Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua was trapped between Sun Jian and the pursuing Great Confucian Grandmasters Sun Cheng and Sun Hao, and learned that the forbidden Black Ruins Mountain was also called Heavenly Prison, where no cultivator had ever survived. After rejecting surrender and trying to bargain for his life, Xiao Hua was enclosed by the grandmasters’ furnaces and suppressed by their flames and domain power.

• Xiao Hua encountered Sun Jian at Black Ruins Mountain and asked him to report his intelligence to the Immortal Emperor, but Sun Jian warned him not to approach.
• Sun Jian revealed that Black Ruins Mountain was Heavenly Prison, a place from which no cultivator had ever returned alive, and Xiao Hua abandoned the idea of entering it.
• Xiao Hua offered Sun Cheng and Sun Hao the Cosmic Bag in exchange for his life, but they said they could not promise to release him.
• Xiao Hua refused to surrender, and Sun Cheng and Sun Hao activated the Blazing Heaven Furnace and Earth Casting Furnace to trap him.
• Sun Cheng and Sun Hao unleashed their flames and Vast Righteous Qi, suppressing Xiao Hua’s abilities as their secondary bodies forced the furnaces to close around him.

Xiao Hua used the blood bone to awaken the three-headed, six-armed skeleton, which transformed into a devastating Heavenly Human and killed Sun Cheng. A Literary Sage arrived to intervene, but as he fought the Heavenly Human, Sun Hao suddenly attacked him.

• Xiao Hua placed the blood bone on the skeleton, transforming it into a towering Heavenly Human while the blood bone drained his essence and left him unable to move.
• The Heavenly Human broke Sun Cheng’s magical artifacts and confinement, then killed Sun Cheng by destroying his avatar and devouring his True Qi, soul, and blood shadow.
• The Heavenly Human began attacking Sun Hao, but a Literary Sage arrived and asked where Xiao Hua was.
• Sun Hao claimed Xiao Hua had been wounded by the monster, while Xiao Hua recognized the newcomer as a True Confucian scholar who had come to rescue him.
• The Literary Sage fought the Heavenly Human, but Sun Hao suddenly appeared beside him and plunged his lengthened arm into the Sage’s avatar.

Sun Hao revealed himself as a Literary Star, killed the Heavenly Human with the Son of Heaven Sword’s outer shell, and tried to silence Xiao Hua and Sun Jian. Sun Jian used the Kunlun Mirror and his Void Breaking Eye to unleash a black wind that swept them into Black Ruins Mountain, leaving Xiao Hua unable to move and worried about the blood bone in Sun Jian’s robes.

• Sun Hao absorbed the Literary Sage’s duplicate, transformed into a Literary Star, and attacked the Heavenly Human.
• Xiao Hua told Sun Jian that Sun Cheng, Wu Han, and the Literary Sage had pursued him for an object, while Sun Hao fought the Heavenly Human.
• Sun Hao drew the Son of Heaven Sword’s outer shell and reduced the Heavenly Human to bones.
• Sun Hao demanded that Sun Jian hand over Xiao Hua and swear silence, but Sun Jian refused to betray the Immortal Emperor.
• Sun Jian activated the Kunlun Mirror and Void Breaking Eye, opening a crack in Black Ruins Mountain and letting black wind carry him, Xiao Hua, and hundreds of soldiers inside.
• Sun Hao killed the remaining soldiers and burned the corpses, while Xiao Hua was dragged into the spatial fissure and worried that Sun Jian still carried the Heavenly Human’s blood bone.

Xiao Hua and Sun Jian drifted through the Heavenly Prison, where regions governed by strange time fluctuations rapidly aged three Immortal Soldiers to dust. Xiao Hua realized the fluctuations might be a form of cultivation energy, though he was left wondering whether this method stood above the Immortal Realm.

• Xiao Hua and Sun Jian drifted powerless through the Heavenly Prison for days, unable to cultivate or inspect Xiao Hua’s space.
• Xiao Hua accepted that he might remain trapped, then resolved to keep living for the disciples and loved ones who depended on him.
• Two twisted strands of light revealed a region where three Immortal Soldiers rapidly aged and disintegrated, while Xiao Hua and Sun Jian remained unchanged outside it.
• Xiao Hua sensed that a passing time fluctuation restored a trace of his blood essence and considered how different regions might experience time differently.
• After another fluctuation affected no one visibly, Xiao Hua recognized similarities to fluctuations that had helped him cultivate and wondered if they were a higher form of spiritual energy.

