Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua and True Person Lan Yu followed Huo Qilin into Zhurong Hall, where they discovered a ruined ancient complex built around a vast, flame-filled abyss and its powerful seal. As the group prepared for the sect battle the next day, Xiao Hua overheard True Person Lan Yu and Huo Pengfei plotting to make Huo Qilin Sect Leader and later replace him with Huo Pengfei.

• Xiao Hua agreed to follow True Person Lan Yu’s arrangements as they traveled with Huo Qilin to Dove Fire Peak.
• Huo Qilin opened the final restriction, revealing Zhurong Hall and an aura that made Xiao Hua suspect an eighth-grade fire-element spirit essence was sealed below.
• Huo Qilin led Xiao Hua and True Person Lan Yu through the ruined halls to a vast abyss above the fiery pool and described the damaged restriction beneath it.
• Huo Pengfei told True Person Lan Yu that he had failed to break the seal, and True Person Lan Yu promised to help him eventually become Sect Leader.
• Xiao Hua secretly heard True Person Lan Yu and Huo Pengfei plotting against Huo Qilin while Huo Qilin arranged for Huo Furong and Huo Luan to enter Zhurong Hall for the battle the following morning.

Xiao Hua questioned Huo Qilin about his cultivation and his reluctant bid to become Fire Fierce Mountain’s sect master. At dawn, Huo Luan and Huo Furong arrived with their Nascent Soul allies, and the rival parties gathered over the abyss.

• Xiao Hua asked Huo Qilin why he had not advanced to Nascent Soul and whether he truly wanted to become sect master; Huo Qilin explained Fire Fierce Mountain’s decline and his wish to protect its disciples.
• Huo Qilin said he would withdraw if a suitable sect master could unite the sect, though he doubted Huo Luan and Huo Furong could win the disciples’ support.
• After a day and night, Huo Luan arrived with True Person Jinglü, who recognized True Person Lan Yu and questioned his presence.
• True Person Lan Yu challenged True Person Jinglü’s claim to question Xiao Hua and asserted that each had been invited by a different candidate.
• Huo Furong arrived with more than ten followers and an early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator as the three parties gathered above the abyss.

Xiao Hua revealed his identity at Fire Fierce Mountain and explained that Chen Yi and True Person Yiqing would not arrive to support Huo Luan. His return stunned the cultivators gathered for the sect leader contest, and Gu Yunzi began describing the hidden schemes behind the Great Sword Dao Battle.

• Gu Yunzi of the Kunlun Sect arrived, and True Person Lan Yu agreed to delay the contest until afternoon after Huo Luan asked for more time.
• Huo Luan and Huo Furong waited for the Nascent Soul cultivators they had invited, but no one arrived by dusk.
• Xiao Hua said Chen Yi and True Person Yiqing would not come because he had already removed an opponent for Huo Qilin.
• Xiao Hua restored his appearance and revealed himself, shocking True Person Jinglü, True Person Lan Yu, Gu Yunzi, and the Huo siblings with his Nascent Soul-level pressure.
• Gu Yunzi recognized Xiao Hua as the Terrifying Phoenix from the Great Sword Dao Battle and began explaining how sword cultivators had secretly planned that conflict.

Xiao Hua listened as Gu Yunzi explained how his divination had pointed to Xiao Hua as the Dao Cultivators’ hope in the Great Sword Dao Battle, then agreed to hear the details of Xuntian City later. At Fire Fierce Mountain, the rival claimants set aside their dispute long enough to unlock the sect’s sealed supreme treasure, and each learned the incantation needed to activate it.

• Gu Yunzi told Xiao Hua that the Sword Cultivators’ schemes had nearly destroyed the Dao Cultivators and that his Kunlun Sect divination art had identified Xiao Hua as their hope.
• True Person Lan Yu redirected the discussion to choosing Fire Fierce Mountain’s Sect Leader, and Xiao Hua postponed hearing Gu Yunzi’s account of Xuntian City.
• Huo Furong knelt before Xiao Hua, while Huo Luan privately asked True Person Jinglü to help her oppose Xiao Hua and True Person Lan Yu.
• Huo Luan urged Huo Furong and Huo Qilin to open the Fire Pool seal, and all three brought out their jade pendant fragments.
• Huo Furong, Huo Qilin, and Huo Luan joined the fragments into a complete pendant and each confirmed that they could activate its incantation.

