Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua and Bai Fei agreed to travel with Shaque Immortal Alliance representatives toward the City of the Frontier, while both weighed whether to enter the Lost Land. Xiao Hua realized the alliance’s invitation was driven by its own agenda and that Bai Fei suspected his identity.

• Ye Yun summoned her recovered Qingluan and told it that Bai Fei had saved them and that Zhang had supplied its medicinal pill.
• Bai Fei explained that he had previously tried to reach the Lost Land through the Wumeng Mountain Range and now wanted to enter with the Shaque Immortal Alliance’s help.
• Ye Yun described the alliance’s plan, but she admitted the test and its timing remained uncertain because few Nascent Soul cultivators were willing to go.
• Bai Junfeng and Yu Biqiong returned with news that they had to leave for the City of the Frontier, and Bai Fei persuaded Xiao Hua to travel with them while he considered the matter.
• Yu Biqiong probed Xiao Hua about his claimed home, while Xiao Hua noticed Bai Fei listening closely and suspected that Bai Fei was connecting him to Xiao Hua.
• Bai Junfeng arranged an immediate teleportation route, and Xiao Hua realized that he and Bai Fei were being hurried away because the alliance feared they might hear about modified cultivation techniques and change their minds.

Xiao Hua and his companions traveled from Tonghu City to the City of the Frontier through a perilous teleportation passage. After arriving, Xiao Hua and Bai Fei discussed the dangers of the Wumeng Mountain Range and whether they should cooperate in the coming journey to the Lost Land.

• Bai Junfeng led Xiao Hua and the others through Tonghu City’s teleportation arrays and onto the long passage to the City of the Frontier.
• The passage’s violent, shifting pressure weakened Bai Junfeng, Yu Biqiong, Ye Yun, and Gao Zhuang, while Xiao Hua and Bai Fei remained composed.
• A female cultivator welcomed the group to the City of the Frontier, and Bai Junfeng requested quiet rooms so they could recover.
• In the quiet room, Bai Fei warned Xiao Hua that the Wumeng Mountain Range imprisoned the Five Elements Evasion Techniques, and Xiao Hua discussed its Witch Cultivators and the Lost Land.
• Xiao Hua proposed that he and Bai Fei support each other in the teleportation tunnel, and Bai Fei asked what benefit he would receive.

Xiao Hua and his companions traveled for months toward Wangyou Mountain Villa after Bai Fei correctly predicted that the Shaque Immortal Alliance would order them onward. As they arrived, the Dao Ancestor appeared and sent a second Dao Seed toward Xiao Hua, threatening to overwhelm the scattered infant that already held the Dao Venerable’s Dao Seed.

• Bai Fei predicted that Bai Junfeng would receive an order to take the group directly to Wangyou Mountain Villa, and Bai Junfeng soon returned with that very command.
• Bai Junfeng allowed Ye Yun to rest before leading Xiao Hua and the others through remote teleportation routes and long stretches by flying shuttle over the following months.
• The group reached the area of Wangyou Mountain Villa, where lightning filled the sky and the Dao Ancestor descended before Xiao Hua.
• The Dao Ancestor gathered the sun, moon, stars, and the world into a Dao Seed, then sent it toward Xiao Hua.
• The new Dao Seed entered Xiao Hua’s scattered infant and clashed with the Dao Seed previously bestowed by the Dao Venerable, leaving Xiao Hua fearing that his scattered infant would collapse.

Xiao Hua realized the Dao Ancestor’s seed could be received by Thunderclap True Person, a Primordial Spirit, and helped him absorb its insights. After the momentous event passed unnoticed by those around them, Xiao Hua and his companions reached Wangyou Mountain Villa, where the host voiced confidence in their journey to the Lost Land.

• Xiao Hua reasoned that Thunderclap True Person could receive the Dao Ancestor’s seed because he was a Primordial Spirit rather than a Nascent Soul.
• The Dao Seed entered Thunderclap True Person, whose body shattered and reformed as he received the seed’s insights; Xiao Hua helped him steady his expanding Dao Heart.
• Xiao Hua’s avatars awakened and congratulated him, while the gathered tribulation clouds stopped expanding after they used Xu Zhi’s immortal talismans.
• Xiao Hua returned to the unchanged scene aboard the flying shuttle and agreed with Bai Fei that they would rest at Wangyou Mountain Villa.
• The shuttle reached Wangyou Mountain Villa, where guards checked Bai Junfeng’s credentials and a managing disciple welcomed the travelers with a banquet.
• As the banquet ended, the managing disciple toasted Bai Fei and Xiao Hua and said he believed they could pass through the teleportation tunnel to the Lost Land.

