Chapter Summaries

At Lingyun Side Palace, the supreme factions formed a united defense against the World-Ending Strange Insects and assigned forces to protect the Three Great Continents and Four Seas. Xiao Hua secured Creation Sect’s role by offering to build teleportation arrays, while Ancestor Hongmeng grew increasingly resentful over what he believed Xu Zhi had left to Xiao Hua.

• A World-Ending Strange Insect emerged inside the Righteous Qi Pillars, revealing that the insects had already infiltrated the void throughout the Three Great Continents.
• Ancestor Hongmeng arrived, clashed with Thunderclap True Person, and received Immortal Emperor Gouchen’s warnings and a jade pupil; Gouchen also revealed that an immortal had once kept him from killing Hongmeng.
• The factions agreed to defend against the insects, and Maitreya Buddha World Honored One displayed a new understanding of Buddhist Dharma as the leaders set out their defensive lines.
• Xiao Hua assigned Creation Sect, Jiang Hong’s Dongtian River Dragon race, and Ao Zhan’s forces to defend parts of the West Sea, then helped the factions settle on a defensive ring and evacuate civilians.
• Xiao Hua offered Creation Sect’s teleportation arrays to connect the continents and major realms, and the other factions agreed to provide the materials for their construction.
• Immortal Emperor Gouchen ended the discussion and invited the gathered leaders to the Peach Blossom Banquet.

Immortal Emperor Gouchen hosted the Peach Blossom Banquet as the sects and races prepared to unite against the World-Ending Strange Insects, and Xiao Hua claimed the Hongmeng Throne as the King of Fortune before sitting with Princess Zixia. The banquet’s marriage negotiations ended in crisis when Princess Qingqing publicly accused Thunderclap True Person of molesting her.

• Immortal Emperor Gouchen summoned the Void Hao Bell and transformed the Lingyun Side Palace into the Peach Blossom Banquet, where the Immortal Palace, Confucian cultivators, Buddhist sect, Demon Race, and Dragon Race took their places.
• Ancestor Hongmeng asked Xiao Hua not to release Creation Sect disciples, and Xiao Hua agreed in exchange for Ancestor Hongmeng’s lost Daoist artifact-refining techniques.
• Empress Dongmian opened the Daoist sect’s place at the banquet, revealing the Hongmeng Throne; Xiao Hua renamed it the King of Fortune and sat upon it with Princess Zixia.
• Immortal Emperor Gouchen toasted the gathered leaders and reconciled publicly with Dongfang Qionghao, while Empress Dongmian proposed Princess Qingqing’s marriage to Thunderclap True Person.
• Thunderclap True Person rejected the proposed marriage, and Princess Qingqing accused him before the assembled leaders of molesting her and defiling her.

At the Peach Blossom Banquet, Princess Qingqing tried to force Thunderclap True Person to accept her by attempting suicide, but a World-Ending Strange Insect attacked her and triggered a massive invasion. The Sovereigns fought the swarms and tested ways to kill them, while Xiao Hua realized the insects could invade through spatial veins; the chapter ended with Immortal Emperor Gouchen’s Five-colored True Qi making a group of them swell and explode.

• Princess Qingqing slashed her throat after Thunderclap True Person rejected her, and simultaneous attempts by Xiao Hua and the other Sovereigns to intervene failed to reach her in time.
• A World-Ending Strange Insect severed Princess Qingqing’s arm and cheek, but Xiao Hua struck the insect and Thunderclap True Person caught and treated her.
• More strange insects poured into the Jade Pool and attacked the guests and attendants, leading Xiao Hua to conclude that they were invading through spatial veins rather than from the Three Great Continents’ borders.
• Immortal Emperor Gouchen and the other Sovereigns fought the swarms, but the insects devoured spatial energy and several kinds of power, while the Immortal Palace’s arrays failed to stop them.
• Xiao Hua suggested testing whether the insects could absorb every kind of True Qi; the Sovereigns’ experiments mostly failed, and Thunderclap True Person showed signs of growing concern for others.
• Immortal Emperor Gouchen unleashed Five-colored True Qi, causing many strange insects to swell and explode.

Xiao Hua and the gathered Sovereigns tested ways to fight the strange insects, then faced a devastating invasion of enormous insects drawn to the Jade Pool’s Vast Righteous Qi. After the banquet grounds were wrecked and the attackers were beaten back, Xiao Hua concluded that the insects had an intelligent commander, leaving the group on guard for a greater threat.

