Chapter Summaries

Lin Shisan broke through to Yellow Dragon fifth stage, triggering a rare manifestation of five dragons that merged into one above Cold Moon Peak. The display astonished the Danyang Sect and Xiao Household, and Xiao Cheng'en said it had not appeared on the Tianyuan Continent for at least three thousand years.

• Lin Shisan used a month of support from Feng Xian'er, Bai Youyou, Zi Yuner, and Bai Ziyin to strengthen his cultivation.
• Lin Shisan shattered the barrier between the fourth and fifth stages and advanced to Yellow Dragon fifth stage.
• Five golden dragon phantoms emerged above Cold Moon Peak and merged into one enormous dragon.
• Disciples across the Danyang Sect watched the manifestation and recognized it as one associated with peak ninth Yellow Dragon.
• Bai Ziyin and Xiao Cheng'en saw the manifestation, and Xiao Cheng'en said it had not appeared on the Tianyuan Continent for at least three thousand years.

Elder Qingming investigated Lin Shisan's connection to the Purple Sky Dragon Palace but found no evidence after Lin Shisan concealed Zi Yuner's Dragon Clan aura. Lin Shisan then received the Danyang Sect's Saint Child Seal and welcomed congratulations from visiting sects and old acquaintances.

• Elder Qingming arrived at the Danyang Sect and used an ancient bronze mirror to investigate Zi Yuner while questioning Lin Shisan about being the Purple Sky Dragon Palace's Dragon Lord.
• Lin Shisan denied being the Dragon Lord and used the Little Black Cauldron to conceal Zi Yuner's bloodline, leaving Elder Qingming unable to confirm his suspicions.
• Bai Ziyin invited Elder Qingming to stay for the Saint Child investiture ceremony after Feng Xian'er challenged his treatment of Zi Yuner.
• Lin Shisan received the Saint Child Seal from Bai Ziyin, and the nine Coiling Dragon Pillars bestowed the sect's highest ceremonial honor on him.
• Ye Xingchen and representatives of the visiting sects congratulated Lin Shisan, while Ouyang Tie presented him with a Five-Hundred-Year Iron Thread Lingzhi.
• Bai Youyou exchanged a brief greeting with the veiled woman from Netherworld Hall before the woman leading Tai Chi Hall greeted Lin Shisan.

At a banquet celebrating Lin Shisan’s rise as a Saint Child, Liu Wuhen challenged him to test his Taotie Fist. Lin Shisan defeated Liu Wuhen with one punch and was hailed as the strongest below the Yellow Dragon Ninth Layer.

• Ye Xingchen teased Lin Shisan about Su Wan'er still having feelings for him and asked about his past with Gu Mengli.
• Liu Wuhen challenged Lin Shisan, drawing attention to his record in the Eastern Wasteland beast tide and his powerful Mountain-Splitting Palm.
• Lin Shisan met Liu Wuhen bare-handed as Liu Wuhen attacked with his Tiger-Roaring Mountain-Splitting Palm.
• Lin Shisan used Taotie Fist’s Devour Heaven and Earth to swallow Liu Wuhen’s spiritual power and strike him back ninety feet.
• Liu Wuhen conceded, and Ye Xingchen proclaimed Lin Shisan the strongest below the Yellow Dragon Ninth Layer.

Bai Youyou left Cold Moon Peak to return to the Netherworld Palace, where she planned to relinquish her position as Saintess and investigate her connection to Lin Shisan’s mysterious teacher. Lin Shisan then met Gu Mengli at Little Mirror Lake, where she apologized for exploiting him and offered her help, leaving him to wonder whether she had learned something or Gai Jiuyou had awakened within her.

• Bai Youyou told Lin Shisan that her master's old injuries had flared up and that she would return to the Netherworld Palace to relinquish her Saintess position.
• Bai Youyou said she wanted to investigate the connection between Lin Shisan’s teacher and the Netherworld Palace, then departed by Cloud Boat as Lin Shisan promised to wait for her.
• A Danyang Sect disciple summoned Lin Shisan to Little Mirror Lake at Gu Mengli’s request.
• Gu Mengli apologized for using Lin Shisan to secure her position in the Gu Household and for coercing him over the Nine Nether Flower matter.
• Gu Mengli told Lin Shisan that her branch was secure and offered to help him if he ever needed her.
• After Gu Mengli left, Lin Shisan wondered whether she had learned something or Gai Jiuyou had awakened within her.

