Chapter Summaries

Yu Zhuo Hong gave Luoxian Sect Xiao Hua’s Spiritual Root selection method, prompting Huang Xu to send Zhe Jun back with it and seek an alliance with Chan He Sect. After deciding Star Cloud Ridge could no longer help him, Xiao Hua prepared to leave and summoned Liu Han Huan to discuss his plans.

• Yu Zhuo Hong explained Xiao Hua’s origins and the Spiritual Root selection method to Huang Xu, who was astonished that Chan He Sect had obtained it.
• Yu Zhuo Hong handed Huang Xu jade slips containing the method, and Huang Xu ordered Zhe Jun and ten disciples to hurry back to Luoxian Sect with it.
• Huang Xu told Zhe Jun to report Xiao Hua’s power and ask the Sect Leader to form a Pact of Life and Death with Chan He Sect and visit Star Cloud Ridge.
• Xiao Hua finished examining Chan He Sect’s records and decided to leave for the Wumeng Mountain Range by Teleportation Array.
• Xiao Hua asked two Foundation Establishment disciples to summon Liu Han Huan, and one sent a message with a fire talisman.

Xiao Hua heard how Liu Han Huan had handled the Feiying Sect and cautioned him that power could corrupt those who promised to govern justly. As Xiao Hua prepared to leave Star Cloud Ridge, he agreed to leave the modified cultivation techniques and wait one month for Xian Xiaozhi to arrive.

• Liu Han Huan reported that he had captured the Feiying Sect’s leader and elders, crippled their cultivation, and sent Gao Cheng to seize the sect’s territory.
• Liu Han Huan said he wanted to expand the Chan He Sect, and Xiao Hua warned him that new rulers could become worse than those they replaced.
• Xiao Hua told Liu Han Huan he planned to leave Star Cloud Ridge and asked whether he wanted the modified cultivation techniques.
• Liu Han Huan admitted he feared the Luoxian Sect might take the techniques and break its word, but accepted them after Xiao Hua reassured him.
• Xiao Hua agreed to remain at Star Cloud Ridge for one month so Xian Xiaozhi could visit, but said he would leave if the sect leader did not arrive in time.

Xiao Hua arranged for Nuo Yeqing to guide him and explained how he was revising the Chan He Sect’s cultivation methods to counter the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi aberration. He remained at Star Cloud Ridge while the Luoxian Sect failed to respond, and the revised low-level methods still awaited testing.

• Xiao Hua asked Nuo Yeqing to guide him and offered the possibility of having one of his disciples accept him as a disciple if he performed well.
• Liu Han Huan waited for Xian Xiaozhi and Huang Xu to respond, but no one or any Pact of Life and Death arrived within thirty days, so he sent Gao Cheng to the Luoxian Sect.
• Xiao Hua continued refining the seeds of his incarnations and revising the Chan He Sect’s cultivation methods in the Flowing Hall.
• Xiao Hua told Nuo Yeqing, Yuehua, and Liu Qingyu that a spatial fissure had likely let foreign spiritual qi into the Yilin Continent and that true spirit bloodlines had benefited from the change.
• Xiao Hua said the Chan He Sect’s revised methods combined bloodline techniques with body cultivation, but the low-level methods still needed testing and higher-level methods could take centuries to revise.

Xiao Hua explained how Yilin Continent’s changed Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi caused lightning tribulations and accelerated lifespan loss, and said revising cultivation methods or traveling to another realm might offer survival. The chapter ended with Nuo Yeqing asking Xiao Hua to take Yuehua and Liu Qingyu as disciples, while he hesitated because he could not bring them into his space.

