Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua recognized the Duotian Star Array as the site of True Person Huangqiong’s tribulation and learned that a spiritual-energy aberration had made later lightning tribulations deadly to human cultivators. The group decided to report the discovery to their sect and leave the array untouched until Luoxian Sect could arrive.

• Xiao Hua identified the array and its lightning-tribulation traces, prompting Yuehua to recognize it as True Person Huangqiong’s tribulation site.
• Liu Qingyu and Zhang Zhi explained that Huangqiong had vanished six centuries earlier and that crimson Saint Tribulations had prevented later Mahayana cultivators from reaching the Tribulation Crossing Realm.
• Xiao Hua connected the timing of the spiritual-energy aberration to his own travels and worried that his disciples on Xiaoyu Continent would face the same dangerous tribulations.
• Hong Feng welcomed the prospect of recovering Huangqiong’s treasures, but Zhang Zhi warned that taking anything could provoke Luoxian Sect to destroy Chan He Sect.
• Liu Qingyu and Zhang Zhi proposed returning to their sect and sending the banners to Luoxian Sect, while Yuehua watched Xiao Hua anxiously.

Xiao Hua accepted Chan He Sect’s invitation after learning it might help him find a map of Yilin Continent, and he traveled with Liu Qingyu and the others to the sect. At Jade Orchid Hall, he arrived as its furious Hall Master was testing a crowd of children for suitable disciples.

• Nuo Yeqing invited Xiao Hua to Chan He Sect, and Xiao Hua agreed after asking whether the sect could help him find a map of Yilin Continent.
• Liu Qingyu flew Xiao Hua and the others to Chan He Sect, where Hu Mubai told them the Sect Master was preoccupied with Jade Orchid Hall’s recruitment troubles.
• Liu Qingyu led the group toward Jade Orchid Hall, explaining that cultivators below the Nascent Soul realm could not fly directly to the main peak.
• Xiao Hua sensed over a thousand young children waiting outside Jade Orchid Hall while its Hall Master angrily complained that the sect had found too few suitable disciples.
• Nuo Yeqing entered the hall despite the guards’ warnings, and the Hall Master demanded to know who had come in.

Xiao Hua brought the Demon Subduing Starly Cycle Array banner to Jade Orchid Hall, giving Chan He Sect hope of resolving its crisis. While Xia Feng went to report the discovery to the Sect Master, Xiao Hua entered the hall and saw the sect urgently testing children for aptitude.

• Xia Feng recognized the banner as belonging to the Demon Subduing Starly Cycle Array and thanked Xiao Hua for bringing it to Chan He Sect.
• Xia Feng left to report the matter to the Sect Master in Ming Xin Hall, while Vice Hall Master Yun hurried the disciples to find twenty gifted children.
• Xiao Hua accepted Nuo Yeqing's invitation to enter Jade Orchid Hall despite Liu Qingyu's hesitation.
• Xiao Hua saw hundreds of children being examined in the hall as Vice Hall Master Yun and several Golden Core cultivators anxiously oversaw the tests.

Xiao Hua recognized a rejected child’s mutated Ice Spiritual Root and agreed to help Chan He Sect adapt its recruitment and cultivation methods. After Vice Hall Master Yun dismissed Liu Qingyu’s recommendation, Xiao Hua went to intervene, leaving Liu Qingyu anxious about the confrontation.

• Nuo Yeqing explained that altered spiritual qi had made it difficult for Chan He Sect to find suitable disciples, and Xiao Hua criticized the sect for relying on outdated tests and cultivation arts.
• Xiao Hua identified an eliminated child as possessing a mutated Ice Spiritual Root, prompting Nuo Yeqing to kneel and ask him to help Chan He Sect; Xiao Hua agreed.
• Vice Hall Master Yun examined the child and appeared disappointed, but Liu Qingyu sent the child into the inner hall as a successful candidate.
• Nuo Yeqing told Xiao Hua that Yu Chengxiu and Wang Chu were favored for a Jade Orchid Hall steward position intended for Liu Qingyu, and Xiao Hua decided to intervene.
• Xiao Hua approached the selection area and told Liu Qingyu that he would not let Vice Hall Master Yun obstruct Chan He Sect’s important affairs.

Xiao Hua agreed to help Liu Qingyu select disciples for the Chan He Sect, drawing the Jade Orchid Hall dispute with Vice Hall Master Yun to a test of whether Liu could find twenty suitable children. Xiao Hua quickly identified thirteen children with Spiritual Roots, including one with a mutated Wind Spiritual Root.

