Chapter Summaries

After escorting the Creation Sect disciples from Yaotai Mountain, Xiao Hua pursued the National Teacher's token phantom through time-warping vortices toward the Immortal Palace. He forced his way through its inscription-chain barrier and faced guards at the South Heaven Gate.

• Xiao Hua gathered the Creation Sect disciples into the Shenhua Continent and used the National Teacher's token to summon a phantom that led him onward.
• Linghu Pizheng watched Xiao Hua depart and wondered whether the Immortal Palace might eventually become a laughingstock too.
• Xiao Hua concluded that Kong Hongwu's master was connected to Heaven's Secret Hall and believed Sun Hao had gone into hiding.
• Xiao Hua followed successive token phantoms through an illusion array and a strange vortex until he reached a vast five-colored formation surrounding the Immortal Palace.
• Xiao Hua destroyed the inscription chains blocking his path and passed through a breach toward the Immortal Palace.
• A guard accused Xiao Hua of trespassing through the South Heaven Gate and demanded to know his crime.

Xiao Hua arrived at the South Heaven Gate and asked to meet the Immortal Emperor Gouchen about Xin Xin, but the guards repeatedly challenged him and prepared to fight. After he revealed that he was Xiao Hua of the Creation Sect, the immortal generals recognized the sect from the updated Xuanhuang List.

• Xiao Hua calmly told Kua Yu, commander of the South Heaven Gate, that he had come to request an audience with the Immortal Emperor Gouchen, and Kua Yu went to report to Heavenly King Fuyue.
• While waiting, Xiao Hua recalled seeing the South Heaven Gate in an illusion and thought of Xin Xin and Guo Village.
• Several dozen immortal generals confronted Xiao Hua, and their leading general attacked him with a Fangtian Huaji before Xiao Hua repelled him with a bolt of lightning.
• The immortal generals formed the Golden Lock Azure Sky Great Formation and accused Xiao Hua of violating immortal law.
• Xiao Hua identified himself as Xiao Hua of the Creation Sect and again asked them to report his request; some generals recognized the sect from the Xuanhuang List.

Xiao Hua broke the immortal generals’ formation at the South Heaven Gate and revealed that he was the Creation Sect Master. When the master of the Xuanhuang Order appeared to challenge him, Xiao Hua met the visitor’s attack with his own enormous lightning-wreathed Dharma Body.

• The immortal general dismissed Xiao Hua’s reputation and ordered several dozen immortal generals to attack him with the Golden Lock Azure Sky Great Formation.
• Xiao Hua shattered the formation with a single finger, causing its backlash to injure the generals and gravely wound their leader.
• Xiao Hua revealed that he was the Creation Sect Master and said his disciple had defeated Sun Ge and captured the Twenty-Eight Mansions.
• A powerful visitor emerged from the South Heaven Gate, and Xiao Hua recognized him as the master of the Xuanhuang Order rather than Immortal Emperor Gouchen.
• Xiao Hua transformed into a towering Dharma Body Golden Body and shattered the space sealed by the visitor’s light and darkness.
• The visitor unleashed an attack of bright and dark inscription chains that tore through space and threatened to engulf Xiao Hua.

Xiao Hua battled the Lord of Taiqing Palace at the South Heaven Gate, and their clash threw the Immortal Palace into confusion. As Sun Jian hurried to intervene and protect Xiao Hua, the Lord of Yuqing Palace arrived, while Sun Jian suspected someone had arranged the confrontation.

• Xiao Hua used a nine-colored Hand of Thunder to break the Lord of Taiqing Palace’s attack, then fought him in a fierce contest that shook the South Heaven Gate and the Immortal Palace.
• Immortal Soldiers and Generals rushed to defend the palace, while confused rumors spread that the Four Great Families or a Daoist sect cultivator had launched an invasion.
• Sun Jian learned that Xiao Hua was likely fighting the Lord of Taiqing Palace and resolved to reach the South Heaven Gate and accept responsibility for the crisis.
• An Immortal General urged Sun Jian to report the battle, so Sun Jian ordered him to notify the Lord of Wenqu Palace while avoiding alerting the Lord of Yuqing Palace.
• The Lord of Yuqing Palace appeared and challenged Xiao Hua, prompting Sun Jian to suspect that someone had deliberately provoked the confrontation.

