Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua prepared to explain the immortal formation to Xiaoyu Continent’s cultivators while Ying Kui gave him Heavenly Court artifacts and instructions for opening the Nine Dragon Coffin Seal. As Xiao Hua began to use his innate True Qi on the seal, Ying Kui stopped him and offered to give him two more streams.

• Xiao Hua put on the shattered Imperial Garment to resist the pull of ascension, and Ying Kui offered to provide its refinement method.
• Xiao Hua showed Ying Kui the Nine Dragon Coffin Seal, and Ying Kui explained its purpose and gave him secret arts for trying to open it.
• Ying Kui handed Xiao Hua Cloud Festivals, cultivation methods, and other Heavenly Court objects, including a tablet said to hold a Heavenly Court secret.
• Xiao Hua sent Huang Tong to meet the arriving Huan Kingdom Sword Cultivators and gave Feng Wu the Kunlun Mirror to bring other cultivators into the Kunlun Immortal Realm.
• Ying Kui questioned True Person Da and the other avatars about their origins and the World-Ending Mayflies threatening the Three Great Continents.
• Xiao Hua began to use his three streams of innate True Qi on the coffin, but Ying Kui stopped him and offered two more.

Xiao Hua and Ying Kui opened the Nine Dragon Coffin Seal, only to find Emperor Tianhuang inside, bearing the same appearance as the Immortal Emperor Gouchen. Ying Kui concluded that Gouchen was likely an incarnation of Emperor Tianhuang reborn through reincarnation in the mortal world.

• Ying Kui gave Xiao Hua two streams of innate True Qi, which Xiao Hua absorbed alongside his own three streams.
• Xiao Hua used the five streams of innate True Qi to form inscriptions and dragon phantoms that transformed the sealed coffin into a golden dragon.
• True Person Da lent his dragon qi, helping the dragon phantoms enter the nine dragon seals and complete the transformation.
• Xiao Hua released the final inscription, opened the dragon coffin, and discovered a majestic man lying inside.
• Xiao Hua recognized the man as resembling the Immortal Emperor Gouchen, while Ying Kui identified him as Emperor Tianhuang and suggested Gouchen was his reincarnated incarnation.

Xiao Hua and Ying Kui discussed the living incarnation of Emperor Tianhuang sealed in the Nine Dragon Coffin Seal and agreed to postpone the decision about awakening him. Xiao Hua then led Ying Kui toward the cultivators gathered near the ruined Xuntian City, where Huan Kingdom’s sword cultivators witnessed Creation Sect’s overwhelming forces being recalled to Kunlun Immortal Realm.

• Ying Kui told Xiao Hua that the coffin held a possibly living incarnation of Emperor Tianhuang, and Xiao Hua agreed to consult his fellow Daoists before deciding whether to awaken it.
• Xiao Hua stored the Nine Dragon Coffin Seal and asked Ying Kui to accompany him to meet the Xiaoyu Continent cultivators; Ying Kui refused to apologize to them yet, so Xiao Hua asked him to fly at the rear.
• Xiao Hua and the others flew toward the devastated Xuntian City, while Huang Tong led Huan Kingdom’s sword cultivators to join the gathering forces.
• Qi Liandie and the other sword cultivators saw the Daoist sects, Creation Sect disciples, and several hundred thousand Golden Core cultivators assembled near Xuntian City.
• At Xiao Hua’s command, a Demon Race member summoned the Creation Sect disciples to return to Kunlun Immortal Realm and collected their battle formations into a Bronze Mirror.

Xiao Hua returned to Xiaoyu Continent with overwhelming forces and was welcomed by millions of cultivators, who bowed as he took his seat on the King of Fortune. He affirmed his Creation Sect disciples, then confronted the sword sects over their role in the deaths of his disciples, and they begged him to punish them.

• More than a hundred scattered Nascent Souls and several immensely powerful cultivators appeared and gathered around Xiao Hua as he approached the assembled armies.
• The Black Bear Spirit, Yuan Ya, Xiong Yi, and Li Xiang invited Xiao Hua to ascend the throne, and he summoned the King of Fortune and sat upon it.
• More than a million Creation Sect disciples and the leaders and disciples of Daoist and sword cultivation sects bowed to Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua welcomed the Creation Sect disciples back into his fold and promised to discuss their affairs after handling public matters.
• Xiao Hua accused several sword sects of fighting his disciples and causing their deaths, and the sword cultivators admitted fault and asked him to punish them.

Xiao Hua warned the sects against internal conflict and urged the cultivators of Xiaoyu Continent to unite against greater threats. He then began explaining the cultivation paths and realms to the assembled sect masters, who gradually realized the importance of listening.

