Chapter Summaries

Dragon God Son chose to enter devilhood, and Xiao Hua killed him before the arriving Heaven Alliance and Dao Alliance cultivators. Xiao Hua gave lifespan-restoring pills to the gathered leaders and urged Old Man Gu Qiong to put the Dao Sect’s greater interests first.

• Xiao Hua asked True Person Da to seal off the area and gave Dragon God Son the choice of remaining human or entering devilhood.
• Dragon God Son chose devilhood, and Xiao Hua released the barrier and acted as if he were trying to stop the transformation.
• Dragon God Son charged Xiao Hua, who crushed his Dharma Body and let Demon Venerable Slayer devour his Primordial Spirit and devil qi.
• Old Man Gu Qiong and the Heaven Alliance and Dao Alliance cultivators arrived, and Xiao Hua asked Hao Yue Jushi to explain what had happened.
• Xiao Hua gave lifespan-restoring pills to the gathered cultivators and gave Old Man Gu Qiong an extra bottle.
• Xiao Hua told Old Man Gu Qiong that he hoped he would act impartially and prioritize the Dao Sect’s greater interests.

Xiao Hua offered the Dao Alliance and Heavenly Alliance Rejuvenation Pills and recounted the crises facing humans and Daoist cultivators across several realms, urging the two factions to end their bloodshed. Old Man Gu Qiong swore that the Dao Alliance would reunite with the Heavenly Alliance and face the coming calamity together.

• Xiao Hua gave the Dao Alliance and Heavenly Alliance Rejuvenation Pills, then confirmed that he and his companions came from the Lost Land and would not remain in Yilin Continent.
• Xiao Hua hosted the cultivators with spirit wine and Immortal Peaches, then explained his experiences in Xiaoyu Continent, the Three Great Continents, and the Myriad Monster Realm.
• Xiao Hua described how humans and Daoist cultivators across the realms faced suppression, slaughter, and extinction, contrasting their struggles with the infighting between Yilin Continent's alliances.
• Xiao Hua said he would not force the alliances to reconcile, and Old Man Gu Qiong admitted their wrongdoing and knelt before him.
• Old Man Gu Qiong swore that the Dao Alliance would stop treating the Heavenly Alliance as an enemy and join hands with it to face the great calamity.

Xiao Hua witnessed the Dao Alliance and Heavenly Alliance swear to reconcile, and the Dao Ancestor and Dao Venerable appeared to bless their accord. As the leaders began planning their next steps, Xiao Hua urged them to let the disciples raised in each other's alliances stay where they had built their lives, while removing their spying missions.

• Old Man Gu Qiong, Hao Yue Jushi, and the other cultivators swore to end hostilities and join hands against the tribulation.
• Xiao Hua vowed to honor the Dao Sect’s inheritance, and the Dao Venerable and Dao Ancestor appeared from within him and praised the alliances’ reconciliation.
• Yang Xia gave Xiao Hua jade slips containing the Nine Revolutions Golden Core technique and described the Mystical Alliance’s history.
• Yang Xia and True Person Ji Yan explained Xiyue’s fate, and Old Man Gu Qiong recognized that Xiyue had been caught between the rival alliances.
• Hao Yue Jushi and Old Man Gu Qiong pledged to recall their alliances’ disciples from one another, but Xiao Hua urged them to remove the disciples’ missions and let them remain where they had grown up.

Xiao Hua gave the Dao Alliance and Heavenly Alliance revised cultivation techniques, helping their leaders reconcile and open travel between their territories. Old Man Gu Qiong then asked Xiao Hua to help determine a path forward for the hundreds of millions of existing Daoist cultivators on Yilin Continent.

• Xiao Hua gave Old Man Gu Qiong and Hao Yue Jushi jade slips containing the Spiritual Root selection technique and complete Nascent Soul cultivation methods, which they copied and shared with their allies.
• Old Man Gu Qiong and Hao Yue Jushi exchanged cultivation methods and agreed to remove Heavenly Alliance defenses at Heaven Sacrificing Abyss and build teleportation bridges with the Dao Alliance.
• Old Man Gu Qiong and Hao Yue Jushi toasted Xiao Hua and praised his role in bringing the alliances together, while Xiao Hua credited their cooperation and the Dao Ancestor and Dao Venerable.
• Holy Mother Di Ling and Fairy Mo Yun asked Xiao Hua for Immortal Peaches and Rejuvenation Pills, and he gave them more of both.
• Old Man Gu Qiong admitted that the Dao Alliance had planned to intercept Xiao Hua to learn how he crossed realms and locate an interplanar passage.
• Old Man Gu Qiong asked Xiao Hua where the hundreds of millions of existing Daoist cultivators on Yilin Continent should turn for their cultivation paths.

