Chapter Summaries

Yu Zhuo Hong revealed that she still had a jade slip recording a teleportation route and received permission to join the Chongxi Sect. Old Man Gu Qiong and the other Dao Alliance leaders concluded that Zhang Xiaohua came from the Heavenly Alliance, had found an interdimensional passage, and that the Heavenly Alliance forces were searching for it in the Western Wilderness Mountain Range.

• Yu Zhuo Hong told the leaders she possessed another jade slip recording the route from Fengyan Kingdom to the Heavenly Alliance, and True Person Ji Yan ordered her transfer from the Chan He Sect to the Chongxi Sect.
• True Person Ji Yan told Yu Zhuo Hong to send Zhang Xiaohua's appearance to Jing Long Mausoleum, and she left the Alliance Meeting to carry out his instructions.
• Ancestor Ye Family and Old Man Gu Qiong examined Zhang Xiaohua's cultivation techniques and praised their intricate design, while Gu Qiong said they combined Dao Alliance, Heavenly Alliance, bloodline, and body-tempering methods.
• Old Man Gu Qiong revealed that he had found the aura of an interdimensional passage in the Western Wilderness Mountain Range, though space there had already sealed shut.
• Old Man Gu Qiong and True Person Ji Yan concluded Zhang Xiaohua had returned from another dimension and that the Heavenly Alliance disciples heading toward the Chan He Sect were likely seeking the passage in the Western Wilderness Mountain Range.
• Old Man Gu Qiong ordered True Person Ji Yan to investigate the remaining Heavenly Alliance disciples for information about the passage.

The Dao Alliance organized an effort to capture Zhang Xiaohua, believing he was traveling toward its Teleportation Arrays, and its leaders discussed a looming confrontation with the Heavenly Alliance. Meanwhile, Xiao Hua arrived at the Xiehong Mountain auction venue without crystals, leaving him unable to pay for a Teleportation Array.

• True Person Ji Yan issued an Earth-rank Alliance Order and assigned Dao Alliance cultivators to watch the Teleportation Arrays along Zhang Xiaohua’s presumed route.
• Old Man Gu Qiong ordered the cultivators to capture Zhang Xiaohua without killing him, even if he tried to escape.
• True Person Ji Yan asked Ancestor Ye Family, Fubo the Rogue, Yu Hongzi, and Fairy Mo Yun to stay and help guard the final Teleportation Arrays.
• True Person Ji Yan revealed that Dragon God Son, Kong Qiang, Yang Xia, True Person Jin Sheng, and Holy Mother Di Ling were also expected to act, and said they must cross the Heaven Sacrificing Abyss regardless of whether they intercepted Zhang Xiaohua.
• Xiao Hua arrived at the Xiehong Mountain auction venue with Yuehua and found himself unable to afford a Teleportation Array because he had no crystals.

Xiao Hua arrived at the Xie Hong Mountain auction venue and learned that it was run by the powerful rogue cultivator Yuhong. At the entrance, an array’s glowing fragments transformed into female phantoms, and one startled a cultivator who tried to pass through it.

• Yuehua stopped the flying boat outside the venue, and Liu Qingyu told Xiao Hua that Rogue cultivator Yuhong managed the auction.
• Xiao Hua asked Yuehua and Liu Qingyu about famous cultivation families near Xiehong Mountain, but neither knew.
• Xiao Hua followed Liu Qingyu into the valley and recognized the pentagonal entrance arrays as teleportation arrays.
• A woman disparaged Alliance Leader Wen Jie Wen’s handiwork as glowing characters appeared above the arch.
• The characters scattered into glowing fragments that formed female phantoms, and a man who tried to pass through one found a solid female cultivator before him.

Xiao Hua entered the Xiehong Mountain auction venue and noticed a familiar plum blossom mark on an attendant’s wrist, prompting him to wonder about Wen Qing and the Wen family. He then visited a puppet shop and asked whether it sold soldier puppets and general constructs.

• Wen Qing collided with an attendant at Jing Peng Hall, and the woman with him led them inside after the attendant offered to show them the shop.
• Xiao Hua recognized a plum blossom mark on the attendant’s wrist and wondered whether Wen Qing was connected to the Wen family mentioned by King Caihuang.
• Xiao Hua declined another Jing Peng Hall attendant’s offer to explain the shop and entered the lively auction venue with Liu Qingyu and the others.
• Xiao Hua followed a puppet shopkeeper’s invitation to a rock-wall shop and asked about its puppets.
• The puppet shopkeeper listed human, beast, and bird puppets, then repeated its greeting when Xiao Hua asked about soldier puppets and general constructs.