• The Golden-Winged Great Peng, Rāgaratna Tathagata, the Celestial, Xiao Hua, and Immortal Emperor Gouchen tested their powers on strange insects, but learned that many attacks only made the insects grow or burst without revealing a reliable weakness.
• Sun Jian reported that the insects’ strength increased with their size, that they advanced rapidly by devouring True Qi, and that even pieces torn from an insect could recover into multiple insects.
• A strange insect several thousand zhang long emerged and attacked the Jade Pool; Immortal Emperor Gouchen’s Void Bell and the Execution Stage damaged it, while Xiao Hua and Ao Yi destroyed its split halves before more giant insects appeared.
• Several thousand-zhang insects assaulted the Peach Blossom Banquet, killing Immortal Soldiers and wrecking the Jade Pool as Sun Jian ordered the troops to retreat in formation.
• Xiao Hua, the Celestial, and Thunderclap True Person killed one giant insect after Xiao Hua’s thunder hand and Wrath of Lightning split it, while the other Sovereigns fought off the remaining attackers.
• After the battle, Xiao Hua recalled that earlier strange insects had fought with greater cunning and warned that their commander might be as intelligent as the Sovereigns.

Xiao Hua discovered that a Wutuodan made with Xiaoyu Continent’s mutated Primordial Qi could destroy a Strange Insect King, though another king escaped. He explained that the pill contained Exotic True Qi from Xiaoyu Continent, leaving the Sovereigns to consider how that power might stop the World-Ending Parasites.

• Xiao Hua realized the Strange Insect King was testing the Sovereigns, then identified its attacks and spotted signs that a second king was lurking nearby.
• Xiao Hua ignited the hidden Strange Insect King with six-colored spirit fire, but it began absorbing the fire and advancing toward Tenth Grade Yuan Force.
• Xiao Hua woke Ao Sheng and learned that a Wutuodan had been kept in his Dragon Pouch; Xiao Hua fed one to the advancing king, causing it to burst apart.
• The other Strange Insect King escaped despite the Sovereigns’ attacks, and Immortal Emperor Gouchen destroyed Lingyun Side Palace to eliminate most of the remaining insects.
• Xiao Hua explained that the Wutuodan contained Exotic True Qi from Xiaoyu Continent, while ordinary pills and their ingredients did not harm the insects.

Xiao Hua persuaded the Sovereigns to defend the Three Great Continents and search for spatial veins to Xiaoyu Continent, while arranging to bring back spirit herbs that could kill the World-Ending Parasites. After witnessing the parasites’ destruction of a town and their assault on the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range, he realized the crisis was worse than he had feared and helped lead Creation Sect to victory over a Strange Insect King and its swarm.

• Xiao Hua explained how he had reached the Three Great Continents and proposed defenses across their regions while the Sovereigns searched for spatial veins to Xiaoyu Continent.
• Xiao Hua traded two Wutuodan to Immortal Emperor Gouchen for the King of Fortune, then departed with Princess Zixia, Qiongqiong, Thunderclap True Person, and Tianren.
• Xiao Hua found a town emptied by the World-Ending Parasites and collected its countless wandering souls, then ordered Qiongqiong to tell Fu Zhiwen to prepare Xiao Kingdom’s people to relocate to Shenhua Continent.
• Xiao Hua rushed to the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range, where Creation Sect disciples were fighting a Strange Insect King; he destroyed it with a Marrow Cleansing Pill and had Thunderclap True Person take its parts to refine into weapons.
• Xiao Hua and the other Masters of the Sect sealed the surrounding space as Creation Sect disciples wiped out the swarm over three days, after which Wenqu arrived and Xiao Hua warned Daoist Ren not to underestimate the Strange Insect Kings.

After the parasite attack, Xiao Hua prepared Creation Sect to relocate to the West Sea and arranged protections against future attacks. He planned to investigate Fairy Xingyue’s Lan Yue Palace and kept Heavenly Man behind to help protect the disciples on their journey.