Huo Qilin, Huo Furong, and Huo Luan activated Fire Fierce Mountain’s treasure, revealing a chained and incomplete Yazi spirit essence in the abyss. As Xiao Hua moved to protect it from the cultivators seeking to seize it, True Person Lan Yu and True Person Jinglü attacked him, but Xiao Hua vanished just before Jinglü’s sword could strike.

• Huo Qilin, Huo Furong, and Huo Luan used their essence blood to summon a fire cauldron that opened three vortices in the abyss.
• The cauldron fell into the fire pool, triggering an eruption that revealed a huge, incomplete Yazi spirit essence bound by fire chains.
• True Person Lan Yu explained that Huo Zheshhan had taken part of the Yazi spirit essence, and Xiao Hua resolved to keep the rest from being refined into an artifact soul.
• Xiao Hua, Gu Yunzi, and True Person Jinglü raced toward the fire pool, with Xiao Hua descending after Gu Yunzi and Jinglü.
• True Person Lan Yu trapped Xiao Hua with his spiritual artifact while True Person Jinglü sent his Nascent Soul’s tiny sword at Xiao Hua from behind.
• After a strange sigh, Xiao Hua vanished from the spiritual artifact’s restraint just before Jinglü’s sword could hit him.

Xiao Hua watched the battle at the Abyss Fire Pool as Huo Luan’s sword cultivator reinforcements and True Person Tengjiao and Fallen Flower Fairy turned the fight against the Meng Kingdom cultivators. After True Person Lan Yu and True Person Jinglü were killed, Xiao Hua intervened to protect Gu Yunzi from Fallen Flower Fairy’s attack.

• Xiao Hua appeared before Huo Qilin and sent Yuan Ya to settle his karmic debt, prompting True Person Lan Yu and True Person Jinglü to attack Yuan Ya together.
• Sword cultivators summoned by Huo Luan ambushed the fighters, but Yuan Ya wounded one and True Person Lan Yu drove the other back before a streak of golden light descended.
• True Person Tengjiao appeared and killed True Person Jinglü’s Nascent Soul, while Fallen Flower Fairy’s attack annihilated True Person Lan Yu and his Nascent Soul.
• Yuan Ya blocked Fallen Flower Fairy’s golden light with his demonic flames, while True Person Jinglü’s body was destroyed and True Person Tengjiao pursued the fleeing Yazi spirit essence.
• Gu Yunzi begged for help, and Xiao Hua summoned a huge golden hand that shielded him from Fallen Flower Fairy’s attack.

Xiao Hua and Yuan Ya defeated the ancient artifact cultivators, recovered the Myriad Annihilation Heaven Dou and Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors, and avenged Fire Fierce Mountain. After Xiao Hua released the Yazi spirit essence, Huo Qilin and Huo Furong chose to leave the sect with him, while Huo Pengfei urged Huo Luan to keep Fire Fierce Mountain from disbanding.

• The heavenly man extracted the Myriad Annihilation Heaven Dou from Fallen Flower Fairy, who thanked him before turning to ash, while Yuan Ya captured True Person Tengjiao.
• The heavenly man took the other half of the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors from True Person Tengjiao, who thanked him before dying; Xiao Hua collected the restored scissors and sent the heavenly man to the Kunlun Immortal Realm.
• Xiao Hua spared the two Illusion Sword Second Rank sword cultivators at Yuan Ya's request and accepted the thanks of Fire Fierce Mountain's disciples for avenging their elders.
• Xiao Hua tore apart the chains binding the Yazi spirit essence in the Abyss Fire Pool and let it fly free, then warned Huo Qilin to lead Fire Fierce Mountain well.
• Huo Qilin stopped Huo Pengfei from taking his own life, and Huo Qilin and Huo Furong asked to leave Fire Fierce Mountain and join Xiao Hua's group.
• Xiao Hua took Huo Qilin, Huo Furong, Gen Qing, and others away; afterward, Huo Pengfei urged Huo Luan to remain and lead the weakened sect.