• Liu Qingyu tried to delay Xiao Hua while seeking Vice Hall Master Yun’s approval, but Xiao Hua threatened to leave, and Nuo Yeqing revealed that he could teach disciple-selection methods and revise cultivation techniques.
• Yu Chengxiu and Wang Chu blocked Xiao Hua, claiming Vice Hall Master Yun had ordered them to take over Liu Qingyu’s recruitment area, and Wang Chu accused Liu of undermining the Chan He Sect.
• Hong Feng struck Wang Chu with a fireball and defended the disciple-selection effort, while Liu Qingyu refused to yield the area despite Vice Hall Master Yun’s order to clear Jade Orchid Hall.
• Vice Hall Master Yun bet that Liu Qingyu would become a Jade Orchid Hall steward if he selected twenty suitable disciples, but said Liu would have to answer to Hall Master Xia if he failed.
• Liu Qingyu asked Xiao Hua to help the Chan He Sect, and Xiao Hua identified thirteen children with Spiritual Roots without using magic or examining them closely.

Xiao Hua helped Jade Orchid Hall identify children with spiritual roots, then revealed that Xia Feng’s cultivation was flawed and his lifespan was nearing its end. Though Xiao Hua could not presently save Xia Feng, he agreed to continue the selection and the hall began retrieving more children for him to assess.

• Wang Chu tried to challenge Xiao Hua’s informal selection, but Vice Hall Master Yun reprimanded him and apologized to Xiao Hua.
• Xia Feng returned, and Xiao Hua selected five children with ordinary earth spiritual roots while explaining that the others did not know how to discern spiritual roots.
• Xiao Hua told Xia Feng that his lifespan was short and his cultivation technique had flaws, prompting Vice Hall Master Yun and the disciples to kneel and beg for help.
• Xia Feng accepted his fate and asked Xiao Hua to help Chan He Sect with the important selection; Xiao Hua agreed and identified more than two hundred children with spiritual roots among nearly two thousand.
• Xia Feng ordered the children outside the hall and those eliminated earlier to be brought back so Xiao Hua could examine them too.

Xiao Hua demonstrated his ability to identify children’s Spiritual Roots to Liu Han Huan and the elders of Chan He Sect, while Elder Pang doubted his claims. Liu Han Huan explained that Chan He Sect and many other small sects were struggling to survive amid declining spiritual resources, techniques, and pills.

• Liu Han Huan arrived at Jade Orchid Hall with three elders after Xia Feng’s report about the Duotian Demon Subduing Star Array flags.
• Xia Feng told Liu Han Huan how Xiao Hua had selected talented disciples and said Fan Liu had delayed returning previously dismissed children.
• Liu Han Huan asked Xiao Hua to demonstrate his selection method, and Xiao Hua identified children’s Spiritual Roots and predicted their cultivation potential.
• Pang Liu Sheng challenged Xiao Hua’s judgments, but Xiao Hua said the children’s abilities would become evident with time.
• Liu Han Huan said Chan He Sect’s crisis had eased because Luoxian Sect would send disciples, then described how dwindling resources and failing pills threatened small sects across Yilin Continent.

Xiao Hua selected children with spiritual roots and was asked to modify a Chan He Sect cultivation technique so Zhu Xi'er could cultivate. The elders weighed whether to trust him, and Liu Han Huan invited him to Ming Xin Hall as Yuehua brought him a small bundle.

• Nuo Yeqing knelt and begged Xiao Hua to modify a cultivation technique for Zhu Xi'er, who also knelt and asked him for help.
• Xiao Hua learned that the girl's name was Zhu Xi'er, then asked Nuo Yeqing for the Chan He Sect cultivation technique rather than offering his own.
• Pang Liu Sheng and Yu Zhuo Hong discussed whether Xiao Hua was trustworthy, and Pang Liu Sheng suggested that Liu Han Huan give him a technique to test him.
• Pang Liu Sheng explained that circulating magic power was slowly depleting cultivators' lifespans amid the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi aberration.
• Gao Cheng reported that the children had gone to sleep, and Liu Han Huan told him to let them rest until morning.
• After Xiao Hua finished selecting qualified children, Liu Han Huan invited him to Ming Xin Hall, and Yuehua handed him a small bundle.

Xiao Hua attended a banquet at Chan He Sect after giving the sect the Duotian Demon Subduing Star Array banners, while Liu Han Huan tried to learn how Xiao Hua had recognized them. The chapter ended with Xiao Hua revealing that he knew a similar Duotian Star Array, startling Liu Han Huan.

