Chapter Summaries

Xu Qingtong and Du Siwen chose to remain with Dongfang Hui on Purple Rosy Clouds Island, where they cultivated for ten years. As Xu Qingtong explored the Way of Space, eating Mandui Fruits finally triggered a distinct change within him.

• Xu Qingtong gave Dongfang Hui jade slips for Peering into the Immortal Sect and the Nine Immortals Scripture, and she quickly sensed immortal essence.
• Xu Qingtong thanked Du Siwen for making room for Dongfang Hui, and they agreed to stay on the island until their cultivation was ready for Spirit Transformation.
• Over ten years, Xu Qingtong stabilized his Spirit Transformation cultivation, Dongfang Hui advanced to the Golden Core stage, and Du Siwen transformed her nascent soul while remaining at the Nascent Soul late stage.
• Xu Qingtong meditated with the Cosmic Heart Stone and concluded that his understanding of the Time Law had reached its current limit.
• Xu Qingtong studied a jade slip about the Way of Space, ate twelve Mandui Fruits, and felt a distinct change within his body.

After consuming Mandui Fruits, Xu Qingtong studied spatial laws in the dangerous region above the Nine Heavens and learned to stabilize a spatial fluctuation. After two months, he returned to the Ink Bamboo Studio, where he discovered a weak point in its formation and realized how Xiao Bai broke formations.

• Xu Qingtong ate twelve Mandui Fruits and spent two days absorbing their power, improving his perception of space.
• Xu Qingtong explained to Du Siwen and Dongfang Hui that he planned to study spatial laws above the Nine Heavens, and Du Siwen reluctantly let him go.
• At eight thousand zhang, Xu Qingtong sensed a spatial fluctuation, lost part of his divine sense to it, then used spatial power to stabilize the area.
• Xu Qingtong studied a jade slip while observing spatial turbulence and remained above the Nine Heavens for two months, until his magic power ran low.
• Xu Qingtong returned to the Ink Bamboo Studio and discovered a weak point in its formation, realizing that Xiao Bai used spatial power to tear open formations.

Xu Qingtong returned to the Ink Bamboo Studio after learning to use spatial power to breach its formation, and discovered that Dongfang Hui had reached a cultivation bottleneck. He and Du Siwen agreed to take her back to Central Province for experience and to arrange his affairs with their master, then the three set off west.

• Xu Qingtong tore open the Ink Bamboo Studio's formation with spatial power and found Dongfang Hui struggling to advance beyond the Golden Core Late Stage.
• Xu Qingtong explained that Dongfang Hui needed experience in the mortal world to improve her understanding of heaven and earth and prepare for the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Xu Qingtong demonstrated his method of opening and closing the formation to Dongfang Hui and Du Siwen, and said he could not breach the formation protecting Sea Cloud Hall.
• Du Siwen agreed to return to Central Province with Xu Qingtong and Dongfang Hui, where they would consult their master and arrange a dual cultivation ceremony.
• The three packed their belongings, left the Ink Bamboo Studio, boarded the Dust-Exterminating Boat, and flew west toward Central Province.

Xu Qingtong and Du Siwen returned to Central Province with Dongfang Hui, then visited Lü Wenqiu to explain Hui’s sacrifice during Qingtong’s Spirit Transformation tribulation and her memory loss. Lü Wenqiu questioned Qingtong’s decision to care for Hui, then recognized that the two had come to plead her case.

• Xu Qingtong, Du Siwen, and Dongfang Hui returned to the Tianhua Sect, where Xiao Qi and Xiao Bai welcomed them and learned Hui was part of their family.
• Du Siwen asked Xiao Bai to prepare a cave abode for Dongfang Hui while she and Xu Qingtong went to see Lü Wenqiu.
• Lü Wenqiu discovered that Xu Qingtong had reached Spirit Transformation, and Du Siwen recounted how Dongfang Hui had shielded him from tribulation lightning.
• Du Siwen explained that Hui’s sea of consciousness had been damaged, she had lost her memories, and she remembered only her former betrothal to Qingtong.
• Xu Qingtong promised to look after Hui for the rest of her life, and Lü Wenqiu asked whether they had come to plead her case.

Xu Qingtong asked Lü Wenqiu to approve his wish to become Dao companions with both Du Siwen and Hui'er, and Lü tested whether he was strong enough to care for them. Impressed by Xu's power and his self-created cultivation technique, Lü studied the One Qi Primordial Unity Art, leaving Xu waiting for his judgment.

