Chapter Summaries

Su Changsheng tricked the Illusion King out of his Five Qi Pills, then used them to cultivate while the Caravan traveled. After exhausting all three bottles, he completed the tempering of his kidneys and reached the threshold of the Ninth Level.

• Su Changsheng warned the Illusion King not to take the Forget Emotions Pills, then convinced him to hand over three bottles of Five Qi Pills for appraisal.
• Su Changsheng confirmed the Five Qi Pills were safe, learned how to take them in the proper order, and used the first bottle to rapidly condense his five qi.
• Over four days of cultivation, Su Changsheng purged the impurities from his five internal organs and discovered that the pills greatly amplified the energy from his Fourth Shedding.
• Su Changsheng used the remaining pills to strengthen his kidneys, Yao Body, and Spinal Snake Bone while the Caravan continued toward the Immortal City.
• Su Changsheng's kidneys reached 10000/10000, broke through their shackles, and completed the first of the five qi as he advanced to half a step into the Ninth Level.

Su Changsheng transformed all five organs into their innate state and began remaking his Yao Body with innate spirit liquid, azure flame, and yao nature. After enduring the painful process and observing its changes, he reached the final stage of advancement, with Yao Nature Return to Origin next.

• Su Changsheng’s kidney essence storage transformed, producing innate blood essence and bringing him close to the ninth level.
• While the Caravan traveled, Su Changsheng cultivated until his heart, liver, spleen, and lungs also transformed, completing the innate cycle of the five organs.
• The five organs produced innate spirit liquid, which began remaking Su Changsheng’s body, but his tough scales and Rock Armor resisted the transformation.
• Su Changsheng added his yao nature to the azure flame and innate spirit liquid, endured the painful remaking, and studied the changes in his scales, bloodline, and runes.
• As the transformation neared completion, Su Changsheng saw new runic scales appear and his bloodline fall dormant, then recognized that Yao Nature Return to Origin was imminent.

Su Changsheng uncovered fragments of his Azure Snake bloodline inheritance and studied basic divination while the Caravan approached Zhuyin Academy. The Heavenly River Red Water appeared, but a Kun suddenly swallowed the Caravan and its thousands of yao, leaving Su Changsheng in mortal danger.

• Su Changsheng learned that his Azure Snake bloodline traced back to an ancient Green Snake who met a mysterious human during the first Heaven's Rift, and he discovered the inherited Azure Eight Trigrams art.
• Su Changsheng studied basic divination methods and read signs of danger surrounding the Caravan, while his own reading promised great fortune to the southwest.
• The Heavenly River Red Water appeared, carrying the Caravan through the air toward a city that Su Changsheng recognized as likely Zhuyin Academy.
• A gigantic Kun appeared beside the Caravan, and Great Yao Bai Ling abandoned it to flee toward the city.
• The Kun's suction pulled the Caravan, its passengers, and its supplies into its shadow, leaving Su Changsheng with no time to react.

Su Changsheng survived the Kun’s devouring by detonating the runes and power in his tail to blast himself onto a floating island, where he slowly recovered from his catastrophic injuries. Stranded inside the Kun, he reflected on his former pursuits and resolved to leave behind distractions and follow the Way of Longevity.

• Su Changsheng used an explosion in his tail to change course and crash onto a floating island, surviving the fall with severe injuries.
• Su Changsheng treated his wounds with seventeen Healing Runes and spent three days recovering in the crater.
• Su Changsheng surveyed the island and found that its astral winds and bloody rain were much weaker than those outside, while the surrounding void held only a few other islands and no visible animals.
• On his seventh day, Su Changsheng saw the Heavenly River Water vapor and falling lights disappear, and realized the Kun had stopped feeding.
• Su Changsheng reflected on the Kun’s immense power and recognized that his entanglement in schemes had distracted him from his pursuit of longevity.
• Su Changsheng embraced his renewed resolve to pursue the Way of Longevity, grateful that the crisis had given him the chance to rethink his path.

Su Changsheng healed on a floating island inside the Kun and used its faint, corrosive spirit energy to temper his body and reshape his Longevity Yao Nature. With his supplies dwindling and other islands too dangerous to approach blindly, he decided to learn the uncanny Azure Eight Trigrams to seek a safer route, but its first instruction puzzled him.

