Recaps

Ouyang rushed to the orphanage believing it was burning, but found it unharmed and met a little girl he could not remember. After sharing her birthday cake and saying goodbye, he thanked the old man beneath the stars.

• Ouyang raced to the orphanage, fell from his scooter, and found the building intact.
• Ouyang met a little girl in a white nightdress and realized he could not remember either of their names.
• The little girl comforted Ouyang with candy, and he brought her a strawberry cake for her birthday.
• Ouyang and the little girl shared the cake and sang a birthday song, then she danced for him.
• The little girl hugged Ouyang and urged him to take care of himself before returning inside.
• Ouyang watched her go, lit a cigarette, and thanked the old man.

Ouyang returned to the city of his past and confronted the young man who was his former self, finally accepting that he belonged in the Azure Cloud Sect. After killing his past self, he left the city moving again and claimed it as his kingdom.

• Ouyang left the bustling district and recovered his identity as the Acting Peak Master of Little Mountain Peak in the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Ouyang met his former self in a park and admitted that he had refused to acknowledge who he had become.
• Ouyang stabbed his former self, then told him that the little girl was still waiting for him, and the young man vanished as starlight.
• The system announced that Ouyang had killed a Peerless Great Villain and advanced his mission progress to 2/5, while another system voice disputed the kill.
• Ouyang realized his master’s Heart-Questioning Scheme had helped him bid farewell to his past.
• Ouyang stopped the city with his gaze, then restarted it with a snap and declared it his kingdom.

Ouyang took Mu Yunhai to a dreamlike amusement park, where she experienced ordinary pleasures for the first time and grew closer to him. As they rose above the park on the Ferris wheel, Mu Yunhai thought about home and blushed while watching Ouyang.

• Ouyang stopped the wind, pulled Mu Yunhai into his dream, and jumped with her from a skyscraper, where they bounced safely off the ground.
• Ouyang led Mu Yunhai to an amusement park, opened its locked gates, and brought the rides and crowds to life.
• Mu Yunhai tried the rides and snacks, delighted by the lively park, while Ouyang recovered from screaming on the roller coaster.
• Ouyang took Mu Yunhai onto the Ferris wheel, where she admired his steady demeanor and remembered Hu Yun's promise that a hero would give her a home.
• Mu Yunhai looked toward the city lights, blushed, and sat beside Ouyang as the Ferris wheel rose above the park.

Ouyang faced the pain of his past and spent a dreamlike outing with Mu Yunhai, who showed him kindness and helped him enjoy the modern city. Mu Yunhai returned to Ouyang’s room exhausted after using her life-bound dream, but insisted the sacrifice was worth it.

• Ouyang reflected on his loneliness in his new world and recognized that Hu Yun’s Heart-Questioning Scheme had been meant to help him confront his past.
• Ouyang and Mu Yunhai flew above a brightly lit city, where Mu Yunhai recalled how Hu Yun had been her friend throughout her lonely childhood.
• Mu Yunhai told Ouyang he was a good person, and he returned the compliment, though his teasing reference to her as his little master's wife annoyed her.
• Mu Yunhai ended the dream and brought them back to Ouyang’s room, where the Dream Creation left her drained of all her true essence.
• Mu Yunge asked whether using her life-bound dream had been worth it, and Mu Yunhai replied that she had made the same sacrifice for Hu Yun.

Hu Tutu returned to the Azure Cloud Sect with Penglai Immortal Mountain exchange students and demonstrated her suona, sending disciples into a tearful frenzy. Ouyang arrived in a coffin with Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu, and Deputy Mountain Master Mu Yunhai explained the exchange students’ one condition.

