Chapter Summaries

The Three Sages drove away hundreds of Half-Sages and guarded the medium thousand world while searching for Ouyang’s reincarnation. Leng Qingsong knew where Ouyang was, and after sneaking away at night, he was secretly followed by Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu.

• Hundreds of Half-Sages gathered outside the medium thousand world, but Bai Feiyu, Chen Changsheng, and Leng Qingsong ordered them to leave.
• The Three Sages searched the medium thousand world for Ouyang, but they could not find him.
• Leng Qingsong declared that the world would be closed to cultivators for three hundred years, and the Three Sages took positions around it to guard it.
• Leng Qingsong recalled his past with Ouyang and resolved to see him again, even if his Sage Position withered.
• Leng Qingsong secretly left the courtyard at night, while Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu watched him and then pursued him.

Leng Qingsong set out for Maple Leaf City to reunite with his elder brother, while Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu struggled to guide him out of the forest. After Leng Qingsong wandered onto an expressway and confronted an officer, the two rushed over and claimed he was mentally ill.

• Leng Qingsong left his External Incarnation behind and traveled toward the former site of Maple Leaf City, where he hoped to meet his elder brother again.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu discovered that Leng Qingsong was lost in a grove and secretly made signs to steer him south.
• After a night of correcting his course, Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu helped Leng Qingsong reach a main road, which turned out to be an expressway in a world they did not recognize.
• Leng Qingsong walked down the expressway, causing a traffic jam until an officer stopped him and demanded identification.
• As Leng Qingsong grew impatient and reached for his sword, Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu ran up and told the officer that Leng Qingsong was mentally ill.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu rescued Leng Qingsong from being arrested after he drew his sword on an expressway in a strange, steam-powered world. Xie Xinzhi erased their traces and returned them to the forest, where the three Sages argued about why they had gone out.

• Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu emerged from the forest, learned about the world, and saw Leng Qingsong drawing his sword on the expressway.
• Bai Feiyu restrained Leng Qingsong while Chen Changsheng told the police that their older brother had a mental illness, but the officers took all three away for investigation.
• The three Sages discussed their predicament through voice transmission, and Leng Qingsong used his powers to learn about the world.
• Chen Changsheng, Bai Feiyu, and Leng Qingsong asked Xie Xinzhi to intervene, and he returned them to the forest while erasing their traces from human memories.
• The three Sages bickered about their nighttime stroll as the police remembered them as dogs that had run onto the expressway.

After recreating Little Mountain Peak, Leng Qingsong revealed where he had first met Ouyang, and the three planned a journey there. Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng summoned the local deities and underworld officials for help, accidentally prompting a vast gathering that left the summoned spirits expecting a fight.

• The three finished rebuilding Little Mountain Peak to match their memories of the Azure Cloud Sect, but found it quiet without Ouyang.
• Leng Qingsong shared a map marking where he and Ouyang had first met, and Chen Changsheng calculated that the place was thirty-six thousand li away.
• Bai Feiyu proposed summoning Land Gods, while Chen Changsheng offered to call the Underworld Fate Officials to help them travel.
• Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng issued edicts that summoned deities and underworld officials from across the world.
• Realizing they had summoned too many, Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu limited the summons to those within a thousand li, but the spirits still hurried over, believing a fight was coming.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu summoned the deities and underworld officials to march on Maple City after they recognized it as the place connected to Leng Qingsong’s past and possibly their Eldest Senior Brother. Their enormous airship procession headed south, alarming the Great Han Empire and putting its forces on alert.

• The deities and underworld officials gathered at Little Mountain Peak, where Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu discovered that their Divine Dao and Wu Clan authorities had intertwined.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu argued with Leng Qingsong, then showed the gathered gods a map and asked them to identify the location.
• A Wu Clan City God identified the location as Maple City, and Leng Qingsong recognized it as the place where he had first met his Eldest Senior Brother.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu ordered the deities and underworld officials to reach Maple City within three days and arranged hundreds of airships.
• The airships began their march south as deities cleared their route, while the Great Han Demon-Slaying Bureau reported the movement and the empire’s forces prepared for battle.

Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng arrived in Maple City with the deities and Yin Office officials to find Ouyezi’s reincarnation, but they could not remember his appearance and faced searching a city of millions. Leng Qingsong jumped from the airship to look for him on his own, while Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng secretly sent people to watch over him.

• Hundreds of divine airships traveled south, alarming the powers of the Han Empire as they gathered around the City Gods.
• Bai Feiyu, Chen Changsheng, and Leng Qingsong reached Maple City, where Leng Qingsong mourned the loss of the city he remembered from a million years ago.
• Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng learned that Ouyezi had reincarnated in Maple City, but neither could recall his appearance well enough to search for him.
• Leng Qingsong leaped from the airship, determined to find Ouyezi before Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng, and crashed into the ground.
• Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng agreed to let Leng Qingsong wander alone, then secretly signaled their followers to keep an eye on him.

After discovering that Elder Brother had reincarnated as Ouyang, Leng Qingsong became a beggar in Maple City and searched for him for five years without success. As Leng Qingsong left the city to return to Little Mountain Peak, he found a road sign for Azure Cloud Orphanage.

• Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng went to the City God Temple to coordinate the search for Ouyang.
• Leng Qingsong grieved over having killed Elder Brother and being unable to end his own life, then resolved to find him with Mu Wu.
• Leng Qingsong used his True Qi to heal his injuries, aged into a white-haired old man, and entered Maple City to search for Ouyang.
• For five years, Leng Qingsong searched the city without finding Ouyang, while Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu kept watch on him.
• Leng Qingsong decided to leave Maple City for Little Mountain Peak, but on the outskirts he spotted a sign reading "Azure Cloud Orphanage."

Leng Qingsong visited an orphanage while searching for traces of his elder brother and left the money strangers had given him. After meeting two boys sneaking out, he recognized the older boy’s mannerisms as those of his long-lost elder brother and was overcome with emotion.

• Leng Qingsong followed a sign to a shabby but well-kept orphanage, hoping to find a trace of his elder brother.
• Finding the gate locked, Leng Qingsong wrapped a wad of banknotes in a strip of his clothes and left it on the bars.
• Two boys sneaked out of the orphanage, and their silhouettes reminded Leng Qingsong of his elder brother leading him as a child.
• The older boy unlocked the gate with a stolen key and planned to take his younger companion out for roasted sweet potatoes.
• Leng Qingsong explained that he had left a donation, and the older boy pretended the pair were hungry despite his younger companion correcting him.
• Leng Qingsong stared at the older boy as recognition struck him, and his eyes filled with tears.

Leng Qingsong found his elder brother's reincarnation at the Orphanage but chose not to burden him with their past. Xie Xinzhi gave Leng Qingsong a Nameless Wooden Plaque and renewed his hope of joining his elder brother in this life.

• Leng Qingsong recognized Ouyang as his reincarnated elder brother and broke down in grief and joy.
• Leng Qingsong decided to let his elder brother live peacefully without becoming entangled in their past.
• Xie Xinzhi told Leng Qingsong that the Demon Race Empress planned to take the boys away in five years and invited him to come along.
• Xie Xinzhi gave Leng Qingsong a Nameless Wooden Plaque from the Empress and urged him not to forget his elder brother.
• Leng Qingsong bowed to Xie Xinzhi and walked toward the sweet potato field with renewed resolve.

In a moonlit sweet potato field, Leng Qingsong helped the brothers dig and spoke with young Ou Ye about protecting his big brother. After learning that Ou Ye’s brother was named Ou, Leng Qingsong offered to teach him sword skills, leaving Ou Ye eager to learn.

• Leng Qingsong showed the older boy how to find sweet potatoes by following the vines, and the boy dug up a large one.
• Leng Qingsong gave a sweet potato to the sleepy Ou Ye and asked if he wanted to protect his big brother when he grew up.
• Leng Qingsong told Ou Ye that he had lost his own big brother after relying on him too much, and Ou Ye offered him a small sweet potato to comfort him.
• Ou Ye told Leng Qingsong his name and said his surname was Ou, making Leng Qingsong rejoice that his big brother finally had a full name in this life.
• Leng Qingsong demonstrated Sword Qi with a wheat stalk, and Ou Ye eagerly agreed to learn after seeing its power.
• Leng Qingsong promised to teach Ou Ye skills if he agreed never to forget his big brother when he made it big.

