Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua resolved the secret of Master Ke Qin’s death with Nuo Yeqing and took him to cultivate on Shenhua Continent. As Xiao Hua prepared to leave, he encountered Zhang Jie, an angel from the Sacred Light Realm, whose Seven Tears threatened to unleash devastating power upon Yilin Continent.

• Xiao Hua told Nuo Yeqing how Master Ke Qin’s murderer had been the Six-Eared Macaque, whom Xiao Hua had spared in accordance with Master Ke Qin’s last instructions.
• Nuo Yeqing asked Xiao Hua to keep his identity secret, and Xiao Hua agreed before taking him to Shenhua Continent to cultivate.
• Xiao Hua watched the setting sun as the Hand of Cause and Effect grew clearer, then noticed a holy multicolored glow crossing the sky.
• Zhang Jie approached Xiao Hua, identified herself as an angel of the Sacred Light Realm, and demanded that he reveal his true form.
• Zhang Jie unleashed a seven-layered winged form and summoned Seven Tears, which erased the surrounding Spiritual Qi and held destructive power Xiao Hua feared could threaten Yilin Continent.

Xiao Hua spared Zhang Jie after their powers clashed, warned her about the dangers of Yilin Continent, and left her to continue toward the Wumeng Mountain Range. Back aboard the Special Envoy Flying Boat, he learned that the Maitreya Buddha World Honored One had completed a revised version of the Nine Revolutions Golden Core technique.

• The Heaven and Earth Restriction shattered Zhang Jie's Seven Tears, and Xiao Hua stopped his spatial attack before it could harm her.
• Xiao Hua and Zhang Jie exchanged questions about their origins, but Zhang Jie hesitated to reveal why she had come to Yilin Continent.
• Xiao Hua warned Zhang Jie that Daoist cultivators might attack her and told her to use his name if she could not escape.
• Zhang Jie flew toward the Wumeng Mountain Range, while Xiao Hua returned unnoticed to the Special Envoy Flying Boat.
• The Maitreya Buddha World Honored One told Xiao Hua that he had revised the Nine Revolutions Golden Core technique with help from Thunderclap True Person and the Heavenly Man, incorporating Buddhist, Heavenly Man, and Demon Race methods.

Jade Slip Xiao Hua reflected on the tangled origins of Daoist cultivation and concluded that he would follow his own path, then sent Wu Daoist and Huang Tong ahead with new cultivation methods for Yang Xia. After leaving seclusion, Xiao Hua resisted Bai Fei’s attempt to pressure him and discovered that thousands of cultivators had gathered aboard the flying boat despite earlier reports of heavy casualties.

• Jade Slip Xiao Hua questioned whether Daoist cultivation had any original inheritance, then accepted that all paths were Dharma and resolved to follow his own road.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua gave Wu Daoist the Nine Revolutions Golden Core and Three-Nine Golden Body methods to deliver to Yang Xia, and Huang Tong accompanied him.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua left seclusion after Bai Fei called for him, and Bai Fei offered to explain the cultivation method he had previously provided in exchange for Xiao Hua’s cooperation.
• Xiao Hua refused to commit to Bai Fei’s offer before reaching the Lost Land, and Bai Fei warned that he might not help Xiao Hua in the dangerous Wumeng Mountain Range passage.
• Xiao Hua and Bai Fei reached the deck and were astonished to find several thousand Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators aboard, despite reports that fewer than two hundred had returned from the maze formation.

Xiao Hua and Bai Fei learned that the Shaque Immortal Alliance had gathered tens of thousands of cultivators for the journey to the Lost Land, including many notorious Nascent Soul cultivators. After seeing the alliance’s Deputy Alliance Leader Xiong arrive, Xiao Hua suspected the alliance planned to use Xiaoyu Continent as a dumping ground for dangerous cultivators.

• Yu Meiren explained that five groups had been selected for the Lost Land, and Bai Fei reasoned that the alliance would send tens of thousands of cultivators.
• Jade Fat Ancestor approached Yu Meiren with lecherous intent and surrounded Xiao Hua’s group with four other Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Deputy Alliance Leader Xiong arrived on a giant black eagle, and Du Peng and four Spirit Severing cultivators flew out to welcome him.
• Bai Fei identified Jade Fat Ancestor and other notorious cultivators, describing their crimes and cruelty to Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua concluded that Lian Feng intended to send dangerous cultivators to Xiaoyu Continent, where they would become a scourge.

