Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua defeated the Ten-Headed Lion King and questioned it about Chao Tian Que, the Primordial Chaos World, and his companions. He learned that Dragon Vein Xiao Hua and Phoenix Body Xiao Hua had reached the ninth level, then left the eighth level for the stairs leading up.

• Xiao Hua used Lingmou Zhu Fire and his golden body to overwhelm the Ten-Headed Lion King until it begged for mercy.
• Xiao Hua learned that two other True Person Xiaos had entered the ninth level and that the Ten-Headed Lion King knew of Dragon Vein Xiao Hua and Phoenix Body Xiao Hua.
• The Ten-Headed Lion King explained what it knew about Chao Tian Que, the tower’s guardians, and the powerful Primordial Chaos Beasts nearby.
• Xiao Hua recognized that Tuntian’s insulting names referred to the Primordial Chaos Five Juniors and learned that they had bullied Tuntian after it became vegetarian.
• The Ten-Headed Lion King said the beasts trapped in the pagoda would be able to leave when Chao Tian Que reopened after its Weapons were taken.
• Xiao Hua stepped onto the stairs to the ninth level and vanished in the Buddhist light.

Xiao Hua entered the ninth level of the Buddhist pagoda and faced a mosquito whose bite caused spreading decay while it devoured his attacks. He fled its multiplying swarm, unable to find a way to defeat it before the chapter ended.

• Xiao Hua found the ninth level empty except for a stone staircase, then a mosquito bit his foot and caused it to fester.
• The mosquito claimed it was ancient and demanded that Xiao Hua surrender, then swallowed his Lingmou Zhu Fire and tore away parts of his Buddhist sense.
• Xiao Hua tried Buddhist power, medicinal pills, and Innate True Water, but the decay continued and the mosquitoes devoured the water.
• A swarm of mosquitoes formed and chased Xiao Hua as lightning and the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors failed to stop them; the severed mosquitoes multiplied.
• Xiao Hua realized the mosquitoes devoured Dharma power and Primordial Qi, but he could not recall how Dragon Vein Xiao Hua and Phoenix Body Xiao Hua had defeated them.

Xiao Hua used the Water Pattern Butterfly and Dragon Cleansing Liquid to overcome the mosquito swarm and heal his poisoned foot, then learned what the mosquito knew about Chao Tian Que before ascending to the pagoda’s peak. There, he tested the mirror’s copying illusion and revealed that it could not reproduce his ten-thousand-zhang Dharma Body Golden Body.

• Xiao Hua released the Water Pattern Butterfly, which swept away the mosquito swarm and drew the insects away from him.
• Xiao Hua used Dragon Cleansing Liquid to erase the poison bubbles and restore his festering foot, realizing that his lack of worldly experience had kept him from recognizing his tools sooner.
• Xiao Hua spared the last mosquito after it described Chao Tian Que’s origins as a sea and shared another way to kill its kind.
• Xiao Hua ascended to the Buddhist pagoda’s peak, where he found a mirror that reflected an identical version of himself.
• Xiao Hua used the Dream Mirage Butterfly to make the reflected figure dance and sing, then manifested his Dharma Body Golden Body, which the mirror could not reproduce.

Xiao Hua broke through the mirror into a second inverted world and found Dragon Vein Xiao Hua and Phoenix Body Xiao Hua trapped and wounded by the Primordial Chaos Five Elders. After confronting the Ink Jade Kirin, he prepared to challenge the five beasts.

• Xiao Hua shattered the mirror with the As-You-Wish Staff, revealing a second inverted world beyond a barrier between the two spaces.
• Xiao Hua crossed into the other world, discovered that its gravity, senses, and flight worked in reverse, and descended toward the Buddhist pagoda.
• Xiao Hua found Dragon Vein Xiao Hua and Phoenix Body Xiao Hua trapped within a ring formed by five rotating spheres of light, and recognized that the Primordial Chaos Five Juniors had wounded them.
• Xiao Hua prepared to break the formation, but paused when a sphere revealed an Ink Jade Kirin whose appearance stirred a familiar feeling.
• The Ink Jade Kirin mocked Xiao Hua and threatened him, so Xiao Hua declared that he had come to avenge his two fellow Daoists.
• The Ink Jade Kirin laughed and boasted that the Primordial Chaos Five Elders attacked together regardless of how many opponents they faced.

