Chapter Summaries

Fairy Xuming and her allies ambushed Xiao Hua, but he survived their attack and defeated them. After Fu Zhiwen dealt with the remaining disciples, Xiao Hua offered to carry the injured survivors in a national artifact as they continued through Canglangzi's cave residence.

• Fairy Xuming, Master Xiankong, True Person Yuming, and True Person Qiuluo attacked Xiao Hua with four exploding magic artifacts, but he survived with only minor wounds.
• Fairy Xuming attempted to detonate her Nascent Soul, but Xiao Hua froze her with a spell, took her Nascent Soul, and sealed it in the Kunlun Ruins.
• Xiao Hua killed True Person Qiuluo and suppressed his Nascent Soul in the Kunlun Ruins.
• Fu Zhiwen killed Li Xiu and the other low-ranking disciples after Xiao Hua agreed they were traitors.
• Xiao Hua noticed a distant memory of an old vow surfacing and offered to carry the injured Xue Ping and the others in a national artifact.

Xiao Hua discovered that a faint human-shaped imprint in the cave wall was connected to Canglangzi’s legacy, and Xue Ping and the other Daoist cultivators were drawn into the wall after meditating before it. Fu Zhiwen failed to see anything, leaving Xiao Hua to consider what the imprint meant for him and his disciple.

• Xiao Hua and Fu Zhiwen reached a seemingly empty dead end, and Xiao Hua noticed a faint human-shaped imprint on the stone wall.
• Xiao Hua suspected the imprint was a trace of Canglangzi meditating there and invited Xue Ping to try cultivating before it.
• After meditating, Xue Ping realized something and was engulfed by runes that pulled him into the stone wall.
• The other Daoist cultivators followed in turn, each vanishing into the wall after meditating before the imprint.
• Fu Zhiwen tried to cultivate before the imprint but saw nothing and told Xiao Hua he might have no affinity with Canglangzi’s cave abode.

Xiao Hua and Fu Zhiwen gained insights from Senior Canglangzi’s legacy, with Fu Zhiwen entering a critical stage of cultivation and Xiao Hua discovering a Dragon Clan bone-tempering method. Xiao Hua emerged into a large Secret Chamber and began investigating its contents.

• Xiao Hua told Fu Zhiwen to use the Wordless Heavenly Book, and armor inscriptions formed a landscape that drew Fu Zhiwen into the stone wall.
• Xiao Hua studied Senior Canglangzi’s shifting figure and experienced a vision in which his techniques transformed the world before a dragon-shaped torrent of characters revealed the bone-tempering method.
• Xiao Hua’s inner selves discussed how Dragon Vein Xiao Hua could decipher the secret art if Jade Slip Fellow Daoist obtained an explanation of dragon language.
• A force pushed Xiao Hua through the stone wall into a Secret Chamber, where he saw Xue Ping and other cultivators meditating and Fu Zhiwen wrapped in glowing characters.
• Xiao Hua searched beneath the chamber’s milky-white stalactites for stone milk, found none, and discovered that his divine sense was unrestricted inside the cave.

Xiao Hua discovered Yan Lingzhi and three treasures in Senior Canglangzi’s cave, but powerful restrictions made each prize dangerous to claim. After using his spirit fire to collect Yan Lingzhi, he began working on the jade bottle, then hesitated over whether its pills would suit his unusual Nascent Souls.

• Xiao Hua approached the jade table and was struck by lightning when he tried to take its treasures.
• Xiao Hua used his Eye of Delusion Breaking to uncover the restrictions around the table and pool, and spotted Yan Lingzhi growing underwater.
• Xiao Hua decided to prioritize Yan Lingzhi and the medicinal pills over the magic treasure and cultivation technique.
• Xiao Hua used his spirit fire to break Yan Lingzhi’s restriction and collected the spirit tree into his space.
• Xiao Hua began using spirit fire on the jade bottle’s restriction, then paused to consider whether its pills suited his Nascent Souls.

Xiao Hua unlocked Canglangzi’s Ink Cloud Pupil and discovered escape arts, secret techniques, and pill formulas, then watched the others emerge into the cave residence and claim its treasures. He began secretly gathering Beimeng Xi Shui while the group explored the cavern, with the jade table’s restrictions still unbroken.

