Chapter Summaries

Ouyang met Su Ling'er, who agreed to take him and Hu Tutu to Azure Cloud Peak so Hu Tutu could light her Lifebound Ever-Burning Lamp. Su Ling'er and Hu Tutu grew jealous of each other, leaving Ouyang caught between them as they prepared to travel.

• Ouyang waited with Hu Tutu at the foot of Little Mountain Peak for Su Ling'er, whom he had contacted to arrange their ride.
• Su Ling'er arrived on a white cloud and greeted Ouyang warmly, then hugged him and flirted with him.
• Hu Tutu interrupted Su Ling'er and asked whether she was Ouyang's ordinary friend.
• Su Ling'er and Hu Tutu sized each other up and traded pointed remarks about their closeness to Ouyang.
• Su Ling'er and Hu Tutu turned away and called each other troublesome women while Ouyang watched in confusion.

Ouyang brought Su Ling'er and Hu Tutu to Azure Cloud Peak, where he bullied the gate’s stone lions into carrying them up the steps. A young man arriving afterward gave the wrong password and was trapped for twenty hours.

• Su Ling'er flew Ouyang and Hu Tutu to Azure Cloud Peak on a cloud.
• Ouyang scolded and slapped the stone lions he had created after they demanded the gate password.
• Ouyang made one stone lion carry him and the two girls up Azure Cloud Peak despite the rule that visitors had to climb on foot.
• The remaining stone lion attacked a young man who tried to repeat Ouyang’s password.
• The stone lion pinned the young man in the earth and sentenced him to stand there for twenty hours.

Ouyang brought Hu Tutu to the Azure Cloud Sect's Main Hall to light her everlasting lamp, but Sect Master Dongxu Zi denied permission. Ouyang grabbed Dongxu Zi's beard, and the Sect Master revealed that he was confronting him over the beating of his disciple.

• Stone Lion carried Ouyang, Su Ling'er, and Hu Tutu to the White Jade Steps, then left after Ouyang gave him true qi.
• Ouyang and the two girls admired the plaza decorated for the upcoming Sect Grand Competition, where the Azure Cloud Sect would also select its Holy Son.
• Ouyang and Su Ling'er offered incense to Heaven and Earth, while Hu Tutu copied them.
• Ouyang and Hu Tutu went to the Rear Hall to light an everlasting lamp for Hu Tutu, but Sect Master Dongxu Zi appeared and denied permission.
• Ouyang grabbed Dongxu Zi's beard, and Dongxu Zi asked whether Ouyang had been so cocky when his group beat up Dongxu Zi's disciple.

Ouyang and Dongxu Zi traded insults and struck a deal: Ouyang would provide a dragon and phoenix for the Sect Grand Competition, while Dongxu Zi inducted Hu Tutu into the Azure Cloud Sect. Hu Tutu saw her new everlasting lamp take fox form and, after asking to see Ouyang’s lamp, was shocked by its faint flame.

• Dongxu Zi demanded that Ouyang provide a dragon and phoenix for next month’s Sect Grand Competition, and Ouyang reluctantly agreed.
• Dongxu Zi brought Hu Tutu to the altar while Ouyang left the hall and waited outside.
• Hu Tutu pledged to follow the Azure Cloud Sect’s rules, uphold justice, and devote herself to seeking the Dao.
• Dongxu Zi used Hu Tutu’s hair to light her everlasting lamp, whose flame briefly became a little fox before settling.
• Hu Tutu persuaded Dongxu Zi to show her Ouyang’s everlasting lamp and was shocked by its barely burning flame.

Ouyang discovered that the Paper Crane Dongxu Zi gave Hu Tutu was a magic treasure and used his true qi to upgrade it. The Paper Crane became a spirit treasure and awakened its intelligence.