After helping Huo Luan take charge of Fire Fierce Mountain, Xiao Hua declined to return to the Thunder Control Sect and arranged for Huo Qilin and Huo Furong to join the Creation Sect. Gu Yunzi then asked Xiao Hua about the Kunlun Mirror and prepared to share several thoughts with him.

• Huo Luan became Fire Fierce Mountain's Sect Leader, while Xiao Hua led the cultivators away and told Gu Yunzi that the sect's future was its own concern.
• Xiao Hua sent Gen Qing, Sun Qian, and Xun Shu back to the Thunder Control Sect and said his ties to the sect had ended, though he still cared for his former acquaintances.
• After Yuan Ya declined to take Huo Qilin and Huo Furong as disciples, Xiao Hua released Xiong Yi and asked him to find them suitable masters in the Creation Sect.
• Xiao Hua told Huo Qilin and Huo Furong they were no longer Fire Fierce Mountain disciples and took them and Xiong Yi into the Kunlun Mirror.
• Gu Yunzi identified the Kunlun Mirror as his sect's ancient supreme treasure, explained its importance, and said he had several thoughts to discuss with Xiao Hua.

Xiao Hua invited Gu Yunzi to take his gifts and report his wish to enter the Kunlun Secret Realm, where the Kunlun Mirror’s true methods were preserved. Several days later, Xiao Hua and Yuan Ya reached Shang Hua Ming and found Myriad Flowers Valley forces attacking Huanghua Ridge, where Hundred Herbs Sect disciples were defending.

• Xiao Hua told Gu Yunzi that he had assembled the Kunlun Mirror from scattered fragments and admitted that he lacked its true refinement and activation methods.
• Gu Yunzi invited Xiao Hua to Kunlun Mountain and explained that the Kunlun Secret Realm preserved the sect’s lost inheritances, including the methods for the Kunlun Mirror.
• Xiao Hua gave Gu Yunzi jade slips containing cultivation methods and secret arts for the Kunlun Sect and other Daoist cultivators, and Gu Yunzi hurried back to report to Sect Leader Xuan Jing.
• Xiao Hua and Yuan Ya flew toward Shang Hua Ming, where they saw several thousand Myriad Flowers Valley cultivators attacking Huanghua Ridge as Hundred Herbs Sect disciples held their defensive formation.

After 682 years away, Xiao Hua reunited with Zhang Qingxiao at Huanghua Ridge and had Yuan Ya remove the demonic qi threatening his Second Martial Brother. Xiao Hua then brought in Creation Sect forces to make Huanghua Ridge their foundation and confront the disguised Shanghua Sect attackers.

• Xiao Hua and Yuan Ya watched the Hundred Herbs Sect and Myriad Flowers Valley disciples clash after Huanghua Ridge’s grand formation collapsed.
• Xiao Hua revealed himself to Zhang Qingxiao, and the two embraced after centuries apart.
• Xiao Hua recognized that demonic qi threatened Zhang Qingxiao’s consciousness, and Yuan Ya removed it by touching his arm.
• Xiao Hua warned Zhang Qingxiao to stop cultivating until they found a safe solution and offered guidance from a demonic dragon and a Demon Venerable.
• Zhang Qingxiao explained that the attackers were Shanghua Sect disciples in disguise and said he had protected his Junior Sister.
• Xiao Hua summoned Li Xiang, Xiong Yi, and Creation Outer Gate disciples, declared Huanghua Ridge the Creation Sect’s future foundation, and sent them to attack the enemy.

Xiao Hua led the Creation Sect in defeating the Shanghua Sect forces and discussed the past and their sects with Zhang Qingxiao. After identifying Shanshengzi and True Person Du'e as the Nascent Soul cultivators who had hunted him, Xiao Hua went with Zhang Qingxiao to Xihua Peak to see Xiao Xianrui.