Xiao Hua watched Deputy Alliance Leader Xiong and Du Peng stage a public reprimand that concealed the Devil Race’s plans for the Shaque Immortal Alliance’s journey to the Lost Land. Xiong ordered Du Peng to gather fifty thousand cultivators and took token number one, while Xiao Hua recognized the danger behind the performance.

• Xiao Hua observed that Deputy Alliance Leader Xiong and a Special Envoy were possessed by the Devil Race, and resolved not to let their plans threaten the Xiaoyu Continent.
• Deputy Alliance Leader Xiong publicly berated and injured Du Peng, then pretended to spare him so he could make up for his losses through merit.
• Xiong ordered Du Peng to lead his cultivators through the Wumeng Mountain Range to the Lost Land, threatening him with death if he refused.
• Xiong encouraged the assembled Nascent Soul cultivators and learned that roughly thirty thousand cultivators were available for the journey.
• Xiong ordered Du Peng to gather fifty thousand cultivators and asked Jin Tu for token number one.

Deputy Alliance Leader Xiong gave Du Peng the Number One token and left him to lead the mission into Wumeng Mountain Range. Aboard the flying boat, Xiao Hua’s group prepared for Jade Fat Ancestor’s threat while Xiao Hua learned that Yang Xia had accepted the cultivation methods, though Dao Master had not appeared.

• Deputy Alliance Leader Xiong handed Du Peng the command token, promised further benefits if he returned alive, and departed on his black eagle.
• Du Peng invited Jin Tu and the other Nascent Soul cultivators to a farewell banquet, fearing he might not see them again.
• Bai Fei, Xiao Hua, Zhuang Chen, and Yu Meiren returned to their quiet room as Jade Fat Ancestor and his companions followed them.
• Bai Fei warned that Jade Fat Ancestor’s group was dangerous and discussed ways for the group to protect themselves.
• Wu Daoist and Huang Tong reported that Yang Xia had welcomed the Nine Revolutions Golden Core and Three-Nine Profound Art cultivation methods.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua and Huang Tong speculated that Dao Master might not appear because Yilin Continent had been abandoned by the Profound Alliance.

Huang Tong delivered three treasures left by Yang Xia to Jade Slip Xiao Hua, who identified an Immortal Trapping Sword Diagram, an inscrutable stone tablet, and an Eight Revolutions Golden Core. After leaving the space, Xiao Hua learned that the selection tokens had assigned the Wind Phantom Wheel cultivators to different groups, complicating Bai Fei’s plans.

• Huang Tong gave Jade Slip Xiao Hua three items Yang Xia had entrusted to him, and Jade Slip Xiao Hua recognized the first as the Immortal Trapping Sword Diagram.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua subdued the sword diagram’s power and explained that it was part of a greater Immortal Slaying formation.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua could not see through the broken stone tablet and identified the Golden Core as an Eight Revolutions Golden Core whose secret technique he did not know.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua imprisoned all three treasures and left to discuss ambushing Jade Fat Ancestor with Bai Fei and the others.
• Three days later, Bai Fei, Xiao Hua, Yu Meiren, and Zhuang Chen received tokens bearing different numbers and realized the Wind Phantom Wheel cultivators had been divided among selection groups.
• Xiao Hua explained that the Shaque Immortal Alliance could send higher-level cultivators into the collapsed maze formation to retrieve Wind Phantom Wheels, leaving Bai Fei worried about his calculations.

Xiao Hua and the other cultivators formed groups for the journey through the Wumeng Mountain Range, where he discovered that many of the people around him had been possessed by the Devil Race. Du Peng prepared to discipline a monk who challenged his appointed group leader, leaving the expedition’s order still unsettled.

• Xiao Hua joined group 2,783 and encountered Jade Fat Ancestor, Poison Stone Superior, Shi Qing, and Huang Chu Fan among its members.
• Shui Chong, Men Ci Feng, and three Golden Core cultivators joined Xiao Hua’s group, and Xiao Hua realized they and nearby Shaque Immortal Alliance cultivators were possessed by the Devil Race.
• Bai Fei worried that hostile cultivators might reach the Xiaoyu Continent, then saw Ye Yun among the disciples arriving in his group and understood her signal not to acknowledge him.
• A skull-adorned monk challenged his group leader and demanded the leader’s token, but the leader explained that the Special Envoy had assigned him to coordinate the groups.
• Du Peng appeared before the monk and coldly challenged him over his refusal to accept the appointed leader.