Xiao Hua and Sun Jian drifted through Black Ruins Mountain’s shifting time regions as Xiao Hua recovered his strength and learned how time affected his space. Xiao Hua obtained Sun Jian’s Kunlun Mirror shell to combine with his own, then asked what Sun Jian meant by comparing Penglai Fairyland with the Kunlun Immortal Realm.

• Sun Jian watched people vanish or turn to bones in separate halos while Xiao Hua absorbed passing fluctuations and slowly regained his vital blood.
• After a halo stretched them across different time spans, Xiao Hua recovered enough to speak and asked Sun Jian for his blood-colored bone.
• Xiao Hua and Sun Jian discussed their bleak chances of surviving the Heavenly Prison, and Xiao Hua asked Sun Jian for his Kunlun Mirror shell.
• After crossing several time regions, Xiao Hua found that his space’s time remained independent and had not changed for its inhabitants.
• Xiao Hua showed Sun Jian his true Kunlun Mirror, accepted Sun Jian’s shell, and sent both mirrors into his space for green-robed Xiao Hua to refine.
• Xiao Hua asked Sun Jian what relationship Penglai Fairyland had to the Kunlun Immortal Realm.

Xiao Hua and Sun Jian fell into separate time regions in the Heavenly Prison, and Xiao Hua rescued Sun Jian and a black box into his space before losing part of his divine sense. Xiao Hua and his incarnations discovered the prison’s fluctuations could support cultivation and identified gaps between time regions as a possible route back to Cangxian Continent.

• Sun Jian revealed that he suspected other magic treasures contained realms like the Kunlun Immortal Realm, then admitted he had been demoted to guard Black Ruins Mountain because of Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua and Sun Jian encountered a web of halos marking different time regions, and Xiao Hua pulled Sun Jian and a black box into his space just before Sun Jian was lost to the time boundary.
• Xiao Hua’s incarnations found fluctuations they could use to temper bones and cultivate their respective powers, while Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua identified two fluctuations resembling Vast Righteous Qi.
• Xiao Hua proposed that the Heavenly Prison’s gaps between time regions might offer a chance to escape, and his incarnations suggested searching for a fragment leading back to Cangxian Continent.
• Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua pointed out that Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua’s Nan Yuan Bei Zhe technique and the marks on the Great Shifting Heaven and Earth Token might help them find a way out.

Xiao Hua planned to search the Heavenly Prison for a way out and learned that Sun Jian had endured three thousand years there while only an instant passed for him. He taught Sun Jian the Five Qi Ascending to the Origin technique and left him to cultivate, then took the mysterious black box away for safekeeping.

• Xiao Hua and the Primordial Spirits agreed to cultivate, search for time fragments, and prepare the Nan Yuan Bei Zhe technique as their escape plan.
• Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua warned that mastering the Nan Yuan Bei Zhe technique would require reaching Silent Void Heaven, which could take a thousand years.
• Xiao Hua met Sun Jian in the Kunlun Immortal Realm and heard how Sun Jian had drifted in the Heavenly Prison for roughly three thousand years.
• Xiao Hua taught Sun Jian the Five Qi Ascending to the Origin technique, and Sun Jian accepted him as his master while vowing to settle accounts with Sun Hao.
• Xiao Hua took the unexplained black box from Sun Jian's region and stored it safely in a corner of the space.

Xiao Hua and his divided Primordial Spirits spent thousands of years cultivating while drifting through the Heavenly Prison, gaining breakthroughs, new techniques, and powerful abilities. As his seclusion continued, Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua mastered the Nan Yuan Bei Zhe technique, while the others strengthened themselves for the eventual escape.

• Xiao Hua entered seclusion in the Heavenly Prison, tempering his divine sense and cultivating whenever he encountered suitable fluctuations.
• Xiao Hua's space expanded as his divine sense reached sixty thousand li, and his spirit pets hatched while Xiao Guo refined pills to support his breakthroughs.
• Xiao Hua and his divided Nascent Souls endured repeated lightning-tribulation fluctuations, with the Formless Nascent Soul and scattered Nascent Souls reaching the eighth rank.
• Buddha Bodhi emerged from five thousand years of seclusion, shared Buddhist Dharma that calmed Xiao Hua's Primordial Spirits, and enabled them to separate more safely.
• Green-robed Xiao Hua used Bodhi's insights to retrieve a seven-colored crystal from the deity statue; Phoenix Body Xiao Hua absorbed its essence blood and recovered the External Incarnation technique.
• Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua reached Silent Void Heaven, mastered the Nan Yuan Bei Zhe technique and hundreds of Green Seal Script characters, while the other Primordial Spirits advanced their respective cultivation.