• Tens of thousands of Creation Sect disciples overwhelmed the Shanghua Sect and Hundred Herbs Sect forces, while Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao discussed Xiao Hua’s survival and their plans for the Heavenly Demon Sect and Creation Sect.
• Zhang Qingxiao explained that he had merged a wounded child with Ye Yin, who had sacrificed himself to save the child, and Xiao Hua learned why Ye Yin had taken that name.
• Xiao Hua identified Shanshengzi of the Ascension Gate and True Person Du'e of the Immortal Music Sect as the two Nascent Soul cultivators who had pursued him.
• Xiao Hua said Shang Hua Ming was not suitable for restoration and ordered Zhang Qingxiao to withdraw the Heavenly Demon Sect disciples while the remaining Hundred Herbs Sect disciples stayed.
• Zhang Qingxiao withdrew his guards from Xihua Peak and left Xiao Xianrui’s safety in Xiao Hua’s hands.

Xiao Hua reunited with Xiao Xianrui and told her that Jiang Liuer had become the Xuanji Merit Buddha in another realm. He recounted Jiang Liuer’s journey through the Pure Land and Cangxian Continent, leaving Xiao Xianrui with news of her son but unable to see him.

• Zhang Qingxiao brought Xiao Hua to the medicinal garden, where Xiao Xianrui asked at once about Jiang Liuer.
• Xiao Hua told Xiao Xianrui that Jiang Liuer was safe, had attained Buddhahood as the Xuanji Merit Buddha, and could not return because he was no longer in Xiaoyu Continent.
• Yuan Ya greeted Xiao Xianrui and praised Chunzang’s pilgrimage, lifting her spirits before he stood guard outside the garden.
• Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao entered the simple tent where Xiao Xianrui had kept Jiang Liuer’s childhood belongings.
• Xiao Hua recounted his journey and Jiang Liuer’s Buddhist pilgrimage in detail, explaining that Jiang Liuer was now revered by countless believers and protected by gods and Buddhas.

Xiao Hua reunited with Xiao Xianrui and Zhang Qingxiao, explaining Jiang Liuer’s journey and the World-Ending Mayflies threatening the Three Great Continents. He enlisted Zhang Qingxiao’s help to find a way through the ancient formation and proposed establishing the Creation Sect at Huanghua Ridge, leaving the decision to Xiao Xianrui and Zhang Qingxiao.

• Xiao Hua told Xiao Xianrui and Zhang Qingxiao that Jiang Liuer’s westward journey would bring him back to Huanghua Ridge through an immortal formation, and revealed the World-Ending Mayflies’ threat.
• Xiao Hua gave Xiao Xianrui and Zhang Qingxiao Immortal Peaches to restore their lifespans, then recounted parts of his travels through the Myriad Monster Realm and Yilin Continent.
• After Zhang Qingxiao realized Jiang Liuer also faced danger, Xiao Hua reassured him that Creation Sect disciples and Buddhist leaders would protect Liuer.
• Zhang Qingxiao urged Xiao Hua to break the formation between the Three Great Continents and Xiaoyu Continent, and issued a Heavenly Demon Token to seek information about it.
• Xiao Hua revealed that he led the Creation Sect and that it now occupied Huanghua Ridge, then explained Ming Hua’s connection to Shang Hua Ming and asked Xiao Xianrui and Zhang Qingxiao to decide whether the Creation Sect should be established there.

Xiao Hua brought Xiao Xianrui and Zhang Qingxiao to the Creation Sect’s new gathering place, where they learned how the sect was organizing its mountain gate. Zhang Qingxiao gave Xiao Hua information about the Creation Sect on the Xiaoyu Continent, revealing that it had grown into a sprawling alliance whose founders were losing control.

