wuji Sect’s Mountain-Guarding Grand Array had been breached and Tianji Zi was badly wounded.
• Xu Qingtong and Xiao Qi suspected the Netherworld cultivators were making a final push before the barrier points closed, so they traveled to the Netherworld Forest’s Barrier Entrance.

Xu Qingtong observed the changing Spatial Passage, then discovered Juxian Academy was under attack by a massive Netherworld force. He ambushed the enemy leaders and forced them to withdraw, then returned to the Academy and received a summons from Lü Wenqiu.

• Xu Qingtong and Xiao Qi watched the Spatial Passage shrink during the day and expand at night, then saw fleeing Wuji Sect members followed by a Netherworld force heading west.
• Xu Qingtong hurried to Juxian Academy and found its Mountain-Guarding Grand Array nearly broken, with six late body-shaping Netherworld Cultivators preparing a human-wave assault.
• Xu Qingtong crept toward the enemy leaders and fired twenty Yuanrong Bolts with his original body and Incarnation, killing two old fiends and wounding four others.
• Xu Qingtong escaped, and his ambush disrupted the Netherworld Cultivators’ attack and forced them to withdraw from Juxian Academy.
• Xu Qingtong returned to the Academy, where Lü Wenqiu sent him a voice transmission asking him to come to his cave abode.

After the Netherworld Cultivators’ failed assault on Juxian Academy, Xu Qingtong assessed the Academy’s defenses and rushed to help Xiao Bai survive his breakthrough to the Transformation Stage. He harvested Yuanrong Fruit and crafted bolts for a month, but left the Earthfire Chamber when the Netherworld Cultivators attacked the Anyang Sect.

• Xu Qingtong told Lü Wenqiu that the Netherworld Junction was shrinking and urged the Academy to prepare for further attacks; Lü Wenqiu agreed they should investigate the sects’ condition.
• Xu Qingtong learned from Shen Haotian that the Academy had suffered few casualties but needed more Yuanrong Bolts, then left to help Xiao Bai undergo his tribulation.
• Xu Qingtong’s incarnation inspected the Yuanrong Fruit while his original body stayed with Xiao Bai as Xiao Bai faced his Heavenly Tribulation.
• Xu Qingtong and Xiao Qi harvested ripe Yuanrong Fruit, and Xiao Bai survived his tribulation and advanced to the Transformation Stage.
• Xu Qingtong spent a month refining eight hundred Yuanrong Bolts before Lü Wenqiu summoned him after the Netherworld Cultivators attacked the Anyang Sect.

Xu Qingtong joined Lü Wenqiu and Luo Yichen at the Anyang Sect, where Netherworld Cultivators had broken through the sect’s defenses and held the defenders at a severe disadvantage. Xu trapped one late Body-Shaping opponent with the Heaven and Earth Bowl and Xiao Qi’s soul art, beginning to turn the battle.

• Lü Wenqiu agreed to reinforce the Anyang Sect, and Xu Qingtong arranged for Lei Wei and twenty Garrison Camp guards to accompany him while Ximen Wanyan stayed to defend Juxian Academy.
• Xu Qingtong reached the Anyang Sect and found Lü Wenqiu and Luo Yichen fighting four late Body-Shaping Netherworld Cultivators while Yu Jizi and the other defenders faced the rest.
• Xu Qingtong used the Time Law to slow one opponent, allowing Lü Wenqiu to strike and send him into the Heaven and Earth Bowl.
• Xiao Qi attacked the trapped Netherworld Cultivator with the Soul-Washing and Spirit-Refining Art, weakening him as the other Netherworld Cultivators failed to reach him.
• Xu Qingtong’s incarnation aimed a Yuanrong Crossbow at six approaching Netherworld Cultivators, driving them back, and he, his incarnation, and Xiao Qi began surrounding the lower-level enemies.

Xu Qingtong and his allies turned the battle at Anyang Sect’s mountain gate against the Netherworld Cultivators. After pursuing and defeating their commander, they regrouped and headed to the Anyang Sect.