• Su Changsheng reflected on how the Black Mountain Demon Stockade and his flawed Longevity Yao Nature had led him away from earnest cultivation, then resolved to use the Kun's spirit energy to cleanse and reshape his Yao Nature.
• Over a month, Su Changsheng endured painful cultivation as he recovered and expelled impurities, while his injuries mostly healed and his bones grew stronger; his Spinal Snake Bone and tail remained badly damaged.
• Su Changsheng observed that the Kun had stopped feeding, the floating islands had become stationary, and unstable passages sometimes appeared through the dark void, but he judged crossing it too dangerous without more information.
• Su Changsheng inventoried his food, runes, and salvaged supplies, recognized that his island could not sustain him, and concluded that he would eventually have to explore other islands.
• Su Changsheng chose to cultivate the Azure Eight Trigrams and began with its instruction to “break the prison,” which left him wondering whether the art was even meant for yao.

Su Changsheng practiced Azure Eight Trigrams, purifying his emotions and strengthening his Yao Nature before advancing the inherited Demon Art to Skilled Level. His divinations mapped the nearby floating islands, but an extra result pointed to an island in the empty darkness to the north, where he sensed an unseen presence watching him.

• Su Changsheng built a nine-altar ritual and used it to cleanse his emotions, beginning to understand and practice Azure Eight Trigrams.
• Su Changsheng reached entry level after seven days, then spent Survival Points to advance Azure Eight Trigrams to Skilled Level.
• The Skilled-Level breakthrough improved his divination, sharpened his danger sense, and drew in Creation that healed part of his injuries and began regrowing his tail.
• Su Changsheng divined the fortunes and dangers of the six nearby floating islands and recorded their results.
• Su Changsheng noticed a seventh divination result for an island to the north, though he saw only darkness there and sensed something watching him.

Su Changsheng chose to investigate the island to the west while Great Yao Bai Ling and the Green Mountain Yao King learned that a Kun had destroyed their caravan and erased their trail to the Longevity Dao Lord. As the factions regrouped, the Xuan Lord agreed to sacrifice Bai Ling and Green Mountain to ensure the Black Tortoise True Lord crossed the boundary between life and death.

• Su Changsheng divined that the western island offered modest gains and temporary safety, and set aside the unexplained danger to the north.
• Great Yao Bai Ling told the Green Mountain Yao King that a Kun had swallowed the caravan, wiping out their plans and their leads on the Longevity Dao Lord.
• Tushan Ya used the Xin Su Spiritual Eyes to see the corruption surrounding the Xin Su Yao Grotto, then heard from the red-robed demon that Bai Ling and a Little Snake Girl were the only known survivors of the caravan.
• The Xuan Lord lost control after White Mountain reported the caravan's destruction, then regained his human appearance by devouring the remains of several victims.
• The Xuan Lord ordered White Mountain to tell the power behind him that Yin Palace accepted its terms and would use Bai Ling and Green Mountain as compensation to revive the Black Tortoise True Lord.

Injured Su Changsheng crossed to a floating island, gathered medicinal red fruits, and recovered while preparing to break through to the ninth level. On his final exploration, he discovered that the fruits formed around the sleeping Nine Fox King, and her sudden attack left him facing a deadly confrontation.

• The Turtle Yao delivered the unconscious Big Toad and Stone Man to Xuan Jun, explaining their unusual history and human-like empathy.
• Su Changsheng used divination to cross to a floating island, where he found red fruits whose poison he learned to remove through alchemy.
• Su Changsheng spent the following days harvesting and refining the fruits, recovering from his injuries and strengthening his cultivation.
• On the twenty-fifth day, Su Changsheng returned to gather more fruit and discovered that peach blossom petals rising from underground formed the red fruits.
• Su Changsheng found the severely injured Nine Fox King asleep within the petals, pulled her out, and was met with a deadly attack of azure flames and Flying Sand and Rolling Stones.

Su Changsheng fought the gravely wounded Nine Fox King and overcame her deadly white-light attack by shedding the outer layer of his scale armor. After the Nine Fox King died and her Peach Blossoms Divine Ability passed to him, Su Changsheng completed his transformation into the Changsheng Ninth Level.