Xiao Hua summoned more than a hundred eighth-grade Scattered Infants to overwhelm the Primordial Chaos Five Juniors and avenge Dragon Vein Xiao Hua and Phoenix Body Xiao Hua. As the Five Juniors prepared to shield one another from another assault, Dragon Vein Xiao Hua persuaded Xiao Hua to stop before killing them.

• The Ink Jade Kirin spread the Five Juniors' formation toward Xiao Hua, but Xiao Hua evaded it and mocked them.
• Xiao Hua summoned over a hundred Lightning-Armed Scattered Infants and ordered them to attack the Primordial Chaos Five Juniors.
• The Scattered Infants shattered the Five Juniors' formation and badly wounded the Ink Jade Kirin, Golden Toad, Five-Colored Phoenix, and Xuantian White Tiger, while the Black and White Xuanwu fared better.
• The Black and White Xuanwu moved to shield the others, and the Ink Jade Kirin and the rest rushed to stand in front of it as another wave of weapons approached.
• Dragon Vein Xiao Hua asked Xiao Hua to spare the Five Juniors, explaining that they had shown restraint and that their willingness to protect one another reminded him of Phoenix Body Xiao Hua protecting him.

Xiao Hua spared the Primordial Chaos Five Juniors after Dragon Vein Xiao Hua urged him to show mercy, but made Ink Jade Kirin his mount and took a copper-coin fragment from Golden Toad. After tending to his injured avatars, Xiao Hua heard Dragon Vein Xiao Hua begin to reveal what he and Phoenix Body Xiao Hua had obtained at Chao Tian Que.

• Dragon Vein Xiao Hua persuaded Xiao Hua to spare the Primordial Chaos Five Juniors, and Xiao Hua halted his attack and asked them if they wished to live.
• Ink Jade Kirin refused to yield, so Xiao Hua's Scattered Infants wounded it before Xiao Hua knocked it unconscious with his divine sense and claimed it as his mount.
• Golden Toad paid Xiao Hua a copper-coin fragment, and Xiao Hua gave it four Rejuvenation Pills, which Golden Toad shared with Xuantian White Tiger, Black and White Xuanwu, and Five-Colored Phoenix.
• Xiao Hua returned to Phoenix Body Xiao Hua and Dragon Vein Xiao Hua, checked their injuries, and learned Dragon Vein Xiao Hua expected to recover with Dragon Cleansing Liquid.
• Dragon Vein Xiao Hua asked Xiao Hua whether he knew what he and Phoenix Body Xiao Hua had obtained at Chao Tian Que.

Xiao Hua absorbed a mysterious violet qi into his Formless Nascent Soul, triggering an uncontrollable expansion and a flood of Heavenly Dao insights. As Heavenly Dao Xiao Hua appeared to help him endure the transformation, a brilliant star halted the process and formed a vast, scroll-like vision above him.

• Dragon Vein Xiao Hua revealed a wisp of violet qi, which Xiao Hua could not collect with his divine sense.
• Xiao Hua's Formless Nascent Soul absorbed the violet qi, expanded into a starry sky, and shattered the surrounding spaces, forcing nearby beings across the Primordial Continent to flee.
• Xiao Hua stored the Ink Jade Kirin in his space and began comprehending the overwhelming mysteries pouring from the violet qi.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua returned from the Heavenly Dao Starry Sky with protective power, and Heavenly Dao Xiao Hua appeared on the Primordial Continent as Xiao Hua transformed into a growing star.
• A brilliant star appeared, stopped the flood of fluctuations, and cast a rosy glow that formed a vast scroll supported by nine-colored clouds.

Xiao Hua recovered from his perilous comprehension of the purple qi and witnessed Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua receive the saints’ approval to enter Wenqu. The Wenqu Star and Nine Provinces Ding merged into Xiao Hua’s middle dantian, leaving Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua in seclusion.

• Xiao Hua regained control of himself and realized the purple qi had brought his cultivation close to tribulation while advancing his understanding of the Heavenly Dao.
• Xiao Hua discovered that the Wenqu Star and auspicious signs marked the Saints Anoint Wenqu, with Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua as its recipient.
• Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua explained that entering Wenqu required merit from enlightening living beings and approval from the saints.
• Xiao Hua joined with Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua, and the saints anointed the Wenqu Star with the words Heaven, Earth, Sovereign, Parents, and Master.
• The Nine Provinces Ding supported the Wenqu Star as it entered Xiao Hua’s middle dantian and formed a five-colored child body, after which the signs vanished and Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua remained in seclusion.