• Xiao Hua opened the Ink Cloud Pupil, learned it contained complete Fire Escape, Wood Escape, and Earth Escape methods along with secret techniques and pill formulas, and passed it to green-robed Xiao Hua to study.
• Gu Suqiudi emerged and began collecting Beimeng Xi Shui, while Gongshu Yixin found Langlin Stone and started gathering it.
• Xiao Hua and the women noticed an unfamiliar Nascent Soul cultivator emerge, and they watched him as he meditated without reacting.
• After Gu Suqiudi finished her turn, Xiao Hua secretly used his divine sense to draw Beimeng Xi Shui into his space, finding that the pool did not run dry.
• Zhai Xingzi and Xunkong Shangren emerged; Gu Suqiudi sent Zhai Xingzi elsewhere, and Xiao Hua persuaded Xunkong Shangren to leave the restricted jade table for last.

Xiao Hua and the other cultivators discovered that the cave manor was only the Front Manor, an outer layer of Canglangzi’s illusion array, and hurriedly looted it before facing four entrances to the next layer. The Nascent Soul cultivators debated how to approach two restricted treasures, while Xue Ping questioned Dao Cheng about the four newcomers.

• Xiao Hua collected Beimeng Xi Shui as four Nascent Soul cultivators and an unfamiliar low-level cultivator emerged, then Zhang Daoran flew out as the pool vanished and four beast-shaped entrances opened.
• Gongshu Yixin realized the cave manor was the Front Manor and part of a layered Yunshan Illusion Array, while Xiao Hua and the others searched the manor for treasures.
• Zhang Daoran explained that True Person Diquan, True Person Han, Yi Mingzi, and Yun Mengzi had joined him after Dao Cheng sought their help, and the cultivators gathered beside the jade table.
• True Person Diquan proposed taking the two restricted treasures before entering the next layer, and Zhang Daoran declared that whoever obtained them could keep them, but no one could attack.
• Xiao Hua privately spoke to Zhang Daoran, who paused the decision to discuss matters first, while Xue Ping asked Dao Cheng about the four senior cultivators.

Zhang Daoran let True Person Diquan and his companions test the jade bottle’s restriction before his own group, and their attack badly injured two cultivators while revealing Yun Mengzi’s hesitation. Zhang Daoran then asked Xiao Hua how to proceed, but Xiao Hua denied having a way to break the restriction, leaving the group uncertain about their next move.

• Zhang Daoran proposed that he and True Person Diquan’s group take turns testing the two treasures’ restrictions, and True Person Diquan’s group chose the jade bottle.
• Xiao Hua warned the four cultivators that the restriction’s retaliation was dangerous, but they attacked with their Nascent Souls and magic treasures anyway.
• The restriction’s lightning damaged True Person Diquan’s spear and Yi Mingzi’s beast, injured both Nascent Souls, and cracked one tooth on Yun Mengzi’s disc.
• True Person Han admitted that his group could not break the restriction and withdrew with the others to recover and observe.
• Xiao Hua revealed through his thoughts that Yun Mengzi was Fairy Xiangfeng, who had considered attacking him but held back after noticing the black hole near him.
• Zhang Daoran asked Xiao Hua for a way to break the restriction, and Xiao Hua said he had no method, prompting Zhang Daoran to question why they had discussed the plan.

Xiao Hua arranged for Fu Zhiwen to use the Heavenly Punishment Prisoner Crystal to break the restriction protecting a jade bottle of medicinal pills. The group obtained the bottle, which Xiao Hua handed to Fu Zhiwen, while the others watched the power of the Immortal Palace’s Heavenly Punishment Lightning overwhelm the restriction.

• Xiao Hua named Fu Zhiwen as the one who would break the restriction, and Fu Zhiwen brought out the Lightning Derivation Wood box containing the Heavenly Punishment Prisoner Crystal.
• Fu Zhiwen lowered the crystal over the jade bottle’s restriction, and its Heavenly Punishment Lightning clashed with the restriction’s lightning.
• Xiao Hua urged Zhang Daoran and the others to strike the weakened restriction with their magical treasures.
• Xiao Hua used Sleeve Universe to take the jade bottle and passed it to Fu Zhiwen.
• Gongshu Yixin asked Xiao Hua to move the crystal to another restriction, but Xiao Hua refused, while Fairy Xiangfeng regretted not acting sooner.

