Chapter Summaries

Cheng Xinzhan gathered cultivators in the Changes Garden to announce his plans to establish the Earth-Listening Sect and reveal the Ginseng Fruit Tree. The gathering ended with the tree’s flower bud releasing a fragrance that strengthened the cultivators and loosened some of their cultivation bottlenecks.

• Zhou Qingyun and Xiao Shiniang exchanged a brief glance before joining the guests in greeting one another.
• Cheng Xinzhan arrived with Bailingzi and Mi Shanglian, introduced them, and led the assembled guests to a secluded valley where no tree was visible.
• Cheng Xinzhan explained the colored seats, then announced that he had completed the Earth-Listening Scripture and planned to establish the Earth-Listening Sect in Western Kunlun two months later.
• Cheng Xinzhan said that a Ginseng Fruit Tree grown from a fruit core had formed its first flower bud and invited the guests to admire it.
• Cheng Xinzhan revealed the immense tree behind him, and its fragrant bud sharpened the guests’ minds, stirred their vital essence, and eased some cultivation bottlenecks.

True Lord Evolving Transformation expounded the Land’s Nine Virtues and his Dao of Listening to the Land, while the Immortal Tree blossomed and several miraculous transformations unfolded around him. The chapter ended with the gathered adepts listening as he asked whether they agreed with his teaching.

• True Lord Evolving Transformation explained that the Immortal Tree had moved into the valley through Innate Earth Escape, then gave the assembled adepts four hours to observe it.
• True Lord Evolving Transformation expounded the Land’s Nine Virtues, causing lotuses to fill the valley and Three Pure Ones Mountain’s three ridges to transform into dragons.
• The Immortal Tree blossomed into three flowers, and Shi Yiniang’s Golden Core reached perfect harmony, prompting Wen Sukong to escort her out to face her Elixir Tribulation.
• White Dragon Sandbar transformed into an Earthly Immortal True Dragon and flew to Three Pure Ones Mountain, where the dragon girl thanked True Lord Evolving Transformation and joined the gathering.
• True Lord Evolving Transformation explained his Dao of Listening to the Land and asked the assembled adepts whether they agreed.

After his Earth-Listening Scripture spread across the Divine Land, True Lord Cheng left Three Pure Ones Mountain with his new disciple, True Person Houshui, to settle an injustice at Dragon-Tiger Mountain. He revealed that the sect had secretly imprinted the souls of other sects’ Sons of the Dao with the Celestial Master Seal, then flew toward the mountain as Pei Shoujing pursued him for answers.

• Three Pure Ones Mountain distributed hundreds of millions of copies of True Lord Cheng’s Earth-Listening Scripture, and the teachings sparked calls for him to accept the title of Imperial Lord and establish his sect.
• True Lord Cheng rode out from Three Pure Ones Mountain with the Dragon Girl, whom he had named Po Houshui and accepted as his first-generation direct disciple.
• Petitioners gathered around True Lord Cheng, and Pei Shoujing urged him to accept elevation to Imperial Lord.
• True Lord Cheng told Pei Shoujing that an unresolved injustice kept him from accepting the title and that he was going to Dragon-Tiger Mountain to address it.
• True Lord Cheng revealed that generations of Dragon-Tiger Mountain leaders had used Seal-Observation to imprint the Celestial Master Seal on the souls of other sects’ Sons of the Dao and steal their secrets.
• True Lord Cheng flew toward Dragon-Tiger Mountain, while Pei Shoujing followed and demanded details about the revelation.

True Lord Evolving Transformation reached Dragon-Tiger Mountain and faced its fully revealed protective array. As Houshui learned to refine her power by accepting the array’s spring qi, the True Lord continued toward the mountain while onlookers questioned Dragon-Tiger Mountain’s alleged crimes.

• The True Lord ordered his lion to approach Dragon-Tiger Mountain, and the Dragon Girl subdued the mountain’s first purple-radiance attack.
• Dragon-Tiger Mountain activated the Three Luminaries, Five Qi, and Twenty-Four Metropolitan Merits Black Altar Grand Array, surrounding the mountain with layered spiritual barriers.
• The True Lord sent Houshui to break the array, but its Beginning-of-Spring Thawing Qi dissolved her magic and began melting her Immortal Essence.
• The True Lord explained the spring qi’s nature and taught Houshui to guide it through her body to refine and strengthen her magical power.
• Houshui regained control and advanced through the qi, while the True Lord helped the struggling lion continue forward.
• Onlookers speculated that the Ancestral Celestial Master had revealed the array to the True Lord in a dream and urged others to question their ancestral courts; the True Lord knew he had deciphered it through years of study.