At Wangyou Mountain Villa, Steward Xu postponed the journey through the transmission tunnel until spring, citing dangerous weather and unstable space. Xiao Hua accepted the delay and, after settling into his quiet chamber, planned to refine cultivation methods with Thunderclap True Person and summoned Wu Daoist and Huang Tong.

• Xiao Hua asked Steward Xu when the group would depart and when the other cultivators would arrive.
• Steward Xu said abnormal weather in the Wumeng Mountain Range made the damaged transmission tunnel unsafe, so the Alliance Leader had postponed the journey until after spring.
• Steward Xu told Bai Fei that cultivators would be selected before spring and promised pills, magical treasures, and cultivation methods to those who were not selected.
• Xiao Hua and Bai Fei went to separate quiet chambers at Wangyou Mountain Villa, where Xiao Hua suspected the restrictions could not prevent powerful cultivators from spying.
• Xiao Hua discussed revising the Primordial Spirit, Void Refining, and Dao Integration cultivation methods with Thunderclap True Person and asked what the Dao Seed had revealed to him.
• Xiao Hua called Wu Daoist and Huang Tong out to join him in the quiet chamber.

Xiao Hua sent Huang Tong and Wu Daoist to explore the Wumeng Mountain Range, where they found an impassable innate spatial barrier and Soul Cultivators who had lost their traditions. Their discoveries raised the possibility that powerful forces were eroding Soul Cultivation, leaving Wu Daoist shaken as the others considered their limited ability to intervene.

• Xiao Hua sent Huang Tong and Wu Daoist to investigate the Wumeng Mountain Range while he and Thunderclap True Person worked on deducing a cultivation technique.
• Huang Tong returned and reported that the range's innate restriction blocked spatial travel between Yilin Continent and Xiaoyu Continent, making it an unavoidable bottleneck.
• Wu Daoist reported that the region's Soul Cultivators had abandoned their old methods and Green Seal Script, instead worshipping Great Shamans and Shaman Gods and practicing a mix of witchcraft, Devil Race techniques, Ghost Cultivator arts, and Daoist spells.
• Xiao Hua and Wu Daoist suspected that outside forces were gradually erasing Soul Cultivation's inheritance, much as Daoism had declined on Cangxian Continent.
• Huang Tong warned that confronting the forces behind the range's division could add to their already dangerous conflicts, and Xiao Hua urged Wu Daoist to trust Heaven's will.
• Wu Daoist left in distress, and Huang Tong later described more of the Wumeng Mountain Range before departing into space.

Bai Fei prepared to return to the Lost Land, revealing that a hidden bottle of spiritual liquid sustained his cultivation and herbs. As he considered True Person Xiao’s mysterious nature, Xiao Yue told him that Xiao Hua was the heart demon in his heart.

• Ye Yun warned Bai Fei that the teleportation tunnel to the Lost Land was dangerous, but he insisted he had to return.
• Bai Fei suspected Bai Junfeng had hurried them away from the City of the Frontier to keep them from discovering what had happened there.
• Bai Fei secretly took out a hidden bottle, diluted two drops of spiritual liquid, and gave it to Xiao Yue to water his herbs.
• Bai Fei and Xiao Yue discussed True Person Xiao’s strange aura, and Bai Fei said his instincts told him Xiao was more than he seemed.
• Bai Fei asked Xiao Yue about Xiao Hua, and she told him that Xiao Hua was the heart demon in his heart.

Bai Fei admitted that he had returned to Xiaoyu Continent to confront his fixation on Xiao Hua, then ordered Xiao Yue to investigate suspicious activity in the Heavenly Alliance. Though he suspected True Person Xiao might be Xiao Hua, Bai Fei sent a ghost servant to watch him and resumed training, unaware that Xiao Hua had already surpassed the cultivation methods Bai Fei would soon acquire.

• Bai Fei told Xiao Yue that he had returned to Xiaoyu Continent to prove he had surpassed Xiao Hua, and she encouraged him by praising his advantages and resolve.
• Bai Fei recalled that Xiao Hua had displayed extraordinary strength and the title True Person Xiao at Fulin Ridge, but he and Xiao Yue dismissed the possibility that they were the same person.
• Xiao Yue warned Bai Fei that the spiritual-qi aberration could benefit demons and humans with True Spirit bloodlines, and Bai Fei sent her to investigate the nearest great city to Wangyou Mountain Villa.
• After Xiao Yue left, Bai Fei summoned a ghost servant and ordered it to watch Xiao Hua without disturbing him, reporting any unusual movements.
• Bai Fei tempered his body while refining a flying sword with his Nascent Soul, while Xiao Hua’s cultivation pace and strength remained beyond his understanding.

