Chapter Summaries

Wu Yunsu went to Zizai Continent after reflecting on his past, while the cultivators searching for Xie Xiyi struggled to locate him. Xie Xiyi kept Chi Yu with him, and the chapter ended with Xie telling Chi Yu that Spiritual Communion made Dao Companions love each other more.

• Wu Yunsu traveled to Zizai Continent and found that the Mother Gu gave him a confused response.
• Zhan Kuanglan pressed the seven other Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators to help recover the Haotian Mirror, and they later discovered Xie Xiyi's aura in Zizai Continent.
• Xie Xiyi removed and crushed the tiny jade-white worm near Chi Yu's heart, then refused to let Chi Yu go home.
• After the search party decided to wait outside Zizai Continent, Chi Yu confronted Xie Xiyi about their ten days together and struggled to understand his growing attachment to him.
• Xie Xiyi told Chi Yu that Spiritual Communion made Dao Companions love each other more and said that he loved him.

Chi Yu decided that restoring Xie Xiyi’s memories was the only way to save his family, so he secretly brought Xie Xiyi to a mortal city and arranged to divide his heart. Xue Yi completed the procedure, leaving Chi Yu to ask whether he could still exert himself with his smaller heart.

• Chi Yu concluded that he had to restore Xie Xiyi’s memories before Xie Xiyi lost them again, and he took him to a mortal city under the pretense of finding food.
• Xie Xiyi agreed not to attack anyone, and Chi Yu ate at a tavern before persuading him that he wanted to rest.
• Chi Yu summoned Xue Yi and urgently asked her to divide his heart, explaining that he was willing to risk his cultivation for Senior Brother Xuanji.
• Xue Yi warned Chi Yu that losing half his heart could hinder his cultivation, but he insisted that his bond with Senior Brother Xuanji mattered more than advancement.
• Xue Yi used a Forbidden Curse to conceal the procedure from Xie Xiyi and divided Chi Yu’s heart into two beating hearts.
• Chi Yu asked Xue Yi whether he would still be able to do strenuous exercise with his smaller heart.

Chi Yu learned that Xie Xiyi loved him, but reaffirmed that he wanted to return to his modern world and could not return those feelings. He used Xue Yi’s secret realm to delay Xie Xiyi’s escape, but that night his craving overwhelmed the Dharma Lotus Clear Liquid as Xie Xiyi came to check on him.

• Xue Yi restored Chi Yu’s memories and revealed that Xie Xiyi’s feelings for him went beyond those of a senior brother.
• Chi Yu accepted that he could not return Xie Xiyi’s feelings because he wanted to go home to his grandparents and the modern world.
• Xue Yi warned Chi Yu that she could not guarantee she could trap Xie Xiyi for more than a few years, and Chi Yu strengthened the secret realm’s restriction when Xie Xiyi attacked it.
• Chi Yu let Xie Xiyi out and claimed he wanted to stay in the secret realm for its customs, bustle, and food.
• That night, Chi Yu’s craving surged despite his repeated use of Dharma Lotus Clear Liquid, and Xie Xiyi knocked at his door after hearing a noise.

Chi Yu endured the effects of Spiritual Communion with Mind-Clearing Enlightenment Tea, then found Xie Xiyi after his Amnesia Cycle began. When Xie Xiyi threatened to kill again, Chi Yu trapped him in the Secret Realm and tried to reach the divinity still within him.

• Chi Yu suppressed the unbearable itch from Spiritual Communion with Mind-Clearing Enlightenment Tea and recovered enough to seek Xie Xiyi before midnight.
• Xie Xiyi had forgotten their relationship and said he intended to kill, so Chi Yu returned the Pill to his Sumeru Ring after remembering Xie Xiyi's deadly poison.
• Chi Yu moved the Mortal City away and trapped Xie Xiyi in the Secret Realm's red wasteland, then used his control of the realm to suppress Xie Xiyi's black mist.
• Chi Yu offered Xie Xiyi Phantom Lightning and urged him to kill, reminding him that he had already killed Chi Yu twice.
• Chi Yu told Xie Xiyi that his response to the name Senior Brother Xuanji proved his divinity had not disappeared.