Du Peng killed a defiant great monk, asserted control over the cultivators bound for the Wumeng Mountain Range, and led the Shaque Immortal Alliance in a blood-oath ritual to create a talisman for Alliance Leader Lian. As the expedition began moving east, Bai Fei secretly gave Ye Yun pills, while Xiao Hua suspected Lian Feng had colluded with the Devil Race.

• Du Peng crushed the great monk's body and killed his Nascent Soul, then gave the surviving Nascent Soul to Heart Devourer Ancestor to absorb with his banner.
• Du Peng announced that he would travel with the group under a Number One token and threatened anyone who disobeyed or sabotaged the journey.
• Bai Fei secretly gave Ye Yun a storage ring of pills for her injuries, while Xiao Yue warned him that the Void Cloud Pill inside was not fully refined.
• The Shaque Immortal Alliance disciples formed a blood oath, and Du Peng and four other Spirit Severing Special Envoys used blood talismans to produce a blood-script talisman for Alliance Leader Lian.
• Du Peng ordered the cultivators to set out east toward the Wumeng Mountain Range, and Xiao Hua's group departed in the seventh wave.

Xiao Hua traveled with Du Peng and the Shaque Immortal Alliance’s fifty thousand cultivators toward the Wumeng Mountain Range, where the Lost Land’s passage was said to lie. Zhang Jie intercepted them, recognized Xiao Hua, and agreed to follow the group while Du Peng explained that the journey was training his forces for the dangers ahead.

• Du Peng departed ahead of the cultivators, while Jin Tu and the other Spirit Severing cultivators returned by flying boat and feared Du Peng would not survive his mission.
• Xiao Hua and the other cultivators crossed the Chang Heng Plain, where Xiao Hua realized the region’s harsh conditions resembled Million Meng Mountain and discussed the consequences with his fellow Daoists.
• Xiao Hua considered killing the possessed cultivators and searching Du Peng’s soul, but Zhang Jie appeared and stopped the group before they could reach the Wumeng Mountain Range.
• Du Peng explained to Zhang Jie that the journey required preparation and that Alliance Leader Lianfenglian controlled the method of reaching the Lost Land.
• Zhang Jie spotted Xiao Hua, who asked her to accompany the group and observe Lianfenglian’s methods; she agreed not to use divine abilities.
• Du Peng warned Zhang Jie that powerful soul beasts might be disturbed and said the journey was meant to train the fifty thousand cultivators to cooperate before entering the transmission tunnel.

Xiao Hua followed Du Peng and the Shaque Immortal Alliance deeper into the Wumeng Mountain Range while his avatars spread improved grain seeds across Yilin Continent. As the mountain range’s oppressive restrictions weakened his powers and trapped the remaining cultivators, Xiao Hua prepared the Witch King Order and saw signs that the journey was nearing a dangerous barrier.

• Zhang Jie refused to tolerate the Devil Race’s possession of humans and flew away, while Du Peng persuaded the fifty thousand cultivators to continue following the Shaque Immortal Alliance’s plan.
• Xiao Hua chose to remain with the group and entrusted Thunderclap True Person, Wu Daoist, Huang Tong, and the other avatars with distributing improved grain seeds throughout Yilin Continent.
• Over the following months, the seed distribution spread Xiao Hua’s reputation, and the Heaven Alliance and Dao Alliance began cautiously thawing their hostility as their leaders presented him as a senior and a spokesperson for the Dao Ancestor and Dao Venerable.
• Du Peng led the cultivators farther into the Wumeng Mountain Range, where soul beasts, disasters, and other hazards killed many; the group dwindled to fewer than thirty thousand.
• The mountain range’s pressure increasingly sealed Xiao Hua’s abilities and hindered his avatars, so he took out the crystal skull Witch King Order and put it on his finger.
• After Du Peng sent a toad-like magical artifact underground, the cultivators stopped to rest amid a gloomy sky and strange ripples that prevented even Xiao Hua’s spatial escape technique from breaking through.

Xiao Hua studied the Wumeng Mountain Range’s restrictive power as Huang Chu Fan confronted him over a pill. A Shaman God Mirage Tentacle emerged and killed Huang Chu Fan, while the fleeing cultivators tried to escape its attack.

• Xiao Hua observed that the Wumeng Mountain Range’s restrictions weakened when many cultivators moved together and grew oppressive while they rested.
• Huang Chu Fan demanded a pill from Xiao Hua, and Shui Chong tried to placate him by offering one of his own.
• Huang Chu Fan struck Shui Chong, who spotted the ground trembling and recognized the approaching Shaman God Mirage Tentacle.
• Du Peng ordered the disciples to retreat a thousand li and fled as Shui Chong and other cultivators raised the alarm.
• Huang Chu Fan attacked Xiao Hua despite his warning, then abandoned the attack when the Mirage Tentacle appeared.
• The Mirage Tentacle’s true strike pierced Huang Chu Fan’s arms, smashed his crown, and pulled his Nascent Soul from his body.

