Chapter Summaries

Xue Di fled as the Black Armored Five-Horned Dragon, Crimson Flame Vermilion Bird, and Netherworld Demon Dragon Spider crossed the snowy far north while investigating three destroyed demon realms. The three Great Sages speculated about a newly promoted Seven-Star Great Sage and the Qingbo Feast before Black Armored Five-Horned Dragon suddenly raced ahead.

• Xue Di dropped Autumn Mouse's corpse and hid as the three Great Sages swept across the snowfield.
• Netherworld Demon Dragon Spider asked how a Seven-Star Great Sage could have avoided the Great Sacred Hall's Reception Star Bridge, and Black Armored Five-Horned Dragon admitted he did not know.
• Crimson Flame Vermilion Bird questioned Saint Ni's plans involving Peng Saint and wondered whether the Seven-Star Great Sage had ties to the ancestor.
• Crimson Flame Vermilion Bird revealed that Biqingyu planned a Qingbo Feast involving a captured human cultivator, with Zheqiong Ridge and Ancient Bell Mountain also participating.
• Black Armored Five-Horned Dragon suddenly shone brightly, transformed into a streak of light, and shot ahead.

The Black Armored Five-Horned Dragon, Crimson Flame Vermilion Bird, and Netherworld Demon Dragon Spider investigated the vanished Qijing inland sea, finding a vast, unnaturally smooth abyss with no trace of its inhabitants. They suspected the Seven-Star Great Sage had erased the sea to hide his identity, and the Netherworld Demon Dragon Spider reported a strange change in space beneath the abyss.

• The three Great Sages arrived above the abyss where the Qijing inland sea had been and realized its water and demon inhabitants had vanished.
• The Netherworld Demon Dragon Spider, Crimson Flame Vermilion Bird, and Black Armored Five-Horned Dragon searched the area but found no clues or lingering souls.
• The Black Armored Five-Horned Dragon pointed out that the abyss floor and walls were unnaturally smooth, as if the seabed had been flattened and cut.
• The Crimson Flame Vermilion Bird and Black Armored Five-Horned Dragon speculated that the Seven-Star Great Sage had destroyed the Qijing Demon Realm to conceal his identity.
• The Netherworld Demon Dragon Spider descended into the abyss and returned, saying there was nothing within a thousand miles of its floor but that space changed strangely farther below.

The Southern Dipper Six Stars lit up the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons as Feng Wu used the Great Sacred Hall for Star River Marrow Cleansing, alarming the Great Sages. Xiao Hua reflected on the Heavenly Phoenix’s hidden purpose and spared a demon that attacked him, recognizing that Feng Wu would soon rule the realm.

• The Southern Dipper Six Stars appeared, and the Black Armored Five-Horned Dragon, Crimson Flame Vermilion Bird, and Netherworld Demon Dragon Spider manifested star marks of their own.
• As more stars illuminated the sky, the three Great Sages realized Feng Wu was cleansing his marrow in the Great Sacred Hall and hurried back to stop him.
• Xiao Hua sent his disciples and cultivators into Shenhua Continent, then pondered the Heavenly Phoenix’s origins, ambitions, and connection to the Primordial Continent.
• Xiao Hua struck down an owl-like demon that attacked him, then lowered his sword finger and let it live because Feng Wu would soon rule the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons.

Xiao Hua buried Fairy Jing’s remains and belongings, choosing to sever their connection to her next life. Nearby, he discovered Xin Ping fleeing demon beasts, and Xin Ping was trapped again just as Xiao Hua vanished toward him.

• Xiao Hua concealed his aura and chose a green forest clearing as the place to bury Fairy Jing’s remains.
• Xiao Hua recalled Fairy Jing’s love and buried her remains, clothes, and belongings deep underground so they would not follow her into another life.
• Xiao Hua sensed someone nearby and vanished after recognizing the person as Xin Ping.
• Xin Ping fled through the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons after losing his body at Yizhao Ridge, evading Shui Mingzi and Ao Zhantian and later escaping the fighting at Biqingyu.
• Pursued by demon beasts, Xin Ping severed most of his trapped spiritual body with his damaged magical fan treasure, but a demon beast caught him again.

Xiao Hua found Xin Ping dying and forgave him before he passed away, but Xin Ping’s final words—“Chang Yu is”—left Xiao Hua suspecting that Chang Yu might have betrayed the Creation Sect. Xiao Hua asked Wu Daoist to help investigate and then brought Xiong Yi out, telling him they remained near Biqingyu and that the Seven-Star Great Sage was a trusted friend.

