Chapter Summaries

Duanmu Qing, Xiao Hua, and Old Demon Zhi Feng failed to capture the Heavenly Horse as it revealed its radiant wings and powerful abilities. After the horse broke through Zhu Qing and three Confucian elders’ crystal-and-righteous-qi trap, Xiao Hua recognized something in its sacred light and released Xiaohei to pursue it.

• Duanmu Qing tried to bind the emerging Heavenly Horse with the Dragon Subduing Lock, but it escaped and charged toward Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua used Wind Escape and tried to land on the horse, but it unfolded a radiant wing and shot away before he could touch it.
• Old Demon Zhi Feng attacked in his Wind Rat form, but the Heavenly Horse blocked him with white light and blasted him away with a beam from its broken horn.
• The Heavenly Horse fled toward Ming Yue Palace’s array, where Zhu Qing and three Confucian elders trapped it in a crystal net that its sacred radiance shattered.
• As the weakened Heavenly Horse tried to escape beyond Ming Yue Palace, Xiao Hua released Xiaohei and asked whether it could subdue the horse; Xiaohei eagerly fixed its gaze on it.

Xiao Hua used Xiaohei to subdue the Heavenly Horse after it resisted Ao Shuai’s dragon’s might and Murong Congyun’s lily-flower attack. He caught the falling horse and returned to his room, while Old Monster Zhi Feng asked him to wait for a private visit.

• Xiao Hua sent Xiaohei after the Heavenly Horse as Ao Shuai and Murong Congyun tried to capture it.
• Xiaohei ignored the dragon’s might, swallowed the Heavenly Horse’s beam of light, and confronted it in midair.
• Xiaohei struck the Heavenly Horse’s broken horn with silver light, subduing it, and Xiao Hua caught it as it fell.
• Old Monster Zhi Feng approached Xiao Hua and asked him to wait in his room for a visit.
• Xiao Hua handed Zhu Qing the Small Qiankun Bag for settlement, then returned to his room.

After winning the Heavenly Horse, Xiao Hua met with Old Monster Zhi Feng, who invited him to a private bidding fair where Daoist cultivation techniques might be available. Xiao Hua learned Zhi Feng wanted to use his demon pet to help obtain another exotic beast and was left weighing whether to accept.

• Fu Zhiwen congratulated Xiao Hua on winning the Heavenly Horse, and they shared fruit while discussing Xiao Hua’s original plans for the fair.
• Old Monster Zhi Feng visited Xiao Hua and invited him to a bidding fair at Mingyue Workshop, but Xiao Hua initially declined because he had spent his Qi Stones and wanted to return.
• Zhi Feng promised the private fair would offer Daoist cultivation techniques and useful information unavailable at Star Picking Tower’s fair.
• Xiao Hua asked why Zhi Feng had invited him, and Zhi Feng sent Fu Zhiwen outside before explaining that he wanted Xiao Hua’s demon pet to help secure another exotic beast for himself and Ao Shuai.
• Zhi Feng admitted Xiao Hua might provide no help and offered no other benefit beyond access to the fair, leaving Xiao Hua to consider the invitation.

Xiao Hua accepted Star Picking Tower’s distinguished guest token and, despite Zhu Qing’s warnings about the dangers of a secret auction, decided to go with Old Demon Zhi Feng. He left Star Picking Tower alone, intending to learn what the Duanmu Family was planning.

• Zhu Qing told Xiao Hua that his auctioned goods were worth at least five hundred thousand top-grade Qi Stones and gave him a distinguished guest token to collect the payment anywhere.
• Zhu Qing warned Xiao Hua that Young Master Duanmu had gathered cultivators outside and explained that the secret auction offered no guarantees of safety or authenticity, though it might have the Daoist pills Xiao Hua sought.
• Xiao Hua decided to attend the secret auction with Old Demon Zhi Feng, while Zhu Qing cautioned him against risking the wealth he had already gained.
• Xiao Hua left Ming Yue Palace through Star Picking Tower’s moon gates, briefly thinking of Eldest Miss Hao and regretting that he had not given her a Qi Stone.
• Xiao Hua asked the Star Picking Tower attendant to summon Three Zero Seven and inquire about the Hundred Schools of Thought Classics, then walked out carrying the As-You-Wish Staff.