• Xiao Hua spared the sword cultivators who had been deceived by Ye Yaotian, then challenged the four Xi Kingdom sects over their attack on the Thunder Control Sect.
• Xuan Jing pointed out that the Xi Kingdom sects had acted from selfish desires, and True Person Yang Yu, Yixuan True Person, Wu Hongzi, and True Person Jinghuan apologized and promised to prevent future infighting.
• Xiao Hua urged the cultivators to see themselves as united against larger forces, and he recognized the Heavenly Demon Sect's right to exist if Zhang Qingxiao governed it well.
• Zhang Qingxiao announced that Ye Yin would take over as sect master of the Heavenly Demon Sect, and Xiao Hua accepted the transition.
• Xiao Hua addressed the assembled sects and began outlining the cultivation systems and realms of Dao, Confucian, Buddhist, and demon cultivators.
• Xuan Jing and the Kunlun Sect disciples sat down to listen, prompting other Dao sects and, eventually, the sword cultivators to do the same.

Xiao Hua expounded the Dao to millions of Xiaoyu Continent cultivators, revealed his Tribulation Transcendence strength, and urged them to help save the Three Great Continents. After winning their support, he told the Taiqing Sect that breaking the Innate Grand Array required toppling its Heaven, Earth, and Human Peaks.

• Xiao Hua concluded his night-long sermon by urging the cultivators to practice the Dao with kindness, and his word “Good” entered the crowns of everyone present.
• Xiao Hua revealed that he had reached the Tribulation Transcendence stage and shared cultivation methods, then asked Xiaoyu Continent’s cultivators to help save the Three Great Continents.
• Xiao Hua explained the calamity threatening the Three Great Continents and persuaded the gathered sect leaders that breaking the grand array would benefit Xiaoyu Continent as well.
• Zuo Ming apologized for opposing the Creation Sect and promised to help, while the sect leaders ordered their disciples to seek information about the grand array.
• Xiao Hua gave True Person Yuqing a storage pouch and said the Taiqing Sect’s Heaven, Earth, and Human Peaks had to be toppled to break the Innate Grand Array.
• True Person Yuqing was shocked and questioned how the Taiqing Sect’s peaks in Meng Kingdom could be connected to the grand array in the Qiang He Sea.

Xiao Hua asked the cultivators of Xiaoyu Continent to help find a way to break the Innate Grand Array, explaining that Heaven, Earth, and Human Peaks would likely have to be toppled. The Taiqing Sect agreed to make that sacrifice, and the cultivators departed to search for clues while Xiao Hua prepared to visit the sect.

• Xuan Jing offered the Kunlun Sect’s secret realm to Xiao Hua, and Xiao Hua accepted the sect as an ally of the Creation Sect.
• True Person Yuqing agreed to topple Heaven, Earth, and Human Peaks for the sake of the Three Great Continents, asking for time to evacuate the Taiqing Sect’s disciples and possessions.
• True Person Da, Wu Daoist, Maitreya Buddha World Honored One, Feng Wu, and Tianren pledged support and offered to meet any reasonable conditions from the Taiqing Sect.
• Xiao Hua proposed establishing the Creation Sect near the ruins of Xuntian City, then explained that most of its disciples were based in the West Sea and would return there if the array were broken.
• Zhang Qingxiao handed the Heavenly Demon Sect’s affairs to Ye Yin, then accepted Xiao Hua’s suggestion to remain as Supreme Sect Master while Ye Yin managed the sect.
• Xiao Hua urged the assembled cultivators to search for information about breaking the array, and they departed for their respective sects.

Xiao Hua rewarded and reorganized the Creation Sect disciples, assigning them to rebuild their sect at the ruins of Xuntian City. He then agreed to accompany Li Zongbao to Joyful Sect and gave Heng Ming a meridian-tempering method as thanks for caring for Li Zongbao.

• Xiao Hua comforted Zhong Haoran, Zhong Zhan, and Fei Yunshu, gave them Immortal Peaches and cultivation resources, and relieved them of their sect leadership duties.
• Xiao Hua gave Immortal Peaches and cultivation methods to the surviving Creation Sect leaders, then promised the gathered disciples that the sect would grow strong and ordered them to build a Creation Dao Palace at Xuntian City.
• Xiao Hua entrusted the disciples to Xiong Yi and Li Xiang and instructed them to treat everyone fairly before departing with Ying Kui.
• Heng Ming introduced himself as Li Zongbao's master and invited Xiao Hua to accompany Li Zongbao to Joyful Sect; Xiao Hua agreed and promised to bring Creation Sect disciples to Li Zongbao and Cai Zhuoxia's wedding.
• Xiao Hua gave Heng Ming a meridian-tempering method for Joyful Sect, and Heng Ming's expression changed when he inspected it.