• Yuehua asked Xiao Hua how to survive the Nascent Soul lightning tribulation, and he said the Mao Ri Demon Devouring Immortal Array might block most of it but warned her against attracting danger by possessing its flags.
• Xiao Hua explained that changes to Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and its laws caused tribulations when cultivators reshaped their bodies to form Nascent Souls.
• Xiao Hua theorized that using foreign Spiritual Qi made cultivators lose lifespan because their bodies could not bear the backlash, and that the loss had previously been too small to notice.
• Xiao Hua said revising cultivation methods or traveling to another realm were possible paths to survival, but crossing realms was beyond the reach of most cultivators.
• Nuo Yeqing asked Xiao Hua to take her master Yuehua and Martial Aunt Liu Qingyu as disciples, and Xiao Hua hesitated because he could not take them into his space.

Xiao Hua left Star Cloud Ridge after learning that Huang Xu’s return could be delayed, taking Nuo Yeqing, Yuehua, and Liu Qingyu with him. On the journey, Liu Qingyu admitted he had maneuvered to accompany Xiao Hua, who accepted him as a follower.

• Xiao Hua refused to take Yuehua and Liu Qingyu as disciples, and they left disappointed.
• Gao Cheng reported that Huang Xu had left Luoxian Sect to seek Sect Leader Xian Xiazi, whose whereabouts were unknown, so Xiao Hua decided to leave Star Cloud Ridge.
• Liu Han Huan arranged for Yuehua and Liu Qingyu to accompany Xiao Hua, who accepted them and promised to make the spirit root selection art and revised cultivation methods public.
• After Xiao Hua departed, Gao Cheng speculated that Senior Zhang was a Mahayana or Tribulation Transcendence cultivator and said he had told Liu Qingyu about powers beyond their understanding.
• Liu Qingyu confessed that he had maneuvered to join Xiao Hua, who forgave him and accepted his wish to pursue the Dao.

Xiao Hua set out for the Xie Hong Mountain auction venue after learning he lacked the spirit stones to travel by Teleportation Arrays. Meanwhile, Huang Xu told Hall Master Yue that he had found True Person Huangqiong’s tribulation site and revealed that Zhe Jun and the disciples sent back with him had vanished.

• Xiao Hua gave Liu Qingyu the jade slip route to the Heavenly Alliance, but Liu Qingyu explained that the group lacked enough spirit stones for the Teleportation Arrays.
• Xiao Hua decided to go to the Xie Hong Mountain auction venue, and Yuehua offered to lead him there.
• Huang Xu traveled with Hall Master Yue toward Jiangyuan City and warned that he needed to reach the Luoxian Sect’s Sect Leader urgently.
• Huang Xu told Hall Master Yue that he had found True Person Huangqiong’s tribulation site, where most of the Duotian Demon Subduing Star Array remained intact despite signs of lightning tribulation.
• Huang Xu explained that Zhe Jun and ten disciples had failed to return after he sent them toward the mountain gate, prompting him to hurry to report the matter to the Sect Leader.

Huang Xu carried news of the missing Zhe Jun and the remains of True Person Huangqiong to Hall Master Yue, who escorted him by a grueling series of Teleportation Arrays to Night Wind Valley. There, Huang Xu and Yue Kong set out toward the Dao Alliance Meeting through the valley’s dangerous storms and soul-shaking winds.

• Huang Xu told Hall Master Yue that Zhe Jun and the others had vanished while transporting True Person Huangqiong’s remains, and that Hall Master Wang had sent him to deliver the remains to the Sect Leader.
• Hall Master Yue and Huang Xu reached Jiangyuan City, learned that Sect Leader Xian Xiaozhi had gone to Night Wind Valley, and began pursuing him through Teleportation Arrays.
• After three days of long-distance teleportation, Huang Xu collapsed from exhaustion, but Yue Kong helped him up and they continued to the guarded array at Night Wind Valley.
• Huang Xu used a jade pendant to shield himself from Night Wind Valley’s eerie howling, and Yue Kong pointed out the distant light marking the Dao Alliance Meeting.
• Huang Xu and Yue Kong flew toward the meeting through the valley’s storms, where wind and sand hindered their progress and pressure began sealing Huang Xu’s Nascent Soul.