• Xiao Hua gave Wen Qu the Nine Provinces Ding and the secret art of Nine Cauldrons United Heart, warning him to retrieve the Ding if the formation failed.
• Xiao Hua told Liu Yi and the disciples about the parasite threat and the outcome of the Peach Blossom Banquet, including permission for the Daoist sect to develop in the West Sea.
• Xiao Hua distributed Qi Nurturing Pills that could be used against parasites and ordered Fu Zhiwen to arrange for Xiao Kingdom’s people to move into Shenhua Continent.
• Xiao Hua ordered Qiongqiong to warn cultivators across the Three Great Continents and assigned disciples to construct Teleportation Arrays.
• Xiao Hua told the disciples to prepare for the move to the West Sea, asked Princess Zixia to prepare Star Picking Tower and await him, and asked Heavenly Man to help guard the traveling disciples.

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Xiao Hua took Princess Zixia to the Western Sea to seek Lan Yue Palace, but he confessed that finding it could not prevent the coming insect disaster or save the Three Great Continents. Exhausted by years of hardship and the looming catastrophe, he found comfort in Zixia’s embrace.

• Xiao Hua entrusted the Creation Sect disciples to the Heavenly Man and Daoist Friend, then took Princess Zixia away.
• Xiao Hua reached the Western Sea with Princess Zixia and gave her Fairy Xingyue’s jade slip so she could guide him to Lan Yue Palace.
• Princess Zixia explained that she recognized the Western Sea from its landscape and that Lan Yue Palace had been hidden there because the sea was vast and difficult to search.
• Xiao Hua admitted that finding Lan Yue Palace would not reveal a path back to Xiaoyu Continent, and he described the approaching strange-insect invasion and the deaths he feared it would cause.
• Xiao Hua lamented that his strength could not stop the catastrophe, and Princess Zixia comforted him with an embrace as he confessed how tired he was.

Xiao Hua rested in Princess Zixia’s arms, then steadied his Dao heart and set out with her to save the Three Great Continents. They opened the hidden entrance to Lan Yue Palace and arrived at its moonlit beach.

• Princess Zixia comforted Xiao Hua as he wept over the burden of saving the Three Great Continents, and he rested in her arms.
• Xiao Hua admitted that his Dao heart was unstable, and a mysterious law descended before he used Wrath of Lightning and Senior Xu Zhi’s talisman to dispel its effects.
• Xiao Hua and Princess Zixia flew to the West Sea, where Xiao Hua recognized the full moon above them as the site of Lan Yue Palace.
• Xiao Hua used Wrath of Lightning on Fairy Xingyue’s token, opening a portal through which he and Princess Zixia entered Lan Yue Palace.
• Xiao Hua confirmed that the moonlit shore and its sand-built halls were Lan Yue Palace, while Princess Zixia joyfully ran across the beach.

Xiao Hua and Princess Zixia searched Lan Yue Palace for Fairy Xingyue’s clue about Xiaoyu Continent, eventually reaching Xingyue’s Heroes Pavilion. Xiao Hua found no answer in the Hero Registers and continued searching.

• Princess Zixia declined Xiao Hua’s offer of Lan Yue Palace, saying they should search it and then seal it to preserve Fairy Xingyue’s secret.
• Xiao Hua and Princess Zixia searched the empty halls, inspecting a jade paperweight and other objects but finding no clue.
• After several days, Xiao Hua used Fairy Xingyue’s token to open the sealed Heroes Pavilion, where they found the Hero Registers from Star Picking Tower.
• Xiao Hua used the Hand of Cause and Effect to survey the registers, but the River of Cause and Effect revealed no information about the realm Fairy Xingyue had mentioned.
• Xiao Hua examined more than a dozen Hero Registers closely and still found nothing.

Xiao Hua and Princess Zixia searched Lan Yue Palace for the secret Fairy Xingyue had hidden, then Xiao Hua used her token to enter the palace pavilion alone. Inside, an illusion showed another Xiao Hua and Princess Zixia on a beach, and he found an ordinary-looking book beside a meditation cushion.

• Xiao Hua concluded that Fairy Xingyue's secret was not among the Heroes Pavilion's jade pupils, so he and Princess Zixia searched the halls of Lan Yue Palace.
• Xiao Hua and Princess Zixia reached an enormous garden and spotted the true Lan Yue Palace pavilion, but an illusion kept it out of reach.
• Xiao Hua used Lightning Escape to shatter the spatial barrier, and Fairy Xingyue's token unlocked the pavilion while freezing Princess Zixia outside.
• Xiao Hua entered the pavilion and passed through a doorway into a beach scene, where he saw an illusion of another Xiao Hua and Princess Zixia together.
• Xiao Hua found a meditation cushion and an old book on a platform, then saw the beach illusion appear again as he reached for the book.