Xiao Hua faced Duanmu Qiu and a group of Duanmu family warriors outside Star Picking Tower, then defeated Duanmu Qiu and shattered his Golden Armor. The chapter ended with Duanmu Qing accusing Xiao Hua of going too far as the other warriors closed in.

• Xiao Jian and Yuan Ya welcomed Xiao Hua outside Star Picking Tower, while Fu Zhiwen told him that Zhi Feng had left instructions to meet at a Dragon Boat near Liuyan River.
• Xiao Hua sent Fu Zhiwen to Qiyang Temple with the others, then confronted Duanmu Qiu and learned that the challenge involved the Duanmu Family.
• Duanmu Qiu and more than a dozen Golden Armored Warriors attacked Xiao Hua with a combined strike of Vast Righteous Qi.
• Xiao Hua broke Duanmu Qiu's bronze mace, disabled his arms, and destroyed his Golden Armor, while fire talismans scattered the warriors' combined attack.
• Duanmu Qing arrived and accused Xiao Hua of shattering Duanmu Qiu's arms, as the Golden Armored Warriors gathered around them.

Xiao Hua confronted Duanmu Qing over Duanmu Qiu’s attack and refused to back down, while Duanmu Qing withdrew and promised that her family would hold him accountable. After collecting the items he had requested, Xiao Hua went to board the Dragon Boat, where Princess Baihua greeted him and he bantered with her.

• Xiao Hua challenged Duanmu Qing and the Golden Armored Warriors, but Duanmu Qing decided to leave and said the Duanmu Family would deal with him later.
• Duanmu Qiu departed with the Golden Armored Warriors, and Xiao Hua descended to Star Picking Tower to collect a Small Qiankun Bag from the blue-clad youth.
• Xiao Hua thanked the youth, gave him Qi Stones, and asked him to give two to Xiao E of Ming Yue Palace; Zhu Qing watched Xiao Hua leave and worried about the demons and evils still in the world.
• Fu Zhiwen led Xiao Hua to the Dragon Boat, and Xiao Hua told Fu Zhiwen, Xiao Jian, and the others to return to Qiyang Temple without him.
• Princess Baihua appeared aboard the Dragon Boat, and Xiao Hua greeted her with flattery before Old Monster Zhi Feng urged him to board.

Xiao Hua joined Princess Baihua, Ao Shuai, and Old Demon Zhi Feng aboard a painted boat, where their conversation turned to human and demon nature. As the boat sailed on, Ao Shuai disparaged human claims of superiority, and Xiao Hua challenged him to explain why he had assumed human form and traveled to Cangxian Continent.

• Princess Baihua blushed at Xiao Hua's words, invited him to share a drink, and told him her name was Xin Yi and her pet name was Yi'er.
• Ao Shuai condemned cultivators as untrustworthy and declared that humans were greedy locusts who had driven demons from their lands.
• Old Demon Zhi Feng offered Xiao Hua wine and tried to temper Ao Shuai's hostility toward humans.
• Xiao Hua praised humanity's intelligence and cultivation, while Ao Shuai laughed and argued that assuming human form was merely a way for demons to survive.
• Princess Baihua played her flute as the painted boat sailed into a wider waterway, and Ao Shuai admitted humans excelled at the arts but rejected their claim to superiority.
• Xiao Hua asked Ao Shuai why he had assumed human form and gone to Cangxian Continent to gain experience.

Xiao Hua debated Ao Shuai over whether humans or demons were the spirit of all creation, then entered a mysterious bridge that transported the pleasure boat. The unexpected Teleportation Array left Xiao Hua questioning what he had been told about Cangxian Continent.