Sun Jian reached the South Heaven Gate as Heavenly Human fought the Lord of Yuqing Palace, and the Immortal Palace’s defenses began to fail. After confronting hostile Immortal Generals, Sun Jian entered the defensive formation to face the destructive battle.

• Sun Jian ordered the Immortal Soldiers and Generals to reinforce the South Heaven Gate and protect the Immortal Palace’s defensive formation.
• At the gate, Sun Jian saw the formation being torn apart as Heavenly Human and the Lord of Yuqing Palace clashed beyond it.
• Several Heavenly King Hall Immortal Generals challenged Sun Jian’s authority, but he reminded them of their duty to defend the Immortal Palace.
• Sun Jian pushed into the defensive formation, summoned Vast Righteous Qi and his subsidiary body, and flew toward the Hand of Thunder.
• Heavenly Human unleashed lightning and beams against the Lord of Yuqing Palace, whose purple cloud defenses began to crack under the assault.

Xiao Hua fought the Lord of Taiqing Palace until the Lord brought out the Xuanhuang List, but Sun Jian intervened and explained that Xiao Hua had come to speak with the Immortal Emperor. Immortal Emperor Gouchen arrived, and the chapter ended with Xiao Hua attacking the Xuanhuang List with a partial Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors, which failed to harm it.

• The Lord of Taiqing Palace summoned the Xuanhuang List, whose power healed the shattered space and restrained Xiao Hua.
• Sun Jian tried to stop the confrontation, apologized to Xiao Hua, and clarified that Xiao Hua had come to ask the Immortal Emperor about another matter.
• Immortal Emperor Gouchen appeared on his golden throne and restored order to the Immortal Palace.
• Xiao Hua told Sun Jian that Sun Hao's master might be connected to the Heaven and Earth Gate, and Sun Jian said the clues now made sense.
• Sun Jian accused Kuayu of overstepping his authority by reporting Xiao Hua's arrival to the Lord of Taiqing Palace and left to await the Immortal Emperor's decree.
• The Lord of Taiqing Palace attacked Xiao Hua with the Xuanhuang List, but Xiao Hua's Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors only severed its armor inscriptions and could not damage the list itself.

Sun Jian took command of the Immortal Palace's forces and staged an attack on Xiao Hua while Xie Xin prepared a hidden move. Xiao Hua shattered the Xuanhuang List with the Wrath of Lightning and the As-You-Wish Staff, then called on Wenqu to attack Lord of Taiqing Palace.

• Wenqu arrived to aid Xiao Hua as the Immortal Emperor Gouchen prepared to confront him.
• Sun Jian persuaded the Immortal Emperor Gouchen to put the Immortal Palace's soldiers and generals under his command, then assigned them attacks against Xiao Hua and secretly tasked Xie Xin with a hidden move.
• Xiao Hua used the Wrath of Lightning, the Sound of Lightning, and the Execution Stage to break the Xuanhuang List's defenses before smashing its exposed true form with the As-You-Wish Staff.
• Lord of Taiqing Palace retrieved the damaged Xuanhuang List with a Daoist technique, and Xiao Hua recognized that his opponent had used Daoist cultivation.
• Sun Jian offered Xiao Hua a choice between apologizing and leaving or facing the Immortal Palace's generals, but Xiao Hua refused and called on Wenqu to act.
• Wenqu summoned an enormous five-colored hand and sent it descending toward Lord of Taiqing Palace.

Xiao Hua and Wenqu helped Immortal Emperor Gouchen expose and capture Xie Xin, who had secretly occupied the Son of Heaven Sword shell. Gouchen turned the confrontation into a public display of imperial authority, bestowed the title of Thunder Master on Xiao Hua, and left Xiao Hua ready to ask him an important question.

• Xiao Hua revealed Xie Xin, who had been hiding in the void, and Xiao Hua and Wenqu trapped him with their giant hands.
• Immortal Emperor Gouchen suppressed Xie Xin with a golden pillar of light and declared that the confrontation had been arranged to expose the traitor.
• Gouchen named Xiao Hua the Immortal Palace's Thunder Master, and laws formed a crown that strengthened Xiao Hua's Five-colored True Qi and restored part of his Heavenly Heart fragments.
• Xiao Hua accepted the title and stored the crown, then prepared to ask Gouchen an important question.

The Immortal Emperor Gouchen exposed Xie Xin’s betrayal and destroyed him with the Execution Stage, then restored the Son of Heaven Sword. Xiao Hua asked about the Ninth Princess Xin Xin, and Gouchen’s armor inscriptions suddenly burst apart.