• Dongxu Zi enjoyed the Azure Cloud Sect’s newfound peace until Hu Tutu’s suona drowned out the sect bell and made nearby disciples sob while their true essence flowed into the instrument.
• Hu Tutu told Dongxu Zi that her senior brothers were still behind her and that Ouyang had sent her ahead to show off her training.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu arrived carrying a white cloth as a brown dog and a monkey brought Ouyang in a coffin.
• Dongxu Zi tried to punch Ouyang for his funeral antics, but Mu Yunhai blocked him with a zither string.
• Ouyang introduced the women as Penglai Immortal Mountain exchange students, and Mu Yunhai said Mu Yunge required them to return without swollen bellies.

Ouyang stirred up sensational rumors across the Azure Cloud Sect after Chunyang Zi refused to let Penglai Immortal Mountain’s visiting female cultivators stay on Questioning Sword Peak. The rumors drove Chunyang Zi and his disciples to move to Azure Cloud Peak, leaving Questioning Sword Peak available for the visitors.

• Dongxu Zi asked the Peak Masters to find lodging for Penglai Immortal Mountain’s visitors, but Su Xiaoqi refused to house them on Jade Maiden Peak.
• Ouyang suggested Questioning Sword Peak, and Chunyang Zi rejected the idea of moving his disciples out.
• Ouyang arranged for Miscellaneous Studies Peak to publish gossip-filled papers that mocked Questioning Sword Peak without naming it outright.
• When Chunyang Zi heard the papers might be printed by the million and spread beyond the sect, he ordered his disciples to pack and move to Azure Cloud Peak.
• Ouyang watched Questioning Sword Peak’s disciples fly toward Azure Cloud Peak, pleased that his rumor campaign had worked.

Bai Feiyu visited Dongxu Zi to discuss the Dao, revealing his extraordinary cultivation and a path that shocked the Sect Master. After they exchanged insights, Bai Feiyu asked why the Heaven-Measuring Ruler seemed connected to his Dao despite Dongxu Zi seeing it for the first time.

• Dongxu Zi found Bai Feiyu waiting outside the main hall and asked why he was there instead of cultivating.
• Bai Feiyu brought out the Heaven-Measuring Ruler and asked Dongxu Zi to discuss the Dao with him.
• Bai Feiyu manifested three-foot auspicious clouds despite being at the great perfection of Soul Departure, and Dongxu Zi agreed to exchange Dao insights.
• Bai Feiyu realized Dongxu Zi's Dao was a near-perfect cultivation path, while Dongxu Zi glimpsed Bai Feiyu's ambition to dominate the Heavenly Dao.
• Dongxu Zi warned that Bai Feiyu's Dao was so audacious it shook his own Dao heart, and Bai Feiyu asked what the ruler had to do with his path.

Bai Feiyu worried that the Heaven-Measuring Ruler’s effortless arrival meant someone had arranged his Dao, but Dongxu Zi explained that the world’s course had fallen into disarray and the treasure had chosen Bai Feiyu for itself. After discussing their paths and Dongxu Zi’s Three Corpses Severing Method, Dongxu Zi wrote a character on Bai Feiyu’s notebook, leaving its cover marked “God-Sealing.”

• Dongxu Zi told Bai Feiyu that the Heaven-Measuring Ruler had originally been meant for Chen Changsheng, but the world’s course had fallen into disarray.
• Bai Feiyu admitted he feared the coincidences surrounding his inheritance, his Dao, and the Heaven-Measuring Ruler, but insisted he would follow his own heart.
• Dongxu Zi explained that the ruler had chosen Bai Feiyu itself, then discussed their shared pursuit of upright Great Daos and Chen Changsheng’s different path.
• Dongxu Zi examined Hu Yun’s notebook and revealed that he cultivated the Three Corpses Severing Method, which Bai Feiyu understood as a powerful but deceptive path.
• Dongxu Zi used his Divine Soul to write “Seal” on Bai Feiyu’s notebook, turning its cover into “God-Sealing.”

Bai Feiyu found his Dao in God-Sealing, while Dongxu Zi urged him to understand what living beings truly wanted. Ouyang later gave Dongxu Zi a Peace Talisman and confronted him about Ling Feng, insisting on seeing the disciple whose condition Dongxu Zi kept indulging.