• Ao Shuai argued that demons took human form to adapt to humanity's dominance and challenged the idea that humans were the spirit of all creation.
• Princess Baihua defended humanity's capacity to learn and create, but Ao Shuai's questions about demon influences in human techniques left Xiao Hua and Princess Baihua speechless.
• Princess Baihua played her flute and urged Xiao Hua to seek answers only after advancing his cultivation, helping him regain his composure.
• Old Monster Zhi Feng warned everyone as the pleasure boat approached the auction grounds.
• The boat entered a dark, distorted bridge opening and vanished in a flash of gray light; Xiao Hua recognized the effect as a Teleportation Array and wondered why one existed on Cangxian Continent.

Xiao Hua and Princess Baihua Xin Yi traveled with Ao Shuai and Old Demon Zhi Feng through a strange cave toward the auction venue. The Dragon Boat plunged into a vast waterfall-filled abyss, leaving them hurtling toward its depths.

• Xiao Hua discovered that the cave walls corroded divine sense, while Princess Baihua told him she had followed Ao Shuai to the auction and asked to stay with him.
• Xiao Hua reluctantly agreed to let Princess Baihua remain by his side after she reminded him of the favor she owed him and offered him tea.
• The Dragon Boat passed a cave entrance filled with bubbling water, and Old Demon Zhi Feng admitted he knew little about the route to the auction.
• A powerful suction pulled the Dragon Boat into an enormous abyss filled with roaring waterfalls, and it plunged toward the bottom as Princess Baihua cried out.
• Xiao Hua began circulating his magical power, but the boat's gauze rose like wings and graceful music sounded from within it.

Xiao Hua and his companions entered Nine Heavens Superior’s secluded auction, where Yansheng introduced a set of jade slips containing the construction method for the famed Thunderclap Warship. Princess Baihua was stunned by the revelation and learned that the warship was a legendary weapon coveted by kingdoms across Cangxian Continent.

• Two dragon-shaped figures sealed Xiao Hua and his companions’ barge inside a pavilion marked Nine, joining eight other numbered pavilions in the abyss.
• Nine Heavens Superior and Elder Qingyu finished their chess game, then Nine Heavens Superior introduced himself and summoned Yansheng to conduct the auction.
• Yansheng explained the auction rules, including that attendees could offer items for sale and bid on items offered by others.
• Yansheng displayed jade slips containing the method for constructing the Thunderclap Warship, startling Princess Baihua and several other cultivators.
• Old Monster Zhi Feng reminded Princess Baihua that he had arranged for Inspector Ao to bring her, while Xiao Hua asked about the warship’s reputation.
• Princess Baihua explained that the Thunderclap Warship had been the Great Accomplishment Kingdom’s state treasure and was a powerful weapon coveted across Cangxian Continent.

Princess Baihua tried to acquire the Thunderclap Warship’s crafting method for Nüwa Country, with Xiao Hua offering his origin stones as a deposit. Her bid lost to the senior in Pavilion Number Three, whose identity left her visibly shaken.

• Princess Baihua explained the Thunderclap Warship’s history, size, and battle formations to Xiao Hua.
• Yansheng announced that bids would be sent privately and that the highest offer would win the Thunderclap Warship method.
• Princess Baihua asked Xiao Hua for help, and he offered his origin stones as a deposit against Nüwa Country’s future payment.
• Princess Baihua sent her bid to Yansheng, who later announced that Pavilion Number Three had offered the most origin stones.
• The senior in Pavilion Number Three inspected the jade pupil and received the Thunderclap Warship method, while Princess Baihua turned pale at the senior’s voice.
• Yansheng invited the senior in Pavilion Number One to present the next item for bidding.

Xiao Hua watched the gathering’s requests and exchanges while questioning Old Monster Zhi Feng about the items on offer. The chapter left him wary after a Pavilion Three guest asked Nine Heavens Superior to arrange a killing, before another guest presented an unidentified item for appraisal.

• A Pavilion One guest offered Wood Ox and Flowing Horse forging techniques, and two bidders completed a transaction after Yansheng called for final offers.
• A guest sought the Nine Heavens Intense Flame Formation diagram, but no one responded; a Pavilion Two cultivator then offered a Xuanming Beast cub and a secret art for refining a split spirit.
• Old Monster Zhi Feng explained the Xuanming Beast and its potential uses, while Xiao Hua declined to bid and pressed him for information about the gathering.
• A woman asked for a Three-Turn Soul Nurturing Pill, but Nine Heavens Superior could not provide one, and she rejected the offered Daoist Soul Replenishing Pills.
• A Pavilion Three guest asked Nine Heavens Superior to help kill someone, prompting Xiao Hua to become wary of Old Monster Zhi Feng and the gathering’s dangers.
• Another guest offered an unidentified item for Nine Heavens Superior to appraise.