Xiao Hua returned a cultivation technique to the Joyful Sect after learning it may have belonged to Hening’s Patriarch, Xunle Zhenren. Fairy Hongxia then told Xiao Hua she could no longer be his Dao companion because his rise to fame had made him feel like a stranger, though they shared one tearful embrace before she asked him to let her go.

• Hening recognized that Xiao Hua’s meridian-tempering technique resembled a secret art once mentioned by Xunle Zhenren, who had died in Demon Subduing Valley.
• Xiao Hua gave Hening a more profound technique he had obtained in Demon Subduing Valley and asked him to pass it to True Person Heping.
• Li Zongbao and Cai Zhuoxia prepared to return to the Joyful Sect, while Fairy Hongxia announced she would go with them and Huang Mengxiang declared she would stay with Xiao Hua.
• Fairy Hongxia explained that Xiao Hua’s fame and power made him feel too distant to love, and she showed him Xue Xue’s final message entrusting Xiao Hua to her.
• Fairy Hongxia asked Xiao Hua to let her go, but first embraced him and wept with him before asking him again to release her.

Xiao Hua reunited with Xiao Mao, explained that the plots against him had been exposed, and appointed him the new head of the Ye Family. Fairy Hongxia left after receiving the Phoenix bloodline gifts, while Xiao Hua prepared Xiao Mao to take charge of his family.

• Xiao Hua gave Fairy Hongxia the Peacock Feather and ancient Phoenix bloodline and helped her refine them for ten days before she departed.
• Xiao Hua released Xiao Mao and Huo Hong from the Kunlun Mirror, and Xiao Mao apologized for his past mistakes.
• Xiao Hua told Xiao Mao that Luoxing Heaven, Ye Xixiang, Yu Tong, and the others were dead, then sent the Black Bear Spirit to capture Qing Liuzi and investigate the conspiracy.
• Xiao Hua explained that Xiao Mao's bloodline had prevented him from forming a Nascent Soul and that he could instead cultivate soul arts or the golden core path.
• Xiao Hua gave Huo Hong cultivation supplies and the Ye Family Head token, appointing Xiao Mao to lead the Ye Family with the support of the Creation Sect.

Xiao Hua arranged for Xiao Mao to help organize information about the Innate Grand Array, then met Xuan Jing, True Person Heping, and Feyan Immortal while they traveled toward Kunlun Mountain. He set off with them to inspect the Kunlun Secret Realm, while Kunlun Sect disciples gathered at the mountain remained unaware of the news from Xuntian City.

• Xiao Hua told Xiao Mao to help build a Creation Dao Palace and sort information about the Innate Grand Array, then sent him with Li Xiang.
• Feyan Immortal and True Person Heping questioned Xuan Jing about Kunlun Sect's ties to Xiao Hua and urged him to resist Luoxing Heaven's message.
• Xuan Jing admitted he had invited Xiao Hua to Kunlun Mountain to trade access to the secret realm for cultivation techniques, and Feyan Immortal said Xiao Hua's Dao exposition had loosened her bottleneck.
• Xiao Hua arrived with Feng Wu, Huang Tong, and the others, invited Xuan Jing to lead the way to Kunlun Mountain, and brought True Person Heping and Feyan Immortal along with Xuan Jing's consent.
• At Kunlun Mountain, Fu Yuezi and True Person Xinghui discussed an undisclosed matter as returning disciples asked Yao Xu about the commotion and learned they had missed the events at Xuntian City.

True Person Xuanqing welcomed Xiao Hua to Kunlun Sect and revealed that the sect’s recruitment had expanded greatly. After learning Xuanqing had sacrificed lifespan to receive Gu Yunzi, Xiao Hua gave everyone in the hall an Immortal Peach, including Xuanqing.

• True Person Xuanqing arrived at the hall and asked Fu Yuezi about Xuan Jing and the Kunlun Sect’s disciple recruitment.
• Fu Yuezi reported that recruitment had far exceeded expectations and that Kunlun Sect disciples were searching Xi Kingdom and Lian Kingdom for suitable children.
• Gu Yunzi offered his remaining Immortal Peach to True Person Xuanqing, who refused it and wanted to save it for Xuan Jing.
• Xiao Hua arrived at Kunlun Mountain with his companions, and True Person Xuanqing and the Kunlun Sect disciples welcomed them.
• Xuan Jing learned that Xuanqing had refused the Immortal Peach for his sake and knelt to urge him to accept it.
• Xiao Hua gave an Immortal Peach to everyone present, including True Person Xuanqing, and reminded Gu Yunzi that he had already eaten two.

