Chapter Summaries

Fairy Xingyue returned from the Immortal Realm rift to stay with Xu Zhi after learning that his Immortal’s Three Declines had become severe. The three explored several starry skies for treasures that might help Xu Zhi, then prepared to venture beyond a dangerous platform toward an Immortal Realm site.

• Fairy Xingyue struck Xiao Hua and Xu Zhi with the force of heaven and earth, returning from the rift after realizing Xu Zhi was dying and choosing to remain with him.
• Fairy Xingyue and Xu Zhi decided to search other starry skies for treasures like the Saint Lotus Seed, and Xiao Hua agreed to help them.
• Xiao Hua helped the pair explore several hidden starry skies, where they found a key, a crystalline object, a small halberd, and a token, which Fairy Xingyue gave to him.
• Fairy Xingyue insisted on crossing a platform to investigate a palace hall in a corner of the Immortal Realm’s starry sky, despite Xu Zhi warning that the route was perilous and required credentials they had not gathered.
• Xu Zhi warned Xiao Hua that a mysterious thunderous sound beyond the platform was more dangerous than the forbidden formation of Ghost Plain and told him to stay behind.

Xiao Hua accompanied Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue across a platform governed by a thunderous sound restriction, where the thunder killed the pursuing demons but awakened mysterious powers and voices within him. As repeated blasts shattered Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue’s protective silver light, they fled toward a distant pavilion while Xiao Hua endured the restriction’s strange effects.

• Xiao Hua promised Xu Zhi that he would help Fairy Xingyue return to the Immortal Realm and asked to accompany them across the platform.
• Nearly twenty great demons arrived and chose to enter the mysterious lightning formation despite Xiao Hua and Fairy Xingyue’s warnings.
• The first thunderous sound destroyed three demons, while Primordial Violet Qi and Xiao Hua’s crystalline divine spark transformed the impact into an obscure voice.
• Xu Zhi’s silver hand collapsed when he tried to pull Xiao Hua from the golden light around him, and the group hurried onward toward a distant pavilion.
• Further thunderous blasts filled Xiao Hua with spatial laws and profound voices, tore apart Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue’s silver light, and annihilated the remaining demons.

Xiao Hua, Xu Zhi, and Fairy Xingyue opened the Twelve Earthly Branches Star Array using the zodiac plaques, but the final jade box contained a Qingyu Pill rather than the Saint Lotus Seed they sought. Xu Zhi gave the pill to Xiao Hua and warned him how to use it safely.

• Fairy Xingyue opened the pavilion gate, and Xiao Hua, Xu Zhi, and Fairy Xingyue entered a hall beneath a starry sky containing twelve arrays.
• Xu Zhi explained that he and Fairy Xingyue had found only seven zodiac plaques, and Xiao Hua revealed the five plaques he had collected on Xiaoyu Continent.
• Fairy Xingyue used the twelve plaques to open the star arrays, and each array released a jade box that Xiao Hua stored in a different space.
• Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue opened the final jade box and found a Qingyu Pill instead of the Saint Lotus Seed, leaving Fairy Xingyue disappointed.
• Xu Zhi gave the Qingyu Pill to Xiao Hua and warned him to wait until his Dao cultivation was stable and his realm surpassed his strength before consuming it.

Xiao Hua offered Xu Zhi the Saint Lotus Seed, which began purging the corruption from Xu Zhi’s immortal mark but could not fully heal him without enough immortal spiritual energy. With Fairy Xingyue and Xiao Hua helping, the Saint Lotus Seed opened a rift that poured Immortal Realm energy onto Xu Zhi, and his recovery began.

