Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua discovered that Canglangzi’s Yunshan Illusion Array concealed a turtle shell containing a Heaven Heart, which helped his Confucian counterpart transform and gain a deeper grasp of Confucian cultivation. After leaving the array, Xiao Hua unexpectedly returned to the same empty cave residence.

• Xiao Hua recognized the dark-green turtle shell as the source of a Heaven Heart hidden inside the Yunshan Illusion Array.
• Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua absorbed the clouds, the turtle shell’s aura, and the three-colored Heaven Heart, transforming as the illusory world gathered into him.
• Xiao Hua and Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua discussed the remaining secrets of Confucian cultivation and the need to find the final Heaven Heart.
• Xiao Hua sent Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua back into his body and flew away on a scroll, eager to explore Canglangzi’s cave residence.
• Xiao Hua flew out through a stone wall and found himself back in the same empty cave residence, where the jade table and Yan Lingzhi were gone.

Xiao Hua helped Fairy Xiangfeng find hope in seeking Forgetfulness Water, then sent her and the other cultivators down a separate passage while he waited for Duanmu Liangsheng. He remained wary of the approaching enemy and asked Fu Zhiwen whether he remembered their earlier route.

• Xiao Hua released Fairy Xiangfeng, warned her against attacking him, and told her about the Forgetfulness Water at Shattered Heart Mountain.
• Fairy Xiangfeng agreed to seek the water, then chose a passage and led Xue Ping and the other disciples away from Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua told Fu Zhiwen that Duanmu Liangsheng, a fifth-grade mid-tier Yuan force Great Grandmaster, was approaching and explained why he had separated the others from them.
• Xiao Hua and Fu Zhiwen prepared to face Duanmu Liangsheng, but no one appeared, and Fu Zhiwen warned that the lightning punishment of the Heavenly Punishment Prisoner Crystal was returning.
• Xiao Hua noticed the passage resembling a brown bear and asked Fu Zhiwen if he remembered their earlier route.

Xiao Hua and Fu Zhiwen reached Canglangzi’s inner cave residence, where they found little in the main chamber but discovered a pill chamber and writing that suggested Xiaoyu Continent had once been part of the same world as the Three Great Continents. The chapter left Xiao Hua stunned by the possibility that the Qiang He Sea’s three great formations had separated Xiaoyu Continent from the other lands.

• Xiao Hua and Fu Zhiwen entered the cave and found themselves in Canglangzi’s inner cave residence rather than the secret passage.
• Xiao Hua discovered that Buddhist sense and divine thought could not be used in the residence, while his soul sense could still inspect it.
• Xiao Hua found the main chamber mostly empty and sent Fu Zhiwen to collect the few magical artifacts before heading toward the pill chamber.
• Xiao Hua entered the pill chamber and recognized the writing on its jade bottles as similar to the characters used on Xiaoyu Continent.
• Xiao Hua reasoned that Xiaoyu Continent might once have belonged to the same realm as the Three Great Continents, separated by the Qiang He Sea’s three great formations.

Xiao Hua explored Canglangzi’s pill chamber and herb garden, finding pills that restored his divine sense and a strange tree growing in Yellow Springs Water. He discovered the tree bore patterns resembling the Heavenly Pattern Earth Deed and suspected it was connected to soul cultivators, but its powerful restrictions left him unable to investigate further.

• Xiao Hua reasoned that finding his home in Cangxian Continent might lead him back to Xiaoyu Continent, and planned to search for Lu Town after helping the Princess of Jiang Kingdom establish her nation.
• Xiao Hua broke the pill chamber’s simple restrictions, collected the jade bottles, and swallowed a Spirit Nurturing Pill that restored his divine sense.
• Xiao Hua entered Canglangzi’s vast herb garden and released Xiao Guo and Little Silver to gather its remaining spiritual herbs.
• Xiao Hua found a jade-green tree with patterned leaves and fruits growing in a pit of Yellow Springs Water.
• Xiao Hua used his Eye of Delusion Breaking to examine the powerful restrictions and recognized patterns on the tree resembling the Heavenly Pattern Earth Deed, which made him suspect a connection to soul cultivators.