Bai Fei learned that Zhang Xiaohua’s cheap cultivation techniques had appeared in Tonghu City and speculated that they were meant to spark conflict between the Heaven Alliance and Dao Alliance. He warned Xiao Yue not to reveal his pocket world’s secret and decided to pursue the Shaque Immortal Alliance’s teleportation tunnel secret as its plans changed.

• Xiao Yue told Bai Fei that Zhang Xiaohua’s cultivation techniques sold for ten supreme-grade crystals each and that Zhang had recently appeared in Tonghu City.
• Xiao Yue described Zhang’s auction and the resulting exodus from Tonghu City, and Bai Fei realized Bai Junfeng had hurried him away to keep him from learning about the techniques.
• Bai Fei and Xiao Yue speculated that Zhang’s techniques might be a ploy by a hidden Immortal Alliance, the Devil Race, or the soul cultivators of Million Meng Mountain.
• Xiao Yue praised Bai Fei’s pocket world, prompting him to threaten her with a Metal Devouring Worm for revealing its secret; she apologized and promised to be more cautious.
• Bai Fei dismissed Xiao Yue and resolved to seek the Shaque Immortal Alliance’s teleportation tunnel secret because the new techniques had likely disrupted its plans.

Bai Fei watched Xiao Hua and considered whether he could become a useful assistant, while Ji Yu arrived at Wangyou Mountain Villa to escort cultivators to a selection. The chapter left Ji Yu surprised that only two cultivators had agreed to go, after Zhang’s cultivation techniques drew away the Nascent Soul cultivators Bai Junfeng had recruited.

• Bai Fei sent Xiao Yue into the separate realm, questioned the ghost servant about Xiao Hua, and considered testing Xiao Hua’s loyalty before recruiting him as an assistant.
• After another half month, Ji Yu flew to Wangyou Mountain Villa on a white crane, which joyfully reunited in the air with Ye Yun’s azure luan.
• Ji Yu offered Ye Yun Emerald Firefly Pills, but she declined them, and Senior Brother Gao came out to greet Ji Yu.
• Ji Yu explained that the selection candidates had to reach the training site promptly, despite the severe snowstorm.
• Bai Junfeng told Ji Yu that only two cultivators remained willing to go after Zhang distributed cultivation techniques in Tonghu City and the others rushed to the auction house.

Bai Fei and Xiao Hua were summoned from Wangyou Mountain Villa to travel to the Lost Land with Ji Yu, whose rivalry with Bai Fei intensified over Ye Yun. During the journey, Ji Yu questioned Bai Fei about his origins, but Bai Fei refused to answer directly.

• Bai Junfeng explained to Ji Yu how he had brought Bai Fei and Ye Yun from Tonghu City before they heard about the cultivation-method jade slips, and Ji Yu agreed to invite them openly to the Lost Land.
• Gao Xian welcomed Bai Fei and Xiao Hua, while Ji Yu stared down Bai Fei before finally agreeing to set out with them.
• Ji Yu invited Ye Yun to ride with him, but she chose to stay with Bai Fei; when the azure phoenix refused to leave the white crane, Ji Yu reluctantly boarded Bai Junfeng's flying shuttle instead.
• Ye Yun and Yu Biqiong rode the Spirit Birds, and the group followed as the tense atmosphere between Ji Yu and Bai Fei eased somewhat.
• Ji Yu asked Xiao Hua and Bai Fei where they came from; Xiao Hua named the Guangqing Immortal Alliance, while Bai Fei said he was from the Jing Huan Immortal Alliance.
• When Ji Yu pressed Bai Fei to reveal where he had cultivated, Bai Fei said he had forgotten and would tell him if he remembered.

Xiao Hua and Bai Fei reached the Special Envoy Flying Boat, where they met True Person Yuankong, Zhuang Chen, and the veiled silver wolf Yu Meiren. As the group prepared to join forces for the selection and journey to the Land of Abandonment, Bai Fei provoked Ji Yu, leaving Xiao Hua puzzled by his behavior.

