Chapter Summaries

Zhou Xun captured the fleeing Azure Flame Luan and gained control of the Earth Origin Beast by refining its Soul Spirit Token. After appointing Feng Chong as his mount, he discovered a white elephant whose voice came from a young girl.

• Zhou Xun stored Feng Yue's body and chased the Azure Flame Luan, striking it with Yin Lightning, binding it, and sealing it inside a Spirit Beast Pouch.
• Zhou Xun found Feng Chong's Soul Spirit Token in Feng Yue's Storage Pouch and refined it, gaining power over the Earth Origin Beast.
• Feng Chong submitted to Zhou Xun, revealed that he was a great demon of earth and wind, and was named Zhou Xun's mount.
• Zhou Xun noticed a white, calf-sized elephant in Feng Yue's belongings, and it begged him to spare its life in a young girl's voice.

Zhou Xun returned to Heaven Han City with two spirit beasts for Song Yiqing, including an Azure Flame Luan whose bloodline could strengthen her bonded beast. He visited True Person Tian Ci to say farewell, promising to do his utmost to fulfill his earlier commitment.

• Zhou Xun spared a white elephant from the Bai Yu Clan after learning of her tracking talent and Earth-grade bloodline, and placed her and the Earth Origin Beast in his Spirit Beast Bracelet.
• Zhou Xun brought the Azure Flame Luan and white elephant to Song Yiqing, explaining that the Luan could improve her bonded beast’s bloodline and giving her the white elephant to subdue.
• Song Yiqing refined the white elephant’s Soul Spirit Token and successfully made her a spirit beast.
• Zhou Xun went to the thirty-sixth level of Heaven Han City and was admitted to True Person Tian Ci’s cave abode.
• Zhou Xun told True Person Tian Ci he was returning home, and promised to do his utmost to honor his earlier commitment.

Zhou Xun learned that Heaven Han City possessed three Tier-4 Human Puppets, and True Person Tian Ci offered him one as a means of protection. True Person Tian Ci then brought Zhou Xun through a secret teleportation array to Heaven Han City’s hidden foundation, where two more Human Puppets stood sealed behind barriers.

• True Person Tian Ci praised Zhou Xun’s progress in talismanship and revealed that Heaven Han City secretly possessed three Tier-4 Human Puppets.
• True Person Tian Ci offered Zhou Xun one of the two Human Puppets he did not control, explaining that a Tier 3 cultivator could operate it.
• True Person Tian Ci used a token to reveal a hidden passage in his bedroom and led Zhou Xun to a short-range Teleportation Array.
• True Person Tian Ci activated the array with spirit stones, and he and Zhou Xun teleported to a hidden stone hall.
• Zhou Xun saw racks of jade slips and two Tier-4 Human Puppets sealed behind enormous light barriers.

Zhou Xun received and refined the Human Puppet Kaiyang, tested its formidable power, and returned to Forgetful River Lake. There, he absorbed the essence of a Tier 4 Lower Grade Wind Spirit Grass into his true body.

• True Person Tian Ci gave Zhou Xun the Tier 4 Human Puppet Kaiyang and a Tier 3 High-Grade talisman inheritance.
• Zhou Xun refined Kaiyang and discovered that its casual strike had at least Late-Stage Core Formation power, though it consumed a great deal of spirit stones.
• Zhou Xun stored Kaiyang, then left Heaven Han City with Song Yiqing and Xuan Yunzi and traveled toward Xu Nation.
• Four months later, Zhou Xun returned to Forgetful River Lake at age eighty-five, having advanced his alchemy and talisman-crafting skills to Tier 3 Lower Grade.
• Zhou Xun's incarnation revealed its Tier 4 Lower Grade Wind Spirit Grass, and Zhou Xun absorbed its essence before taking out the Spiritual Root Test Disc.

Zhou Xun returned to Forgetful River Lake, assessed his disciples’ progress, and helped Song Yiqing extract the Azure Flame Luan’s blood essence to strengthen her Crimson Flame. He then confronted Feng Yue about his Central Continent origins and demanded the passage between the Central Continent and Eastern Wasteland, threatening him with soul-searching torture.