• Su Changsheng launched a full-strength attack on the recovering Nine Fox King, devouring and suppressing her Peach Blossoms Divine Ability.
• Su Changsheng revealed his fifty-six-meter Yao Body, sealed the floating island with azure flames, and forced the Nine Fox King into a battle to the death.
• The Nine Fox King unleashed white light that stripped away Su Changsheng's outer scale armor, but her attack backfired and Su Changsheng struck her down.
• The dying Nine Fox King left her foundation and asked Su Changsheng to spare Fox Woman Little Four if possible before she dissipated into a peach blossom.
• Su Changsheng absorbed the Nine Fox King's vital energy and Peach Blossoms Divine Ability, completing his Longevity Yao Nature and reaching the Changsheng Ninth Level.

Su Changsheng absorbed the Nine Fox King's power, advanced to the ninth level, and awakened the Origin Great Divine Ability Great Sun Furnace, Heaven and Earth Manifestation. After killing the false Fox Woman Little Four, he found the real Little Four's remains and keepsake, then burned them and vowed to walk the rest of the road for her.

• Su Changsheng absorbed the Nine Fox King's pure Peach Blossoms Divine Ability origin, completed the reshaping of his Yao Nature, and advanced to the ninth level.
• Su Changsheng's Changsheng Dao Fruit evolved and gave him the Origin Great Divine Ability Great Sun Furnace, Heaven and Earth Manifestation, which could refine essence and double his body and attributes at its initial level.
• Fox Woman Little Four explained that the Nine Fox King had split off parts of her Yao Nature and planted them in young yao, intending to absorb them, and that she had been the last one.
• Su Changsheng recognized Fox Woman Little Four as an impostor and burned her, the peach grove, and the surrounding area to ashes.
• Su Changsheng found the real Fox Woman Little Four's bones, cloth purse, Yao Coins, and wooden token depicting her, Hei Maozhou, Little Snake Girl Baisu, and himself.
• Su Changsheng burned the remains and garment, kept the wooden token, and vowed to walk the rest of the road for Fox Woman Little Four.

After grieving Fox Woman Little Four, Su Changsheng steadied his mind and examined the gains and demands of his ninth-level advancement. He tested Great Sun Furnace and Heaven and Earth Manifestation, then discovered a dark island beyond the void and prepared to explore the Kun World.

• Su Changsheng watched Fox Woman Little Four's island burn, returned to his own island, and reflected on the losses and memories that had unsettled him.
• Su Changsheng calmed his mind and reviewed his Attribute Panel, noting his increased lifespan, the challenges of innate conversion, and his path toward becoming a Great Yao.
• Su Changsheng used Great Sun Furnace to refine the White Snake Breathing Method into furnace essence, strengthening Flying Sand and Rolling Stones, but found he could not refine that method a second time.
• Su Changsheng activated Heaven and Earth Manifestation, doubling his size and amplifying his powers, then blasted open the void with Flying Sand and Rolling Stones.
• Su Changsheng spotted a dark island at the end of the passage and realized there was something there to explore.

Su Changsheng strengthened his ninth-level cultivation, gathered supplies, and hunted a powerful Wraith Beast while cautiously exploring Kun’s floating islands. When Kun began feeding, he collected falling radiance, but the event ended with the appearance of a colossal beast carcass near Great Yao level.

• Su Changsheng stabilized his ninth-level realm, increasing his Innate Transformation, Yao Body, and Divine Abilities while continuing to cultivate.
• Su Changsheng searched nearby islands for supplies, avoided dangerous regions, and killed a top-tier Middle-Level Wraith Beast on Southwest Island for Blood Food.
• Su Changsheng explored the surrounding islands, judged the distant routes too dangerous, and postponed investigating the mysterious Black Island.
• Su Changsheng refined Demon Arts to strengthen Flying Sand and Rolling Stones, then gathered falling streaks of radiance when Kun began feeding.
• Su Changsheng and the other members of the Demon Race saw the Black Island vanish and an enormous carcass approaching Great Yao level appear to the north.

Su Changsheng hid on the enormous carcass of a dead beast, drawn by the Key in his mind and his stirring Azure Snake Bloodline. When ninth-level demons tried to seize its Yao Core, the carcass revealed signs of revival and slaughtered them; as more demons gathered, Golden Eagle Great Yao and the mysterious Lord of Blood arrived.