Lin Shisan brought Zi Yuner to Seven-Day Immortal, where the familiar wine stirred memories of Pang Yue and Long Yan'er and the two enjoyed a peaceful meal. A Servant Disciple led Lin Shisan away from the tavern, where he found Hu Niu waiting for him.

• Lin Shisan took Zi Yuner by Cloud Boat to Seven-Day Immortal at the foot of the Azure Cloud Mountains.
• Lin Shisan recognized Pang Yue's old wine recipe and recalled Pang Yue and Long Yan'er as he drank.
• Zi Yuner enjoyed the wine and food, and Lin Shisan ordered more for her.
• A gray-clad Servant Disciple signaled Lin Shisan to follow him away from the tavern.
• Lin Shisan found Hu Niu beneath a locust tree, and the two silently looked at each other.

Lin Shisan reunited with Hu Niu, his first wife, but refused her request for an embrace because he was already married to Zi Yuner and Bai Youyou. Their argument drew in a drunken Zi Yuner, Pang Yue, and finally Mu Ling'er, who teased Lin Shisan about his tangled romantic history.

• Hu Niu confronted Lin Shisan about their marriage in Tianshui Village and the five years he had left her without contact, then asked him to hold her.
• Lin Shisan stepped aside, saying an embrace would be unfair to Hu Niu and his two wives, and Hu Niu accused him of rejecting and abandoning her.
• Zi Yuner arrived drunk, recognized Hu Niu, and argued with her over whether Lin Shisan had abandoned his first wife.
• Zi Yuner's Sky Soaring Realm aura and Hu Niu's cold resilience made the onlookers retreat as the two women faced off.
• Pang Yue emerged and tried to calm Hu Niu and Zi Yuner, explaining that he was Hu Niu's guardian and Lin Shisan's old martial nephew.
• Mu Ling'er appeared at the tea stall and teased Lin Shisan about the gathering of his old sweetheart, new wife, and guardian.

Mu Ling'er lured Lin Shisan to Aunt Mei, who explained that Gai Jiuyou's seal was weakening and asked him to carry the Demon Venerable's dao seed into the Nine Yang Cauldron. Lin Shisan took the seed but remained unsure whether to help Gai Jiuyou escape sooner or risk a more devastating breakout later.

• Mu Ling'er admitted she had arranged for Hu Niu to be brought out so Lin Shisan would meet her, then told him Aunt Mei was waiting at the summit.
• Aunt Mei revealed that Mu Ling'er had taken the dao seed from Lin Shisan in the Heavenly Revelation Secret Realm to protect him and the seed from the Immortal Alliance's inspection.
• Aunt Mei asked Lin Shisan to deliver the dao seed into the Nine Yang Cauldron so Gai Jiuyou's true body could absorb it and have her soul repaired.
• Aunt Mei warned that the weakening seal would fail within three to five years and that Gai Jiuyou might slaughter the Danyang Sect if she escaped without the dao seed.
• Aunt Mei left the choice to Lin Shisan and reminded him that Nine Nether Mountain considered him a pawn, while promising Hu Niu would be cared for.
• Lin Shisan put the dao seed into his Storage Ring and watched Aunt Mei disappear, still uncertain of her motives.

Lin Shisan found Zi Yuner mourning a dead fish and learned she had sealed Pang Yue, Mu Ling'er, and Hu Niu in the mud for scheming against him. After hearing the fish’s tragic story of love and separation, Zi Yuner agreed to return with Lin Shisan and bury the three troublemakers together.

• Lin Shisan searched the mountain and found Zi Yuner crouched beside a creek, watching a dead silver-scaled fish.
• Zi Yuner told Lin Shisan she had sealed Pang Yue, Mu Ling'er, and Hu Niu beneath the Lotus Pond for seven days as punishment for scheming against him.
• Zi Yuner recounted how the silver-scaled fish’s mate left it for a red-scaled fish, then returned wounded and died after years apart.
• Lin Shisan took Zi Yuner’s hand and told her the fish had chosen to stay together in the end.
• Zi Yuner agreed to go back with Lin Shisan and bury Pang Yue, Mu Ling'er, and Hu Niu together.

Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner traveled to the Netherworld Palace to visit Bai Youyou, but its elders said she was in secluded cultivation and barred them from seeing her. After Zi Yuner led Lin Shisan into a hidden soul-confusing formation, they heard someone crying in the mist and followed the sound.

• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner buried the Silver-Scaled Fish and Red-Scaled Fish, then decided to visit Bai Youyou at the Netherworld Palace.
• Lin Shisan received Feng Xian'er’s permission to leave for up to ten days and flew south with Zi Yuner toward the palace.
• Lin Shisan used Bai Youyou’s Direction Pearl to find the concealed entrance at Thousand-Fathom Cliff.
• An old woman told Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner that Bai Youyou was in secluded cultivation and took them to wait in a side hall.
• At midnight, Zi Yuner sensed a hidden passage and led Lin Shisan into a soul-confusing formation that trapped them in a gray wasteland.
• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner heard someone crying in the mist and walked toward the sound.

Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner discovered that the Old Woman had trapped the Myriad Souls Banner’s artifact spirit and lured them into the Soul-Confusing Formation as sacrifices. They broke the formation and freed the spirit, whose banner’s ten thousand souls bowed to Lin Shisan.

• Lin Shisan recognized the chained Bai Youyou as a projection of the Myriad Souls Banner’s artifact spirit, and the Old Woman explained that she had used Bai Youyou’s aura to awaken it.
• The Old Woman revealed she had drugged Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner with Spirit-Guiding Powder so the banner could drain their spiritual power, and Zi Yuner attacked her but was blocked by the formation.
• Lin Shisan identified a weak point in the Soul-Confusing Formation, and Zi Yuner struck it with Hidden Dragon Emerges from the Sea, causing the formation to collapse.
• Lin Shisan used Chaos Space to break the artifact spirit’s chains and caught her as she fell, while the Old Woman was thrown into the rubble.
• The artifact spirit gathered the souls into the Myriad Souls Banner, and the ten thousand souls turned toward Lin Shisan and bowed.

Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner discovered that Nan Ji had seized the Netherworld Palace and was draining Bai Youyou’s soul to master the Myriad Souls Banner. They rescued Bai Youyou from the underground palace, where Lin Shisan destroyed the stone platform and faced Nan Ji and the Black-Robed Man.

• Lin Shisan realized the dead souls bowed to Gai Jiuyou within him, and he forced the old woman to explain the Netherworld Palace coup.
• The old woman revealed that Nan Ji had imprisoned Bai Youyou beneath the southern peak and was extracting her memories and cultivation to refine the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner followed the old woman to the underground palace and found Nan Ji draining Bai Youyou’s soul beside the Black-Robed Man.
• Zi Yuner struck down Nan Ji’s defense and blasted the Black-Robed Man away before breaking Bai Youyou’s chains and catching her.
• Lin Shisan smashed the black stone platform with the Little Black Cauldron, shattering its runes as Nan Ji and the Black-Robed Man faced him.

Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner rescued Bai Youyou, and Lin Shisan recovered the memories Nan Ji had stolen from her. Nan Ji died after confessing her jealousy, but her final message revealed that Bai Youyou’s master was imprisoned and had only two days left to live.

• Lin Shisan killed fifteen White-Robed Disciples with the Myriad Souls Banner, while Zi Yuner destroyed the fleeing Black-Robed Man.
• Lin Shisan extracted the memories Nan Ji had stolen from Bai Youyou, and Zi Yuner returned them to Bai Youyou.
• Bai Youyou confronted Nan Ji, who admitted she had acted out of jealousy over Bai Youyou’s talent and position as Saintess.
• Bai Youyou told Nan Ji she had planned to give up the Saintess position, but Nan Ji destroyed herself before Lin Shisan could stop her.
• Nan Ji’s final message revealed that Bai Youyou’s master was imprisoned in a secret chamber and had two days left to live.

Lin Shisan, Bai Youyou, and Zi Yuner rescued Bai Youyou’s former palace master from the underground labyrinth and learned that the three elders were imprisoned beneath the Myriad Souls Hall. They entered the Ice Prison, where a taunting message from Bai Youyou’s martial aunt awaited them.