Xiao Hua and his companions divided the spirit pills after Fu Zhiwen broke the restriction, then yielded the next attempt to True Person Han’s group. True Person Han prepared a Lightning Devouring Bead, and Xiao Hua offered to help if the attempt faltered in exchange for forty percent of the spoils.

• Gu Suqiudi examined the pills while Zhang Daoran returned the Heavenly Punishment Prisoner Crystal to Fu Zhiwen and reminded True Person Diquan’s group to make their attempt next.
• Zhang Daoran and the others withdrew to divide the pills, while True Person Diquan and his companions struggled to find a way through the restriction.
• Xunkong Shangren gave True Person Han’s group ten hours to prepare, and True Person Han set up arrays before discussing a plan with his companions.
• True Person Han produced a worn Lightning Devouring Bead and announced that his plan had a thirty percent chance of success.
• Xiao Hua offered to intervene if True Person Han’s attempt neared failure, asking for forty percent in return.

Xiao Hua helped the cultivators break the restriction and obtained the spirit artifact, then traded it to True Person Han for the damaged Thunder Bead. With the cave cleared and no other way forward, the group prepared to split up and enter the final illusion array.

• Xiao Hua proposed using True Person Han's Lightning Devouring Bead to weaken the restriction, and the cultivators agreed to try.
• True Person Han and the others attacked the restriction, and Xiao Hua used the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors to open a flaw and retrieve the spirit artifact, suffering a lightning injury.
• Xiao Hua traded forty percent of the spirit artifact for True Person Han's damaged Thunder Bead, then subdued the escaping artifact and gave it to True Person Han.
• True Person Han and the other three cultivators discussed matters under a restriction and returned in high spirits, while Gongshu Yixin's objection to Xiao Hua giving away the artifact went unanswered.
• Zhang Daoran proposed that the cultivators split into four groups to enter the final illusion array, and True Person Han asked to travel with him.

Xiao Hua entered the second layer of the Yunshan Illusion Array with Fu Zhiwen and Fairy Xiangfeng, while other cultivators followed through separate passages. As they pressed onward, Xiao Hua explained why he had killed two cultivators at the Yaotai Gathering, and Fairy Xiangfeng accepted that they deserved it.

• Xiao Hua stored the jade table, then entered the cave with Fu Zhiwen after placing Xue Ping and the other cultivators in the Kunlun Ruins.
• A thick-browed Confucian cultivator and three yellow-robed Confucian cultivators arrived later and pursued the group through separate passages.
• In the second layer, Fairy Xiangfeng helped Fu Zhiwen fend off attacks until Xiao Hua told her to rest and gave her an elixir.
• Fairy Xiangfeng questioned Xiao Hua about protecting Xue Ping and the others and about his actions at the Yaotai Gathering.
• Xiao Hua recounted why he had killed True Person Xiangtian and True Person Chu Feng, and Fairy Xiangfeng agreed that they deserved death.

Xiao Hua and Fairy Xiangfeng pushed through the Yunshan Illusion Array’s second layer, where their magic power and treasures were suppressed, and entered a strange space that left them unable to use their abilities. Xiao Hua nevertheless walked as if he could see a path, and Fairy Xiangfeng asked whether he could perceive the space’s restrictions.

• Xiao Hua told Fairy Xiangfeng that he had killed Fairy Xuming after she joined others in attacking him, then asked whether Fairy Xiangfeng had seen her outside the array; she denied it and swore a blood oath.
• A torrent of dust and shattered stone surged through the secret passage, and Fairy Xiangfeng used her Dust-Repelling Ring to lead the way while Xiao Hua backed her with the Sea-Overturning Seal.
• As the restrictions drained their magic power and suppressed their Nascent Souls, Xiao Hua stored Fu Zhiwen and his own Nascent Souls in the Kunlun Mirror and Kunlun Ruins.
• Xiao Hua and Fairy Xiangfeng emerged into a glowing space where divine sense could not find the boundary and they could no longer use magic power, flight, treasures, or storage bags.
• Xiao Hua began walking along a winding route without hesitation, and Fairy Xiangfeng followed before asking if he could see the restrictions.