Xiao Hua left Chao Tian Que with the Ink Jade Kirin and tried to recruit him to leave the Primordial Continent, while the Kirin revealed a mysterious prophecy about Tongtian Peak. Xiao Hua reunited with the Creation Sect disciples and learned how their teachings had changed the continent during his ten-year absence.

• Xiao Hua accepted the Ink Jade Kirin's offer to serve as his mount for one day and learned that a crystal foretold a divine artifact would appear atop Tongtian Peak in a hundred years.
• The Ink Jade Kirin refused to seek Tongtian Peak, explaining that he had grown more cautious after reflecting on his past arrogance and near-death experiences.
• Xiao Hua found Tuntian's lair empty and offered the Ink Jade Kirin a suitable cultivation method, but warned that teaching him could make him responsible for Tuntian's death.
• The Ink Jade Kirin eagerly agreed to consider leaving the Primordial Continent with Xiao Hua, and Xiao Hua set out toward the Stone Giant's lair before finding the Creation Sect disciples.
• Liu Yi and Jiang Hong arrived and rejoiced that Xiao Hua was safe; Xiao Hua learned that the Creation Sect disciples had taught local races to read, speak, cultivate, and absorb Primordial Qi.

Xiao Hua reunited with Liu Yi and Jiang Hong, praised their spread of enlightenment across the Primordial Continent, and bestowed a refined Treasure Dropping Copper Coin on Liu Yi. He then went to meet Buddha Bodhi near the completed Teleportation Array, while the soul cultivator still needed to obtain Great Snow Mountain’s mark to cross between realms.

• Xiao Hua reassured Jiang Hong that Dragon Vein Xiao Hua was recovering and gave Liu Yi the Treasure Dropping Copper Coin and its control method.
• Liu Yi presented Xiao Hua with Sumeru Rings filled with the Primordial Continent’s collected plants and materials, and Xiao Hua told him he could strip the land bare.
• The Ink Jade Kirin asked to become Xiao Hua’s disciple, and Xiao Hua promised to teach and equip it even as his mount.
• After green-robed Xiao Hua reported that the Teleportation Array was complete, Xiao Hua left Liu Yi and Jiang Hong with the Ink Jade Kirin and teleported to his old cave.
• Xiao Hua met Buddha Bodhi, who said he would return Namo Maitreya Buddha’s Buddhahood to Jiang Liuer and later deliver the demons from suffering.
• Buddha Bodhi told Xiao Hua that the soul cultivator still needed Great Snow Mountain’s mark, and Xiao Hua resolved to make every effort to cross between realms.

Xiao Hua and his companions discussed how the Primordial Continent could not truly be their home and weighed whether the Incense-Passing Cult disciples could settle there. After ordering the Creation Sect disciples back to Shenhua Continent, Xiao Hua examined a Teleportation Array intended to reach Great Snow Mountain and set out to explore the continent while waiting for a reverse passage.

• Xiao Hua reflected that the Primordial Continent was not home because its people and places belonged to a different time.
• Buddha Bodhi explained that the Primordial Continent was too dangerous for the Incense-Passing Cult disciples, and Xiao Hua ordered the Creation Sect disciples to return to Shenhua Continent.
• Green-robed Xiao Hua showed Xiao Hua the Teleportation Array and explained how dragon crystals and the Nan Yuan Bei Zhe technique could help it cross realms once a reverse passage opened.
• Xiao Hua and his companions agreed to wait for a chance to teleport to Great Snow Mountain while traveling and cultivating on the Primordial Continent.
• Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua left a temporary divine sense marker, and Xiao Hua returned to the Stone Giants and urged the little Stone Giant to treat future humans kindly.

Xiao Hua left the magma after seeing the Buddha statue’s bloodlike tears and reflected on the passage of time before reuniting with Wang Zhengfei. Wang Zhengfei showed him a mysterious phoenix hairpin that might hold an Immortal Realm maiden, and Xiao Hua tasked green-robed Xiao Hua with adapting a translation technique to help communicate with her.

• Xiao Hua saw crimson magma streaming from the Buddha statue’s eyes and left the magma with his avatars.
• Xiao Hua spoke about his unease at sunset, then asked about Creation Sect casualties before Wang Zhengfei arrived.
• Wang Zhengfei offered Xiao Hua his collected treasures and asked for a spirit treasure, but Xiao Hua told him to await his own opportunity.
• Wang Zhengfei revealed a phoenix hairpin he had found in a giant tree, which brought him dreams of a beautiful, trapped female cultivator.
• Xiao Hua recognized Immortal Realm runes on the hairpin, suspected an immortal maiden was trapped inside, and told Wang Zhengfei to keep it secret from his senior brothers.
• Xiao Hua gave Swallow Heaven’s voice-transmission secret technique to green-robed Xiao Hua to adapt so Wang Zhengfei might understand the maiden and help their departure from the Primordial Continent.