• Xu Qingtong and Xiao Qi killed and refined Netherworld Cultivators, easing the pressure on Yu Jizi and the others as their side gained the upper hand.
• When the Netherworld Cultivators tried to retreat, Lü Wenqiu and Luo Yichen wounded their commander, and Xu Qingtong pursued him with his incarnation and Xiao Qi.
• Xu Qingtong split off his incarnation to catch the fleeing commander, but the commander turned and badly hurt him in a head-on clash.
• Xu Qingtong used the Time Law and the Yuanrong Crossbow to injure the commander, then restrained him with the Nether Serpent Staff until his original body and Xiao Qi arrived.
• Xu Qingtong’s original body trapped the commander with the Heaven and Earth Bowl, and Xiao Qi refined him to obtain three Dark Azure Elixirs.
• Lü Wenqiu and Luo Yichen killed another Late Body-Shaping Stage cultivator, while Lei Wei intercepted an escaping enemy; after Lü Wenqiu found Xu Qingtong, they went to the Anyang Sect.

After helping the Anyang Sect defeat the netherworld cultivators, Xu Qingtong and Lü Wenqiu discussed the remaining threat and the danger to their allies. The chapter ended with Xu Qingtong weighing whether Juxian Academy should sell Yuanrong Crossbows and bolts to the Anyang Sect for a huge sum.

• Xu Qingtong, Xiao Qi, and Lü Wenqiu arrived at the Anyang Sect after its battle and accepted Luo Yichen's thanks.
• Lü Wenqiu warned Luo Yichen that netherworld cultivators still threatened the Heavenly Mystery Palace and that the Anyang Sect should repair its defenses and beware Yin Wanchou.
• Back at Juxian Academy, Xu Qingtong reported his injury, and Lü Wenqiu ordered searches for remaining netherworld cultivators while planning to hunt the Spirit Transformation cultivator himself.
• Xu Qingtong learned that Juxian Academy had lost contact with its scouts near the Heavenly Mystery Palace, then went to meet Lü Wenqiu and Shen Haotian.
• Lü Wenqiu revealed that Luo Yichen wanted twenty Yuanrong Crossbows and two hundred bolts; Xu Qingtong initially refused, then reconsidered when he heard the proposed prices.

Xu Qingtong and Shen Haotian arranged to rent the Yuanrong Crossbows to the Anyang Sect with safeguards against tampering. Xu Qingtong then visited Xiao Bai, who had taken human form, and acknowledged him as his younger brother Xu Yutong.

• Shen Haotian proposed renting the Yuanrong Crossbows to the Anyang Sect instead of selling them, and Xu Qingtong and Lü Wenqiu agreed to the plan.
• Xu Qingtong learned Lü Wenqiu’s protective formation and suggested combining it with his Blood-Soul Restriction to make tampering trigger an explosion.
• Xu Qingtong returned to the Spring-Knowing Abode and began adding protective formations to the Yuanrong Bolts, then stopped to check whether they would still work.
• Xu Qingtong visited Xiao Bai on Back Mountain and offered to return his soul blood, but Xiao Bai asked to keep it so they could communicate.
• Xu Qingtong named Xiao Bai Xu Yutong, acknowledged him as his younger brother, and invited him to come along.

Xu Qingtong introduced Xiao Bai, who had taken human form and become Xu Yutong, to Juxian Academy’s leaders and prepared modified Yuanrong Bolts for the coming battle. After the crossbows helped Juxian Academy and the Anyang Sect repel the Netherworld Cultivators, Lü Wenqiu returned injured, and a sword-shaped message arrived as Heavenly Mystery Palace faced a renewed assault.