• Du Siwen asked Lü Wenqiu to approve Xu Qingtong and Hui'er becoming Dao companions, and Xu said he would not abandon either Hui'er or Du Siwen.
• Lü Wenqiu tested Xu Qingtong in the sky, where Xu's Raging Thunder Finger shattered Lü's Black Tortoise Shield.
• Xu Qingtong endured Lü Wenqiu's Golden Crow attack with his True Qi Armor and blocked Lü's saber with the Pagoda Phantom Shadow formed by the Jade Exquisite.
• Lü Wenqiu ended the spar and told Du Siwen to fetch Hui'er, then kept Xu Qingtong behind to ask about his cultivation technique.
• Xu Qingtong gave Lü Wenqiu a jade slip containing the One Qi Primordial Unity Art, and Lü's expression changed as he read it.

Lü Wenqiu accepted Dongfang Hui as his final disciple and approved her marriage to Xu Qingtong, while Xu Qingtong offered Juxian Academy his cultivation art as a betrothal gift. The academy held a grand combined discipleship and wedding ceremony a month later, leaving Xu Qingtong married to both of Lü Wenqiu’s disciples.

• Lü Wenqiu examined Dongfang Hui, learned of her damaged memories and exceptional intelligence, and accepted her as his final disciple.
• Lü Wenqiu instructed Shen Haotian to arrange a combined discipleship and wedding ceremony for Dongfang Hui and Xu Qingtong, and requested a cultivation technique as betrothal gifts.
• Xu Qingtong gave Shen Haotian a copy of the One Qi Primordial Unity Art, which Shen Haotian praised as a potential unrivaled art for Juxian Academy’s Core Disciples.
• Xu Qingtong gave Lü Wenqiu the Peering into the Immortal Sect Jade Slip, ten pieces of Immortal Jade, and two True Qi Armor Talismans.
• Shen Haotian organized a grand ceremony at Juxian Academy a month later, where Lü Wenqiu’s new discipleship and Xu Qingtong’s marriage to Dongfang Hui were celebrated.

Xu Qingtong took Dongfang Hui to gain experience and prepare for a journey through Central Province, then gave Ximen Wanyan Spirit Realm treasures to help protect himself. He returned to the Tianhua Sect, stepped down as Sect Leader in favor of Dong Yunxiao, and reunited with friends in Gloomwind Valley before they departed.

• Xu Qingtong brought Dongfang Hui to Lü Wenqiu's cave abode and received permission to take her out to gain experience.
• Xu Qingtong gave Ximen Wanyan Immortal Jade, Spirit Realm cultivation techniques, and talismans, then demonstrated a True Qi Armor Talisman's protection.
• Xu Qingtong and Dongfang Hui returned to the Tianhua Sect, where Xu Qingtong asked Dong Yunxiao to take over as Sect Leader.
• Xu Qingtong announced Dong Yunxiao's appointment at the Council Hall, and Dong Yunxiao made Xu Qingtong the Grand Supreme Elder.
• Chen Ruoling, Lei Wei, Guo Tianyu, Zhuang Shengren, and Ding Jiayue visited Gloomwind Valley, then left after three days.

Xu Qingtong and Dongfang Hui set out to travel together, leaving Du Siwen to manage things at home. Xu Qingtong guided Dongfang Hui through Bingzhou, sharing its history and his past experiences, and they reached the former site of the Azure Sea Gate.

• Xu Qingtong examined Duoduo, advised her to learn the One Qi Primordial Unity Art to overcome her cultivation bottleneck, and gave her a Storage Bag of artifact-refining materials.
• Xu Qingtong and Dongfang Hui visited Du Siwen and told her they planned to travel; Xu Chengkang was reprimanded for making no progress in cultivation.
• Xu Qingtong and Dongfang Hui traveled by Teleportation Array to Red Moon Island, where Xu Qingtong warned her about its unstable space and recounted how Du Siwen had lost her physical body saving him.
• Xu Qingtong took Dongfang Hui by Flying Boat to the Azure Sea Gate and explained how it had fallen to the Witch Clan and how his master Yu Tiancheng had died.