Xiao Hua waited for the Creation Sect disciples to return, then set out with Fu Zhiwen to find Yuan Ya and investigate the trouble Bone Tempering Xiao Hua had encountered. On the way, Fu Zhiwen revealed that Liu Yi had sensed someone watching him after leaving the Shenhua Continent.

• Green-robed Xiao Hua studied a spell while Buddha Bodhi asked about the absent Dragon Vein and Phoenix Body Benefactors, who Xiao Hua said were still in seclusion.
• The Ink Jade Kirin arrived and offered to serve as Xiao Hua’s cave guard, and Xiao Hua sent him with Liu Yi, Jiang Hong, and Wang Zhengfei to search for Yuan Ya.
• Fu Zhiwen distributed rewards to the returning Creation Sect disciples, and Xiao Hua collected them into the Shenhua Continent with the Kunlun Mirror.
• Xiao Hua learned that Yuan Ya and the other missing disciples had not returned and asked Fu Zhiwen to lead him to the place where Bone Tempering Xiao Hua had encountered an opponent.
• Green-robed Xiao Hua discovered that a wisp of purple qi had made the Formless Nascent Soul much stronger, then entered the space to revise a voice transmission technique.
• While Xiao Hua and Fu Zhiwen traveled across the Primordial Continent, Fu Zhiwen said Liu Yi had once felt that someone was watching him after he left the Shenhua Continent.

Fu Zhiwen told Xiao Hua that Liu Yi had once sensed someone spying on them, then Xiao Hua went to help Liu Yi, Jiang Hong, Yuan Ya, and Wang Zhengfei battle powerful Primordial Chaos Beasts. The chapter ended as enormous bronze vines rose from the ground and swept toward Xiao Hua.

• Fu Zhiwen told Xiao Hua that Liu Yi had sensed someone watching them more than ten years earlier but had not reported feeling anything unusual since.
• Xiao Hua sent Fu Zhiwen back to Shenhua Continent and hurried to help his disciples fight thousands of lizard-like Primordial Chaos Beasts.
• Jiang Hong, Yuan Ya, Liu Yi, and Wang Zhengfei struggled to hold their ground against the beasts while the Ink Jade Kirin aided Liu Yi and Wang Zhengfei.
• Bone Tempering Xiao Hua fought several gigantic lizards and wounded one by kicking a hill into its belly.
• Xiao Hua appeared beside Bone Tempering Xiao Hua as Jiang Hong warned him, but giant bronze vines surged from the earth and swept toward him.

Xiao Hua rescued the Creation Sect disciples and the Ink Jade Kirin from a deadly assault by giant vines, then struggled to protect Bone Tempering Xiao Hua as the vines overwhelmed the plain. The chapter ended with a fearsome hand of golden vines emerging from a crack in the void and crushing Xiao Hua’s attack.

• Xiao Hua realized the vines had trapped Liu Yi and the others, then sent the Creation Sect disciples to Shenhua Continent with his divine sense.
• The Ink Jade Kirin failed to escape through a Void Passage, so Xiao Hua brought him into Shenhua Continent as well.
• Xiao Hua unleashed lightning against the vines, while Bone Tempering Xiao Hua became entangled as he fought a giant lizard.
• Xiao Hua used the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors to help Bone Tempering Xiao Hua break free, but the giant lizard struck him into a vine trap.
• Xiao Hua used the Kunlun Mirror to begin opening a Void Passage for Bone Tempering Xiao Hua, as a crack opened above him and more than a dozen golden vines crushed his giant hand.

Xiao Hua escaped the Mysterious Sky Thunder Vine’s ambush after using Innate True Water to sever the vines and rescue the Kunlun Mirror. He learned Liu Yi had sensed a watcher but stayed silent, then urged him not to dismiss his own perceptions as the group prepared to explore deeper into the Primordial Continent.

• The Mysterious Sky Thunder Vine attacked the Kunlun Mirror, but Xiao Hua cut its vines with the Pure Water Vase and drove them back into a spatial fissure.
• Xiao Hua rescued Bone Tempering Xiao Hua from the lizards, fled the area, and later evaded powerful auras across the Primordial Continent.
• Xiao Hua asked the Ink Jade Kirin about the vines, learned they were Mysterious Sky Thunder Vines, and invited it to explore deeper into the continent with him.
• Xiao Hua questioned Liu Yi, who admitted he had sensed something spying on the Creation Sect disciples but had assumed Xiao Hua would notice it.
• Xiao Hua admonished Liu Yi for relying on assumptions, acknowledged his own carelessness, and affirmed the value of the disciples’ efforts to enlighten Primordial Chaos species.

