Chapter Summaries

Ouyang learned that Penglai Immortal Mountain’s Immortal-Suppressing Dao Treasure was still suppressing an Immortal, then heard Mu Yunge claim its founding patriarch had been Sword Immortal Li Taibai’s Dao Companion. The revelation left Ouyang eager for more gossip and relieved when Mu Yunge said the patriarch was a woman.

• Ouyang mistook Suona Mountain’s shape for a giant suona and asked whether Penglai’s treasure was used for funerals.
• Mu Yunge revealed that the Immortal-Suppressing Dao Treasure was still suppressing an Immortal.
• Mu Yunge said Penglai’s founding patriarch had been Li Taibai’s Dao Companion, prompting Ouyang to press her for gossip.
• Hu Tutu ran off to play in the flowers while Ouyang prepared snacks and wine to encourage Mu Yunge to tell the story.
• Mu Yunge described the patriarch and Li Taibai slaying the Immortals of the Elder Ancient Era.
• Ouyang asked whether the patriarch had been a man or a woman, and Mu Yunge said she was a woman and Li Taibai’s Dao Companion.

Ouyang learned from Mu Yunge that Penglai’s Patriarch had left behind Immortal Remains, which had developed spiritual awareness. He confidently offered to handle the problem with tools for fighting zombies, but Mu Yunge kept knocking him for calling the remains a corpse or demon.

• Mu Yunge told Ouyang a romanticized account of Li Taibai and the Penglai Patriarch, explaining that the Patriarch had transformed into a sword and left behind an Immortal Body.
• Ouyang asked whether the Patriarch’s corpse had come back to life, and Mu Yunge scolded him for insulting the Patriarch.
• Mu Yunge explained that the Immortal Remains held the Patriarch’s insights and had developed spiritual awareness during the previous mountain lord’s tenure.
• Ouyang claimed he could solve the problem and requested yellow paper, a red brush, black ink, a kitchen cleaver, and a Peachwood Sword.
• Ouyang called himself Celestial Master Ouyang and declared he would vanquish a demon, prompting Mu Yunge to knock him and remind him they were Immortal Remains.

Ouyang learned that the escaped Divine Soul of an ancient Immortal had possessed Mu Yunge’s younger sister, Mu Yunhai, and that Penglai Immortal Mountain’s Mountain Masters had secretly been the same person since its founding. Unable to solve the problem himself, Ouyang said he would call in backup.

• Mu Yunge told Ouyang that the escaped Divine Soul had possessed her younger sister, Mu Yunhai, and offered Penglai Immortal Mountain’s Immortal-Suppressing Dao Treasure if he could save her.
• Ouyang asked Mu Yunge to explain the situation fully before he tried to help.
• Mu Yunge revealed that every Mountain Master of Penglai Immortal Mountain since the Elder Ancient Era had been the same person, and that Mu Yunhai was meant to be the true Mountain Master.
• Ouyang admitted he could not figure out how to resolve the possession and said he knew suitable people to call in as backup.

Ouyang returned to the Azure Cloud Sect and lured Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng to Penglai Immortal Mountain by revealing that an Immortal had possessed its Deputy Mountain Master. The group arrived with Little Mountain Peak’s companions, and Ouyang introduced Mu Yunge as their master’s wife, prompting her to threaten him.

• Ouyang returned to his mountain and tried to persuade Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng to accompany him to Penglai Immortal Mountain.
• Ouyang mentioned Li Taibai’s supposed Dao Companion and an Immortal’s possession, prompting Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng to eagerly agree to go.
• Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng carried Ouyang to the Teleportation Gate, while Bie San, the Azure Bird, and the Tibetan Fox followed.
• The group arrived at Penglai Immortal Mountain, where Mu Yunge looked doubtfully at the two young Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Ouyang introduced Mu Yunge as their master’s wife, and she grabbed his ear and threatened to castrate him if he could not resolve the problem.