• Ji Yu and Bai Fei traded barbs during their flight while Xiao Hua withdrew into his space to continue deducing a cultivation method.
• Ji Yu lost his temper with the patrol disciples guarding the Special Envoy Flying Boat, then presented his token and was allowed aboard.
• Xu Xia arrived with True Person Yuankong, Zhuang Chen, and Yu Meiren, whom Xiao Hua recognized as a silver wolf clan woman.
• True Person Yuankong introduced himself and invited Bai Fei, Xiao Hua, Zhuang Chen, and Yu Meiren to join forces.
• Ji Yu departed with Ye Yun and the other disciples, and Bai Fei called him a madman before True Person Yuankong cautioned him to stay on good terms with the Shaque Immortal Alliance.

Xiao Hua and the others settled aboard the Special Envoy Flying Boat and agreed to let True Person Yuankong lead their group in the upcoming selection. Bai Fei then privately showed Xiao Hua cultivation techniques available through the Heavenly Alliance and explained why he still planned to enter the Lost Land.

• A Golden Core disciple assigned the five cultivators adjoining rooms and said the flying boat would leave for the selection site in three days, though he did not know where it was.
• True Person Yuankong discussed the Lost Land and the selection with Xiao Hua, Bai Fei, Zhuang Chen, and Yu Meiren, and revealed that his lifespan was nearing its end.
• Bai Fei proposed that True Person Yuankong serve as their temporary leader, and the others agreed to follow his instructions during the selection.
• Bai Fei privately showed Xiao Hua a Spiritual Root selection technique and cultivation methods, explaining that the Heavenly Alliance had obtained complete techniques through Senior Zhang Xiaohua.
• Xiao Hua offered fifty supreme-grade spirit stones for three cultivation-method jade slips, while Bai Fei said he was still going to the Lost Land partly because of Miss Ye Yun.

Bai Fei tried to recruit Xiao Hua for the journey to the Lost Land, while Xiao Hua planned to go there on his own terms. Yu Meiren revealed herself as a silver wolf demon in disguise and decided to follow the human cultivators to search for a little fox, suspecting that Xiao Hua carried a Demon Race aura.

• Bai Fei urged Xiao Hua to join him in the Lost Land, promising benefits and offering him Nascent Soul cultivation techniques.
• Xiao Hua declined to accept the jade slips as a gift but bought one from Bai Fei for ten supreme-grade crystals, then left without committing to the journey.
• Bai Fei and Xiao Yue discussed Xiao Hua's caution, and Bai Fei remained certain that Xiao Hua would eventually submit and join him.
• Xiao Hua privately resolved to go to the Lost Land and suspected Bai Fei had given him an incomplete cultivation technique to make him dependent.
• Yu Meiren shed her human disguise and revealed herself as a silver wolf seeking a little fox in the Lost Land.
• The silver wolf decided to use the human cultivators' teleportation tunnel and wondered whether Xiao Hua was a Demon Race incarnation because she sensed a faint demon aura from him.

Xiao Hua and the other cultivators gathered aboard the flying vessel to meet Du Peng, the Shaque Immortal Alliance’s special envoy, and received generous gifts before he warned them not to shirk the selection. Du Peng revealed that they were at the southeastern edge of the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area, where the selection would take place.

• Thunderclap True Person entered Shenhua Continent, and Xiao Hua told Bai Fei he would travel to the Lost Land but had not decided whether to swear an oath or pledge loyalty.
• True Person Yuankong emerged from his quiet room and led Xiao Hua, Bai Fei, Zhuang Chen, and Yu Meiren onto the flying vessel’s crowded deck.
• Du Peng introduced himself as the Shaque Immortal Alliance’s special envoy and ordered disciples to give every cultivator a storage ring filled with gifts.
• Xiao Hua sensed that Du Peng’s concealed aura was familiar and suspected he was connected to the Demon General Lord Ji Peng, but decided to observe their plans.
• Du Peng warned the cultivators that he would execute anyone who deliberately failed the selection to avoid going to the Lost Land.
• Du Peng identified their location as the southeastern edge of the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area and warned that advancing another hundred miles would destroy the vessel and their bodies.

Zhuang Chen revealed that he was a Devil Race Demon General investigating the Beijian Demon Domain’s plans and the remains of a Demon Venerable. As the flying boat traveled toward the selection, Xiao Hua and Thunderclap True Person completed revisions to cultivation methods and discussed their links to Confucian cultivation and the Nine Revolutions Golden Core.