• The Old Woman led Lin Shisan, Bai Youyou, and Zi Yuner through the underground labyrinth, and Lin Shisan used the Myriad Souls Banner to break its formations.
• Bai Youyou found her former palace master, and Lin Shisan used the Little Black Cauldron to remove the Soul-Locking Nail that was poisoning her.
• The former palace master revealed that the three elders were held in the Ice Prison and explained that the Myriad Souls Banner could absorb the prison’s Cold Baleful Formation.
• Lin Shisan followed the underground river with Bai Youyou and Zi Yuner, broke the runes sealing the Ice Prison, and entered through the fissure.
• The group found a message carved into the Ice Prison wall asking Bai Youyou whether she was pleased with her martial aunt’s gift.

Lin Shisan and the others rescued the three elders from the trapped Ice Prison as Nan Ji's master destroyed the Netherworld Palace with its Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation. A projection of the Old Purple Sky Dragon King protected the Ancestral Hall, but after it vanished, Zi Yuner rushed inside and attacked the empty hall.

• Lin Shisan, Zi Yuner, and Bai Youyou freed the three elders while Lin Shisan and his Myriad Souls Banner suppressed the Ice Prison's defenses.
• Nan Ji's master detonated the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation, setting the Netherworld Palace ablaze and causing its halls to collapse.
• The former palace master told Bai Youyou that Nan Ji's master had launched the destruction out of hatred over their master's inheritance of A Thought, Flowers Bloom.
• As fire threatened the Ancestral Hall, the Old Purple Sky Dragon King's projection used Nine Nether Flower Bloom to extinguish it and shield the hall.
• Zi Yuner recognized the figure as he looked at her, but he faded away before she could reach him, leaving a single green petal in her hand.
• Finding only the ancestral patriarch's statue inside, Zi Yuner cried out and struck the Ancestral Hall as the others begged her to stop.

Zi Yuner grieved after learning that the Nine Nether Flower Bloom was the last spiritual power the Purple Sky Dragon King had left behind, while Bai Youyou accepted leadership of the devastated Netherworld Palace. The old palace master died after entrusting the sect to Bai Youyou, who was formally recognized as its new palace master.

• Zi Yuner unleashed her fury on the ancestral hall, but Lin Shisan stopped her and caught her as she collapsed into tears.
• The old palace master explained that the green light was a seed planted by the Purple Sky Dragon King five hundred years earlier, and that its Nine Nether Flower Bloom had used up its final spiritual power.
• The old palace master asked Bai Youyou to serve as acting palace master until the Netherworld Palace recovered, and Bai Youyou agreed.
• The old palace master collapsed and died after entrusting the Netherworld Palace to Bai Youyou.
• The granduncle-master rallied the disciples, elders, deacons, and guardians to acknowledge Bai Youyou as palace master, and Bai Youyou told them to rise.

After the Netherworld Palace’s destruction, Lin Shisan comforted Zi Yuner as she mourned her father, then shared a night of wine with her and Bai Youyou. The next morning, Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner departed by Cloud Boat, leaving Bai Youyou behind to tend the mourning shelter.

• Lin Shisan reassured Zi Yuner that her father’s petal had been a final act of protection, and Zi Yuner finally cried against his shoulder.
• Bai Youyou thanked Zi Yuner for the Nine Nether Flower Bloom that had protected the Netherworld Palace’s survivors, and they agreed to drink together.
• Bai Youyou and Zi Yuner drew close to Lin Shisan over wine, and the three spent the night together in the side hall.
• The next morning, Bai Youyou tidied the mourning shelter and promised Lin Shisan she would wait for him, while she promised Zi Yuner better wine when they met again.
• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner left aboard the Cloud Boat, and Zi Yuner tucked her withered petal away as they flew from the ruined Netherworld Palace.

Lin Shisan returned to the Danyang Sect and met Elder Qingming, who inspected the weakening seal on the Nine Yang Cauldron. Lin Shisan decided to enter secluded cultivation in the Nine Yang Pavilion for three days, though he would not tell Feng Xian'er what he suspected until he had confirmed it.

• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner returned to Cold Moon Peak after Feng Xian'er summoned them over the Immortal Alliance's arrival.
• Feng Xian'er told Lin Shisan that Elder Qingming had come to inspect the Nine Yang Cauldron's seal and meet the Saint Child.
• Elder Qingming used the Demon-Sealing Mirror to examine the Nine Yang Cauldron and found its killing intent faint and its golden runes moving more slowly.
• Lin Shisan explained that the seal had naturally weakened because the Danyang Sect's reinforcements could not keep pace with its wear, and Qingming said he would report his findings to the Immortal Alliance Council of Elders.
• After Qingming left, Lin Shisan told Feng Xian'er he wanted to cultivate in seclusion in the Nine Yang Pavilion for three days, while keeping his suspicions to himself until he had confirmed them.

Lin Shisan entered the Nine Yang Pavilion and returned Gai Jiuyou's Dao seed to the Nine Yang Cauldron, helping her regain strength despite the risks to the Danyang Sect. Before her projection faded, Gai Jiuyou hinted that someone Lin Shisan knew had been involved in the seal against her, promising to explain next time.

• Feng Xian'er warned Lin Shisan to remember that life was the foundation of everything before he entered the Nine Yang Pavilion.
• Lin Shisan met Gai Jiuyou's remnant soul and learned that Mei Erni had used some of the Dao seed's origin power to repair her own Dao foundation.
• Lin Shisan asked whether Gai Jiuyou would become an enemy of the Danyang Sect, then placed the Dao seed in the Nine Yang Cauldron.
• The Nine Yang Cauldron's runes went dark and a crack spread as Gai Jiuyou's projection became solid enough to last for a quarter of an hour.
• Gai Jiuyou told Lin Shisan that someone he might know had been behind the old seal, but she faded before naming them.
• Lin Shisan left the pavilion and followed Feng Xian'er back toward Cold Moon Peak for Yan'er's soup.

Lin Shisan met with Gu Canghai, who warned him that a secret report accused someone in the Danyang Sect of plotting to break the Nine Yang Cauldron's seal and offered the Gu Household's protection. Gu Mengli later gave Lin Shisan clues about a hidden back door in the seal, leaving him with new information as the Immortal Alliance's inspection approached.

• Feng Xian'er told Lin Shisan that the Immortal Alliance would send Qingming to reinforce the Nine Yang Cauldron's seal in half a month and that Gu Canghai had invited him to the Gu Household's medicinal herb garden.
• Gu Canghai told Lin Shisan that a secret report accused someone in the Danyang Sect of planning to release Demon Venerable Gai Jiuyou and asked whether Lin Shisan had dealings with Nine Nether Mountain.
• Lin Shisan admitted meeting Nine Nether Mountain members but said the encounters were forced, and he questioned the report's convenient timing; Gu Canghai accepted his point and gave him a Jade Talisman promising the Gu Household's aid.
• Gu Mengli gave Lin Shisan old records revealing that Patriarch Tianjizi had left a back door in the Nine Yang Cauldron's seal, though its location and opening method were unclear.
• Zi Yuner told Lin Shisan that Gu Mengli cared about him and said she would accept that as long as Gu Mengli treated him well.

Lin Shisan learned how the hidden door in the Nine Yang Cauldron’s seal could be opened, then helped the Formation Hall temporarily reinforce the failing seal. The immediate danger passed, but he calculated that the reinforcement would last only three days, leaving the seal more vulnerable afterward.

• Lin Shisan read Gu Mengli’s scroll and learned that opening the seal’s hidden door required the Nine Yang Wheel-Transferring Cultivation Manual, Tianjizi’s bloodline aura, and Gai Jiuyou’s Origin Power from the Demon Seed.
• Feng Xian'er brought Lin Shisan to meet Bai Ziyin, who told them that Duan Qingcheng and the Formation Hall had arrived to reinforce the seal.
• Duan Qingcheng detected a gap in the seal and began the Seven-Star Reinforcement Formation, but the cauldron resisted and its crack widened.
• After Duan Qingcheng explained that the Nine Yang Wheel-Transferring Cultivation Manual could temporarily close the crack, Lin Shisan took Feng Xian'er's place and infused the seal with spiritual power.
• The Hornless Dragon True Spirit absorbed the cauldron’s killing intent and replenished Lin Shisan’s spiritual power, allowing him to close the crack despite burning his palm.
• Lin Shisan concluded that the reinforcement would hold for three days before the dark red power surged again and the weakened seal became easier to breach.