Chi Yu bet that Xie Xiyi would not kill him, and Xie Xiyi revealed that he had preserved his memories of Chi Yu despite his claimed memory loss. After accepting defeat, Xie Xiyi learned that Chi Yu wanted the poison in his body gone, but said the primordial poison could not be removed.

• Chi Yu challenged Xie Xiyi to a wager, offering his nascent soul if he lost and asking Xie Xiyi to grant one request if he won.
• Xie Xiyi stopped short of killing Chi Yu and admitted that a forbidden curse had preserved some of his memories, including his love for Chi Yu.
• Xie Xiyi struggled with his anger and confusion about his feelings, but released Chi Yu and acknowledged that Chi Yu had won.
• Chi Yu asked Xie Xiyi to remove the poison in his body, and Xie Xiyi said the primordial poison could not be eliminated.

Chi Yu used Seizure to make a pill immune to nearly all poisons, hoping to save Xie Xiyi, but Xie Xiyi crushed it before revealing he had secretly kept it. Xie Xiyi swallowed the pill, leaving Chi Yu’s attempt to save him uncertain.

• Xie Xiyi attacked the secret realm, while Xue Yi warned Chi Yu that Xie Xiyi’s poison was irreversible and could not be safely removed by ordinary means.
• Chi Yu used Seizure on Xie Xiyi’s deadly poison and gained a 99.999% poison-immunity effect, which he granted to the snow-white pill.
• Chi Yu offered Xie Xiyi the pill, but Xie Xiyi guessed it contained half of Chi Yu’s heart and crushed it as Chi Yu cried.
• Xie Xiyi knelt before Chi Yu, admitted he had lied, revealed the pill in his hand, and swallowed it.

Chi Yu endured the craving in the Secret Realm while Xie Xiyi watched, and Xie Xiyi ultimately used the Forbidden Curse to make him sleep. The next day, Chi Yu found Xie Xiyi sitting quietly with Phantom Lightning, but Xie Xiyi did not answer when he spoke.

• Xie Xiyi admitted that Chi Yu’s heart was inside him but claimed it had no value, while Chi Yu insisted he had a way to deal with the poison.
• Chi Yu refused to release Xie Xiyi from the Secret Realm until Senior Brother Xuanji regained his memories, and Xue Yi warned that Xie Xiyi might break out within a month.
• When Chi Yu’s craving struck, he refused Xie Xiyi’s offer of help and treated enduring it as a trial of cultivation.
• As Chi Yu suffered, Xie Xiyi’s heart took shape more quickly, and he used the Forbidden Curse to ease Chi Yu’s pain and put him to sleep.
• The next day, Chi Yu found Xie Xiyi on a hillside with Phantom Lightning, sat beside him, and received no response when he called him Senior Brother Xuanji.

Chi Yu kept Xie Xiyi confined in the secret realm while memories and bloodline resonance began changing him. Xie Xiyi asked to leave so he could save the Xie Clan, and Chi Yu let him out, only for Xie Xiyi to disappear as cultivators pursuing him sensed his return.

• Chi Yu told Xie Xiyi that his memories explained their bond, and Xie Xiyi left without answering.
• Chi Yu found Xie Xiyi squeezing a nascent soul spirit on a mountain, then later saw him appear while Chi Yu played Go with Xue Yi.
• Xie Xiyi's body's memories surfaced, and bloodline resonance stirred concern for his family despite his resistance to the change.
• Xie Xiyi said he wanted to leave the secret realm to save the Xie Clan, and Chi Yu agreed after deciding to trust him.
• Xie Xiyi vanished as soon as Chi Yu put away the secret realm, while the cultivators pursuing him realized his aura had returned and considered retreating.