Xiao Hua discovered that the decayed book in Lan Yue Palace held a secret and brought it into his space to examine it. He found Fairy Xingyue’s handwritten story describing how a mountain’s people divided six tribes with five chasms, then wondered how Xu Zhi had reacted to her tale.

• Xiao Hua realized Fairy Xingyue had preserved the illusion of Xu Zhi arriving at Lan Yue Palace because she cherished the memory.
• When Xiao Hua touched the ancient book, one corner crumbled to ash, and he suspected it contained the secret of the Three Great Continents.
• Xiao Hua sent the book’s remains into his space, where Jade Slip Xiao Hua identified it as a copy of Gunzhou Ghost Records.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua found Fairy Xingyue’s handwritten note explaining that Xu Zhi had read her the book’s forty-seven stories while she recovered from Qi Deviation.
• Fairy Xingyue’s added story described powerful people separating six warring tribes with five deep chasms, and Jade Slip Xiao Hua wondered whether Xu Zhi had liked it.

Jade Slip Xiao Hua deciphered Fairy Xingyue’s story as a warning that the Four Great Continents had been divided by powerful immortals using three artificial formations. He left Lan Yue Palace with Princess Zixia, keeping the dangerous secret between them.

• Jade Slip Xiao Hua interpreted Fairy Xingyue’s metaphors as describing an ancient conflict among the Four Great Continents’ factions and an intervention by Immortal Venerables.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua realized the Great Sumeru Buddha Array, Five Elements Annihilation Great Formation, and Time Song Demon Array might form an artificial seal separating Xiaoyu Continent from the Three Great Continents.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua destroyed Fairy Xingyue’s scroll so it would not remain as evidence of her secret, then searched the palace halls and collected their remaining objects.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua reunited with Princess Zixia on the beach and accepted the items she had found.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua told Princess Zixia that he had learned terrible news unrelated to the World-Ending Strange Insect and warned her not to reveal what happened at Lan Yue Palace.

Xiao Hua and Princess Zixia emerged in the West Sea, where they reunited with the Multicolored Sea God Conch. She spoke with Xiao Hua about Star Moon Palace and her longing to return to the Sea Red Domain, but admitted she had found no way back.

• Xiao Hua and Princess Zixia were teleported to a distant part of the West Sea, where Xiao Hua repelled a probing spiritual sense.
• The Multicolored Sea God Conch appeared and greeted Xiao Hua, who addressed her as a senior because of her ties to Xiao Bai, Bibo, and Shang Hua Ming.
• The Multicolored Sea God Conch gave Princess Zixia a seashell containing gifts for female cultivators, and Xiao Hua collected Zixia into the Kunlun Mirror.
• Xiao Hua told the Multicolored Sea God Conch that Xu Zhi had visited the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons to rescue him, and she remarked on Xu Zhi's strength.
• Xiao Hua asked whether the Multicolored Sea God Conch wanted to return to the Sea Red Domain, and she explained that she had found no route out of the Three Great Continents.

Xiao Hua learned that the world-ending insects were mayflies from the Upper Realm and connected them to the black specks in the spatial veins, while the Multicolored Sea God Conch despaired over the Three Great Continents’ fate. Their conversation softened when she brought out Bi Bo and the children she shared with Little White.

• The Multicolored Sea God Conch told Xiao Hua that records described mayflies devastating the Jiang Domain before golden light apparently returned them to the Upper Realm.
• Xiao Hua realized the mayflies were the black specks he had seen in the spatial veins and suspected the Xuanhong River’s unusual Law of Time explained their arrival before the Xuanhong Discourse on the Dao.
• The Multicolored Sea God Conch lamented that the mayflies would turn the Three Great Continents into a dead realm within a hundred years, and Xiao Hua chose not to press her to help.
• The Multicolored Sea God Conch agreed to take Xiao Hua to her Northern Sea palace after Little White finished training in the Western Sea.
• The Multicolored Sea God Conch summoned Bi Bo and her children, then gathered the little loaches when they tried to swim into the Western Sea.