After Master Zhong Ziqing’s death, Xu Qingtong took Dongfang Hui to revisit a wonton stall and explained that cultivating the Dao began with cultivating virtue and the heart. Dongfang Hui experienced sudden enlightenment, and when they reached Cloudsky Peak, its disciples recognized Xu Qingtong as their Forefather just as a figure hurried out to meet them.

• Xu Qingtong and Dongfang Hui revisited the town where Zhong Ziqing’s Divine Thought Body had once sold wontons, and Xu Qingtong bought a bowl for a beggar.
• The stall owner told Dongfang Hui that the beggar had once been Wang Yuanwai, whose cruelty and crimes had led to his ruin.
• Xu Qingtong explained that cultivators must cultivate virtue and keep their hearts free of shame, prompting Dongfang Hui to experience sudden enlightenment.
• Xu Qingtong and Dongfang Hui flew south to Cloudsky Peak, where the guards challenged them and Xu Qingtong stopped one with the Non-Form Seal.
• Zhou Changhai recognized Xu Qingtong as Forefather Xu, ordered the guards to apologize, and began to identify Cloudsky Peak’s current Peak Master before a figure rushed out.

Xu Qingtong and Dongfang Hui revisited Cloudsky Peak, Gloomwind Valley, and the Witch Clan Territory, where they met old acquaintances and offered help. Their journey left Dongfang Hui reflecting on what she had heard, and she asked Xu Qingtong whether they could still enter Mist Valley.

• Zhu Hua greeted Xu Qingtong at Cloudsky Peak, where Xu found his former cave abode preserved with an ancestral shrine honoring him.
• Xu Qingtong gave Zhu Hua two high-grade Realm-Breaking Pills and five supreme-grade spirit stones, but declined to take him to Central Province for help.
• Qu Tianyi welcomed Xu Qingtong and Dongfang Hui at Gloomwind Valley, and Xu answered his cultivation questions in detail.
• Xu Qingtong told Gong Chu that Dongfang Hui was his second wife, offered to take him to Central Province, and gave him a piece of flesh lingzhi weighing over seven jin.
• After leaving the Witch Clan Territory, Dongfang Hui asked Xu Qingtong whether they could still enter Mist Valley.

Xu Qingtong took Dongfang Hui to Mist Valley, where revisiting their old cave stirred his buried feelings and helped him gain insight. Back at Tianhua Sect, he brought Xiao Bai above the Nine Heavens so they could study spatial power together, and they returned after three days when Xu Qingtong ran out of immortal essence.

• Xu Qingtong used a Teleportation Array to take Dongfang Hui into Mist Valley and showed her the cave where they had lived during the trial.
• Xu Qingtong recalled his youthful love for Dongfang Hui and spent nearly an hour in silent contemplation while she waited beside him.
• Xu Qingtong and Dongfang Hui returned to Tianhua Sect, where Dongfang Hui chose to rest and reflect on her insights from Bingzhou.
• Xu Qingtong summoned Xiao Bai and explained his questions about spatial power, then took him above the Nine Heavens to observe spatial fragments.
• Xu Qingtong protected Xiao Bai with the Jade Exquisite's Pagoda Phantom Shadow as they studied the space at seven thousand zhang.
• After three days of studying spatial power together, Xu Qingtong exhausted his immortal essence and the brothers withdrew.

Xu Qingtong took Dongfang Hui to Wei City so she could gain experience managing his shop, Azure Wind Hall. After learning from him for a day, Dongfang Hui took over as shopkeeper, but her first trade left her unsure whether she had offered a fair price.

• After refining a Mandui Fruit and discussing spatial insights with Xiao Bai, Xu Qingtong invited Dongfang Hui to travel with him so she could gain experience.
• Xu Qingtong brought Dongfang Hui to Wei City and told Shopkeeper Feng to take leave while she managed Azure Wind Hall.
• Xu Qingtong paid for Shopkeeper Feng's cave abode and taught Dongfang Hui the basics of running the shop.
• Dongfang Hui became Azure Wind Hall's shopkeeper and traded two bottles of Returning Yang Pills for a customer's two hundred third-tier talismans despite not knowing their value.

Dongfang Hui trained by running Azure Wind Hall in Wei City, learning to judge people and improve her state of mind. She returned to the Tianhua Sect, survived her Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation, and stabilized her new cultivation.