• Xiao Hua drove off the demon beasts surrounding Xin Ping and stopped Xin Ping’s spiritual body from dissipating, but realized he was beyond saving.
• Xiao Hua forgave Xin Ping and voided his blood oath; Xin Ping’s dying words were “Chang Yu is,” and Xiao Hua chose not to use soul-summoning techniques to learn more.
• Xiao Hua considered whether Chang Yu had betrayed him, then summoned Wu Daoist and explained his suspicions.
• Wu Daoist agreed to help Xiao Hua investigate, and Xiao Hua used the Kunlun Mirror to bring Xiong Yi out from Shenhua Continent.
• Xiao Hua told Xiong Yi they were about a thousand miles from Biqingyu and explained that the Seven-Star Great Sage was a close friend who would not harm him.

Xiao Hua reassured Xiong Yi that he would continue managing the Creation Sect after explaining the competing choices behind the rescue at Biqingyu. After Wu Daoist found no sign that Xiong Yi had lied, Xiao Hua reconsidered Chang Yu’s apparent death and suspected that something was amiss.

• Xiong Yi confessed that he had risked tens of thousands of disciples to rescue Xiao Hua, and Xiao Hua accepted his choice while entrusting him with the Creation Sect’s future.
• Xiong Yi explained that some at the Creation Dao Palace had opposed sending a large force to Biqingyu, while Chang Yu had strongly supported the rescue.
• Xiao Hua asked Xiong Yi to recount the events from the Creation Dao Palace to Biqingyu, then sent him to Kunlun Immortal Realm to cultivate and plan for the sect.
• Wu Daoist examined Xiong Yi’s soul and found no change, though he cautioned that soul techniques could not guarantee the truth.
• Xiao Hua concluded that Xin Ping might have met Chang Yu only after abandoning his fleshly body and suspected that Chang Yu’s misfortune concealed something.

Xiao Hua learned that Wu Daoist had found Chang Yu’s surviving soul inside a magic treasure recovered from True Lord Qingxu. After placing Chang Yu’s soul safely in the Yin aspect of his space, Xiao Hua considered whether True Lord Qingxu had been involved in Chang Yu’s death.

• Xiao Hua summoned Ao Sheng and explained that True Person wanted to return an opportunity connected to him, then arranged for True Person to teach him Dragon Clan secret techniques while they traveled to Star Moon Palace.
• Xiao Hua brought Xiaohei and Xiaohuang out and listened as Xiaohuang recounted their experiences while they waited for Wu Daoist.
• Wu Daoist reported that restrictions in the souls of True Lord Qingxu and Fan Tian Shang Ren prevented him from learning Ancestor Hongmeng’s intentions, but that he had found a magic treasure Xiao Hua had given Chang Yu in True Lord Qingxu’s Cosmic Bag.
• Wu Daoist revealed Chang Yu’s faint surviving soul, and Xiao Hua placed it in the Yin aspect of his space beside Fairy Jing’s soul.
• Wu Daoist explained that Chang Yu had hidden part of his Primordial Spirit in the magic treasure using soul arts he learned through a revised cultivation technique, allowing his soul to survive his self-detonation.

Xiao Hua traveled east through the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons in search of Star Moon Palace, while the Demon Race refined the star power Feng Wu had summoned. In a vast marsh, he discovered the Light Beasts from Tongzhu Kingdom facing Nine Heavens Superior and a Catfish Eel backed by thousands of demons.

• Wu Daoist said Chang Yu's damaged soul needed healing on the Nether Fruit Tree, and Xiao Hua thanked him for saving it.
• Xiao Hua left the two youngsters behind and flew east as the Sacred Realm's eighty-one days of starlight ended and demons secluded themselves to refine their gains.
• Xiao Hua searched for Star Moon Palace but found that neither demons nor the Luoyi Merchant Alliance could tell him where it would appear, and Star Picking Towers had vanished from the region.
• Xiao Hua reached an immense marsh and heard fighting near the rivers flowing from a distant snowy mountain range.
• Xiao Hua recognized three Light Beasts from Tongzhu Kingdom confronting Nine Heavens Superior in kite-owl form and a giant Catfish Eel, with thousands of demons behind them.

The Light Beast confronted Yao Xiao and the Catfish Eel over their past crimes, rejecting their apologies and attacking them with overwhelming light and righteous power. As the battle turned against them, the two demons unleashed a blood-tinged surge of demon qi, leaving the fight poised to intensify.