Xiao Hua learned that Little White came from the Myriad Monster Realm and received its recovered memories before asking it to identify a mysterious tree behind a restriction. Little White recognized the tree as a ten-million-year-old, exceptionally rare Nether Fruit and explained how Xiao Hua could harvest it for Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua.

• Little White shared its recovered memories with Xiao Hua, revealing that it had been born in the Myriad Monster Realm and that Empress was the Wind Race demon Xie Yuan, Mossa the Demon King's beloved consort.
• Little White reacted excitedly to the tree behind the restriction, identified it as a Nether Fruit, and explained that its 365 fruits and nine leaves per branch showed its age and quality.
• Little White explained that the Nether Fruit would mature after twelve million years, but that its immature fruits and leaves were still exceptionally useful to souls.
• Little White warned Xiao Hua to harvest the Nether Fruit using soul threads alone and to send it into the mysterious dark clouds for Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua.

Xiao Hua studied the restriction guarding the Nether Fruit and prepared to break it with green-robed Xiao Hua’s Golden Crow Immortal Slaying Demon Array. When he left the pill chamber to find Fu Zhiwen, he discovered Huang Shou had captured him and walked into a trap.

• Xiao Hua concluded that the restriction consisted of interlocking smaller restrictions and decided to use Fu Zhiwen’s Heavenly Punishment Prisoner Crystal to help break it.
• Green-robed Xiao Hua set up the Golden Crow Immortal Slaying Demon Array while Xiao Hua prepared their attack on the restriction.
• Xiao Hua emerged from the pill chamber and found Huang Shou holding Fu Zhiwen’s Cosmic Bag while Fu Zhiwen lay in pain at his feet.
• Xiao Hua attacked Huang Shou with the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors, but Huang Shou blocked the strike with a mountain peak from his folding fan and retreated.
• Two more Huang Shous appeared behind Xiao Hua and trapped him in rosy radiance and swirling armor inscriptions.

Xiao Hua escaped the Yellow Earth Lock and killed Huang Shou and his two brothers, discovering that their weapons and names linked them to the Xuanhuang List. He obtained the Yellow Earth Lock and Xuanhuang Order, freed Fu Zhiwen, and asked him what had happened with the three Confucian cultivators.

• Huang Shou and his brothers trapped Xiao Hua in the Yellow Earth Lock and tried to take his Cosmic Bag.
• Xiao Hua's Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors killed one brother, while Green-robed Xiao Hua's attack killed the other; Xiao Hua then used the Xuanhuang Order's appearance to defeat and kill Huang Shou.
• Xiao Hua examined the brothers' memories and realized their names and artifacts connected them to the Xuanhuang List, though their origins had been erased.
• Xiao Hua learned to unlock the Yellow Earth Lock from their memories, then took the lock and Xuanhuang Order.
• Xiao Hua freed Fu Zhiwen and asked what had happened with the three Confucian cultivators.

Xiao Hua learned that Fu Zhiwen had taken Canglangzi’s legacy and secured the herb garden against intruders. After the Heavenly Punishment Prisoner Crystal failed to break the defensive barrier, Xiao Hua prepared to exploit a small flaw with help from his Confucian cultivator self.

• Fu Zhiwen told Xiao Hua that Huang Shou and two companions had captured him and demanded Xiao Hua’s whereabouts, and Xiao Hua burned their corpses and collected their Cosmic Bags.
• Xiao Hua kept Canglangzi’s formation legacy, then set up the Duotian Star Array at the herb garden entrance and worried that stronger cultivators might arrive.
• Little Silver and Xiao Guo gathered spirit herbs while Fu Zhiwen studied the garden’s Spirit Gathering Formations.
• Fu Zhiwen used the Heavenly Punishment Prisoner Crystal against the barrier over the Underworld Fruit, but its lightning dispersed harmlessly across the defensive formation.
• Xiao Hua decided to open a small crack rather than destroy the barrier and summoned his Confucian cultivator self and nine flying swords to help strike its weakness.

Xiao Hua and his Primordial Spirits combined their thunder, fire, and magical weapons to break through the barrier and retrieve the Nether Fruit. After it transformed Xiao Hua’s soul, he and Fu Zhiwen cleared out the medicinal field and returned to the cave residence.