• Zhou Xun discovered that his Wood Spiritual Root affinity had risen to seventy-seven points and welcomed his disciples and subordinates upon returning to Forgetful River Lake.
• Zhou Xun examined his disciples’ and subordinates’ cultivation progress, praised them, and personally answered their questions.
• Zhou Xun and Song Yiqing began extracting the Azure Flame Luan’s heart’s blood essence so the Crimson Flame could refine its Qing Luan Bloodline.
• Zhou Xun separated Feng Yue from Song Yiqing and revealed that he knew Feng Yue came from the Spirit Mastery Sect of the Central Continent.
• Zhou Xun demanded that Feng Yue reveal the passage to the Central Continent, and Feng Yue refused, prompting Zhou Xun to threaten him with Soul-Searching Spirit Refinement.

Zhou Xun forced Feng Yue to reveal how he entered the Eastern Wasteland and learned that a Teleportation Array lay deep within Hundred Savages Mountain. Feng Yue also described his Spirit Mastery Sect, leaving Zhou Xun with new information about the Central Continent and the sect beyond the passage.

• Zhou Xun summoned the Green Ape, and Feng Yue recognized it as the soul-devouring beast Devour Soul and begged Zhou Xun to put it away.
• Feng Yue explained that Devour Soul was a half-demon, half-ghost creature that fed on ghosts and living souls and had appeared during the Netherworld invasion.
• Feng Yue said he had entered the Eastern Wasteland through a Teleportation Array hidden in a mountain belonging to the Spirit Mastery Sect.
• Feng Yue pointed out that the array was deep within Hundred Savages Mountain and said Teleportation Talismans could counter the force of long-distance travel.
• Zhou Xun found a Teleportation Talisman refining method in Feng Yue's Storage Pouch and learned that the Spirit Mastery Sect was a powerful Nascent Soul sect in Song Nation.

Zhou Xun oversaw Crimson Flame’s bloodline advancement, began refining Feng Yue’s body into a Bloodfiend Spawn, and spent two years preparing to travel to the Central Continent. After absorbing another spirit herb’s essence, he expected to reach the limit of an Earth Spiritual Root and brought out a Spiritual Root Test Disc.

• Crimson Flame absorbed Azure Flame Luan’s bloodline and advanced to an earth-grade bloodline, while Song Yiqing said completing the process would take about two years.
• Zhou Xun planned to send his incarnation to scout the Central Continent and began refining Feng Yue’s body into a Bloodfiend Spawn.
• Zhou Xun placed the half-refined Bloodfiend Spawn in a Corpse Nurturing Ground, where he expected it to finish developing in two years.
• For the next two years, Zhou Xun’s incarnation cultivated and stood guard for Song Yiqing every half month.
• Zhou Xun absorbed the essence of a Tier 4 Lower Grade Bitter Spirit Mushroom, expecting his spiritual root sensitivity to reach the Earth Spiritual Root limit, and took out a Spiritual Root Test Disc.

Zhou Xun completed his Celestial True Flame Lotus refinement and finished nurturing a True Dan Bloodfiend Spawn, then tested the greatly strengthened group of five Bloodfiend Spawns against his Earth Origin Beast. He returned to Forgetful River Lake, where Song Yiqing reported that the Crimson Flame had reached the utmost limit of an Earth-grade bloodline.

• Zhou Xun measured his Wood Spiritual Root affinity at seventy-nine points and began refining the Celestial True Flame Lotus, completing the process after ten days.
• Zhou Xun concluded that he and Song Yiqing could set off for the Central Continent in about two months as the Bloodfiend Spawn and Crimson Flame neared completion.
• Zhou Xun retrieved the completed True Dan Bloodfiend Spawn from the Corpse Nurturing Ground and absorbed the valley's Yin Qi into his Bloodfiend Pouch.
• Zhou Xun combined the new Bloodfiend Spawn with his other four and tested their strength by ordering them to fight Feng Zhong, the Earth Origin Beast; they quickly captured it.
• Zhou Xun returned to Forgetful River Lake, where Song Yiqing told him the Crimson Flame had reached the utmost limit of an Earth-grade bloodline.