Xiao Hua investigated Liu Yi’s warning about a mysterious consciousness and learned that green-robed Xiao Hua could enter and leave Shenhua Continent’s space freely. Wang Zhengfei then revealed that the phoenix hairpin pointed to a trapped female cultivator near Tongtian Peak, so Xiao Hua set out with Ink Jade Kirin to explore the Primordial Continent.

• Liu Yi told Xiao Hua that he had sensed a consciousness spying on Creation Sect disciples and suspected it might have targeted Yuan Ya or Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua concluded the consciousness might be interested in the Kunlun Mirror, sent Liu Yi back into the space, and decided against investigating recklessly.
• Green-robed Xiao Hua revealed that he could freely enter and leave the space within about a hundred zhang, and explained that he had taught Wang Zhengfei a secret sound-transmission technique.
• Wang Zhengfei told Xiao Hua that the female cultivator was trapped near Tongtian Peak and that the phoenix hairpin contained information about the location.
• Xiao Hua decided to travel toward Tongtian Peak with Ink Jade Kirin, while bringing green-robed Xiao Hua and Wang Zhengfei into the space.

After decades exploring the Primordial Continent, Xiao Hua and his companions debated its strange scarcity of water and powerful beasts while worrying about an ominous warning omen. The Ink Jade Kirin sensed a distant danger, and Xiao Hua discovered a vast hurricane region containing what he recognized as a Daoist forbidden technique, then began studying its power.

• Xiao Hua and his companions wondered whether the Primordial Continent was incomplete because it lacked water essence and had few exceptionally powerful Primordial Chaos Beasts.
• Xiao Hua warned that a greater omen was approaching, while Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua complained that he had been asked about it repeatedly.
• The Ink Jade Kirin sensed a chilling disturbance tens of thousands of li ahead, and Xiao Hua put it away before flying toward it.
• Xiao Hua encountered a vast sunken region of fissures and hurricane winds whose sonic attacks and wind blades forced him to retreat to a mountain peak.
• Xiao Hua detected magic-power fluctuations in the wind blades, identified them as Daoist forbidden techniques, and used his domain to study them.

Xiao Hua overcame the weakened restriction and followed Wang Zhengfei’s phoenix hairpin to a jade box left by Fairy Xuanzi. After they escaped the restriction’s renewed eruption, Xiao Hua suspected the impact came from Tongtian Peak, where a promised divine artifact might appear.

• Xiao Hua finished comprehending the restriction, brought Wang Zhengfei to the site, and followed the phoenix hairpin underground.
• The phoenix hairpin revealed Fairy Xuanzi’s message and a jade box that Wang Zhengfei opened with the hairpin’s help.
• Wang Zhengfei found an ancient scroll and a colorful brush in the box before the restriction began surging again.
• Xiao Hua sent Wang Zhengfei into Shenhua Continent and fled the abyss as the restriction erupted.
• An impact swept Xiao Hua toward safety, and he suspected it came from Tongtian Peak and signaled the divine artifact’s arrival.
• Xiao Hua reconsidered the crystal stones from Chao Tian Que and concluded that he might have a chance to obtain the divine artifact.

Xiao Hua and the Ink Jade Kirin reached Tongtian Peak, where Xiao Hua clashed with a massive eagle-shaped exotic beast after their primal senses collided. Xiao Hua badly wounded the beast, but it returned with wind escape and a soul attack, leaving their battle raging amid lightning and hurricanes.

• Xiao Hua and the Ink Jade Kirin flew toward Tongtian Peak, enduring powerful impact waves along the way.
• Xiao Hua released his primal sense near Tongtian Peak, and an unknown opponent attacked it; Xiao Hua struck back and pursued the source.
• An eagle-shaped exotic beast attacked Xiao Hua with claw phantoms and lightning, but Xiao Hua countered with his giant hand, Five-colored True Qi, and other techniques.
• Xiao Hua’s attacks left the eagle-shaped exotic beast badly burned and wounded, but it used wind escape to charge at him again.
• Xiao Hua countered the beast’s soul attack with Three Corpse Yin Thunder as the beast arrived amid raging wind and thunder.