Huang Xu found Xian Xiaozhi just as the Dao Alliance’s emergency meeting began and gave him a storage ring containing discoveries tied to True Person Huangqiong and a spiritual-root selection technique. Xian Xiaozhi made it into Night Wind Valley before the third bell, where the gathered cultivators began rising on jade pillars and wondered why the meeting had been called.

• Yue Kong and Huang Xu met Xian Xiaozhi as the Alliance Meeting’s first bell rang, and Huang Xu handed him a storage ring containing the location of True Person Huangqiong’s tribulation site and a secret spiritual-root selection technique.
• Xian Xiaozhi ordered Yue Kong to take Huang Xu back to the sect, then hurried into Night Wind Valley as the second bell rang.
• Xian Xiaozhi reached a jade pillar and sat on it before the third bell sealed the surrounding jade-colored light, leaving a late-arriving crimson-robed cultivator unable to join the meeting.
• The jade pillars rose with Xian Xiaozhi and the other attendees, while Alliance Leader Wen’s enormous pillar surged upward and Yue Jiangling asked Xian Xiaozhi why the meeting had been called early.
• Xian Xiaozhi saw leaders from several neighboring alliances gathered in the valley and realized that nine of the Dao Alliance’s eighty-one Immortal Alliances had assembled.

Xian Xiaozhi and the other cultivators gathered for an emergency Immortal Alliance meeting, where their jade pillars transformed into branches of a vast tree. The tree revealed all eighty-one alliances and dozens of Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, while the reason for the urgent meeting remained unknown.

• Xian Xiaozhi absorbed pure Spiritual Qi as the jade pillars beneath the cultivators transformed into branches and joined Wen Jie Wen's tree trunk.
• Wen Jie Wen explained that the Dao Alliance had summoned the Eighty-one Immortal Alliances under conflicting orders, but had not disclosed the meeting's purpose.
• Xian Xiaozhi and Li Pan traded insults, and Fairy Qingyan dismissed Li Pan's talk of establishing a sect in Danxiao Kingdom.
• Nine bolts of lightning appeared in the sky and drew the dark-green spheres together, revealing an enormous tree beneath another layer of heaven.
• Xian Xiaozhi saw the leaders of all eighty-one alliances and dozens of Tribulation Transcendence cultivators gathered across the tree, then failed to reach the distant trunk with his divine sense.

Xian Xiaozhi attended a Dao Alliance meeting in a mysterious space where Old Man Gu Qiong appeared in person and True Person Ji Yan announced the alliance faced a desperate situation. Ji Yan raised the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi aberration and asked whether any Tribulation Crossing cultivators had sensed the Gate of the Immortal Realm, leaving the assembly silent.

• Xian Xiaozhi wondered whether the great tree connected distant places and whether those present were there in body or spirit.
• Old Man Gu Qiong appeared at the Alliance Meeting, and the gathered cultivators respectfully greeted him alongside True Person Ji Yan.
• Old Man Gu Qiong recalled the Demon Realm invasion and said this was likely his last Alliance Meeting on Yilin Continent.
• True Person Ji Yan expelled eleven absent cultivators from the Dao Alliance, but Old Man Gu Qiong ordered that their sects not be punished for their mistakes.
• True Person Ji Yan explained the Dao Alliance had investigated the centuries-long Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi aberration without reaching firm conclusions and called the alliance's situation desperate.
• True Person Ji Yan asked the Tribulation Crossing cultivators whether they had sensed the Gate of the Immortal Realm, and none answered.

At the Dao Alliance meeting, Old Man Gu Qiong and other Tribulation Crossing cultivators revealed that the Gate of the Immortal Realm had become impossible to sense amid the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi aberration. The Alliance decided to search for passages to other realms while investigating the growing loss of cultivators’ lifespans, which had begun affecting Nascent Soul cultivators as well.