Ouyang, Chen Changsheng, and Bai Feiyu came to help Mu Yunge awaken Penglai Immortal Mountain’s Immortal-Suppressing Dao Treasure. The three disciples revealed that they had Dao Treasures of their own, ending with Bai Feiyu identifying his as the Azure Cloud Sect’s Heaven-Measuring Ruler.

• Ouyang introduced Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu to Mu Yunge, while Hu Tutu and Liang Zai rushed to help the pets who had tumbled out of the Teleportation Gate.
• Ouyang recounted Penglai Immortal Mountain’s troubles, and Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng agreed to help their junior sister Hu Tutu obtain the musical instrument.
• Mu Yunge explained that the first challenge was awakening the Immortal-Suppressing Dao Treasure, which required either a master’s recognition or resonance with another Dao Treasure.
• Ouyang said he had a Dao Treasure, and Chen Changsheng explained that its holder would need to activate it alongside the holder of Penglai Immortal Mountain’s treasure.
• Bai Feiyu revealed his Heaven-Measuring Ruler, the Azure Cloud Sect’s Azure Cloud Secret Treasure, leaving Mu Yunge and the others stunned.

Bai Feiyu revealed that the Heaven-Measuring Ruler had chosen him, and the group learned that Liang Zai was Ouyang’s bonded Dao Treasure. They tried to figure out how to make their treasures resonate and draw out the distant Immortal-Suppressing Dao Treasure.

• Ouyang tried to touch Bai Feiyu’s ruler, but Bai Feiyu slapped his paw away and explained that the Sect Master had given the Heaven-Measuring Ruler to Chen Changsheng before it flew into his own hand.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he had been unable to hold the ruler and praised Bai Feiyu’s natural talent, while Ouyang teased Bai Feiyu for inheriting something Chen Changsheng did not want.
• Bai Feiyu explained that Dao Treasures contained Laws and that their collision could cause Dao resonance.
• Ouyang summoned Liang Zai and announced that the dog was his bonded Dao Treasure, leaving Mu Yunge astonished that the three youths possessed such rare treasures.
• Chen Changsheng suggested that their two Dao Treasures could resonate to draw out the distant Immortal-Suppressing Dao Treasure, but admitted he did not know how to trigger it.
• Bai Feiyu struck Liang Zai’s backside with the Heaven-Measuring Ruler and declared that Dao resonance began with collision.

Bai Feiyu’s strikes with the Heaven-Measuring Ruler made Liang Zai’s Dao Treasure resonate, and a clash of Laws briefly stopped time for everyone except Ouyang and Mu Yunge. The resonance awakened Penglai Immortal Mountain’s Immortal-Suppressing Dao Treasure, revealed to be Suona Mountain itself.

• Bai Feiyu whipped the tree-bound Liang Zai with the Heaven-Measuring Ruler, while Mu Yunge recognized Laws in his movements.
• Bai Feiyu struggled to wield the ruler until Ouyang mocked his stamina, prompting him to draw on his own Laws for a stronger strike.
• The clash between the Laws in the Heaven-Measuring Ruler and Liang Zai briefly slowed time, leaving Ouyang and Mu Yunge unaffected.
• Bai Feiyu’s blow triggered a powerful Dao Resonance, and Chen Changsheng began comprehending the Dao.
• Suona Mountain trembled and turned gold as a mournful suona note rang out, awakening Penglai Immortal Mountain’s Immortal-Suppressing Dao Treasure.

Ouyang, Mu Yunge, Bai Feiyu, and Chen Changsheng awakened Penglai Immortal Mountain’s Immortal-Suppressing Dao Treasure through a Dao resonance, leaving Chen Changsheng to comprehend the Dao and Bai Feiyu exhausted. The mountain vanished, and Mu Yunge found a giant suona that she greeted as the sect’s Grand Ancestor.