• Xiao Hua introduced Xiong Yi and Li Xiang as Creation Sect leaders, and they explained that Xiao Hua was the sect’s Grand Master alongside nine other Human Race Supremes.
• Xiao Xianrui asked that the medicinal garden at Xihua Peak be preserved for Liu'er, and Xiong Yi and Li Xiang agreed to keep the peaks as Shang Hua Ming’s mountain gate while searching for a larger site.
• Xiao Hua used the Kunlun Mirror to send out Creation Sect disciples from the Kunlun Immortal Realm, then asked Zhang Qingxiao about the sect’s development on the Xiaoyu Continent.
• Zhang Qingxiao gave Xiao Hua jade slips describing the Creation Sect and said he had secretly investigated it to protect Xiao Hua’s reputation.
• Xiao Hua discovered that Zhong Zhan had betrayed the Creation Sect and founded a rival sect, while Qin Ji and Zhong Pei had disappeared with the storage bags.
• Zhang Qingxiao explained that many small sects founded by Rogue Cultivators had adopted the Creation Sect name, attracting the attention of major factions that coveted Xiao Hua’s reputation.

Xiao Hua discussed the mystery of how he had arrived on Xiaoyu Continent and learned that two Dividing Spirit cultivators had sealed and searched his soul. Zhang Qingxiao suspected the Immortal-Demon War at Demon Subduing Valley was connected and set out to find its participant roster, while Xiao Hua briefly left by spatial escape.

• Xiao Hua told Xiao Xianrui and Zhang Qingxiao that two Dividing Spirit cultivators had sealed his middle dantian and Niwan Palace and searched his soul after he crossed into Xiaoyu Continent.
• Xiao Xianrui and Zhang Qingxiao connected Xiao Hua's arrival to the Immortal-Demon War at Demon Subduing Valley, though Xiao Hua rejected Zhang Qingxiao's guess that he was of the Devil Race.
• Zhang Qingxiao said his pawn Zhang Zhihao could obtain the roster of cultivators who participated in the war, and he decided to go retrieve it himself.
• Xiao Xianrui agreed to have the Hundred Herbs Sect disciples submit to the Creation Sect and flew toward Minsi Peak.
• Xiao Hua left Yuan Ya with Zhang Qingxiao and used spatial escape to head toward Jingbo City.

Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao entered Demon Subduing Valley, where they encountered the battlefield’s lingering blood, damaged restrictions, and dangerous spatial rifts. They reached the valley’s deepest area, where Xiao Hua saw a planar barrier enclosing a violent mist and a tiny hollow leaking black qi and flames.

• Xiao Hua asked Zhang Qingxiao to lead him to Demon Subduing Valley after failing to find traces of the Zhu family in Jingbo City.
• Zhang Qingxiao pointed out the valley entrance, and Xiao Hua bypassed the Golden Core guards and brought Zhang Qingxiao and Yuan Ya inside.
• Xiao Hua and Zhang Qingxiao observed the valley’s bloodstained rocks, damaged talismans, violent Primordial Qi, and remnants of the Immortal-Demon War.
• Xiao Hua shattered a spatial crack before it struck Zhang Qingxiao, then flew with him and Yuan Ya deeper into the valley through further spatial rifts.
• Xiao Hua reached the valley’s deepest area and saw a blood-red mist bound by planar restraints, with a hollow at its core leaking black qi and black flames.

Xiao Hua confronted Zhang Qingxiao about his love for Xiao Xianrui and revealed that he had brought him to Demon Subduing Valley to make him face his fading humanity. Zhang Qingxiao confessed his feelings and his burden of vengeance, and Xiao Xianrui arrived and kissed him.

• Zhang Qingxiao recoiled from the Devil Realm’s laws, and Xiao Hua questioned him about his Di Luo Beast nature and lingering love for Senior Sister.
• Xiao Hua told Zhang Qingxiao that Cai Zhuoxia had been revived, but Master and Eldest Senior Brother were truly dead beyond his ability to save.
• Zhang Qingxiao admitted he was exhausted from carrying Shang Hua Ming’s blood debt and vowed that his love for Junior Sister mattered more than possessing her.
• Zhang Qingxiao confessed that he was becoming one of the Devil Race and had come to Huanghua Ridge hoping to see Xiao Xianrui once more without being seen.
• Xiao Xianrui kissed Zhang Qingxiao, and the two embraced before asking how she had been brought to Demon Subduing Valley.