• Old Man Gu Qiong said his Gate of the Immortal Realm had grown blurred, and nearly a thousand Mahayana cultivators had died in tribulations over the past six hundred years.
• True Person Ji Yan and other Tribulation Crossing cultivators reported that they could no longer sense the Gate of the Immortal Realm, and the meeting debated ways to reach other realms or develop new cultivation techniques.
• Old Man Gu Qiong and True Person Ji Yan ordered the Dao Alliance to search Yilin Continent for spatial passages to other realms.
• Old Man Gu Qiong told the meeting that Nascent Soul cultivators had also begun to feel their lifespans draining away.
• Fairy Mo Yun observed that lifespan loss worsened when cultivators used dharma power, and Old Man Gu Qiong explained its connection to cultivation and the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi aberration without offering a solution.

At the Daoist Alliance meeting, True Person Ji Yan and Old Man Gu Qiong sought ideas for addressing cultivators’ shortened lifespans, and Yelü Qing suggested investigating Heavenly Alliance cultivators who cultivated Primordial Spirits. Ji Yan then revealed that the Heavenly Alliance had infiltrated the Daoist Alliance and that the Peng Family had vanished through a concealed teleportation array, leaving the meeting to wonder what ancient formation the family had inherited.

• True Person Ji Yan asked the meeting to share ideas about the loss of cultivators’ lifespan limits, but no one initially offered an answer.
• Yelü Qing suggested that the Daoist Alliance investigate whether Heavenly Alliance cultivators who cultivated Primordial Spirits suffered the same lifespan losses.
• Old Man Gu Qiong praised Yelü Qing’s suggestion, promised an investigation, and offered him a spirit artifact as a reward.
• After Old Man Gu Qiong’s reward prompted more cultivators to offer ideas, True Person Ji Yan told them to submit their suggestions on jade slips for review.
• True Person Ji Yan reported that Heavenly Alliance cultivators had infiltrated the Daoist Alliance and that the Peng Family had disappeared, leaving behind a concealed teleportation array tied to an ancient inherited formation.

At the Dao Alliance meeting, True Person Ji Yan revealed the Heaven Alliance’s defections and warned of Devil Race attacks before calling for cooperation to find ways to select and train new disciples. The meeting found that the Ye Family’s cultivation-technique modifications offered a promising approach, and the cultivators began sharing and examining their methods.

• True Person Ji Yan said the Heaven Alliance had taken the Peng Family and the Ji Shui Washing Heart Formation, and that his disciple True Person Xiyue had defected; Xian Xiaozhi suggested the Heaven Alliance might be able to extend cultivators’ lifespans.
• True Person Ji Yan warned that Devil Race members had attacked nearly twenty clans and close to two million disciples, and ordered the cultivators to kill them and report their information.
• True Person Ji Yan presented Chongxi Sect’s Bone Selection method and three modified Qi Cultivation techniques; Old Man Gu Qiong said only four thousand of thirty thousand disciples had reached peak Qi Cultivation, and none had established a foundation.
• Yu Hongzi shared his Meridian Identification method and modified technique, while Ancestor Ye Family presented two techniques adapted for the Ye Family’s descendants.
• Old Man Gu Qiong said the Ye Family’s modification methods were more useful than the earlier submissions, and True Person Ji Yan urged everyone to share new techniques and disciple-selection methods.

Old Man Gu Qiong exchanged and explained sects’ cultivation techniques and disciple-selection arts, then revealed his own method, Choosing Souls, which had improved Foundation Establishment results. As the alliances began presenting their methods, Xian Xiaozhi examined True Person Huangqiong’s recovered belongings and worried about surviving the aberrant spiritual qi and lightning tribulation.