Xiao Hua and his divided Primordial Spirits and disciples advanced greatly during twenty thousand years in the Heavenly Prison, while the space developed its own vast population and cycles of reincarnation. Xiao Hua reached near the Mahayana realm and wondered whether reaching Tribulation Transcendence in the Heavenly Prison would let him ascend to the Immortal Realm.

• Bone Tempering Xiao Hua mastered his available techniques, while Demon Spirit Xiao Hua and Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua made rapid cultivation progress from the Heavenly Prison's unusual fluctuations.
• Xiao Hua's disciples developed through prolonged training, and the Creation Sect in his space grew from more than thirty thousand members to two hundred thousand, with nearly two million inhabitants practicing Daoist methods.
• Xiao Hua's space developed cycles in which souls were born into its yang aspect and returned to its yin aspect after death, and these changes also brought mysterious power of rules into Xue Xue's soul.
• Xiao Hua learned from green-robed Xiao Hua that twenty thousand years had passed in the Heavenly Prison and about six thousand years in the space, while Cangxian Continent had experienced roughly five thousand years.
• Xiao Hua and green-robed Xiao Hua remained unable to open the black box or find the Pure Land's divine sense marker as they traveled farther from Black Ruins Mountain.
• Xiao Hua asked whether reaching the Tribulation Transcendence realm in the Heavenly Prison would allow him to ascend to the Immortal Realm.

Xiao Hua discovered a faint divine sense marker inside a time fragment and used the Nan Yuan Bei Zhe technique to build a transmission passage toward it. He reached the marker and escaped the time fragment, though his destination remained unclear.

• Xiao Hua realized that ordinary divine sense and soul techniques could not find the marker on Great Snow Mountain across Heaven Prison’s vast time regions.
• After sensing a faint marker in an oval time fragment, Xiao Hua had Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua activate the Nan Yuan Bei Zhe technique to form a twisted transmission passage.
• Xiao Hua used the Great Universe Shifting Token and the time region’s attractive force to enter and stabilize the passage.
• Xiao Hua followed the faint marker through the destructive time fragments, relying on his Demigod Physique and Chaos Qi while comprehending the Law of Time.
• The transmission passage suddenly settled, the surrounding time fragments vanished, and Xiao Hua realized he had escaped the fragment.

Xiao Hua escaped the collapsing transmission passage and was accidentally carried by an ancient Teleportation Array to the Ruins instead of the Cangxian Continent. After rescuing Yue Mingxin and her injured senior brother from beasts, he learned where he had arrived and released his overwhelming divine sense.

• Xiao Hua's transmission passage collapsed, but a nearby Teleportation Array drew him in, and he stabilized it with his seal characters.
• Xiao Hua arrived in a mountain range, where Yue Mingxin called for help while fighting beasts and her senior brother lay trapped beneath the rocks.
• Xiao Hua apologized to Yue Mingxin's senior brother after realizing he had trampled him, then struck down the surrounding beasts with lightning.
• Xiao Hua pulled Yue Mingxin out of danger and killed the beast about to pierce her, while she blushed at his embrace.
• Yue Mingxin told Xiao Hua that he had arrived in the Ruins, not the Three Great Continents, and introduced herself as a disciple of the Incense-Passing Cult.
• Xiao Hua released his divine sense in shock, and Yue Mingxin and her senior brother stood in awe of his pressure.

Xiao Hua learned that he had arrived in the remote Ruins, where the Demon Race had cut off the teleportation routes, and agreed to escort Yue Mingxin and Yue Changming to the Incense-Passing Cult. After discovering that the fallen cultivators’ souls were trapped nearby, he investigated the strange confinement.

