Arc 18The Return to True Trial

As the Outsiders prepared attacks and the Primordial Chaos Great Escape began, Ying Huaixu and his allies organized defenses, recruited new fighters, and uncovered the threat surrounding Heart-Questioning Valley. Tai Wangshu reached Return to True, while Ying Huaixu worked to temper his disposition and ended the stretch with his state of mind perfected.

  • Lü Qingyi destroyed the Outsiders attacking through the sky rift, and Ying Huaixu learned that the Primordial Chaos Great Escape and Heart-Questioning Valley Calamity missions had begun.
  • Xu Yaoyang sacrificed his pure yang origin to strengthen Chen Zhiyuan, while Ying Huaixu and his allies planned intelligence gathering, recruitment, and defenses against the coming war.
  • Ying Huaixu organized Ascender recruitment and support for small sects, tested Lü Qingyi’s Revival Pills, and learned that the Outsiders intended to attack Tai Wangshu and steal Dao resonance.
  • The Ghost Bride and Xue Si brought Xia Tong to Primordial Chaos Heaven, where the Heavenly Dao cleansed his blood sin and he began killing Outsiders for Ying Huaixu’s experience.
  • Ying Huaixu learned that He Xixiang was pursuing the Three Families’ Old Ancestors, while the peak masters prepared for a Heart-Questioning Valley Raid and Third Martial Uncle dreamed of their possible deaths.
  • A Nine-Color King lured Tai Wangshu into the Boundless Void Realm, but she reached Return to True and defeated Loli with help from Ye Ningshuang and Ying Huaixu.
  • Tai Wangshu and Ye Ningshuang helped Ying Huaixu temper his disposition through mortal experience, and he began to understand how to use the power of the world.
  • Tai Wangshu kissed Ying Huaixu, improving his state of mind, and his casual declaration of love for Lü Qingyi and Lao Xiang brought it to perfection.
Chapters 426–450 Vol. 5 Read

Ch. 426S2 season

The Divine Firmament Sword Sect survived an attack by Outsiders when Lü Qingyi shattered their assault and the Heavenly Dao declared its gamble won. Ying Huaixu received notice that S1 had ended and S2 had begun, then asked the Heavenly Dao for a way to log out.

  • Xu Yaoyang refused to approach Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang until Tai Wangshu offered him Ying Huaixu’s Spiritual Energy, then ran off with a crystal ball as Tai Wangshu chased him with the Black Sword.
  • A massive hand descended through a tear in the sky and pinned Ying Huaixu and the others to the ground, but the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s gathered flying swords shattered it.
  • Lü Qingyi struck through the rift, cleaved open the sky of Primordial Chaos, and used Evil-Exterminating to destroy the Outsiders while sealing the void.
  • The Heavenly Dao told Lü Qingyi to oversee Primordial Chaos Heaven’s prodigies as it prepared to declare war, while the attacking sects fled Hongmeng World.
  • Ying Huaixu received the Sect Defense Battle rewards and learned that S2, the Primordial Chaos Great Escape, had begun alongside the Heart-Questioning Valley Calamity mission.
  • Ying Huaixu messaged the Heavenly Dao to ask for a quit button so he could log out.

Ch. 427Like a tease

Ying Huaixu explored the new season’s quest rewards and learned that Xu Yaoyang could use his pure yang power to strengthen Chen Zhiyuan. After Xu Yaoyang performed the treatment, Chen Zhiyuan emerged with a dramatically improved body and aura.

  • Ying Huaixu tried to use the newly appeared power button, but a little hand shattered it, and the system revealed a future final quest before reporting an error.
  • Ying Huaixu examined the Improved Revival Pill formula with Tai Wangshu, who said the Taiyin Sacred Land had plenty of the rare herbs it required.
  • Tai Wangshu explained that Chen Zhiyuan had connected teleportation formations between the Taiyin Sacred Land and the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, then described his stalled cultivation and limited aptitude.
  • Tai Wangshu said Xu Yaoyang’s pure yang power could create something for Chen Zhiyuan, though doing so would cost Xu Yaoyang his pure yang origin.
  • Xu Yaoyang agreed to help Chen Zhiyuan and used a secret technique to cleanse and transform his body, leaving Xu Yaoyang exhausted and Chen Zhiyuan far stronger.