• The Immortal Emperor Gouchen dismissed the heavenly officials and used the Haotian Mirror to reveal Xie Xin’s crimes, including Sun Jing’s death and the massacre at Black Ruins Mountain.
• The Lords of Liangqing Palace and Wenqu agreed that Xie Xin should be destroyed, and the Immortal Emperor Gouchen and Empress Dongmian executed him with the Execution Stage.
• The Immortal Emperor Gouchen reunited the Son of Heaven Sword with its outer shell and absorbed the Immortal Palace’s Righteous Qi into it.
• Xiao Hua declined the Immortal Emperor Gouchen’s offer of a banquet and asked where the Ninth Princess Xin Xin was.
• The Immortal Emperor Gouchen trembled, and tens of thousands of armor inscriptions on his robes burst apart.

Xiao Hua confronted the Immortal Emperor Gouchen over Princess Xinxin’s imprisonment, and their clash revealed the strain between the Emperor’s political ambitions and his family ties. After their magic mirrors nearly damaged each other, Gouchen explained that he had accepted the Nangong Family’s marriage proposal to unite Confucian cultivators, leaving Xiao Hua newly alarmed by news about Maitreya Buddha.

• The Immortal Emperor Gouchen refused to reveal where Princess Xinxin was imprisoned, and Empress Dongmian accused him of treating his daughter cruelly.
• Gouchen defended his actions by recalling Xinxin’s defiance at the Heaven’s Choice Gathering, while Xiao Hua insisted he had come to end her sorrow.
• Empress Dongmian left in despair, and Gouchen and Xiao Hua exchanged attacks with the Haotian Mirror and Kunlun Mirror before withdrawing them from their dangerous suction.
• Sun Jian urged Gouchen to treat Xiao Hua’s arrival as an opportunity to fulfill his family bonds, and Gouchen revealed he had agreed to the Nangong Family’s marriage proposal.
• Gouchen described the Immortal Palace’s political and military pressures and said he planned to unite Confucian cultivators with the Method of Five Qi Towards the Origin.
• Xiao Hua was shocked when Gouchen said Maitreya Buddha World Honored One had rebelled against Thunder Sound Temple.

Xiao Hua left the Immortal Palace without learning where Xin Xin was imprisoned, but learned that he must find her himself and demonstrate his strength. He set out for the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range with Wenqu and Heavenly Man to involve Creation Sect disciples in the search.

• Immortal Emperor Gouchen explained that the Nangong Family and the other Great Families had to prove themselves before marrying his princesses, then left Xiao Hua without revealing Xin Xin’s location.
• The Lord of Taiqing Palace questioned why Xiao Hua could not enter the Xuanhuang List, and Xiao Hua admitted he did not know.
• Sun Jian thanked Xiao Hua for helping him kill Xie Xin, and Xiao Hua told him to return to the Immortal Palace and watch Huayao Palace.
• Xiao Hua and Wenqu discussed Maitreya Buddha World Honored One’s departure from Thunder Sound Temple and prioritized finding which Heavenly Punishment Prisoner Crystal held Xin Xin.
• Xiao Hua sent Wenqu and Heavenly Man into the space to hear the Xuanhong Discourse on the Dao, then released Fu Zhiwen, Qiongqiong, and the Heavenly Steed Flying Carriage and headed for the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range.

Xiao Hua returned to Creation Sect and accepted his disciples’ proposal to become Great Sect Leader Master. He appointed Thunderclap True Person and Wenqu to senior roles, and Gongshu Yixin, Gongshu Yiming, and Mo Jianli became Wenqu’s disciples.

• Xiao Hua returned to the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range and was welcomed by Creation Sect’s disciples.
• Fu Zhiwen and Wang Zhengfei explained why Xiao Hua should be called Great Sect Leader Master, and Xiao Hua accepted the title.
• The disciples named Thunderclap True Person Sect Master Second Elder, and he emerged from the Kunlun Mirror and gave them life-saving pills.
• The disciples named Wenqu Sect Leader Third Master, and Wenqu emerged from the Kunlun Mirror and agreed to visit the Gusu Family to propose marriage.
• Xiao Hua directed Gongshu Yixin, Gongshu Yiming, and Mo Jianli to pay respects to Wenqu as their master.