The Dragon Girl endured the first eleven seasonal qi restrictions at Dragon-Tiger Mountain before the Daoist took over and unraveled the remaining thirteen with ease. He entered the mountain unharmed, while Zhang Duxian and the other leaders realized the ancestral defenses had admitted him by design and feared what came next.

• The Dragon Girl adapted to the first two spring qi restrictions, then endured the awakening-of-insects lightning and received the Daoist’s explanations of the following qi.
• The Dragon Girl faltered at the twelfth restriction, major-heat humid-steaming qi, and the Daoist caught her, explained its difficulty, and told her to watch as he continued.
• The Daoist passed through the remaining autumn and winter qi restrictions in fewer than ten breaths, then entered Dragon-Tiger Mountain through Cinnabar Cliff.
• Zhang Duxian panicked when the inscriptions on Cinnabar Cliff failed to attack, and he demanded answers from Zhang Fawei, Zhang Zhengtong, and Zhang Yuanji.
• Zhang Yuanji explained that the Ancestral Celestial Master’s restrictions allowed anyone who safely endured all twenty-four qi to enter, and Zhang Duxian turned his hopes to the final three luminaries and five rosy clouds.

Cheng Xinzhan entered Dragon-Tiger Mountain and overcame the Five Elements rosy light with his own Immortal Realm powers and techniques. As he approached the Celestial Master Residence, the three treasures of the Ancestral Celestial Master revealed themselves, leaving Cheng Xinzhan uncertain what the treasure register would do.

• Cheng Xinzhan rode into Dragon-Tiger Mountain, sending mortals and minor cultivators fleeing in fear.
• Cheng Xinzhan countered the five-colored rosy light’s shifting Five Elements with a lotus pedestal and his own elemental powers, then used Shrinking the Earth to an Inch and Innate Earth Escape to resist its transposition force.
• Cheng Xinzhan rode steadily across the yellow rosy light toward the Celestial Master Residence while Houshui studied his method and received his promise to teach her the techniques.
• The Yangping Zhidu Merit Seal, the Three-Five Evil-Rending Male Sword, and the Supreme Three-Five Orthodox Unity Covenant Authority Treasure Register revealed their true forms before the residence.
• Cheng Xinzhan recognized the treasure register as the ancestor of Zhengyi registers but remained unsure how it would affect him.

True Lord Cheng fought the Ancestral Celestial Master's manifested treasure register and the other defenses of Dragon-Tiger Mountain, overcoming the Three Luminaries, Five Qi, Twenty-Four Dugoong Black Altar Grand Array. After gaining control of the Celestial Master treasures and True Lord Xujing's Immortal Ding, he entered the Celestial Master Residence and challenged the Zhang Family sinners.

• The Alliance Authority Treasure Register manifested the Ancestral Celestial Master's divine form, and True Lord Evolving Transformation respectfully dismounted before it.
• The female sword told True Lord Cheng that the male sword was being suppressed by the grand array, the Celestial Master Seal, and the treasure register as they began their battle.
• True Lord Cheng and the Register Celestial Master fought through hundreds of exchanges with weapons, Daoist Arts, and Divine Abilities.
• Zhang Yuanji launched True Lord Xujing's Purple Tranquility Unified One Ding at True Lord Cheng, who captured it along with the summoned heavenly soldiers in his sleeve.
• True Lord Cheng repeatedly used Returning Heaven and Reversing the Sun until the Register Celestial Master reverted to the treasure register, then took it and trapped the Celestial Master Seal with the two swords.
• True Lord Cheng broke through the grand array, entered the Celestial Master Residence, and demanded that the Zhang Family sinners stop fighting.

True Lord Cheng exposed the Zhang Family’s crimes, punished its leaders, and established the Orthodox Unity Residence to govern Dragon-Tiger Mountain apart from the Celestial Master Residence. He left the mountain’s future to a contest between the two residences every three hundred years.