• Su Changsheng followed a thread of survival in his divination and leapt onto the ascending beast carcass, then concealed himself when the Key and his Azure Snake Bloodline reacted to it.
• Dozens of demons arrived, and Purple Poison King persuaded the ninth-level demons to join forces and attack the carcass’s heart for its Yao Core.
• The carcass’s central area revived, killing several demons and trapping others in flesh that drained them dry; the survivors’ attacks failed to break its defenses.
• Su Changsheng stayed hidden as more demons arrived, while he speculated that the Key might be connected to the carcass and watched the newcomers.
• Golden Eagle Great Yao approached the carcass, followed by nine beasts pulling a blood-dripping Red Coffin carrying the Lord of Blood.

Su Changsheng witnessed three Great Yao gather around the giant beast’s skeleton, then withdrew to a safer island as the skeleton’s core grew more powerful. The Fourth Grotto’s arrival came in the form of the Third Fairy, Flower Fairy, who asked the other Great Yao to let her have the Yao Emperor’s core.

• Nine beasts carried a blood coffin to the skeleton, and Su Changsheng learned that its occupant was a Lord of Blood from the Blood Grotto.
• As the skeleton’s core pulsed more strongly and his Key and Azure Snake Bloodline reacted, Su Changsheng left the island and hid on a nearby floating island.
• The Thunder King arrived from the Poison Grotto in a lightning-wreathed beast-bone chariot, joining the Golden Eagle King and the Lord of Blood.
• Fairies appeared and possessed several yao, emerging from their bodies as living beings before gathering into an enormous white flower.
• The Third Fairy, Flower Fairy, emerged from the flower and asked the three Great Yao to let her claim the Yao Emperor’s core.

Su Changsheng watched the four Great Yao break open the remains of an ancient Yao Emperor to seize its pill, but a second Yao Emperor’s remains fused with the Key and entered his body. He gained an Azure Snake Core and concealed it, then pretended to chase scattered Demon Script so the Great Yao would not suspect him.

• The four Great Yao attacked the enormous beast’s skeleton, breaking through its Core Region and driving the other yao away with the backlash.
• The skeleton collapsed and revealed the Yao Emperor Pill, prompting the four Great Yao to fight one another over it as Demon Script scattered across the area.
• The Key and Su Changsheng’s bloodline reacted to the scattered remains, drawing a turtle-and-serpent object into his Sea of Consciousness, where it fused with the Key and granted him power and knowledge.
• Su Changsheng realized the remains contained two Yao Emperors and concealed the fused object with the Black Tortoise Breathing Method.
• To avoid drawing suspicion, Su Changsheng feigned interest in the scattered Demon Script and flew after it with the other yao.

Thunder King seized the Yao Emperor Pill, awakening a Gate of Defilement inside the Yao Emperor’s remains, before a giant turtle phantom swallowed him and the pill and carried him away. Su Changsheng escaped the ensuing chaos, only to discover that the Yao Emperor Turtle Luo Book had landed on his head.

• Thunder King grabbed the Yao Emperor Pill and reached into the hollow for the Yao Emperor Spirit Treasures, awakening a flesh-and-blood Gate of Defilement that contaminated the pill.
• Thunder King and the other three Great Yao attacked the Gate of Defilement until it vanished, then claimed the spirit treasures while searching the hollow for the Yao Emperor’s spirit and Heaven-Given Rune Spirit Bone.
• A giant turtle phantom swallowed Thunder King and the Yao Emperor Pill, collapsed the beast’s remains, and carried him away; the other three Great Yao pursued.
• Su Changsheng fled when a Yao Emperor Spirit Treasure landed beside him, killed the monsters demanding it, and left the suspicious treasure behind.
• Su Changsheng escaped to another floating island and used divination to check for danger, then discovered the Yao Emperor Turtle Luo Book resting on his head.

Su Changsheng discovered that the Turtle Luo Book had awakened in response to his Black Tortoise Breathing Method and revealed a secret body-tempering art. After enduring its painful transformation, he gained a vastly stronger Yao Body and was left wondering what the Nine Realms meant.