Leng Qingsong met Ou Ye and his brother at the orphanage, secretly placing a Sword Formula in Ou Ye’s mind to protect his brother when danger arose. After helping the boys bring home sweet potatoes, Leng Qingsong watched them disappear inside the orphanage, still standing outside its gates like a stray dog that had found a home.

• Ou Ye asked Leng Qingsong to teach him Sword Qi so he could help his brother, and Leng Qingsong learned that many other children lived at the orphanage.
• Leng Qingsong decided the orphans were connected to his eldest martial uncle and secretly placed a Sword Formula in Ou Ye’s mind, which would emerge only in danger.
• The boy finished digging up sweet potatoes, and Ou Ye abandoned thoughts of learning Sword Qi to help his brother carry them.
• Leng Qingsong gathered the remaining sweet potatoes and walked with the boys to the orphanage gates.
• The boy politely refused to let Leng Qingsong enter, and Leng Qingsong urged the boys to go to bed before watching them run inside.

Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng had spent five years searching Maple City for Ouyang, or Ouyezi, without success. After learning that the directionally challenged fool had visited Azure Cloud Orphanage and headed north, they realized he knew where their Eldest Senior Brother was and rushed after him.

• Bai Feiyu reviewed his fruitless search through Maple City while managing its largest transportation enterprise.
• Chen Changsheng visited Bai Feiyu and demanded news of Eldest Senior Brother, while Bai Feiyu criticized his increasingly violent searches.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Feiyu that the directionally challenged fool had left Maple City and seemed to have gotten lost.
• Three Land Gods reported that the fool had stayed at Azure Cloud Orphanage and then headed north.
• Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng realized the fool had been concealing his knowledge and leaped through the window to pursue him.

Leng Qingsong reunited with his junior brothers, Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu, after visiting the Orphanage and promised to take them to see their Eldest Senior Brother (Ouyezi). He made them wait hidden in the grass until the Orphanage woke.

• Leng Qingsong left the Orphanage and returned to his youthful form as he walked toward Maple City.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu rushed at Leng Qingsong, who tackled them into a sweet potato field and thanked them for never giving up on finding their Eldest Senior Brother (Ouyezi).
• Leng Qingsong told the two he could take them to see him, but insisted they promise not to disturb him.
• Leng Qingsong threatened to stop one of them with his bow and arrow, then led Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu to hide in the grass across from the Orphanage.
• The three Sages waited quietly for the Orphanage to wake.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu discovered that their Eldest Senior Brother had reincarnated as a cheeky boy in the Orphanage. Leng Qingsong revealed that the children gathered around him, not the boy himself, were the difficult problem they had come to face.

• Chen Changsheng, Bai Feiyu, and Leng Qingsong watched the Orphanage wake up and saw Mu Yunhai caring for the children.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu realized Eldest Senior Brother was likely among the Orphanage's children, though none seemed to match his poor aptitude.
• A mischievous boy ran from the kitchen with roasted sweet potatoes, and Mu Yunhai scolded him before he shared the food with the other children.
• The boy told Mu Yunhai that an old beggar had brought the sweet potatoes and money to the Orphanage the night before.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu recognized the boy as Eldest Senior Brother, but Leng Qingsong pointed out that the children around him were the difficult problem.

Chen Changsheng, Bai Feiyu, and Leng Qingsong devised a way to loosen the children’s karmic ties to Ouyang by inviting Great Cultivators to recruit them as disciples. Their plan brought the cultivators to the orphanage, where Xie Xinzhi realized its closure might soon be inevitable.

• Leng Qingsong asked Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu to find a way to dismantle the orphanage without disturbing the karmic ties between Ouyang and the children.
• Chen Changsheng proposed inviting Great Cultivators with their own worlds to take the talented children as disciples and assume their karmic ties with Ouyang.
• The Three Sages invited Great Cultivators from the Myriad Immortal Domains and warned them not to reveal their cultivation, deceive, or abduct anyone.
• Great Cultivators flocked to the orphanage, eager to recruit its exceptionally talented children.
• Xie Xinzhi sat at the orphanage entrance and suspected that the Three Sages’ plan would soon bring about the orphanage’s closure.