Fairy Xiangfeng tried to leave Xiao Hua in the Yunshan Illusion Array but was trapped by deadly attacks that could only be countered with divine sense. Xiao Hua rescued her and led her deeper into the boundless space, where a strange wind began to reveal his body’s startling resilience.

• Fairy Xiangfeng slipped away from Xiao Hua and triggered an attack of flying leaves and pine needles, then realized the space tested divine sense control.
• Fairy Xiangfeng defended herself from relentless hail with cherry-blossom barriers until Xiao Hua found her and cleared the clouds with his Nascent Soul hand.
• Xiao Hua led Fairy Xiangfeng out of the hail-filled area and continued through the seemingly endless space.
• Fairy Xiangfeng noticed the growing wind and questioned Xiao Hua about finding an exit, but the strange wind swept her words away.
• Fairy Xiangfeng shielded herself from the wind and watched it crack her divine-sense barrier, while Xiao Hua stood unprotected as it shredded his robe without harming him.

Xiao Hua and Fairy Xiangfeng faced Canglangzi’s hurricane trial, which tested both the strength and control of their divine sense. Xiao Hua devised increasingly impressive ways to carry them through the storm, while Fairy Xiangfeng’s chance to attack him passed.

• Fairy Xiangfeng struggled through the strange wind until a hurricane formed, and Xiao Hua explained that they had to pass through it using divine-sense techniques.
• Xiao Hua grabbed Fairy Xiangfeng and manifested wings from divine sense, flying with her into the hurricane.
• When Xiao Hua’s flight faltered, Fairy Xiangfeng considered drawing a sharp weapon, but Xiao Hua formed a divine-sense flying boat and called her aboard.
• Xiao Hua realized the trial tested divine-sense control and demonstrated that divine sense could replace magical artifacts.
• After the flying boat shattered, Xiao Hua formed enormous wings that repeatedly reappeared when broken, carrying them steadily through the hurricane.

After escaping the hurricane, Xiao Hua and Fairy Xiangfeng faced the Yunshan Illusion Array’s final trial: endless charging brown bears. As Fairy Xiangfeng fought and Xiao Hua realized the array’s danger might endanger the others, he used a Divine Thought Hammer to destroy several bears at once.

• Xiao Hua and Fairy Xiangfeng descended after escaping the hurricane, then sensed a new trial approaching along their path.
• A giant brown bear charged them, and Fairy Xiangfeng killed it with a long spear made of Divine Thought.
• More brown bears arrived in groups, and Fairy Xiangfeng repeatedly hurled spears at them while Xiao Hua assessed the escalating danger.
• Xiao Hua realized the inner illusion array was designed for cultivators of far greater strength and feared his actions had led Zhang Daoran and the others into danger.
• Xiao Hua formed his Divine Thought into a hammer and destroyed several brown bears at once, startling Fairy Xiangfeng.

Xiao Hua and Fairy Xiangfeng fought through the brown bears until Xiao Hua used a divine-sense vortex to sweep them away, leaving him utterly exhausted. Fairy Xiangfeng revealed her identity and her plan to avenge True Person Xiangtian, but she could not bring herself to kill Xiao Hua and turned the Poison Dragon Tooth on herself.

• Xiao Hua and Fairy Xiangfeng charged into the brown bear horde, fighting until both were exhausted and Fairy Xiangfeng began to fall behind.
• Xiao Hua gathered falling boulders into a huge vortex that drew in the brown bears, then collapsed after losing all his divine sense.
• Fairy Xiangfeng approached Xiao Hua with a Poison Dragon Tooth and revealed that she was not Yun Mengzi but the female-bodied Fairy Xiangfeng, True Person Xiangtian's partner.
• Fairy Xiangfeng said she intended to kill Xiao Hua for killing Xiangtian, despite Xiao Hua having saved her life, and explained that the fang's poison could destroy him.
• Fairy Xiangfeng hesitated before striking Xiao Hua, confessed that Xiangtian's own conduct had led to his death, and raised the fang toward her own neck.