• Xiao Hua realized that Yue Mingxin and Yue Changming spoke a language he understood, though he could not identify where he had arrived.
• Yue Mingxin explained that the Ruins were surrounded by the Demon Race and that their teleportation arrays had stopped working.
• Xiao Hua learned of the Taibai Sect and Kunlun Sect, but said he came from the Three Great Continents, a place Yue Mingxin had never heard of.
• Xiao Hua agreed to escort Yue Mingxin and Yue Changming to the Incense-Passing Cult’s mountain gate and told them to recover the fallen cultivators’ remains.
• Buddha Bodhi alerted Xiao Hua to trapped souls, and Xiao Hua used the Eye of Delusion Breaking to see the wandering souls around the battlefield.

Xiao Hua gathered the wandering souls, returned with captured Demonic beings, and learned from Yue Mingxin that the Dragon Domain might be a lower realm of the Dragon Realm. He accompanied Yue Mingxin and Yue Changming to the Teleportation Array bound for the Seven Ridges Mountain Range.

• Xiao Hua drew the wandering souls within ten thousand miles into the Yin aspect of his space and told Yue Mingxin to wait for him.
• Yue Mingxin and Yue Changming collected the fallen cultivators' corpses and waited until Xiao Hua returned that night with two captured Demonic beings for them.
• Yue Mingxin offered Xiao Hua a Tongxi Ring, and Xiao Hua gave her and Yue Changming dragon crystals; Yue Mingxin then recalled hearing the Dragon Domain mentioned at Haoming Palace.
• Yue Changming explained that the Devil Race had trapped Yue Mingxin and that he had rushed to save her without alerting fellow disciples.
• Yue Changming activated the concealed Teleportation Array, and Xiao Hua prepared to travel with him and Yue Mingxin toward the Seven Ridges Mountain Range.

After learning that the Moon Palace was the destination to which cultivators of the Moon God Realm ascended, Xiao Hua traveled with Yue Mingxin and Yue Changming toward the Incense-Passing Cult. Their Teleportation Array was ambushed by the Devil Race, leaving them amid a fierce battle, where Xiao Hua killed the demon that attacked them.

• A Moon Sacrifice awakened Xiao Hua’s Formless Nascent Soul as Yue Mingxin explained that the Moon Palace governed the Moon God Realm and that its cultivators sought to enter it.
• Yue Mingxin warned Xiao Hua to conceal his origins and his ignorance of the Moon Palace, explaining that those who disrespected it were treated as outcasts.
• Yue Changming activated the Teleportation Array, but Devil Race claws shattered the passage before the three could reach their destination.
• Xiao Hua and his companions emerged above a mountain where Daoist cultivators and the Devil Race were battling around numerous Teleportation Arrays.
• A Devil Race member trapped Xiao Hua and his companions with black flames and attacked Xiao Hua with its tail, but Xiao Hua destroyed the tail with lightning.
• Xiao Hua struck the Devil Race member in the chest with a bolt of lightning, killing it and sending its body falling from the sky.

Xiao Hua and the Yue siblings reached a teleportation hub, only to find the Devil Race had destroyed its arrays. Xiao Hua unleashed his overwhelming powers against the invaders, leaving Yue Mingxin and Yue Changming in awe as the battle continued.

• Xiao Hua stored the Devil Race corpse, and Yue Mingxin warned him that the enemy was occupying one of Xu's nine major teleportation hubs.
• Xiao Hua discovered the Devil Race had destroyed the hub's Teleportation Arrays from within and promised to repair them after driving the enemy away.
• A Demon General attacked Xiao Hua with Demonic Flame and a spear, but Xiao Hua defeated it with lightning and his Divine Thought Hammer.
• Several Demon Generals attacked together, and Xiao Hua erased their blood light and Demonic Flame with Five-colored True Qi before expanding his domain across the hub.
• Xiao Hua's lightning and sword qi killed multiple Devil Race members, while Yue Mingxin and Yue Changming marveled at his power and bearing.

Xiao Hua rescued Daoist sect disciples from the Demon Race, but eighteen Devil Lords drew him into a void devil formation. Yue Mingxin led thousands of disciples in trying to summon the Moon Beast to save him, sacrificing her vitality as their prayers struck the Devil Race’s barrier.