• Dongfang Hui lost more than twenty thousand spirit stones while running the shop, and Xu Qingtong taught her to recognize deception and human nature.
• Dongfang Hui continued managing Azure Wind Hall for six months, while Xu Qingtong periodically left Wei City to contemplate space.
• Dongfang Hui felt signs of a breakthrough, so Xu Qingtong called Manager Feng to take over and returned with her to the Tianhua Sect.
• Dongfang Hui prepared to form her Nascent Soul, and Du Siwen teased her about having a child for the Xu family.
• Dongfang Hui survived the Heavenly Tribulation with Xu Qingtong's preparations and formed a gray chaos nascent soul.
• Dongfang Hui spent nearly a month stabilizing her Nascent Soul Realm cultivation.

Thirty years after Dongfang Hui’s Nascent Soul Formation, Lü Wenqiu told Xu Qingtong he planned to leave Central Province despite having less than a thirty-percent chance of surviving the journey. Xu Qingtong demonstrated his mastery of spatial power and offered Lü Wenqiu a Mandui Fruit to help him keep cultivating before he departed.

• Dongfang Hui held a Nascent Soul Formation ceremony, stepped down as Pavilion Master, and renamed Huijing Pavilion Biyun Pavilion as the Tianhua Sect grew into Central Province’s Third Great Sect.
• Shen Haotian invited Xu Qingtong to Juxian Academy, where Xu Qingtong arrived with Du Siwen and Dongfang Hui to meet Lü Wenqiu.
• Lü Wenqiu said his cultivation had reached its limit and that he planned to leave Central Province the next day, with less than a thirty-percent chance of success.
• Dongfang Hui and Du Siwen offered Lü Wenqiu their immortal jade and talismans, while Xu Qingtong proposed helping him improve his spatial power before he left.
• Xu Qingtong smoothed a Spatial Rift and stabilized spatial turbulence above the Nine Heavens, impressing Lü Wenqiu with his spatial attainments.
• Xu Qingtong gave Lü Wenqiu a Mandui Fruit and urged him to eat it, saying he had more and had already set aside shares for Du Siwen and Dongfang Hui.

Xu Qingtong gave Lü Wenqiu a Mandui Fruit, improving his ability to comprehend and use spatial power. Lü Wenqiu revealed that he planned to leave the realm to draw Yin Wanchou into attacking Xu Qingtong, while Yin Wanchou began preparing a costly scheme to reach Spirit Transformation middle stage.

• Xu Qingtong gave Lü Wenqiu a Mandui Fruit, and Lü Wenqiu refined it and found his spatial abilities had improved.
• Lü Wenqiu told Xu Qingtong and Shen Haotian that he planned to leave the realm both because his cultivation was constrained and to lure Yin Wanchou into making a move.
• Xu Qingtong realized Yin Wanchou would likely target him after Lü Wenqiu left, and Lü Wenqiu assured Shen Haotian that Xu Qingtong could defeat him.
• Yin Wanchou angrily ordered his disciple to monitor Lü Wenqiu, Luo Yichen, and Xu Qingtong.
• Yin Wanchou pressed Wei Qifeng to carry out a plan that could kill many people in order to help him reach Spirit Transformation middle stage.

Xu Qingtong and Lü Wenqiu prepared for Lü Wenqiu’s attempt to ascend, while the possibility of an attack by Yin Wanchou put Central Province’s sects on alert. With Lü Wenqiu planning to leave in ten days, Xu Qingtong ordered the Tianhua Sect to strengthen its defenses.

• Xu Qingtong brought Xu Chengkang, Xiao Qi, Duoduo, and the others back to the Academy, then crafted True Qi Armor Talismans and ordered Duoduo to learn Peering into the Immortal Sect.
• Lü Wenqiu shared his new insights into space-time with Xu Qingtong and estimated that he had a seventy percent chance of opening a Space-Time Passage.
• Lü Wenqiu planned to ascend in ten days and urged Xu Qingtong to prepare with Shen Haotian for a possible attack by Yin Wanchou.
• Yin Wanchou learned that Juxian Academy and the Tianhua Sect had strengthened their defenses and suspended his plan while Lü Wenqiu prepared to ascend.
• Luo Yichen warned Yu Jizi that the Profound Yin Church might attack after Lü Wenqiu left and ordered preparations for a response.
• Xu Qingtong told the Tianhua Sect’s leaders to recall outside fighters, activate the Mountain-Guarding Grand Array, and strengthen their defenses against the Profound Yin Church.