• Yao Xiao and the Catfish Eel defended capturing the Light Beast cub and argued that they had tried to make amends, but the Light Beast declared that those who humiliated his clan had to die.
• The Light Beast unleashed sacred radiance that burned away the demons’ black flames and demon qi, then struck the Catfish Eel with a luminous hoof and blasted Yao Xiao with a pillar of light.
• Yao Xiao formed Demon Armor from star-and-moon power, but the Light Beast shattered it with his dragon horn and carved a Light Mark into Yao Xiao’s body.
• The other Light Beast charged the Water Ripple Demon Realm’s lesser demons, while the Light Beast cub rode on his back and watched the attack.
• Yao Xiao and the Catfish Eel released dense, blood-streaked demon qi that erased their Light Marks and made their faces appear savage.

Demon King Kongchong arrived as the Light Beast overwhelmed Yaoxiao and Catfish Eel, then used the Nine Sons Dragon Tablets to trap him. As the female Light Beast fought Yaoxiao and Catfish Eel, nearly invisible threads ensnared her Little Light Beast, leaving her horrified.

• Yaoxiao and Catfish Eel unleashed the Nine Sons Dragon Tablets, but the Light Beast pierced their demonic aura and struck one tablet down.
• Demon King Kongchong emerged from spatial ripples, restored the tablets with Dragon Script, and transformed them into the nine sons of the Dragon Clan to attack the Light Beast.
• Yaoxiao and Catfish Eel thanked Demon King Kongchong for pardoning their theft of the tablets and granting them the Water Ripple Demon Realm, then tried to retreat.
• The female Light Beast abandoned her attack on the aquatic clan and pursued Yaoxiao and Catfish Eel, while unseen threads began wrapping around the Little Light Beast on her back.
• The female Light Beast blasted Catfish Eel with a pillar of light, but the Little Light Beast began wailing as cracks appeared across his back, revealing that the strange threads had caught him.

The Spider King Qidai trapped the Light Beast family while Demon King Kongchong tried to seal the male Light Beast inside the Nine Sons Dragon Tablet. Princess Baihua arrived as the Little Light Beast fled pursued by demons, but a mysterious giant fist shattered the tablet and smashed Kongchong into the marshwaters.

• The female Light Beast attacked Spider King Qidai, who tightened his silk around the Little Light Beast and dragged it into the air.
• The male Light Beast broke through the Nine Sons Dragon Tablet’s confinement to fight Demon King Kongchong, but Kongchong defeated him and began sealing him again.
• The female Light Beast opened a passage to escape, but Spider King Qidai disrupted it and wounded her with multicolored spikes.
• The female Light Beast hurled the Little Light Beast away and stayed behind to block Spider King Qidai as demons pursued the child.
• Princess Baihua appeared near the battlefield, and a gigantic lightning-wreathed fist destroyed the Nine Sons Dragon Tablet and struck Demon King Kongchong into the marshwaters.

Xiao Hua arrived in the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons, rescued the Light Beasts, and reunited with Princess Baihua, Xin Yi. After his Divine Strength Centipede defeated the demons who had attacked them, Xiao Hua healed the Little Light Beast and left the Light Beasts safe.

• Spider King Qidai tried to escape, but Xiao Hua’s lightning struck him down as Xiao Hua appeared before the Light Beasts.
• Xiao Hua sent the Divine Strength Centipede to rescue the Little Light Beast and fight Yaoxiao and the Catfish Eel, while Spider King Qidai and Demon King Kongchong begged Xiao Hua to spare them.
• Xiao Hua reunited with Princess Baihua, Xin Yi, and exchanged memories with the Light Beast about their meeting two hundred years earlier.
• The Divine Strength Centipede killed Yaoxiao and the Catfish Eel, then devoured their demon cores as the Light Beasts returned with the wounded Little Light Beast.
• Xiao Hua drew the black qi from the Little Light Beast’s wounds, allowing its injuries to heal as the Male Light Beast thanked him.

Xiao Hua subdued Demon King Kongchong, took the Nine Sons Dragon Tablet, and considered how to protect the Light Beast. He offered the Light Beast a place among the domains ruled by the Heaven-Defying Thunder Phoenix, while Princess Baihua hinted at her connection to Star Picking Tower.