Song Yiqing’s Crimson Flame advanced to a Heaven-grade bloodline after absorbing the Azure Flame Luan’s final essence, giving her the potential to form a True Dan. Zhou Xun killed Feng Yue and prepared to leave for Central Continent, unaware that a red light had entered his body.

• Song Yiqing fed Crimson Flame successive drops of essence blood from the Azure Flame Luan, and after several failed attempts, Crimson Flame’s bloodline advanced to Heaven-grade.
• Song Yiqing celebrated that Crimson Flame’s new potential also gave her the qualifications to pursue a True Dan.
• Zhou Xun released some of Feng Yue’s restraints and confirmed that the Qing Luan Bloodline had been completely extracted.
• Feng Yue pleaded for his life, but Zhou Xun killed him with a wooden thorn, and an invisible red light entered Zhou Xun’s body unnoticed.
• With his five Bloodfiend Spawns refined and Song Yiqing’s spirit beast advanced, Zhou Xun prepared to set out for Central Continent.

Zhou Xun equipped his avatar for a secret journey to the Central Continent and activated the long-distance Teleportation Array he had found near Hundred Savages Mountain. The teleportation succeeded, leaving him in a similar stone chamber at his destination.

• Zhou Xun prepared his avatar with spirit stones, magic treasures, a Lesser Teleportation Talisman, and a Celestial Talisman Formation, while leaving the human puppet and other defenses behind for his main body.
• His avatar left Forgetful River Lake unnoticed and traveled through Golden Ape Valley and Zhao Nation toward the valley Feng Yue had described.
• Zhou Xun revealed the hidden passage in the cliff, sent a lizard puppet inside to scout, then entered beneath the protection of the Golden Cloud Disc.
• He discovered a complex long-distance Teleportation Array, placed five High-Grade Spirit Stones in its grooves, and activated it with a Teleportation Talisman protecting him.
• The teleportation ended safely, and Zhou Xun found himself in a stone chamber similar to the one in the Eastern Wasteland.

Zhou Xun arrived in Central Continent through a Teleportation Array and tried to leave the Spirit Mastery Sect’s territory, but Perfected Lord Yu Xuan attacked him to avenge Feng Yue. Zhou Xun escaped with a Lesser Teleportation Talisman and, still fearing pursuit, prepared to use his Lightning Seed near Heaven Han City.

• Zhou Xun found that Central Continent’s spiritual power nourished his cultivation and considered bringing his true body there to form its core.
• Zhou Xun disguised himself as Feng Yue, exited the hidden Teleportation Array, and flew away from the Spirit Mastery Sect.
• Perfected Lord Yu Xuan caught up with Zhou Xun and used his control over space to immobilize him, while a Rank 4 Mountain Monarch blocked his escape.
• Zhou Xun activated a Lesser Teleportation Talisman and vanished, reappearing several thousand li away.
• Zhou Xun remained wary that Perfected Lord Yu Xuan could track him and brought out his Lightning Seed near Heaven Han City.

Zhou Xun escaped Perfected Lord Yu Xuan by using a Lesser Teleportation Talisman and Thunder Escape, then fled to Zheng Nation and entered Qingyang Market under a concealed cultivation level. He went to Wind Cloud Pavilion to seek information and asked whether it conducted business on the first floor.

• Perfected Lord Yu Xuan tracked Zhou Xun after he teleported, but Zhou Xun used six Lightning Seeds to escape beyond the range of Yu Xuan's tracking technique.
• Zhou Xun transformed his appearance, summoned the Earth Origin Beast, and flew toward neighboring Zheng Nation.
• After half a month, Zhou Xun arrived at Qingyang Market, concealed his cultivation as Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and paid Li Qing for a passage token.
• Zhou Xun explored the prosperous market and entered Wind Cloud Pavilion, where a servant directed him toward the private rooms on the third floor.
• Zhou Xun asked the servant whether Wind Cloud Pavilion conducted business on the first floor.