• Bai Feiyu declared God-Sealing his supreme Dao and formally bowed to Dongxu Zi as his teacher.
• Dongxu Zi advised Bai Feiyu to experience life among ordinary people, and Bai Feiyu accepted the guidance before leaving.
• Dongxu Zi revealed that Ouyang had been eavesdropping outside the hall, and Ouyang admitted he had come to ask for a Calling Card.
• Ouyang carved a Peace Talisman onto a Wooden Plaque and gave it to Dongxu Zi as a protective charm.
• Ouyang asked why Dongxu Zi and other powerful cultivators chose dangerous methods, then demanded that Dongxu Zi bring Ling Feng back so he could examine him.
• Dongxu Zi said he did not know where Ling Feng was, while Ouyang accused him of indulging the disciple despite knowing something was wrong.

Ouyang fought Dongxu Zi, demanded to learn about Ling Feng, and insisted that he would bring his junior brothers home if their plans failed. Dongxu Zi wrote a visiting letter for Chen Changsheng, and Ouyang ended by asking where he could find a thoroughly evil villain.

• Ouyang mistook Dongxu Zi's expression for Hu Yun's and punched him, sparking a brawl that left them both with black eyes.
• Ouyang demanded to see Dongxu Zi's son and learn what Ling Feng was, but Dongxu Zi refused and said they would meet again sooner or later.
• Dongxu Zi warned Ouyang to watch his junior brothers, while Ouyang declared that no one could blame them if their plans failed and promised to bring them home himself.
• Ouyang asked Dongxu Zi for a visiting letter for Chen Changsheng, and Dongxu Zi agreed after hearing Chen would go alone as Azure Cloud's Holy Son.
• After receiving the letter, Ouyang asked Dongxu Zi where he could find a major villain steeped in every evil.

Ouyang learned that the Nine Great Sacred Lands kept the Cultivation World largely free of villains, leaving him unsure how to complete his mission to kill three more. After Dongxu Zi told him about the fiend-filled Primordial Desert and Thousand Sand Valley’s guard duty, Ouyang decided to go there as a jailer.

• Dongxu Zi told Ouyang that the Nine Great Sacred Lands kept villains from thriving and explained how their mutual checks had preserved peace.
• Ouyang worried that he would not find three more great villains to kill for his system mission.
• Dongxu Zi described a deathtrap where surviving fiends were imprisoned and gradually weakened until they died.
• Dongxu Zi revealed that the deathtrap was in the Primordial Desert, where Thousand Sand Valley guarded the exiled fiends.
• Ouyang decided to go to the Primordial Desert and joked that he would be working as a jailer.

Hu Tutu’s relentless suona practice revealed her talent for a killing path of the Musical Dao, while Ouyang endured the chaos on Little Mountain Peak. The chapter ended when Chen Changsheng revealed that the weak Heavenly Tribulation had come because Hu Tutu was about to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Hu Tutu played her suona all day, driving Ouyang to complain about the awful music and making the Tibetan Fox endure daily funeral-like performances.
• Mu Yunhai explained that Hu Tutu’s music suited the path of slaughter and that she would eventually learn to control its effects.
• Mu Yunhai invited Ouyang to hear her play the xiao, but he awkwardly sent her back toward Questioning Sword Peak and the visiting Penglai Immortal Mountain disciples.
• Dark clouds gathered over Little Mountain Peak, and Hu Tutu fetched her fox-embroidered blanket to face the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Chen Changsheng told Ouyang that Hu Tutu was about to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm.

Hu Tutu prepared to undergo her Nascent Soul Formation tribulation as Ouyang, Chen Changsheng, Bai Feiyu, and several powerful elders gathered to protect her. When the three-three lightning tribulation formed, it spotted the overwhelming lineup watching it and panicked.