• Xiao Hua and his three Primordial Spirits fused their thunder techniques, then struck the barrier with the Golden Crow Immortal Slaying Demon Array, the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors, and Sorrowful Soul Severing.
• Xiao Hua used the Kunlun Mirror to open a brief passage, and Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua pulled the Nether Fruit into the mysterious yin clouds.
• The Nether Fruit transformed into a towering tree, released ancient runes into the mysterious yin clouds, and began changing Xiao Hua’s soul; its root stalk fell into Xiao Hua’s Yin aspect of space.
• The barrier repaired itself after Xiao Hua retrieved the fruit, and Fu Zhiwen congratulated his master.
• Xiao Hua, Fu Zhiwen, Xiao Guo, and Little Silver gathered every spirit herb from the medicinal field and returned to the cave residence.

Xiao Hua discovered thirteen hidden ants in Canglangzi's cave dwelling and gained his true legacy by comprehending the cultivation knowledge they contained. After three years of enlightenment, the Yunshan Illusion Array opened a path to Canglangzi's true cave dwelling, and Xiao Hua and Fu Zhiwen prepared to leave.

• Xiao Hua noticed the jade ruyi pointed toward a wall and used his soul awareness to discover thirteen unusual ants hidden there.
• Xiao Hua comprehended the ants' teachings, while the resulting Heavenly Dao fluctuations let Fu Zhiwen and cultivators throughout the illusion array gain enlightenment.
• Xiao Hua recognized the ants as Canglangzi's true legacy and wondered about Du Shanjun's mysterious cultivation.
• Xiao Hua found that the cloud bed could not be moved, then left it behind as the Heavenly Dao fluctuations ceased and entrances appeared in the illusion array.
• Xiao Hua learned that Fu Zhiwen's Heavenly Book had condensed to ninety percent and that Fu Zhiwen expected to reach the Great Confucian realm within three years.
• Xiao Hua and Fu Zhiwen set out toward the newly opened entrance after realizing that more than three years had passed.

Mulu King found the ancient Cold Spirit Valley on the Cangxian Continent and waited there for Zhu Mei and Old Demon Zhi Feng to join him. When Zhi Feng arrived with a blue dragon, a clash with Zhu Mei began, and Mulu King's attempts to calm them went unheeded.

• Mulu King located the Cold Spirit Valley, confirmed it matched his clan’s inherited memories, and summoned a strange bird to summon help.
• After waiting for dozens of days, Mulu King greeted Zhu Mei, who questioned the valley’s history but agreed to investigate it for possible ancient rewards and bloodlines.
• Mulu King explained that he had invited Old Demon Zhi Feng because Zhi Feng mastered the Wind-Walking Technique needed to enter the valley.
• Zhu Mei and Mulu King sensed an approaching divine sense, and Zhu Mei challenged its source as a blue dragon rushed toward them.
• Zhu Mei flew forward to fight the dragon while Mulu King and Zhi Feng both called for a misunderstanding; the dragon rejected their pleas and attacked.

At Cold Spirit Valley, Ao Zhan revealed that Great Sage Feathered Sky-Piercing Kong had praised Zhu Mei’s potential, easing the tension among the gathered demons. Mulu King began explaining the valley’s trials, but Ao Qing suddenly attacked two water beasts in the river.

• Ao Shuai arrived with Ao Zhan and Ao Qing, and Ao Qing challenged Mulu King’s claim to be a king.
• Zhu Mei and Ao Qing provoked each other until Ao Zhan shared Great Sage Feathered Sky-Piercing Kong’s seven-word appraisal of Zhu Mei’s talent.
• Zhu Mei thanked Ao Zhan, while Old Demon Zhi Feng and Ao Shuai discussed their cultivation progress.
• Mulu King explained that Cold Spirit Valley contained an Ancient Star Gathering Demon Array and trials that offered inheritance fragments or pure bloodline.
• Ao Qing spotted something near the river, rushed over, and killed two water beasts with crystalline threads of water.

Mulu King and the demons prepared to enter Cold Spirit Valley, negotiating over the blood essence the ancient barrier demanded. They began the ritual at the five hills, where Zhu Mei noticed the unusual purity of Ao Zhan’s bloodline.