Xiao Hua visited Pang Tuojian’s puppet shop to examine its refinement methods, but Pang Tuojian refused to discuss them unless Xiao Hua intended to buy. Xiao Hua left with his companions and decided to find an auction where he could sell cultivation techniques for spirit stones.

• Pang Tuojian welcomed Xiao Hua into his shop and explained that most of its puppet-refinement jade slips were duplicates.
• Xiao Hua asked Pang Tuojian about the methods available, but Pang Tuojian demanded to know whether he planned to purchase them.
• Liu Qingyu rebuked Pang Tuojian for disrespecting Senior Zhang, and Pang Tuojian insisted that only customers with spirit stones deserved his attention.
• Xiao Hua stopped the shop attendant and led Yuehua, Nuo Yeqing, and Liu Qingyu out of the shop.
• Xiao Hua told Liu Qingyu that he needed spirit stones and asked about auctioning cultivation techniques, so Liu Qingyu offered to inquire about the auction.

Xiao Hua and Nuo Yeqing explored Xie Hong Mountain’s auction venue while Yuehua and Liu Qingyu went ahead to handle the jade slips. They discovered that Nuo Yeqing’s master was selling revised cultivation techniques suited to aberrant spiritual qi, drawing a crowd and the attention of two Nascent Soul cultivators.

• Yuehua asked to accompany Liu Qingyu to the auction site and left Xiao Hua and Nuo Yeqing to explore the valley.
• Xiao Hua browsed shops stocked with complete talismans, pills, magical artifacts, and cultivation techniques, but found little he needed to buy.
• Nuo Yeqing worried that her master had not returned or answered her communication talisman, so Xiao Hua agreed to go find him.
• Xiao Hua and Nuo Yeqing heard Qi Cultivation disciples excitedly discussing cheap cultivation techniques revised for aberrant spiritual qi.
• A disciple explained that two Nascent Soul cultivators had bought techniques from Nuo Yeqing’s master’s stall, prompting other cultivators to rush over.

Xiao Hua and Nuo Yeqing entered Rogue cultivator Yuhong’s auction venue, where Liu Qingyu and Yuehua were selling cultivation techniques to a crowd of eager Qi Refining cultivators. Rogue cultivator Yuhong arrived with Golden Core cultivators and invited the two Chan He Sect disciples to Jing Peng Hall, leaving them unsure of his intentions.

• Xiao Hua and Nuo Yeqing paid two low-grade crystal stones to enter the auction venue.
• Xiao Hua discovered Liu Qingyu selling jade slips of cultivation techniques to a large crowd, and Nuo Yeqing said her master had prepared them along the way.
• Rogue cultivator Yuhong arrived with more than a dozen Golden Core cultivators and made the Qi Refining disciples clear a path to the booth.
• Rogue cultivator Yuhong greeted Yuehua and Liu Qingyu, then invited them to Jing Peng Hall to explain the commotion.
• Yuehua and Liu Qingyu hesitated, uncertain why selling Qi Cultivation techniques had drawn Rogue cultivator Yuhong’s attention.

Rogue cultivator Yuhong accused Yuehua and Liu Qingyu of selling counterfeit cultivation techniques at his auction venue and ordered his disciples to seize them. As Xiao Hua stepped in to defend them, an unknown elder called from afar for everyone to wait.

• Yuhong tried to draw Yuehua and Liu Qingyu to Jing Peng Hall, but Yuehua asked to finish selling the jade slips first.
• Yuhong identified Zhou Fen as Fairy Qingyan's disciple and warned the assembled qi-refining cultivators that the techniques Yuehua and Liu Qingyu sold were counterfeit.
• Yuhong argued that the techniques could not be genuine, then shattered Liu Qingyu's jade slip and claimed his disciples had already examined the items they sold.
• Zhou Fen condemned Yuehua and Liu Qingyu, and Yuhong's Golden Core disciples ordered the two women to come to Jing Peng Hall for judgment.
• Yuehua accused Yuhong of coveting the technique, but he ordered his disciples to seize her and Liu Qingyu; Xiao Hua stepped forward, and a distant voice called for them to wait.

Elder Wen investigated the Chan He Sect’s Spiritual Root selection technique and asked Yuehua for cultivation methods to train the disciples he had selected. Rogue cultivator Yuhong declared the methods fake, leaving Elder Wen to decide whether to examine them and risk challenging Yuhong.