Ch. 428Come on, let's review

Ying Huaixu led the group in reviewing their latest battle and planning for future challenges. He announced that the Heavenly Dao would soon loosen its seals and allow outsiders into the world, bringing an all-out war.

  • Ying Huaixu asked the group to review the battle, and Qiu Shiyi and Huang Tianqi identified their lack of reliable intelligence as a major weakness.
  • Qin Erniu argued that they needed to train as the ones being challenged, while Ye Ningshuang said she would kill whoever Ying Huaixu chose and could activate Musou.
  • Ying Huaixu proposed establishing an intelligence operation through Shura Hall, training as defenders, and taking turns guarding Tai Wangshu.
  • Ying Huaixu announced that heaven and earth would soon change and the Heavenly Dao would release seals to let outsiders in, beginning the primordial chaos great escape.

Ch. 429Slapped

After the Divine Firmament Defense Battle began to reshape the world, Tai Wangshu and Xu Yaoyang returned to their sacred grounds while Ye Ningshuang and the others went to cultivate. Ying Huaixu learned He Xixiang was hunting the Three Sects' Founding Masters, then brought Lü Qingyi a Revival Pill formula, prompting her to refine nine pills and slap him twice for his remarks.

  • Tai Wangshu realized the Heavenly Dao had forced the world to choose sides, then hurried back to the Taiyin Sacred Land as spiritual energy surged across the world.
  • Xu Yaoyang left for the Great Sun Sacred Ground and found that Ying Huaixu had sent him several hundred crystal balls.
  • Ye Ningshuang, Qiu Shiyi, and the others went to cultivate, while Ying Huaixu returned to the sect and learned He Xixiang had gone beyond the starry sky to hunt the Three Sects' Founding Masters.
  • Ying Huaixu gave Lü Qingyi the Revival Pill formula and a set of spirit herbs, and she refined nine pills bearing pill veins.
  • Ying Huaixu praised Lü Qingyi clumsily, and she slapped him out of her room and into Meng Wuya's classroom.

Ch. 430Special mission updated

Ying Huaixu escaped lessons by prompting Meng Wuya to rethink his teachings, then helped Third Grand Martial Uncle reorganize the sect’s administration. He headed to Ascension City to recruit Ascenders for a new sanctuary mission, where he found many recruits stalled outside the Questioning Heart Formation.

  • Ying Huaixu slept through Meng Wuya’s lecture, and the students defended him; Meng Wuya dismissed the class to revise his coursework.
  • Ying Huaixu urged Meng Wuya to create teachings suited to the present age, prompting Meng Wuya to glimpse his own Dao.
  • Ying Huaixu advised Third Grand Martial Uncle to delegate routine affairs and establish an auditing department, easing the sect’s administrative workload.
  • Ying Huaixu received a mission to build a sanctuary by recruiting one hundred thousand Ascenders and went to Ascension City to investigate the low recruitment count.
  • Ying Huaixu discovered that many Ascenders were being held up outside the Questioning Heart Formation.

Ch. 431Too many people

Ying Huaixu managed the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s recruitment and helped other sects distribute new disciples, then went to Sword-Questioning Peak to ask Lü Qingyi about the Revival Pills. He left after Lü Qingyi punished him for his thoughts.

  • Ying Huaixu learned that applicants who wanted to coast through life kept failing Peak Master Zhenfeng’s Questioning Heart Formation, and he approved of keeping the sect’s recruitment standards strict.
  • Ying Huaixu arranged benefits and subordinate-sect status for small sects that had helped in the Sect Defense Battle, and directed them to train Ascenders and other recruits.
  • Ying Huaixu gathered several Sacred Lands’ Sect Masters to coordinate distributing new disciples among nearby small sects as recruitment overwhelmed the other sects.
  • Ying Huaixu complained to the Heavenly Dao that he deserved benefits, then planned to study the S2 Season, the Heart-Questioning Valley battle, the Illusory Dream Trial, and the Revival Pills.
  • Ying Huaixu arrived at Sword-Questioning Peak and fell into Lü Qingyi’s pond, where she blasted him out and struck him for his fantasies before he begged her to stop.

Ch. 432What do you mean by this?