As powerful cultivators arrived at the orphanage to adopt the children, the boy encouraged Ou Ye to accept an opportunity while choosing to stay behind and watch over their home. That night, he signed Ou Ye’s adoption papers, and Xie Xinzhi reflected on the boy’s familiar, painful kindness.

• Great Cultivators repeatedly visited the orphanage to adopt children, while the director angrily tried to drive them away.
• Ou Ye told the boy that a white-robed swordsman wanted to take him as a disciple, but the boy urged Ou Ye to go without him.
• Ou Ye refused to leave unless the boy came too, and the boy explained that someone needed to stay and look after the orphanage.
• The boy visited Xie Xinzhi at night and said he wanted to handle Ou Ye’s adoption paperwork, while he planned to remain at the orphanage.
• The boy signed Ou Ye’s adoption document, and Xie Xinzhi watched him leave before sighing over his familiar gentleness.

As the orphanage emptied, the boy prepared to part from Ou Ye and let Song Mu take him away to become his disciple. Ou Ye secretly stayed awake through the farewell, and Song Mu carried him off with the Firewood Stick as the boy watched them go.

• The boy reassured a frightened Ou Ye that the children who had left would meet them again, then tucked him in after dinner.
• Song Mu arrived and took the sleeping Ou Ye and a suitcase, while the boy gave him Ou Ye’s carefully smoothed Firewood Stick.
• The boy challenged Song Mu to ensure Ou Ye was happy, and Song Mu promised to teach him everything he knew and pass on his mantle.
• After Song Mu left the orphanage, Ou Ye admitted he had pretended to sleep because his brother did not want him to know about the departure.
• Ou Ye asked to learn skills greater than the heavens, and Song Mu introduced himself as the Sword Dao Leader, Number One Under Heaven, before flying away with him.

Six months after the children left the Orphanage, Mu Yunhai sent the boy to pray for them at the City God temple. There, after reflecting on his transmigration and his brother Ou Ye, the boy entered the temple at the urging of a mysterious man in white.

• Mu Yunhai gave the boy incense and fruit offerings and asked him to pray for the children who had left six months earlier.
• The boy recalled that his previous life had been ordinary and that this world already had advanced technology and people with extraordinary powers.
• The boy thought about Ou Ye, who had been taken away, and wondered whether his younger brother was doing well or blamed him.
• At the quiet temple, the boy turned to leave after realizing he had eaten the offerings, but a handsome man in white persuaded him to enter and pray without them.

At Maple City’s City God temple, Bai Feiyu encountered a wary boy and watched him pray at an empty altar. Hearing the boy wish only for the children in his care, Bai Feiyu realized the boy had never changed; his own view of him had.

• The boy mistook Bai Feiyu, who had followed him through the quiet temple, for a child trafficker and then feared he might be a ghost.
• Bai Feiyu reassured the boy and persuaded him to enter the Main Hall and offer incense.
• The boy discovered that the City God’s statue was missing and wondered who they could worship.
• Bai Feiyu prayed to Heaven and Earth, then invited the boy to pray at the empty altar.
• Bai Feiyu heard the boy wish for the children at home to be safe and healthy, and realized he had been the one who had changed.

Bai Feiyu realized he had unfairly expected Ouyang to remain an all-powerful hero and recognized how much Ouyang had sacrificed for others. He accepted the boy’s wishes for the Orphanage and prompted him to wish for his own safety, then granted it.

• Bai Feiyu reflected that Ouyang had never changed and that he had mistakenly judged him by an idealized image of a hero.
• Bai Feiyu offered to take the boy home and gave him a folding fan as fare.
• The boy realized Bai Feiyu was a deity and nervously asked whether his wishes for the Orphanage would still count.
• Bai Feiyu told the boy that he had forgotten to make a wish for himself, so the boy prayed for his own safety.
• Bai Feiyu declared, “May your wish come true!”