• Ao Zhan led a search around the hills, but the demons found no trace of the Reverse Water Beasts’ allies.
• Mulu King gave Old Demon Zhi Feng a beast hide, then distributed instructions for entering Cold Spirit Valley to Zhu Mei and the Dragon Palace demons.
• Zhu Mei hesitated to spend his blood essence, but agreed after Ao Zhan explained his curiosity about the ancient Demon Race trial and Mulu King offered him an extra half share of their shared gains.
• The demons took positions at the five hills, and Old Demon Zhi Feng rose into the sky as Mulu King checked the instructions and told them to begin.
• The five demons spat out blood essence, drawing Star Moon light and Primordial Qi into the ritual, and Zhu Mei noticed that Ao Zhan’s bloodline seemed exceptionally pure.

The demons opened the entrance to Cold Spirit Valley by awakening five ancient beast totems, and Mulu King’s antler token revealed a hidden trial ground. As a Lightning Flood Dragon approached, Mulu King touched the token and received an obscure message.

• Zhu Mei and the other demons used their essence blood to awaken five mountain totems, which revealed images of the Primordial Dragon, the Heavenly Phoenix, and other ancient ancestors.
• Mulu King matched his antler token to the Deer King totem, opening a passage beneath the river, and Old Demon Zhi Feng entered it using the Wind-Walking Technique.
• Mulu King and the other demons followed through the passage into the wilderness, while the entrance gradually shrank behind them.
• Ao Shuai and Mulu King checked the entrance, then Zhu Mei and Ao Zhan returned to confirm that no other demons had followed them in.
• A Lightning Flood Dragon flew toward the group, and Ao Zhan identified it as their likely trial opponent.
• Mulu King seized the antler token and froze when an obscure message came from it.

Mulu King and the other demons escaped the Lightning Flood Dragon after discovering the creatures in Cold Spirit Valley were demon beasts without divine sense, while two dragons, Jiang Peng and Jiang Che, entered the valley and concealed themselves. Meanwhile, Xiao Hua suspected Canglangzi’s cloud bed concealed the cave’s greatest treasure, and he prepared to investigate despite Fu Zhiwen urging caution.

• Mulu King told the demons that Cold Spirit Valley was an ancient trial ground inhabited by demon beasts without divine sense, and Zhu Mei led the group away as the Lightning Flood Dragon approached.
• A burst of star power struck the Lightning Flood Dragon at the entrance, but it recovered and pursued the fleeing demons.
• Jiang Peng and Jiang Che emerged from the entrance, agreed to hide and adapt their plan, then used their changing scales to blend into their surroundings.
• Xiao Hua stopped Fu Zhiwen from leaving and reasoned that the immovable cloud bed likely concealed the cave’s greatest secret.
• Fu Zhiwen gave Xiao Hua the Wooden Box containing the Heavenly Punishment Prisoner Crystal and warned him not to risk his life for another treasure.
• Xiao Hua reassured Fu Zhiwen that his luck would carry him through Canglangzi’s remaining trials.

Xiao Hua discovered a hidden passage beneath Canglangzi’s cloud bed and entered a chamber containing strange murals and a bone-covered altar. The altar held an oil lamp resembling one from the Myriad Monster Realm, and after the murals stirred his bloodline and awakened a primordial aura, Xiao Hua placed his lamp on the altar, but nothing happened.

• Xiao Hua brought Fu Zhiwen along to investigate the cloud bed after explaining that he sensed no mortal danger.
• Xiao Hua used his Eye of Delusion Breaking to find a tiny hidden point, then lifted the cloud bed with his physical strength and was pulled into a concealed space with Fu Zhiwen.
• Fu Zhiwen suffered when he examined the murals with divine sense, so Xiao Hua stored him in the Kunlun Mirror.
• Xiao Hua found a battered oil lamp on the altar that matched one he had obtained in Xuntian City and suspected the altar was connected to the Myriad Monster Realm.
• Xiao Hua examined the murals, which stirred his bloodline and caused a primordial aura to surge from the altar.
• Xiao Hua placed his own oil lamp on the altar, but it showed no reaction.