• Xiao Hua showed Xu Zhi the mysterious Golden Core, and Fairy Xingyue recognized it as the Saint Lotus Seed.
• Xiao Hua explained that he had obtained the Saint Lotus Seed in the Dragon Island trial space and offered it to Xu Zhi.
• Xu Zhi consumed the Saint Lotus Seed, whose flames and Buddhist and demonic forces clashed around his corrupted immortal mark.
• Fairy Xingyue sent a silver star of power into the flames, and Xiao Hua used the Buddhist mantra Lie to purify the corruption and repel demonic heads.
• Three pillars erupted from Xu Zhi’s immortal mark and reopened an Immortal Realm rift, releasing dense immortal spiritual energy that strengthened Xu Zhi and spread the healing flames.

Xu Zhi used the Saint Lotus Seed to return to the Immortal Realm as a Light Immortal, leaving Xiao Hua with the seed and a clue about Lan Yue Palace. Afterward, Xiao Hua searched the empty Starry Sky Hall and found a hidden overlapping space that seemed to contain an enormous object.

• The Saint Lotus Seed burned away Xu Zhi's old shell and helped him enter the realm of a Light Immortal as the Immortal Realm rift opened.
• Xu Zhi thanked Xiao Hua, lent him the lotus seed containing his cultivation insights, and entered the Immortal Realm with Fairy Xingyue.
• Xiao Hua stored the lotus seed in Shenhua Continent, where the Execution Stage drew it close and immortal aura spread across the continent.
• Xiao Hua prepared to leave Star Moon Palace but suspected the vanished star formations had concealed another mystery and searched the starry sky.
• Xiao Hua used his Eye of Delusion Breaking to find the place where golden light had flickered and glimpsed a pitch-black overlapping space blocked by an enormous object.

Xiao Hua used Lightning Evasion and the Qingyu Pill to approach the boundary of the Law of Time, then recovered a fragment and crystal shard of the Myriad Annihilation Heaven Dou. After refining the pill’s power, he reached late mahayana and advanced his starry sky Nascent Soul, while his companions congratulated him on reaching the peak of ninth-grade Yuan Force.

• Xiao Hua used the Eye of Delusion Breaking to sense the Myriad Annihilation Heaven Dou’s aura beyond the Law of Time and realized fragments lay in another space.
• Xiao Hua took the Qingyu Pill and drove Lightning Evasion with the Myriad Annihilation Heaven Dou in hand, pushing toward the boundary of time.
• Xiao Hua refined the pill’s power as his cultivation rose, but he still could not fully merge his remaining illusory points into the void.
• The Myriad Annihilation Heaven Dou revealed the fine threads of time and drew a fragment and rosy-cloud crystal shard through them into its gap.
• Xiao Hua emerged from the void and meditated, reaching late mahayana while his Starry Sky Scattered Infant reached the end of the nine tribulations.
• Xiao Hua examined his other treasures and summoned Wu Daoist, Heavenly Man, Demon Venerable Slayer, and the others, who congratulated him on reaching the peak of ninth-grade Yuan Force.

Xiao Hua and his incarnations chose treasures from the Star Moon Palace and returned to the platform to listen to the strange thunder. Xiao Hua understood that the Xuanhong Discourse on the Dao was about to begin and that all divine sons were to take their positions, leaving everyone wondering what the announcement meant.

• Xiao Hua distributed rare treasures to True Person, the Heavenly Being, Wu Daoist, and Demon Venerable Slayer, who each chose items suited to their cultivation.
• The Heavenly Being received a crystal shard containing a secret method for refining the Myriad Annihilation Heaven Dou.
• Xiao Hua and his incarnations returned to the platform to listen to the thunder, and the Heavenly Being sensed that it was describing a cultivation technique suited to him.
• The thunder faded when the group approached the platform's edge, then sounded again after the Heavenly Being shouted at the sky.
• Xiao Hua heard the words announcing the start of the Xuanhong Discourse on the Dao and calling all divine sons to take their positions.

Xiao Hua and his companions found that a dragon-patterned key opened a pavilion in Star Moon Palace, where they heard the Xuanhong Discourse on the Dao. The discourse explained the requirements for godhood and began revealing the secret of soul cultivation, leaving Xiao Hua and his companions absorbed in its teachings.