• Su Changsheng failed to discard or destroy the Turtle Luo Book, changed his stone scales to blue-green, and watched the book's eerie glow subside.
• Su Changsheng examined the Turtle Luo Book and considered how the Azure Snake Core and Yao Emperor Pill were strengthening his bloodline, Yao Nature, and cultivation, while remaining wary of hidden dangers.
• Su Changsheng assessed his supplies and decided to choose Demon Arts that complemented his Divine Abilities as he prepared to cultivate in seclusion.
• As Su Changsheng circulated the Black Tortoise Breathing Method · Green Snake, the Turtle Luo Book purified spirit energy and accelerated his innate transformation.
• The Turtle Luo Book revealed the Nine Realms Secret Incantation · Black Tortoise Body-Tempering Art, whose Demon Script entered Su Changsheng's body and painfully tempered it.
• Su Changsheng's Yao Body became more than twice as strong, and he wondered what the Nine Realms were.

Su Changsheng spent nearly a year cultivating on remote Floating Islands, strengthening his body with the Black Tortoise Body-Forging Art and learning more about the mysteries of Demon Script. As he prepared to travel to Kunxu, he used his survival points to evolve the Stone-Shattering Art into a divine ability, and the result shocked him.

• Su Changsheng discovered that the Black Tortoise Body-Forging Art strengthened his Yao Body and limbs, with its progress tied to the Black Tortoise Breathing Method.
• Su Changsheng cultivated quietly for nearly a year, and his strengthened foundation helped him refine a veteran ninth-level member of the Demon Race alive.
• Su Changsheng learned that Demon Script characters embodied principles and could produce uncanny powers, formations, spirit treasures, and changes to heaven and earth.
• Su Changsheng traveled toward Kunxu, the vast Floating Island known for welcoming demons and hosting the Kun's most prosperous Yao Market.
• Su Changsheng reviewed his attributes and chose the Stone-Shattering Art for advancement because he wanted another offensive divine ability.
• Su Changsheng spent survival points on the Stone-Shattering Art, causing the void to split as a surge of creation power descended, and he reacted in disbelief.

Su Changsheng evolved Flying Sand and Rolling Stones into three intermediate Divine Abilities, bringing him close to the Great Yao realm while his cultivation advanced. He joined Fatty Huang and Manman on the way to a newly emerged Yao Emperor burial ground, where he learned that a Rising Period might offer a way out of the Kun Internal World.

• Su Changsheng’s two Flying Sand and Rolling Stones marks transformed into Mountain-Crushing, Sand-Controlling, and Wind-Driving, and he tested their power by destroying a floating island.
• Su Changsheng learned that his three intermediate Divine Abilities met the basic requirements to advance to Great Yao and give him a glimpse of the Yao King realm, though he still needed more Xiantian experience.
• Su Changsheng spent months mastering his new abilities, refined runes and Demon Art essences in the Great Sun Furnace, and continued his Innate Transformation.
• Su Changsheng agreed to travel with Fatty Huang and Manman to a Yao Emperor burial ground after hearing that it might contain a way out of the Kun Internal World.
• Fatty Huang explained that the emergence of Yao Emperor remains and disturbances in the Sea of Death and Tainted Lands suggested a new Rising Period, while Su Changsheng listened and considered whether the Azure Snake King had chosen him for a purpose.

Su Changsheng joined Fatty Huang and Manman in seeking a hidden route into the Yao Emperor Tomb through an Extreme Yin Land. Fatty Huang opened a passage with a Fetid-Yellow Spirit, and the three entered after learning that something extraordinary had appeared near the tomb’s energy leak.

• Su Changsheng’s history with Fatty Huang and Manman was explained: he had befriended Fatty Huang through dealings and beaten Manman into becoming his underling.
• Fatty Huang led Su Changsheng and Manman away from the crowds at the Yao Emperor Tomb to a black forest formed by leaking yin energy.
• Su Changsheng used his Azure Divine Eye and divination to identify the forest as an extremely perilous yin pole and agreed to enter the tomb with Fatty Huang.
• Fatty Huang released a Fetid-Yellow Spirit, which absorbed the yin energy and opened a passage toward the tomb’s energy leak.
• Fatty Huang entered the passage, Su Changsheng pulled Manman after him, and Su Changsheng sealed the tunnel and planned to create dangerous false routes for any pursuers.