• Ouyang learned that Hu Tutu was about to reach the Nascent Soul Realm, and Chen Changsheng assured him that her refined quilt could withstand the tribulation.
• Hu Tutu confidently told Bai Feiyu she would face the tribulation, while Ouyang worried and asked Chen Changsheng for reassurance.
• Dongxu Zi, Su Xiaoqi, Mu Yunhai, and Mu Yunge arrived to watch over Hu Tutu, and Ouyang ordered Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu to be ready to intervene.
• Chen Changsheng made hundreds of sword-wielding clones around Little Mountain Peak as Bai Feiyu prepared his sword and Hu Yan watched from the shadows.
• The three-three lightning tribulation formed, saw the assembled experts and warriors staring at it, and wailed inwardly at the intimidating protection surrounding Hu Tutu.

Hu Tutu faced a Three-Three Lightning Tribulation while the Little Mountain Peak cultivators waited, and the hesitant thundercloud finally struck. She survived and formed a Nascent Soul, becoming a five-year-old Nascent Soul Realm powerhouse.

• The thundercloud gathered over Hu Tutu but hesitated to strike as Ouyang, Chen Changsheng, and Bai Feiyu watched.
• Dongxu Zi, Su Xiaoqi, and Mu Yunge played mahjong while Hu Tutu grew impatient and challenged the thundercloud to strike.
• The thundercloud unleashed a powerful Lightning Serpent, which Ouyang, Bai Feiyu, Chen Changsheng, Hu Tutu’s Suona, and her quilt’s formations weakened.
• Hu Tutu sneezed, revealing a Spirit Fox form, while a fox phantom formed above the Demon Core in her Dantian.
• Heaven and Earth acknowledged Hu Tutu, the thundercloud vanished, and she successfully entered the Nascent Soul Realm.

Hu Tutu celebrated forming her Nascent Soul, but Dongxu Zi explained that her power had outgrown her understanding and assigned her daily Dao lessons. The others left Little Mountain Peak, where Ouyang celebrated her breakthrough and the disciples returned to their routines.

• Hu Tutu rushed into Ouyang's arms after forming her Nascent Soul, and he briefly touched her exposed fox ears before she hid them.
• Hu Tutu told Ouyang she could not control her true essence, and Dongxu Zi explained that her cultivation had advanced faster than her level of attainment.
• Dongxu Zi ordered Hu Tutu to attend daily Dao lessons on Azure Cloud Peak and complete homework, while Ouyang agreed with him.
• Dongxu Zi left with Su Xiaoqi, and Mu Yunge led Mu Yunhai away from Little Mountain Peak.
• Ouyang asked Chen Changsheng to stew the Three-Eyed Plume Chicken to celebrate Hu Tutu's breakthrough, while Liang Zai and Bie San lurked by the kitchen.
• Bai Feiyu continued refining his immortal arts and divine rules with Featherbearer beside him, while Hu Tutu secretly told Hu Yan the Tibetan Fox that she had nearly revealed her fox ears to Ouyang.

Chen Changsheng prepared Little Mountain Peak for his long trip to the Myriad Laws Sect and left Ouyang a meticulous ledger of household routines. Ouyang reassured him, then gathered the others and laid out wooden plaques bearing their names, leaving their purpose unexplained.

• Chen Changsheng gave Ouyang his mended clothes and instructions for caring for Hu Tutu while he was away for at least two months.
• Chen Changsheng handed Ouyang a massive ledger documenting Little Mountain Peak's routines, expenses, and past events.
• Ouyang discovered that Chen Changsheng had recorded others' offenses and used food to punish Leng Qingsong for a rude remark.
• Ouyang promised he could manage the peak, while Chen Changsheng worried that Ouyang would forget his instructions and Bai Feiyu and Hu Tutu could not take over.
• Ouyang told Bai Feiyu to fetch Hu Tutu from Azure Cloud Peak, then placed wooden plaques bearing different names on the courtyard table.