Zhou Xun visited Wind Cloud Pavilion to learn how the Blood Shadow Art had exposed him and bought methods to counter it. After he left, Fang Liu recognized him as the person sought by Perfected Lord Yu Xuan and reported the lead to Senior Zhu.

• An attendant escorted Zhou Xun to a private room, where Fang Liu received him and asked what information he wanted.
• Zhou Xun learned that the Blood Shadow Art could leave a trace on the culprit and realized it was how he had been exposed.
• Fang Liu offered Zhou Xun preventive and remedial methods for countering the Blood Shadow Art, and he negotiated their price down to fifty-five thousand spirit stones.
• Zhou Xun paid for the two Jade Slips, checked them, and left Wind Cloud Pavilion through its rear entrance.
• Fang Liu ordered Xiaoyun to inform Senior Zhu that they had news about the Blood Demon Art and revealed that Perfected Lord Yu Xuan had offered five million spirit stones for the afflicted person.

After Wind Cloud Pavilion linked Zhou Xun to Perfected Lord Yu Xuan’s bounty, Zhu persuaded Qin to join him in hunting Zhou Xun. Zhou Xun headed for Luoyuan Immortal City to escape by teleportation, but stopped when he sensed danger ahead.

• Fang Liu concluded that the person who bought a solution to the Blood Shadow Art was likely the target of Perfected Lord Yu Xuan’s bounty and planned to report the intelligence to Senior Zhu.
• Zhu told Qin that Wind Cloud Pavilion had identified Zhou Xun, and the two agreed to pursue him and divide the bounty and spoils.
• Zhou Xun left Qingyang Market for Luoyuan Immortal City, intending to use its Teleportation Array to leave the region.
• While traveling, Zhou Xun learned that resolving the Blood Shadow Art required a rare Bodhi Fruit, more Celestial Pure Water, or a female cultivator with the Pure Spirit Physique.
• Zhou Xun halted when he sensed danger ahead and raised the Golden Cloud Disc’s defensive barrier around himself.

Zhou Xun and his Earth Origin Beast, Feng Zhong, fought Zhu and Qin after the two bounty hunters blocked their path. Zhou Xun’s lightning techniques and five third-rank corpse puppets overwhelmed Zhu’s attacks, but Zhu staked his blood essence to strengthen his Three Yang True Fire, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Zhu and Qin recognized Zhou Xun as the bounty target and split up to attack him and Feng Zhong.
• Feng Zhong drove back Qin’s fly whisk with a hurricane and fought him while Zhou Xun confronted Zhu.
• Zhou Xun’s lightning shield blocked Zhu’s flaming saber and trapped it in lightning chains, while his lightning net withstood Zhu’s fire orbs.
• Zhou Xun released five third-rank corpse puppets, which suppressed Zhu’s Three Yang True Fire and alarmed him.
• Zhu burned his blood essence to strengthen the Three Yang True Fire and sent it surging against the corpse puppets.

Zhou Xun killed a Mid-Stage Core Formation cultivator and forced the surviving Elder to reveal that Daoist Zhu had arranged the ambush after Wind Cloud Pavilion sold information about Zhou Xun’s bounty. Zhou Xun vowed to settle accounts with Wind Cloud Pavilion and Perfected Lord Yu Xuan, then ordered the Elder to take his own life.

• Zhou Xun used his Bloodfiend Spawns and lightning to break through the Mid-Stage Core Formation cultivator’s defenses, then killed him with Edge of Utmost Sharpness.
• Zhou Xun summoned the Soul Devourer Azure Ape, which devoured the dead cultivator’s soul, while Zhou Xun collected the man’s weapons, spirit flame, and Storage Pouch.
• Zhou Xun surrounded the remaining Elder with his five Bloodfiend Spawns and demanded to know why the two men had ambushed him.
• The Elder confessed that Daoist Zhu had hired Wind Cloud Pavilion for information and planned to capture Zhou Xun to claim Perfected Lord Yu Xuan’s five-million-spirit-stone bounty.
• Zhou Xun blamed Wind Cloud Pavilion for exposing his whereabouts, vowed to settle accounts with it and Perfected Lord Yu Xuan, and told the Elder to take his own life.