Duyu left the Wasteland to search for Xuanji and encountered Wu Yunsu near the locked-down Zizai Continent. Wu Yunsu reunited with Chi Yu, who revealed that he had given half his heart to Xuanji, hindering his cultivation.

• Duyu went to Zizai Continent looking for Xuanji but left when Chan cultivator disciples turned him away.
• Duyu met Wu Yunsu, asked whether he had seen Long or Xuanji, and told him to send Xuanji to the Wasteland to settle a debt.
• Wu Yunsu reunited with Chi Yu and hid his encounter with Duyu from him.
• Chi Yu warned Wu Yunsu not to travel with him because Xuanji's condition was unstable.
• Wu Yunsu realized Chi Yu had given half his heart to Xuanji and told him that his spiritual energy was obstructed, making further advancement difficult.

Xie Xiyi killed Zhan Kuanglan and the other cultivators who tried to seize the Haotian Mirror, then learned what had happened to the Xie Family. After Xie Xiyi fled from Chi Yu, Chi Yu went to Wangxian Continent and reunited with Qingxuan, who did not know that Chi Yu had noticed the jade marrow in his cave abode.

• Xie Xiyi broke through the formation and killed Zhan Kuanglan and the other Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators.
• The great families and Canghai Sect learned that their cultivators had died, while Qingxuan persuaded Taixuzi to let Myriad Firmament Continent handle Xie Xiyi.
• After searching the nascent soul spirits' memories, Xie Xiyi learned about the Xie Family and bloodline resonance, then destroyed one spirit when Chi Yu called for him.
• Xie Xiyi vanished when Chi Yu approached, and Chi Yu decided to stop pursuing him and go to Wangxian Continent.
• Chi Yu arrived at the Xuanxiao Immortal Sect as Long Aotian and met Qingxuan, who welcomed his surviving junior brother into his cave abode.
• Chi Yu noticed jade marrow dispersing overhead and asked Qingxuan what it was.

Chi Yu confronted Qingxuan over the ambush in the Tiangang Secret Realm and his attack on Xiaoqiu, then used poison and the Forbidden Curse against him. Qingxuan survived the first curse strike, but another Forbidden Curse was racing toward him as the chapter ended.

• Qingxuan tried to defend himself and professed his love while Chi Yu attacked him and asked whether he had arranged the ambush five hundred years earlier.
• Qingxuan admitted he recognized Chi Yu as the cultivator who had been with Xie Xiyi, while Chi Yu accused him of attacking Xiaoqiu.
• Chi Yu revealed he had poisoned Qingxuan with a Poison Sac that spread faster whenever Qingxuan used spiritual power.
• Qingxuan overpowered Chi Yu in sword combat and held his sword to Chi Yu's neck, intending to kill him and force him to depend on Qingxuan.
• The Forbidden Curse activated when Qingxuan's sword touched Chi Yu, copied his attack, and severed Qingxuan's head; Qingxuan healed and another curse flew toward him.

Chi Yu killed Qingxuan with Xie Xiyi’s Gelsemium Forbidden Curse, escaped the Xuanxiao Immortal Sect, and discovered that Xie Xiyi was nearby. After Qingxuan’s corpse revealed memories of Xie Xiyi’s past suffering, Chi Yu broke down in grief, and Xie Xiyi appeared beside him.

• Chi Yu used the Gelsemium Forbidden Curse to kill Qingxuan, whose Nascent Soul Spirit escaped, and rose to the fifth layer of the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Chi Yu escaped the Xuanxiao Immortal Sect and found that Xie Xiyi’s coordinates overlapped with his own.
• Xie Xiyi secretly followed Chi Yu and watched him prepare to bury Qingxuan’s corpse.
• Chi Yu uncovered Qingxuan’s memories of Xie Xiyi’s cruel punishment and cried as he felt Xie Xiyi’s past pain.
• Xie Xiyi felt Chi Yu’s grief and appeared beside him, saying that the half of Chi Yu’s heart he had given him was affecting him.