• Liu Han Huan invited Xiao Hua and the others to Ming Xin Hall, where the sect hosted a banquet in gratitude for Xiao Hua’s help recruiting disciples.
• Xiao Hua declined more spiritual wine and praised the Heart Burning Fruit as Liu Han Huan and the others toasted him.
• Liu Qingyu explained how Xiao Hua had obtained the array banners, and Liu Han Huan arranged for Gao Cheng to return them to the Luoxian Sect and bring its disciples to Star Cloud Ridge.
• Yu Zhuo Hong questioned Xiao Hua about recognizing the secret array, but Xiao Hua said he did not understand the Duotian Demon Subduing Star Array.
• After Pang Liu Sheng urged Liu Han Huan to press Xiao Hua for information, Xiao Hua said he knew a similar Duotian Star Array, and Liu Han Huan spilled his wine in surprise.

Xiao Hua agreed to share the Duotian Demon Subduing Star Array with the Chan He Sect in return for Yuehua’s kindness, asking only for information about the Wumeng Mountain Range and the Shaque Immortal Alliance. He gave the sect a disciple-selection secret art to trade for that information and left Liu Han Huan hopeful that he might offer them another formation.

• Liu Han Huan explained why he had hesitated to ask Xiao Hua for the Duotian Demon Subduing Star Array, and Xiao Hua agreed to give it in return for Yuehua’s gift of a robe.
• Xiao Hua asked to consult the Chan He Sect’s records about the Wumeng Mountain Range and the Shaque Immortal Alliance, and Liu Han Huan agreed to seek the information at nearby bidding venues.
• Xiao Hua gave Nuo Yeqing jade slips containing a disciple-selection secret art and instructed Yu Zhuo Hong to trade copies of it for information at the bidding venue.
• Xiao Hua explained that the Chan He Sect could keep a copy of the secret art, and Yu Zhuo Hong left to make arrangements for the bidding.
• Xiao Hua said the Chan He Sect would be better off without the Duotian Demon Subduing Star Array and hinted that he had another formation suited to them, leaving Liu Han Huan eager to hear more.

Xiao Hua warned Liu Han Huan that Chan He Sect could not safely keep Luoxian Sect’s Duotian Demon Subduing Star Array, then gave the sect a simplified Mao Ri Demon Devouring Immortal Array. After learning that high-level cultivators feared their lifespans were dwindling, Xiao Hua agreed to investigate and began to look through Chan He Sect’s records.

• Xiao Hua warned Liu Han Huan that possessing Luoxian Sect’s Duotian Demon Subduing Star Array could endanger Chan He Sect.
• Xiao Hua inscribed a simplified Mao Ri Demon Devouring Immortal Array into a jade slip and gave it to Yuehua for Chan He Sect.
• Liu Han Huan and Pang Liu Sheng begged Xiao Hua to save Chan He Sect after hearing him ask why high-level cultivators had disappeared.
• Liu Han Huan explained that cultivators had begun sensing their lifespans passing away, and Xiao Hua said he had no secret technique to stop it but would investigate.
• Xiao Hua agreed to stay at Star Cloud Ridge and asked to examine Chan He Sect’s records in Flowing Hall.

Xiao Hua examined Flowing Hall and learned that Chan He Sect’s mural concealed a powerful array and its sundials could open the Long Rainbow Pavilion. While alone with the sect’s records, he weighed the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi aberration’s threat to cultivators against the danger of leaving the World-Ending Mayflies unchecked.

• Xiao Hua promised Liu Han Huan that he would help select disciples, investigate the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi aberration, and provide cultivation techniques.
• In Flowing Hall, Xiao Hua recognized the Long Rainbow Piercing the Sun Diagram as a powerful array whose activating artifact seemed to be lost.
• Liu Han Huan used a lamp-like magic artifact to transform a sundial into the Long Rainbow Pavilion, then left Xiao Hua to examine the sect’s texts.
• Xiao Hua considered whether Yilin Continent was part of Xiaoyu Continent and whether the Witch King Order could help him return.
• Xiao Hua worried that the aberration would endanger Daoist cultivators and his allies, but that removing it could bring the World-Ending Mayflies back to the Three Great Continents.
• Xiao Hua thought of the Myriad Monster Realm as a possible solution, then immediately rejected the idea.

Xiao Hua weighed how to protect cultivators from the World-Ending Mayflies and concluded that the immortal formations would eventually have to be destroyed, then turned to teaching the Chan He Sect how to identify spiritual roots. He left the chapter examining five hundred children at Jade Orchid Hall while the sect’s disciples began learning his secret technique.