• Xu Qingtong accidentally fired a modified Yuanrong Bolt while showing Xiao Bai its power, then took him to meet Shen Haotian and Lü Wenqiu as Xu Yutong.
• Lü Wenqiu approved leasing twenty Yuanrong Crossbows and selling two hundred bolts to the Anyang Sect, while Xu Qingtong returned to Spring-Knowing Abode and continued modifying the bolts.
• Ten days later, Xu Qingtong delivered two hundred modified bolts to Shen Haotian, who exchanged them with Yu Jizi for two hundred million Spirit Stones.
• The Netherworld Cultivators attacked Juxian Academy and then the Anyang Sect, but both groups used Yuanrong Bolts to drive them away; Yu Jizi later bought another two hundred bolts.
• Lü Wenqiu returned with minor injuries after a Netherworld Cultivator self-detonated, and Xu Qingtong warned that Heavenly Mystery Palace was under a powerful renewed attack.
• A sword-shaped light flew into Lü Wenqiu’s cave abode.

Xu Qingtong investigated the Heavenly Mystery Palace after it sent Juxian Academy a desperate request for aid, and discovered its defenders were still holding out behind an inner formation. The Netherworld Cultivators’ commander began a lethal attack, and Tianji Zi ordered the remaining defenders to charge out and fight to the death.

• Lü Wenqiu received Tianji Zi’s request for aid, and Xu Qingtong volunteered to investigate the Heavenly Mystery Palace despite Lü Wenqiu’s warnings.
• Xu Qingtong took Xiao Qi and Xiao Bai south, reached the devastated Luo City, and secretly approached the Heavenly Mystery Palace’s mountain gate.
• Xu Qingtong discovered that Tianji Zi and the Heavenly Mystery Palace’s defenders were protected by an inner formation while Netherworld Cultivators attacked it.
• Zheng Zongping sent out ten late nascent soul puppets, which killed or wounded many early and middle body-shaping Netherworld Cultivators before being destroyed.
• The Netherworld Cultivators’ commander brought out a teapot-shaped Netherworld Treasure and began a dangerous casting, so Tianji Zi sent two spirit transformation puppets to stop him.
• Tianji Zi detonated the two puppets, killing four of the five late body-shaping Netherworld Cultivators nearby and injuring their commander; after taking severe backlash, he ordered his people to charge out and fight to the death.

Tianji Zi’s attack devastated the Netherworld Cultivators, but a wounded commander escaped and fled toward Phoenix Mausoleum Mountain. Xu Qingtong pursued him, then joined forces with his incarnation, Xiao Qi, and Xiao Bai to trap and attack him until the Netherworld Marshal began to fade.

• Tianji Zi detonated two life-bound puppets, killing four of the six late Body-Shaping Stage Netherworld Cultivators and severely wounding the other two.
• Zheng Zongping and five Nascent Soul Realm cultivators charged the commander, but his Nethergold Shards overwhelmed them; Tianji Zi wounded the commander with explosive game pieces, forcing him to flee.
• Xu Qingtong concealed himself as the wounded commander flew past, then followed him toward Phoenix Mausoleum Mountain.
• The commander drained a female cultivator’s yang qi, but Xu Qingtong approached with the Heaven and Earth Bowl and attacked alongside his incarnation, Xiao Qi, and Xiao Bai.
• Xu Qingtong and his allies used the Time Law, Turtle-Speed Technique, and Spatial Prison to immobilize the commander, whose body began to fade.

After the battle, Xu Qingtong outmaneuvered Tianji Zi’s attempt to learn about Juxian Academy and discovered the elder was secretly following him. Xu Qingtong sent Xiao Qi and Xiao Bai away, but then became trapped in a formation near Canggen Mountain.

• Tianji Zi appeared before Xu Qingtong, asked about Daoist Lü’s injury, and tried to obtain the teapot from the Netherworld Cultivator.
• Xu Qingtong gave Tianji Zi an ordinary teapot, then left with Xiao Qi and the others for Juxian Academy.
• Xiao Bai revealed that Tianji Zi had hidden in a Mount Sumeru space and was following them, while Xu Qingtong already knew about the divine sense mark.
• Xu Qingtong sent Xiao Qi and Xiao Bai back to the Seven-Star Bracelet and continued north alone.
• Near Canggen Mountain, Xu Qingtong sensed a formation and found himself surrounded by white fog, so he activated the Flying Sky Crown for protection.