• Princess Baihua identified the Divine Strength Centipede’s dragon might as Dragon Sacrifice, and Xiao Hua recalled that it had devoured Dragon Sacrifice before praising it for its strength.
• Xiao Hua broke the Nine Sons Dragon Tablet’s restriction, took the tablet, and silenced Demon King Kongchong when he protested that the Dragon Saint had bestowed it.
• The Male Light Beast said he wished to forgive Spider King Qidai and Demon King Kongchong, while Kongchong blamed Yaoxiao and Catfish Eel for his attempt to seize the Light Beast’s bloodline.
• Princess Baihua offered to introduce the Light Beast to Star Picking Tower, but Xiao Hua interrupted and asked about the demon realms Biqingyu, Zheqiong Ridge, and Ancient Bell Mountain.
• Xiao Hua revealed that those three demon realms now belonged to the Seventh Great Sage, the Heaven-Defying Thunder Phoenix, and invited the Light Beast to settle in one of them.

Xiao Hua secured the Light Beast clan under the Phoenix Sage’s protection and sent two Demon Kings to intercept Chun Zang’s scripture-seeking group. He reunited with Princess Baihua, who revealed her feelings from their meeting two hundred years earlier and challenged him to explain how much had changed since then.

• Princess Baihua persuaded the Light Beast to consider seeking the Phoenix Sage’s protection, and Xiao Hua gave him a token to deliver.
• Xiao Hua warned Demon King Kongchong and Spider King Qidai to spread word of the Light Beast’s protection, then sent them to Cangxian Continent to intercept Chun Zang and his disciples.
• After the Light Beast and Demon Kings departed, Princess Baihua recalled her feelings for Xiao Hua and questioned his extraordinary rise from Nascent Soul to Mahayana in two hundred years.
• Princess Baihua asked Xiao Hua about the Seeking Scriptures in the Pure Land, the Seventh Great Sage, the stars over the sun, and the Creation Dao Palace, prompting him to wonder whether she was Xin Yi.
• Xiao Hua questioned how Princess Baihua had reached the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons and survived among powerful Demon Kings, and she said he had acted first because he could not bear to see her hurt.
• Princess Baihua told Xiao Hua she had hoped to see him again two hundred years earlier, and he was left unable to answer why he had departed without worrying about her.

Fairy Xingyue revealed her connection to Princess Baihua and Star Picking Tower, then began explaining Princess Baihua’s past to Xiao Hua. She said Baihua’s affection grew after he showed compassion for the Light Beast’s cub, while the story of what happened two hundred years ago remained unfinished.

• Princess Baihua told Xiao Hua that Xu Zhi was Du Shanjun and spent the night walking with him beneath the stars.
• Xiao Hua learned that the woman was Fairy Xingyue and that she had founded Xingyue and Star Picking Tower.
• Fairy Xingyue said Star Picking Tower had recorded Xiao Hua’s deeds extensively and asked about his connection to Seeking Scriptures in the Pure Land.
• After Xiao Hua refused to trade that secret for information, Fairy Xingyue began recounting Princess Baihua’s life and her struggle for Nüwa Country’s throne.
• Fairy Xingyue explained that Baihua began to feel affection for Xiao Hua after seeing him act fearlessly to save the Light Beast’s cub.

Fairy Xingyue explained how Princess Baihua was killed and why she and Xu Zhi had long investigated Xiao Hua, then asked him to reveal his origins and cultivation. They agreed to exchange the truth at Star Moon Palace, and Fairy Xingyue sent a message ahead while Xiao Hua remained curious about her origins.

• Fairy Xingyue told Xiao Hua that Prince Haitian had killed Princess Baihua, whose body she later occupied, and that she had avenged her by eliminating the Gaza Kingdom’s forces in Nüwa Country.
• Fairy Xingyue recounted how she and Xu Zhi had investigated Xiao Hua’s mysterious past and how Xu Zhi had decided to pass cultivation techniques to him.
• Fairy Xingyue asked Xiao Hua where he came from and how he had gained his strength, and Xiao Hua agreed to answer if she and Xu Zhi revealed their own origins.
• Fairy Xingyue said she could not speak for Xu Zhi while he was away, and Xiao Hua realized they were heading to Star Moon Palace to meet him.
• Fairy Xingyue activated a star-filled flying shuttle and sent a message through the void while Xiao Hua watched it disappear.

Xiao Hua and Fairy Xingyue traveled to Qingyun Ridge, where he admitted he had followed her because he could not find the way and asked to learn her Wind Escape Technique. They met Xu Zhi during a storm, and Xu Zhi was astonished that Xiao Hua had reached the Mahayana realm before explaining how he had arranged for Xiao Hua to receive his jade slip.