Xiao Hua activated the altar and entered the Yi Ze Realm, where he discovered that it preserved ancient bloodlines and used them in a scheme to create a Supreme Sacred Bloodline. As he wondered why the realm and its Primordial Chaos aura felt familiar, a gigantic bird attacked him.

• Xiao Hua lit the Seven-Colored Beast oil lamp, causing its radiance to transform the altar's totems and reveal the entrance to the Yi Ze Realm.
• Xiao Hua placed the Si Yin Cauldron into the beast's maw and used the Metal Evasion technique to travel through the collapsing altar into the realm.
• Xiao Hua found a world beneath nine suns and ten moons, sensed the power of stars and moon, and used it to enlarge his Dharma Body before retrieving the Si Yin Cauldron.
• Xiao Hua learned from the Si Yin Cauldron that the Yi Ze Realm preserved ancient bloodlines and was designed to produce a Supreme Sacred Bloodline, then questioned why the place felt familiar to him.
• A gigantic bird attacked Xiao Hua, who enlarged the As-You-Wish Staff and charged upward with the Divine Strength Centipede to meet it.

Xiao Hua fought off a ferocious bird in the Yi Ze Realm, where scarce Primordial Qi weakened his usual abilities, and decided to seek the Supreme Sacred Bloodline. After a stronger bird and a swarm of giant beasts drove him into the forest, he escaped using the Wood Escape Technique while the beasts tore through the grove.

• Xiao Hua used his golden body, the As-You-Wish Staff, and the Divine Thought Hammer to fight a ferocious bird, but the weak Primordial Qi in the Yi Ze Realm prevented him from using many of his usual abilities.
• The ferocious bird fled after Xiao Hua struck it, and he concluded that even ordinary beasts in the realm possessed formidable powers.
• Xiao Hua chose to search for the Supreme Sacred Bloodline first and flew cautiously at low altitude using his soul cultivator’s flight technique.
• A much larger fierce bird pursued Xiao Hua, so he fled with Lightning Travel Through Three Realms and escaped when the bird hesitated.
• More than a dozen giant demonic beasts converged on Xiao Hua, and he descended into the forest and vanished with the Wood Escape Technique as the beasts tore through the grove.

Xiao Hua and Ao Zhan fought after mistaking each other for threats, then fled when a Great Peng Golden-Winged Bird and other powerful beasts converged on them. After discovering Ao Zhan was a Dragon Guard from the East Sea Dragon Palace, Xiao Hua led him to hide in a tree hollow as danger approached.

• Xiao Hua ambushed Ao Zhan, and the two fought until a Great Peng Golden-Winged Bird arrived and forced them to flee.
• Ao Zhan pursued Xiao Hua, who struck him with the Kunlun Mirror before running on as beasts closed in around them.
• Xiao Hua prepared to attack Ao Zhan with the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors, but Ao Zhan identified himself as a Dragon Guard from the East Sea Dragon Palace.
• Xiao Hua stopped his attack and told Ao Zhan to hide with him when he sensed danger ahead.
• Xiao Hua concealed himself beside a boulder, then directed Ao Zhan to hide inside a giant tree's hollow.

Xiao Hua escaped the demon beasts by turning the Lightning Flood Dragon toward a battle, then reunited with Ao Zhan in hiding. He questioned Ao Zhan about entering Cold Spirit Valley and about reshaping a dragon body, leaving Ao Zhan’s answer poised to reveal what he knew.

• A giant gray beast attacked the Great Peng Golden-Winged Bird, giving Xiao Hua and Ao Zhan a chance to flee.
• When the Lightning Flood Dragon caught up, Ao Zhan gave Xiao Hua a jade slip about dragon language in exchange for help drawing the beast away.
• Xiao Hua lured the Lightning Flood Dragon into the ongoing battle, then escaped with the Wood Escape Technique and found cover among rocks and fallen trees.
• Ao Zhan reunited with Xiao Hua, and they introduced themselves and discussed their reasons for entering Cold Spirit Valley.
• Xiao Hua questioned Ao Zhan about the demon who had led him into the valley and asked whether he knew how a dragon soul could reshape a dragon body; Ao Zhan said he did.