• Mu Yunge warned Ouyang to keep the Dao resonance’s effects secret and realized his disciples’ abilities had surpassed her expectations.
• Bai Feiyu claimed the Dao resonance had been easy, while Chen Changsheng continued comprehending it and Ouyang remained unaffected by its time-stopping effect.
• Mu Yunge resolved to equip Penglai’s departing disciples with chastity underwear after concluding the sect had fallen behind the outside world.
• Suona Mountain vanished amid flashing lights and drifting petals, and Mu Yunge flew Ouyang to where it had stood.
• Mu Yunge bowed to a giant suona as the Grand Ancestor, while Ouyang remarked that its paint was peeling.

Mu Yunge explained how Penglai Immortal Mountain’s Immortal Remains possessed successive mountain masters and threatened to take control of her sister Mu Yunhai. As she placed her hopes in Ouyang and his companions, Ouyang used Liang Zai to dig a trench around the enormous suona.

• Mu Yunge told Ouyang that the suona contained the founding ancestor’s Immortal Remains.
• Mu Yunge recalled that the Immortal had possessed nineteen mountain masters, including her own master, and was gradually taking control of Mu Yunhai.
• Mu Yunge resolved to save her sister and pinned her hopes on Ouyang and the other two youths.
• Ouyang tried to move the suona, then had Liang Zai dig through the ground beneath it.
• At Mu Yunge’s suggestion, Ouyang carried Liang Zai around the suona and dug a deep trench as Bai Feiyu watched.

Ouyang, Bai Feiyu, and Mu Yunge entered the Suona’s interior and discovered the hidden Grand Ancestor of Penglai Immortal Mountain. Ouyang recognized the figure as a fat Immortal from a past-life memory, while Bai Feiyu explained that Immortals appeared in forms each viewer considered perfect.

• Bai Feiyu persuaded Liang Zai to dig through the Suona’s horn, and the group found a way inside.
• Ouyang entered the bell and nearly collapsed under the oppressive air, then used his True Essence to recover.
• Mu Yunge bowed toward an empty space, and Bai Feiyu guided Ouyang to channel True Essence into his eyes so he could see the Grand Ancestor.
• Ouyang recognized the apparent fat old man as an Immortal he had encountered in the system-issued minigame inside Xiao Bai’s grave.
• Mu Yunge saw the Grand Ancestor as a peerless beauty and submitted to the Immortal’s presence.
• Bai Feiyu told Ouyang that an Immortal had a thousand faces and appeared differently to each living being.

Bai Feiyu recognized the Artifact Ancestor in the Horn Space and rescued Mu Yunge from an illusion by cutting through an invisible attack. After Mu Yunge vowed to handle the danger, Ouyang accidentally knocked the Artifact Ancestor’s head off repeatedly and helped Bai Feiyu to his feet.

• Bai Feiyu told Ouyang that he saw the Artifact Ancestor, the Immortal he had killed in his past life as Li Taibai.
• Ouyang touched the Artifact Ancestor, triggering an invisible attack on Mu Yunge, and Bai Feiyu severed it with his sword.
• Mu Yunge used the power of Laws to break free of the illusion and saw that the Grand Ancestor was only a skeleton.
• Mu Yunge offered to help Bai Feiyu recover, but he refused and urged her to conserve her strength.
• Mu Yunge declared that she would handle whatever came next, while Ouyang accidentally knocked off the Artifact Ancestor’s head and tried to put it back.
• Ouyang hauled Bai Feiyu to his feet, and Bai Feiyu brushed off his exhaustion after saving Mu Yunge.

Bai Feiyu explained that Immortals’ True Spirits could reincarnate, leading Chen Changsheng to suspect that Zu Yuan had been an Immortal Reincarnation behind the catastrophe of his previous life. Chen Changsheng confronted the Immortal Remains and began a talisman formation to summon the Immortal’s soul.