Xiao Hua welcomed several powerful figures as Creation Sect’s Masters and announced that a missing Phoenix Dharma Body might be its Tenth Master. The reunion ended with the tenth figure’s whereabouts and strength still unknown.

• Wenqu accepted Gongshu Yixin, Gongshu Yiming, and Mo Jianli as disciples, then Xiao Hua and the others welcomed Starry Sky Great Sage Feng Wu as the Fifth Master of the Sect.
• Feng Wu received a star-patterned treasure from Xiao Hua and settled down to study it.
• Chang Yuan named Wu Daoist the Sixth Master, Yuan Ya named the True Person the Seventh Master, and Xuan Songzi’s group welcomed Tianren as the Eighth Master.
• Yuan Ya named Demon Venerable Slayer the Ninth Master, and Slayer gave the disciples soul essence cores.
• Xiao Hua revealed that his lost Phoenix Dharma Body could be the Tenth Master of the Sect, though no one knew where it was or how powerful it had become.

Xiao Hua finalized the Creation Sect’s leadership and reviewed the sect’s affairs, including the founding of Xiao Kingdom and the conflicts involving the dragons. He ordered Liu Yi to oversee the sect’s daily business, secretly investigated Lan Dianzi, and revealed that the Creation Sect had acquired Star Picking Tower.

• Xiao Hua left the Tenth Master position vacant and praised Xuan Songzi for receiving the returning disciples and dealing with those who had harmed them.
• You Zhongquan reported that Liu Yi and Jiang Hong were expanding their influence while Ao Zhan was away; Xiao Hua warned the disciples never to kill fellow Creation Sect members.
• Wang Zhengfei reported that Lan Dianzi had founded Xiao Kingdom and expanded its territory, and Xiao Hua said it should be governed without a ruler while secretly ordering Fu Zhiwen to investigate Lan Dianzi.
• Xiao Hua appointed Liu Yi to return to the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range and manage Creation Sect affairs.
• Xiao Hua said he needed a disciple with commercial talent to oversee a valuable acquisition, and Fu Zhiwen and the others realized he meant Star Picking Tower.
• Xiao Hua confirmed that the Creation Sect had acquired Star Picking Tower and ordered everyone to keep it confidential.

Xiao Hua appointed Qiongqiong to take over Star Picking Tower and arranged for Lord of Wenqu Palace and his friends to visit the Gusu Family for Gu Suqiudi and Zhai Xingzi’s marriage. He then left the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range with his incarnations and used the Hand of Cause and Effect to search for Princess Xinxin, creating a vast space filled with frozen black-and-white visions.

• Xiao Hua accepted Qiongqiong’s offer to manage Star Picking Tower temporarily and ordered her to gather intelligence on the Nangong Family, with Fu Zhiwen assigned to assist her.
• Xiao Hua asked Lord of Wenqu Palace to visit the Gusu Family to propose marriage for Zhai Xingzi and Gu Suqiudi, and approved their friends’ plans to travel and settle in the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range.
• Lord of Wenqu Palace gathered the group and set off for the Gusu Family while Xiao Hua stayed behind and reflected on his reluctance to part with his disciples.
• Xiao Hua led his incarnations beyond the Creation Sect’s protective formation and positioned them around a mountain summit to guard him.
• Xiao Hua performed the Hand of Cause and Effect on the ground to search for Princess Xinxin, unleashing a storm of laws and forming an immense space where black-and-white scenes appeared frozen.

Xiao Hua advanced his Hand of Cause and Effect and learned that Xin Xin was imprisoned at Chaomu Cliff, though he remained uncertain whether the vision could be trusted. He decided to go rescue her with the Creation Sect masters, and Gongshu Yixin identified the place as Chaomu Cliff of Cangxian Continent.

• Xiao Hua completed his ninety-nine days of cultivation, advanced his Cause and Effect technique, and recovered the surrounding landscape and flow of time.
• Xiao Hua returned to Creation Dao Palace, asked about Xin Xin’s whereabouts, and gave his disciples a jade pupil showing the perilous place revealed by his technique.
• Xiao Hua told Wenqu that he doubted the information but could not ignore the chance to find Xin Xin, and Wenqu agreed that the Creation Sect’s ten masters would go with him.
• Gongshu Yixin returned and identified the place in the jade pupil as Chaomu Cliff of Cangxian Continent.