• Xiao Hua tried several keys on the dim pavilion outlines until the dragon-patterned key from the Heaven and Earth Pagoda opened one shaped like two joined triangles.
• Xiao Hua, Heavenly Man, Wu Daoist, True Person, and Demon Venerable Slayer entered the pavilion and heard the Xuanhong Discourse on the Dao begin.
• The discourse explained that becoming an Origin God required divine speech, divine qi, divine spirit, and a divine body, while becoming an Initial God also required tempering the body with Chaos Qi.
• Heavenly Man, Wu Daoist, True Person, and Demon Venerable Slayer used their treasures to refine themselves as they listened, while Xiao Hua and his two avatars absorbed the teachings.
• A speaker explained that souls and spirits underlay the Five Elements and revealed that soul cultivation involved engraving laws, before sharing fragments of its secret with the divine children.

Wu Daoist absorbed the souls and secret arts revealed at Star Moon Palace as Xiao Hua turned to a fishing village on Cangxian Continent, where a pig demon frightened the children. Zhen Jie carried Lü Cao and Er Dan toward his ship, claiming he had tested the children’s compassion, while his master rebuked his behavior.

• Wu Daoist transformed into a flower and absorbed the souls as various voices expounded cultivation arts for Xiao Hua’s companions to hear.
• Children gathering seafood at the shore spotted an enormous ship approaching, and one boy mistook the huge pig on its prow for food.
• Zhen Jie unleashed a pig-shaped wave that frightened the children and left Er Dan stranded on a reef.
• Lü Cao turned back to save Er Dan, and Zhen Jie stopped the wave before carrying both children toward the ship.
• Zhen Jie told his master that he had tested the children’s compassion, and his master scolded him for frightening them.

Chunzang and his disciples reached Cangxian Continent after crossing the East Sea, where Lü Cao and Er Dan had been rescued from danger. Chunzang set foot on shore carrying three volumes of Buddhist scriptures and resolved to bring Buddha’s teachings to the people.

• Chunzang welcomed Lü Cao and Er Dan aboard the sea vessel, and Zhen Han used his Confucian true qi to dry Er Dan’s clothes.
• Zhen Jie scolded Zhen Feng over the missing Dragon Boat and banquet, then ordered the sea demons to prepare a smaller vessel to reach shore.
• The sea demons told Chunzang they had arrived at Cangxian Continent, and Zhen Jie ordered them to recite the Rebirth Mantra for the lives they had taken.
• Chunzang and his disciples traveled to shore by the smaller vessel, while Zhen Jie mistakenly accused the sea demons of chanting the mantra incorrectly.
• Chunzang stepped onto Cangxian Continent and vowed that his scriptures would enlighten its people.

Chun Zang and his disciples were confronted on the shore by Peng Jun, Bi Qing, and Ni Quan, three powerful demons. Zhen Jie battled them after Peng Jun knocked Zhen Kong into the sea, and the chapter ended with Zhen Jie demanding to know why they were hunting him.

• Fishermen rushed from their village after hearing cries of sea demons, while Chun Zang told Zhen Jie to apologize for causing trouble.
• A demon cloud and a Golden-Winged Great Peng appeared, and Peng Jun struck Zhen Kong into the sea with one talon.
• Zhen Jie attacked Peng Jun with the Nine-toothed Rake, but Ni Quan intervened and Bi Qing blocked a blow with her shell.
• Zhen Jie injured Bi Qing, while Ni Quan and Peng Jun joined forces against him.
• Zhen Jie demanded that the three demons explain why they were hunting him and warned them to leave.

Zhen Jie battled three Demon Kings seeking revenge for the Five-Colored Conch demon and drove them away before pursuing them, while Chun Zang and the others settled in for the night. At dawn, Zhen Kong confronted a woman from the nearby village who brought them food, suspecting she was a demon because she knew Chun Zang needed to eat.