• Xiao Hua considered the dangers of moving cultivators to Shenhua Continent or the Myriad Monster Realm and decided the immortal formations in the Three Great Continents and Xiaoyu Continent must be destroyed.
• Liu Han Huan escorted Xiao Hua to Jade Orchid Hall, where Xiao Hua asked him to keep five hundred children and gather fifty disciples to learn the spiritual-root secret technique.
• Xiao Hua told Liu Han Huan and Xia Feng that the sect should make his artifact-refining, pill-concocting, and altered cultivation methods public, and they agreed to distribute them through a bidding market.
• Xiao Hua taught the disciples how to discern spiritual roots and gave them individual guidance as they prepared to test the children.
• Xiao Hua carefully examined the five hundred children, checking their bodies and dantian areas and asking about their backgrounds and daily lives.

Xiao Hua trained Chan He Sect disciples in the selection technique and revised their cultivation methods, while Yu Zhuo Hong returned from an auction with supplies and information. After warning Liu Han Huan that the sect’s new knowledge could attract danger, Xiao Hua left with a map and a route toward Qiye Kingdom and the Wumeng Mountain Range.

• Nuo Yeqing learned to use Xiao Hua’s selection technique and taught Liu Qingyu and other Chan He Sect disciples to use it.
• Xiao Hua spent the following days training the disciples, teaching Liu Han Huan and others to refine selection artifacts, and revising the sect’s cultivation techniques.
• Yu Zhuo Hong returned from the auction with acquired items but no news of the Shaque Immortal Alliance.
• Liu Han Huan explained the Daoist Alliance’s place in Yilin Continent, and Xiao Hua warned that conflicts still threatened the declining alliances.
• Yu Zhuo Hong advised making the selection secret art and cultivation technique public to protect Chan He Sect, and Liu Han Huan agreed to discuss the plan with Elder Pang and wait for Elder Gao.
• Yu Zhuo Hong gave Xiao Hua a teleportation route through Qiye Kingdom and maps of Yilin Continent and Heavenly Alliance forces.

Xiao Hua learned from Yu Zhuo Hong’s jade slip that Yilin Continent was the Dao Tian Realm and planned a route toward the Wumeng Mountain Range. As the Luoxian Sect disciples arrived at Star Cloud Ridge, Nuo Yeqing asked to accompany Xiao Hua there, but Xiao Hua left the request undecided.

• Xiao Hua accepted a storage bracelet from Liu Han Huan, then gave most of his crystals to the Chan He Sect when Gao Cheng reported that the Luoxian Sect disciples had returned.
• Xiao Hua studied the jade slip and concluded that Yilin Continent was the Dao Tian Realm, with transmission passages that could help him reach the Wumeng Mountain Range.
• Nuo Yeqing asked Xiao Hua to take him to the Wumeng Mountain Range but kept his reason secret, and Xiao Hua said he would consider the request.
• Xiao Hua sensed commotion outside the Flowing Hall as Liu Han Huan ordered the welcoming grand formation activated and Chan He Sect disciples assembled at the mountain gate.
• A rune-covered flying boat carrying more than a dozen imposing cultivators arrived, and Liu Han Huan flew forward to welcome the Luoxian Sect disciples.

The Luoxian Sect arrived at the Chan He Sect, only to discover that Gao Cheng had summoned them to help settle its conflict with the Feiying Sect. As the Feiying Sect surrounded Star Cloud Ridge, Liu Han Huan activated the sect’s defenses, and Luoxian Sect members vowed to fight.

• Gao Cheng welcomed Zhe Jun and the Luoxian Sect disciples, while Fan Di mocked the Chan He Sect and its leader.
• Liu Han Huan greeted the visitors, and the Luoxian Sect disciples were escorted through the mountain gate.
• Thunder, strange lights, beasts, and birds announced that the Feiying Sect had surrounded Star Cloud Ridge.
• Gao Cheng explained that the Feiying Sect wanted to drive the Chan He Sect from Star Cloud Ridge and that he had sought Luoxian Sect mediation.
• At Zhe Jun’s urging, Liu Han Huan activated the mountain-protecting formation, while Chan He Sect disciples assembled the Four-Four Shuoxing Great Formation.
• Fan Di and Zhe Jun pledged that the Luoxian Sect would oppose the Feiying Sect as tens of thousands of black, buzzing creatures appeared.

Yang Jiaoxi Hu led Feiying Sect’s forces to surround Star Cloud Ridge and demand that Liu Han Huan surrender, while Luoxian Sect prepared to defend Chan He Sect. The chapter ended with Yang Jiaoxi Hu realizing that the cultivators confronting him were Luoxian Sect disciples.