Xiao Hua pursued an unknown material outside the Five Elements and negotiated with its owner for the Jade Gourd needed to contain it. He agreed to exchange half the spirit herbs the owner requested, and the owner accepted the deal.

• The auctioneer explained that the shapeless item required a special container, and Yansheng reported that the High Person had identified it as a rare artifact-refining material outside the Five Elements.
• Xiao Hua asked the owner of Pavilion Three about his Jade Gourd, then learned the owner had heard of Xiao Hua's Pure Water Bottle collecting the Liao River.
• The owner recognized Xiao Hua's attempt to buy the Jade Gourd separately and demanded Qi Stones for both it and the rare material.
• Xiao Hua offered spirit herbs instead, and the owner named the herbs and quantities he wanted.
• Xiao Hua offered half the requested spirit herbs, and the owner accepted after Xiao Hua admitted the terms before taking the item.

At the auction, Xiao Hua acquired a Jade Gourd containing more Exquisite Gold and discovered the Thousand Transformations Scarf’s connection to starforce, but another bidder claimed the scarf before he could act. The auction continued with Confucian treasures as Pavilion No. 6 was invited to make its request.

• Xiao Hua agreed to refine an artifact for the Jade Gourd’s anonymous owner in three years and gave his name as Daoist Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua found more Exquisite Gold inside the Jade Gourd and asked green-robed Xiao Hua to refine it with the As-You-Wish Staff.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua observed the dormant spirit creatures and the changes around Zhang Xiaohua’s stone statue in the Yin aspect of his space.
• Xiao Hua recognized the Thousand Transformations Scarf’s starforce and considered its possible connection to Vast Righteous Qi, but Pavilion No. 5 won the item before he could bid.
• Princess Baihua was interested in the Flying Phoenix Hairpin but did not bid further, and Yansheng invited Pavilion No. 6 to state its request.

A Confucian scholar auctioned a Buddhist Sect secret technique left to him by a deceased monk, and Xiao Hua won it with a bid of one copper coin. The chapter ended with Ao Shuai furious at Xiao Hua, who promised to cultivate the technique if possible or destroy it if he could not.

• The Confucian scholar explained that a deceased Buddhist monk had entrusted him with a secret technique and asked him to find someone fated to receive it.
• After Nine Heavens Superior declined, bidders competed aloud for the unopened technique, and Ao Shuai raised the price to three hundred and fifty thousand top-grade Qi Stones.
• Xiao Hua bid one copper coin, saying the technique was worth no more and that he would cultivate it if Daoist cultivators could use it or destroy it otherwise.
• The Confucian scholar declared Xiao Hua the fated recipient and awarded him the Buddhist tablet, explaining that lower bids won this item.
• Ao Shuai angrily accused Xiao Hua of opposing him, and Xiao Hua teased him by calling him Little Brother Ao.

At the auction, Ao Shuai asked for information about the attempt to flood Changsheng Town, while Xiao Hua realized the inquiry concerned events he had witnessed. Xiao Hua volunteered to reveal what he knew, leaving the auction attendees poised to hear his account.

• Nine Heavens Superior postponed the final treasure and let the guests from Pavilions Seven, Eight, and Nine auction items or make requests.
• A guest from Pavilion Seven asked for the truth about a strange incident at Cangqiong Mountain, and Nine Heavens Superior recommended Star Picking Tower for the investigation.
• After Pavilion Eight's brief auctions, Old Demon Zhi Feng declined to offer anything, and Ao Shuai asked for help investigating Changsheng Town.
• Ao Shuai offered a precious treasure and promised payment to learn who planned to flood Changsheng Town, why they did it, and where they went after their defeat.
• Xiao Hua recognized that Ao Shuai's questions concerned the events he knew firsthand and offered to explain what had happened.