• Ouyang forgot the Water Dragon spell almost immediately after studying it.
• Ouyang saw that Hu Tutu had been crying, but she said her trouble was her own fault and asked to return to Little Mountain Peak.
• Dongxu Zi gave Hu Tutu a Paper Crane as a first-meeting gift before leaving.
• The Paper Crane revealed itself as a magic treasure, and Hu Tutu summoned it from the design on her fingernail.
• Ouyang fed the Paper Crane 1,000 points of true qi, transforming it into a spirit treasure that awakened its intelligence.

Ouyang raised Hu Tutu’s paper crane to the level of a Spirit Treasure, and the two flew home to Little Mountain Peak. On the way, Hu Tutu remembered Dongxu Zi’s warning that Ouyang’s weak vitality meant he might not live long, and vowed not to let him die.

• Ouyang explained that he had drawn out the paper crane’s potential because Dongxu Zi had already reforged it with excellent materials.
• Hu Tutu commanded the paper crane to grow into a large flying mount and invited Ouyang to ride home with her.
• Ouyang contacted Su Ling’er, who said she had to stay at Azure Cloud Peak to help coordinate next month’s Sect Grand Competition.
• Su Ling’er mistook Ouyang’s suggestive remark about his flute for a shared musical interest and imagined becoming his Dao partner.
• Hu Tutu and Ouyang rode the paper crane toward Little Mountain Peak while Hu Tutu recalled Dongxu Zi’s warning about Ouyang’s dim Everlasting Lamp.
• Hu Tutu nestled against Ouyang and silently vowed that she would not let him die.

Ouyang returned to Little Mountain Peak and found Leng Qingsong and Bai Feiyu fighting over their opposing Sword Daos after they abandoned their attempt to teach Chen Changsheng. He asked Chen Changsheng about the Sect Grand Competition, learning that Chen Changsheng’s estimate of victory included the possibility of killing Zu Yuan despite interference and repeated power-ups.

• Hu Tutu returned with a spirit treasure from the Sect Master, but Leng Qingsong and Bai Feiyu ignored her as their sword intents clashed.
• Chen Changsheng told Ouyang that Bai Feiyu had offered to teach him the Sword Dao, but Leng Qingsong had interrupted and argued with him until they drew swords.
• Ouyang swept Leng Qingsong and Bai Feiyu from Little Mountain Peak, and they immediately resumed fighting at its foot.
• Ouyang asked Chen Changsheng whether he was confident about the Sect Grand Competition, and Chen Changsheng estimated his chances at about forty percent.
• Chen Changsheng clarified that his estimate accounted for elders and the Sect Master intervening and Zu Yuan powering up, while Ouyang recalled the three dangers to remember about Little Mountain Peak’s disciples.

As the Azure Cloud Sect prepared for its grand competition, Xiao Feng entered the outer sect contest despite his crippled dantian and stolen Root Bone, determined to reclaim everything he had lost. Ouyang spotted Xiao Feng’s unusual potential and recognized him as a Child of the Plane.

• The Azure Cloud Sect’s outer disciples began competing for a place in the Sect Grand Competition, with only the top ten advancing.
• Xiao Feng carried a hundred-thousand-jin iron-gold wood log up and down a mountain, continuing his five-year training despite Senior Brother Zhao urging him to focus on drawing qi into his body.
• Xiao Feng declared that his Root Bone had been stolen, his dantian crippled, his parents murdered, and his family and fiancée had betrayed or humiliated him, and he vowed to reclaim what was his.
• Ouyang attended the outer sect competition as Little Mountain Peak’s representative and noticed Xiao Feng approaching the registration desk with the enormous log.
• Ouyang’s system panel revealed Xiao Feng’s potential as a Great Emperor, Root Bone of zero, and exceptional body-tempering aptitude, and Xiao Feng’s defiant declaration convinced Ouyang he was a Child of the Plane.

Ouyang intervened when Xiao Feng was denied entry to the Azure Cloud Sect’s Outer Disciple tournament and secured his registration. Later, Ouyang bet Steward Sun that Xiao Feng would say a familiar defiant line, but Xiao Feng had not said it by the chapter’s end.