Ying Huaixu confirmed that Lü Qingyi’s Revival Pills worked and learned that the coming struggle with the Myriad Clans would be a two-sided slaughter. Lü Qingyi revealed a plan to let outsiders gather resources before killing them and keeping what they had collected, leaving Ying Huaixu to face the pressure of the coming war.

  • Ying Huaixu tested one of Lü Qingyi’s Revival Pills by killing himself and revived at full strength.
  • Tai Wangshu assured Ying Huaixu that the Taiyin Sacred Land had plenty of herbs and asked for spirit stones as well as pills in exchange for Spirit Herbs.
  • Tai Wangshu told Ying Huaixu that killing the Myriad Clans would grant power, and outsiders who killed them would gain power too.
  • Lü Qingyi explained that she could not locate the outsiders because the Heavenly Dao wanted her to guard the Hongmeng World.
  • Lü Qingyi showed Ying Huaixu how she planned to let outsiders extract resources and then kill them, while she prevented them from carrying anything away.
  • Lü Qingyi snapped her fingers and sent Ying Huaixu outside Sword-Questioning Peak, where he felt the pressure of the coming war but no longer worried about gaining experience.

Ch. 433Cracking a Little

Ying Huaixu learned that Heart-Questioning Valley seemed unnaturally peaceful and planned to investigate it after reaching Return to True. Meanwhile, the Outsiders reacted to the Chalk Seed's defeat as Hongmeng World united and awakened its Heavenly Dao, leaving the Lord of the Weird Gods defending his choices.

  • Ying Huaixu asked the Hall Master of Shura Hall about Heart-Questioning Valley and learned that it was eerily peaceful despite the Chalk Seed War.
  • Ying Huaixu decided to keep investigating Heart-Questioning Valley but postponed visiting Dream Continent until he reached Return to True.
  • The Outsiders were alarmed that Ying Huaixu and his allies had defeated the Chalk Seed before it could grow into a Nine-Color King.
  • Hongmeng World united, expelled its collaborators with the Outsiders, and awakened the Hongmeng Heavenly Dao.
  • The Outsiders accused the Lord of the Weird Gods of helping Hongmeng World, but he argued that sending the powerful Chalk Seed had been a reasonable choice.

Ch. 434Painfully frustrated

After the Chalk Seed’s defeat, the clans debated how to kill Tai Wangshu and whether the Hongmeng Heavenly Dao had prepared a hidden strategy. The Lord of the Weird Gods suspected the Seventh Divine Weapon could reveal the truth, while privately realizing the fully evolved Chalk Seed had escaped his control and vanished.

  • The Lord of the Weird Gods blamed Tai Wangshu for the Chalk Seed’s failure, and the clans agreed she had to be killed.
  • The Mile-High Heaven Clan, Ancient God Clan, Ancient Buddha, and Beast God each provided a Nine-Color King to attack Tai Wangshu.
  • The Lord of the Weird Gods questioned whether the Hongmeng Heavenly Dao had truly been asleep or had opened its gates with a plan.
  • The Beast God proposed activating Heart-Questioning Valley’s Seventh Divine Weapon to test the Heavenly Dao’s preparations.
  • The Lord of the Weird Gods privately sensed that the fully evolved Chalk Seed had disappeared from the Hongmeng World and escaped his control.

Ch. 435Low Hills and Foul Waters

The Lord of the Weird Gods weighed whether to abandon the invasion of Hongmeng World, while the Ghost Bride rebuilt her life after years of being beaten by the Divine Firmament Sword Sect. She settled in a Small World with the child Xia Tong and reunited with Xue Si, who was hiding from Hongmeng World; two years later, the Ghost Bride urged Xue Si to find work.

  • The Outsiders decided to send races below Nine-Color King into Hongmeng World to steal Dao resonance while four Nine-Color Kings went after Tai Wangshu, and the Lord of the Weird Gods considered fleeing before searching for Chalk.
  • The Divine Firmament Sword Sect learned that the Ghost Bride had killed only her abusive husband's family, gave her a pill to reconstruct her body and resources, and let her leave after years of serving as a test for disciples.
  • The Ghost Bride found an abandoned baby, took him into a Small World, and raised him as Xia Tong.
  • Xue Si appeared in the Small World, explained that she had revived with a pill and wanted to hide far from Hongmeng World, and the Ghost Bride kept Xia Tong behind her warily.
  • Two years later, the Ghost Bride supported Xia Tong and the stressed, dazed Xue Si by doing embroidery, then suggested that Xue Si return to her old line of work.