Ouyang gave Chen Changsheng, Bai Feiyu, and Hu Tutu wooden plaques from Hu Yun, then handed them crude peace talismans he had made for their protection. He kept plaques for Leng Qingsong and Xiao Feng, and the group prepared for the younger disciples to face more dangers away from Little Mountain Peak.

• Ouyang told Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu that he would soon travel somewhere only he could go, after speaking with the old sect master.
• Ouyang explained that the disciples would leave Little Mountain Peak more often and gave them wooden plaques made by Hu Yun to carry.
• Ouyang hung Hu Tutu's plaque around her neck and kept the plaques for Leng Qingsong and Xiao Feng.
• Ouyang gave Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu peace talismans he had carved and insisted they keep them close to their bodies.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu treasured the talismans and put them away as Ouyang instructed.

Ouyang struggled to handle cooking and mending clothes after Chen Changsheng left Little Mountain Peak, while his fellow disciples kept busy with their own pursuits. Left bored and curious about Thousand Sand Valley, he ended the chapter wishing for anything to do.

• Ouyang served Hu Tutu a badly reheated bowl of Spirit Chicken Soup, but she refused to eat it and escaped to study.
• Ouyang tried to call Bai Feiyu down for a meal, but Bai Feiyu vanished after seeing the food, so Ouyang pinned Liang Zai down instead.
• Ouyang reflected on how everyone had left Little Mountain Peak for other pursuits and felt like an empty-nest Eldest Senior Brother.
• Ouyang thought about the mysteries of Thousand Sand Valley and wondered why demon fiends were imprisoned there.
• Ouyang lay bored on his reclining chair and wished for something to do, even a Heavenly Tribulation match-three.

Ouyang rushed to Azure Cloud Peak after a golden phantom demanded that Dongxu Zi hand over the one who defied the Immortal. He saved Su Xiaoqi from the phantom with a towering true-essence figure, but three golden-robed elders appeared and condemned him to death.

• A golden phantom formed above Azure Cloud Peak and demanded that Dongxu Zi hand over the Immortal defier.
• Passing-by A told Ouyang that Martial Aunt Su had attacked an old man who emerged from the Teleportation Gate, and Ouyang rushed to the summit with Bai Feiyu and Gouzi.
• Ouyang tried to enter Su Xiaoqi's battle against two old men but was thrown back by their Dao resonance.
• The golden phantom immobilized Su Xiaoqi and reached for her with an enormous hand.
• Ouyang summoned a huge figure of true essence, pinned the golden hand, and shattered the golden phantom with a throw.
• Three golden-robed old men appeared around Ouyang and declared, “Death to the Immortal Defier!”

Three Immortal Servants trapped Ouyang with a ritual that made him feel as though he were shedding his skin, while Bai Feiyu recognized them as Great Heavenly Sacrificers and suspected surviving Immortals remained. Dongxu Zi stopped Bai Feiyu from attacking and revealed that Thousand Sand Valley had once been called the Nine Hells.

• Three elders chanted arcane incantations that trapped Ouyang in a storm and made him grow drowsy, so he formed earplugs to stay awake.
• Bai Feiyu recognized the elders as Immortal Servants, or Great Heavenly Sacrificers, and wondered whether an Immortal had survived.
• Bai Feiyu summoned the God-Sealing book and prepared to use the Artifact Ancestor's true name against the elders.
• Dongxu Zi blocked Bai Feiyu and explained that Ouyang had willingly agreed to go to Thousand Sand Valley.
• Dongxu Zi revealed that Thousand Sand Valley had been called the Nine Hells during the Elder Ancient Era.

Bai Feiyu tried to stop the Immortal Servants from taking Ouyang to Nine Hells and prepared to fight Dongxu Zi. Ouyang vanished with the Immortal Servants, leaving Bai Feiyu to seal Little Mountain Peak until his senior brothers returned.