• Xiao Hua recognized the seven-petaled plum blossom mark on Jing'er’s wrist and wondered whether she was connected to bones he had found in Mo Ran Black Forest.
• Jing'er identified Xiao Hua and the others as the Chan He Sect disciples who had sold Spiritual Root methods, and Elder Wen questioned them about the techniques.
• Xiao Hua confirmed that the selection technique belonged to the Chan He Sect, and Yuehua sold Elder Wen four jade slips for four middle-grade spirit stones.
• Elder Wen asked Yuehua to take him to the Chan He Sect, then requested cultivation methods for disciples with Spiritual Roots.
• Yuehua offered the methods for ten middle-grade spirit stones per jade slip, but Rogue cultivator Yuhong called them fake.
• Yuehua invited Elder Wen to inspect the jade slip himself, leaving him caught between her challenge and Yuhong’s accusation.

Elder Wen examined Yuehua’s revised Qi Cultivation technique, but a message from one of his disciples prompted him to ask where the Spiritual Root selection technique came from. Xiao Hua revealed that he had created it and pressed Elder Wen to say whether the revised technique was real, while Rogue cultivator Yuhong proposed taking them to an inspection platform that Yuehua feared was a trap.

• Elder Wen accepted Yuehua’s jade slip and examined the revised Qi Cultivation technique as Rogue cultivator Yuhong challenged him to assess it.
• A disciple received a message and relayed it to Elder Wen, who then asked Yuehua where her sect master had obtained the Spiritual Root selection technique.
• Yuehua asked Elder Wen to declare whether her revised technique was real, and Xiao Hua stepped forward and claimed the Spiritual Root selection technique was his.
• Xiao Hua challenged Elder Wen to state whether the revised technique was real or fake, while Rogue cultivator Yuhong tried to learn where Xiao Hua came from.
• Rogue cultivator Yuhong proposed that they inspect the technique on a nearby platform, and Yuehua warned that he could kill them there unseen.

Rogue cultivator Yuhong tricked Xiao Hua’s group and Elder Wen into surrendering their techniques and storage rings, then trapped and teleported them away from the auction platform. He revealed the deception and imprisoned the cultivators, while Elder Wen warned that the Wen family knew where they were.

• Rogue cultivator Yuhong invited Xiao Hua, Yuehua, and the others onto the platform, where Elder Wen agreed that the Wen family wanted the people while Yuhong wanted their Spiritual Root techniques.
• Xiao Hua ordered Yuehua, Liu Qingyu, and Nuo Yeqing to hand over the techniques and their storage rings.
• Rogue cultivator Yuhong activated a formation that bound and teleported Xiao Hua’s group and Elder Wen, leaving behind phantoms that made it appear they had departed freely.
• Yuhong announced that the Chan He Sect had left the techniques and that he would study them before selling Qi Cultivation methods at Jing Peng Hall.
• Elder Wen broke one whirlpool with his emerald-gold hammer, but Yuhong appeared, seized the hammer, and had Elder Wen swallowed by another whirlpool before revealing the imprisoned cultivators.
• Elder Wen warned Yuhong that the Wen family head knew they were at the auction venue, but Yuhong dismissed the threat because the family was far away.

Rogue cultivator Yuhong revealed his plan to offer the Spiritual Root techniques to the Dao Alliance and tried to kill everyone who knew of it. Xiao Hua broke free of Yuhong’s restraints and subdued Soul Devour, leaving Yuhong’s scheme exposed.

• Elder Wen questioned Rogue cultivator Yuhong about attacking him, and Yuehua pointed out that the Spiritual Root techniques could be given to more than one sect.
• Elder Wen realized Yuhong intended to present the techniques to the Dao Alliance, and Yuhong admitted he planned to silence everyone who could expose him.
• Yuhong threatened the Chan He Sect by invoking Liu Han Huan’s destruction of the Feiying Sect, then Elder Wen released his Nascent Soul to attack him.
• Yuhong summoned Soul Devour, which pounced on Elder Wen’s Nascent Soul and began to weaken it.
• Xiao Hua revealed that he had only been pretending to be restrained, broke free, and commanded Soul Devour to shrink and kneel in midair.

Xiao Hua defeated Rogue cultivator Yuhong, freed the Wen family and his companions, and entrusted Soul Devour to Nuo Yeqing. After Wen Zhen returned with Yuhong’s wealth, he proposed reopening the Xie Hong Mountain auction venue with Xiao Hua and the Wen family as partners, leaving Xiao Hua to question Wen Zhen about his background.