Xiao Hua traded his account of the Liao River aquatic clan’s attack on Changsheng Town to Ao Shuai for an intermediate Metal Evasion Technique. He then revealed what he knew about the clan’s actions and ended by clarifying which details he could confirm.

• Xiao Hua told Ao Shuai that he had witnessed the Liao River aquatic clan flood Changsheng Town and said he knew why they had done it.
• Xiao Hua bargained for a high-level Water Evasion Technique, but Ao Shuai refused and offered a choice between a Golden Core cultivation technique and an intermediate Metal Evasion Technique.
• Xiao Hua accepted the Metal Evasion Technique jade slip while pretending it was a poor bargain.
• Xiao Hua recounted what he had seen and heard in Changsheng Town, including Liu Yi finding Xiao Yun and Xiao Hua taking Liu Yi in as an attendant.
• Ao Shuai asked whether the clues involved the words “cave heaven” and a dwarf riding a seahorse, and Xiao Hua confirmed the dwarf but said he could not verify the other details.

Xiao Hua failed to find basic Daoist cultivation techniques at the auction, while Nine Heavens Superior prepared to unveil its final treasure. The treasure proved to be a Light Beast cub sealed in a Qiankun Ring, and Ao Shuai recognized the nine tablets restraining it as the Nine Sons Dragon Tablet.

• Xiao Hua asked whether anyone could auction basic Daoist cultivation techniques, but Nine Heavens Superior and the other guests had none to offer.
• Qingyu warned Nine Heavens Superior not to expose their plan to lure the Light Beast, and Nine Heavens Superior said capturing it was their only chance to return to the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons.
• Nine Heavens Superior explained that the final treasure was a living creature and brought out an ancient bronze Qiankun Ring.
• White radiance escaped from the ring, and the auction guests recognized the creature inside as a Light Beast.
• Nine Heavens Superior summoned nine strange objects and transformed them into stone tablets that confined the ring's radiance.
• Xiao Hua identified the nine creatures depicted on the tablets, and Ao Shuai exclaimed that they were the Nine Sons Dragon Tablet.

At the auction, Nine Heavens Superior revealed a Light Beast cub whose body was filled with crystallized Primordial Qi, and Xiao Hua recognized similarities to his own condition. After learning that Old Demon Zhi Feng and Ao Shuai planned to exploit the cub, Xiao Hua decided to bid for it himself.

• Nine Heavens Superior used the Nine Sons Dragon Tablet to suppress the Light Beast cub's radiance and displayed it at the auction.
• Xiao Hua mistook the cub for Huanhuan at first, then saw how its appearance and wild behavior differed from Huanhuan's.
• Nine Heavens Superior explained that the cub contained crystallized Primordial Qi and might become formidable once it absorbed the crystals.
• Old Demon Zhi Feng admitted that he wanted the cub's bloodline and had invited Xiao Hua to help subdue it, offering him the remaining body.
• Xiao Hua decided to enter the auction and obtain the Light Beast cub, regardless of the price.

Xiao Hua refused Old Demon Zhi Feng’s demand to seize another’s body as the auction’s final item, a Light Beast cub, drew increasingly contentious attention. Yin Hu exposed that the cub had been auctioned the year before and challenged Nine Heavens Superior to hold the bidding openly, leaving the identity of the bidder in Pavilion Eight unresolved.

• Xiao Hua rejected Old Demon Zhi Feng’s suggestion, insisting he would not occupy another person’s body or soul.
• An old woman questioned why Nine Heavens Superior was auctioning the Light Beast cub and urged him to let bidders compete aloud.
• The old woman revealed herself as Yin Hu, who accused Nine Heavens Superior of reselling the cub he had auctioned the previous year.
• Nine Heavens Superior explained that the previous buyer had suffered backlash from the cub’s Light Power and returned it for a partial refund.
• Yin Hu demanded an open auction, prompting Old Demon Zhi Feng, Ao Shuai, and Mulu King to reveal themselves.
• The bidder in Pavilion Eight declined to participate, but Nine Heavens Superior said the auction could not proceed unless he revealed his identity.