• Bi Qing, Peng Jun, and Ni Quan attacked Zhen Jie, who fought them while the others guarded Chun Zang.
• Zhen Jie wounded Bi Qing, and the three Demon Kings fled; Zhen Jie pursued them after telling Zhen Kong to protect Chun Zang.
• Chun Zang chose to rest outside rather than stay in the village, and Zhen Kong kept watch while Zhen Han and Zhen Feng cultivated.
• At dawn, a woman claiming to be Lü Cao's mother brought flatbreads for Chun Zang and his disciples.
• Zhen Kong blocked the woman and accused her of being a demon because she knew Chun Zang was a mortal who needed food.

Zhen Kong killed Lü Cao’s mother when she approached with flatbread, revealing a Mind Control Worm inside her. Chun Zang mourned her and faced Lü Cao and her father, who arrived searching for her, as Lü Cao ran toward her mother’s remains.

• Lü Cao’s mother brought flatbread to thank the monks, but Zhen Kong warned Chun Zang that she was a demon and struck her down with his staff.
• Zhen Kong showed Chun Zang the Mind Control Worm inside the woman and explained that it would have killed him if he had let it move closer.
• Chun Zang angrily gathered the woman’s remains and recited the Rebirth Mantra while Zhen Han helped him.
• Lü Cao’s father arrived with Lü Cao, searching for his missing wife, and spotted the family’s bamboo basket and the remains.
• Lü Cao ran toward her mother’s remains, fell and scraped her knees and elbows, and Chun Zang pushed past Zhen Han to help her.

Chun Zang’s party faced the aftermath of Zhen Kong killing Lü Cao’s parents while destroying a Mind Control Worm, and Chun Zang comforted the orphaned girl with a story about his own childhood. As Lü Cao began to recover, Zhen Kong sensed another threat near them, leaving the group preparing for a new attack.

• The fisherman attacked Chun Zang under a Mind Control Worm’s influence, and Zhen Kong’s staff killed both the fisherman and Lü Cao’s mother while destroying the worm.
• Zhen Kong flew to investigate the fishing village, while Zhen Han burned the parents’ bodies and Chun Zang held the unconscious Lü Cao.
• After Lü Cao woke, Chun Zang comforted her and began recounting how he had lost his own parents; Zhen Kong returned with cakes, and Lü Cao and Chun Zang shared them.
• Zhen Kong admitted that he had gone too far but insisted he had acted to protect Chun Zang, then withdrew to a hillside.
• When Chun Zang asked whether Lü Cao had relatives, Zhen Kong spotted a new danger and called for Zhen Han and Zhen Feng to protect their master.

Two identical Zhen Kongs fought while Chun Zang and the others could not tell which one was real. With Zhen Jie still missing and a sea storm approaching, Chun Zang chose to move on so the fishermen could recover their boats, but the Zhen Kongs resumed fighting.

• A second Zhen Kong returned carrying a peach tree, and the two identical figures accused each other of being the impostor and began to fight.
• Zhen Han and Dragon Horse Zhen Feng examined the fighters but could not distinguish them, while Chun Zang also failed to identify the real Zhen Kong.
• The two Zhen Kongs fought across the sky, ground, and sea, then asked Chun Zang to judge between them; he decided to wait for Zhen Jie.
• As night approached, Lü Cao warned Chun Zang that a great sea storm threatened the fishermen's boats, and Dragon Horse Zhen Feng noted that Zhen Jie might not return soon.
• Chun Zang chose to continue onward rather than obstruct the fishermen's livelihood, and the two Zhen Kongs immediately charged at each other again.

Chun Zang brought Lü Cao along rather than leave her alone in the fishing village, and Zhen Han packed up her family’s hut and belongings. As the two Zhen Kongs continued fighting, Zhen Han and Zhen Feng wondered whether they were truly one real and one fake, while Chun Zang’s group continued their journey.