• Dozens of late Tribulation Stage cultivators gave Old Man Gu Qiong their techniques and disciple-selection methods, which he examined and explained over ten days.
• Old Man Gu Qiong revealed Choosing Souls, a method he developed from studying Heavenly Alliance Nascent Soul Cultivation Techniques, and said it had helped thirty percent of Tianzhao Palace’s fifty thousand selected disciples reach Foundation Establishment.
• True Person Ji Yan praised the method, and Old Man Gu Qiong said he believed the Ye family’s cultivation technique could raise the success rate to fifty percent.
• Cultivators from the Lühong Immortal Alliance presented their methods, which True Person Ji Yan judged crude, before the Chongxi Immortal Alliance began speaking.
• Xian Xiaozhi inspected the storage ring Huang Xu had delivered and found True Person Huangqiong’s belongings intact, including the array flags, but feared he could not survive the lightning tribulation or spiritual qi aberration.

At the Alliance Meeting, Xian Xiaozhi revealed that the Luoxian Sect possessed a Spiritual Root selection technique attributed to Senior Zhang Xiaohua. The chapter left Old Man Gu Qiong demanding that Xian Xiaozhi recite the technique, as the gathered cultivators listened.

• Xian Xiaozhi discovered Huang Xu’s jade slip and learned that the Chan He Sect had used a Spiritual Root selection technique to choose thousands of disciples.
• Alliance Leader Wen Jie asked Xian Xiaozhi whether the Luoxian Sect had any disciple selection techniques, and Xian Xiaozhi presented the technique to the gathering.
• Xian Xiaozhi said Senior Zhang Xiaohua had taught the technique to the Chan He Sect, and that Liu Han Huan had hesitated to accept a modified cultivation method.
• True Person Ji Yan asked Xian Xiaozhi to copy the jade slip for Wen Jie, while Fubo the Rogue dismissed the technique as untested.
• Old Man Gu Qiong ordered Xian Xiaozhi to recite the technique, and Xian Xiaozhi began reading its explanation of Spiritual Roots.

Xian Xiaozhi delivered Xiao Hua’s Spiritual Root selection technique to the Dao Alliance, whose leaders recognized its importance and ordered it copied and distributed throughout the Alliance. After learning that Luoxian Sect disciples carrying the other copy had vanished, they suspected Heavenly Alliance interference and sent troops to protect the Chan He Sect.

• True Person Ji Yan used the Alliance Meeting Tree to retrieve the jade slip from Xian Xiaozhi, despite the strain it placed on him.
• True Person Ji Yan and Old Man Gu Qiong examined the technique, recognized its connection to traces of witchcraft, and ordered copies sent to every Dao Alliance sect, school, and clan.
• Old Man Gu Qiong ordered ten thousand disciples near Jing Long Mausoleum to test the technique, then learned it contained no cultivation method and that Luoxian Sect disciples carrying the other copy had disappeared.
• True Person Ji Yan suspected a Heavenly Alliance spy had taken the missing copy, and he and Old Man Gu Qiong feared the Chan He Sect was in danger.
• True Person Ji Yan ordered ten thousand elite disciples from Night Wind Valley to protect the Chan He Sect and invite its Sect Master and disciples connected to Zhang Xiaohua to the Dao Alliance.

The Dao Alliance leaders recognized the importance of Zhang Xiaohua’s cultivation technique and prepared to welcome him at Star Cloud Ridge. Old Man Gu Qiong used a remarkable Nascent Soul projection to travel there, while the Alliance Meeting turned to rewarding Chan He Sect and summoning Huang Xu.

• True Person Ji Yan ordered a continental teleportation bridge prepared and shared Zhang Xiaohua’s cultivation technique with the gathered cultivators.
• Old Man Gu Qiong decided to reach Star Cloud Ridge himself, then sent his Nascent Soul through the void and projected it toward its destination.
• True Person Ji Yan explained that Gu Qiong’s feat combined void escape with a modified Nascent Soul Primordial Spirit projection technique.
• True Person Ji Yan agreed that Chan He Sect deserved a reward and ordered the Dao Alliance to summon Huang Xu, who had delivered the jade slip.
• Li Pan rebuked Xian Xiaozhi for claiming credit for Chan He Sect’s achievement, leaving him speechless.