Ch. 436There was a choice

Xue Si warned the Ghost Bride that Outsiders were about to be purged and asked her to help her join Primordial Chaos Heaven. The Ghost Bride reluctantly agreed to introduce her, while cautioning Xia Tong against blindly trusting others.

  • Xue Si warned the Ghost Bride that the Primordial Chaos Great World was a trap and that Ying Huaixu and the others would soon purge every Outsider.
  • The Ghost Bride decided to leave with Xia Tong rather than risk being caught up in Xue Si's danger.
  • Xue Si confronted the Ghost Bride and Xia Tong outside their home, explaining that she needed someone to vouch for her choosing a side.
  • The Ghost Bride hesitated, but Xia Tong urged her to help Xue Si, and the Ghost Bride agreed to make an introduction.
  • The Ghost Bride warned Xia Tong that kindness without judgment could be foolish, while Xue Si silently followed them.

Ch. 437Overwhelmed by the Favor

Xue Si and the Ghost Bride followed Xia Tong’s directions to Youdu, where Shenxiao’s token earned the Ghost Bride exceptional hospitality from the Divine Firmament Sword Sect. After confirming Xia Tong was safe, the Ghost Bride accepted an offer to look for cultivation resources, hoping to become strong enough to protect him.

  • Xue Si and the Ghost Bride reached the Youdu courtyard and followed lantern-bearing guides into a strange realm filled with floating palaces, stars, and monsters.
  • At the great palace, the Ghost Bride presented Shenxiao’s token, and the guides recognized her as an honored guest of the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
  • The Ghost Bride grew anxious when she could not see Xia Tong, but a maid let her hear his voice and assured her he was safe and playing with other children.
  • A maid explained that the Ghost Bride could cultivate again and that her token could be used three times, persuading her to consider using its favor.
  • The Ghost Bride followed the maid to view cultivation resources and was dazzled by the many treasures she could take.

Ch. 438It really worked

Xia Tong and Xue Si were accepted into Primordial Chaos Heaven after Xia Tong endured purgatory’s karmic flames and cleansed his blood sin. As Xia Tong began killing Outsiders to fulfill his mission, his unexpected kills flooded Ying Huaixu’s system with experience.

  • Xia Tong asked to serve Primordial Chaos Heaven, and the Left Dao Envoy consulted Lü Qingyi about his blood-soaked past and dangerous talent.
  • The Heavenly Dao bound Xia Tong and made him endure the karmic flames of his victims until his blood sin was cleansed and his White Chalk aura disappeared.
  • Lü Qingyi approved Xia Tong, and the Left Dao Envoy registered him and Xue Si, issued them tokens, and assigned them missions to kill Outsiders.
  • Xia Tong, Xue Si, and the Ghost Bride returned to Youdu, where the Ghost Bride celebrated their new fortune and Xia Tong secretly concealed the merit appearing behind her.
  • Ying Huaixu waited in vain for Outsiders until system notifications revealed that Xia Tong was killing them and granting Ying Huaixu huge amounts of experience.

Ch. 439Feeling a little uneasy

Ying Huaixu grew uneasy when He Xixiang and the other peak masters failed to return, then learned they were watching a rift into an Outsider universe. There, he saw the four sects that had defected being enslaved, while the peak masters chose to guard the rift and wait for the Outsiders to come through.

  • Ying Huaixu checked the Sect Master's Hall, found He Xixiang and the other peak masters still absent, and messaged the group chat to make sure they were alive.
  • Zhuang Mu showed Ying Huaixu a video of the peak masters watching through a rift into an Outsider universe.
  • Ying Huaixu saw that the defectors from the Ten Thousand Demons Sacred Land, the Thousand Mechanisms Sect, the Feathered Immortal Sacred Land, and the fourth sect had been enslaved and sold in different roles.
  • The peak masters discussed how Lü Qingyi had changed Hongmeng World by enforcing rules, and they agreed not to attack the Outsider universe yet so they would not alert its inhabitants.
  • Zhuang Mu said the peak masters would guard the rift and wait for the Outsiders to enter, and Ying Huaixu sent them a picture of Third Martial Uncle relaxing with tea.