• Bai Feiyu told Ouyang and Mu Yunge that Immortals’ Divine Souls became True Spirits that dwelled within the Dao, and that an Immortal’s True Spirit could fall from the Dao and reincarnate.
• Chen Changsheng concluded that Zu Yuan had been an Immortal Reincarnation and that Immortals had orchestrated the catastrophe of his previous life.
• Ouyang reminded Chen Changsheng that Li Taibai had slain an Immortal, and Chen Changsheng questioned whether ordinary living beings could do the same.
• Chen Changsheng asked Bai Feiyu whether a True Spirit was essentially transformed from a Divine Soul, then picked up the Immortal Remains’ head.
• Chen Changsheng surrounded the head with Yellow Talismans and declared that he would summon the Immortal’s soul.

Chen Changsheng completed a peerless formation and used it to summon and bind the Immortal’s true spirit. The Immortal was pulled from Mu Yunhai and trapped before him as Ouyang and Liang Zai joined the fight.

• Chen Changsheng finished laying a grand formation with Yellow Talismans and chanted to call the hovering head’s soul back.
• Mu Yunge heard her younger sister Mu Yunhai playing the erhu and warned that the Immortal was coming.
• Mu Yunhai broke free of the Suona and attacked Chen Changsheng, but Liang Zai lunged at her and bit her hand.
• The Immortal’s true spirit emerged from Mu Yunhai and reached for Liang Zai, but Chen Changsheng’s formation dragged it toward its original body.
• Chen Changsheng thrust his sword into the hovering head, bound the Immortal’s true spirit with the formation, and named it the Soul-Binding: Ultimate Move Formation.

Chen Changsheng's formation trapped the Immortal's True Spirit, but he realized he could not truly restrain it. Ouyang then resisted the Immortal's attempt to possess him and smashed the Immortal's head apart with a punch.

• Chen Changsheng summoned the Immortal's True Spirit back into its original head and realized the Immortal remained beyond the formation's reach.
• Mu Yunge recognized that Chen Changsheng's formation methods resembled those of the Myriad Laws Sect and wondered about his background.
• The Immortal offered to make Chen Changsheng his Immortal Servant, but Chen Changsheng called on Ouyang to deal with him.
• The Immortal tried to possess Ouyang, but another Immortal in Ouyang's Sea of Consciousness beat him back, and Ouyang's immense True Essence drove him from the Dantian.
• Ouyang punched the Immortal's head, stomped on it, and split his skull open.

Ouyang and the others forced the Artifact Ancestor to reveal himself as a fat old man and interrogated him about possessing Penglai sect masters. As Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu prepared to question him privately, Ouyang demanded to know who embroidered the flying cranes on his underwear.

• Ouyang beat the Artifact Ancestor until his true form appeared, then made him kneel and answer questions.
• Mu Yunge recognized the fat old man as the immortal who had occupied Penglai sect masters and kicked him before carrying the unconscious Mu Yunhai away.
• The Artifact Ancestor claimed the sect masters had volunteered to let him possess them, and Bai Feiyu explained that they may have viewed it as merging with the Dao.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu asked Ouyang for private conversations with the immortal before Ouyang's true essence left his body.
• Ouyang demanded that the Artifact Ancestor reveal who had embroidered the little flying cranes on his underpants.

Chen Changsheng learned from the Artifact Ancestor that becoming formless might let him separate his strange Nascent Soul and become all things. Bai Feiyu then revealed that he knew the Artifact Ancestor’s long-forgotten true name, Qi, and seized him by the neck.

• Chen Changsheng asked the Artifact Ancestor whether Possession was an ability only Immortals could perform.
• The Artifact Ancestor explained that Immortals could bestow blessings and urged Chen Changsheng to consider the Dao beyond the idea of a separate self.
• Chen Changsheng realized that becoming formless might let him separate his Nascent Soul, bowed to the Artifact Ancestor, and left.
• The Artifact Ancestor believed Chen Changsheng’s arrival signaled that Immortals might return to the Mortal World.
• Bai Feiyu approached the Artifact Ancestor and called him Qi, revealing his forgotten true name.
• Bai Feiyu gripped Qi by the neck and asked why he was still alive.