Xu Qingtong helped Lü Wenqiu open a passage to the Spirit Realm and watched him ascend, then prepared for a possible attack by the Profound Yin Church. After half a month of uneasy calm, Lan Xin Butterfly arrived with news that the Tianhua Sect was in critical danger.

• Xu Qingtong warned the Tianhua Sect that Yin Wanchou might attack and left Dong Yunxiao in charge of its defenses.
• Lü Wenqiu bade farewell to Shen Haotian, Du Siwen, and Dongfang Hui before Xu Qingtong opened a Space-Time Passage for him.
• Lü Wenqiu stabilized the passage with his space-time power, activated Xu Qingtong's True Qi Armor Talisman, and ascended to the Spirit Realm.
• Xu Qingtong returned to Juxian Academy and told Shen Haotian to keep the Tianhua Sect's defenses alert while they waited for Yin Wanchou.
• After half a month without an attack, Lan Xin Butterfly arrived and told Xu Qingtong that the Tianhua Sect faced a critical situation.

The Profound Yin Church attacked the Tianhua Sect with a corrosive black water, and Xu Qingtong rushed there to defend it. He crushed the attackers’ Nascent Soul cultivators and ordered the remaining forces hunted down, but Yin Wanchou was nowhere to be found.

• Lan Xin Butterfly told Xu Qingtong that the Profound Yin Church had surrounded the Tianhua Sect and was corroding its Mountain-Guarding Grand Array with black water.
• Xu Qingtong warned Shen Haotian that Yin Wanchou might be waiting to ambush him or attack Juxian Academy, then teleported to the Tianhua Sect.
• Xu Qingtong ordered Dong Yunxiao to have Zhuang Shengren and Lei Wei fire Yuanrong Bolts, wiping out most of the Profound Yin Church’s Golden Core cultivators.
• Xu Qingtong left the grand array, killed one Nascent Soul cultivator with the Houtu Seal, and used his Five Elements Divine Seals to kill or injure several more despite their Myriad-Year Corpse Water.
• Xu Qingtong used the Time Law and Turtle-Speed Technique to immobilize five Nascent Soul cultivators and crush them, then ordered Zhuang Shengren and Lei Wei to hunt down the remaining attackers.
• Xu Qingtong searched a thousand-li radius but found no trace of Yin Wanchou.

Xu Qingtong realized Yin Wanchou had used the Profound Yin Church cultivators to create slaughter and rushed to the Anyang Sect, where Yin Wanchou was attacking Luo Yichen. Xu Qingtong fought to rescue Luo Yichen, but Yin Wanchou prepared to unleash a Purple-Gold Corpse Puppet.

• Xu Qingtong and Shen Haotian realized Yin Wanchou sought the yin baleful spirit qi of the dead to strengthen his cultivation.
• Xu Qingtong rushed to the Anyang Sect after tremors revealed Yin Wanchou was attacking Luo Yichen there.
• Yin Wanchou trapped Luo Yichen in dark red flames, and Xu Qingtong froze the flames with the Xuanming Seal.
• Xu Qingtong attacked Yin Wanchou with the Five Divine Seals and time law, wounding him as his secret art weakened him.
• Yin Wanchou blamed Xu Qingtong for ruining his plans and announced he would unleash his Purple-Gold Corpse Puppet.

Xu Qingtong battled Yin Wanchou, overcoming his corpse puppet and Myriad-Year Corpse Water with powerful treasures and talismans. He destroyed Yin Wanchou’s body, but the man’s Nascent Soul escaped before Xu Qingtong could finish him off.

• Yin Wanchou summoned a Spirit Transformation-level corpse puppet, and Xu Qingtong attacked it with the Fengyi Sword.
• Xu Qingtong trapped the puppet in the True Qi Kill Talisman's gray mist while the Fengyi Sword damaged Yin Wanchou’s black saber.
• Yin Wanchou sprayed Myriad-Year Corpse Water at Xu Qingtong, but the Heaven and Earth Bowl dissolved it.
• Xu Qingtong sealed the weakened corpse puppet inside Jade Exquisite’s Pagoda Phantom Shadow and struck Yin Wanchou with the Soul Shatter Sword.
• Yin Wanchou escaped the fatal strike by sending out his Nascent Soul, then fled from the Heaven and Earth Bowl’s golden light.