Xiao Hua discussed Yilin Continent’s realm rifts with Hao Yue Jushi and Old Man Gu Qiong, learning that neither alliance had found a stable passage and that crossings were perilous. He warned them not to enter the Myriad Monster Realm, where he had killed two Demon Race Great Sages.

• Old Man Gu Qiong and Hao Yue Jushi explained that the Dao Alliance and Heavenly Alliance had searched for stable spatial passages because Yilin Continent’s altered Spiritual Qi threatened cultivation.
• Xiao Hua said his arrival from the Myriad Monster Realm had been accidental and that no obvious passage lay near the Western Wilderness Mountain Range.
• Hao Yue Jushi recounted being stranded for centuries in the Dark Spirit Realm after crossing from the Moqing Forbidden Area, and Xiao Hua identified it.
• Old Man Gu Qiong and Hao Yue Jushi gave Xiao Hua records describing the Ten Great Forbidden Areas, past realm crossings, and the many seniors who had failed to return.
• Old Man Gu Qiong said some realm storms weakened at intervals, but Xiao Hua confirmed that neither alliance had found a stable passage.
• Xiao Hua warned Old Man Gu Qiong and Hao Yue Jushi against traveling to the Myriad Monster Realm because he had killed two Demon Race Great Sages there.

Xiao Hua recounted how he had killed two Demon Race Great Sages and spared Kong Jing, while Kong Qiang explained Peacock Mountain Villa’s need for primordial magnetism. As Taiwei Azure Light erupted from Water Origin in the planar rift, Xiao Hua recognized it as the missing Five Elements Origin he needed and knelt to kowtow to Heaven.

• Xiao Hua described his battle over primordial magnetism and explained that he spared Kong Jing because the young cultivator had no intent to kill him.
• Kong Qiang thanked Xiao Hua and revealed that Peacock Mountain Villa needed primordial magnetism to build an array for its Five-Colored Divine Light.
• The Kunlun Mirror’s light pillar collapsed, unleashing Taiwei Azure Light and the planar storm across the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area.
• Xiao Hua recognized the dark point at the heart of the eruption as Water Origin, and the cultivators agreed to approach it together.
• Xiao Hua recalled that Water Origin was the last Five Elements Origin he needed and knelt in midair to kowtow nine times toward Heaven.

Xiao Hua bowed before the Water Origin, then tried to claim it as it sank toward the Myriad Monster Realm. With Kong Qiang and Ye Zhen offering help, he and Huang Tong worked to force open a passage between realms, but the planar storm kept destroying it.

• Xiao Hua's solemn kowtow stunned the cultivators as the planar storm overwhelmed the Kunlun Mirror's passage.
• Xiao Hua apologized for needing the Water Origin and offered Kong Qiang magnetism in compensation, prompting Kong Qiang, Hao Yue Jushi, and Old Man Gu Qiong to volunteer their help.
• As the Water Origin began to sink and the storm intensified, Xiao Hua accepted Kong Qiang and Ye Zhen's offers of assistance and brought them into the depths of the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area.
• Xiao Hua tried to draw the Water Origin with the aura in his space and the Big Dipper Divine Fist, but neither could pull it across the planar boundary.
• Huang Tong opened a Void Passage toward the Water Origin, but the planar storm collapsed it; Xiao Hua then joined his power of Laws with Huang Tong's attempt to extend another passage.

Xiao Hua used the Night Family Ink Immortal Scroll to stabilize a passage through the dimensional storm and bring the Water Origin into it, but he could not draw the Origin into the Yilin Continent. He then had Kong Qiang attempt to collect it with the Five-Colored Divine Light.

• Ye Zhen gave Xiao Hua the Night Family Ink Immortal Scroll, which contained an Immortal Realm art for stabilizing space and a passage-maintenance art.
• Huang Tong comprehended the passage-maintenance art and taught it to Xiao Hua and the others, allowing them to extend a stable passage through the dimensional storm.
• Xiao Hua and Huang Tong extended the passage until the Water Origin entered it, but Xiao Hua’s aura and Big Dipper Divine Fist could not pull it through the dimensional barrier.
• True Person Da suggested using the Yilin Continent’s Five Elements power, and Xiao Hua sent Kong Qiang to try collecting the Water Origin.
• Kong Qiang summoned his Five-Colored Peacock Dharma Body, causing vortices to form and draw in the surrounding Five Elements spiritual energy.