Xiao Hua sought information about the Innate Grand Array and permission to enter the Kunlun Secret Realm, while the Kunlun Sect and other sects agreed to search their records. A sudden heavenly phenomenon interrupted their meeting as Thunderclap True Person began the final refinement of the Five Elements As-You-Wish Heaven-Piercing Staff.

• Ying Kui and Xuan Jing accepted Immortal Peaches from Xiao Hua but chose to save them for later.
• Xiao Hua asked the Kunlun Sect to search for information about the Innate Grand Array and let him enter the Kunlun Secret Realm to investigate the Kunlun Mirror.
• Xuan Jing ordered Fu Yuezi to search the sect's records, then shared jade slips from Xiao Hua with Feyan Immortal and True Person Heping in exchange for their help.
• Xiao Hua suddenly flew out of Kunlun Palace with the Kunlun Mirror, and a violent pressure destroyed the palace's restrictions and began collapsing the hall.
• Xiao Hua flew tens of thousands of miles away, released Thunderclap True Person, and watched five masses of primordial magnetism trigger a vast heavenly phenomenon.
• Thunderclap True Person explained that he was completing the staff's refinement outside Xiao Hua's space so it would become a complete artifact under the Xiaoyu Continent's laws.

Xiao Hua and his allies stabilized the five Yuan Ci sources and refined them into the Five Elements As-You-Wish Heaven-Piercing Staff. After the weapon took shape and Xiao Hua claimed it, Ying Kui warned him that it was a great ferocious object.

• Xiao Hua and Thunderclap True Person began stabilizing the chaotic Yuan Ci while True Person Da, Wu Daoist, and Feng Wu reinforced the other sources, with Tianren, Huang Tong, and Maitreya Buddha World Honored One standing guard.
• After eighty-one days, Xiao Hua and his allies found the five Yuan Ci sources fused and the Five Elements forms ready to descend into their center.
• Xiao Hua and the others cast their final spells as the sky darkened, and Ying Kui recognized that Xiao Hua was refining the Five Elements As-You-Wish Heaven-Piercing Staff.
• Xiao Hua and his allies overcame the Heaven and Earth Laws as the Five Elements forms and surrounding spaces contracted into the unified Yuan Ci, completing the staff.
• Xiao Hua shrank the staff and held it while his companions congratulated him, and Ying Kui warned that the weapon was a powerful but ferocious object.

Xiao Hua apologized to the Kunlun Sect for the damage to Kunlun Mountain and received permission to enter the Kunlun Secret Realm to search for information about the Innate Grand Array. At Kunwu Peak, he recognized the guarding Cang Yuan as Hou Ming and privately asked him to wait.

• Xiao Hua compensated True Person Xuanqing for the ruined protective array by giving him a complete Duotian Star Array and asked to enter the Kunlun Secret Realm.
• True Person Xuanqing explained that the realm could be entered once every thousand years, and agreed to let Xiao Hua use the sect's token.
• A Cang Yuan blocked Xiao Hua and the others twice as they approached the secret realm, ignoring Xuan Jing's token the second time.
• Xuan Jing imprisoned the Cang Yuan, but it broke free amid crimson flames and charged at him until Hou Qing arrived and ordered it to stop.
• Xiao Hua recognized the Cang Yuan as Hou Ming, helped him and Hou Qing up after they bowed, and secretly told Hou Ming to wait because he had something to say.

Xiao Hua recognized the Kunlun Secret Realm as a fragment of the Immortal Realm and entered it with Hou Ming the Cang Yuan, avoiding the sect’s token to prevent new cause and effect. As he opened the way into the realm, he reflected on settling his ties in the Four Great Continents before ascension and reconsidered his relationship with Fairy Hongxia.

• Xiao Hua asked to enter the Kunlun Secret Realm with Hou Ming the Cang Yuan, and True Person Xuanqing agreed.
• Xiao Hua entered the fissure, drew Hou Ming the Cang Yuan into his space, and opened a gateway through the realm’s restrictions.
• Xiao Hua avoided using the Kunlun Sect’s token because he wanted to avoid creating another strand of cause and effect with the sect.
• Xiao Hua reflected on how returning the Dragon Transformation Art to the Joyful Sect had settled a hidden cause and effect involving Xunle Zhenren’s Dragon Yu.
• Xiao Hua reconsidered Fairy Hongxia’s decision to end their relationship and began to understand her perspective on how his great strength had changed their bond.