• Xiao Hua shattered Rogue cultivator Yuhong’s magic treasure and dantian with his fists, then freed Liu Qingyu and the others from their restraints.
• Xiao Hua let the Wen family deal with Rogue cultivator Yuhong in exchange for seventy percent of the auction venue’s profits, and revealed the hidden palace.
• Nuo Yeqing asked to keep Soul Devour, and Xiao Hua gave the soul beast to him while accepting that Nuo Yeqing would keep his secrets.
• Wen Zhen returned with storage rings containing Yuhong’s belongings, gave most of them to Xiao Hua, and proposed continuing to operate the Xie Hong Mountain auction venue.
• Xiao Hua asked Wen Zhen to explain his background.

Xiao Hua discussed the Wen family’s invitation and the Xie Hong Mountain auction venue, then revealed to Yuehua and the others that he was a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator whose cultivation had been lost. He agreed to travel with Wen Zhen’s group, while Yuehua explained how long the journey to the Wen family would take.

• Wen Zhen introduced his family and invited Xiao Hua to visit its head, Wen Qingfan, a Mahayana cultivator, to discuss Xiao Hua’s Spiritual Root selection technique.
• Xiao Hua declined to manage the Xie Hong Mountain auction venue and suggested that the Wen family cooperate with the Chan He Sect instead; Wen Zhen agreed to arrange the partnership.
• After Wen Zhen left, Liu Qingyu proposed traveling with the Wen family to save time and spirit stones, while Yuehua warned that the family might be dangerous.
• Xiao Hua agreed to travel to the Wen family and revealed that he was a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator who had lost his cultivation and was recovering it.
• Yuehua said the trip would take several dozen days by Teleportation Array or several months by flying boat.

Xiao Hua agreed to travel with Wen Zhen’s group to the Wen family, while promising to help them face their Mahayana patriarch. At the Purple Cypress Wilderness, a Dao Venerable appeared and bestowed a Dao Seed on Xiao Hua, which absorbed the Primordial Violet Qi in his lower dantian.

• Xiao Hua decided to travel with Wen Zhen’s group and said he could slay a Mahayana cultivator within a few months.
• Xiao Hua agreed to consider taking Liu Qingyu and Yuehua as disciples later, and Wen Zhen prepared the Wen family’s flying boat for their return journey.
• Wen Zhen’s group traveled for several dozen days, stopping at training grounds along the way while Xiao Hua remained in his quiet chamber.
• At the Purple Cypress Wilderness, a rosy light imprisoned the flying boat and its surroundings, leaving Xiao Hua alone before a Dao Venerable.
• The Dao Venerable formed a Dao Seed and sent it into Xiao Hua, restoring his body and condensing Law Bodies for his avatars.
• The Dao Seed approached Xiao Hua’s quasi-Ninth Tribulation scattered nascent soul, but the Primordial Violet Qi entered the seed and turned its light violet.

Xiao Hua survived the Dao Seed’s premature sprouting by joining his Starry Sky Scattered Infant with the Duotian Star Array, though the overwhelming insights battered his Dao Foundation. After awakening, he found his inner space transformed and his cultivation still incomplete, and wondered who the Dao Venerable was and why he had given him the Dao Seed.

• The Dao Seed absorbed Primordial Violet Qi and began sprouting, causing Xiao Hua’s Scattered Infants to collapse while Thunderclap True Person grew stronger.
• Xiao Hua formed the Duotian Star Array with the hundred-odd Scattered Infants and sent his Starry Sky Scattered Infant toward the expanded Dao Seed, enduring a flood of chaotic insights.
• Wen Zhen asked to keep the flying boat in place for ten days so the Wen family disciples could train, and Xiao Hua agreed before dismissing Yuehua, Liu Qingyu, and Nuo Yeqing.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua found that Shenhua Continent’s laws had nearly matured and that several surrounding spaces had expanded or begun forming.
• Xiao Hua inspected his lower dantian and found Thunderclap True Person, the Starry Sky Scattered Infant, and the Duotian Star Array stable, with the Dao Seed’s purple radiance rotating in rhythm with the array.
• Xiao Hua discovered that his cultivation remained between sixth-grade and seventh-grade Yuan force and wondered about the Dao Venerable who had given him the Dao Seed.