• Spirit Devouring Insects spread darkness over Star Cloud Ridge, but the dawn’s first light dispelled it as Feiying Sect’s forces surrounded the ridge.
• Yang Jiaoxi Hu attacked Chan He Sect’s protective formation with his crimson python-dragon and threatened Liu Han Huan with slaughter.
• Liu Han Huan argued that Feiying Sect had provoked the dispute, while Fan Di urged him to stop negotiating and let Luoxian Sect fight.
• Liu Han Huan used a formation flag to escort the Luoxian Sect disciples outside the grand formation.
• Liu Pingxi summoned an emerald flood dragon to block the crimson python-dragon, and Zhe Jun revealed Luoxian Sect’s strength to Yang Jiaoxi Hu.

Fan Di and the Luoxian Sect disciples confronted Yang Jiaoxi Hu, but Deputy Hall Master Huang arrived and made clear that he would not let them attack the Feiying Sect. Zhe Jun offered Huang Xu a share of a merit concerning True Person Huangqiong, and the Luoxian Sect pressed Liu Han Huan to surrender Star Cloud Ridge; Liu refused and chose to fight.

• Fan Di threatened Yang Jiaoxi Hu, who recognized the Luoxian Sect disciples and challenged their authority.
• Huang Xu arrived, and Zhe Jun and the other Luoxian Sect disciples saluted him as their deputy hall master.
• Zhe Jun offered Huang Xu a share of a merit concerning True Person Huangqiong, prompting Huang Xu to invoke his agreement with Yang Jiaoxi Hu and keep the Luoxian Sect disciples from attacking the Feiying Sect.
• Huang Xu sent Zhe Jun to urge Liu Han Huan to surrender Star Cloud Ridge in exchange for sparing the Chan He Sect.
• Gao Cheng accused the Luoxian Sect disciples of breaking their promises, but Fan Di and Liu Pingxi defended their actions and claimed the array flags belonged to their sect.
• Liu Han Huan rejected surrender, and Yu Zhuo Hong and Pang Liu Sheng declared that the Chan He Sect would fight the Feiying Sect to the death.

Xiao Hua emerged from the Chan He Sect’s mountain-protecting array and stopped the Feiying Sect’s assault with a single roar. The Luoxian Sect withdrew, while Liu Han Huan and the Chan He Sect attacked the disarrayed Feiying Sect.

• Liu Han Huan and Yu Zhuo Hong rebuked Zhe Jun for failing to persuade Huang Xu to help the Chan He Sect, and Zhe Jun tried to plead with Huang again.
• Xiao Hua appeared, criticized the Luoxian Sect, and walked through the Chan He Sect’s array to confront Huang Xu and Yang Jiaoxi Hu.
• Yang Jiaoxi Hu ordered the Crimson Python and Feiying Sect’s beasts to attack, but Xiao Hua’s roar sent the beasts, Spirit Devouring Insects, and many Feiying Sect disciples tumbling into chaos.
• Huang Xu recognized Xiao Hua’s overwhelming power and withdrew with Zhe Jun and the other Luoxian Sect disciples.
• Liu Han Huan ordered the Chan He Sect to attack, and Pang Liu Sheng, Gao Cheng, and the other disciples charged the Feiying Sect as Liu Han Huan and Yu Zhuo Hong joined Xiao Hua.

Xiao Hua stopped the Chan He Sect from being overwhelmed by the Feiying Sect and exposed Huang Xu’s hypocrisy and looming lifespan crisis. Huang Xu accepted Xiao Hua’s instructions and invited him to Luoxian Sect, while the chapter ended with Huang Xu asking Yu Zhuo Hong about Senior Zhang’s identity.

• Xiao Hua ordered the Chan He Sect to capture the Feiying Sect leader but show restraint toward the other disciples, then returned toward Star Cloud Ridge.
• Huang Xu approached Xiao Hua, but Xiao Hua rebuked him for abandoning his promise to the Feiying Sect and warned that his cultivation restriction was failing and his lifespan was short.
• Huang Xu knelt and begged Xiao Hua for help, and Xiao Hua told him to recover the Duotian Demon Subduing Star Array’s flags and True Person Huangqiong’s remains and report the Chan He Sect’s situation to Luoxian Sect.
• Huang Xu offered Xiao Hua a Luoxian Sect token and invited him to visit, then told Liu Han Huan that the Feiying Sect elders involved in the attack should be killed while the other disciples should be spared.
• Huang Xu and his group left for the Western Wilderness Mountain Range with Yu Zhuo Hong and Zhang Zhi as guides, and Huang Xu asked Yu Zhuo Hong about Senior Zhang’s identity.