Ch. 440Saying hello in advance

Lao Zhuang and the others returned to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect after Old Ten agreed to guard the rift, where Ying Huaixu warned them that future Raid Instances would demand their help. The chapter left the sect leaders wondering when the next deadly Raid would arrive and whether they could prepare for it.

  • After learning how Third Martial Uncle had handled the sect’s affairs, Lao Zhuang and the others decided to return and asked Meng Wuya to guard the rift, but he refused.
  • Old Ten appeared at the Return to True Realm and volunteered to guard the rift; after Lü Qingyi approved, the others entrusted it to her and returned to the sect.
  • At the sect, Zhuang Mu tried to pass the Chief Escort Seal to Ying Huaixu, but Ying Huaixu asked whether Zhuang Mu would handle future Raid Instances and World Bosses instead.
  • Ying Huaixu warned that he would bring the peak masters into increasingly difficult Instances, including a Heart-Questioning Valley Raid that required at least the Tribulation Transcendence realm.
  • Zhuang Mu and Meng Wuya said their True Immortal realms would raise the Raid’s difficulty, while Tong Xinran and the others remained at the Tribulation Transcendence Ninth Layer Peak.
  • Ying Huaixu said he could not predict when the Raid would arrive, but believed it would be soon because the Outsiders would not let their group survive.

Ch. 441Enjoying the view?

Ying Huaixu worried that the Outsiders would target Tai Wangshu before the Heart-Questioning Valley raid and checked on her. Afterward, Lü Qingyi showed him souls attempting to enter the world and revealed that she could see his identity as a native.

  • Ying Huaixu reasoned that Heart-Questioning Valley's raid mechanics would remain unchanged and that stronger intruders could trigger an instant kill for everyone inside.
  • Ying Huaixu called Tai Wangshu to check whether the Outsiders had attacked her, and she teased him before he ended the call.
  • Ying Huaixu visited Lü Qingyi, who turned her pond into a starry view of the heavens and caught souls trying to enter the world.
  • Lü Qingyi destroyed one malicious soul and returned another that had arrived through time-space rebirth.
  • Lü Qingyi tossed Ying Huaixu a stone that displayed his background as a native and greeted him as one.

Ch. 442The Number One Artifact Refiner

Ying Huaixu worried about He Xixiang’s absence, so Lü Qingyi showed him a hidden refuge and explained his master’s extraordinary talent and strength. He learned that He Xixiang was Primordial Chaos’s Number One Artifact Refiner after struggling to lift a dagger she had forged as a child.

  • Ying Huaixu asked Lü Qingyi why He Xixiang had not returned and admitted that he missed her and was worried.
  • Lü Qingyi took Ying Huaixu to a hidden space in a barren mountain, where she recalled that He Xixiang had once sheltered and healed her there.
  • Lü Qingyi explained that He Xixiang could master any Daoist art instantly but chose the Great Dao of Strength because she was lazy and liked using her fists.
  • Lü Qingyi revealed that He Xixiang was Primordial Chaos’s Number One Artifact Refiner and showed Ying Huaixu a dagger she had forged as a child.
  • Ying Huaixu struggled to lift the dagger, then watched a recording of young He Xixiang compressing metal and shaping it with her fists and fingers.
  • Lü Qingyi explained that He Xixiang had reduced the weight of the sword she wore as a hairpin, which otherwise could crush an entire star to powder.

Ch. 443Learning escape techniques?

Lü Qingyi explained the half-step Immortal Emperors’ regenerative power and demonstrated her ability by creating a Great Universe from Chaos. Ying Huaixu returned to Tianqu Peak determined to master Shrinking Earth to an Inch and advance his cultivation, while Lü Qingyi resolved to keep her distance from him and the Heavenly Dao dodged her demand for repayment.