Xiao Hua helped Zhang Qingxiao and Xiao Xianrui settle their feelings before Zhang Qingxiao entered demonhood, then arranged for Zhang Qingxiao to become Demon Venerable Slayer’s disciple. The chapter ended with Zhang Qingxiao meeting his new senior brother, Dragon God Son, as Dragon God Son transformed his devil body.

• Xiao Hua urged Zhang Qingxiao and Xiao Xianrui to speak plainly and said Zhang Qingxiao would soon enter demonhood, while Xiao Xianrui believed Xiao Hua was leaving for the Immortal Realm.
• Xiao Hua used the Kunlun Mirror to send Feng Wu to take Xiao Xianrui back, then told Zhang Qingxiao he could still visit her at Xi Hua Peak Medicine Garden while settling his mortal wishes.
• Xiao Hua revealed that Demon Venerable Slayer was a Master of the Sect of the Creation Sect, and Demon Venerable Slayer accepted Zhang Qingxiao as his second disciple and gave him Qiu Yin Liu.
• Demon Venerable Slayer showed Zhang Qingxiao the damaged devil body of Demon Venerable Ju, inspiring Zhang Qingxiao to vow to cultivate to the Demon Venerable realm.
• Xiao Hua introduced Dragon God Son as Demon Venerable Slayer’s eldest disciple, and Dragon God Son greeted Zhang Qingxiao as his junior brother while continuing to transform his devil body.

Xiao Hua prepared Zhang Qingxiao to leave with Feng Wu, warning him that Ji Peng was at large and giving him Demon Venerable Slayer’s protection. Xiao Hua and Demon Venerable Slayer then discussed crossing the boundary into the Demon Realm, where Feng Wu questioned whether the passage truly led to another realm.

• Dragon God Son asked Demon Venerable Slayer to avoid disturbing his recovery and to break through into the Demon Realm, and Xiao Hua stored him in the Kunlun Mirror.
• Demon Venerable Slayer gave Zhang Qingxiao cultivation techniques, while Xiao Hua arranged for Feng Wu to take him away to search for Zhang Zhihao and Xiao Hua’s list of enemies.
• Xiao Hua warned Zhang Qingxiao that Ji Peng had reached Demon Marshal strength and was missing; Demon Venerable Slayer planted a Demon Sight in Zhang Qingxiao to summon help if he faced danger.
• After Zhang Qingxiao left, Xiao Hua and Demon Venerable Slayer discussed the Demon Realm and tested whether Demon Venerable Slayer could cross its boundary barrier.
• Demon Venerable Slayer said he could reach the Demon Realm through the passage, and Xiao Hua asked him to conceal the barrier and keep demons from harassing Xiaoyu Continent.
• Feng Wu returned and asked Xiao Hua whether he was certain that he had crossed realms and entered from this place.

Xiao Hua learned that the Thunder Control Sect was in trouble and sent Feng Wu to help, then descended into the foothills of Demon Subduing Valley to investigate his memories. Meanwhile, Zhang Qingxiao realized that Fairy Hongxia’s engagement ceremony in Xuntian City had become the focus of competing schemes, while Xiao Hua headed toward the Thunder Control Sect and arrived as its guards challenged approaching flying boats.

• Xiao Hua recalled being captured and sealed during the Immortal-Demon War, then concluded that Xiaohei and Xiaohuang had arrived in different places.
• After reading a message about the Thunder Control Sect, Xiao Hua asked Feng Wu to go there and told Demon Venerable Slayer to prepare to take Dragon God Son and Zhang Qingxiao to the Demon Realm.
• Zhang Qingxiao received a message about Fairy Hongxia’s proposed engagement to the young master of the Ye family and deduced that several powers planned to use the ceremony to seize influence over the Three Cultivation Kingdoms.
• Zhang Qingxiao decided not to send Xiao Hua another message, reasoning that the summons order would reach him at the Thunder Control Sect.
• Several flying boats approached the Thunder Control Sect, and a Foundation Establishment cultivator ordered their passengers to land and identify themselves.