• Ouyang and Steward Sun approached a commotion and learned that Xiao Feng had been mocked and barred from registering because he had not reached Qi Refining.
• Xiao Feng smashed iron-gold wood with one punch, then prepared to leave after the senior brother upheld the tournament’s cultivation requirement.
• Ouyang asked that Xiao Feng be given a chance, and Steward Sun ordered the senior brother to register him.
• Xiao Feng thanked Ouyang and left carrying the broken wood, while Ouyang gave Steward Sun a high-grade spirit stone to smooth over his interference.
• At the dining hall, Ouyang wagered two high-grade spirit stones that Xiao Feng would say a certain line, then predicted, “My fate is mine to command, not Heaven's!”

Ouyang watched the outer disciple tournament as Xiao Feng went from struggling against a qi refining opponent to winning match after match with a single punch. Xiao Feng reached the final against Ma Xingye, whose spells trapped him, but he broke free and left the fight unresolved.

• Ouyang watched Xiao Feng struggle against a qi refining fifth-layer opponent before Xiao Feng crushed a water dragon and defeated him with one punch.
• Xiao Feng swiftly defeated his later opponents, rising from outside the top thousand to the top twenty.
• Xiao Feng faced Ma Xingye, the strongest outer disciple, whose True Essence Shield and foundation-establishment spells overpowered him.
• Ma Xingye trapped Xiao Feng in a Stone Hand and declared body tempering inferior to foundation establishment.
• Xiao Feng roared that his fate was his to command and shattered the Stone Hand with his strength as Ouyang applauded.

Xiao Feng nearly defeated Ma Xingye by destroying his stone puppet and exhausting his opponent, but Steward Sun secretly struck him from the drum tower just before his final punch. Ma Xingye was declared the winner, while Ouyang confronted Steward Sun over his interference.

• Ma Xingye summoned a towering stone puppet, but Xiao Feng shattered it with one punch and continued toward him despite his injuries.
• Xiao Feng reached the exhausted Ma Xingye and raised his fist, but a hidden strike from the drum tower knocked him unconscious.
• Steward Sun announced Ma Xingye as the winner, and the spectators regretted Xiao Feng’s narrow defeat while admiring his strength.
• Steward Sun revealed that he had struck Xiao Feng with wind spell arts and offered Ouyang four top-grade spirit stones.
• Ouyang slapped Steward Sun, then mocked him for remaining in the outer sect for over three hundred years.

Ouyang rescued the badly injured Xiao Feng, healed him with a powerful pill, and offered to help him overcome his inability to cultivate. The chapter left Xiao Feng considering Ouyang’s offer to become his nominal disciple at Little Mountain Peak.

• Xiao Feng awoke in agony, and Ouyang demanded ten top-grade spirit stones for the treatment that saved his life.
• Ouyang questioned Xiao Feng about his stolen root bone, murdered parents, betrayal, and broken engagement, prompting Xiao Feng to lash out at him.
• Ouyang gave Xiao Feng a pill that restored most of his shattered body, then overwhelmed him with his powerful true qi.
• Ouyang revealed that he had noticed Xiao Feng could still absorb spiritual energy despite lacking a dantian and offered to fix his condition for a price.
• Ouyang asked Xiao Feng to become his nominal disciple and introduced himself as the eldest senior brother of Little Mountain Peak in the Azure Cloud Sect.

Ouyang accepted Xiao Feng as a nominal disciple of Little Mountain Peak until his master could decide whether to take Xiao Feng as a disciple. Xiao Feng prepared to leave the outer sect after giving farewell gifts to Senior Brother Zhao.