Xiao Hua and Kong Qiang drew the Water Origin across the barrier between the Myriad Monster Realm and Yilin Continent, allowing Xiao Hua to absorb it and complete the tempering of his body with the seven origins. The Light Escape Technique showed no obvious effect, and Xiao Hua considered whether to help others cross the planar storm before deciding not to delay Yilin Continent’s cultivators.

• Kong Qiang repeatedly used his five-colored divine light to pull the Water Origin toward Yilin Continent, but exhausted himself before it could cross the boundary.
• Xiao Hua infused Kong Qiang’s final effort with six-colored spirit fire, strengthening the divine light until the Water Origin broke through into Yilin Continent.
• Xiao Hua drew the Water Origin into his body, where it tempered him, his avatars, and the scattered infants; he then sent the Water Origin into his space, completing the seven-origin transformation.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua sensed control over the seven origins but acknowledged that their deeper meaning remained unknown and that the Light Escape Technique was only near completion.
• Xiao Hua found no visible change after returning to his body and questioned whether he had misunderstood how to cultivate the Light Escape Technique.
• Xiao Hua considered using the Ye family’s spatial stabilization technique to help Gu Qiong and Hao Yue Jushi reach the Myriad Monster Realm, but decided against risking delays for Yilin Continent’s cultivators.

Xiao Hua obtained the Water Origin, integrated it into his body, and realized he had only begun to touch the threshold of Light Evasion. He agreed that the cultivators could observe his future ascension, but their plans to accompany him to the Xiaoyu Continent stalled when they explained the deadly dangers of the Wumeng Mountain Range.

• Xiao Hua tested his newly awakened Light Evasion in the dimensional storm and concluded that completing Bone Refining Seven Colors would let him travel through light.
• Xiao Hua thanked Ye Zhen, Kong Qiang, Old Man Gu Qiong, and the others for helping him obtain the Water Origin, then gave them Rejuvenation Pills and Immortal Peaches.
• Xiao Hua revealed that the Water Origin had merged with his body and explained that he had not sensed the Gate of the Immortal Realm because his cultivation method differed from theirs.
• Old Man Gu Qiong, Hao Yue Jushi, and the others asked to observe Xiao Hua's ascension, and Xiao Hua said they would need to follow him to the Xiaoyu Continent.
• Old Man Gu Qiong and Hao Yue Jushi warned that the Wumeng Mountain Range was far more perilous than the dimensional route, with powerful cultivators rarely surviving the crossing.

Xiao Hua discussed the unstable teleportation tunnels and the Shaque Immortal Alliance’s ambitions with Hao Yue Jushi, then prepared to continue his selection and investigate the Devil Race’s plans. After the alliances departed, he took Kong Qiang away from the center of the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area and traded him Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism.

• Hao Yue Jushi explained that powerful cultivators could collapse the intermittent tunnels to the Lost Land, and Xiao Hua declined to have the Heavenly Alliance interfere with his selection.
• Hao Yue Jushi described Lian Feng’s expansion plans and asked Xiao Hua to check whether Lian Feng and Jia Zuo Xiong had been possessed by the Devil Race.
• Xiao Hua urged the Daoist Alliance and Heavenly Alliance to cooperate, discussed the immortal formation, and saw Old Man Gu Qiong and the other cultivators depart.
• Kong Qiang stayed behind to trade with Xiao Hua, while Ye Zhen waited to settle a separate matter with him.
• Xiao Hua and Kong Qiang flew farther from the forbidden area’s center, and Xiao Hua placed the Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism into Kong Qiang’s Qiankun Ring.

Xiao Hua learned Peacock Mountain Villa’s secrets from Kong Qiang and delivered his enormous Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism there. After returning to Ye Zhen at the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area, he prepared to hear more about the foundations of immortal-cultivator aristocratic clans.

• The Qiankun Ring began collapsing under the Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism, so Xiao Hua quickly retrieved it; Kong Qiang revealed that the magnetism was far larger than Peacock Mountain Villa’s own.
• Kong Qiang gave Xiao Hua an Ink Immortal Scroll describing the Five-Colored Divine Light and explained his clan’s Five-Colored Peacock bloodline and its trials in the Tianyu Sacred Realm.
• Kong Qiang could not collect the immense Metal-Wood Primordial Magnetism himself, so Xiao Hua agreed to deliver it to Peacock Mountain Villa and accepted maps and jade slips about Yilin Continent.
• Xiao Hua used spatial escape to take Kong Qiang toward Peacock Mountain Villa, but after struggling to navigate, he used teleportation and delivered the magnetism before returning to the Heavenly Wind Forbidden Area.
• Ye Zhen greeted Xiao Hua and offered to explain the secrets of immortal-cultivator aristocratic clans, while Xiao Hua reflected that Daoist sects had far weaker foundations.