Xiao Hua learned that Princess Xinxin was suppressed at Chaomu Cliff and prepared to lead the Creation Sect there while leaving True Person to guard Soaring Dragon Mountain Range. Before the expedition began, news arrived that Chun Zang’s journey through the Pure Land was nearing its end and powerful figures were gathering for a ceremony in Changsheng Town.

• Gongshu Yixin explained Chaomu Cliff’s connection to the Tender as Water Sword and the tragic tale of Pear Blossom Fairy, then directed Xiao Hua to Xuan Songzi for its location.
• Xuan Songzi warned Xiao Hua that Chaomu Cliff had chaotic Primordial Qi, strange space, immense pressure, and rapidly changing weather.
• Xiao Hua ordered an expedition, then adjusted his forces after worrying that Immortal Emperor Gouchen or the Four Great Families might attack Soaring Dragon Mountain Range.
• True Person agreed to guard Soaring Dragon Mountain Range while Xiao Hua took Tianren and prepared to lead disciples toward Chaomu Cliff.
• A message from the Star Picking Tower reported that Chun Zang and his four disciples were nearing Changsheng Town, where major leaders would attend the end of Seeking Scriptures in the Pure Land and perform Opening Light on the continent’s first Buddha statue golden body.

Xiao Hua and Wenqu traveled toward Chaomu Cliff, while Xiao Hua worried about the disasters caused by the missing Nine Provinces Ding and resolved to restore it after rescuing Xinxin. Wenqu sensed a strange, sorrowful familiarity with Chaomu Cliff, and the chapter ended as the two cautiously approached its unstable, layered space.

• Xiao Hua distributed more fine seeds to ease the suffering across Cangxian Continent and continued toward Qing Province.
• Wenqu sensed a familiar aura nearby and said it felt as though a lifetime had passed, but he declined Xiao Hua’s suggestion to seek help from the Four Great Families.
• Xuan Songzi revealed that Chaomu Cliff lay in the direction Wenqu had sensed, and Xiao Hua joked that Wenqu might be connected to a legend about the Immortal Emperor Gouchen.
• Wenqu felt sorrow, helplessness, reluctance, and farewell near Chaomu Cliff, though he insisted the emotions were not his own.
• Xiao Hua and Wenqu cautiously approached the pale gray expanse and saw that its outer spatial layers were torn and unstable while its inner layers remained intact.

Xiao Hua and Wenqu reached Chaomu Cliff, where Wenqu confronted unfamiliar emotions and chose to continue despite the pain. They discovered that morning and twilight shifted between two cliffs, and Xiao Hua encountered a cultivator from the Nangong Family across a vast sea of clouds.

• Wenqu felt heart-rending sorrow near Chaomu Cliff, and Xiao Hua suspected Immortal Emperor Gouchen had tampered with the place.
• Xiao Hua offered to send Wenqu back, but Wenqu chose to face the trials and continued toward Chaomu Cliff.
• Xiao Hua and Wenqu reached the cliff and realized that morning light and twilight alternated between two separate cliffs.
• Xiao Hua crossed to one cliff and saw another cultivator standing on a distant cliff above a boundless sea of clouds.
• The distant cultivator addressed Xiao Hua and Wenqu by name, and Xiao Hua asked which member of the Nangong Family he was.

Xiao Hua confronted Nangong Tianzhi and Nangong Jingyin over Xin Xin, rejecting the Nangong Family’s claim that marrying her served her best interests. As the dispute escalated, Nangong Tianzhi admitted that he had proposed marriage to pursue the Method of Five Qi Towards the Origin.

• Nangong Yaji greeted Xiao Hua and revealed that Nangong Tianzhi and the family heir had come to Chaomu Cliff.
• Nangong Tianzhi accused Xiao Hua of falling into Gouchen’s scheme and argued that he should have warned the Nangong Family before coming for Xin Xin.
• Nangong Jingyin accused Xiao Hua of competing with him for the Ninth Princess, but Xiao Hua said Jingyin wanted her for status and family interests rather than love.
• Xiao Hua proposed that he and the Nangong Family rescue Xin Xin together and let her choose between him and Nangong Jingyin.
• Nangong Tianzhi tried to persuade Xiao Hua to let Xin Xin go, then threatened him and boasted of the Four Great Families’ hidden strength.
• Xiao Hua accused Nangong Tianzhi of seeking the Method of Five Qi Towards the Origin, and Nangong Tianzhi admitted that it was why he had proposed marriage at the Immortal Palace.