Xiao Hua gave transformation pills to Bibo and Little White’s other mate and children, then sought the Multicolored Sea God Conch’s help against the Calamity of Strange Insects. He explained that the Three Great Continents and Xiaoyu Continent were once part of the Four Great Continents, leaving the Multicolored Sea God Conch stunned by the revelation.

• Xiao Hua gave Bibo Rejuvenation Pills for her children, and Bibo said Little White’s other mate also had children.
• The Multicolored Sea God Conch summoned the conch woman and her children, and Xiao Hua gave them transformation pills before the Conch sent them away.
• Xiao Hua warned that the Calamity of Strange Insects could endanger the Conch’s descendants and asked her to support his plan to fight the insects.
• Xiao Hua proposed finding a passage to Xiaoyu Continent to bring back spiritual herbs, but the Multicolored Sea God Conch argued that the plan could not eradicate every insect.
• Xiao Hua revealed that Xiaoyu Continent and the Three Great Continents were once one realm called the Four Great Continents, divided by the Triple Innate Divine Seal, and the Multicolored Sea God Conch reacted in disbelief.

Xiao Hua learned that the Multicolored Sea God Conch had helped bring about the West Sea Dragon King's disappearance and tried to recruit her help for the Daoist Sect’s plans in the West Sea. She refused to find the Creation Sect a base, and Xiao Hua concluded that the sect should settle somewhere barren to avoid attracting the mayfly strange insects.

• Xiao Hua proposed breaking the ancient formation that sealed Xiaoyu Continent, but the Multicolored Sea God Conch doubted they could overcome an Immortal Realm restriction.
• The Multicolored Sea God Conch sent Bibo and the young conches away, then admitted she had injured the West Sea Dragon King while taking Little White Dragon to Qihe Abyss.
• The Multicolored Sea God Conch revealed that she had given the West Sea Dragon King's corpse and dragon throne to Little White Dragon.
• Xiao Hua explained that the Daoist Sect planned to establish itself in the West Sea and asked the Multicolored Sea God Conch to find the Creation Sect a suitable base.
• The Multicolored Sea God Conch refused and warned that mayfly strange insects were drawn to places rich in Primordial Qi.
• Mayfly strange insects attacked the Multicolored Sea God Conch as she departed, and Xiao Hua decided the Creation Sect should settle on reefs or rocks instead of seeking an immortal mountain.

Xiao Hua took Princess Zixia toward the West Sea Dragon Palace and explained that Xiaoyu Continent and the Three Great Continents had once been connected before a great war divided them. Princess Zixia struggled to accept that Daoism still existed, but evidence from the Heavenly Hearts began to convince her.

• Xiao Hua summoned Princess Zixia and asked her to take him to the West Sea Dragon Palace, then brought out the Heavenly Steed Flying Carriage for their journey.
• Xiao Hua lamented that the Mayflies monster insects threatened the beauty and civilization of Cangxian Continent, and Princess Zixia feared they would destroy its accumulated heritage.
• Xiao Hua showed Princess Zixia maps of the Three Great Continents and Xiaoyu Continent, explaining that an Innate Divine Restriction had separated their realms.
• Xiao Hua said that two of his Heavenly Hearts came from Xiaoyu Continent, including one obtained from Ji Man, and argued that the continents had once been connected.
• Princess Zixia recalled the Heavenly Heart and the Method of Five Qi Towards the Origin and began to accept that Daoism could not have been so easily extinguished.

Zhang Qingxiao used the council to assess the Heavenly Demon Sect’s divisions, then discussed the sect’s plans with Ye Yin in private. He invited Ye Yin to drink and share his personal thoughts, leaving them together in a moment of trust.

• Zhang Qingxiao ended the council, and Ling Xuan boasted to Xing You that he expected to be sent to war while Xing You quietly walked away.
• Ye Yin visited Zhang Qingxiao and explained that he believed the council had been a test of the sect’s circumstances and unity.
• Zhang Qingxiao confirmed that the sect’s factions were pursuing their own interests and warned that internal discord could destroy the Heavenly Demon Sect.
• Ye Yin proposed unifying the sect, concentrating its forces on one target, using trusted scouts and confidants, and concealing the operation through staged minor disputes.
• Zhang Qingxiao asked Ye Yin about his personal thoughts and invited him to drink; Ye Yin pledged his loyalty and shared his feelings as Zhang Qingxiao recalled his past.