Zhou Xun’s avatar killed the surviving elder and examined the spoils from two Central Continent Core Formation cultivators, finding a powerful fire cultivation technique and a jade talisman matching one held by his true body. Back at Forgetful River Lake, Zhou Xun passed the technique to Xu Shaoqing, who later succeeded in Foundation Establishment.

• The elder chose to kill himself rather than let Zhou Xun or the Azure Ape finish him, and Zhou Xun gathered the spoils before continuing toward Luoyuan Immortal City.
• Zhou Xun inspected the burly cultivator’s treasures, including the Three Yang True Fire and the Blazing Flame True Art, a cultivation technique suited to Xu Shaoqing.
• Zhou Xun found a jade talisman in the feather-robed elder’s pouch that matched one held by his true body, and his true body copied the Blazing Flame True Art.
• Zhou Xun gave Xu Shaoqing the Crimson Flame True Art and told her to keep it secret as she prepared for Foundation Establishment.
• Two months later, Xu Shaoqing successfully reached Foundation Establishment, becoming Zhou Xun’s fourth Foundation Establishment disciple.

Zhou Xun entered Luoyuan Immortal City in disguise, hoping to buy treasures containing heavenly lightning so he could recondense his Lightning Seeds. He found the city’s largest shop had no suitable stock and, still unable to linger because of the bounty on him, asked Mu Yuan to take him to the Teleportation Array.

• Zhou Xun reached Luoyuan Immortal City, changed his appearance, and entered after paying the fee.
• Mu Yuan introduced himself as a local News Sniffer and offered to guide Zhou Xun around the city.
• Mu Yuan led Zhou Xun to the Treasures Pavilion and explained that the Hundred Crafts Commerce Alliance had been closed for two months.
• Zhou Xun asked shopkeeper Feng Xing for treasures containing heavenly lightning, but learned the pavilion’s Lightning Essence Stone had been sold and new stock might arrive in a month.
• Zhou Xun declined to wait, reunited with Mu Yuan, and asked him to lead the way to the city’s Teleportation Array.

Zhou Xun traveled from Luoyuan Immortal City to Southern Summer Immortal City, then entered the Chaotic Domain to hide from Perfected Lord Yu Xuan while seeking a way to resolve the Blood Demon Art. As he rode toward Primal Chaos Immortal City, he sensed a spell battle ahead.

• Zhou Xun rewarded Mu Yuan with a Mid-Grade Spirit Stone before entering the Heavenly Star Hall to teleport to Southern Summer Immortal City.
• Shi Feng waived Zhou Xun's teleportation fee and gave him a Communication Talisman after his spirit mink sensed Zhou Xun's formidable killing intent.
• Zhou Xun arrived in Southern Summer Immortal City, searched its major shops for treasures containing heavenly lightning, and found nothing.
• Zhou Xun rode his Earth Origin Beast west, crossed into the Chaotic Domain, and set out for Primal Chaos Immortal City.
• After flying for seven days without trouble, Zhou Xun noticed signs of a spell battle several dozen li ahead.

Zhou Xun rescued Jiang Xiuying and Jiang Wanning from two Tier 3 Earth-Rock Rhinoceroses, then continued to Primal Chaos Immortal City. He arrived ten days later and observed the sprawling, unwalled city.

• Jiang Xiuying urged Jiang Wanning to escape while she held off the two Earth-Rock Rhinoceroses, but Zhou Xun arrived before they could act.
• Zhou Xun sent his five Bloodfiend Spawns against one rhinoceros while the Earth Origin Beast fought the other, and both beasts were killed.
• The Earth Origin Beast swallowed the two demon Dans, and the Green Ape consumed the beasts' demon souls.
• Jiang Xiuying and Jiang Wanning thanked Zhou Xun, but he declined their invitation and departed with the Earth Origin Beast.
• Zhou Xun reached Primal Chaos Immortal City ten days later and noted that it had no city walls.