Huang Xu reported how he obtained the Spiritual Root selection technique, prompting the Dao Alliance leaders to investigate Zhang Xiaohua and warn of Heavenly Alliance infiltrators. After ten thousand children arrived for testing, True Person Ji Yan and the other cultivators compared their old selection methods with the technique, and Ji Yan prepared to reveal his results.

• Huang Xu entered the Alliance Meeting, received praise and promised rewards, and recounted how he acquired the Spiritual Root selection technique from Chan He Sect.
• True Person Ji Yan and the other cultivators questioned Huang Xu about Zhang Xiaohua and learned that Yu Zhuo Hong had auctioned several dozen jade slips containing selection techniques.
• True Person Ji Yan warned that Heavenly Alliance members had infiltrated Fengyan Kingdom and even Luoxian Sect, and ordered the sects to investigate their disciples.
• Dao Alliance disciples brought ten thousand children to the meeting, and True Person Ji Yan proposed comparing the old selection methods with the Spiritual Root selection technique.
• True Person Ji Yan and the other Tribulation Transcendence cultivators tested children with their methods, then Ji Yan prepared to announce his results.

At the Dao Alliance meeting, cultivators tested the Spiritual Root selection technique and confirmed that even low-level disciples could use it with high accuracy. Liu Han Huan explained how Chan He Sect encountered Zhang Xiaohua, then revealed that Zhang had left with Nuo Yeqing, Liu Qingyu, and Yue Hua; True Person Ji Yan asked where he had gone.

• True Person Ji Yan, Fairy Mo Yun, and other cultivators compared their conflicting disciple-selection results and praised the Spiritual Root technique for identifying who could cultivate.
• Forty disciples screened four hundred children, and their results largely matched the senior cultivators' selections.
• A Dao Alliance disciple reported that the Alliance Leader had defeated Heaven Alliance cultivators, brought Chan He Sect members to Jing Long Mausoleum, and received Zhang Xiaohua's modified cultivation techniques.
• True Person Ji Yan welcomed Liu Han Huan and asked him to recount how he met Zhang Xiaohua.
• Old Man Gu Qiong returned through a spatial collapse, and Liu Han Huan described the discovery of the Duotian Demon Subduing Star Array and how Zhang Xiaohua left Chan He Sect with Nuo Yeqing, Liu Qingyu, and Yue Hua.
• True Person Ji Yan asked Liu Han Huan where Zhang Xiaohua had gone.

At the Dao Alliance Meeting, True Person Ji Yan questioned Liu Han Huan and the Chan He Sect disciples about Xiao Hua and his Spiritual Root methods. After Old Man Gu Qiong confirmed the revised cultivation techniques should be distributed across the Dao Alliance, a mysterious appearance of the Dao Venerable briefly interrupted the meeting, and the Alliance began arranging to spread the techniques.

• Liu Han Huan told True Person Ji Yan that Xiao Hua had asked about the Wumeng Mountain Range and received a jade slip showing a route to the Heavenly Alliance.
• Liu Han Huan praised the Spiritual Root selection method, and True Person Ji Yan promised support for the Chan He Sect and questioned Hong Feng and Zhang Zhi about meeting Xiao Hua.
• Zhang Zhi speculated that Xiao Hua had lost his magical power, but Gao Cheng reported that Xiao Hua had explained the Spiritual Qi aberration and cultivators' shortened lifespans as related to the body and bloodline.
• Old Man Gu Qiong examined Xiao Hua's revised Spiritual Root cultivation techniques and ordered True Person Ji Yan to distribute them to every Dao Alliance sect.
• A nine-colored figure recognized by Old Man Gu Qiong as the Dao Venerable appeared and vanished after saying, “Good,” leaving the attendees unaware of the event.
• Old Man Gu Qiong ordered the Eighty-one Immortal Alliances' disciples to withdraw and directed that both Spiritual Root methods be transmitted to every Alliance Meeting location for study.