Ye Zhen revealed that the Ye Family was actually the Jiang Family, an Immortal Realm clan hiding its surname, and told Xiao Hua about Yanhan Mountain and the Jiang Family’s ties to other clans. He asked Xiao Hua to look after the Ye Family’s descendants in the Lost Land, gave him a token and an old record of the Wumeng Mountain Range teleportation tunnel, and the chapter ended with Xiao Hua asking whether the family had records about the immortal formation.

• Ye Zhen told Xiao Hua that his family was really the Jiang Family, which had changed its surname to conceal itself from other Immortal Realm clans.
• Ye Zhen explained that the Jiang Family’s ancestral precepts required it to invite benevolent Tribulation Transcendence or Dao Integration cultivators to visit Yanhan Mountain after ascending.
• Ye Zhen asked Xiao Hua to look after the Ye Family descendants in the Lost Land, and Xiao Hua agreed to help if they had committed no evil deeds.
• Xiao Hua accepted Ye Zhen’s jade ruyi token, which identified him and let him command the Ye Family disciples in the Lost Land.
• Ye Zhen gave Xiao Hua an old jade slip containing information about the teleportation tunnel through Wumeng Mountain Range.
• Xiao Hua asked whether the Ye Family had any records concerning the immortal formation.

Xiao Hua returned to the ruined maze formation, collected Wind Phantom Wheels from Creation Sect disciples, and rescued them before heading toward the entrance. There, Bai Fei, Zhuang Chen, and Yu Meiren compared their experiences and gains, and Xiao Hua appeared as they discussed True Person Yuankong.

• Xiao Hua returned to the destroyed maze formation, praised the Creation Sect disciples for rescuing cultivators, and accepted two damaged Wind Phantom Wheels from them.
• Xiao Hua gave the disciples pills, Immortal Peaches, and spirit wine, brought them into Shenhua Continent, and flew toward the maze entrance.
• Bai Fei waited at the entrance and asked Zhuang Chen about his Wind Phantom Wheel, learning that Zhuang Chen had obtained one.
• Yu Meiren emerged and, after confirming Bai Fei and Zhuang Chen had Wind Phantom Wheels, recounted fleeing two Nascent Soul cultivators who had tried to kill her.
• Yu Meiren criticized True Person Yuankong's choices in the maze, while Zhuang Chen defended his decisions and explained how they had separated.
• Bai Fei spotted Xiao Hua approaching through the hurricane, and Yu Meiren privately questioned his ability to find his way.

Xiao Hua refused to give True Person Yuankong his extra Wind Phantom Wheel, warning that the transportation tunnel could get him killed. Bai Fei provoked Yuankong into reentering the collapsed illusion array, while the others prepared to leave.

• Xiao Hua rejoined Bai Fei, Yu Meiren, and Zhuang Chen and explained that he had missed the illusion array’s collapse while searching for Wind Phantom Wheels.
• Xiao Hua revealed that he had found two Wind Phantom Wheels, and Bai Fei asked to buy his extra one.
• True Person Yuankong emerged badly injured from the illusion array and offered Xiao Hua a storage ring for the extra Wind Phantom Wheel.
• Xiao Hua warned Yuankong that attempting the transportation tunnel was dangerous, but Yuankong took offense and demanded to know what price Xiao Hua wanted.
• Bai Fei soothed Yuankong’s anger and suggested that he reenter the illusion array to find a Wind Phantom Wheel himself.
• Yuankong agreed to go back into the illusion array, while Bai Fei said the others needed to leave the hurricane because they were injured.

After the illusion array collapsed, Bai Fei gave an extra Wind Phantom Wheel to Ye Yun so she could choose whether to travel to the Lost Land with him. Xiao Hua and his companions received their rewards aboard the Special Envoy Flying Boat, where Bai Fei confirmed that he planned to bring Ye Yun along.

• True Person Yuankong flew away after Xiao Hua and Bai Fei spoke with him, and Bai Fei said he would not return to the Special Envoy Flying Boat.
• Bai Fei secretly summoned Ye Yun and gave her an extra Wind Phantom Wheel, asking her to consider joining him on the journey to the Lost Land.
• Xiao Hua, Zhuang Chen, and Yu Meiren returned to the flying boat and received five storage rings each, along with instructions to refine their Wind Phantom Wheels before departure.
• Xiao Hua warned Bai Fei that bringing Ye Yun could endanger their journey, but Bai Fei said she would have a chance to go and that the person who might oppose them would not interfere.
• Xiao Hua called after Bai Fei as he turned to leave and asked whether he was going just like that.