  • Lü Qingyi told Ying Huaixu that He Xixiang was learning escape techniques after failing to catch the Old Ancestors of the Three Families, who kept regenerating and fleeing.
  • Lü Qingyi tore off a piece of Chaos and shaped it into a Great Universe, which Ying Huaixu entered and admired.
  • Lü Qingyi sent Ying Huaixu back to Tianqu Peak with a document about breaking through to Return to True, and he chose to keep grinding toward a higher realm.
  • Ying Huaixu used Shrinking Earth to an Inch and resolved to master the technique after ending up somewhere unfamiliar.
  • Lü Qingyi decided to keep her distance from Ying Huaixu, then asked the Heavenly Dao to repay its debt, but it pretended to be asleep.

Ch. 444Just one person?

Tai Wangshu was lured into a confrontation with a Nine-Color King, who trapped her in the Boundless Void Realm and challenged her to break through before fighting. She reached the Return to True realm and used Yin-Yang Balance to raise her cultivation to the sixth layer while lowering his to the fifth, and the battle began.

  • Tai Wangshu spotted An Ruoyun cursing Ying Huaixu’s portrait and confronted her, but An Ruoyun revealed she had lured Tai Wangshu out for a Nine-Color King.
  • A young Nine-Color King appeared and attacked Tai Wangshu, who used her Yin-Yang Formation Diagram and Balance to weaken him, though he shattered the formation.
  • The Nine-Color King brought Tai Wangshu into the Boundless Void Realm and offered her the chance to break through without outside help.
  • Tai Wangshu absorbed her Yin-Yang Goddess Dharma Aspect and the Heavenly Tribulation, entering the Return to True realm.
  • Tai Wangshu used Yin-Yang Balance to rise to the sixth layer of Return to True and lower the Nine-Color King to the fifth layer, and he summoned armor and flames before the fight.

Ch. 445Very powerful

Tai Wangshu fought Loli inside the Boundless Void Realm and discovered that he was cycling through parallel selves to wear her down. After borrowing half of Ye Ningshuang’s power, Tai Wangshu destroyed the realm and drove the Lolis away, just as Ying Huaixu arrived carrying Ye Ningshuang.

  • Tai Wangshu battled Loli, whose spear attacks she countered with her Taiji Diagram and Yin-Yang Balance.
  • Loli revealed that Tai Wangshu was especially difficult to defeat in a group and used the Boundless Void Realm to bring versions of himself from parallel timelines into successive fights.
  • Tai Wangshu realized Loli was testing the limits of her abilities while using countless Nine-Color Kings to exhaust her.
  • Tai Wangshu sensed Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang approaching, borrowed half of Ye Ningshuang’s power, and cut Loli and the Boundless Void Realm in two with a Black Sword.
  • The remaining Lolis fled when Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang arrived, and Ye Ningshuang angrily confronted Ying Huaixu after he carried her over his shoulder.

Ch. 446I didn't leave you out

After the Nine-Color King attacked Tai Wangshu, Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang discovered spatial fragments hidden in her hair and learned they could be used by someone who cultivated Spatial Laws. Meanwhile, Third Martial Uncle explained that the prophecy no longer matched the changed world, and warned Zhuang Mu that he could not use Self-Severing to bypass Heart-Questioning Valley’s laws.

  • Ying Huaixu checked on Tai Wangshu after Ye Ningshuang got down from his shoulder, then decided he would keep Tai Wangshu close so she would not be alone.
  • Tai Wangshu asked Ye Ningshuang to inspect her, and Ye Ningshuang found spatial fragments in her hair after searching her with Purple Miasma.
  • Ying Huaixu called Third Granduncle, who identified the fragments as ordinary spatial fragments that a Spatial Laws cultivator could shape or insert into someone’s body.
  • Zhuang Mu and Meng Wuya handled the administrative work while Tong Xinran and the others trained under Lü Qingyi for the coming Instance.
  • Third Martial Uncle told Zhuang Mu that the prophecy described a different future and had become unreliable after Ying Huaixu killed Azure Fox in the Cold Pool Secret Realm.
  • Zhuang Mu proposed using Self-Severing to enter the Instance with Ying Huaixu, but Third Martial Uncle warned that Heart-Questioning Valley judged a person by their highest past realm.

Ch. 447Not allowed to break through

Third Martial Uncle dreamed that Ying Huaixu and the others were devastated in the Heart-Questioning Valley's Secret Realm, then warned Lü Qingyi, who learned from the Heavenly Dao that the dream was no certain prophecy. The future was severed from the River of Time, and Ying Huaixu was told once more not to break through to Return to True.