Xiao Hua stopped Fairy Xiangfeng from killing him, revealed that he had long suspected her identity, and persuaded her to abandon her murderous intent. After the illusion space shattered and his Innate Divine Restriction absorbed its attacks and insights, Xiao Hua emerged to find that the surrounding space had no discernible end.

• Xiao Hua seized Fairy Xiangfeng’s hand before she could strike him with the Poison Dragon Tooth and revealed that he had suspected she was Fairy Xiangfeng.
• Xiao Hua explained why he had saved Fairy Xiangfeng and told her Little Cabbage’s story, leading her to promise that she would try to treat others with kindness.
• Fairy Xiangfeng released the Poison Dragon Tooth, and Xiao Hua took it before the collapsing illusion space’s divine sense attacks knocked her unconscious.
• Xiao Hua’s Innate Divine Restriction shielded him from the attacks, awakened, and sent insights into the space of his primordial spirit avatars for Heavenly Dao Xiao Hua to study.
• Xiao Hua withdrew from his space and discovered that the passage had not reappeared and that his Buddhist sense could not find the end of the surrounding space.

Xiao Hua was trapped in a Confucian Yuan formation by Duanmu Liangsheng, a Great Grandmaster sent by the Duanmu Family to capture him. The two clashed, and Xiao Hua’s hidden weapons and Confucian sword qi surprised Duanmu Liangsheng, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Four Righteous Qi Pillars formed a Yuan formation around Xiao Hua, and Duanmu Liangsheng emerged from one of them.
• Duanmu Liangsheng revealed that the Duanmu Family had sent him after Xiao Hua and claimed his fifth-grade mid-tier Yuan force and Yuan formation gave him a decisive advantage.
• Xiao Hua attacked with the As-You-Wish Staff, but Duanmu Liangsheng evaded it using his Refining Spirit into Void cultivation.
• Xiao Hua sent out the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors and two flying swords, forcing Duanmu Liangsheng to dodge and summon a jade-green flying sword.
• Duanmu Liangsheng blocked Xiao Hua’s flying swords with a fan-shaped curtain of sword light, though the impact shattered more than half of it.

Xiao Hua unleashed an escalating barrage of flying swords against Duanmu Liangsheng inside the origin formation, revealing swordsmanship that made Duanmu Liangsheng suspect he was a Legalist disciple. Duanmu Liangsheng chose to test Xiao Hua rather than immediately capture or kill him, while Xiao Hua decided to keep him alive as a cover with the Duanmu Family.

• Xiao Hua drew on the origin formation's Vast Righteous Qi to restrain Duanmu Liangsheng with an enormous azure sword, then followed it with a scarlet sword.
• Duanmu Liangsheng countered with his bamboo-colored flying sword, but Xiao Hua summoned more swords until their combined attack forced Duanmu Liangsheng to form a subsidiary body.
• Xiao Hua's eight swords surged forward, and he transformed himself into a sword, strengthening the attack as the other nine swords joined its momentum.
• Duanmu Liangsheng praised Xiao Hua's Sword Dao and offered to release him if he could withstand three punches, while Xiao Hua decided to spare him and use him to mislead the Duanmu Family.
• Xiao Hua charged at Duanmu Liangsheng, who transformed his subsidiary body's arms and upper body into jade-like defenses to meet the sword.

Xiao Hua escaped Duanmu Liangsheng’s attack by tearing open the Yuan array with the Kunlun Mirror, then tried to lose his pursuer in the Yunshan Illusion Array. After a trap caught him, a strange passage formed in the Vast Righteous Qi and swept him away.

• Xiao Hua used the Kunlun Mirror and Lightning Evasion Technique to break through the Yuan array and escape Duanmu Liangsheng.
• Duanmu Liangsheng pursued Xiao Hua through the Yunshan Illusion Array, while Xiao Hua switched to Wind Evasion and tried to confuse him among the branching passages.
• Duanmu Liangsheng set a Yuan array trap, but Xiao Hua broke through it with the Kunlun Mirror and left fire talismans and restrictions behind.
• Duanmu Liangsheng triggered Xiao Hua’s Fire Talisman Star Array and was battered by its explosions and the illusion array’s counterattacking restrictions.
• Xiao Hua was caught by Vast Righteous Qi, unleashed his Dharma Body Golden Body, and was swept into a strange passage formed by the swirling energy.