Xu Qingtong was trapped in a formation by Tianji Zi, who planned to wear him down and kill him. Xu Qingtong destroyed the formation and counterattacked with Xiao Qi and Xiao Bai, leaving Tianji Zi badly wounded.

• Xu Qingtong tried to escape Tianji Zi’s formation while Tianji Zi revealed his plan to make his death look like the work of Netherworld Cultivators.
• Xu Qingtong used the Yuanrong Crossbow and Heaven and Earth Bowl to withstand the formation and blast it apart with his remaining bolts.
• Tianji Zi emerged, believing Xu Qingtong had exhausted his weapons, and refused to let him go.
• Xu Qingtong summoned Xiao Qi, Xiao Bai, and his original body, then ordered the two demons to use their innate divine abilities.
• Xiao Bai bound Tianji Zi with Spatial Prison, Xiao Qi pierced his chest with Seven-Colored Divine Light, and Xu Qingtong fired five Yuanrong Bolts at him.

Xu Qingtong defeated Tianji Zi’s body, then faced his attempt to possess him inside the Niwang Palace. With the Pure-Heart Snow Lotus’s help, Xu Qingtong destroyed Tianji Zi’s soul and tried to persuade the lotus to answer his calls in the future.

• Xu Qingtong’s planned attack destroyed Tianji Zi’s body, but Tianji Zi’s soul entered Xu Qingtong’s body to possess him.
• Xu Qingtong summoned the Pure-Heart Snow Lotus and revealed that Xiao Yi had also tried to possess him.
• Xu Qingtong bargained with Tianji Zi, demanding Spirit Stones in exchange for the Pure-Heart Snow Lotus.
• Tianji Zi took the lotus, which drained his Divine Soul power despite his protests.
• Xu Qingtong watched Tianji Zi’s soul vanish, then urged the Pure-Heart Snow Lotus to answer his calls in the future.

Xu Qingtong returned to Juxian Academy after killing Tianji Zi and proposed that the Academy seize unclaimed territory and build up its resources. Lü Wenqiu and Shen Haotian considered transforming Juxian Academy into the Tianhua Sect, despite likely opposition.

• The Pure-Heart Snow Lotus agreed to cooperate with Xu Qingtong but refused to acknowledge him as its master, asking him to take it to the Immortal Realm.
• Xu Qingtong recovered Tianji Zi's Storage Ring, then had Xiao Qi, Xiao Bai, and Xizi clean the battlefield before returning to Juxian Academy.
• Xu Qingtong told Lü Wenqiu that Tianji Zi had tried to possess him and that he had killed him with Yuanrong Bolts.
• Xu Qingtong urged Lü Wenqiu and Shen Haotian to claim territory left unoccupied after the Netherworld Calamity and strengthen Juxian Academy's resources.
• Xu Qingtong proposed changing Juxian Academy into the Tianhua Sect, and Lü Wenqiu dismissed the other sects as lacking the strength to object.

Xu Qingtong was appointed leader of the new Tianhua Sect, an affiliated sect the Academy planned to establish while dividing territory with the Anyang Sect. After pushing Shen Haotian for resources, Xu Qingtong searched Tianji Zi’s storage ring and prepared a list of people and supplies for the new sect.

• Lü Wenqiu and Shen Haotian agreed to establish the Tianhua Sect as an Academy-affiliated sect, and Lü Wenqiu appointed Xu Qingtong as its leader.
• Xu Qingtong protested that the sect had no people or supplies, so Shen Haotian offered construction materials and a hundred million spirit stones.
• Xu Qingtong demanded several Academy experts, but Shen Haotian resisted losing them, and Xu Qingtong left to reconsider the appointment.
• Xu Qingtong searched Tianji Zi’s storage ring and found formations, spirit stones, talismans, and other treasures useful for building the sect.
• Xu Qingtong planned to recruit Gloomwind Valley veterans and trusted acquaintances, then returned to Cloudwater Retreat to meet Shen Haotian.