Vol. 5Paths Through the Mortal World

Ouyang confronted the Great Calamity’s schemes while helping his companions find their paths, as Bai Feiyu forged a Divine Dao and completed God-Sealing. The volume leaves Ouyang inside Hu Tutu’s Minor World, facing Tu Yun and White Nine Tails after drawing Hu Yun’s power into his Dantian.

  • Ouyang interrupted negotiations with the Demon Venerable and demanded Ling Feng’s death after Ling Feng killed Chang Xiaoyue and Leng Qingsong to pursue union with the Mortal World.
  • Ouyang fought the Demon Venerable, then insisted that Ling Feng had to die that day.
  • Ouyang uncovered the Immortals’ role in the Great Calamity and helped his companions address their immediate crises.
  • Bai Feiyu retraced Li Taibai’s route in Chaoge and realized his answer lay somewhere along the road ahead.
  • Bai Feiyu forged a Divine Dao from Pingcheng’s people’s wishes, while Chen Changsheng returned in Zu Yuan’s body and set out after the Black Lotus.
  • Ouyang and Bai Feiyu traveled toward the Qing Nation’s capital, where Bai Feiyu began considering how people’s choices and relationships could shape his path.
  • Bai Feiyu completed God-Sealing and planned to seal the gods across the Thirty-Six Mortal Worlds, while Ouyang returned to the Sect gravely weakened.
  • Ouyang entered Hu Tutu’s Minor World, found Hu Yun’s grave, and confronted Tu Yun and White Nine Tails.
Chapters 401–500 Read from Ch. 401

Arc 17The Mortal World Conspiracy

Ouyang followed Chang Xiaoyue into Great Zhou, where Ling Feng used her Devil Race Seal and the capital’s suffering to pursue Dao Integration. Leng Qingsong died and returned to fight him, while the Demon Venerable’s emergence led to negotiations that Ouyang interrupted by demanding Ling Feng’s death.

  • Ouyang left the Azure Cloud Sect with Zhao Qiansun to find Chang Xiaoyue, while Chen Changsheng and Leng Qingsong secretly followed.
  • Ouyang confronted Chang Xiaoyue at the White Lady Temple, and Leng Qingsong let her escape before Ouyang sent him to save her.
  • Chang Xiaoyue sought refuge in the Great Zhou capital, where Yang Dong poisoned her and an attack forced her into her giant white snake form.
  • Xie Xinzhi activated the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation, and Leng Qingsong shielded Chang Xiaoyue from its souls and the attacks of Human Emperor’s Fortune and Haoran Righteous Qi.
  • Ling Feng established the Ghost Dao, absorbed the two powers to pursue union with the Mortal World, and killed Chang Xiaoyue and Leng Qingsong before entering the Devil Race Seal.
  • Hu Yun explained the purpose of Leng Qingsong’s death, Chang Xiaoyue bid him farewell, and Ouyang revived him and restored his use of the laws.
  • Leng Qingsong struck down Ling Feng’s body and attacked the golden vertical pupil, but a shattered seal sent Zhao Qiansun into enlightenment and revealed the Devil Race’s early arrival.
  • Ouyang fought the Demon Venerable until Dongxu Zi isolated their clash and negotiated a war in ten years, but Ouyang insisted that Ling Feng had to die that day.
Chapters 401–42525 summaries Read

Arc 18The Road Back to the Dao

Ouyang uncovered the Immortals’ scheme behind the Great Calamity, settled his companions’ immediate crises, and sent them toward their own paths. He brought Bai Feiyu to Chaoge, where retracing Li Taibai’s old route helped Bai Feiyu find a way forward.