• Fairy Xingyue challenged Xiao Hua to a race, and her Wind Escape Technique kept pace with his Lightning Evasion Technique for more than ten days.
• Fairy Xingyue exposed that Xiao Hua had been following her because he could not distinguish the direction to Star Moon Palace, and he asked to study her Wind Escape Technique.
• Fairy Xingyue told Xiao Hua they would meet Xu Zhi at Qingyun Ridge before heading to the Chidi River, where Ming Yue Palace had appeared.
• Xiao Hua and Fairy Xingyue waited through a heavy rain at the waterfall, then Du Shanjun appeared and revealed himself as Xu Zhi.
• Xu Zhi was surprised that Xiao Hua had reached the Mahayana realm, and Xiao Hua confirmed he had received the jade slip Xu Zhi left for him.
• Xu Zhi explained that he had entrusted the jade slip to Ying Bo because he knew Xiao Hua had a connection to the Luoyi Merchant Alliance.

Xiao Hua discussed his sudden rise in cultivation and the Star Moon Palace expedition with Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue, then revealed that Immortal Palace cultivators had forced him into an inescapable place. Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue had found no record of anything unusual there, leaving Xiao Hua’s fate during those two hundred years unexplained.

• Xu Zhi asked Xiao Hua how he had advanced from fifth-grade to ninth-grade Yuan Force in two hundred years, explaining that he needed Xiao Hua’s lightning power for a place inside Star Moon Palace.
• Xiao Hua asked why Star Moon Palace mattered so much, and Xu Zhi said he and Fairy Xingyue sought an opportunity different from those pursued by cultivators of the Three Great Continents.
• Fairy Xingyue traced Xiao Hua’s last known appearances to Changsheng Town and the Liao River, and recognized his connection to Xuanzang’s attempt to tear down the Buddha Ranking.
• Xiao Hua confirmed that Sun Cheng pursued him from Changsheng Town, that he killed Wu Han in an ambush, and that Sun Hao and Sun Cheng later drove him into a place with no escape.
• Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue said they knew of no unusual events in the Immortal Palace during that period, despite Xu Zhi’s examination of its heavenly records.

Xiao Hua told Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue how he survived the Heavenly Prison, while concealing parts of his recent history. Xu Zhi warned him to keep the escape secret and avoid Black Ruins Mountain, and Xiao Hua ended by asking what Star Moon Palace really was.

• Xiao Hua revealed that he had fallen into the Heavenly Prison at Black Ruins Mountain and described cultivating there for forty thousand years before a spatial rift carried him near the South Sea.
• Xiao Hua explained that just over two hundred years had passed in the Three Great Continents and said he had later traveled to Biqingyu and the Chidi River.
• Fairy Xingyue doubted Xiao Hua’s account, but Xu Zhi suggested that Star Moon Palace’s imminent appearance might have pulled him out of the Heavenly Prison.
• Xu Zhi urged Xiao Hua to keep his survival secret and explained that the Heavenly Prison was a dangerous fragment of space connected to the Primordial God Realm.
• Xiao Hua connected Xu Zhi’s explanation to his own journey from the Primordial Continent and asked whether Star Moon Palace was truly an ancient ruin of the Three Great Continents.

Xiao Hua told Senior Xu and Fairy Xingyue how he had reached the Three Great Continents from Xiaoyu Continent and why he wanted to return. Unable to identify Xiaoyu Continent yet, Fairy Xingyue agreed to search the Law Palace’s records and asked Xiao Hua for more details.

• Senior Xu and Fairy Xingyue learned that Xiao Hua came from Xiaoyu Continent and had appeared in the Three Great Continents after passing through the Sea Eye of the West Sea.
• Xiao Hua recounted how Ancestor Hongmeng’s treasure scheme led him into the Sea Eye, which transported him to Changsheng Town.
• Xiao Hua asked whether spatial veins connected the Three Great Continents to Xiaoyu Continent, but Senior Xu and Fairy Xingyue did not recognize the realm.
• Xiao Hua explained that he wanted to return because of his memories of the Thunder Control Sect, his deceased master and Xue Xue, and his partner whose fate was unknown.
• Senior Xu urged Fairy Xingyue to consult the Law Palace’s records, and she asked Xiao Hua to describe Xiaoyu Continent and his journey between the realms.