• Xiao Feng agreed to join Ouyang at Little Mountain Peak after learning Ouyang was an Azure Cloud Sect Inner Disciple.
• The Idle System notified Ouyang that his quest to form karmic bonds with Children of Destiny had reached 4/5, with Xiao Feng contributing to the progress.
• Ouyang explained Little Mountain Peak's rules and warned Xiao Feng to stay away from his three rebellious senior brothers.
• Xiao Feng asked Ouyang for spirit stones to repay his friends, and Ouyang gave him a chest containing a hundred high-grade spirit stones.
• Xiao Feng gave Senior Brother Zhao the chest as a farewell gift, promised to help him in the future, and left; Zhao watched him go with tears in his eyes.

Ouyang brought Xiao Feng to Little Mountain Peak, where Chen Changsheng recognized him as the Great Emperor of the Human Race from his previous life. Ouyang later asked Chen Changsheng to help him find a way to let Xiao Feng cultivate, and the chapter ended with Ouyang asking about Chen Changsheng’s painting skills.

• Ouyang introduced Xiao Feng to Hu Tutu, who welcomed her new junior brother with a flower after learning he did not like sweets.
• Hu Tutu brought Ouyang and Xiao Feng to the courtyard, where Chen Changsheng recognized Xiao Feng as the Great Emperor who had defended the Human Race in his previous life.
• Chen Changsheng rushed back to save his burning fish, then joined the others for lunch as Ouyang introduced Xiao Feng to the disciples of Little Mountain Peak.
• Ouyang noticed Chen Changsheng’s intense attention to Xiao Feng and worried that his reborn junior brother knew Xiao Feng’s background.
• Ouyang told Chen Changsheng that Xiao Feng’s root bone had been stolen and his dantian destroyed, and said he had a way to help him cultivate if Chen Changsheng would assist.
• After Chen Changsheng agreed, Ouyang asked whether he was good at painting.

Ouyang proposed tattooing divine beasts onto Xiao Feng to replace his destroyed dantian, and Bai Feiyu revealed an ancient body cultivation method that supported the idea. Chen Changsheng agreed to consider drawing the beasts, then realized that he would create the Five Directional Divine Beasts who would later aid Xiao Feng as Humanity's Great Emperor.

• Ouyang proposed that Chen Changsheng tattoo divine beasts onto Xiao Feng so they could absorb primordial energy and nourish his body.
• Chen Changsheng opposed the dangerous plan, but Xiao Feng knelt and begged him to agree.
• Bai Feiyu said an ancient body cultivation method used Fierce Beast essence souls to temper the body, supporting Ouyang's proposal.
• Ouyang named the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and Qilin as the beasts Chen Changsheng should draw.
• Chen Changsheng agreed to consider the plan and realized that Xiao Feng's future Five Directional Divine Beasts would be his own creations.

Ouyang, Bai Feiyu, Chen Changsheng, and Leng Qingsong devised a way to make Xiao Feng the Five Directional Divine Beasts so he could cultivate without being destroyed by the lightning tribulation. The plan depended on Chen Changsheng splitting Xiao Feng’s divine soul and placing the fragments into the beasts’ spirit platforms before their consciousness emerged.

• Ouyang agreed to have Chen Changsheng tattoo the Five Directional Divine Beasts onto Xiao Feng, while Bai Feiyu agreed to teach him ancient body-cultivation methods.
• Bai Feiyu joined the boys after hearing Xiao Feng’s resolve, and they decided to activate the wood-aligned dragon and fire-aligned Vermilion Bird first.
• The group struggled to find a way for Xiao Feng to survive the lightning tribulation alone, since outside help would make it worse.
• Leng Qingsong suggested they unify their intent, prompting Ouyang to propose that Xiao Feng become the divine beasts rather than merely house them.
• Ouyang explained that Chen Changsheng could control when the beasts’ intelligence awakened, allowing Xiao Feng’s divine-soul fragments to seize their spirit platforms first.
• Chen Changsheng offered to draw out Xiao Feng’s divine soul and tear it into fragments, alarming the others with the possibility that he had made his puppets from pieces of his own soul.