• Zhuang Chen briefly shed his human appearance and complained that Ji Peng had sent him to possess a frail human Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Zhuang Chen suspected that the Dong Ting Demon Domain and the Western Demon-Slaying Domain were cooperating to conceal a Demon Venerable’s remains, and resolved to learn about the Demon Venerable’s true body.
• After three days, the flying boat departed, and Xiao Hua sensed its movement while recording cultivation methods.
• During the months-long journey, Xiao Hua and Thunderclap True Person revised the Primordial Spirit and Nascent Soul cultivation methods, then sent copies to the Creation Sect.
• Thunderclap True Person asked about the Nine Revolutions Golden Core and compared Daoist Primordial Spirit cultivation with the Confucian Method of Five Qi Towards the Origin.
• Xiao Hua suggested that Thunderclap True Person study the Method of Five Qi Towards the Origin rather than seek out the Nine Revolutions Golden Core method.

Du Peng explained that the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area selection would send cultivators after fragments of the Wind Phantom Wheel, which could qualify them to travel to the Lost Land. Xiao Hua and his companions entered the storm and followed True Person Yuankong toward a place where other cultivators had gathered.

• Du Peng revealed that Layman Yang Feng’s shattered Wind Phantom Wheel fragments lay in a bewildering formation and that anyone who retrieved one and returned within thirty days would pass the selection.
• Du Peng ordered the flying boat’s defensive formation opened, and the cultivators rushed into the raging Heavenly Wind.
• True Person Yuankong led Xiao Hua, Bai Fei, Zhuang Chen, and Yu Meiren out of the flying boat and toward nearby hills to search for the formation entrance.
• The group found that the Heavenly Wind tore through earth and rock, while True Person Yuankong’s divine sense was painfully disrupted.
• Xiao Hua quietly used his resilient divine sense, while True Person Yuankong pointed out a direction where other cultivators had gathered and led the group there.

Xiao Hua and the others struggled through violent hurricanes as True Person Yuankong used a costly secret technique to locate an entrance to the illusory formation. The technique pointed them underground, but as they descended, True Person Yuankong grew uncertain while Xiao Hua sensed unusual fluctuations nearby.

• Bai Fei used four wooden flying swords to find a sheltered pocket where the group could withstand the hurricanes.
• True Person Yuankong spent essence blood and damaged his Nascent Soul to send a blood-red sword searching through the winds.
• The sword returned with news that the illusory formation lay beneath them, and True Person Yuankong led the group underground.
• The group struggled against fierce winds and an immense force pushing them upward as they searched for the entrance.
• Yu Meiren worried that their magical power would not last, while Xiao Hua sensed ripples below and urged them to keep searching.

Xiao Hua and the others found the maze formation’s entrance, and True Person Yuankong insisted on scouting it first to earn praise. After the group entered one by one, a spatial crack struck near Xiao Hua, who destroyed it before entering the formation himself.

• True Person Yuankong discovered the fist-sized entrance, and his divine sense confirmed it was hidden behind a Proximity to the Horizon restriction and another world.
• After Bai Fei and Yu Meiren praised him, True Person Yuankong volunteered to enter first despite his depleted vital essence.
• Crimson threads attacked True Person Yuankong at the entrance, but his sword light protected him as he entered the maze formation.
• Yu Meiren, Zhuang Chen, and Bai Fei entered in turn, while Xiao Hua chose to go last.
• A spatial crack hurtled toward Xiao Hua, who shattered it with a punch before descending through the entrance and observing the formation’s archway.

Xiao Hua entered the bewildering array and identified the lotus pond crossing as a Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams formation, guiding the group safely across. The group then followed True Person Yuankong into a dangerous branching tunnel, where he repeatedly chose routes despite the others’ attempts to scout them.

• Fire Snakes burst from the ornamental pillars, but Xiao Hua drew them into a spatial vortex and compressed them into a fire pearl before entering the array.
• Xiao Hua recognized the lotus pond formation as the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Array and crossed it safely by following the correct lotus leaves.
• Bai Fei, True Person Yuankong, Yu Meiren, and Zhuang Chen followed Xiao Hua’s route across the pond and entered the next passage.
• True Person Yuankong led the group through a perilous tunnel, then chose the left fork after Bai Fei’s colored butterflies returned from both paths.
• At a three-way fork, Bai Fei’s butterflies returned from the left and right tunnels, and True Person Yuankong again chose the left.
• At a four-way fork, Yu Meiren sent jade wolves to scout; after they returned, she indicated two tunnels, and True Person Yuankong chose the left one.