Bai Feiyu revealed the green lotus sword intent that made the Artifact Ancestor recognize him as Li Taibai, the Immortal-slaying nightmare. As the Artifact Ancestor tried to destroy his own Dao, Bai Feiyu broke through into Soul Departure and reached the ninth level of the Out-of-Body Stage.

• Bai Feiyu seized the Artifact Ancestor and summoned a green lotus, prompting the Artifact Ancestor to recognize him as Li Taibai.
• The Artifact Ancestor's body vanished as he detonated his True Spirit in an attempt to destroy his Dao and erase Bai Feiyu.
• Bai Feiyu disrupted the Artifact Ancestor's Dao Resonance by breaking through and summoning the Divine Soul from his Spirit Platform.
• A treasured book formed before Bai Feiyu's Divine Soul, and heaven and earth responded with auspicious signs and rewards.
• Bai Feiyu rapidly advanced through the Out-of-Body Stage, reaching its ninth level.

Bai Feiyu broke through to Out-of-Body great perfection and realized his Dao through the book Ou Yezi had left him. The Artifact Ancestor mistook Bai Feiyu for Ou Yezi and tried to coax him into reopening the Immortal Path, while Bai Feiyu recognized the book as Ou Yezi’s contingency after the Immortals were slain.

• Bai Feiyu advanced from Nascent Soul great perfection to Out-of-Body great perfection and discovered that his Dao lay in the book and brush he held within himself.
• Bai Feiyu’s breakthrough disrupted the Dao Resonance and stopped the Artifact Ancestor’s True Spirit from self-destructing, leaving it trapped in his hand.
• The Artifact Ancestor recognized Ou Yezi’s Dao in Bai Feiyu, mistook him for Ou Yezi, and threatened and coaxed him to reopen the Immortal Path.
• The Artifact Ancestor recalled how he had used Ou Yezi to gather intelligence on Li Taibai, then survived by posing as Li Taibai’s Dao Companion to successive Penglai mountain lords.
• Bai Feiyu took out Xiao Bai’s Diary, recognized it as Ou Yezi’s gift and contingency, and laughed at how foolish his friend had been.

Bai Feiyu forced the Artifact Ancestor to choose between signing the Notes with his True Spirit and enduring the Three Calamities. After demonstrating his command over Immortal Spiritual Qi and recalling how he had slain the Artifact Ancestor in his previous life, Bai Feiyu ordered him to sign.

• Bai Feiyu told the Artifact Ancestor to write his true name in the Notes using a strand of his True Spirit.
• The Artifact Ancestor refused, so Bai Feiyu burned his True Spirit with golden flames and struck him with the Heaven-Measuring Ruler.
• The Artifact Ancestor threatened that the surviving Immortals would take revenge, but Bai Feiyu vowed to defeat them again.
• Bai Feiyu used the Heaven-Measuring Ruler to absorb the Artifact Ancestor's Immortal Spiritual Qi, proving that he was Li Taibai.
• Bai Feiyu recalled that the Artifact Ancestor had been the first Immortal he killed, then ordered him to sign the Notes.

As Chen Changsheng waited with Ouyang for Bai Feiyu to return, he struggled with the plan he believed was the only way to avert a future catastrophe. Ouyang reassured him that he would stand by him even if his choice brought condemnation, and Chen Changsheng resolved to stop the disaster from his previous life.

• Ouyang and Chen Changsheng waited in the Sea of Flowers for Bai Feiyu to return after Xiao Bai received a blessing from Heaven and Earth.
• Chen Changsheng recalled learning that Zu Yuan had been an Immortal Reincarnation and considered his plan to become Zu Yuan, despite fearing the consequences.
• Chen Changsheng asked Ouyang what he should do if he had no choice but to commit a terrible wrong.
• Ouyang lightly slapped Chen Changsheng and promised to take him home and defend him from criticism, without asking what he planned to do.
• Chen Changsheng affirmed that he would always remain himself and resolved to prevent the catastrophe from his previous life.