Bai Fei suspected Yu Meiren and Zhuang Chen had ties to the Demon Race while preparing Void Cloud Pills, and Xiao Hua spent years comprehending the Five Elements Origin as the flying boat traveled toward the Wumeng Mountain Range. With the range only ten days away, Xiao Hua thought of the people awaiting him in Xiaoyu Continent.

• Bai Fei gave Xiao Hua two storage rings for the Wind Phantom Wheels, then discussed with Xiao Yue his suspicions about Yu Meiren and Zhuang Chen.
• Bai Fei began refining Void Cloud Pills, sending Metal Devouring Worms to spy on Xiao Hua, who continued meditating and comprehending the Water Origin's profound meanings.
• True Person Yuankong watched the flying boat leave and departed, accepting that his life would return to ordinary peace.
• Over several years of travel, Xiao Hua gained insight into the Five Elements Origin, while his scattered Nascent Souls and several clones transformed and developed Immortal Spiritual Qi.
• A message announced that the flying boat would reach the edge of the Wumeng Mountain Range in ten days and that Deputy Alliance Leader Xiong Tianjing would come to send the passengers off.
• Xiao Hua prepared for the final danger before Xiaoyu Continent and remembered Fairy Hongxia, Jiu Xia, Huang Mengxiang, Zhuo, Xiangyang, and the others.

Xiao Hua brought Nuo Yeqing to the edge of the Wumeng Mountain Range so he could follow his own path, and Nuo Yeqing revealed why he was determined to go there. He said he remembered a previous life in Million Meng Mountain, where he had been a soul cultivator and master artifact refiner.

• Xiao Hua reflected on returning to Xiaoyu Continent and promised his master he would bring him honor when he returned to Thunder Control Sect.
• Xiao Hua left the Special Envoy Flying Boat and brought Nuo Yeqing to a mountain at the edge of the Wumeng Mountain Range.
• Xiao Hua released Liu Qingyu and Yuehua so they could say farewell to Nuo Yeqing before their paths separated.
• Nuo Yeqing asked the others to keep his long-held secret and explained that he remembered his previous life.
• Nuo Yeqing revealed that he had been born in Million Meng Mountain as a soul cultivator and master artifact refiner.

Xiao Hua discovered that Nuo Yeqing had been Master Ke Qin in a previous life, and revealed himself to his old friend. He returned Ke Qin’s inheritance and prepared to introduce Nuo Yeqing to a teacher for Million Meng Mountain’s Soul Cultivation.

• Nuo Yeqing recounted his past life as Master Ke Qin, including his death at the hands of a Six-Eared Macaque and his reincarnation by Great God Houtu’s favor.
• Xiao Hua recognized Nuo Yeqing, revealed his true appearance, and the two reunited as Yue Hua and Liu Qingyu listened in astonishment.
• Xiao Hua inferred that Nuo Yeqing had reincarnated on Sacrifice Night, and explained that he had spent more than a hundred thousand years cultivating to his current level.
• Xiao Hua returned the Soul Nest and Master Ke Qin’s inheritance to Nuo Yeqing, who accepted them and said he had let go of his old-life hatred.
• Xiao Hua offered to find Nuo Yeqing a teacher for Million Meng Mountain’s Soul Cultivation inheritance, then summoned Wu Daoist with the Kunlun Mirror.

Xiao Hua persuaded Wu Daoist to accept Nuo Yeqing as his disciple, then asked him about Master Ke Qin’s death. Nuo Yeqing explained that Master Ke Qin had foreseen his death through Xiao Hua’s River of Cause and Effect and had been killed by a Six-Eared Macaque.

• Xiao Hua asked Wu Daoist to take Nuo Yeqing as a disciple, and Wu Daoist agreed after hearing Nuo Yeqing’s plea and Xiao Hua’s recommendation.
• Nuo Yeqing kowtowed to Wu Daoist and was accepted into his school, with a formal Wu Clan ceremony deferred until later.
• After Wu Daoist, Liu Qingyu, and Yuehua left, Xiao Hua sat with Nuo Yeqing and asked him to recount Master Ke Qin’s past.
• Nuo Yeqing explained that Master Ke Qin had seen his death in the River of Cause and Effect while looking into Xiao Hua’s eyes, then accepted his fate and left his artifact-refinement inheritance to Xiao Hua.
• Nuo Yeqing said Master Ke Qin tried to flee the valley but was killed by a Six-Eared Macaque, managing to write only one character of the killer’s name before dying.