Xiao Hua reflected on his unresolved bonds with Fairy Hongxia and Yuan Tongtian before entering the Kunlun Secret Realm to help Hou Ming the Cang Yuan. Inside, he discovered that its silver willow-like fragments existed in another space and found that Spirit Clan bodies could enter them.

• Xiao Hua recognized that Fairy Hongxia still loved the Xiao Hua of the past, but her feelings and their future depended on her own opportunities.
• Xiao Hua recalled promising Yuan Tongtian the Heaven-Piercing Staff and brought Hou Ming the Cang Yuan into the Kunlun Secret Realm to address their unfinished karma.
• Xiao Hua entered the secret realm, endured its crushing pressure with immortal spiritual qi, and followed a distant silver light through the darkness.
• Xiao Hua found a willow-like apparition of silver strands and realized it belonged to a different space that he could not enter with his own body.
• Xiao Hua sent Spirit Clan bodies into several silver apparitions, causing the willow-like structure to sway as its radiance and thunderous sounds intensified.

Xiao Hua searched the River of Cause and Effect and confirmed that Hou Ming the Cang Yuan was not Yuan Tongtian, though Yuan Tongtian appeared at the river’s end. After settling his plans and helping the Kunlun Sect, Xiao Hua departed for the Supreme Purity Sect.

• Jade Slip Xiao Hua tried to trace Hou Ming the Cang Yuan’s cause and effect inside the Shenhua Continent but found none.
• Xiao Hua’s spirit bodies returned from the Kunlun Secret Realm with the refinement methods for the Kunlun Mirror and Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors, and he secured the methods on jade slips.
• Using the Hand of Cause and Effect and his Heavenly Eye, Xiao Hua saw that Hou Ming the Cang Yuan was not Yuan Tongtian, but spotted Yuan Tongtian at the end of the River of Cause and Effect.
• Xiao Hua gave Hou Ming the Cang Yuan a Rejuvenation Pill, hid the Heaven-Piercing Staff and several storage bags underground, and released the Cang Yuan back at Kunwu Peak.
• Xiao Hua gave Xuan Jing back the unused token and offered Hou Qing an Immortal Peach, then left with Feng Wu and the others for the Supreme Purity Sect.

Hou Qing and Hou Ming began to show the effects of Xiao Hua’s gift as Xiao Hua and Ying Kui traveled through Xiaoyu Continent’s spatial faults to Taiqing Sect. There, Xiao Hua sought the secrets of Heaven, Earth, and Human Peaks, but Taiqing Sect’s records offered no explanation for their origins.

• Hou Qing ate the Immortal Peach and thanked Xuan Jing, while Hou Ming mimicked his movements and struggled to remember what he had encountered with True Person Xiao.
• Xiao Hua and Ying Kui discussed Xiaoyu Continent’s spatial faults, the Immortal Realm, and the lightning tribulation gathering around Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua and his companions reached Taiqing Sect’s Heaven, Earth, and Human Peaks, which Xiao Hua intended to topple as part of breaking the grand array.
• True Person Huanhua begged Xiao Hua’s forgiveness for his involvement with Luoxing Heaven, and Xiao Hua urged him to help protect the people of the Three Great Continents.
• True Person Yuqing explained that Taiqing Sect had moved to the peaks after they were discovered, and that the sect’s records revealed no secrets about them.

Xiao Hua assured True Person Huanhua and True Person Yuqing that Taiqing Sect’s secret would remain undisclosed, then compensated the sect for relocating and made it an ally of Creation Sect. He led his companions to Earth Peak to investigate the formation, and they passed through its restriction into a strange, blood-hazed mountain range.

• Xiao Hua promised to protect Taiqing Sect’s secret about Heaven, Earth, and Human Peaks, and praised the sect’s willingness to relocate for the Three Great Continents.
• Xiao Hua gave True Person Yuqing a valuable storage bag and a token establishing Taiqing Sect as an ally of Creation Sect.
• True Person Huanhua led Xiao Hua and his companions to Taiqing Sect, where they accepted the disciples’ ceremonial welcome before setting out for Earth Peak.
• Xiao Hua and his companions detected the Demon Domain formation’s aura and encountered a realm-like confinement above Earth Peak.
• Xiao Hua, Feng Wu, True Person Da, Ying Kui, and Heavenly Man used their powers to enter the restriction and appeared in a barren mountain range beneath a full moon.