• Bai Feiyu learned that the three Immortal Servants worshipped him as Li Taibai and became enraged when Dongxu Zi tried to use them to take Ouyang to Nine Hells.
• Bai Feiyu struck at the Immortal Servants, and Dongxu Zi blocked his slash with a horsetail whisk, recognizing the threat of Bai Feiyu's power.
• Bai Feiyu prepared a decisive attack on Dongxu Zi, but Ouyang's wooden plaque fell from the sky and drained away his fighting spirit.
• Ouyang silently mouthed that he would be back in a moment, closed his eyes, and fell from the sky as the three Immortal Servants vanished.
• Bai Feiyu caught the unconscious Ouyang and realized his soul was missing.
• Bai Feiyu declared Little Mountain Peak sealed until Ouyang woke and Second Senior Brother and Third Senior Brother returned, threatening to kill anyone who approached.

Dongxu Zi explained to Su Xiaoqi that he had drawn out an Elder Ancient Era Great Heavenly Sacrificer to help Ouyang become a true living being, as Hu Yun had once needed the same intervention. Su Xiaoqi warned Dongxu Zi not to use Ouyang as a pawn, while Ouyang had been taken away unconscious and Dongxu Zi worried that the others would learn he had gone to the Nine Hells.

• Bai Feiyu flew away from Azure Cloud Peak carrying the unconscious Ouyang, and Liang Zai followed him.
• Su Xiaoqi confronted Dongxu Zi over his meeting with the Immortal Servants and struck at him in anger.
• Dongxu Zi took Su Xiaoqi to Beyond Heaven and revealed that he had lured away Ouyang's soul so Ouyang could become a true living being of this world, as Hu Yun had once done.
• Dongxu Zi gave Su Xiaoqi Ouyang's protective Wooden Plaque, and she warned him that she would kill him if he tried to use Ouyang as a pawn.
• After Su Xiaoqi left, Dongxu Zi worried that Chen Changsheng and Leng Qingsong would react furiously if they learned Ouyang had gone to the Nine Hells.

Ouyang accepted a system side quest that sent him to a barren yellow desert, where his cultivation, storage space, and Liang Zai were gone. He discovered his rope could understand and follow commands, then headed toward the only distant area that looked different.

• Ouyang accepted the side quest after finding that its panel offered no way to refuse and it demanded fifty years of lifespan.
• Ouyang threw Hu Yun's wooden plaque to Bai Feiyu before his consciousness was pulled away to the desert.
• Ouyang found his True Essence, storage space, and Liang Zai missing, but the rope at his waist remained.
• Ouyang discovered the rope could understand his commands, move on its own, and imitate a barking dog.
• Ouyang spotted darker scenery in the distance and walked toward it.

Ouyang used his sentient rope to cross the endless barren landscape, only to be dragged at great speed into a sea of red manjusaka flowers. There he met Hui Zhi, who wished him a swift passage to Paradise.

• Ouyang realized his rope could extend indefinitely and asked it to pull him toward the dark patch on the horizon.
• The rope pulled Ouyang through the air so fast that his surroundings seemed to replay his memories backward.
• Ouyang crashed into a sea of flowers and discovered he was unharmed.
• Ouyang recognized Hui Zhi among the flowers and greeted him warmly.
• Hui Zhi asked when Ouyang had arrived, then wished him a swift passage to Paradise.

Ouyang found himself in the Nine Hells, where he met the dead monk Hui Zhi and learned that the place was connected to Thousand Sand Valley. Ouyang believed he was not dead because he had no Yellow Springs Road, and he ended by asking Hui Zhi how he died.

• Ouyang confronted Hui Zhi, who explained that the flowers around them were Flowers of the Other Shore and warned that Ouyang was dead.
• Hui Zhi showed Ouyang his Yellow Springs Road, but Ouyang had no road behind him, leaving Hui Zhi baffled.
• Hui Zhi identified the place as the Nine Hells and explained that Thousand Sand Valley received disciples who had died.
• Ouyang suspected Dongxu Zi had not meant to make him a jailer and concluded that he was probably not dead because he had no Yellow Springs Road.
• Ouyang asked Hui Zhi how he had died.