Xiao Hua watched Zhang Jie use holy light and life force to subdue the soul beast Mirage Tentacle and save the fleeing Shaque Immortal Alliance disciples. Afterward, Zhang Jie learned that the group still needed three months to reach the transmission tunnel near Broken Blade Ridge.

• Xiao Hua avoided the Mirage Tentacle’s attacks as it killed Huang Chu Fan, while Jade Fat Ancestor, Poison Stone Superior, and Shi Qing escaped its sweeping tentacles.
• The soul beast Mirage Tentacle erupted from a ravine and unleashed deadly attacks and Netherworld Blood Sea aura against the Shaque Immortal Alliance disciples.
• Zhang Jie summoned holy light that overcame the Mirage Tentacle’s powers, revived the fallen disciples, and made the beast retreat underground.
• Xiao Hua observed that Zhang Jie’s holy light carried a force of life unlike Buddhist light, then concealed himself while she finished subduing the beast.
• Du Peng thanked Zhang Jie, who asked how long remained before they reached the transmission tunnel and learned it would take three months because of the stronger soul beasts near Broken Blade Ridge.

Xiao Hua and the Shaque Immortal Alliance reached Broken Blade Ridge, where the Heaven and Earth Restriction severely suppressed powerful cultivators. After Xiao Hua revealed his shaman body to ease the suppression, Zhang Jie asked how a Daoist cultivator had learned shamanic arts, and he offered to explain if she revealed why she sought the Lost Land.

• Zhang Jie warned Du Peng that their presence had been exposed and urged him to reach the teleportation tunnel quickly, but Du Peng explained that it appeared only at a specific time and under special conditions.
• Xiao Hua learned that the Shaque Immortal Alliance had prepared for the tunnel’s conditions for centuries and that its disciples had previously reached the Lost Land.
• After the Mirage Tentacle killed more cultivators, the group continued under Zhang Jie’s guidance; three months later, over twenty-four thousand cultivators reached the vicinity of Broken Blade Ridge.
• Xiao Hua sensed four sleeping soul beasts nearby and feared they might awaken as the cultivators waited for the teleportation tunnel to appear.
• At Broken Blade Ridge, the immense Heaven and Earth Restriction suppressed Xiao Hua’s strength and prevented him from sensing space, but activating his shaman body eased the pressure.
• Zhang Jie asked Xiao Hua how he, a Daoist cultivator, knew shamanic arts, and Xiao Hua asked her to explain her reason for seeking the Lost Land in return.

Xiao Hua and Zhang Jie discussed the Heaven and Earth restriction and Du Peng’s long-delayed plan to cross it, while the groups prepared their magic treasures. Du Peng then arranged 365 Shaque Immortal Alliance disciples into a formation near Broken Blade Ridge and announced a rehearsal of the teleportation flying boat.

• Xiao Hua told Zhang Jie that his witchcraft retained forty percent of its power under the restriction, but he had found no teleportation tunnel.
• Zhang Jie explained that she had cooperated with Du Peng for nearly a thousand years because he claimed he could cross the restriction, and Du Peng sought reassurance that she would honor their agreement.
• Xiao Hua noticed Yin Sha gathered at Ye Yun’s glabella as the groups took out their selection magic treasures.
• Du Peng positioned 365 Shaque Immortal Alliance disciples in a pentagonal formation and sent its converging ripples toward Broken Blade Ridge.
• Du Peng told the assembled cultivators that the Lost Land was near and ordered them to rehearse the teleportation flying boat.

Xiao Hua and the other cultivators tested the Bone Flying Boats designed to cross the transport tunnel, while Du Peng waited for the Heaven and Earth Restriction to loosen. After nearly two weeks of delay, the passage still had not appeared, leaving Xiao Hua increasingly impatient to return to Xiaoyu Continent.

• Shui Chong showed Xiao Hua and the others how to coordinate their magic treasures with the Bone Flying Boat, whose soul power, devilish qi, and treasures let it fly despite the Heaven and Earth restriction.
• Shui Chong bound the ten cultivators to the boat with Xu Liuyue’s Demonic Crimson Buckle, then led them through a successful test flight before Du Peng rewarded them with storage rings.
• Du Peng offered Zhang Jie a blood robe to conceal her cultivation, but Zhang Jie refused and insisted she could handle the transport tunnel without it.
• The cultivators waited at Broken Blade Ridge for more than a dozen days without detecting any sign that the Heaven and Earth Restriction was loosening, and Xiao Hua struggled to contain his impatience.