After Qingxuan returned to the Immortal Alliance in a spare body, Xie Xiyi’s Forbidden Curse destroyed his body and Nascent Soul Spirit. Taixuzi learned Qingxuan was dead, failed to persuade Fu Ze to help seek revenge, and put a bounty on Long Aotian.

• Xie Xiyi strengthened the Fog City curse on Qingxuan, then crushed his Straw Puppet after Chi Yu said Qingxuan wanted to become his Dao Companion.
• Qingxuan returned to the Immortal Alliance in a spare body and told Taixuzi that his original body had rotted away.
• Qingxuan warned Taixuzi that Xie Xiyi’s Forbidden Curses could not be stopped, then crumbled into powder along with his Nascent Soul Spirit.
• Taixuzi contacted Fu Ze for help, but Fu Ze refused to avenge Qingxuan and advised him to flee.
• Taixuzi summoned Immortal Alliance disciples, circulated Long Aotian’s image, and offered a bounty of one hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones for his capture.

Xie Xiyi arrived at the Myriad Firmament Continent and massacred the cultivators conducting the Xie Clan’s Divine Offering Day. Xie Qingning survived, but Xie Xiyi left without speaking to her.

• Xie Qingning prepared for Divine Offering Day, while Mo Family disciples mocked her and struck her maid.
• Yongming defended Xie Qingning, escorted her to the altar, and asked her to become his concubine; she gave him a misleading answer.
• As cultivators restrained Xie Qingning and prepared to drain her blood and extract her bones, Xie Xiyi appeared and began killing everyone in the hall.
• Xie Bo'an freed Xie Qingning, and she asked Xie Xiyi to spare Yongming before stabbing Yongming through the heart and killing him with the Forbidden Curse.
• Xie Qingning collapsed from the cost of using the Forbidden Curse, while Xie Xiyi vanished and left her wondering whether he had come to save her.

After learning that Myriad Firmament Continent had blamed Xuanji for its losses and that the Immortal Alliance had placed a bounty on him, Chi Yu was recognized in a tavern and hunted down. He triggered the Forbidden Curse to survive an ambush, certain that Xie Xiyi would sense it and come to him.

• Chi Yu heard cultivators condemn Xuanji and learned that the Anuttara Buddhist Sect had refused Myriad Firmament Continent’s demand to intervene.
• When the tavern crowd recognized Chi Yu, he fled, killed a pursuing cultivator, and escaped the city.
• Chi Yu was surrounded by rogue cultivators and Immortal Alliance members pursuing the bounty, so he sowed distrust by pointing out how much more one person could gain by claiming it alone.
• The pursuers began fighting among themselves, but one cultivator still attacked Chi Yu from behind.
• Chi Yu’s Forbidden Curse neutralized the attack and pierced the ambusher’s heart, and Chi Yu expected Xie Xiyi to sense the curse and come to him.

After Xie Xiyi recovered his memories, Chi Yu welcomed him back but worried that their relationship could no longer remain as it was. Xie Xiyi admitted he could not forgive himself for hurting Chi Yu and asked for a chance to atone.

• Xie Xiyi emerged from the black cocoon and asked Chi Yu for a hug, and Chi Yu ran into his arms.
• Chi Yu asked whether Xie Xiyi remembered everything, but Xie Xiyi covered his eyes and asked if he hated him.
• Chi Yu told Xie Xiyi he did not hate him and asked whether Xie Xiyi could be proud that he had saved him.
• Xie Xiyi said he could not forgive himself for what he had done to Chi Yu and asked for a chance to atone.
• Chi Yu said Xie Xiyi had suffered because of him and wondered whether they would have avoided their troubles if they had never met.
• Xie Xiyi said that even without meeting Chi Yu, he would not have stayed in the Luopo Chan Sect.

Chi Yu tried to ease Xie Xiyi’s guilt, but Xie Xiyi confessed that he loved him and asked for a chance to atone. Chi Yu realized he returned Xie Xiyi’s feelings, yet asked him to find a way to send him home.