  • Ouyang learned from Dongxu Zi that the Immortals had bound their fate to all living beings and that the world remained trapped in their Great Calamity, then negotiated for Leng Qingsong’s freedom and the Demon Venerable’s protection.
  • Ouyang replaced Ling Feng with Xie Xinzhi in Dongxu Zi’s plan, and Dongxu Zi sent Xie Xinzhi into the golden pupil before expelling Ling Feng, whom Leng Qingsong later cut to pieces.
  • Chang Xiaoyue’s body restored the ruined land and returned as a little white snake named Mu Wu, while Ouyang encouraged Chen Changsheng to face the Great Calamity and Zhao Qiansun returned to guard the Azure Cloud Sect.
  • Ouyang rescued Bai Feiyu from rogue cultivators and learned that Bai Feiyu had sacrificed his cultivation to preserve Jiang Shang in a lotus-root body.
  • Ouyang took Bai Feiyu toward Chaoge, where Bai Feiyu found that the city had turned Li Taibai’s legacy into a spectacle and his former home into a paid attraction.
  • In the Li family’s practice grounds, Bai Feiyu climbed the old tree and saw that Chaoge’s streets and wards mapped the route he had once traveled with Ouyezi.
  • Bai Feiyu recalled his past companions, recognized that he had taken the wrong path, and told Ouyang that his answer lay somewhere along the road ahead.
Chapters 426–45025 summaries Read

Arc 19A New Dao and a New Journey

Bai Feiyu forged a Divine Dao from the wishes of Pingcheng’s people, while Chen Changsheng abandoned his body, returned as himself, and sought the Black Lotus. Ouyang and Bai Feiyu traveled toward the Qing Nation’s capital, where Bai Feiyu began learning how people’s choices and relationships might shape his path.

  • Bai Feiyu followed Ouyang’s staged attack on Pingcheng, heard its people’s wishes, and formed a Divine Core as he reshaped his Dao Foundation.
  • Bai Feiyu gained the power to make Words Become Law, then parted from Ouyang to travel through the Mortal World.
  • Chen Changsheng left Little Mountain Peak, buried himself in a grave, and transferred his Divine Soul into Zu Yuan’s body, enduring agony that Ouyang felt through the waist token.
  • Chen Changsheng awakened in Zu Yuan’s body, mastered the Killing Great Dao, reclaimed his own name, and followed the Black Lotus’s signal west.
  • Chen Changsheng confronted Hui Zhi in White Elephant City, recovered the Black Lotus through an alliance with Buddhism, and secretly resolved to let Hui Zhi die with the Devil Race.
  • Little Bie San dug up Chen Changsheng’s coffin and set out to find Big Boss, while Ouyang recovered from his ordeal and Bai Feiyu cared for him.
  • Ouyang and Bai Feiyu traveled toward the Qing Nation’s capital, where Bai Feiyu met human-demon couples and Ouyang offered them pills that could restore their youth.
  • Ouyang proposed a three-day bet about how the couples would respond to becoming young again, and Bai Feiyu went to check on them.
Chapters 451–47525 summaries Read

Arc 20The God-Sealing and Hu Tutu’s Trial

Bai Feiyu completed God-Sealing and set out to seal the gods of Heaven and Earth, while Ouyang returned to the Sect gravely weakened. Hu Tutu’s trial awakened Tu Yun, and Ouyang entered her Minor World, where he found Hu Yun’s grave and confronted Tu Yun and White Nine Tails.

  • Bai Feiyu endured the Immortals’ trial and began God-Sealing, using Ouyang’s True Essence to sustain the demon souls as they received divine offices.
  • After three days and nights, Bai Feiyu completed God-Sealing, earned merit, merged the real and illusory Treasure Books, and appointed Bo Huang Demon God Emperor.
  • Bai Feiyu planned to visit the Thirty-Six Mortal Worlds and seal the gods, while Ouyang returned to the Sect with Liang Zai and the sleeping Tutu to seek help from Master’s Wife.
  • Chang Suzhen treated Ouyang’s damaged body, grieved over Chang Xiaoyue, and gave Little Fox Chang Xiaoyue’s demon core after recognizing her as Tu Yun.
  • Hu Tutu wandered through the white space, used a paintbrush to recreate Little Mountain Peak and its people, then discovered Hu Yun’s memories beneath a great tree and learned that Tu Yun’s memories had been sealed.
  • Tu Yun regained her true form and confronted White Nine Tails, then swallowed Hu Tutu and flooded their Minor World with white as she tried to erase White Nine Tails.
  • Ouyang entered the Minor World after Tutu’s Protective Talisman shattered, bowed to Tu Yun, and told her to go to her death.
  • Ouyang’s True Essence restored the white space, revealed Hu Yun’s grave and memories, and overwhelmed Tu Yun and White Nine Tails as he drew Hu Yun’s power into his Dantian.
Chapters 476–50025 summaries Read
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