On Great God Houtu’s Sacrifice Night, the blood moon’s power reached Broken Blade Ridge and shook the Heaven and Earth Restriction, though it did not open a passage. Xiao Hua then discovered countless streams of bloodwater carrying souls and innate soul power flowing beneath the Wumeng Mountain Range toward Broken Blade Ridge.

• At dusk, Du Peng told Zhang Jie and the cultivators that the moment to enter the transmission tunnel was near, though he admitted their chances of crossing were low.
• Du Peng summoned a huge skull of white light and arranged the Shaque Immortal Alliance’s disciples and the other cultivators around Broken Blade Ridge.
• Red light filled the sky, and Xiao Hua recognized the arrival of Great God Houtu’s Sacrifice Night as a blood-red moon appeared.
• The blood moon’s light shook the Heaven and Earth Restriction, but Xiao Hua sensed that it remained intact and grew more solid as its outer restraints peeled away.
• Xiao Hua heard flowing water and saw countless underground streams of bloodwater, each carrying a soul and innate soul power, surge toward the area beneath Broken Blade Ridge.

Xiao Hua realized the Shaque Immortal Alliance planned to use Moon Weeping and the returning wandering souls to breach the Heaven and Earth Restriction. As Black Demon Paths formed, the group prepared to enter them, while Zhang Jie warned Du Peng that Xiao Hua would not forgive his blood sacrifices.

• Xiao Hua understood that Du Peng’s supposed transmission tunnels were soul paths created to follow wandering souls through the Heaven and Earth Restriction.
• Du Peng ordered 365 disciples to sacrifice themselves and their Blood Fiend Spiritual Pearls, sending waves of blood and wandering souls against the restriction.
• The restriction’s backlash damaged the cultivators’ bloodlines, but blood threads seeped through and began opening cracks beneath Broken Blade Ridge.
• As Moon Weeping’s light faded, devilish qi poured from the cracks and formed Black Demon Paths, and Du Peng ordered everyone to board their flying boats and proceed.
• Du Peng gave Zhang Jie a blood robe for the passage, but she refused it and warned him that Xiao Hua would kill him.

Xiao Hua and the others drove their Bone Flying Boat through the Blood River and forced their way into the Black Demon Path transmission tunnel. Zhang Jie then ordered Du Peng to lead her onward, and he revealed his Devil Race form.

• Du Peng realized Zhang Jie suspected someone of his standing and decided he had to enter the Lost Land without returning to Yilin Continent.
• Shui Chong guided Xiao Hua and the others underground and into the Blood River aboard the Bone Flying Boat, where the Demonic Crimson Buckle absorbed bloodwater and powered the craft.
• Shui Chong coordinated the group’s treasures and demonic qi as they charged toward the dark green Heaven and Earth restriction at Broken Blade Ridge.
• The restriction collapsed around the Bone Flying Boat, but Xiao Hua struck it with his soul sword and opened a path into the Black Demon Path transmission tunnel.
• The Bone Flying Boat emerged from the tunnel in a place that shocked Xiao Hua, while Zhang Jie told Du Peng to lead the way and he transformed into a powerful Devil Race member.

Du Peng and Zhang Jie attempted to pass through the Heaven and Earth Restriction, but Zhang Jie’s holy light destabilized the Black Demon Path and she vanished into its collapse. Xiao Hua and the others emerged into a vast Netherworld Blood Sea, where powerful suppression and violent storms left them searching for another path onward.

• Du Peng concealed his Demon King aura and entered the blood river with Zhang Jie to approach the Heaven and Earth Restriction.
• Du Peng passed through the barrier using the Black Demon Path, but Zhang Jie’s holy light repelled the path’s devilish qi and caused the barrier and tunnel to collapse around her.
• Zhang Jie withdrew her radiant feathers into her spirit body to avoid worsening the collapse, recognizing that she might have taken the first step toward becoming a Sin Angel before vanishing into the failing path.
• Xiao Hua and his companions emerged into an immense Netherworld Blood Sea, where vortices and Netherworld Wind hurricanes swept up bones and souls and attacked their Bone Flying Boat.
• Shui Chong led the group onward in search of another transmission tunnel while Xiao Hua discovered that the restriction suppressed his avatars and reduced his Daoist power to roughly the middle or late Nascent Soul stage.