• Chi Yu asked Xie Xiyi to advance his cultivation, save his clan, and protect himself instead of dwelling on guilt.
• Xie Xiyi refused Chi Yu’s requests and pressured him to choose different ones, admitting he needed Chi Yu to punish him so he could keep loving him.
• Chi Yu tried to deflect Xie Xiyi’s confession by saying he liked him as the best senior brother, but Xie Xiyi knelt and asked him to ferry him across his sea of suffering.
• Xie Xiyi kissed Chi Yu’s hand and placed a ring on his finger, making clear he would not return to their former relationship.
• Chi Yu accepted that he had feelings for Xie Xiyi and asked him to help send him home.

Chi Yu accepted that he would return to his own world, and Xie Xiyi promised to let him go before turning to face the forces hunting him. After Xie Xiyi slaughtered their army, the immortal sects debated peace or further war while Venerable Shangshan revealed that Chi Yu was part of a plan to preserve the Haoyuan Realm.

• Chi Yu explained that he would not stay in the world of Divine Path for Xie Xiyi, and Xie Xiyi promised him he would let him go.
• When more than three hundred cultivators attacked, Xie Xiyi took back the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and used their Nascent Soul Spirits as fuel for forbidden curses, killing them all.
• The cultivators watching through a water mirror realized that anyone in the Haoyuan Realm could become the price of Xie Xiyi's forbidden curses.
• Fu Ze argued against suing for peace, while Ancestor Tingyun declared he would destroy Xie Xiyi even if it meant dying with him.
• On Zizai Continent, Venerable Shangshan told Hanshan that Chi Yu was a variable in their plan to preserve the Haoyuan Realm, though the calamity had not yet been resolved.

Duyu encountered Xie Xiyi while hiding in a volcano, but Chi Yu arrived and stopped Xie Xiyi from killing him. Duyu revealed that Xiaoqiu was alive and had been recovering in the Yu Dynasty, so the group traveled there and learned more about his condition.

• Duyu hid in a volcano to avoid the powerful cultivators hunting the Ghost-Masked Cultivator, but Xie Xiyi uncovered him and attacked with Forbidden Curses.
• Chi Yu arrived and recognized Duyu, who identified Xie Xiyi as Xuanji and persuaded him to withdraw his attack.
• Duyu told Chi Yu that Xiaoqiu was alive, explaining that Chi Yu's scale had helped him save Xiaoqiu and that he had cared for him for five hundred years.
• Chi Yu gratefully embraced Duyu and agreed to pay him, then urged Xie Xiyi to leave for the Yu Dynasty with them.
• Xie Xiyi used a Forbidden Curse to take the group to the Yu Dynasty, where Xiao Jingyu explained that Xiaoqiu's dantian and root bones had been destroyed but his unusual constitution kept him youthful.

Chi Yu reunited with the gravely ill Xiaoqiu, who briefly woke before slipping back into sleep, and learned that a Buddha Bone might save him. Xie Xiyi began trying to replace Xiaoqiu’s missing root bone, while Chi Yu promised Duyu the spirit stones he had demanded for keeping Xiaoqiu alive.

• Chi Yu saw Xiaoqiu wake briefly and call him Aotian-ge, but Xiaoqiu mistook him for a dream and fell asleep again.
• Xie Xiyi explained that nearly half of Xiaoqiu’s nascent soul spirit had dissipated, while Duyu said a Soul-Stabilizing Pearl could help restore it.
• Chi Yu offered Xie Xiyi a Buddha Bone to replace Xiaoqiu’s missing root bone, and Xie Xiyi agreed to try using it.
• Chi Yu gave Duyu over a hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones and promised to pay the remaining amount.
• Duyu lowered his demand from a thousand Top-Grade Spirit Stones to five hundred, but Chi Yu insisted Xiaoqiu was worth the full thousand.