• Chun Zang sent Zhen Han to retrieve the fishing boats and nets, and Zhen Han carefully placed them on shore.
• After Lü Cao feared she would starve if sent back to the village, Chun Zang decided to take her along and find her a safe home later.
• Chun Zang persuaded Zhen Han to seek help from the Immortal Palace, then asked him to collect Lü Cao’s belongings from her village.
• Zhen Han stored Lü Cao’s thatched hut in his Cosmic Bag, and Lü Cao reassured the frightened villagers that she would return when she grew up.
• Chun Zang’s group left while the two Zhen Kongs continued fighting, and Zhen Han and Zhen Feng speculated about whether they were real, fake, or both.

Zhen Han and Dragon Horse Zhen Feng speculated about who had sent the false Zhen Kong and worried that powerful factions might be targeting them. Chunzang’s party took shelter in a thatched hut as the battle overhead ended and a violent storm began.

• Zhen Han and Dragon Horse Zhen Feng guessed that the Great Sacred Hall might have sent the false Zhen Kong to kill Zhen Kong and take his merit, though they also considered the Immortal Palace and other powers.
• Zhen Han and Dragon Horse Zhen Feng concluded that the appearance of two Zhen Kongs might temporarily protect them, but agreed to stay cautious and prioritize their own safety.
• Chunzang carried the exhausted Lü Cao until Zhen Han found a vacant thatched hut and levitated her there without waking her.
• After Chunzang awoke from meditation, the hut shook under a fierce storm, with salty sea wind and torrents of rain battering it.

Xuanzang and his companions faced two indistinguishable Zhen Kong while waiting for help from the Immortal Palace. Lü Cao recognized the real Zhen Kong as her parents’ killer, and the fake one watched for a chance to silence her as they awaited the duty officer.

• The two Zhen Kong demanded that Xuanzang identify the real one, but he could not tell them apart and sent Zhen Han to find an Immortal Palace duty officer.
• Lü Cao secretly told Xuanzang that she knew which Zhen Kong was real because she wanted revenge for her parents, and Xuanzang warned her to stay quiet.
• As the Zhen Kong fought nearby, their battle tore away the hut’s roof; Xuanzang shielded Lü Cao and recited the Heart Sutra until Zhen Feng restored the roof.
• Zhen Han returned with two Earth Deities, who said the duty officer would arrive soon, and the two Zhen Kong agreed to wait.
• The fake Zhen Kong repeatedly watched the hut and hesitated to attack Lü Cao while the real Zhen Kong kept him occupied and the storm began to subside.

Four Seasons Gong Cao arrived to investigate the two Zhen Kongs but could not determine which one was real. When the Gong Cao lords tried to delay and judge them, both Zhen Kongs attacked, and the officials called for help.

• The Four Seasons Gong Cao arrived with Vast Righteous Qi and questioned the Earth Gods for failing to handle the disturbance sooner.
• The Earth Gods explained that they had sent a report, and Year Gong Cao ordered them to stay while the Gong Cao investigated the two Zhen Kongs.
• Both Zhen Kongs demanded that the Gong Cao identify the fake, but Year Gong Cao questioned Zhen Kong about enemies he might have made.
• The four Gong Cao used the Four Seasons All-Searching Technique, but the two Zhen Kongs remained indistinguishable.
• Both Zhen Kongs attacked Year Gong Cao, shattered his court tablet, and wounded his fingers.
• Month Gong Cao fled from their next attack and called for Great White Golden Star, while Daily Gong Cao said they lacked his communication talisman.

Great White Golden Star arrived to investigate the two Zhen Kongs, but his Inspectors and mirror could not distinguish them. After revealing that both were fire apes, he examined them with another technique and seemed to recognize something, though he kept his thoughts to himself.

• Year Gong Cao sent a message for Great White Golden Star while Month Gong Cao fought off the two Zhen Kongs.
• Great White Golden Star arrived with a host of Inspectors, suspected Thunder Sound Temple was behind the situation, and ordered them to identify the real Zhen Kong.
• The Inspectors failed to distinguish the two fire apes, so Great White Golden Star used a golden mirror to reveal their true forms.
• Great White Golden Star examined the fire apes with five-colored halos and lightning, then closed his eyes with a strange smile as if he had formed a plan.