Xiao Hua realized the Dao Venerable’s Dao Seed was helping him revise cultivation techniques, possibly to save the Daoist school of the Yilin Continent, while he continued toward the Wen Family. Meanwhile, True Person Ji Yan’s search party failed to locate Xiao Hua and learned he was arranging support for the Chan He Sect through the Xie Hong Mountain auction venue and the Wen Family.

• Xiao Hua found that his recovery depended on completing his Law Body, but he revised the Golden Core technique several times faster after receiving the Dao Seed.
• Xiao Hua suspected the Dao Venerable had given him the Dao Seed so he could restore the Daoist school of the Yilin Continent, then continued revising techniques as he traveled with the Wen Family disciples.
• True Person Ji Yan and the Dao Alliance search party found no trace of Xiao Hua at the Teleportation Arrays and expanded their search toward the Heaven Sacrificing Abyss.
• Fairy Mo Yun and the others considered flying artifacts and teleportation bridges as possible routes, while True Person Ji Yan ordered a search around Star Cloud Ridge after Old Man Gu Qiong pointed out Xiao Hua might lack spirit stones.
• True Person Ji Yan received news that the Xie Hong Mountain auction venue had sent disciples to discuss cooperation with the Chan He Sect on Xiao Hua’s orders.
• Old Man Gu Qiong revealed that the Wen Family of the Shuiyun Kingdom had also become involved, surprising Ancestor Ye Family.

The Dao Alliance leaders considered several possible origins for Zhang Xiaohua and decided to investigate the Wen family in Shuiyun Kingdom. Meanwhile, Zhang Xiaohua traveled with Wen Zhen through the family’s hidden Teleportation Arrays and arrived near the Wen family sect.

• A jade slip led Ancestor Ye Family and the others to suspect Zhang Xiaohua was with the Wen family’s training disciples, and reports from the auction venue deepened their uncertainty about his identity.
• Yu Hongzi raised the possibility that Zhang Xiaohua came from the Wumeng Mountain Range, and the group also considered the Land of Abandonment after Ancestor Ye Family recalled evidence of a boundary crossing.
• True Person Ji Yan ordered the party to head for the Wen family in Shuiyun Kingdom, while Ancestor Ye Family urged them to proceed cautiously and avoid alerting the Wen family.
• Wen Zhen ended the disciples’ training after losses and injuries in the Purple Cypress Wilderness, then told Xiao Hua he planned to return to Shuiyun Kingdom through a secret Teleportation Array.
• Xiao Hua, Yue Hua, and Wen Zhen used more than a dozen hidden Teleportation Arrays over several days before reaching a guarded site near the Wen family sect.

Wen Zhen and Xiao Hua arrived at Coiled Dragon Mountain, where the Wen family welcomed Xiao Hua with a grand Rainbow Void Greeter. They learned that the family’s expanded child selection was prompted by Xiao Hua’s cultivation techniques, and the Fourth Ancestor, Wen Zhou, came to meet him.

• Wen Zhen learned that the Family Head was away at the Dao Alliance meeting and that the Fourth Ancestor was overseeing Coiled Dragon Mountain.
• The Wen family activated a Rainbow Void Greeter to welcome Xiao Hua, astonishing Wen Hong and the others.
• Wen Hong explained that the Fourth Ancestor had ordered a major selection for children with Wen family blood ties, giving collateral descendants an opportunity to participate.
• Xiao Hua said he would provide the Wen family with his cultivation techniques after arriving, and Wen Hong learned that Xiao Hua had nearly finished revising the Golden Core technique.
• Wen Zhou arrived on a five-colored flying boat and greeted Xiao Hua, while Wen Zhen and his companions bowed to the Fourth Ancestor.

Xiao Hua arrived at Coiled Dragon Mountain and was welcomed with great ceremony by Wen Zhou and the Wen family, who urgently needed his cultivation techniques and Spiritual Root selection method. After receiving several revised techniques, Wen Zhou asked Xiao Hua to guide him in selecting suitable descendants.

• Wen Zhou welcomed Xiao Hua and his companions aboard the rainbow boat and promised to reward them for helping the Wen family.
• The Wen family elders and officials greeted Xiao Hua at Coiled Dragon Mountain and escorted him to the Council Hall.
• Wen Zhou hosted Xiao Hua and his companions with Nameless Spirit Tea, and Xiao Hua advised Nuo Yeqing to drink more to aid her core formation.
• Xiao Hua gave Wen Zhou several revised cultivation techniques, and Wen Zhou praised the Golden Core technique after examining it.
• Wen Zhou told Xiao Hua that he had gathered Wen descendants who had not been selected and asked him to check the results of the Spiritual Root selection.