• Xiao Hua cleared Teleportation Arrays of Demon Generals and freed hundreds of Daoist sect disciples.
• Eighteen Devil Lords and several dozen Demon Generals trapped Xiao Hua in a spatial devil formation and vanished with him into the void.
• Yue Mingxin told the gathered disciples that Xiao Hua had saved them and urged them to help rescue him by summoning the Moon Beast.
• Yue Mingxin and thousands of disciples offered prayer power and essence blood, but the Devil Race’s barrier blocked their summons.
• After repeated failed attempts, Yue Mingxin sacrificed more of her life essence, turning her hair white as she pleaded for the Moon Beast to descend.

Yue Mingxin’s vow opened a spatial rift that drew Xiao Hua into a blood-red void, where Devil Lords tried to kill him and seize his Buddhist golden body. Xiao Hua revealed several powerful Primordial Spirits to fight them, and the chapter ended as his Formless Nascent Soul joined the battle.

• Yue Mingxin’s vow power summoned a Moon Palace ripple that opened a spatial rift and pulled Xiao Hua into a blood-red void.
• Six Devil Lords surrounded Xiao Hua, and one used a devil banner to summon a golden soul transformed into a mounted general.
• Buddha Bodhi emerged from Xiao Hua and fought two Devil Lords, while the Confucian cultivator Wenqu and the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Da battled four others.
• Twelve more Devil Lords reinforced the blood-colored space, and two of them charged Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua summoned his Formless Nascent Soul, whose lightning shattered the surrounding space as he joined the fight.

Xiao Hua revealed his incarnations and helped defeat the Devil Lords, then emerged from the demonic array and found Yue Mingxin gravely weakened after she had summoned a Moon Beast to aid him. He reassured her and prepared to help her recover.

• Xiao Hua summoned Thunder, Bone Tempering Xiao Hua, Feng Wu, and Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua to fight the Devil Lords.
• Demon Spirit Xiao Hua used Demon Blade Shi to trap and devour four Devil Lords, while Bodhi, Wenqu, and the others captured the rest; Demon Spirit Shi ultimately devoured all eighteen Devil Lords and the surrounding demon qi.
• Xiao Hua sent Demon Spirit Shi back into his body and opened a spatial rift to investigate a powerful fluctuation.
• Xiao Hua found Yue Mingxin near death beside a Moon Beast, while Yue Changming and several thousand Daoist disciples knelt before it.
• Yue Changming explained that Yue Mingxin had summoned the Moon Beast after seeing Xiao Hua trapped in the Devil Lords’ array, and Xiao Hua told her to open her mouth.

After saving Yue Mingxin and the cultivators at the teleportation hub, Xiao Hua learned that a Devil Emperor was allegedly leading an army against ten sects in the southwest of the Ruins. He investigated the area and collected countless fallen cultivators’ souls, then returned as Huan Wuxin presented the jade slip behind his report.

• Xiao Hua gave Yue Mingxin a Rejuvenation Pill that restored most of her lost youth, then fed another pill to the Moon Beast, whose departing phantom left matching imprints on their hands.
• Xiao Hua thanked the gathered Daoist cultivators for their prayers and let them organize defenses, messages, and repairs to the Teleportation Arrays.
• Huan Wuxin told Xiao Hua that a Devil Emperor and five hundred thousand Demon Soldiers and Demon Generals were heading to destroy ten sects in the southwest of the Ruins.
• Xiao Hua vanished to investigate, but secretly used his Eye of Delusion Breaking and Netherworld Primordial Force to collect wandering souls across a vast area.
• Huan Wuxin explained how he had overheard the Devil Race’s plans using pronunciation knowledge from a jade slip, then offered the slip to Xiao Hua.

Xiao Hua agreed to hurry to the Southwest frontier and help defend it from the Demon Emperor’s invasion. After learning that flying there would take months, he revealed a thunder boat and set off with Huan Wuxin and the other cultivators.

• Xiao Hua copied jade slips about the Devil Race and agreed to head for the Southwest frontier, while Yue Mingxin and Yue Changming returned to the Incense-Passing Cult.
• Huan Wuxin and the cultivators explained that the Demon Emperor had attacked with five hundred thousand Demon Soldiers and that reinforcements might arrive too late.
• Huan Wuxin explained that Xiao Hua only needed to appear near White Cloud Temple and disrupt the demon army, though he urged them to travel faster than ordinary flight allowed.
• Xiao Hua summoned a gigantic thunder boat powered by lightning, and the cultivators boarded it.
• Huan Wuxin pointed southwest and directed Xiao Hua toward the frontier.