Ouyang stole top-grade spirit stone essence from the Azure Cloud Sect’s protective formation, then returned to Little Mountain Peak, where Chen Changsheng used it to create a Five-Direction Divine Beast Painting on Xiao Feng’s body. The five beasts remained unfinished until Ouyang could dot their eyes and awaken them.

• Ouyang pried top-grade spirit stone essence from the sect’s protective formation and gave a piece to a youth while the enforcement squad passed by without stopping him.
• Li Yi confronted Ouyang over damaging the formation and stealing spirit stones, but left with a book of paintings after Ouyang offered it to him.
• Ouyang returned to Little Mountain Peak and found Chen Changsheng painting five divine beasts on Xiao Feng’s back while Hu Tutu watched.
• Ouyang spread the stolen spirit stone essence across the courtyard, and Chen Changsheng embedded thousands of its fragments in Xiao Feng’s body despite the intense pain.
• Chen Changsheng finished the Five-Direction Divine Beast Painting without dotting the beasts’ eyes, leaving that difficult final step to Ouyang.

Chen Changsheng and the others began transforming Xiao Feng by awakening the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird on his back and placing parts of Xiao Feng’s soul into them. Just as the process neared success, the Heavenly Dao discovered them and unleashed its eye of heavenly punishment on Little Mountain Peak.

• Chen Changsheng concealed Little Mountain Peak with a formation and forced Xiao Feng’s soul out of his body.
• Ouyang used the Eye-Painting Brushes to awaken the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird, while heavenly lightning battered the area around the formation.
• Chen Changsheng tore apart and reconstructed Xiao Feng’s soul, shaping two portions into miniature versions of him.
• Chen Changsheng sent the two reconstructed souls into the divine beast phantoms and helped Xiao Feng suppress their resistance as his remaining soul returned to his body.
• The Heavenly Dao shattered Chen Changsheng’s formation, opened the eye of heavenly punishment, and sent tribulation lightning pouring down toward Xiao Feng.

Bai Feiyu, Chen Changsheng, and Leng Qingsong attacked the Eye of Heavenly Punishment after it struck Xiao Feng, but Ouyang seized the eye and used it to stop the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder. Xiao Feng survived as the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird emerged, while Ouyang challenged the Heavenly Dao and called for the Great Dao.

• The Eye of Heavenly Punishment appeared and fixed its gaze on Hu Yan, while Bai Feiyu and Leng Qingsong drew their swords against it.
• Bai Feiyu frightened the Eye of Heavenly Punishment with a threat, but it attacked Xiao Feng with Purple Firmament World-Destroying Divine Thunder.
• Bai Feiyu, Chen Changsheng, and Leng Qingsong attacked the Eye of Heavenly Punishment, and Ouyang seized it with a giant hand of heaven and earth essence.
• The Heavenly Dao voice confronted Ouyang, who blasted apart its forming cloud-face and declared that he would let the Great Dao come.
• Ouyang pressed the Eye of Heavenly Punishment into Xiao Feng's brow, causing the lightning to retreat and the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird to become solid.
• Auspicious signs briefly appeared as heavenly punishment passed, but the sky quickly returned to calm, and Ouyang called it petty.

Xiao Feng survived the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder and fused with the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird, gaining immense power and the Eye of Heavenly Punishment. After the group freed the others and dealt with the lightning’s damage, Hu Yan worried that so many extraordinary geniuses heralded a great calamity.

• Xiao Feng's body was restored with the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder and the divine essence of the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird, and his status panel changed.
• Xiao Feng tested his newfound strength by blasting apart the courtyard floor, and Ouyang scolded him.
• Ouyang used Spring Renewal to restore the lightning-scarred mountain forest, then ordered Xiao Feng to repair the walkways and bury the dead animals.
• Xiao Feng used the Eye of Heavenly Punishment to free Leng Qingsong, Bai Feiyu, Chen Changsheng, and Hu Tutu, but the released sword intent destroyed Ouyang's roof.
• Hu Yan watched the gathered geniuses and feared their arrival signaled the start of a great calamity.