• Zhang Fawei admitted that the Celestial Master Residence had used the Celestial Master Seal to imprint the souls of visiting sect disciples and had made Purple Essence Seed-Jade Pills from the dead’s souls.
• True Lord Cheng questioned the Zhang Family about whether Demonic Beasts had extracted souls from living people, and Zhang Fawei refused to answer, implicating Celestial Master Zhang Yuanji.
• True Lord Cheng sentenced Zhang Yuanji, six senior Zhang Family members, and Zhang Yuanqi to execution, while the Three-Five Evil-Slaying Male and Female Swords and Purple Tranquility Unified One Ding attacked them.
• True Lord Cheng spared eight other Zhang Family cultivators from execution but confined them for life in the Zhang Ancestral Shrine, and confined all Zhang Family disciples inside the Celestial Master Residence for three hundred years.
• True Lord Cheng founded the Orthodox Unity Residence on Cloud Brocade Peak, ended Zhang Family privileges in religious affairs, and decreed a public contest between the two residences every three hundred years to decide who would rule Dragon-Tiger Mountain.

At Western Kunlun, Cheng Xinzhan founded the Earth-Listening Sect amid a vast gathering of cultivators, while Old Hou and his young disciple witnessed the ceremony from the crowd. Three Pure Ones Mountain honored Cheng Xinzhan as its Dharma Patriarch of Restoration, and the people petitioned him to accept the title of Emperor Lord; he accepted their patchwork robe and celebrated the New Year with a poem praising the people.

• Cultivators from across the Divine Land gathered at Western Kunlun for Cheng Xinzhan’s sect-founding ceremony, and Old Hou arrived with his young disciple.
• Cheng Xinzhan proclaimed the founding of the Earth-Listening Sect and invited all who wished to follow the land’s Dao to join it.
• Several schools announced themselves as branch sects, and Dong Shouren declared that Three Pure Ones Mountain honored Cheng Xinzhan as its Dharma Patriarch of Restoration.
• Daoist Pei led a procession presenting Cheng Xinzhan with a patchwork robe and canopies, petitioning him to accept the title Emperor Lord of Wondrous Dao and Universal Deliverance, Whose Longevity Matches the World.
• Cheng Xinzhan accepted and donned the robe as the crowd cheered, then recited a New Year’s poem praising the people as Shun and Yao.
• Old Hou told his disciple that they, too, had become Shun and Yao.

Nine months after the Demon Calamity, Patriarch Ji ascended, and the Divine Land flourished for centuries under Cheng Xinzhan’s influence. In Ming year 855, a heavenly seed brought news from Sa Shoujian, and ten years later Cheng Xinzhan met a Fifth Realm visitor from Eastern Jambudvipa, beyond the overseas lands he knew.

• Patriarch Ji ascended through the Heavenly Gate after sharing Tianyi Void-White Gang with Three Pure Ones Mountain and Xinzhan.
• Over the following centuries, cultivators across the Divine Land ascended or advanced, while Cheng Xinzhan guided the region’s growth and founded the Earth-Listening Sect.
• Cheng Xinzhan pursued the secret of Golden Immortality through the Dao of Listening to the Land, then witnessed a meteor carrying a spiritual-root seed fall into the Barbarian Wasteland.
• Sa Shoujian sent Cheng Xinzhan a message explaining that the seed could help transform the wasteland and that heaven and earth were beginning to reconnect.
• Ten years later, Cheng Xinzhan met a Fifth Realm man arriving by boat at Jingwei Mountain, and the visitor revealed that he came from Eastern Jambudvipa.

The author reflected on Earthly Immortal’s success, writing process, shortcomings, themes, and reader support. The author planned irregular side stories and a larger, mythology-focused xianxia novel, likely to be released in December after a three- or four-month pause.

• The author thanked readers for helping Earthly Immortal reach seventeen thousand average subscriptions and three hundred and seventy thousand reading lists.
• The author described writing without a backlog or detailed outline, the resulting health and pacing problems, and plans to change this approach in the next book.
• The author explained the protagonist’s rapid cultivation and the early appearance of major antagonists as intentional consequences of the story’s design, while acknowledging pacing and suspense could have been better.
• The author identified Chairman Mao’s heroic spirit, Daoist culture, and China’s geography as core themes, then thanked readers, family, and editors.
• The author planned irregular full-subscription side stories and a longer, traditional-mythology-focused xianxia novel, likely for December, while preparing for the author’s wife to give birth in October.