  • Third Martial Uncle advised Zhuang Mu to keep cultivators above Tribulation Transcendence from interfering with the Secret Realm and warned him not to trouble Ying Huaixu.
  • Third Martial Uncle dreamed that Ye Ningshuang, He Xiuyuan, Huang Tianqi, Qiu Shiyi, and others lay dead or gravely injured, while a woman threatened Ying Huaixu.
  • Third Martial Uncle told Lü Qingyi about the dream, and the Heavenly Dao said Ying Huaixu and Lü Qingyi would not die but refused to reveal what it had endured.
  • Lü Qingyi saw that the future stretch of the River of Time had been severed, and the Heavenly Dao told her not to reconnect it.
  • Lü Qingyi warned Ying Huaixu to temper his character when he was close to breaking through to Return to True.

Ch. 448This was right

Ying Huaixu struggled to temper his disposition before entering the Return to True Realm, learning that its immense power demanded careful control. Tai Wangshu guided him to reflect on the difference between mortal life and cultivation, but his thoughts about using his strength after returning to Earth exposed how far he still had to go.

  • Tai Wangshu explained that Ying Huaixu needed to temper his disposition so he could control Return to True power without endangering the world, and demonstrated how she could flatten and restore mountains and rivers.
  • Ying Huaixu asked Ye Ningshuang how she had entered Return to True, and she said she had always considered herself ordinary and credited her strength to him.
  • Ying Huaixu tried several ways to think of himself as ordinary, but his memories of Azure Fox and his self-hypnosis made little progress.
  • Tai Wangshu told Ying Huaixu to recall his past hardships and consider what his current power could change, prompting him to imagine transforming Dragon Nation and enjoying life after returning to Earth.
  • Tai Wangshu and Ye Ningshuang called Ying Huaixu out for grinning over his fantasies of wealth, maids, and pleasure.

Ch. 449The fastest way

Ying Huaixu wandered through the Mortal World with Tai Wangshu and Ye Ningshuang to temper his temperament, while reflecting on cultivation and the world he had left behind. After contemplating heaven and earth, he perceived a power beyond ordinary spiritual energy but failed to control it, and Tai Wangshu explained that he needed to understand and communicate with it.

  • Tai Wangshu used a Quieting Mind Whisk to calm her mind after admitting that her own breakthrough had left flaws in her temperament.
  • Ying Huaixu and the others traveled through the Mortal World, where even farmers had cultivation and existing class divisions remained in place.
  • Ying Huaixu considered why Earth had never entered an age of universal cultivation despite the discovery of spiritual energy.
  • Tai Wangshu ran a fortune-telling stall, Ye Ningshuang learned embroidery, and Ying Huaixu went fishing before returning with two fish caught using system prompts.
  • Ying Huaixu contemplated heaven and earth, saw luminous specks containing powers beyond spiritual energy, and frightened them away when he tried to control them by force.
  • Tai Wangshu told Ying Huaixu that he needed deeper understanding to bear the power, while Ye Ningshuang absorbed it with her purple mist.

Ch. 450A flaw in her temperament

Tai Wangshu explained that Return to True depended on understanding and perfecting one’s temperament, while Ying Huaixu began figuring out how to fulfill his own. After Tai Wangshu kissed Ying Huaixu to improve her temperament, his state of mind unexpectedly reached perfection when he casually professed love for Lü Qingyi and Lao Xiang.

  • Tai Wangshu explained that Return to True required a temperament shaped by mortal experience and understanding the patterns of heaven and earth.
  • Ying Huaixu realized fulfillment improved temperament and found he could use the power of the world, but chose to wait until he could upgrade through the system.
  • Ye Ningshuang threatened Tai Wangshu, while Tai Wangshu secretly obtained a supreme treasure from the Taiyin Sacred Land.
  • Tai Wangshu bound Ye Ningshuang with a golden rope, kissed Ying Huaixu, and hurried back to her room.
  • Ying Huaixu’s state of mind improved after the kiss, then reached perfection when he casually said he loved Lü Qingyi and Lao Xiang.
  • Lü Qingyi spat out her tea and blushed after hearing Ying Huaixu’s words.
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